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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-06-08
Tube Line Operators
Aqree Truman Should
Intervene in Strike
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK, June 8.-Operators
OF the Hudson & Manhattan Rail-
road, strike-bound for the last 10
days, Joined union representatives
today in suggesting that President
Truman take over the line.
Robert A. w. Carleton, president
OF the railway, which connects New
York and New Jersey by tube under
the Hudson River. told reporters.
1T would undoubtedly relieve the
situation greatly if President Tru-
man should step into the picture"
He added that he believed the
Government should take over the
line ito help relieve the situation so
far as $4,000 commuters are con-
cerned."
Union leaders said yesterday that
only personal Intervention by the
President could settle the walkout
OF trainmen and engineers.
Mr.. Carleton made his statement
as he entered meeting of the fact
finding board named by Mr.. Tru-
man to study the dispute. The union
again boycotted the session, as it did
the two previous meetings.
The H. & M. president said fail
ure of the union to attend the meet
ings was working hardships on the
board"
He remarked, eve, too, would 20
to Washington and see President
Truman if we were invited"
This was in line with union sug-
gestions.
Mr.. Carleton added. "the situa-
ton is right in the lap of Presi-
dent Truman. He knows we cannot
afford to give an increase of 49,
cents an hour in wages without get
ting an increase in fare.
Many persons have told me they
would pay an increased fare rather
than continue to have the incon-
venience Of travel under existing
conditions"
John E. Buck, vice president and
general COUNSEL of the line, said he
believed the railroad would COM
plete presentation of testimony be-
fore the Fact-finding Board today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-06-08
Woman, 79, Weds
Youth of 78 in
Courthouse
By the Associoted Pres.

LOUISA, KY, June 3.-Delbert
(shorty) Sprouse, 10, and Mrs
Matte Lyons Large, 70, were mar
ried by County Judge J. F. Wellman
in the courthouse this morning.
Although the couple appeared I'M
expectedly from their home in iso-
lated Gladys, IS miles west of here,
more than 100 persons crowded the
small courtroom and hallway to
witness the brief ceremony.
The wedding originally had been
scheduled for late afternoon.
A former Louisa Police Court
judge, D. NJ. Curnette and E. A.
Kirk, served as witnesses.
The bride wore a somber black
hat over her gray hair and a striped
print, ankle-length dress
Sprouse wore worn blue denim
trousers and a jacket and had no
necktie.
Mrs. Large uttered a scarcely au-
dible Il do and the couple did not
embrace after the ceremony.
Afterward she led the way down
the steps Of the courthouse, followed
by her husband, who seemed self
conscious in the presence of the
curious crowd.
Mrs. Large explained. eve were
kinda in a hurry to get it over
with"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-06-08
Model Planes
Continued From First Page)

vide almost as many thrills as regu-
lar ships.
Model planes with. speeds rang
ing from 100 to- 200 miles per hour,
fastened to control lines, 60 through
their speed runs in wide circle. but
never leave the spectators field of
vision. During the war all four
services spent millions of dollars
developing radio-controlled aircraft
for target practice.
A demonstration in precision fly
ing and aerobatics with regular
planes and two parachute jumps are
scheduled at the close of the model
show at S pm.
Keaney Kopp, local stunt pilot
and former Navy air officer, will
present the aerobatic display in a
nonstunt type Luscombe craft in
the follow-up show which will last
As minutes. A delayed parachute
leap from q 3,0O0-foot height will
be made by Jim Greenwood, local
air enthusiast who taught para
chuting in the Navy air arm during
the war. A student jumper, Jack
Petty, also of Washington, is to
make the second parachute leap OF
his career.
Special bus service from Washing
ton and Alexandria to the airheld
about miles south of Alexandria on
United States Route /, will be pro-
vided by the A. B. g. w. Transit Co.
Sufficient buses to handle spectators
will operate between the terminal at
Twelfth street and Pennsylvania
avenue NV, and Hybla Valley all
during the day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-06-08
Navy to Portray Jungle War
Aboard Exhibit Ship Here

The Nays exhibit ship, LIST 512,
which was seriously damaged in the
D day invasion of Normandy, will
be on display here for a week, be-
ginning tomorrow, and its three
decks will contain more than 300
items of American fighting equip
ment used in the war, as we'll as a
number of enemy weapons, includ-
ing japanese Baka suicide plane.
Also installed aboard the landing
ship tank is a simulated live
growth Jungle" which will be Gin
vaded" by Marines in camouf1age
suits whose faces will be daubed
with the deceiving grease paint"
they used in Pacific action. Real
tropical trees and underbrush, black
jungle soil, and even a sandy beach
will lend reality to the exhibit. All
the difficulties Marines encountered
in island battle will be shown, and
sound effects Of a Jap "banzai"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-06-08
FBI Impersonation
Defendant Asks 10
Face Old CHARGES

Removal proceedings against Philip
Frederick Wood, n. charged with
impersonating a Federal Bureau of
Investigation agent and with CASH
ing a worthless $50 check, were
continued today until Wednesday by
United States Commissioner Need
ham c. Turnage. The defendant
asked to be sent back to Wilmington,
Del, where he already is under
indictment.
Wood, who was arrested in Union
Station last night, was held under
$4,000 bond.
The FBI said Wood had been liv-
Ing in luxury the past four years,
posing as Government agent and
passing bad checks. The bureau
said he passed $500 in bad checks
with a local airline in 1943 on the
pretext of an impending marriage.
The FBI said Woods trail of
spurious checks led from San Fran
cisco to New York, and that he
had jumped $1,000 bond in Whining
ton, later engaging in confidence
rackets." While at liberty under a
bad check charge against him in
Wilmington, the FBI said. he rep
resented himself as doctor in New
York and talked a nurse into marry
ing him and journeying to Germany.
The FBI said Wood deserted from
the Navy in 1912 and later received
an undesirable" discharge. On sew
eral occasions. it was related, he
obtained a 10-cent store badge
labeled special officer" and posed
as a naval inspector.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-06-08
GIs Paying 10 Highway Tax
On Stationary Trailer Homes

Home-seeking veterans are pay
ing the Government a 7 per cent
highway excise tax to live in trailer
homes despite the fact the trailers
probably won't travel more than
1900 miles in their lifetime.
This peculiar twist in the ex-GIs
plight was disclosed today by a
director of the Trailer Coach Manu-
facturers' Association.
James Ryan, president of a trailer
company at Alma. Mich, said the
great majority of house trailers
being sold now are going to former
servicemen who promptly settle
down to wait out the housing
shortage.
When Congress wrote the 7 per
cent tax into the 1912 tax bill, it
apparently did not realize that trail
ers would be doing little travelling on
the Nations highways.
Mr.. Ryan said the average cost OF
a trailer today is between $4,000 and
81 200. This does not include the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-06-08

excise tax which would be a mini
mum of S140. This, he said, is in
variably passed on to the buyer.
In this connection, he pointed out
that the Government will net at
least 100000 in taxes if National
Housing Administrator WAITS pro-
gram for $4,000 house trailers in the
next six months is adopted as a
stopgap measure.
The Navy and other Government
agencies, of course, are exempt from
paying the excise tax, Mr.. Ryan
said. He pointed out that he re-
Gently sold the Navy 400 house trail
ers to be used in a Navy rehabilita-
ton center and has built 500 trail
ers for workers at the Oak Ridge
Tenn, atomic bomb project. In these
instances. no tax was levied.
! Similarly. he built another 5000
trailers for the Federal Public Hous-
ing Authority, which is using them
to house veterans at college centers
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-06-08
German Girl Reported
Suicide in GI Billet
BY the Associated Press

FRANKFURT, June ga IT.
year-old German girl was found
shot through the head Thursday
in an American enlisted mans billet
near Bad Kissingen, the Army an
nounced tonight. She was the fifth
German girl to die In soldiers quar-
tiers within a month.
The theater provost marshal said
the girl-an employe of the Amer
lean Red Cross-was alone at the
time of the shooting and declared
"she is alleged to have Shot herself"
The girl, Doris Krath, was found
on the second floor of billets used
by enlisted men of the Sd Battalion
of the 18th Infantry Regiment at
Mellrichstadt. near Bad Kissingen.
According to the official report
the girl went to the billets looking
for Corpl. Woodrow M. Kemp,
whose home address was not given,
Kemp was away at the time. the
report said.
She then entered the room of Pvt.
Richard E. Chappell, where she ap-
parently shot herself through the
head with a .45-caliber pistol, the
report said. She died instantly
from one shot. The pistol was
found beneath her body.
The Army said Chappell, whose
home address also was said to be
not available, did not know the
girl personally
TIL Army's criminal investigation
department agents were reported
still investigating the girls death.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-06-08
Witnesses End Strike
In Lichfie|d Trials
By the Associated Pres,

BAD NAUHEIM. Germany June
"a strike of prosecution witnesses
in the Lichfield brutality trials end
ed suddenly today, when IL soldiers
who previously refused to testify be.
fore courts martial volunteered to
take the stand.
They said they would tell their
stories of alleged cruelties suffered
at the hands of guards while i'm.
prisoned in the United States Army
stockage at Lichfleld, England.
No explanation was given in court
for their change of mind.
One witness, Sergt. Saul L. Russ
Brooklyn, N. Y, told reporters out
side the court that he had decided
II wanted to do what I could to see
that Ennis gets what he deserves. +"
The 11-day-old strike ended dur
ing the trial of 1t. Leonard w. Ennis
of Peekskill, N. Y, on charges of
mistreating prisoners.
One witness heard today was Pfc.
Arthur B. Duncan of Elizabeth
town, N. c., a former Litchfield
jailer who is awaiting trial on cruel
ty charges. Duncan testified guards
were instructed by It. Ennis to beat
prisoners.
Are you. under the impression
that if you can lay the blame on the
officers that you might be exoner-
ated for what you have done?" A
defense attorney asked him.
NO" Duncan insisted. But
want people to know that we were
carrying out orders. I thought we
would be contaminated if we did
not carry out those orders"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-06-08
Egypt

Continued From First Page.)
andria said the situation there this
afternoon was under control"
One union leader in Alexandria
said labor leaders were taken by
police to the Governor late last
night and threatened with Jail I'M
less they signed documents agreeing
to work and to urge workers to stick
to their jobs. The same source said
Sidky Pasha told foremen of fac
tories. streetcars and buses to dis
charge any employe who failed to
appear for work.
There were two small demonstra-
tons in the morning. Two civilian
cars and truck were burned in
Mohamed Ali square in the center
of Alexandria and there was a
similar disturbance in the Anfoushy
district.
Police and Egyptian Army and
Navy units patrolled the city and
guarded foreign establishments.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-06-08
Maturity Lacking in U. 5
Economy, Wallace Says
Nv the Assoeioted Press

NEW YORK, June 6.-Secretary
of Commerce Wallace said yester-
day that whether it is business or
labor that stands in the way Of
maximum production, we should re-
move that obstacle-that should be
our controlling motive"
Speaking extemporaneously at
melting of economists and statisti-
clans celebrating the 25th anniver-
sary of the National Bureau OF
Economic Research, Secretary Wal
lace said 1--WE do not have maturity
in the United States yet among
some leaders of labor and some
leaders of business"
with the possible removal OF
price controls" he continued, "a
considerable degree of imitation
would occur, followed inevitably by
an explosion.
THE economic explosion to come,
unless we take precautions against
it, will require all the skill we pos
sess. 1 believe that during the next
year we can get to leaders Of bust
ness and labor with a program OF
maturity to assure maximum pro-
duction at prices that will assure
wide distribution"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-06-08
Vinson Says World
Is Making Greatest
Effort al Cooperation
BY The Associated Press

LEXINGTON, KY, June 8.-Sec-
rotary of the Treasury Vinson.
nominee for Chief Justice, said here
last night that I'VE have more honest
effort and cooperation among the
nations that we have ever had"
before.
In addressing the University Of
Kentucky commencement program,
Mr.. Vinson said Americans never
have been pessimistic about the
future and should not be pessimistic
now.
Even though there is much hard
work ahead" he said, g" we
shall, as a united people, keep our
feet on the ground, take sound con-
structive steps and journey forward
on the road Of peace and prosperity"
1--WE can have faith" he contin-
ued, that the natural optimism Of
us Americans has more justification
today than ever before in history"
The people of the United States
land folks everywhere" want free
dom, security and peace. These
desires, he said, "embody most of
what is precious in life"
Secretary Vinson said this coun-
try must remain strong. alert and
industrious to assume the realiza-
ton of those desires.
"Some people in viewing history
of the past 30 years . would say
that it just goes to show that his
tory repeats itself and that what
ever is to be the course of our Ma
ton will be.
II do not agree. History repeats
itself to the extent that it does,
only because man. with his limita-
lions, acts and thinks in such
manner that he repeats his mis-
takes. - We control our course"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-06-08

charge will be heard over an
amplifier.
The vessel, which was salvaged
after breaking its back at Nor
mandy, has just completed a cruise
to inland cities on the Mississippi
and will go to Baltimore and other
Atlantic coast cities after leaving
here.
1t will be opened at pm. tomor-
row on the Washington Channel
side of Hams Point, during the air.
rescue show and will remain open
until 8 pm. The remainder of the
week the vessel will be in the
Georgetown Channel side of East
Potomac Park, at the seawall, just
under the north end of Highway
Bridge. Officers said that between
l and 9 pm. each day Is 900 persons
can be accommodated. There are
100 sailors and 100 marines at
tached to the ship, many of them
veterans of the Pacific war.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-06-08
temporary provisions he seeks or
veto that measure, too.
Gibson, Hannah and Morse
Named SchweIIenboch Aides

Two labor union men and a lawyer
will become Assistant Secretaries of
Labor in a reorganization of the
department suggested by Secretary
Schwellenbach.
President Truman yesterday nom
mated John w. Gibson, former
Michigan CLIO council chief, who
has been acting First Assistant Sec
Rotary; Philip Hannah, secretary
treasurer of the Ohio State Fedora
ton of Labor, an AF'L representa-
tive, and David A. Morse, Newark
attorney and general counsel of the
National Labor Relations Board.
Mr.. Morse will look after inter-
national labor matters. The others
will be concerned with domestic
affairs.
Mr.. Schwellenbach also plans TO
have an Undersecretary of Labor,
who will handle administrative de-
tails, but has yet 10 recommend an
appoirtee.
Mr.. Gibson was named as Second
Assistant Secretary last summer and
has carried a large share of the
Governments Cancellation efforts in
the critical postwar labor disputes.
Mr.. Hannah is little known in
Washington, but he halls from the
home State of AFL President Will
liam Green.
Mr.. Morse whose nomination was
a surprise, served for three and a
half years overseas, where he was
legal officer for the 18th Army Group
and was director Of labor for the
Allied Military Government in Italy
and Sicily.
Graduating from Rutgers Univer-
sity in 1929, and Harvard Law School
in 1882, he took his first official Job
as chief counsel for the Petroleum
Labor Board, 1925.
From there Mr.. Morse joined the
National Labor Relations Board
legal staff, serving first as regional
attorney in New York. In 1899 he
became general counsel in Wash
ington. He returned to the NLRB
when he left the Army.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-06-08
Mrs. Faulkner Fuller, Is,
Funeral Services Today

Funeral services are to be held at
4 o'clock this afternoon for Mrs.
Mai Faulkner Poore Fuller, 70, for
merly of Winchester, Va. who died
Thursday at the home of her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Stuart Slade Hays, 2o01
Sixteenth street NV.
The services are to be held in
Christ Episcopal Church, VIM
chester, with burial in Mount
Hebron Cemetery there.
Mrs. Fuller was the widow of H.
Douglas Fuller, Winchester banker.
A descendant of prominent Virginia
families, she was the aunt of Sen
ator Byrd of Virginia, and Admiral
Richard E. Byrd, Antarctic explorer.
of Boston.
For more than so years, she was
president of the District Nurses
Association in Winchester, where
she also served for many years as
organist for the Christ Episcopal
Church.
Besides her daughter, she is sur
vived by a grandson, Douglas Du
Shane of Philadelphia.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-06-08
Maritime
Continued From First Page.

AFL men until Mr.. Bryan and Mr..
Harrison could get back home.
The atmosphere for the Wash
ington negotiations was none too
peaceful.
Reporters protested , to the Labor
Department that very little news
has been released for the public.
Union leaders said they were irked
over the results of the pledge which
both sides gave the Labor Depart
ment-not to discuss what goes on
in the negotiations. They claimed
the employers were not abiding by it.
A Labor Department conciliator,
weary from day-and-night sessions,
told reporters:
This is one of the most compli-
Gated cases we have ever had"
He said it is lone of the most
complex and important for the
country and the world
Here are some of the factors:
The large number of unions in
volved; the unusual nature of sea-
mems hours, wages and working
conditions; the AFL-CIO rivalry;
the Governments peculiar relation
to the case Downing most of the
ships and yet trying to be a GO
between in the dispute), and the
international implications.
Bridges Meets Conciliators.
Meanwhile, a dispute between Mr..
Bridges longshoremen, concentrat-
ed on West Coast docks, was aired
in negotiations for the first time.
MIR. Bridges met with conciliators
and Frank P. Foisie, president of
the Pacific Water Front Employer
Association.
Afterward, Mr.. Foisie told report
ers that Mr.. Bridges had rejected
formally a Government fact-findine
board recommendation of a o.
cent-an-hour pay increase for his
union. Mr.. Foisie added that he
was willing to accept this boost pro-
vided the Government paid the cost
OF making it retroactive to October
l, 1945.
Mr.. Bridges declined to comment
United States Cancellation Chief
Edgar l.. Warren denied that Mr..
Bridges had made a final rejec-
tion." He said there would be fur
ther discussions of conditions at
tached to the fact-finding report by
both Mr.. Foisie and Mr.. Bridges.
The longshoremen have joined the
Committee for Maritime Unity in
demanding a 35-cent hourly in
crease. That would raise their
present $1.15 an hour to $3.50.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-06-08
Bakers
Continued From First Page J

ploying Bakers Association, said he
hoped a stoppage would not take
place and expressed the opinion that
some Government action would be
forthcoming.
Asked whether there was an in
ventory of flour on hand here, Mr..
Spiess said he understood there was,
but that he did not have any figures
himself. He pointed out the law
prevents bakeries from having an
inventory in excess of requirements
for 2l-day period.
Bakers in Washington, Mr.. Nc
Closky pointed out, have had "only
two strikes since 1882 and are proud
of that record" He added that no
regular strike was contemplated, but
admitted that continuous session"
would have largely the same effect.
1884 Strike Recalled.
The last strike occurred here in
1884, when bakers obtained hourly
pay increases from 80 cents to $1.O2
for day work and $108 to S1.22 for
night work. That strike lasted one
day. The earlier strike took place
in 1928 and also resulted from a
wage dispute.
For three weeks now" Mr.. Nc
Closky said, "I've been holding my
people of. We don't want to stop
work. We don't want q strike, but
we're forced into some action to
restore the loss in take-home pay to
our people. Everybody else is getting
an 1917 cent hour increase, while
my people are taking a 80 per cent
cut.
Unless something definite de-
velopes, there will be a continuous
meeting starting at pm. today"
Flour Mystery Cited.
The union session will be held in
the Pythian Temple, 1912 Ninth
street NV, union officials said.
Mr.. McClosky said there was
some mystery" about where all the
-four has gone.
IAN during the war, while we fed
15,000,00 men in the armed
forces and people in other parts of
the world, there was no shortage of
-four" he said. Nov all of sud-
den, bakeries say they don't have
any flour. Why the shortage? We
can't understand it."
The mills should be given wheat
to grind and -four should be sent to
Washington at once" he added.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-06-08
Vessel Is Intercepted
With 400 Jews Aboard
By the Associated Press

JERUSALEM, June 8.-The 100
ton motor vessel Haviva Reik, with
more than 400 illegal Jewish immi-
grants on board, is en- route to Haifs
under escort Of a British warshir
after being intercepted southeast OF
Ascalon.
A British communique said the
passengers were to be transferred to
hynllt staging camp, where they may
oe iater released and charged against
future Palestine immigration quotas
"A similar policy was adopted when
announcer ship with nearly 1900 illegal
immigrants was intercepted last
month. Passengers were held two
weeks and then turned over to the
Jewish agency for distribution to
settlements and cities.
The Haviva Reik was reported tc
have been flying the Egyptian flag
but to have sailed from either an
italian or Balkan port.