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Evening star., 1946-08-12
American Farmer Skipper
Admits Hasty Inspection
D; the Assoeioted Press

NEW YORK, Aug. 12-Capt. Ar
thur P. Cronin of the s4,500 900
salvage prize ship American Farmer,
damaged in a collision TOO miles of
the coast of England July 81, testi-
fed ct a Coast Guard hearing to-
day that he did not inspect the
vessel below the main deck before
abandoning ship.
The 8,347-ton American Farmer IS
hull was ripped open in the crash
with the cattle ship William j.
Riddle at 10 pm. and Capt. Cronin
ordered the 6 passengers and SO
crewmen transferred to the Good
hue, an American ship. S minutes
later.
The 6l-year- captain told the
three-man inquiry board he was in
a cabin about 40 feet from the
wheelhouse when the collision oc-
Cured in choppy sea. He said
visibility was about 5 miles.
Capt. Cronin said the impact oi
the crash stunned him for a few
seconds, but that he made three
inspections of the forward part OF
the ship and concluded she woulc
sink. The ships log. he said, was
left aboard the vessel.
Evening star., 1946-08-12
President Refuses
To Seize Case Plants
In Implement Strike
VitoI Interests of Nation
Are Not at Stoke,
White House Says
BY fhe Associated Press

The White House said today
President Truman has decided
against seizure of the struck J. I.
Case plants at Racine, Wis.
Presidential Press Secretary
Charles c. Ross said that "after
much deliberation' the President
had decided that seizure of the
plants would mot be in the pub
lie interest
Mr.. Ross said the President was
guided by the principle that seiz-
ures should be ordered only where
the public welfare "is vitality in
volved."
1t was assumed that the no.
seizure decision also would be ap-
piled to the strike in Allis- -Chal-
mers plants, which also manufacture
farm machinery.
Mr.. Ross was asked if one of
the Presidents basic considerations
could have been that a fiat decision
against the Case seizure might help
negotiations in the strike which has
been under way since the first Of
the year. He replied he didn't care
to interpret the decision further.
Mr.. Ross added, however, that the
strike was not considered national
emergency of character to warrant
seizure.
He emphasized that the Labor
Department still had jurisdition over
the negotiations.
Evening star., 1946-08-12
Union HuIting
Overseas Press
Service Today
by the Associated PynSs

NEW YORK, Aug. 12.-The
American Communications AS
ISOLATION, CIO, announced today
that, effective at pm, it's mem
bers in the various information
al communications companies
would refuse to handle any in
ternational press traffic, in a
move to bring pressure on Press
Wireless, Inc, against which SOC
AGA members are on strike.
Lawrence Kelly, international vice
president of ACA's radio and cables
department, in announcing the
move said it had been decided or
by the departments Joint Execu-
tive Board.
The sole exception to the refusal
to handle press, traffic after l pm.
he said. would be Government pres.
matter.
Inv effect. he said, the only way
remaining for newspaper and press
association writer's overseas to send
their copy 10 the united states
would he by telephone.
The major companies to be hit
by ACA's embargo, Mr. Kelly said
are Western Union Gables, RCA
Communications, Inc; Mackay
Radio and Telegraph Co., INC;
Commercial Cable Co., Globe Wire
less, Ltd; French Gable Co, Tropi-
cal Radio Telegraph Co. and Com
mercial Pacific Gable Co., in addi-
ton to Press Wireless.
Lawrence Kammet. public rela-
tions director of AGA. said: The
embargo will last until the strike
Is settled"
Evening star., 1946-08-12
13 Held in Army Jail!
In Germany Without
Formal Charges
Coptoin Hits System
Imprisonine Men Up to
Z Months Without TriuI
BY ths Associated Press

FRANKFURT, Germany, Aug
12.-Capt. Earl Carroll of San
Bruno, Calf, denounced the
United States Army's legal sys-
tenn today after receiving a
spuggled appeal for help which
resulted in the disclosure that 13
American soldiers and civilians
had been held in Army jails for
as much as two months without
facing formal charges or receiv-
ing legal counsel.
Capt. Carroll, who blasted the
Army court-martial system once be-
fore. said 1t was neither military
nor justice"
tIn Washington. an official said
any comment from the War De-
partment would be withheld until
an official report was received
from the European theater.)
The smuggled appeal, written by
Pfc. Daniel p. Walczak, %, of De-
troit, who was jailed June II for
investigation in the killing of a
German girl, was referred to Capt.
Carroll by Maj. Joseph S. Robinson
of New York, prosecutor in the
Liehfleld stockade trials st Bad
Nauheim, to whom it was addressed.
The investigation which the ap-
peal Immediately precipitated dis
closed, among other things, that one
Chicago civilian-Lawrence r. Ben
son, 40-had been jailed since June
% and did not know why he, was
being held. Army officials said they
were unable to find any record
on him.
IF an American citizen at home
were placed in confinement with
out counsel and kept there for so
days, the whole Nation would rise
In protest" Capt Carroll declared
(See FRANKFURT pace A-io1
Evening star., 1946-08-12
Fields Got WAA Refrigerotors
For $295 After Bidding $500
Broker Tells Of Buying 181 Surplus Units,
Says His Usual Fee Was Per Cent Plus

he thanked the official for the allo-
cation. expressed hope the entire
ALLEGATION would be approved, and
said he deeply appreciated" the
very fine cooperation and deep
interest" of the WAA
Committee Counsel Hugh D. Wise,
who had brought this evidence to
light, asked what was meant by the
deep interest" and Fields answered
by saying the WAA officials all gave
fine cooperation Ito us and to
everybody else"
He said he did not know Mr.. Gill
rein personally.
According to testimony by Fields,
he still holds the 18l refrigerators
and is trying to dispose of them.
He said he had placed an order for
them for the Petroleum Pipe 81
Supply Co. of Corpus Christi, Tex,
which finally decided not to take
the refrigerator units.
1t was on April s, 1916, Fields said
in identifying letter offered by the
committee counsel, that he placed
an order for the 181 refrigerator
units at $500 each. On May %, how
ever, he received reply from WAA
returning his order and advising
him he could buy them for $295
each. Fields said he ultimately was
90. cY~ry TTc
Evening star., 1946-08-12
BY the Associated Pres,

CARTERSVILLE, Ga, Aug. 12.-
Pat Mansfield, ousted sheriff OF Nc
MINI County, Tenn, who for years
headed the dominant political or
ganization there, said today he
would never understand what
caused the August ! siege Of the
county Jail by war veterans In
which 10 persons were wounded.
In the battle, the veterans forced
the surrender of sheriff's deputies
barricaded In the jail Subsequent
ly. the 1ormer servicemen were de-
clared the victors in the election
for county offices
Mr. Mansfield and his former
chief deputy, Boe Dunn, are visit
ing friends here They fed when
the fight at Athens. Tenn, ended.
The veterans charged ballot box ir-
regularities.
How any people, could have
changed from lifelong friends within
a few hours into blood thirsty mob
yelling for our lives is something
/ will never understand il / live
a thousand years." Mr.. Mansfield
said.
The morning Of August /. election
Evening star., 1946-08-12
YugosIavia Protests
American Planes;
One Forced Down
Mi|itory Croft Violate
Stote Sovereignty,
Belgrade Charges
BY the kssoeiotsd Press

BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Aug.
IL. - Yugoslav fighter planes
forced an American CAT trans
port to land Friday at Ljubljana
and soon afterward the Tito
government protested to the
United States Embassy against
ever increasing" violations of
Yugoslavia state sovereignty"
The note said of the latest alleged
incident:
"On August 8 at 1:10 pm, an
American plane of the type CAT
flew over the airfield In Ljubljana
at 5000 meters altitude and circled
twice. Despite a call from our
fighter planes with international
signals and even hand waving for
the plane to land, the planes crew
did not heed these calls but at
tempted to withdraw in the direction
of the frontier.
"Only after determined steps
were taken by our fighters was the
American plane forced to land. The
plane contained eight military and
two civilian persons. A detailed in
quiry has been ordered This case
reveals the sad fact that certain
crews not only wilfully violate Yugo-
slav sovereignty but just as wilfully
refuse to submit to lawful calls from
Yugoslav planes"
The note, sent by the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs to the Embassy
yesterday. went on: "In the Pc
riod from July 16 to August g.
l72 planes flew unauthorized over
Yugoslav territory, of which 81
were bombers, 10 fighters and As
were transports.
1t said these flights were taking
place despite letter from the
United States military attache on
August 7 which stated:
The American Government re-
Gently issued circular prohibiting
American planes from flying over
territory of friendly nations without
special permission"
The note added, further: The
government Of Yugolsavia y most
energetically protests against the
ceaseless and systematic flights over
Yugoslav territory, and requests that
the United States Government with
out delay undertake energetic meas
ures to prevent any further infringe
ment on Yugoslav state sovereignty
on the part Of American military
planes
(There was no official COM
ment in Rome on the note, but
airmen there said the direct route
from Vienna to Udine, in North
ern Italy, was close to the Yugo-
slav border and that it would not
be unusual for weather conditions
to force planes over the line oc-
CaSionally.
Evening star., 1946-08-12
BULLETIN

Benjamin F. Fields categor-
ically denied before a special
House committee this after
noon that he had ever "cut in"
any War Assets Administra-
ton employees on the commits
sions he received for obtaining
surplus property from the
Government. He admitted
that WAA employees had come
to his Office, but said he did
not recall their identity.
The special House committee
investigating disposal of surplus
war materials brought to light
today evidence that Benjamin F
Fields, ex-convict and public re-
lations COUNSEL" had offered te
buy 18l refrigerator units from
the War Assets Administration
at $500 each but later got them
for $295 each.
After this information had beer
placed in the record, Fields identi-
fed a letter written to William J
Gilrein, sales manager of the Phila-
delphia Office of WAA. In the letter
Evening star., 1946-08-12
Evacuation Of Marine,
In Face Of China Truce
Deadlock Is Denied
Shifts ColIed Routine;
Fierce Fighting Roees
Around Totunq
BY the Associoted Press

TIENTSIN, Aug. 12.-Marine
regulars are replacing reserves
in North China, but Admiral
Charles M. Cooke, jr., commander
of the United States 7th Fleet,
quickly emphasized today "the
accelerated outward movement
of Marines at this time does not
in any way mean the Marines
are being withdrawn from
China"
The lst Marine Division an
nounced the arrival at Tangku to-
day OF two naval transports in con-
nection with routine movements of
naval and Marine Corps personnel. F"
That led to Admiral Cookies state
ment.
The announcement said the ships
brought Marine and naval personnel
reporting for full tours of duty in
the Far East All arrivals are reg
ulars who will replace reserves. The
latter will be returned soon to the
United States to meet a November
l rehabilitation deadline.
Indicating the Marines have no
intention of leaving China in the
near future, new radio station,
THE Voice of the China Marines"
soon will start broadcasting from
Tientsin. 1t Is described as the
most powerful armed forces radio
in the Far East.
The Republican Daily News today
reported fierce fighting still Is rag
ing around Tatung Military au-
thorities Of Shansi Province are
See CHINA paoa A2N
Evening star., 1946-08-12
Farm and Food Group!
Oppose Price Curbs
AS Hearing Begins
Dangers Of Black Market
And Confusion Stressed
Before DecontroI Boord
BY MoIcolm Lomborne, Jr.

Spokesman for the Nations
grain markets and feed manu-
facturers today Joined with the
American Farm Bureau Fedora
ton In warning the Price De-
control Board that the resump-
ton of price ceilings on grains,
meat and other food would bring
a return of black markets in vir-
tually all these commodities.
Edward A. O'Neal. head of the
Farm Bureau Federation with a
membership of about 1000 900 farm
families, observed that if foods are
to be controlled, I'VE may as we'll be
practical and realize that we must
also ration the products.
BY the luncheon recess, 10 wit
nesses had been heard by the board
at the opening of four days of hear
ings on whether basic farm COM
modities and their finished products
should return to their ceilings Au-
gust 81
Throughout the testimony today
ran the theme that bumper crop
this year makes price controls un-
necessary. Nearly all cited, how
ever. the definite possibility of black
markets in the event of price con-
troll resumption.
Grain Tragedy" Feared.
Richard F Uhlmann, Chicago, a
director of the National Grain
Council, declared that it would be
a national tragedy in the face of
large crops to reinstate control on
grain.
M. F. Mulroy, chairman of the
Wheat Committee of the Millers'
National Federation, testified: F'To-
day. with wheat in free supply in
open market channels, there is
nothing to inspire black market.
But return to price regulation
surely would put illicit operators
back into business
Walter G. Berger, Des Moines.
president of the American Feed
Manufacturers Association. declared
that the feed supply will not only be
large enough for the livestock and
poultry now on hand, but it is
large enough that we firmly believe
that at no time during the crop
year will the cost OF feeds become
unreasonably high"
Mr.. O'Neal, leading of the parade
of witnesses, said his organization
was firmly convinced that under
present conditions it would be In
advisable to attempt to reinstate
price controls on meat, milk, grain,
and other foods.
Board Member Daniel w. Bell
asked Mr.. O'Neal whether 1t Is pos
sible to say none of these products
are in short supply"
II leave 1t to you, brother" Mr.
1see DEcoNTRoL, gage A-l2o
Evening star., 1946-08-12
Bomb Bursts on Luwn
OF Cleveland Official
BY the Asseeiot.d Press

CLEVELAND. Aug. IA small
bomb, apparently thrown from an
automobile, exploded early today on
the lawn in front of the home Of
Councilman John j. Prince.
No one was injured.
Mr.. Prince, who represents the
32d ward, said he recently submitted
a petition, signed by several neigh
bors. to City Law Director Lee G.
Howley. The councilman said the
petition called for city authorities to
eliminate nightly nuisance caused
by loiterers and automobiles at an
East Side restaurant.
After this action. Mr.. Prince said.
he learned that a man had told a
neighbor that some one is going to
get pineapple"
Evening star., 1946-08-12
All Auto Prices
Raised 7.3% in
New 0PA0rder
Increase Results
From Restoration
Of Profit Margins
BY the Associated Press

OPA today raised retail price
ceilings on new automobiles an
average of 7.3 per cent-first part
of the increase required by the
new price control law.
The increase, effective immedi-
ately on all models, meets a re-
quirement that OPA restore the
peacetime profit margins of auto
dealers.
On four-door sedans-the only ex-
amples cited by OPA-today's in
creases range from $50 on Chevro-
let Fleetmaster to s295 on q
Cadillac.
On a Plymouth de luxe and a
Ford de luxe the increase is s73,
while on a Buick series 40 the price
increase is s96 and on a Chrysler
Royal s99.
Dealers profit margins had been
cut by OPA to prevent the full
amount on increases previously
granted manufacturers from being
passed on to the public. Congress
outlawed this cost absorption prac-
| tice.
| Still another increase under the
law will be put into effect soon. OPA
| officials estimated to reporters this
| may amount to about per cent to
loffset restoration of dealers prewar
handling charges, which also have
been trimmed by OPA.
Todays increase was the fourth
general price increase above 1942
auto ceilings granted since last Mo-
vember. The first covered produc-
ton cost increases up to last fall, the
second wage increases early this
year and the third higher parts and
materials costs resulting from the
steel price increase last February.
| OPA made no official estimate Of
the total average increase to date
over 1912 ceilings, but an official said
it probably is in excess of Is per cent.
OPA announced that increases to
compensate for restoration of deal
ers' handling charges. will not be
put into effect until after discussion
of this matter with dealers at a
conference scheduled tomorrow.
OPA listed new and previous CELL
lngs, together with the amount of
increase, on four-door sedans of all
makes. These prices do not include
Federal excise taxes, handling and
delivery charges or transportation
charges.
Evening star., 1946-08-12

When Controller General Lind
say c. Warren told the Mead
committee of the Senate. recent
ly that untold billions" of the
peoples money had been need
lessly squandered on war con-
tracts, he didn't tell, except in
sketchy fashion, how the money
was siphoned out of the Treas
ury.
With Mr.. Warren's cooperation,
this reporter has examined more
than 1000 reports of auditors for
the General Accounting Once In
which they set out how it was done
and who did 1t. This, and succeed
ing articles, will describe something
Of what they found.
1t won't be the whole story, be-
cause while the inquiry was under
way, the Mead committee asked for
much Of the same information. Mr.
Warren, whose ONCE Is an agency OF
Evening star., 1946-08-12
Old Friends Changed Into Mob,
Ousted Tennessee Sheriff SAYS

day In McMinn County, Mr.. Mans
field was a sheriff and candidate
for the State Senate.
Shortly after am, the following
morning. he and Mr.. Dunn were
fugitives from supporters of the
coalition, all-veteran ticket for
county off1ces.
Both Mr. Dunn and Mr.. Mans
field say they did not fire a shot
during the battle.
why I could have killed dozens
OF my fellow citizens, but the very
thought of such a thing was SO re-
volting, / would not fire myself, nor
would ! permit my deputies to do
so,' Mr.. Mansfield said. Eyewit-
ness accounts said shots were fired
from the jail.
Mr.. Dunn added. "The attacking
forces placed young boys out In
front as they attempted to rush
the jail. 1t would have been q
criminal act on our part to have
fired on those boys. Pat and spent
our time warning our fellow -depu-
ties to withhold their fire. because
We certainly didn't want the blood
CONTINUED on Page AS. Column .
Evening star., 1946-08-12
BY the As.oeiossd Press

BERLIN, Aug. 12.-An inter
national smuggling and black
market ring involving five men,
bers of a New York City family
was uncovered recently when the
Army's Criminal Investigation
Department apprehended two
members of the family in Berlin
and Paris, an official announce
ment said today.
The five persons involved, all of
253 West Seventy street, New
York City, were identified as:
David L. Warner and his four
sons:
Lewis L. Warner, %. former air
forces lieutenant who was a civilian
employe of the American Airlines
in Berlin.
Oscar Selig Warner. %, a former
naval lieutenant who recently
started an import-export business
in Paris.
Robert Warner, an officer on
Evening star., 1946-08-12
Monk Offers 10 Reveal
Mussolini' S Burial Spot
BY the Associofed Press

MILAN, Italy, Aug. IA monk
of nt'Angelo del Minori Mon
astery has offered to tell police
where Benito Mussolini was buried
after thieves stole the body April %.
The monk, Father Alberto. told
police he learned of the location
when one of the thieves told him at
confessional. The monk said the
man. now held by police as a con-
fessed accomplice, had authorized
him to disclose the secret.
He said he still must obtain per-
mission from certain fugitiyes and
would have to make perhaps a
plane trip to accomplish this.
Rumors spread in Milan several
days ago that MIssolini's body had
been buried in the monastery
cemetery.
Evening star., 1946-08-12
International Smuggling Ring
Involving Family Of S Smashed
Black Market Agents AIIeeedIy Scattered
In New York, Paris, Berlin and Shanghai

terminal leave from the Navy pres
emily employed by UNRRA In
Shanghai.
Alfred Warner.
The names of the Warmers were
issued through the Army's Berlin
district press relations Office by Ray
Carlucci, chief of the Army criminal
investigation Office here. Mr.. Car
lucci estimated that IF the business
had gone on for one year the profit
would have been $4,000, ,00O."
The Criminal Investigation De-
partment's announcement stated
that the Warmers had been operat-
ing an export and import business
several months. with the three sons,
in Paris, Berlin and Shanghai, as
outlets.
The department alleged that the
fourth son purchased merchandise
in the United States for export to
the three others.
THE father" the official release
stated. was in charge and in
structed his sons in their activities. y
Evening star., 1946-08-12

y ms d. IoutS FOSI-biSPoICh
Congress, took the position the SEN
ate committee had prior claim to
the facts it wanted to present at
hearings. Some data along the lines
of that sought by the committee had
already been compiled by the re-
porter before the committee made
its request, however, and are avail
able for publication.
Despite the limited power OF the
controller general, deliberately cur
tailed by Congress to give the pro-
|curement agencies broad powers in
an effort to speed badly needed war
production, the General Accounting
Office was able, during the war
years, to recover more than 5000 :
600, 900 from war contractors who
had been paid more than they were
entitled to receive. This is hardly a
drop In the bucket when the total
of war contracts is considered, but
1t Is significant in view Of the re-
Continued on Page A. Column a.
Evening star., 1946-08-12
SIighter Shocks Felt
In Dominican Republic
By the As.oeiosed Press

CIUDAD TRUJnLO. Dominican
Republic. Aug. 12-Earth tremors,
which have kept this Caribbean Is
land In terror for eight days, were
felt here again at 4.:3l am. today
but the shocks have been decreasing
In frequency and intensity in the
last 48 hours. The latest quake
caused no reported damage.
Communications were being re-
stored with the north and north
east areas, which were hardest
hit In the series of quakes and
tidal waves, beginning Sunday, Au-
gust 4, and the government was in
creasing its relief activities for the
10000 homeless Food and medi-
cine are being rushed to the area.
Evening star., 1946-08-12
Another U. S. Soldier
Fired On Near Gorizio
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

TRIESTE, Aug. 12-Public rela-
tions headquarters of the 88th Di-
vision at Gorilla announced today
that an American soldier was fired
on yesterday on the Trieste Gorilla
road at approximately the same
point where another American SOL
dier recently was ambushed and
killed.
The statement said the soldier
whose name was not announced, was
driving an American Red Gross jeep
OF the 34sth Infantry Regiment. He
was not hit. One bullet punctured
a tire.
Evening star., 1946-08-12
jap Killer Gets Life

MANILA, Aug. u. R.-Jiro Mo-
toki, former Japanese Army captain
charged with beheading four Fill
pino civilians on Panay Island in
1874, today was convicted and SEN
fenced to life Imprisonment by q
War Crimes Commission.
Evening star., 1946-08-12
Amnesty Forecast in MuniIu

MANILA. Aug. II GA poll of
the Philippines Congress, taken by
the Manila Times, indicated ma
jority support today for resolution
urging general amnesty for accused
political collaborationists
Evening star., 1946-08-12
Major League
Games

AMERICAN LEAGUE
At Cleveland
Detroit -- 100 900 10
Cleveland = 900 900 20 -
Batteries--Benton and Richards, Gre.
mex and Hegan.
Chicago at St. Louis-S:3a PM,
(Only Games Scheduled)
NATIONAL LEAGUE
At Brooklyn
New York 0l0 010
Brooklyn - coo 900
Batteries-Trinkle and Cooper; LON.
bardi and Edwards.
At Chicago
st. Louis 003 010
Chicago - 900 900 0
Batteries--Brarle and Cara xiola, Pas.
sean, Kush tSdl and Livingston.
At Pittsburgh
Cincinnati 010 0
Pittsburgh 010
Batteries--Heusser and Mueller, Bahr
and Lopez.
tOnly Games Scheduled)
Evening star., 1946-08-12
Todoy's Home Runs

American League
Cullenbine, Detroit t7th), 0 on.
National League
Cooper, New York t2d). 0 on.
Graham, New York tsth). 0 on.