davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1946-08-06
Antitrust Suit Filed
Against 81 New York
Realty Loan Firms
Effort to Keep Rents Up,
Prevent Some Types
Of Building Charged
By the Gssoeioted Press

NEW YORK, Aug. 6.-The Fed
eral Government today charged
in a civil antitrust suit that 81
insurance companies, savings
banks and commercial banks
and a firm owned by the savings
banks sought to keep rents up
and prevent certain types of
construction in the New York
City area.
The suit named as defendants the
Mortgage Conference of New York,
the Savings Banks Trust Co. of
New York and 81 members of the
conference. 1t sought an injunc-
ton against the alleged practices
and dissolution of the Mortgage
Conference, described as composed
of insurance companies, savings
banks and commercial banks. The
Savings Banks Trust Co. of New
York is wholly owned by various
savings banks.
A special Federal grand jury rec
ommended the action after hearing
testimony since June IL. The jury
discharged yesterday by Federal
Judge Marion S. Boyd in a closed
courtroom, recommended:
1T is the sense of this grand jury
that the Government should file
civil proceedings against the Mort
gage Conference and all of it's af-
filiates to correct the conditions
found to exist by this grand jury"
Eliminated Competition.
The complaint charged that the
defendants have utilized the con-
ference to eliminate competition
among themselves on mortgage
loans of over $4,000 on properties
located N New York and the met
ropolitan area; to fix minimum in
terest rates and amortization terms
to establish standard appraisal pro-
cedures and valuations; and tc
stabilize the real estate markets In
New York and the metropolitan
area.
The complaint alleges further that
in 1945 the total amount OF new first
mortgages placed on multiple
dwellings, office buildings, lofts ano
other commercial and industrial
structures in the New York area
(See MORTGAGE, Page A-2)
Evening star., 1946-08-06
Heirens Confesses
Choking Degnan Girl
To Death in Her Bed
Chance Dictated Selection
Of Little Victim, Youth
Tells Prosecutor
BY the Associoted Press.

CHICAGO. Aug. civilian
Heirens told States Attorney
William J. Tuohy today he stran-
gled Suzanne Degnan, 6, with his
fingers as she lay in her bed and
then took her body to the base
ment of a nearby apartment
building and cut it to pieces.
He claimed he was in a sort of
daze when he killed the child last
January 7. After dropping the parts
of her dismembered body in sewers
i'll her neighborhood, he added he
returned to the apartment base
ment and wrote a note demanding
$4,000 ransom.
Wanted to Give Parents Hope.
He claimed he wrote the ransom
note after killing and dismember-
ing the tiny victim because he be-
lieved that the best way to re-
lieve the parents " would be
TO give them some hope the child
was alive"
He said he selected his victim
entirely by chance. He was in the
neighborhood, he related, and OBJ
served the window of her bedroom
was not closed. 1t was then he got
the idea of entering the house, he
added.
Heirens, 17-year-old University
OF Chicago student, related details
OF the shocking Staying to Mr..
Touhy, a group of police officials
and his own attorneys at a "confes-
sion conference" in Mr.. Touhys
Office.
Two Other Slayings.
The attorneys said, in preparing
for a similar confession confer
ence" week earlier that the youth
also would confess the "lipstick'
Staying last December 10 of Frances
Brown, SO, former WAVE, and the
fatal stabbing June 3. 1s45, of Mrs
Josephine Ross. 43, widow.
Heirens, in his confession, said he
| flashed his 1ashlight in the Degnan
girls room and saw female with
long hair" asleep He said his Wis
ion was mot too good"
Then what did you do?" Mr.
Touhy asked.
Il strangled her"
when you strangled her, how did
you strangle her?'
With my fingers"
Around the neck?"
| yes"
Body Went Limp.
Had the child said something to
you before you did that?"
No" She made some utterances
do not know what they were, toe
inarticulate to make out"
How long did you keep your
/ lSap IIEIpENC nnno D
Evening star., 1946-08-06
Official Opposes Use
OF New Power 10 Gust
State Department Reds
Personnel Chief MucCoy
Urges Merit System
Rights Be Maintained
BY Joseph Young

The State Departments per-
sonnel director has recommended
to Assistant Secretary of State
Donald S. Russell that the
department not make use of
the arbitrary dismissal powers
granted it recently by Congress
to fire Communists and other
undesirables, The Star learned
today.
Maj. w. Pierce MacCoy, person.
mel director of the State Depart
ment, asked that accused employees
be given the same rights that they
have had in the past-rights that
employees in all other Federal de-
partments and agencies enjoy. He
asked that employees slated for dis
mlssal be given an opportunity to
reply to the charges against them
and chance to refute the evidence
against them.
Held Equally Effective.
This, Maj. MacCoy is reported to
have said in his letter Of recon-
mendation, follows the principle OF
the cviil service merit system and
would not deter or hinder the de-
partment in its effort to oust any
Communists or other undesirables
1t might have on its rolls.
The rider that Congress attached
to the State Departments appro-
priation bill giving it the power tc
summarily dismiss employees has
caused deep concern among en-
ployes' groups here lest it set q
precedent for other Federal agen.
cies to follow.
| Since 1912, when the Lloyd-La.
Toilette Act went into effect, Fed.
eral employees who were slated fol
dismissal on misconduct charge!
have had the right to demand for.
NAL charges and the opportunity
to answer them. If this should fail
they still have the right to appea
to the Civil Service Commission.
Spread of Practice Feared.
Enactment of the State Depart
ment's appropriation rider has beer
described by some Government EN-
ployess unions as the opening wedg,
IN a drive to deprive Federal work
ers OF their job security rights
James B. Burns, president of tn,
American Federation of Govern
ment Employees, AFL, has called i
"a bad situation" and placed hi
union in implacable opposition t,
arbitrary firing procedures.
Congress tackled on the rider aft
er it was charged by various mem
bers that the State Department
had failed to dismiss known Com
munists and fellow travellers in it
employ.
Evening star., 1946-08-06
One Injection Of Curore Checks
Polio Of Woodring's Daughter

away. Every symptom of the dis
ease disappeared that afternoon.
:, In a recent issue of the journal
of the American Medical Associa-
ton, DR.. Max j. Fox of Milwaukee
referred to curare as "a dangerous
drug not to be encouraged for the
treatment of the acute phase of
poliomeylitis." An ANA spokesman
said, however, that experiments with
the drug were continuing.
Mr.. Woodring, onetime Governor
Of Kansas and candidate for the
Democratic nomination for Governor
in today's primary election, COM
mented, This curare may be just
in the experimental stage in the
treatment of infantile paralysis, but
it worked for our little girl and we
are very happy about it,
Evening star., 1946-08-06
By Ernest B. Voccoro
Assceioted Press Staff Correspondent

KANSAS CITY, Aug. 6.-Mis-
souri, voters were writing with
their ballots today the decision
on President T'ruman's attempted
purge of Representative Slaugh-
ter and deciding what Mr. Tru-
man said was a question OF
whether the Chief Executive was
right or wrong.
The turbulent 5th district Dem
ocratic campaign boiled to its
climax as the President voted al
neighboring Independence in the 4th
district primary this morning.
The President took his daughter
now %, to the polls for her first
lesson as a voter
Standing side by side in adjoining
booths in the Memorial Building
seventh ward, first precinct of Blue
Township, they marked their bal
lots in the primary.
Entering the auditorium promptly
at IL am, the President and Mar
garet smiled at applauding neigh.
bors and at a battery of photog-
raphers lined up in the Memorial
Building auditorium for the occa
sion.
Told to Vote 1t Straight.
Spotting the President. Olney
Burrus, gray-haired attorney, vot-
ing in one of the other of the foul
booths, shook his hand.
Harry" he said, vote it straight.
Mr.. Truman grinned, replying
simply, Hello, how are you?"
Margaret took little longer thar
her father to mark the ballot car.
rying the entries in Is races.
Finally emerging" she queried:
What will I do with it now?"
Fold it up and put it in the box,
her father instructed.
Both the President and his daugh.
ter patiently held their ballots while
pictures were taken.
Signs an Autograph.
| Mr.. Truman and Margaret drov,
over from their home near the pre-
cinct.
Mrs. Truman, the President ex.
planned, waited for her mother, Mrs
David K. Wallace.
An autograph seeker stopped hin
as he left the voting room, he signet
himself as Harry S. Truman, Inde.
pendence, Mo"
Under the space reserved for hi.
hobby" the President wrote
Politics"
The President marked Ballot So,
his daughter, 81. AS they left tht
building, crowds lined the Sidewalk
to applaud.
Mr.. Truman set the major ISSUE
in the race when he told a news
conference at Washington that il
Representative Slaughter was right
then he himself was wrong on key
problems affecting the Nation.
Representative Slaughter, as q
member of the House Rules Com
| Sec MTSC0JTpT pano A.
Evening star., 1946-08-06
Todoy's Home Runs
Doerr. Boston (1st), on.
BY the kssociofed Press

CAMBRIDGE, England, Aug
6.-Chairman John Foster Dulles
told the International Confer
ence on World Order today the
United States could help ease
world tension by abandoning
the idea of far-fiung bases
which threaten others"
The churchmen agreed on pro-
posals for commission to study the
church's position in relation to poll
teal and social tensions.
Mr.. Dulles, one of the American
delegates to the United Nations As
sembly, said the Christian approach
to the problem meant that each ma
tion must look at its own attitude
to discover what Is wrong about 1t
Evening star., 1946-08-06
BY the kssociofed Press

KANSAS CITY, Aug 6-Federal
Judge John Caskie Collet, who
served briefly as economic stabilizer
in President Truman's reconversion
setup, will return to Washington
with Mr.. Truman today to assume
a key role in the new economic sta
bilization Office, nigh sources said
here.
1t was understood that Judge Col
let would fly back to Washington
with the President in the Sacred
Cow to take up economic stabiliza-
ton duties under Reconversion Di-
rector John r. Steelman.
These sources said Judge Collet,
long time friend of Mr.. Truman,
would be borrowed" from the Fed
eral bench, just as he was last
year, when he served five months
as stabilization chief.
Judge Collet returned to his
Western Missouri district bench
Evening star., 1946-08-06
Heavy Voting
Seen in Nearby
Virginia Areas
Watcher Is Removed
From Prohibited Zone
At Alexandria
By Alex r. Preston

Balloting was growing heavier
as the day advanced in nearby
areas where Virginia Democrats
are holding their first primary
contest in "a years for a Senate
seat and will decide a four way
race for the House in the 9Th
district.
BY midmorning a survey of all
Arlington precincts brought reports
of moderate to heavy turnouts, while
in Alexandria the numbers were
reported as moderate. Fairfax
County began the day with light
count.
A man representing himself as an
observer for Mrs. Elizabeth Chiffon
Murray, one of the three candidates
opposing Representative Smith for
the 9th district nomination, was
barred from standing within a So
foot prohibited zone at the second
ward polling station in the George
Mason School, 2601 Cameron Mills
road, Alexandria.
Identity Not Learned.
The man, whose identity was not
learned Immediately, hung around"
election officials for awhile before
he was challenged. John E. Edger-
ton. election judge, said. Mr.. Ed
gerton quoted the man as saying he
was from the Pinkerton Detective
Agency and represented Mrs. Muir
ray as an official observer The
agency's district office in Balti-
more, however, denied having any
agents working on the Virginia po-
litical campaign, saying this type of
work was barred, and added it had
never heard of Mrs. Murray"
James N. Colasanto, secretary AL
exandria Electoral Board, Informed
the man. who displayed a "detec-
tive" badge from his pocket, that
Evening star., 1946-08-06
New Overseas Edition
Will Be Out Tomorrow

A new issue of The Stars
Overseas Edition will be ready
tomorrow. Free copies, with
envelopes for mailing, may be
obtained at The Stars busi-
ness counter and the street
floor service desk in Lans-
burgh's Department Store.
The edition is strictly linn-
tied. Please don't waste a
single copy.
Evening star., 1946-08-06
Macarthur Reported Planning
ToCut His Forces to Handful
EIIender and Butler Back From Tour,
Pleased With Occupation Of japan

with what Gen. Macarthur has done
and is doing in JAPAN" Senator
Ellender, ranking member of the
congressional delegation, said. HE
told us that our troops soon can be
cut down until the job can be done
with a handful of men"
Senator Butler affirmed this and
added that he expects Gen. Mac
Arthur to remain supreme COM
mander in Japan until the job is
reduced to a routine.
Shortly after Gen. Macarthur
first entered Japan he produced a
minor sensation in military and
diplomatic circles here by announc-
ing that occupational troops could
be reduced to 100000 within six
months.
That estimate touched off a
furry of critical comment, coming
tSee MacARTHTTR page AL
Evening star., 1946-08-06
BY the Assecioied Press

TOPEKA, Kans., Aug 6-Melissa
Woodring, II, second child of for
mer Secretary of War Harry H
Woodring to be stricken with in
fantile paralysis, was reported re-
covered by her doctors today after
a single injection of the drug curare
Marcus Woodring, IL, died July 1s
as a result of the disease.
The child's father said that shortly
after she was taken to the hospital
July IS her doctor, DR.. Paul E
Belknap, and consulting physicians
decided to try the seldom used drug
extracted from South American
weeds.
"She began improving right then
and continued to improve" Mr.
Woodring said, THE paralysis went
Evening star., 1946-08-06

under Virginia law only election Of
f1cials are allowed within a 50-foot
radius of the polling booths except
voters who are going to and coming
from the booths. The man left
under protest and later showed ur
at the fifth ward where he displayed
a letter purportedly signed by Mrs
Murray and stating 'the bearer is
authorized" to observe for her. Mrs
Murray was touring various polling
places in the district and could not
ne reached Immediately for COM
ment but she told The Star earlier
she had plan for Checking up or
Alexandria election procedure.
A heavy vote in Arlington was In
dicated when about 1900 ballots
had been recorded in the IL pre-.
cincts by midmorning. In last years.
gubernatorial primary a total ol
1882 was cast and this figure wa.
expected to be surpassed when ths
polls close at the end of the day.
First Strike Since 1925.
Today is the first time since 1925
that Senator Byrd, head of tht
States most influential political or.
ganization, has faced a primar,
fight. At that time he defeated G
Walter Mapp for the gubernatoria
nomination. 1t also marks the frs
Senatorial primary in the Old Do.
minion since 1922 when the lats
Senator Swanson won over West.
moreland Davis.
Representative Smith, who ha!
had party contests on many occa.
sions before, is regarded as the prob.
able winner in the 9th District con-
test. Four other House races are
being decided today.
Results of the Byrd and Smith
campaigns will be watched closely
however, since both are the avowee
targets of several organized labol
groups, including the CIO-PAC.
Throughout the State the vott
was expected to run heavy-possibly
setting primary record of from
175,000 to 225, 000-before the polls
close at 7:30 pm. instead of at SUM-
set.
Heavy Vote in Richmond.
Early scattered reports indicated
hot and heavy voting day at the
polls, the Associated Press reported
In suburban Richmond's West
hampton the vote was being cast
at a brisk two-a-minute clip and
there was considerable predicting
that primary records might be shat
tered. Norfolk reported moderate
vote, but Virginia Beach tabulators
said that 236 votes-about a third
OF the qualified total-had been cast
by IL am.
Suffolk, one of the focal points in
the hot I'd district House contest
reported heavy outpouring of the
electorate as precinct workers and
others with sound trucks were plug
ging for their candidates.
Roanoke found the morning vote
|of more than 1000 in line with the
strongly contested councilmanic
tSee VIRGINIA. Page A-5D
Evening star., 1946-08-06
Justice Department
And VA Heads Study
On Job Training Flaws
Revision Of Program
Awoits Action by
Trumon on Legislation

| While Justice Department anc
| Veterans Administration Off.
cials conferred today on possible
law violations in the operation
of the veterans on-the-jot
training program, a complete re-
vamping of the program awaited
action by President Truman on 9
bill extending Federal control.
Attorney General Clark today or
dered thorough and immediate
study to determine the extent OF
irregularities" and trick practices
which Gen. Omar N. Bradley, vet
erans' administrator, declared en-
danger the plan.
The bill sent to the White House
last Thursday is designed to estab-
lish new efficiency standards and tc
stop the ''wide-open opportunities
| that exist for shameless exploita
tion," Gen. Bradley explained. Un-
less the bill is signed by next Mon
day it will die under a pocket veto.
91S Firms Used Here.
In Washington there are 913 firm:
which provide on-the-job training
under the CT Bill of Rights, Fred z
Hetzel, United States Employment
Service director for the District, re.
ported today.
Despite its nonindustrial charac.
ter, the District has 1,122 firms ap
proved for apprenticeship trainins
and about 95 per cent of the ap.
prentices are World War veterans
he said
Mr.. Hetzel predicted that the Dis.
trict will have between 400 and 5Ot
such openings for veterans durins
1947. Printers and pressmen hav,
the largest apprenticeship quota.
here, with BARRIERS and bricklayer
next in line. according to June 81
figures, he noted.
Will Talk With Bradley.
In line with the Attorney Gen.
erals order, James Ruffin, an attor.
ney in the Justice Department
Criminal Division, conferred witt
Veterans Administration staff off.
cials this morning concerning Gen
Bradley's charges. He expects te
discuss the problem with Gen. Brad.
ley and report back to the Attorney
General.
| A Justice Department spokesman
said the purpose of the conferences
is not only to determine whether
Federal laws have been violated but
also to examine the possible further
Eneed for legislation applying strictel
controls.
The congressional measure await
ing action by the President contains
these provisions:
l. Reimbursement by the Veter.
ans Administration of funds .spen
by State and local agencies in tn,
approval, supervision and admins
tration of the training programs
! Overall Limit of $500.
2. Establishment of subsistence al
loWance ceilings prohibiting pay
ment of more than 5000 month
including the allowances and EN-
ployment wages-to veterans witt
dependents, and more than SITS
month to single veterans Marriet
veterans can apply for $50 benefit
each month and single ex-service
men are eligible for SOS.
i 3. Establishment of a nationa
1see VETERANS, Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1946-08-06
BY the Associated Press

Senators Ellender, Democrat
of Louisiana and Butler, Repub-
lican, of Nebraska said today
Gen. Macarthur expects to be
able soon to carry out the occu-
patton of Japan with a handful
of our troops"
Just back from a 42-day flight
that carried them and three House
members around the world, the
Senators credited Gen. Macarthur
with a tip-top job of organizing ano
controlling the defeated japanese.
AS for China, however, both Sen
ators said in separate interviews
they favor speedy withdrawal of all
American troops and an immediate
end OF direct aid to that trouble
beset nation.
I'VE are all greatly impressed
Evening star., 1946-08-06

night linotype operator at the Gov
ernment Printing Office. told the
Investigators in hospital bedside
interview that he suffered lost of
memory and recalled nothing after
leaving Dupont circle. the investi-
CATION chief said
| Lit. LiVerman said Mr. Patterson
soon as he is released from Emer-
gency Hospital where he is suf-
fering from a possible fracture of
the skull.
Other Injured Persons.
The injured, in addition to Mr..
Patterson, were:
Robert James, 22, of 3206 Volta
place NV, a veteran, Emergency
Hospital said his condition was crit
ical. He suffered a possible frac-
ture of the skull and possible in
ternal injuries and was transferred
to the Naval Medical Center at Be-
thesda.
Lillian Harris. colored, %, of 1l22
Twenty street NV, at
Emergency with a compound frac-
ture of the right leg, cuts and
bruises. The hospital said her con-
dition was fair but she was in a
severe state of shock"
Harry Sydnor, 48, or 251o Penn
sylvania avenue NV, taken to
Emergency with fractured toe. He
was treated and released.
Ensign Robert A. Marmet, 81,
U. S. N, who gave his address as
the U. S. S. Portsmouth when he
registered at the Ambassador Hotel
yesterday. He was taken to Casual
ty Hospital with head injuries, His
condition was undetermined. Later
he was moved to the Naval Medical
Center.
Man Hurled 80 Feet.
EyeWitnesseS to the crash said one
man was knocked so feet, another
SIS feet by the 2-ton 1912 Cadillac.
Blood smears gave mute evidence of
the path of the hurtling forms.
Pvt A. B. Nicholson of the Acct
dent Investigation Unit gave this
account of what happened after
measuring skidmarks in the street
and interviewing witnesses:
At 9:0e am. Louis P. BraXton, 80,
coiored, 1880 Florida avenue NV.
slowed his Skyview cab at the
southwest corner of the intersection
when Ensign Marmet hailed him.
Mr.. Braxton pulled to the curb
to take on his passenger about 80
feet past the intersection.
John ONeill, 35, of 33 Franklin
street NE, driving Premier cab.
pulled to stop about 10 feet be-
hind the first cab.
Tree a Foot in Diameter.
Just then there was a crash be-
hindsne as if bomb exploded" Mr..
O'Neill told police, land all of sud-
den leaves and people seemed to be
falling out of the trees" y
The Cadillac, Pvt. Nicholson said,
had swerved to the right of Mr..
O'Neill's cab, its rear bumper lock-
ing in his rear right wheel The car
ploughed into the group of work.
bound pedestrians on the curb, went
IS feet up on the sidewalk and bent
Continued on Page A-3, Column g.
Evening star., 1946-08-06
Election Returns
On Station WMAL

Up to the minute results
from today's primary elec-
tions in Virginia, West Vir-
ginia, Missouri, New Hamp-
shire, Kansas and Arkansas
will be broadcast during regu-
lar newscasts and at several
intervals between other pro-
grams over Radio Station
WMAL tonight.
Evening star., 1946-08-06
Blood Donation Need
Is Stressed by Army
By the Assoeioted Pres,

The Army still needs blood dona-
tions, the War Department said
today in reporting that gifts have
dWindled.
Maj Gen. Norman T. Kirk, sur
geon general, noted there are still
about 10000 patients in Army hos
pitfalls. He said the American Red
Cross is also "apprehensive" over
the decline in donations.
Evening star., 1946-08-06
Voters in Missouri
Decide on Truman's S
Purge Attempt Today
President Gives Doughte
Her First Lesson in
How to Cost Ballot
BULLETIN

KANSAS CITY, Kans. P9.--
President Truman took off for
Washington at 2:08 pm.
(EST) this afternoon accom-
panied by Judge John Caskie
Collet, who will take over a
key role in the Economic
Sterilization Office. They are
due in Washington about 7
pm.
Evening star., 1946-08-06
Peace Conference Begged Down
By Disputes on Procedure as
Byrnes Clashes With MoIotov
Rules Committee Votes
II to 8 to BuIIot on
Two-thirds Proposal
BULLETIN

PARIS (P).-The Rules Com
mittee of the Paris Peace
Conference adjourned in a
tangle over procedural ques-
tions today and a British
spokesman said the possibility
had been raised that the en-
tire Russian bloc might leave
the conference.
Evening star., 1946-08-06
Typhus Strikes in ltuIy

ROME, Aug. 6 (P.-A thousand
persons have been stricken by
typhus at the shore resort of Diano
Marina, near Genoa, the newspa-
per II Tempo said today.