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Evening star., 1946-08-18
200 in Race Disorder
AT New Jersey Town
sy the Assoeioted prss.

SWEDESBORO, N. j., Aug. ls
Sunday il. T. Sholl, secretary
supervisor of the Migrant Labor Di-
vision, New Jersey Department Of
Labor, said early today scuffle in
a restaurant occupied by about 200
Negroes and white persons last
night brought call for State po-
lice assistance but there was mo
riot and no one injured.
Swedesboro Police Chief j. H.
Eastlack had his revolver taken
from him and his glasses broken.
Mr.. Sholl said the chief told him in
a telephone conversation. The
weapon was not located. Chief East
lack added.
He quoted Chief Eastlack as giving
this story:
The crowd was gathered at the
restaurant as is the custom on Sat-
urday night in this South New Jer-
sey town across the Delaware River
from Philadelphia.
One man who had been drinking
became boisterous and Chief East
lack tried to quiet him. Groups
gathered around and minor scufI1e
started. The restaurant was emp
tied and the crowd continued to mill
about on the street.
State police reported the groups
were quiet but appeared to be wait.
ing for something to happen"
The disturbance started in An
dro's Restaurant, a State police
spokesman said, after Negroes had
entered a section of the restaurant
normally reserved for white patrons.
The sheriff's Office in Gloucester
County had closed all taverns, tap
rooms and other places of amuse-
ment In the municipality.
Evening star., 1946-08-18
By the Associated Press

Chairman Slaughter of the
House committee investigating
surplus property disposal dis
closed last night he has ordered
his staff to prepare a special re-
port recommending immediate
changes in what he termed
sloppy administration" of war
goods sales.
He declared a week of committee
hearings has shown 80 many sore
spots" in disposal of excess mate
rails by the War Assets Administra-
ton that he decided some quick
changes in procedure are needed.
Mr.. Slaughter said the ma jor rec
ommendation will call for changes
designed to:
l. Tighten up handling of veter-
ans priorities 500 they aren't
abused" Many honest veterans are
being cheated" he declared,
through misuse of priority privileges
by others.
2. Put halt to large-scale prof.
by spectators and brokers.
Some new regulations are needed.
he suggested, to check more closely
Evening star., 1946-08-18
3Kined, 81 Injured
In Illinois Bus Crash
BY the kssoeioted Press

PITTSFIELD, H., Aug. 1.-THE
Pike County sheriff's office said a
Greyhound bus overturned on route
So mile east of here tonight and
at least three or four" persons
were killed and many others" in
jured.
A P1ttsfield hospital reported 80
injured persons had been brought
there.
The sheriff's Office said the death
toll might be higher because many
seriously injured persons had been
taken from the wreck. The top and
sides OF the bus had been torn of
in the accident and "a lot of people
were pinned underneath" the
sheriffs office reported.
Three or four bodies were taken
TO mortuaries in Pittsfield, early
reports said.
The sheriff S Office said another
Greyhound driver. at the wheel of
second section of the Kansas CITY
TO Chicago run, the same run as
the bus that was wrecked, called
his office by telephone and reported
the crash as "a very, very serious
accident"
This driver told deputies that
when he pulled alongside the over
turned vehicle he climbed into the
wreckage and rescued an injured
baby.
L couldn't stand to hear the
baby cry" he told deputies.
Evening star., 1946-08-18
BY the Associcted pysx.

LONDON. Aug. 17.-Health au-
thorities expressed concern today
over sudden spreading march by
an army of squatters occupying
private and public property at will
Thousands of families were on
the move in England, Scotland and
Wales, taking the acute British
housing problem into their own
hands. Companies of them in
Vaded empty military camps to
establish homes for themselves.
At PrestWick, Scotland, last night
Raj personnel was recalled from
movies and dance halls to guard
Its quarters as squatters moved
onto the airport in trucks and oc-
cupied Is huts formerly used by the
Canadian Air Force. They were
allowed to remain undisturbed.
At Oxford, two attempts were
made to stake claims in huts sur,
rounding Church Hill Hospital, an
institution built by the American
Red Cross and one of the largest
in Britain.
One house-hunsry delegation from
Evening star., 1946-08-18
Danger Of Initiation
Blocks Pay Demands,
AFL Leaders Admit
Union Heads Content
To PIoy Waiting Come
To ForestoII Spiral
By Jones Y. Newton

CHICAGO, Aug. II. - Labor
leaders-at least the heads of the
AFL-are frightened by rising
prices and the extreme initiation
ary dangers of another wage
price chase and are content to
play a waiting game for the
present.
Heads Of the big AFL unions
the Executive Council-are winding
up a meeting here and The Star
sounded them out on wage-price
problems.
President William Green de-
scribed as absurd" the CIO idea
that prices can be rolled back to
any helpful extent by Government
action. buyers strike or labor
management stabilization confer
ence
Sees High Prices Continuing.
He thinks that high prices are
here to stay for a long time and
that labor must learn to live with
them, get matching wage increases
in course of time. He said that ac-
ton to obtain higher wages is
strictly up to the individual unions
and that AFL leaders will give them
no advice one way or the other, for
the moment.
1t was obvious that Mr.. Green
believes higher pay is the answer to
the problem, but that the time to
strike is a few months off.
Daniel j. Tobin, head of the team
(See AFI.. Page Asa
Evening star., 1946-08-18
Typhoon That Struck Two
Crosses RyukYu Chain
BY the Asxoeioted Press

TOKYO, Sunday, Aug. 18.-The
center of q severe typhoon which
caused major damage on Two Jima
Friday crossed the Ryukyu chain
this morning at seven miles an hour,
a slower rate OF movement. the 7th
Weather Station announced.
A weather station forecaster said
he could not tell definitely whether
the typhoon would continue its vest
ward course. striking Korea and the
China coast, or follow the water
path through the Korean straits in
to the Sea of Japan-the usual
course for typhoons in the region.
Typhoon damage at Two Jima was
extensive. No casualties were re-
ported, but all installations were Sc
verely damaged, all power lines were
blown down and. all food rations
except for canned goods were de-
stroyed.
Evening star., 1946-08-18
Smaller Nations
Grow Impatient
On Paris DELAY
PorIey Bids Austria
Over Red Objection,
Then Invites Iran
BY the Assoeiofed Pres,

PARIS, Aug. II. The Peace
Conference, turning down Rus
sian objections. voted Is to 6 to-
day to invite Austria to present
Its views on the draft treaty with
Italy, and then approved unani-
mously a Soviet suggestion that
Iran also be invited.
Championed by Britain and sup
ported by the United States, the
proposal of Austria provided that
the Vienna government be invited
to explain its point of view on the
Italian treaty 'ton the same terms
as Albania, Mexico, Cuba and
Egypt"
All six Slav nations opposed the
move, which a Russian delegate
said was intended to air Austria S
claim to the South Tyrol.
The debate prompted a sugpe,-
ton that the Big -Four hold meet
lngs outside the plenary sessions
TO speed the work of the confer
ence, which has not vet gotten
down to the task for which it was
summoned-the drawing of recon-
mendations to the Foreign Min
Evening star., 1946-08-18
Lightning Strikes Fishing Rod,
Kills District Youth in Florida

conscious from the water by broth
Ier and a nearby resident, who began
artificial respiration. An inhalator
crew from the Jacksonville Fire De-
partment also worked for several
hours in an effort to revive him.
A graduate of the Theodore Roose-
welt High School in Washington,
young Hopkins was q student at
George Washington University. He
recently won . scholarship in q ma
tional contest and planned to enter
Johns Hopkins University this fall.
Evening star., 1946-08-18
Grand Jury Warrants
Accuse IS Teamsters
OF Extortion Plot
Detroit indictments
First Of Whot Moy Be
Long Series, Judge Says
By the Assoeiufed prsxx

DETROIT, Aug. 17.-Eighteen
officers and business agents of
the AFL Teamsters Union were
accused of an extortion con-
spiracy and violation of the
State labor law in warrants an
nounced tonight by Circuit Judge
George B. Murphy
Judge Murphy, who has been sit
ting as one man grand jury inves-
tigating charges of labor racketeer-
ing. said the warrants were the
first of what may prove to be a
long series The inquiry has been
going on since June.
A grand jury investigation was
ordered by the Wayne DetroiD
County courts after food merchants
of the metropolitan area, protesting
union tactics in an organizing drive,
had accused the teamsters of il
legal practices.
damage suit Flle0.
A 100000 damage suit was
brought against the union by the
Detroit Retail Meat Merchants AS
sociation last May. The suit al
legged 'coercive and monopolistic'
campaign on the unions part in
seeking unlawful labor objectives." "
The union had set out to organize
the clerks of the metropolitan area S
5000 food stores. An injunction re-
strained the union from picketing
the stores and from demanding
that merchants buy IS monthly
permits from the union in order
to pick up foodstuffs at markets.
Among those named in the grand
jury's warrants were James Hoffa,
business agent of the Teamsters'
Joint Council 43, and Owen B. Bren-
(See TRANSFERS, Page A-5)
Evening star., 1946-08-18
Fresh Deportations
Stir Jews Anger in
Haifa Demonstration
Throngs Summoned From
Homes by Radio Told to
Prepare for Anything
BIZ the Associoted Press

HAIFA, Palestine, Aug. ia
mystery voice harrangued crowds
of angry Jews today, urging them
to "be prepared for anything" as
the entire port city of Haifa
stirred restively to ominous NUT
terings against deportation of
more illegal immigrants to
Cyprus.
British officials were hopeful that
the new shipment of 400 refugees
could be carried out tonight with
out a new outburst of violence in
the tense port, A first attempt to
get the operation under way last
night was abandoned in the face of
opposition from the immigrants
themselves.
A high police official said the i'm
migrants aboard the illegal ships
"23" and "Fenice" in Haifa harbor
first had promised to cooperate in
the trans-shipment operation, after
a Jewish civil district commissioner
addressed them. Later, he said,
when launches and landing barges
approached the schooners, the i'm
migrants fatty refused to leave
their ships, shouted insults at the
soldiers and sailors, and called the
police 'Nazi'' and IS. S. men"
We then decided to abandon the
effort because the whole thing was
planned on the basis of receiving
cooperation from the immigrants. :"
Thousands in Demonstrati ton.
The police official denied, how
ever, Jewish reports that the re-
fusal Of the immigrants to board
the waiting troopships had been ac-
companied by violence in which
missiles were hurled at the soldiers
sailors and police.
Thousands of Jews gathered early
In the day for a demonstration
ccalled to protest the new trans
shipment.
The Voice of Israel" clandes-
tine radio of Hagana, Jewish un-
derground organization broadcast
calls at Is minute intervals
throughout the morning for the
meeting, but warned Jews against
going into the harbor area or
against making useless sacrifices. -
1t told them that there was moth
ing you can do just now"
Amplifiers in shop windows and
on rooftops blared forth the Ha-
CANA announcements and a run
ming commentary on what was
taking place in the harbor, where
British warships and police gun
boats guarded the troopships En-
pire Rival and Empire Haywood
which were to take the immigrants
to Cyprus. Some 1900 Jews were
deported on the same ships last
Tuesday.
The mass demonstration, gath
cred inside barbed wire barricades,
was addressed by an unseen speaker
screened from view to prevent mill
tary or police interference. 3 He
Evening star., 1946-08-18
BY the Associated Pres,

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Aug. IT,
A young fisherman, wading in the
shallow waters OF the st. Johns Riv-
er with an upraised steel rod in his
hand, was fatally injured late today
by a bolt Of lightning.
The victim, John r. Hopkins W,
was the son Of John T. tJack) Hop
kins. manager and chief engineer OF
radio station WAX, and Mrs. Agnes
Hopkins OF Washington. D. c,
Young Hopkins, 10, Was pulled un-
Evening star., 1946-08-18
Army Of Squotters in Britain
Invade Public, Private Property

Amersham, northwest OF London
tried unsuccessfully today to see
Prime Minister Attlee. The men,
bers told reporters there were 1900
families waiting for houses in
Amersham, and only a third of them
could be accommodated in nearby
camps.
No disorders were reported and
authorities in most communities
were treating the movement with
toleration and restraint. The Min
lstry Of Health, however, made it
plain that all occupied camps found
unfit for habitation would have to
be cleared before winter. 1t warned
that the squatters were threatening
to upset reconstruction plans.
The squatting did not appear to
be organized on a national basis,
but spread by example. The idea
was taking hold wherever families
were forced to live in overcrowded
quarters without any immediate
prospects of homes of their own.
Scottish authorities estimated
tSee sQUATTTRS, page A-sJ
Evening star., 1946-08-18
Sloughterto Ask Quick Changes
In Sloppy War Goods Sales
Sore Spots Demand Tighter Priorties,
Halt to Spectators, He Declares

on purchase attempts by such indi-
viduals.
3. Assure adherence by WAA to
congressional instructions regard
ing ALLEGATION Of scarce items. Many
instances have been found, he said
OF property disposals "in clear viola
tion of the law"
4. Speed up sales and disposal
generally, before the goods drop In
value. War Assets Administrator
Robert M. Littlejohn has said such
a program already has been
launched.
Mr.. Slaughter said the report will
be made public "as soon as possible
and before hearings are resumed
here in mid-September. He de-
clared the investigation thus far has
shown IAN overall problem so seri-
Gus and with such ramifcations''
that he anticipates another five or
six weeks of intensive hearings.
When the committee gets together
again, the chairman said, it will
renew "intensively" its inquiry into
abuse of priorities and into the
activities of spectators like Benja-
min F. Fields, Washington broker
and promoter.
Committee Council Hugh D. Wise,
tSee SURPLUS. Page A-7D
Evening star., 1946-08-18
400 Reported Killed
On urk-lroq Border
By The Associated Press

BACHDAD, Aug. ia govern
ment communiqe said today more
than 400 persons were killed in
clashes resulting from 'tribaI
enmity' near Mosul and the Turko.
Iraq border.
Hundreds more" were wounded
the announcement said, in armed
conflict between the Shammar ano
Albumatyut tribes in the Sinjal
area.
Local authorities arrested leaders
OF both parties and investigations
are still going on" it added.
Evening star., 1946-08-18
Gen. Clay Summoned
To Paris Conference
BY Secretary Byrnes

PARIS, Aug. IT tP.-Secre-
tary of State Byrnes has re-
quested 1t. Gen. Lucius D.
Clay. United States deputy on
the. Berlin Control Commission
for Germany, to come to Paris
for a general discussion of the
German question, an American
informant said tonight.
He added that the Secre-
tary's request did not mean he
planned to raise the German
question at the Peace Confer
ence.
Evening star., 1946-08-18
Danes, Russians Sign
5-Yeur Trude Pact
BY the Associated Press

COPENHAGEN, Aug. ia fiye-
yesr trade and shipping agreement
between Denmark and the Soviet
Union was signed in Moscow today,
the Danish Foreign Ministry an
nounced tonight.
The agreement involves prom
ise of mutual MISREPRESENTATION
treatment especially as to taxes and
harbor duties.
Evening star., 1946-08-18

isters' Council on the treaties for
Italy, Finland and the Balkan ma.
tions.
Smaller Nations Impatient.
The conference wound up It's
third week today, and impatience
over delay has been manifest
among the smaller nations. This
morning Brooke Claxton of Canada
said 1T might be a good thing if
some OF the leaders of the Big Four
could meet in order to facilitate
more rapid work
The Russians this afternoon at
organizational meetings of the Bull
garlans and Hungarian political and
territorial commissions again tried
to limit the right to vote in COM
mission only to countries which ac-
tually had been at war with former
enemy states. France again object.
ed, supported by Britain and the
United States.
Voting with the Soviet Union
against the Austrian proposal were
White Russia, Poland. Czechoslo.
vakla, the Ukraine and Yugoslavia
Soviet Delegate Andrei Y. Vishin.
sky declared the object of the pro.
posal was to bring up Austria's S claim
to the South Tyrol which was re.
lected by the Council of Foreign
Minister'S
He said that IF this is onlv q
question of the South Tvrol i,
would seem to me the most proper
way would be to raise it before 2
commission. If the conference wants
to invite Austria it can do it. bu,
the Soviet delegation does not think
1t is necessary"
Discrimination Feared.
Hector Mcneil of the British dele.
cation asserted that failure to hea,
Austria on the future of the Italo-
Austrian frontier would be dis.
crlmlnation' by the Peace Confer.
ence because it had established 2
policy of permitting both sides te
be heard here"
State Department Counsellor Ben.
lamln V. Cohen said the American
viewpoint was that Austria Should
have the right to present her views
here. 1t seems to us that it woule
take less time to hear the views O,
Austria than to debate her right tc
be heard"
He added that 'in the Moscow
declaration we did regard Austria
as a victim of Nazi aggression. ]
don't think We can deliberate here
just how far Austria did contribute
to her own liberation"
French Delegate Maurice Couve
(See CONFFPENCP p.oo
Evening star., 1946-08-18
Fighting in Palestine
Called Bar 10 u. ). Oil
Pipeline in Arabia
State Department Asks
U. N. Control of World
Petroleum Output

oGllle III TdlSSblIle Is nOlQ10R
up construction of an American
pipeline across Saudi Arab, the
State Department disclosed last
night, in calling for some form
! OF United Nations control over
world petroleum production.
The United States, the depart
ment warned, faces a shortage of
oil in 20 years and the best foreign
source of petroleum is in the strift-
ridden Middle East.
Department spokesmen, in a radio
broadcast, said that American COM
panies operating in Saudi Arabia
plan to build a pipeline across
Arabia to the Mediterranean but
they hesitate to begin construction
until, for one thing, the Palestine
situation is cleared up" =
See Friction Resulting.
Oil will cause international "fric-
tion and conflict" until "the ma
tions get together and work out
some fair way of keeping disputes
to minimum. and some orderly
way OF developing the worlds Oil
resources, said John A. Lotus, chief
of the departments petroleum di-
vision
Mr.. Lotus. Charles B. Rayner, ad-
wiser on petroleum policy in the
State Department. and Col. G.. H.
Vogel, executive officer of the Army
Navy Petroleum Board, discussed in
ternational oil problems in NBC
broadcast.
Mr.. Lotus mentioned current ten
sion in the Middle East and Russian
seizure of American oil properties
in Hungary and Austria as exam
piles OF international friction involy-
ing oil resources.
Mr.. Rayner said a general in
ternational policy should be de-
veloped to discourage oil monopo-
lies, open the way for small COM
panles to enter the foreign fields,
make world oil resources available
to all nations on equal terms and
assure a fair share of the pro-
ceeds to all parties concerned in
developing an oil field.
Z. n. Rule Held Answer.
"Some sort of worldwide oil
committee or authority under the
United Nations might be the an
swer," he said. Mr.. Lotus sue-
gested such an organization might
serve as sort of appeals board,
where nations and Oil companies
might seek adjustment of disputes.
Col. Vogel said the United States
will have to import more and more
Oil in the future-probably close to
half its consumption by 1965-em-
phasizing the National interest in
development of petroleum resources
abroad.
He pointed out that the worlds
largest known oil reserves are in
the Middle East, where American
interests control AZ per cent of them.
The American interests are mainly
in Saudi Arabia, Iraq and in Ku-
wait, at the head of the Persian
Gulf.
Col. Vogel said the Navy now is
getting about half of its Navy spe-
ciar fuel Oil from the Middle East
about $4,000 barrels day.
He said the State Department is
trying to get Russia to return to
control of the Standard Oil Co. of
New Jersey oil fields in Hungary
which Soviet military personnel took
over months ago. Other American
companies had prewar rights in Aus
trian oil fields which have been
seized by the Russians, who claim
some of them as reparations.
Evening star., 1946-08-18
BY the Associated Press


MANkATO, Mimi, Aug. IT,
At least seven persons were killed
and more than so injured to-
night in a tornado that mo-
mentarily dipped from the sky
to destroy a 22-cabin tourist
camp in the Minnesota River
Valley, 3 miles southwest of
Mankato.
Possibility the death list might
reach at least eight was expressed
by Sheriff Frank Cords of Blue
Earth County. He said three dead,
all of them children, repeatedly had
been brought in from the storm
area. Earlier, the bodies of five
victims had been brought in.
st. Joseph's Hospital reported IL
had treated 80 injured and the COM
munitys other hospital, Emmanuel,
had "over 20 injured"
Both hospitals said operating
rooms We're filled and that injured
we're lying or standing in corridors
waiting for surgical treatment.
The known dead were:
Ronald j. Wirig, about 40, of
Mankato.
Gerald Nurre of Bancroft, Iowa,
Sidney Casper of Mankato.
Donald Nelson of Butterfield
MINI.
An unidentified woman. about ~.
Mankato, 4 town of about 10000
population. IS miles southwest of
Minneapolis, tonight was a COM
munity of awe-stricken residents.
Hundreds lined the streets of the
business area, watching silently as
a three-hour shuttle of ambulances
taxicabs, hearses and other vehicles
brought injured to hospitals.
Stricken Area Small.
The area struck was snlall-four
blocks by about two-but the vio~
lence was intense. with the Green
Gables tourist camp. situated near
Minneopa State Park, bearing the
brunt.
Coming in from the west, the
funnel-shaped cloud descended at
6:45 pm. and in matter of sec
onds whipped upwards and away,
The % lightly constructed cabins.
all of which we're occupied. were
shattered Timbers and cabin oc-
cupants were hurled before the
blast.
First arrivals at the storm scene
said the cabin site looked like a
battle field. Persons were strewn
over the area. Some were dead.
Harold Mishler of Mankato told
Of following the tornado as it ap-
preached the camp, throttling down
his truck to avoid running into it.
ut was small, dark funnel when
I first noticed it" Mr.. Mishler said.
1T came up from the west. 1t didn't
seem to be travelling very fast.
could see it dropping lower. I knew
it was loaded with trouble, so I
slowed down my truck. ! was afraid
of running into it.
Dips to Ground.
"The cloud dipped down to the
ground when it reached the Minne-
sofa Valley, just at the place where
the tourist camp was. / could hear
the roar as it passed along. I came
in sight of the camp in time to see
three cabins go. They Just few into
pieces. When I pulled up some
people was lying around. Others
were walking around dazed. We
put as many injured into the truck
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