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Evening star., 1946-12-19
By Robert X. Welsh

Senator Bilbo, Democrat, OF
Mississippi, denied before a Sen
ate War Investigating Subcom-
mittee today that he tried to
profit because of his official po-
sition as Senator or that he ac-
cepted anything except two
Christmas gifts from war con-
tractors or others.
Senator Bilbo declared he never
had sought gifts or funds with the
possible exception of the money that
I borrowed to make property set
tlement with my ex-wife.'
Taking the stand with a 10000
word prepared statement, Senator
Bilbo said evidence to date showed
"that I am very poor man and
heavily involved in debt and that I
received during all the period that
the investigation has covered but
two Christmas gifts, one an automo-
bile and the other living room furni-
ture consisting of sofa, three floor
lamps and two table lamps
ASSdllS 1CIIJ dhu SoAAhSs
Speaking somewhat indistinctly
because he is unable to wear his
lower dental plate, Senator Bilbo
asserted the varied accusations
heard against him at the current
inquiry were inspired chiefly by his
former secretary. Edward P. Terry,
whom he called Judas Iscariot,"
and by former Representative Ross
Collins of Mississippi, whom he
charged with spreading "lies and
Misrepresentation"
The Senator also blamed the Ma
tional Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People and likewise
Communist Party members and fell
low travellers. He declared those
groups sponsored and waged for
many months foolish and unjusti-
fable campaign to unseat me as
United States Senator"
Senator Bilbo began reading his
statement after brief discussion
with the subcommittee as to wheth-
er Interruptions should be allowed
in his testimony.
The Mississippi Senator said he
preferred to read it straight
through, as he had made an effort
to prepare it in IAN orderly, Sc
quential way"
Ferguson Opposes Suggestion.
Senator Ferguson, Republican, OF
Michigan protested that the COM
mittee had not had chance to
peruse it and should be allowed to
question Senator Bilbo at any point
it chose.
"The evidence shows CO, clusively," :"
Senator Bilbo told the investigators,
that every assistance or service
rendered to me, all of which I am
under obligation to repay, was given
Evening star., 1946-12-19
French Finunce Plans
Drown Up by Blum
By the As.oeioted Press

PARIS, Dec. 19.-Proposals to dis
charge $4,000 French government
employees, cut various subsidy pay
ments and increase income tax pay
ments were understood today to
have been drawn up by Premier Lecn
Blums new Socialist government to
ease Frances ticklish financial STU
alton.
An informed source said the cabi-
net discussed plans last night for
q heavier tax on stock exchange OPP
erations and, for increases in lump
sum income taxes paid by persons
with more or less stable incomes.
Evening star., 1946-12-19
Operators Meet Here
On Move 10 Offer New
Mine Pact Farley
Many Held in Favor
Of Scheduling ToIks
Before Court Decision
By james Y. Newton

Leading soft coal operators
were meeting here today to de-
eide whether to take the initia-
tive and suggest new contract
with John L. Lewis
and his United Mine Workers.
Representatives Of the Nations
major coal producing areas were on
hand for the conference at which
the industry's position on wage talks
with the miners viii be decided. The
session was arranged quietly. In
dustry spokesmen even denied at a
late hour yesterday that there would
be meeting.
The Industry Negotiating Com
mittee began the meeting at II am
and it still was in progress two
hours later. On entering the ses-
sion at the Shoreham Hotel, indi-
vidual operators refused to say what
was to be discussed. Ezra Van Horn,
chairman Of the committee. presided
at the session, the first the operators
had held in a long time.
Sharply divided opinions as to the
best way to deal with MIR. Lewis will
be threshed out. Major segments OF
the industry are said to favor at
least a scheduling of new con-
tract talks without waiting for the
Supreme Court decision on the
legality on the contempt conviction
and fines recently levied in District
Court against the mine workers and
their president.
Lewis Visiting in Illinois.
Mr.. Lewis was said to be visiting
his mother in Springfield, I'll, No
other union official would comment
on the possibility of getting to-
gether with the operators But
Mr.. Lewis, in calling off the recent
strike, announced he was ready to
talk with the mine owners.
The Government still is in pos
session of the mines, seized last
May %. But the Government, led
by Secretary of Interior Krug, will
not discuss a new agreement with
the miners. Mr.. Krug, however, is
as being anxious for
Evening star., 1946-12-19
Florence Housewives
Storm Against Prices
BY the Associated Press

ROME, Dec. Recommendations
against soaring food prices broke
out in Florence today as a general
strike which paralyzed the Naples
region for two days was called OF
at noon by the Chamber Of Labor.
Press dispatches reported Floren-
tine housewives stormed several
market districts, overturning food
carts.
The Naples Chamber OF Labor,
whose representatives conferred with
officials all night, an
nounced in a broadcast that it was
decided to call off the strike and to
empower agitation committees" to
keep pressing the government for
relief measures.
Evening star., 1946-12-19
IA U. S. Flyers Bodies
Moved From Romuniu
By the Associofed Press

PARIS, Dec. 19.-The bodies OF
"A American airmen,s who perished
in bombing raids from 1943 to 1945
on the Nazi-c controlled old fields at
Ploesti, have been brought from
Romania for temporary burial in
France, the American Graves Reg
istration Command said yesterday.
Nearly 600 bodies are expected to
be recovered, the command said.
Evening star., 1946-12-19
BiIbo Denies Profiting From War;
Says He Took Only Two Gifts;
Brands Terry as a Judas Iscariot'
Ex-Aide, Collins
Inspired Charges,
Senator Asserts
BULLETIN

DR.. H. ]. Ansliager, Federal
administrator of narcotics,
told the Senate War Investi-
eating Subcommittee this af-
ternoon he was informed by
an Internal Revenue Bureau
agent that Senator Bilbo re-
ceived $500 from a Natchez
(Miss.) drug addict. The ad-
ministrator recalled that the
Senator last year brought him
a letter from a VickSburg doc
tor asking that the addict be
permitted to obtain morphine
by medical prescription.
Evening star., 1946-12-19
U. 5. Uses Big Credit
To Induce Chinese
To Establish Peace
Truman UphoIds Policy
Calling for United and
Democratic Nation
By the A,soeio.edPrs

The United States dangled an
untouched $500, 600 900 credit be-
fore the government and people
of China today as an induce
ment to establish peace and
unity in that land of civil war.
In what he termed a reiteration
and clarification of this Govern
ment's policy toward China, Presi-
dent Truman said yesterday in a
formal statement, the United
States still believes it is of utmost
Importance to world peace" that
there be a united and democratic
China
And, Mr.. Truman later told re-
porters in response to question
that he hopes the $500, ,000, ,000
credit to China has not been en-
dangered. But he said he did not
wish to make a definite statement
on the point.
Diplomatic experts figured he
meant that this Government is
going to hold back the $500 ,000, ,00O
Export Import Bank loan to China
until all threats to world stability
there are eliminated.
None Spent Yet.
None of the $500, ,000, 900 has been
spent, and Mr.. Truman emphasized
that extension of actual credits
would have to be based upon the
American Governments policy to-
ward China.
This policy, as defined year age
and repeated by Mr.. Truman, calls
for economic assistance to the
Chinese, after they have moved
toward peace and unity"
Inclusion of Communists within
the Government has been our policy
all along, Mr.. Truman said. The
United States has helt that China
should broaden the base of its ma
tional government to make it repre-
sentative of all the Chinese people
The Chief Executive attached nc
particular significance to the tim
ing of the new statement on Amer
icas attitude toward China. He
said it's purpose was to let the Amer
ican people know what the policy is
Originally, the statement was
planned for December Is, exactly
a year after Mr.. Truman first laio
down formally his administrator
attitude toward China as guide
for Gen. George C. Marshall, the
Presidents special envoy to that
country. =
The statement came just a day
Evening star., 1946-12-19
By WoIter Welebit

Associated Press Foreign Correspondent
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Dec. 18
(Delayed) Greek Partisan troops
taieh on Mount PaikoS south OF the
Yugoslav border told this reporter
that people in all the villages behind
guerrilla lines have been giving food,
shelter, clothing and meager med
ical attention to the irreghars.
I have just returned from touring
Greek Partisan territory in North
ern Macedonia in company with
Peter Furst, correspondent In
Reuters, and June Tannan OF Over
Evening star., 1946-12-19
Venezuela Burs Hill
For News Articles
BY III. As.eeioisd Press

CARACAS, Venezuela, Dec. 19.-
The Ministry of the Interior said
today that Ernie Hill, correspondent
Of the Chicago Daily News, would
not be allowed to return to Vene-
zuela. The ministry said it objected
to certain articles Mr.. Hill wrote
after leaving the country.
It said these dealt with internal
questions and Communist activities
and tended to show the country as
hostile to "the foreign element.
Evening star., 1946-12-19

(Walter Welebit, ,oriter OF the
following dispatch, is an Amer
icnn citizen OF Cro1ti1n p1rentnge
D1,o sap World War II serUices in
the Pacific Nth the United
States Army Air Forces. He is q
member OF the Associated Press
BELGRADE staff. For his journey
in Northern Greece he received
a pisa from the Greek gouern-
ment. The YugoslaD government
0ape him crit and re-entry per-
naits.
Evening star., 1946-12-19
II Seized in u. S. Ruids

FRANKFURT, Dec. 10 R).-More
than 600 American troops raided q
Polish displaced persons camp yes
terday and arrested at least II per-
sons suspected of illegal traflc tn
currency.
Evening star., 1946-12-19
Foul Play Is Feared
As Search Widens
For Noted Chemist
Dr.. J. F. Woit; Missing
On Trip in vireinio,
Often Carried Big Sums
By the Asseeioted Press

ELKTON, Va, Dec. ia wide
search was under way today for
DR.. Justin F. Wait, interna-
tionally known chemist, reported
missing on an automobile trip
en- route from Harrisonburg to
his home in Metuchen, N. j.
Foul play was suspected in the
disappearance of the scientist, who
has been conducting research on
streptomycin at the Stonewall plant
of Merck pharmaceutical plant here.
In Railway, N. j., officials of the
Merck pharmaceutical plant said
DR.. Wait had been with the firm
since 1874. He was described as
graduate of Cornell and Column
bia Universities, who Travelled ex-
tensively throughout the world and
was an accomplished linguist.
He had an appointment at the
Merck plant in Railway yesterday
morning.
Virginia police, advised that DR..
Wait usually carried large sums Of
money on his person, were conducting
general hunt throughout the State
for him. He was described as so years
old, feet II in height, gray haired
and wearing black suit. He was
driving black Packard sedan Of
either 1887 or 1888 model, bearing a
New York license. He was said to
have dark blue birthmark at the
right corner of his mouth and to
smoke pipe constantly.
At her New Jersey home, DR..
Waits wife said she had received
no word of him since week ago,
when he said he would start for
home shortly When he failed to
arrive, she said, she called the Har-
risonburg plant where she was adj
yised her husband had left Monday.
Evening star., 1946-12-19

District police said today they
are on the lookout for DR.. j. F.
Wait, internationally known chem
ist, who repeatedly has been miss
ing since Monday.
Police here said he was believed
to have q large amount OF money
on his person.
Evening star., 1946-12-19

(See VETERANS, Page A-4)
Evening star., 1946-12-19

(See COAL, Page Abb
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CONTINUED onPage A-4, Column H.
Evening star., 1946-12-19

(See CHINA, Page A-5)
Evening star., 1946-12-19

Seasonal Slump in the Pied Piper Business
Evening star., 1946-12-19

(See BILBO, Page A-3)
Evening star., 1946-08-13

This year, Greenbelt has the most
cases, but all victims have been
within 5-mile radius The cases
so far include Greenbelt, T. Berwyn,
3; Hyattsville, 2; East Pines, 2;
Riverdale. l; East Riverdale, l.;
Cheverly. /: Lanham, /; Colmar
Manor, l, and Ritchie, l. Two of
the victims, from Berwyn and River
dale, died.
Two Last Year in Greenbelt.
Greenbelt, which now is second
10 HyattSville as the largest
community in the county, had 10
cases in 1914, with Hyattsville, 8.
Last year, Greenbelt reported two
cases.
DR.. Byers said several cases this
year have occurred on Hillside road
Laurel Hill road, West Way drive
and Crescent road. Two years ago
he said, cases also were reported on
Laurel Hill road and Hillside road
and on Ridge road.
Last Friday, Greenbelt Town Man
ager James Gobbel said the town had
a clean bill of health" and there is
no occasion to discontinue any group
activities. A town fair is scheduled
to open Thursday.
Meanwhile, DR.. Byers said yester-
day the Health Department had
taken samples of water from the
Northeast Branch OF the Anacostia
River in Bladensburg to determine
the amount of sewage contamina-
ton. A report on the sample, which
was sent to Baltimore for study, will
be announced later, he added.
Evening star., 1946-08-13
D. {. Official Reports Rise
OF 10 10 1907 in Food Cosl

Food price increases in the Dis
trict ranging from 10 to 40 per cent
since July l were reported today to
the Commissioners by J. Thomas
Kennedy, superintendent of weights
measures, and markets.
Mr.. Kennedy told the city heads
the prices he quoted were obtained
by his inspectors, both through &C
tual purchase and through inquiry.
Bread going from nine to 10 cents
a pound provided the 10 per cent
minimum increase in the group of
commodities checked by the inspec-
tors. Lard, increasing from 20 cents
to AZ cents a pound, provided the
maximum ITO per cent rise.
In the case of meat, increases
ranged from II to So per cent at
one market stand. Chain store fig-
ures for the same meat items, though
totaling slightly less In price per
pound, in some cases actually showed
greater percentage increases.
Evening star., 1946-08-13
Montgomery Groups
Seek New VA HOSPITAL

As Arlington officials actively op-
pose establishment of a veterans
hospital overlooking Washington on
Lee boulevard, various groups in
Montgomery County today are con-
tinutng efforts Of the past two years
to have the hospital located there.
Business and veterans organiza-
tions in Montgomery County, as
well as the Maryland-Nat tional Capt.
tai Park and Planning Commission
have sought such hospital, which
the Veterans Administration has
indicated 1t would like to build on
the "Nevius tract" in Arlington al
Lee boulevard and Arlington Ridge
road
Edmund D. Campbell. chairman
OF the County Board, County Man
ager Frank c. Hanrahan and the
Chamber of Commerce are among
the Arlington opponents to the hos
pital plan, favoring, instead, erection
Of proposed apartment hotel there
e. Brook Lee, Montgomery Coun-
ty park commissioner and vice
chairman Of the planning commits
sion. said committees of citizens
from Silver Spring. Bethesda, and
Rockville have been pushing the
project.
Suggested sites. he added, include
Rock Creek. Colesville road. and
Georgia avenue. Patients would have
the use of large park or rural areas
c. Bailey Scrimgeour heads s
special committee appointed by the
Silver Spring Board of Trade tc
study the possibility of veterans
hospital in that area.
The VFW feels that the hospita
should be near the National Insti.
tute OF Health in Bethesda.
Evening star., 1946-08-13
Nearby Virginia Area
Gas Type Conversion
To Begin Thursday

The Rosslyn Gas Co. will COM
mence conversion of stoves and
furnaces to natural gas Thursday
for subscribers OF their service In
the Virginia area from Falls Church
to Alexandria.
The company, which is a SUBJ
sidiary of the Washington Gas
Light Co., has divided its area into
SIS districts and will complete the
conversion of one district a day
The company spokesman said
that actual conversion work is
simple, consisting of enlarging the
holes in the burners and other
vents in the stoves or furnaces. The
work In each house should be COM
pleted in about two hours.
AS many as 300 homes may be
converted each day, and by evening
natural gas will pe flowing through
the pipes in the homes in that dis
trict.
Owners were informed by letters
that workmen from the company
probably would arrive about am
to commence the conversion work
Completion of the work in the
area served by the company is set
for October Is.
Natural gas is methane, which is
odorless and burns hotter thar
artificial gas. 1t is also nonpoison-
Gus although large concentrations
will suffocate person.
| AS a safety precaution, however
an artificial odor is introduced into
the gas so as to give it about the
same distinctive" odor as artiflcia
gas. thus making 1t possible to de.
tect leaks.
The Washington Gas Light Co
will start conversion of appliances
OF Maryland subscribers next
month.
Evening star., 1946-08-13
Fish Bait Thief,
A Sea Turtle,
Goes toZoo
BY the Assoeioted Pres.

EASTON, Nd, Aug. 13.-The fish
are biting again in Miles River, and
the Washington Zoo has a new resi-
dent.
Fishermen complained recently
that something was getting their
bait near the waterfront home of
James N. Bennett of Easton.
Mrs. Bennett and Mr.. and Mrs,
Richard Ferkler of Pittsburgh de-
cided to do something about it. Mr..
Ferkhler is traff1ce passenger agent
for the Baltimore e. Ohio Railroad
at Pittsburgh.
After several hours angling, they
hooked a 25-pound sea turtle which
was sent to Washington restaurant
for stew, but Zoo officials learned
that it was an unusual specimen OF
the Chelonia family group.
They sent around a Zoo car, and
the turtle has new home.
Evening star., 1946-08-13
1.-Two New Polio Cases
From Virginia Bring
Total for Area 10 Al

Two more cases OF infantile pa
ralysis were reported to the Health
Department today from nearby vir-
ginia, bringing to Al the number OF
cases from the metropolitan area
treated in Washington hospitals this
year.
The new victims are Swear old
boy from Fairfax Station, Va. at
Children's Hospital, and a 14-year-
old girl from Arlington, now at Gal
linger Hospital.
The Al cases so far this year in
.clude four from the District oi
Columbia.
This compares to the area total ol
70 at this time last year, Al OF which
were from the District.
There have been four deaths SC
far this year from poliomyelitis, al
from the nearby areas, as con.
trasted to Is deaths during the en-.
tire calendar year 1945. eight o1
which were from Washington.
Prince Georges Record Equaled.
In Prince Georges County, infan.
tile paralysis cases so far this veal
are keeping pace with the recore
number OF cases chalked up in 1914
records of County Health Officer DR.
John M. Byers disclosed today.
With polio diagnosis yesterday
at Children's Hospital in the case O.
5year-old white girl of Greenbelt
Md.-the seventh victim in tina
communicative county total wa!
brought to 20, the same as the tota
on the same date two years ago. J
record number of 70 cases was re-
ported that year.
Only eight eases were recorded
during the same period last year
DR.. Byers said.
/ 1914 Late Summer Heavier.
| If The 1914 pattern is followed. tn,
peak OF the polio season lies ahead
DR.. Byers warned In that year, j
was pointed out, Al cases occurred
between August IL and Septembe
80, including Is during the latte
month. Last years total was 20.
/ Since 1916, DR.. Byers disclosed
235 polio cases have been reported
with 173 of them during the pas
six years. There were light years
including 1912, when no cases wer
reported.
| A breakdown of the years. com
piled by the county health officer
! is as follows:
Evening star., 1946-08-13
De Marcos Scheduled
To Testify Today in
|Fiqht 10 Prove Sanity

Julian r. De Marcos. 10. Saint
Elizabeth's Hospital patient, was
scheduled to take the stand today
in District Court to testify In his
own behalf at a hearing to deter
mine whether he now is sane and
fit to be released.
De Marcos attorney, James J
Laughlin, said yesterday afternoon
that he planned to place his client
on the stand today as the hearing
which began last week, goes into its
fifth day before jury OF IL men
and l woman.
The Government. represented by
Assistant United States Attorney
John P. Burke. rested its case yes
| terday after DR.. Edgar D. Griffin,
senior medical off1cer at st. Eliza
beths, a Government witness, had
finished testifying.
Mr.. Laughlin yesterday placed on
the stand several witnesses, includ-
ing some from the District Jail and
two attendants from the hospital
Thomas r. Sard, chief clerk and
deputy superintendent of the Jail
and other Jail employees testified
the only time De Marcos had caused
them any trouble while he was in
the Jail was once when he went
into the dining room with his hat
on. De Marcos explanation, it was
testified, was that he wanted to
keep his head warm.
Hospital attendants said DeMar-
cos was generally orderly during
his seven years at the hospital. Mr..
Burke, however, produced a note
book of one attendant which in
cluded a report that De Marcos
allegedly attacked another patient
in 1910.
The hearing is being presided over
by Associate Justice E. Barrett
Prettyman of the Court of Appeals,
who is sitting as District Court
! jIIgtice hv desicp tiop
Evening star., 1946-08-13
Navy Veteran Ki||ed,
Six Persons Hurt in
Area Traffic Mishaps

An Alexandria Navy veteran was
killed and six other persons were in
jured in trafflc accidents in the
Washington area Yesterday as au-
tomobileS continued to take their
daily toll from motorists and Pc
destrians alike.
Horatio Belt. jr.. %, of los East
Maple street, Alexandria, was fatally
injured last night when his motor
cycle collided with an automobile at
the junction of Routes 211, so and
236 about one-quarter mile west of
Fairfax
His death is the latest of a series
OF tragedies in his family. His
uncle, j. Holcombe Woodson, a
Southern Railroad detective who
Evening star., 1946-08-13
National Air Museum
Bill Signed by Truman

A national air museum will be
established under the Randolph bill
signed into law yesterday by Pres
ident Truman. No specific site nor
city is specified.
The act authorizes establishment
of an advisory board and gives to
the Smithsonian Institution super
vision over the new museum.
A fund of $4,000 is authorized for
use of the advisory board but must
be appropriated later by Congress.
Officials of the Smithsonian Insti-
tuition declined today to indicate
whether the entire new museum
would be located in Washington.
They did say that the Smithsonian
would preserve the collection of
planes which has been on exhibition
here for many years. But there is
also to be large and important
technical section of the museum,
they said. which might, or might
not be located in Washington. De-
cisions on such matters will be in
the hands of the advisory board,