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Baseball
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schedule to break down, and we
don't want that to happen now"
Other big league owners appeared
little concerned over the strike, al
though all teams are scheduled to
shift opponents following today's
contests.
Connie Mack, manager of the
Philadelphia Athletics, said has club
intended to move from Detroit to
st. Louis by rail because they told
us they would take care of u.s."
The New York Yankees, who must
move from Chicago to Cleveland.
will so by air
Bill McKechnie, manager of the
Cincinnati Reds, said he was not
worried las the players can walk
from Philadelphia to the ball park in
Brooklyn between the time our Sat-
urday game ends and before the
Sunday contest starts"
William Benswanger, president of
the Pittsburgh Pirates, had no rea-
son for concern. The Pirates are
ticketed for Brooklyn today and the
New York Polo Grounds tomorrow
Either park is a relatively short sub
way ride from the clubs mid-New
York hotel.
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Rival Groups Go On
with American Day.
Plans for Tomorrow

Plans for two II Am an American
Day" rallies in Washington tomor-
row afternoon went ahead today in
the midst Of charges that arrangers
OF rally in Turner's Arena were
trying to compete with the OBJ
servance on the Monument Grounds.
Admiral Ernest j. King will speak
at the Sylvan Theater in ceremonies
starting at pm. The Navy will
have so planes flying over the
Monument. Air Group VITA will
appear at 1927 pm. and form the
letters U. S. A. Thirteen planes will
fly over at $50 pm. One hundred
Boy Scouts will serve as ushers.
Harold L. 1ckes, former Secretary
of the Interior and chairman of the
Citizens Committee of the Arts,
Sciences and Professions, will speak
at 3 pm. in Turner's Arena at a
rally to promote racial democracy.
1t is sponsored by the Committee for
Racial Democracy in the Nations
Capital.
The Rev DR.. Francis Peek, CO.
chairman of the committee, will ex-
plain the purpose Of the rally and
answer charges leveled against its
arrangers in a radio address from
1890 to II o'clock tonight over
radio Station WMAL.
In radio address Thursday night,
Rabbi Norman Gerstenfeld, a mem
Der of the committee who is on the
Sylvan Theater program, objected
to the use of his name in an adver-
tisement asserting there would be
less hypocrisy at the Turner S
Arena meeting than at any other
meeting in town"
The United States Marine Band
will play at Sylvan Theater. Stu
dents of George Washington Uni
versity will present a tableau in
five scenes-'Nathan Hale in an
Incident Of the American Revolu-
ton, Abraham Lincoln at Spring.
field" Walter Reed in Panama, -"
woodrow Wilson at Paris" and
Raising of the Flag on Two Jima."
Howard University choir will sing
This Is My Country" and America
the Beautiful On the program ar
ranged by the District of Columbia
committee at the monument.
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Wherever their services are known
to be inadequate"
Officers for 1947 were elected yes
terday at the United States Chamber
of Commerce by the Board of
Trustees. which was named in April
The board added the Foster Day
Care and Counseling Association as
a new member and dropped three
Prince Georges County agencies be-
cause they now are a part Of the
newly formed Chest of Prince
Georges County. Left out were
Prince Georges Catholic Charities
Girl Scouts and Social Service
League.
Fifty-eight member agencies will
receive funds in the coming year
New applications are pending.
Other new officers are: John A
Reilly, first vice president: Mrs
Charles c. Glover, jr., second vice
president; Mrs. Milton w. King,
third vice president; DR.. Dorothy B
Ferebee, fourth vice president, and
John F. Victory, secretary. Chosen
members of the Executive Commit
tee for two-year terms were Judge
Fay Bentley, Frank R. Jellef and
Joseph D. Kaufman.
Both the health survey and the
Washington social survey were
financed by the Chest and the Com
munity War Fund. Mr.. Butler re-
ported that the social survey is
nearly finished"
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"a distinguished part" in the con-
ference and added:
While 1T did not accomplish all
that we had hoped for, it made
substantial achievements which I
am sure will be helpful to the meet
ing in June"
Senator Vandenberg, who had
been assailed by the Soviet news
paper Pravda in Moscow as the
"gravedigger" of the conference
because he publicly stated his doubts
OF its success a week ago, declared
he had no comment on either the
conference or the Pravda charge,
at the moment.
MI. Byrnes and his party were met
by French Ambassador Bonnet, Post
master General Hannegan, Under
secretary of State Dean Acheson,
Assistant Secretary of State Don
Russell and Bernard M. Baruch,
American member of the United
Nations Atomic Commission.
Mr.. Byrnes came in on a plane
called the Crescent Caravan.
In saying that he would talk to
the Nation Monday night by radio,
Mr.. Byrnes did not state the time.
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fund, improved mine safety condi-
tons and other demands.
The council adopted resolution
in a meeting here yesterday pledg-
ing support of the federation's T.
100000 members to the miners until
victory is won" AFL President
William Green said the big labor
organization would extend help
morally, financially or politically"
whenever the mine workers asked
for it.
The current United Mine Work
ers' Journal asserted Mr.. O'Neill had
told President Truman May 10 the
owners would accept the levy in
principle, but that later they made
"a complete reputation of MIR.
O'Neills White House promise"
Mr.. Truman, having Cancelled
plans to make a flying weekend
visit to his mothers home in indie
pendence, Mo-, remained in the Cap
ital. However, Press Secretary
Charles G. Ross said only that any
thing could happen at any time" and
that he did not know whether the
President would call Mr.. O'Neill and
Mr.. Lewis to see him again.
Mr.. Truman asked both to stand
by after they turned down Thurs
day his proposal that the dispute be
arbitrated.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-05-18
Dutch Cabinet Resigns
On Catholic Victory
BY the kssoeioted Press

AMSTERDAM, May 18. - The
Dutch cabinet rendered its resig-
nation to Queen Wilhelmina today
as final returns showed Premier
William Schermerhorn's Socialist
party of labor ran second to the
middle-of -the-road Catholic party
in parliamentary elections yester-
day.
According to traditional procedure,
the Queen requested the outgoing
cabinet to serve until a new gov
eminent was formed.
The Catholic party scored a mar
row victory over the Labor party
by gaining 30.6 per cent of the
more than 4,750,000 votes cast. Rep
resentatives we're chosen in the
election for the lower house of
Parliament.
The Catholics received 1,466,510
votes and won 80 of the 100 seats
in Parliament, compared with 1,347,-
664 votes and % seats for the
Laborites.
The Labor total of 1873 per cent
was disheartening to followers of
William Schermerhorn, Laborite
Prime Minister, who had expected
to win between IS and 81 seats.
Calvinists won 10 seats, Com
munists, 10; Protestants christian
Historian party, 8; Conservatives
(party of freedom), 6, and the Prot
estant Union, 2.
The balloting was the first gen.
eral election here since 1887.
The Communist party, which
polled only 3.35 per cent of the
1897 total, received 502,935 ballots
yesterday, or 1857 per cent. Thirty
per cent of the Amsterdam and 1873
per cent of the Rotterdam votes
were Communist.
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imately 25o0Oo members of the two
brotherhoods, including yardmen
yard masters, brakemen, flagmen,
dining car stewards, switch tenders
baggagemen and most Of the con-
ductors.
A walkout by trainmen and en-
gineers was expected to affect more
than 10000 employees in the three
other operating brotherhoods"-
the conductors, switchmen and fire.
men-because of laws governing use
of complete train crews.
The strike call originally was is
sued against 348 railroads and ter
minals in the United States. The
Illinois Central and n small belt
and feeder lines have been exempt
from the strike. The Illinois Gen.
trail went under Government super
vision months ago. standby
agreeemnts covering the ~ smaller
roads provide that they will grant
brotherhoods any benefits resulting
from negotiations with the larger
lines. However, If the main lines
aren't working there won't be much
for the a to do.
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Boards Start Seekina
Men Is Through y
For Military Service
By the Associoted Press

Selective service boards began
culling their lists of childless
men, 26 through 20 years old, to-
day to meet the service man
power pinch resulting from a
congressional ban on teen-age
inductionS.
Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, the
selective service director, told the
boards to call up for pre-induction
physical examinations men in the
late-20 bracket who may qualify
for military service under existing
physical and occupational stand
ards"
He directed that men who have
been discharged from the armed
forces and any with manifest"
physical disabilities be exempted
from the call. The others may be
classified IA unless they can obtain
occupational deferment.
President Truman excused men in
the 1929 age bracket from the draft
last August IA, but issued a new
order two days ago making them
eligible again after Congress ex-
cluded the 18 and l9-year -olds in
stopgap bill extending selective
service to July l.
The War Department estimates
there are only about $4,000 eligibles
in the older age bracket.
On Capitol Hill, Chairman
Thomas of the Senate Military At
fairs Committee planned to try for
unanimous Senate approval of
committee bill providing a one-year
draft extension with 10 and 10 year
Odds eligible, increases in pay for
enlisted men and discharge of IA
theirs or men with Is months or
more service on request.
If Senator Thomas could obtain
passage by unanimous consent, con-
ferences could be opened immedi-
ately to reconcile the Senate bill
with one passed in the House The
House version directed a moratorium
in inductions from May IS to Octo-
Der Is, exempted teen-agers and ex-
tended the act nine months.
Senator Hill, Democrat, of Ala
bama, the Democratic whip, had
another plan. He hoped to persuade
the Senate to lay aside antistrike
legislation next week and debate
the draft. He said he was confident
members would approve a one-year
extension and induction of youths
18 and 10
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concern was felt that vibration or
air blast might blow out windows
in the shore installations.
Earlier experiments, however, in
dicated otherwise, and Prof. J. w
johnson, on loan to the Navy from
the University of CALIFORNIA; me-
chanical engineering department
was allowed to proceed
1t was learned that relatively shall
low water muff1es the blast effect
of shock waves above the surface.
The tests exploded another theory.
At first it was believed the sub
surface explosion at Bikini would
blow huge hole in the lagoon,
and that water rushing back to
fill this hole would collide IN the
center with force enough to shoot a
column thousands of feet inUo the
sky.
Now it seems likely this secondary
reaction will be much smaller than
that resulting directly from the blast,
which is expected to lift at least a
million tons of water into the air
The height of the plume of water
and steam may reach 10000 feet or
more, but it will be limited by air
resistance acting against the up
ward velocity of moisture particles,
it was said.
Small Waves Produced.
The model tests, while leaving
the height of the water column at
Bikini in doubt, probably will give
an accurate indication of water dis
placement and wave motion result
ing from the atomic explosion.
Waves only a few inches high
were stirred up by 1000 pounds OF
TINT, and those at Bikini probably
will be no more than 7 or 8 feet
high, oceanographers say. when
they hit nearby beaches on the sur
rounding coral reef.
Somewhat similar experiments
have been run at the Navy station
for testing model ships at nearby
Cdrderock, Md. Here tWo-foot scale
models of Victory ships have been
subjected to air, surface and SUBJ
surface blasts to forecast the be-
havior of cargo vessels under atomic
attack.
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1Vlll II SG dSC.b
hours has cut bakers take-home pay
by $40 to $35 a week.
'We've got to wake up somebody
here" he said.
He blamed the Commissioners for
not changing a washington ordi-
nance to allow bakeries to make
smaller loaf.
"Now it's too late" he said. The
unions two-year contract has year
to run, he said, but it contains a
reopening clause. He said that the
union notified employers two weeks
ago they wished to reopen the con-
tract "but they said there's nothing
to negotiate-they didn't have the
flour to keep the men working"
Mr.. McClosky said that about 20
journeymen bakers are out of work
and that 200 returned servicemen
who are bakers are jobless.
"Were not complaining about
feeding famine countries" he said.
"but If the Governments orders
Qimiting milling Of -FOUR are going
to close us up. we might as well beat
them to It,"
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Funds for Checkinq
Black Markets Vital,
BowIes Warns Public
BY the Associated Press

Sterilization Director Bowles
said today even a really effec-
tive" price control act is no guar
antee against imitation unless
Congress provides adequate
funds" to fight black markets
and administer the law.
In addition, Mr.. Bowles said,
well need the cooperation of
all groups in the country-farmers,
businessmen, workers and house,
wives"
Until we get through these diff
cult months" he said in a radio
address over American Broadcast
ing System, well have to restrain
a natural tendency to try and catch
up with every little advantage the
other fellow may seem to have"
Wants Subsidies Retained.
Mr.. Bowles expressed these views
with respect to prices in the months
ahead:
Food-"If we get good harvests
this summer, I think our food sup
ply-and therefore food prices
can be kept roughly where they
are today. That Is, of course, il
we get from Congress authority to
continue subsidies at least through
the critical period"
Clothing-"If we can keep cloth
ing production moving up rapidly
during the next six months, I think
you'll see lot more better quality
garments in the stores at prices
within your reach"
Rents-"I don't see any reason
why rents should go up at all. But
let me emphasize that this depends
on the kind of price and rent con-
troll law Congress passes within the
next few weeks"
Few Increases Allowed.
AS for prices since last February,
when the new wage-price policy
went into effect, Mr.. Bowles said
I'VE have had to allow some in
creases, particularly on automobiles
and various kinds of household APP
planes"
Wage increases, he declared, had
to be allowed to cushion partially
the "shock" of cut of almost one
third in the take-home pay OF
Thousands of workers"
Mr.. Bowles said that even with
these wage increases the average
workers pay check sis still around
is per cent smaller than it was
during the war"
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Duffie, chief of the UNRRA mission
to the Ukraine, said protracted
drought threatened the grain crop
there. Unless rain came within two
weeks, he added, "the effect will be
ruinous,'' on the growing cereals
Of Russia's great bread basket area.
The UNRRA officials said the out
look was good until two weeks ago,
when it was estimated the crop
would be IS per cent of the 1910
total. The drought has affected
all kinds Of crops, he said, while the
livestock and poultry situation is
serious. He reported that one Of
the most alarming aspects is that
there are no stockpiles of grain in
the Ukraine and little seed for all
crops.
Relief Needs Stressed.
Fresh stress, meanwhile, was laid
on the urgency of the relief situa-
ton.
A joint United States-British
colnmunique issued here last night
that a 3,400OO grain
deficit was now likely in the May
September period efforts to meet
requirements Of needy nations.
"A risk Of famine remains" the
said, despite the
best Anglo-American efforts. Even
more energetic measures were
called for throughout the world"
to meet that risk.
Some diplomats detected a pos
sible yelled reference to Soviet nom
participation when the communique
mentioned that the situation could
be improved insofar as other
sources of supply can be found in
addition to those at present in
sight,"
White House Silent.
The report of Mr.. Truman's efforts
with Stain on the food situation
brought no immediate confirmation
from the White House. However, il
was recalled the President told hi
news conference Thursday that hi
had been in touch with Stain or
the subject.
The President added then thai
he hoped to have something more
to say on the matter later.
Moscow in the past has beer
consistently cool to all suggestions
official or otherwise, that Russia
put the famine relief job on a Biz
Three basis. While in the Fal
East on his inspection tour, former
President Hoover suggested tha'
release of food supplies in Russian
occupied zones there would hell
ease the urgent needs of som,
hungry areas Of Asia. There wa
no Soviet reaction to the sugges
ton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-05-18
Ex-Army Officer Blamed
For Abortiye Cuban Coup
BY the Associated Press

HAVANA, May 18.-An unidenti-
fled ex-Army officer was blamed by
Cuban officials today for an unsuc-
cessful plot to seize Camp Columbia,
Army headquarters near Havana,
early yesterday.
President Ramon Grau San Mar
tin said last night in an interview
that the plot was completely frus-
trated by the vigilance of the armed
forces, who remain in full control of
the nations security"
Residents near the camp reported
hearing sporadic gun fire shortly
after 2 am. yesterday and continu-
ing for about 80 minutes.
President Grau said no casualties
were reported officially and that no
arrests had been made.
MIAMI, Fla, May 18 (P.-Pas-
sengers arriving by Pan American
planes from Havana yesterday aft
ernoon said everything was quiet
after heavy shooting early yesterday
at Camp Columbia.
A native of Cuba said there was
absolutely no military activity in
Havana" when he left about 2 pm.
yesterday.
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consumer demand for gasoline. It
was pointed out that a pronounced
rise in auto travel and trucking was
a virtual certainty.
District Better Off.
The distributors said Washington
might be in slightly better posi-
ton than some other metropolitan
centers, however. They explained
that much of Washington's gasoline
arrives by truck and barge.
Availability of gasoline here is in
f1uenced quickly by supply difficult
ties, since few distributors maintain
large reserves.
Gasoline for this area comes
largely by motor transport from
large refining centers at Baltimore
and Philadelphia and those in turn
obtain their supply by coastal tank
erS or pipe lines, an official of the
Independent Petroleum Association
of America said here today.
Fuel oil distribution, however,
would be seriously curtailed by a
long railroad strike, he declared. A
large part of the oil used for heating
purposes in Washington is brought
in by tank car. There is no present
problem on fuel for homes but in
dustries and utilities which depend
on such oil to any great extent
would have their supplies curtailed
by a rail strike, he explained.
The United Petroleum Products
Once here reported that it expects
no immediate difficulty. The COM
pany obtains gasoline, fuel oil, kero-
sene and other products by trucks
and ultimately from tankers.
Truckers Supply Sun Oil.
Sun Oil Co. officials said they
obtain their local area supply by
truck from Baltimore where most
OF 1t comes by tankers.
A railroad strike would affect the
Gulf Oil Co. here by tying up the
five tankcars it ordinarily receives
weekly with total of $4,000 gallons
OF solvent oil and high octane gaso.
line. The company's plant at thu
foot of South Capitol street, how.
ever, receives practically all OF it.
fuel oil and gasoline by barge, ar
official said.
The Texas Co. distributing plan
in this area obtains most of it.
approximately 100000 gallons O
gasoline month by barge or trucl
and would not be greatly affected b!
railroad strike unless it continued
for some time, an official said. TIL,
local establishment brings in mos
of its oil from Norfolk by barge ant
trucks in most of its gasoline from
the Baltimore center, he explained
A prolonger railroad strike, h
added, probably would affect gaso
line distribution here because of tn
heavier demands on motor transport
His company depends largely o.
daily truck and barge shipments an,
maintains comparatively small re
serves, he said.
The Sinclair Refining Co. her
receives most of its oil by pipe lin
direct to the plant or by truck,
spokesman said. He anticipated n
effect on his company's supply il
this area but declared 1--WE will b
seriously affected in other areas il
this part of the country"
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Red Paper Destroyed
By Uniformed Greeks
BY the Associated Press

ATHENS, May 18.-The Ministry
Of Public Order today said 100 uni
formed men, described as "goaded
by constant press attacks on the
army" had destroyed a Communist
newspaper plant in Volos.
The conservative morning news
paper Embros said 5000 shots were
fired between the attackers and de-
tenders of the plant, but there was
no report of casualties.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-05-18
4-Power Group Named
To Tour Reich Zones
BY the Associated Press

BERLIN, May 13.-Members of the
Allied Control Councils Co-ordinat-
ing Committee have appointed their
deputies as a four-power disarma-
ment commission to visit each of the
four zones of Germany to inspect the
progress of German disarmament.
The commission, appointed last
night on the suggestion of Secretary
of State Byfnes, includes Maj. Gen.
G. l.. Adcock of the American Army.