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Evening star., 1946-04-03
Steel Shortage Forces
Cut in Ford Operations
BY the Associoted Press

DETROIT, April 3.-The Ford
Motor Co. announced today that
because of inability to obtain sufti-
clent steel supplies, it will close down
a portion of it's operations from to-
morrow night until April 10.
approximately 1880 production
workers in the Detroit area and
l6,5OO employed in branch assembly
plants in other sections of the coun-
try will be laid off.
Ford resumed production opera
tions about a month ago after a
shutdown due to labor difficulties
among its parts suppliers.
Our steel supply has been al
most exhausted during the last four
weeks" M. L. Bricker, vice president
in charge of production, explained
in announcing the impending inter-
ruption. There is shortage, he
added, because rolling mills have
not reached high level output"
Evening star., 1946-04-03
u. ). Over the Hump
OF Reconversion,
Truman Declares
Warns Of CompIocency;
Snyder Reports Output
At Peak of $50 Billion
By Joseph A. Fox

President Truman said today
I'VE are over the hump of re-
conversion" but he warned
against complacency at the prog
ress being made on production
lines and declared I'VE cannot
afford to relax for one minute
our battle against initiation"
The Presidents statement was
made at a news conference at which
he commented on a quarterly re-
port by Reconversion Director Sny-
der which showed that civilian pro-
duction is now at a rate of $780,
000,000,000 annually-the highest
level in the country's history.
Touching on the high spots of
the report in his statement, Mr..
Truman said 1t constituted the best
answer to the rumors that had
been going around about the wage
and price and reconversion policies.
Coal Strike Could Stop Progress.
In response to one questioner Mr..
Truman said prolonged coal
strike would knock the whole thing
out, as he phrased it, and he cited
as an example the steel strike,
which he said caused a loss of TO-
100000 tons of important steel prod
ucts, such as rails.
Mr.. Truman also disclosed that
some thought had been given to the
of fiscal controls-such
as restrictions on bank credit to aid
in the fight on inf1ation-but he en-
phasized that nothing was contem-
plated right now.
He said the whole matter was be-
ing studied, after a reporter told
him that the Committee on Eco
nomic Development said that it was
not possible to control inf1ationary
tendencies through expanded pro-
duction alone, but that it would be
necessary to supplement this with
more fiscal controls. Everything pos
slble is being done to prevent in
f1ation, the President said.
Agrees on Shortages.
Mr.. Truman also agreed with an
other reporter who pointed out that
despite the high production level
reported by Mr.. Snyder, consumer
scarcities exist in many lines.
In certain things, Mr.. Truman
said the distribution is not as good
as it should be, but he added it
should be remembered that all
shelves were bare and inventories
were down when the war ended.
He pointed out that it would re-
quire $4,000 automobiles to put just
(See RECONVERSION Page Al
Evening star., 1946-04-03
Committee Vote Puts
.Endingof0PAControIs
In President S Hands
Removal Of Curbs as
Demand MeIts Supply
Required by Amendment
BY the Assoeioted Press

An amendment to the OPA Act
to require removal of price con-
trolls in various fields as supply
comes into balance with demand
was approved, 20 to 3, by the
House Banking Committee today.
The action would place squarely
on President Truman the decisions
as to when various controls shall be
eliminated by stripping OPA of a
large part of decontrol authority.
Approval OF the amendment, pro-
posed by Representative Brown.
Democrat, Of Georgia, came after
the committee rejected, Is to 9. a
substitute amendment by Repre-
sentative Wolcott. Republican, of
Michigan, senior Republican on the
committee. This would have left
decontrol decisions largely in the
hands of industry advisory COM
mittees.
The Brown amendment, which
would provide for abolition of price
controls not later than June 80, 1947,
is still subject to action by the House
and Senate.
Representative Monroney, Demo-
crat, of Oklahoma, a committee
member, told newsmen in advance
Of the meeting, There's danger we
will have price control in name
only"
One of several amendments pro-
posed by Mr. Wolcott would limit
OPA's new lease on life to nine
months beyond June 30, against
President Truman's call for con-
tinuation of the act for one year,
with change. The Michigan Repub-
lican also proposed:
Forced liquidation of price control
over any industry where production
approaches a yet-to-be determined
percentage of demand.
A prohibition against any ceiling
price that does not reflect cost of
production plus a reasonable profit.
Gradual removal of subsidies on
all commodities by January with
proportionate price increases.
Evening star., 1946-04-03
Conne|| Gets Five Months
In De Vol BOYS Death

James T. Conneu, 54-year-old ac-
countant, 4400 block of Faraday
place NV, this afternoon was
sentenced by Justice Henry A.
Schweinhaut of District Court to
serve five months on a charge of
negligent homicide for the traffic
death last June of Donald r. De Vol,
8, of 4423 Harrison street NV.
Mr.. Connell elected to be tried by
the court instead of a jury and
was found guilty March 26. He
had been charged originally with
manslaughter but was found guilty
on the lesser charge of negligent
homicide He was prosecuted by
Assistant United States Attorney
George E. Mcneil.
An automobile driven by Mr.. Con-
nell jumped the curb and struck
the boy who was seated in a grass
plot off the street folding news
papers, it had been testified. The
boy was helping an older brother,
1t was said.
Evening star., 1946-04-03
Former Red Editor Says Party
In y. S. Is Direct Arm of Soviet

"1he Communist party in the
United States is direct arm of the
Soviet foreign department. 1t serves
a foreign power and never swerves
from such service by hairs
breadth.
What I further had to state was
that the policy agreed upon and ex-
emplified by the orders conveyed
last year in the Jacques Duclos "a
French Communist) letter was one
of continuous hostility to the United
States and injury to the American
Nation.
1T was Hitlerite policy of world
domination, to be established step
by step through fifth coluu1As.
Whether that policy will be
changed or not remains to be seen.
There has been no indication of any
such change, everything points to
its continuance. That aim is the
building up of Soviet power through
the same domination of other
countries that Hitler brought
about, directed at the eventual de-
struction of the American Nation" !"
Evening star., 1946-04-03
Justice Staff to Make
Sweeping Inquiry
Into Jail Break

The Justice Department to-
day ordered a sweeping in
quiry by its staff, including
the Federal Bureau of Investi-
cation, into the Medley-McFar-
land jailbreak.
The investigation. ordered by
Attorney General Clark at the
request of Commissioner John
Russell Young, will include pre-
vious District jaIbreaks, de-
partment officials said.
First move in the inquiry,
they added. has been to direct
j. Edgar Hoover, FBI chief. to
use all the resources of his Or
ganization in aiding District
law enforcement bodies.
Our investigation will be ex-
haustive and complete" the At
torney General said in ordering
the inquiry.
Evening star., 1946-04-03
Officials Resume Talks
As Milk Price Rise
Reports Persist
BowIes and Anderson Due
To Make Final Decision
On Overall Dairy Policy

Officials OF the Agriculture De-
partment, Office of Price Admin
istration and Office Of Economic
Sterilization were to resume
their study today of proposals
for revising the dairy price policy
for the country, as reports per-
sisted the Government eventual
ly would authorize a milk price
increase affecting both producers
and consumers.
A spokesman for OES confirmed
the report that meetings were be-
ing held but would say only that
officials were discussing overall
dairy price policy" Following
agreement by these officials on a
program, it is expected that Secre-
tary of Agriculture Anderson and
Sterilization Director Bowles will
get together for final action.
Any decision from these two Of
fcials is expected to have an i'm
portant bearing on the request of
the Maryland and Virginia Milk
Producers Association for a pro-
ducer price increase estimated to
raise the retail price of milk here
another cents a quart.
A tWo-day hearing on the pro-
posal of the producer group ended
yesterday without a single oppos-
ing voice from any consumer group
or individual, in marked contrast
to past hearings. The situation was
noted by Bruce B. Derrick, manager
OF the association, who has spear
headed the move to give producers
an additional SO cents hundred
weight for their milk. He COM
Evening star., 1946-04-03
Late Bulletins
Housing Bill Approved

President Truman's emer-
gency housing legislation, in
Guiding price ceilings on ex-
isting homes and $500, ,000, 900
for building materials sub
sides, was unanimously ap-
proved today by the full
Senate Banking Committee.
A Republican move to cut the
subsidy fund in half was
beaten, IL to 6.
Rail Wages Raised Is Cent
CHICAGO R.-Bert M.
Jewell, chairman of Is non
operating railway labor or
ganizations, announced today
that a board of arbitration
had awarded a wage increase
of Is cents an hour to about
100000 railroad workers. The
unions had asked 30 cents an
hour.
Evening star., 1946-04-03

a can opener by which the pair
reached the roof through a ventila-
tor, then let themselves down so
feet with rope made of bed sheets.
Still at large was Mcfarland, a
former Marine, who was sentenced
TO die for the criminal ASSAULT
murder of Government employe.
Police placed little credence in
statement by Medley that the two
separated when Mcfarland caught a
moving train this morning. Police
continued search in the neighbor-
hood where Medley was found.
Gordon Thrown Around City.
Medieys apprehension was the
result of minute search of the
river front, in which policemen
inched along on their chests to
search under piles of timber, peek
under tarpaulins covering pleasure
craft and peer into any crevice large
enough to hold a slim man.
Earlier in the morning when the
(See JAIL BREAK. Page A-21
Evening star., 1946-04-03
DC. Budget Cut
By $9,000,000, 0,
Sent 10 House
New Building SIoshed
From 1947 Supply Bill
TotoIing S72, So, ,009
By Don S. Warren

A slash of nearly S9,0OO,OO0 in
the Districts record-breaking
1947 budget was revealed today
when the revenue-conscious Ap-
preparations Committee sent to
the House floor for action tomor-
row municipal supply bill pared
to $72,585,0O9.
Possibilities that a financial crisis
might develop in the fiscal year be-
ginning July l moved the committee
to defer virtually all new construc-
ton projects and to knock out nearly
all requests for extra employees ex-
cept those needed for a return to
the 40-hour work week.
Impending shortage of District
funds was only one reason for skele-
tonizing the S81 sos 900 budget sub
mitted by President Truman in jan
uary. The Federal order to delay
all unnecessary" construction so as
to make building materials avail
able for veterans housing put a
heavy pressure on the pruning knife,
the report reveals.
Federal Share Called Unfair.
An accompanying report by the
District subcommittee, headed by
Representative Coffee, Democrat, of
washington, in charge of the bill,
denounced the present $4,000, 900
Federal payment as unfair" and
commended District officials for
their current studies for raising
additional taxes.
Since the size of the Federal paw
ment and new tax programs would
be legislative questions, the Coffee
subcommittee left the Federal pay
ment at the old s6,0O0,OO0 level but
placed the equity of the case directly
before the House by listing more
than dozen instances where costs
flowing from national purposes are
saddled on the District.
THE se,OoO,oOO contributed an
nually by the Federal Government
to the District is but a fraction of
the value of services contributed to
the Federal Government" the re-
port states. The additional costs
Of such services are made up from
funds collected from taxpayers of
the District"
Cut More Than Expected.
Among the casualties in the cur
tailed construction program would
be numerous school buildings, major
branch libraries for Anacostia
Cleveland Park, Pleasant Plains and
the remodeling of the Takoma Park
branch; numerous recreation area
improvements and the long-sought
and until now confidently expected
health and welfare projects.
The latter include the $1,000 900
new Home for Aged and Infrm, ex-
pansion of the District Training
School for Predetermined and a
health center for Northwest Wash
ington. Others would be the Ben
ming police station and big garage
shops building for the Refuse Divi-
sion.
The total cut, $8,919,991, was far
heavier than had been anticipated
by any outside the committee. The
cut instead of the size of the supply
bill sets a new record for the Dis
trict Subcommittee. When Congress
approves the $7,00O0OO in the pend
ing deficiency bill to pay the Dis
trict's costs for pay boosts already
legislated, the total outlay for this
year will be swelled to $73 $3.50, ,664-
or to point more than s795 ,655
above the total recommended for
the next fiscal year.
The unprecedented cut would
leave reserve of about $9OOO,O0O,
according to present calculations, to
Continued on Page AT, Column o
Evening star., 1946-04-03

An official statement issued by
Jail officials this afternoon re-
tracted a former statement
which credited Medley with fore
ing the break with a pistol. The
statement said Sanderlin and
Davis were playing cards with
the prisoners when Sanderlin
complained of illness" and went
into Medley's cell to lie on the
bunk.
"One of the inmates closed the
cell door on Officer Sanderlin
and then both inmates overpow-
cred Office Davis" the state
ment continued. after this
they locked Officer Davis in Nc
Evening star., 1946-04-03
(See MILK, Page A-4.)
ISee MILK, Page AID
w. J.Kennedf 10 Be Named
Rail Retirement Chairman

President Truman announced to-
day he will nominate William j.
Kennedy of Cleveland to be chair
man of the Railroad Retirement
Board, succeeding Murray w. Lati-
mer, recently resigned Mr.. Kennedy
now is acting district director of the
Office of Price Administration in
Cleveland.
In reply to a question at his news
conference, the President said he is
not yet ready to name new Under
secretary of the NAVY,
Evening star., 1946-04-03

Farland's cell. The inmates took
the clothing and all keys of the
officers"
When he emerged from the sewer
pipe, bedraggled and grimy, Medley
was wearing the remnants of the
policeman's uniform he donned in
making the escape with the help of
Evening star., 1946-04-03
Another Overseas Star
Available Today

The latest Overseas Edition
OF The Star is available to-
day at both The Star office
and the street floor service
desk in Lansburgh Depart
ment Store.
Copies are free, with en-
velopes for mailing, but the
edition is strictly limited.
Please do not waste a single
copy.
Evening star., 1946-04-03
Threat Of Contaqion
Spurs Hunt for Dead
In HiIo Wave Debris
Top Priorities Pledged
Battered City in Vast
Reconstruction Task
BY the Associated Pres,

HONOLULU, April 3.-The
multi-million-d dollar debris of
Hilo, Hawaii, ravaged by seismic
waves, yielded seven more bodies
today as weary volunteers,
spurred by a threat of contagion.
continued their search.
The earthquake-bor disturbance
now completely subsidized - took
possibly 176 lives as 1t pounded
shores from the Aleutians to Hawaii,
California and Chile.
The territorial government of
these hardest-hit islands, rushing the
roundup of 5000 fresh diapers and
huge stocks of food for desolated
Hilo, found time to elicit a pledge
of top United States priorities for
the vast rebuilding task ahead. Most
insurance policies did not cover
wave destruction.
Territorial Toll, 1854.
The territorial toll of 79 dead and
80 missing included: Hilo and the
island of Hawaii, 55 dead and 70
missing; Kauai, IL and s: Maui. 7
and 5, and Oahu, S and |. All bodies
had been identified.
Added to these were 10 presumed
deaths in the Aleutians and one
each in California and Peru.
An estimated 1000 Hawaiians were
homeless.
Pacific Fleet headquarters reported
it was in radio contact with all
Pacific islands on which there are
American naval installations. and
that it had no reports of any loss of
life. The Army also had no reports
of deaths.
The Navy's Alaska Sea Frontier
Command at Kodiak last night said
no further effect or recurrence of the
wave was expected, criticizing in the
same statement "groundless, panic
breeding rumor, widely disseminated
with such harmful effect both in
(See TIDAL, WAVE pace n-5l
Evening star., 1946-04-03
Bowie Results

FIRST RACE-Purse, S24OO: maiden
3-year-olds; 6 furlongs.
Rollino Padgett $50 4.2O 33O
More Flame &c. Kirk 1870 1850
Fabrin (Marocco) 1870
Time, 1:1445.
Also ran-one Blend, Glack Tea, Dot A,
Sparrow's Point, PrancinE Ted, Dolomite,
Ken Jr.' Manor Miss, Damion'S Ariel.
Evening star., 1946-04-03
Committee Approves Boruch

Bernard M. Baruch, New York
flnancier, was approved by the Sem
ate Foreign Relations Committee
today as American representative
on the United Nations Commission
on Atomic Energy.
Evening star., 1946-04-03

Transferred to No. 4 Precinct
April 4, 1945, he was tried by the
Police Trial Board last December
l9 on charges of being absent with
out leave, disobeying orders and
(See GUARDS, Page A-2.)
Evening star., 1946-04-03

(See UNO, Page AID
Evening star., 1946-04-03
Weather Forecast

Some cloudiness, high in mid Cos this after
noon; cloudy. cool tonight; low about IS.
Light rain, rising temperatures tomorrow.
Temperatures today-High, 65, at 1:30 PM;
low, So, at 6:24 am. Yesterday-High, SO.
at 1853 pm; low, SIS, at 1901 am.
Evening star., 1946-04-03

(See PROBE. Page Az
Evening star., 1946-04-03

ISee TIDAL WAVE, Page AS,
Evening star., 1946-04-03

tSee JAIL BREAK, Page A-2J
Evening star., 1946-04-28

Paroles will fix the actual time to be
served on all.
His minimum sentence thus would
be nine years, with the theoretical
possibility of winning parole any
time after about two years, District
Attorney Edmund G. Brown ex-
planned, but he added that he
thought it extremely unlikely the
prisoner would be freed at all.
Two Estates Involved.
Estates of only two women were
involved in the forgeries-those of
Elizabeth Hunt Lewis of Oakland
and E. Delora Krebs Cline OF
Chicago.
But Prosecutor Norman Elkington,
citing a record of eight deaths and
one poisoning case in Cline's life, re-
minded the court that Cline had got
leniency for Denver forgery in
1880, when he served only one year
of a five-year term. Mr.. ELLINGTON
added that again in 1884 when Cline
drew Is years for administering stu
pifying drugs to Martin Frame at
San Bernardino and stealing his
property, he served only nine years.
He was released in f943.
'If he had been required to serve
his full time then, four women
would be alive today" Mr.. Elking-
ton declared, enumerating them by
name-Elizabeth Hunt Lewis. Alice
Carpenter, st. Petersburg, Fla: E.
Delora Krebs Cline, and Isabel Van
Natta, San Francisco.
All Four Bodies Cremated.
The bodies of all four women
were cremated and ELLINGTON told
the jury that the reason Cline was
being tried for forgery instead of
murder was that ''it is a difficult
thing to prove murder out of
little urn of ashes.''
Evidence of the deaths was ad-
mitted as revelant at the trial since
the prosecution contended Cline
had forged Delora Krebs' name to
affidavits and bonds seeking to re-
coyer securities several months after
she was cremated in Dallas, Tex, In
October, 1914, under the name of
Alice Carpenter. Mrs. Carpenter
had really died and been cremated
in February, 1914, at Macon, Ga, as
Alma Carter" { fictitious name
and the woman whom Cline iden-
titled as Delora Krebs, when she
died in Portland. Greg, in Novem-
ber, 1945, was Mrs. Van Natta, the
prosecution charged.
Mrs Lewis died in Jacksonville.
Fla. in November, 1943, as Eliza
beth Hannah Klein, Mr.. Elkington
said The second forgery involved
alteration of a deed to her lots in
Richmond, Calf. Mrs Delora
Krebs' estate has been valued at
1928, 900.
Evening star., 1946-04-28
Nolan Named Chairman
OF Memorial Field Mass

James ]. Nolan. passenger agent
for the United States Lines, has
been named general chairman of
the eighth annual solemn memorial
field mass for the war dead to be
held at 10 am, Sunday, May 26. at
Arlington Cemetery, it was an
nounced yesterday.
The mass will be held under the
auspices of the Washington Gen.
eral Assembly. Fourth Degree,
Knights Of Columbus, in association
with the National Committee OF
Catholic Societies.
The Most Rev. Peter L. Ireton.
Bishop of Richmond, is honorary
chairman of the committee, which
will hold its initial meeting at 8
pm. Thursday at 1901 r street NV.
Other officers are Alfred A. Nc
Garraghy, vice president; Francis
A. McCann, secretary, and Charles
M. Connor, treasurer.
Committee members are Richard
Mahar, Roy M. Perry. Joseph B. Nc
Cam, William H. Collins, Harold
F. Jones, Joseph M. McKenna, Car
mine Garofalo, William D. Wilcox
on, Francis J. Malloy, Charles j.
Evening star., 1946-04-28
Cline Gets Maximum
As Judge Brands Him
0ne-Man Crime, Inc.
BY the Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO, April 27.-Al-
fred L. Cline, 81, in whose company
a series of elderly women died mys-
teriously, today got the limit of the
law-an indeterminate 9-to-l26 year
sentence-as convicted forger.
He took it stoically, without visible
change of expression.
Branding him "One-Man Crime,
Inc" Superior Judge Herbert C.
kaufman decreed Cline should serve
separate sentences on each of the
nine forgery counts of which jury
convicted him last Tuesday. Each
carries a penalty of l to IA years.
After year in San Quentin prison.
the State Board of Prison Terms and
Evening star., 1946-04-28

Considine. Vincent A. McGarry,
James A. Sullivan, l.. Charles
Pritchard, Robert F. Handley,
George A. Keyser, Benjamin S. Sim
mons, Harry P. Mckay, John Dean,
Harry Statham, William S. Glen
denim, the Rev. James A. Magner,
Stafford l.. Jones, JAMES P. McKeon,
Francis E. Garrity, Bernard L.
Litchf1eld, John Buckley, Guy r.
Moore, Joseph A. Began, Joseph A.
Genau. Edward j. Roach, Joseph J.
Gosslyp. and Robert Lee Nowland.
Evening star., 1946-04-28
Dr.. Yurden to Speak

DR.. Rachelle Yarden, secretary OF
the Latin Division of the World
Committee for Palestine, will be
guest speaker at the Spring installa-
ton luncheon of the B'nai Birth
Women of Alexandria at 1890 pm
May 7 in the George Mason Hotel
Alexandra.
Evening star., 1946-07-17
Washington Exchange

"sShlnston Railway & Electric preferred
Potomae Electric Power 5I.rs preferred
Evening star., 1946-07-17
Selected |ndustriaIs
Rally Behind SteeIs
At Market Close
By Victor Eubonk
A,,oeio,.d Pres, Finonelol wri,.r


NEW YORK, July 17.-Selected
industrials rallied behind tseels In
today's stock market and few spe-
cial issues exhibited strength but
many leaders found the going bit
difficult.
Irregularity ruled until after mid
day with dealings notably slow.
Activity picked up somewhat as bids
were reinstated here and there, al
though volume of around 900, 900
shares was well under that of Tues
day. Advances of fractions to a
point or so-there were several
much wider -predominated
near the close.
American Woolen preferred added
about dozen points and the uom-
mon was up around at the best
when stockholders approved the
companys recapitalization plan.
Ahead were U. S. Steel, Bethlehem,
Youngstown Sheet, Chrysler, U. S.
Rubber, American Can, Kennecott,
Du Pont, Johns Manville, Eastman
Kodak, N. Y. Central and Chesa-
peake & Ohio. Montgomery Ward
Ex-rights, suffered an early drop
but revived.
Brokers attributed stiffening
trends partly to the belief that the
sharp decline of the four past ses-
sions entitled the list to technical
comeback. Many customers, how
ever, stood aside or trimmed ac-
counts because of persistent uncer-
tainty over price controls. growing
consumer resistance to rising costs,
the implications of tightening
money rates and the somewhat
cloudy earnings outlook.
Evening star., 1946-07-17
Sales

Sales
Stock and Add Nat
Dividend Rate. 90. High Low. Close, ehse,
Twin Coach 1914 1914 1917 + IA