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Evening star., 1946-10-27

plebiscite, Mr.. Flemming ruled that
such a vote will have absolutely
no effect on the individuals alloca-
ton to a State quota under the
Federal civil service apportionment
law"
Commissioner Flemming's letter
was in response to questions sub
mitted by James r. Kirkland,
attorney, who is chairman of the
plebiscite committee on election
rules.
Mr.. Kirkland expressed gratifica-
tion last night over the reply from
the Civil Service Commission. He
predicted it would influence many
Federal workers to participate.
Won't Impair Voting Rights.
Asked by The Star what effect a
vote in the plebiscite might have
on the right of a person living here
to vote in an election in his home
State, where he maintains legal
residence, Mr.. Kirkland declared
fatty it would have no effect.
He had looked into the legal i'm
plications of this question, he said,
and explained that under the rules
laid down for voting in the plebis-
cite, residents here who vote else
where in a regular election are
eligible to vote in the plebiscite.
Furthermore, he added, voting in
the referendum here will not i'm
See pr ERISCITE- Page A-5l
Evening star., 1946-10-27
Murray Says Steel Union
Will Seek Raise Soon
BY the Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 26.-De-
claring that imitation is here be-
cause of the lust and greed Of
American business and industry
CIO President Philip Murray said
today the 100000 members of the
United Steel Workers of America
will seek pay increase "as soon as
possible.
At the same time, he called on
all organized labor and the Ameri-
can people to defeat members of
Congress who created the vicious
legislation that killed price con-
troll"
Addressing a district convention
of the Steel Workers Union, which
he also heads, the CIO chief cited
take-home cuts in pay which he
estimated at 80 per cent duel to re-
duced working hours and declared
THE United Steel Workers are
going to ask for wage increases.
People need it. American industry
is making sufficient profit to pay
a very healthy increase to labor
without increasing the cost of liv-
ing"
Specific wage demands would
have to be approved by the CIO
Wage Policy Committee, which meets
in December, Mr., Murray explained
He waved aside questions as to how
much the steel workers vii! ask.
Evening star., 1946-10-27
BY the Associoied Press

BERLIN, Oct. ga reliable
informant said today that ap-
proximately 40 Army officers, in
cluding a former general, have
been named in an inspector gen.
erals report dealing with alleged
cases of black marketing and
other illegal activities among
military and civilian personnel
in American occupation forces.
He said one person named was
alleged to have conducted black
market dealings valued at $500, 900.
A high official source said the
Army has begun a vigorous house
cleaning by instituting court-mar-
tial proceedings against persons
charged with misconduct. This was
done after the Army completed a
Evening star., 1946-10-27
Seamen Due 10 Return
10 Ships tomorrow
On East, Gulf Coasts
AFL Union Will Rutify
Terms Settling WoIkout
At Meetings Today
By the Associoted Press

NEW YORK, Oct. 26.-East
and Gulf Coast ship operators
signed an agreement today with
leaders of the AFL Masters,
Mates and Pilots. who had been
on strike for 26 days, and the
United States Maritime Com
mission announced work would
begin Monday on 1,181 ships
bottled up in East and Gulf
Coast ports.
Frederick Livington, conciliator,
announced the agreement. The AFL
union said membership meetings
would be held here and in other
ports tomorrow to ratify the agree
ment, with results to be tabulated
Monday.
Sam Hogan, president of the CIO
Marine Engineers Beneficial As
sociation, which also has been on
strike, said in Washington he ex-
poets the Maritime Commission to
extend the terms to cover all Gov
ernment ships, including those on
the West Coast, within 48 hours. =
Mr.. Hogan said the Maritime
Commission had assured Secretary
of Labor Schwellenbach it would
issue such an order.
Would Free Half Of Ships.
That would free about half the
strike-bound Pacific Coast ships.
The Government operates, and the
Maritime Commission has employer
jurisdiction over, about so per cent
of the merchant marine vessels
operating from West Coast ports.
Mr.. Hogan said he had notified
the Maritime Commission this
afternoon the union membership
had ratified the Atlantic and Gulf
Coast contract "by three-fourths
majority" He added that his union
members are ready to return to
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| Army Remains
Unbeuten inDoy
OF Grid Upsets

Army shutout Duke, 1870, yester-
day to ring up its Oath consecutive
victory, but throughout the nation
other top-ranking teams were de-
feated in day marked by numer-
GUS upsets.
The major surprises:
Rice, 18; Texas, 13.
Wake Forest. 10; Tennessee, 6.
S.M.U., II; Missouri, 0.
Illinois, 13; Michigan 8.
Washington, 20; California, 6.
V.P.I., IA; North Carolina State, s.
Mississippi, g; Arkansas. 7.
Notre Danes AIS victory over
Iowa came as a surprise, but only
because of the size of the score.
Locally, George Washington suf-
fered its first defeat, losing to
Rutgers, 25-13. at.-New Brunswick,
N. j. Penn defeated Navy. 32-19.
"Details in sports section) y
Evening star., 1946-10-27
BY the kssoeioted Press

MEXICO CITY, Oct. 26.-Mexlcan
troops with Indian guides fought
their way through tangled under
brush today along the stropical
Balsas River in Mexico's biggest
manhunt in recent years seeking the
killers of Nan Peiker Beach, 10, of
Tulsa, Okla, and New York City,
recent Bryn Mawr student.
Nan. bride of four months, was
wounded fatally Wednesday night
while sleeping in the arms Ct her
husband. Charles Edward Beach, %,
New York City commercial artist.
The young couple were on a honey
moon down the dangerous and
desolate Balsas River, a trip few
have dared to make and then only
when heavily armed.
The troops searched the town OF
Tetela, not far from the scene of
the shooting, for traces of loot taken
from the young couple.
From Tetela, about 81 miles due
Evening star., 1946-10-27
| 5000 Cigarettes
Put Up as Reward
| In Reich Bombinq
BY The Associated Press

FRANKFURT, Oct. 26.-Stalled
in their efforts to break the week.
old Stuttgart bombing case, Ameri-
can and German authorities were
reported unofdcially tonight to have
made the fantastic offer of 5000
cigarettes for information.
Three bombs exploded against
government buildings in the Stutt-
CART area October 19 in what
United States Army investigators
called an apparent protest against
further proceedings against HAL
mar Schacht, German financier &C.
Quilted at Nuremberg.
The word that cigarettes-a fabd-
lous black market exchange medium
worth So a pack in postwar Ger
many-would be provided by
American friends spread around
Stuttgart police headquarters and
among the German population.
American and German officials
would not confirm the report, but
Karl Weber, president of the stutt-
CART police, said in a radio appeal
that "other rewards" were offered,
In addition to $4,000 marks.
Evening star., 1946-10-27
(See CHINA, Page A-4.)
Mexican Troops Securing Jungle
For SIuyers of Artists Bride

west of the main Mexico City to
Acapulco Highway, troops followed
Indian trails virtually unknown ex-
cept to the natives of Guerrero, one
of the widest sections of the coun-
try. A plane aided searchers.
Mr.. Beach said he and his wife
had started early Wednesday morn
ing from the tiny town of Balsas in
the state of Guerrero, ITO miles
southwest of Mexico City, in home
made canvas-covered canoe. They
padded about 40 kilometers (25
niles over rapids and along the
picturesque Balsas which drops
from the high plateaus near Taxco
to the Pacific where it spreads out
into alligator infested swamps.
The young couple pitched camp
about 5 pm. and went to bed in a
canoe tent about BIS pm. after a
cup of boullion.
"The next thing I knew was the
tremendous roar of the gun. Nan
(See MEXICO, Page A-10.)
Evening star., 1946-10-27
s Hours Of Conference
Fail 10 Fix Issues for
Hotel Arbitration
Unions Give Ground
But Management Holds
To Stand on Limit

The most intensive effort yet
made to end the Washington
hotel strike cracked up late yes
terday after six hours of confer
ences in the Labor Department.
The arbitration issue again proved
insurmountable. The dispute has
kept 5000 service workers idle in
Is of the city's principal hotels since
October IL.
Conversations which continued
until after dusk yesterday failed to
alter the positions, of both the man
agement and unions on the question
of arbitration.
Management stood pat on It's re-
iterated refusals to arbitrate any
issue except wages and vacations
The unions were equally insistent
that arbitration must include nu-
merous additional questions.
However, spokesmen for the work
ers did agree to limited restrictions
on subjects to be discussed if arbi-
tration could be arranged.
Conciliators Make Suggestions.
This willingness to make conces-
sions was announced for the work.
ers when, in the final despairing
minutes of the all-day meetings,
the Lebor Department Cancellation
Service made recommendations in
tended to return strikers to their
jobs.
The Cancellation Service suggested
arbitration on these issues:
General wage adjustments, vaca-
tions, pay rates for extra help, elimi-
nation of the split shift, arbitration
of discharges because OF guest COM
plants, distribution of banquet
gratuities and the effective period
of the contract.
Samuel Levine, attorney for the
workers, Immediately announced
union acceptance of the proposal.
He pointed out that his statement
was a recession from union in
sistence upon arbitration of several
other issues, including the union
shop, group insurance, quality of
food served to employees receiving
meals and guaranteed tips of 10
per cent on meals served to hotel
officers and on complimentary
checks.
The Cancellation Service recon-
1See HOTEL STRIKE, Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1946-10-27
Chinese hationaIists
"Ss
Capture Port Opposite
Soviet Area in Korea
Attacks Against chefoo,
Communicated Base,
Are Continuing
By the Associated Press

NANKING, Oct. 26.-The gov
ernment announced today the
quick capture of Antung, stra-
tegic Manchurian port opposite
Russian held Northern Korea,
and was continuing its attacks
on the Communist base of
Chefoo, leading observers to take
a forlorn view of current efforts
to settle China's civil war.
Gen. George C. Marshall, Ameri-
can special envoy, conferred in
Nanking for three hours with Gen.
Chou En-lai, chief Communist nego-
tiator, but if any progress was made
it was closely kept secret.
Chinese minority party leaders
who arranged the renewed negotia-
ton were still hopeful, and Sun Fo,
conciliatory member of the Kuo-
mintang government party, in
sisted he was mot pessimistic."
Marshall Departure Expected.
The unabated conflict, marked by
government successes, caused other
Chinese to take a dolorous view,
however.
Some said the situation left Gen.
Marshall as a mediator with moth
ing to mediate and predicted he
might soon end his mission with
a formal announcement of failure.
Such reports have been frequent for
months but never have materialized.
The government high command,
evidently convinced that the prob
lem can be resolved only in the
field, announced that Gen. Tu Lii
ming's American trained 9Th and
SIND armies took Amtung yesterday.
The speed with which this was
accomplished led to the belief that
the Communists retired without a
fight, and this was supported by
progvernment dispatches which said
Evening star., 1946-10-27
Flood Of ConfroI-Free Beans
Forces Elevators 70 Close
sv n. Associated Press

SAGINAW, Mich, Oct. 26.-The
Michigan Bean Co., largest in the
State, today announced It is closing
20 of its elevators Monday because
of inability to cope with food OF
beans on the market following .the
lifting of OPA ceilings.
George Mcintyre, president of the
Michigan Bean Shippers Associa-
ton, said others among 300 shippers
in the State probably will be forced
OF take similar action:
Storage facilities and boxcars have
been taxed beyond capacity since
ceilings were lifted at midnight
Wednesday. Bean prices have risen
from $2.65 to $40 per hundred
weight above old ceilings.
Evening star., 1946-10-27
Hebert Fights for Citizenship
For Four YuqosIuv War Flyers

Representative Hebert, Demo-
crat, of Louisiana yesterday came to
the aid Of four Yugoslav airmen
whose petition for American citizen
ship was rejected in District Court
last week.
Declaring their petition was re-
jected because of technicality in
the naturalization law, Mr.. Hebert
asked Secretary Of War Patterson
to see that the four men are mot
separated from the service until he
can introduce bill In the next
Congress to, correct what he believes
is an injustice.
MY appreciation <of the situation
is that if these men had been sworn
in as members of the armed services
in the United States instead Of In
Italy, they would now bel eligible
for favorable consideration Of their
Evening star., 1946-10-27
U.S.. WorkersAssured
PIebiscite Vote Wont
Violate Hatch Act
BoIIotine on Suffrage il.
Will Not Impair Rights
In Home State Elections
(Cipl Service Rulings ON Pg. AS.

fCtDI SerDtce Rulings ON Pg. A-5.)
Federal employees we're assured
last night that they may take
part in tl3 District suffrage
plebiscite November S without
danger of violating the Hatch
Act, which forbids certain po-
litical activities.
Assurances came both from Sena-
tor Hatch. Democr of New
Mexico, author of the act. and from
the Civil Service Commission.
In a telegram to The Star, the
New Mexico Senator declared:
THE plebiscite does not violate
the Hatch act"
The Civil Service ruling came in
a letter from Arthur S. Flemming,
acting chairman of the Civil Serv-
ice Commission.
Piebiscite Specifically Exempted.
Pointing to Section Is of the &C,
in question, Mr.. Elemming declared
1t specifically exempted activities ir
the unofficial suffrage referendum
from penalties.
On another question raised about
civil service employees voting in the
Evening star., 1946-10-27
4OU.S. Army Officers Reported
Accused of Reich Misconduct
Former General Included in Group Charged
With Block Marketing and Other Activities

general investigation of the conduct
of tn. military and civilian person.
mel, comprising a voluminous gen.
eral inspectors report.
The charges range from black
market dealings to excessive drink
ing and loose living, persons who
have read the report said. Several
chapters deal with officers relations
with German women. Army crimi-
nal investigation agents who gath
cred this data interviewed German
housemaids in American billets.
A copy of the report has been
made available to investigators for
the Kilgore Congressional Commit
tee. which is probing occupational
affairs here, but Army and military
government chiefs have decided
(See OCCUPATION, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1946-10-27
British Moving
More Troops in
Calcutta Riots
rs Killed, so Hurt
In BottIing Between
Hindus and MosIems
BY the Assoeioted Press

CALCUTTA, Oct. 26. Addi-
tional British troops were moved
into the Calcutta area tonight
and others were placed on the
alert as continued rioting in the
city between Hindus and Mos
lens brought death to at least
26 persons and injuries to at
least so.
A Bengal government press note
said police had opened fire on at
least six occasions today. Gunshots
echoed through various sections OF
the city tonight and there were
continual movements of military po-
lice and fire brigade trucks, and am
balances.
In addition to stabbings, assaults
and acid-throwings, there were re-
ports of arson and looting in North
Calcutta, including the burning of
several small houses and boats along
the Hooghly River.
The Indian National Ambulance
Corps and fire brigade personnel
rescued nearly 200 persons from
dangerous" areas.
Transportation Stopped.
! The transportation in Calcutta
remained near standstill as taxi
cab, bus and streetcars drivers re-
fused to work until the government
provided sufficient prote tt 0 n
against hooliganism.
1t. Gen. F. r. Bucher, commander
of British Eastern Command head
quarters in Calcutta, told press
conference that -four battalions and
a regiment have been stationed in
Calcutta to deal with any situation
that may arise here"
Gen. Bucher added that he had
expressed to the Bengal government
willingness to provide military pro-
lection for public vehicles on the
road and to arrange conveys in dan
gerous sections of the city.
The strife-torn Noakhali and Tip
perah districts of Eastern Bengal
appeared to be quieting. Brig. P. M.
Thapar, commanding military oper-
ations in the area, told a reporter
at Chandpur that the situation was
well in hand" and that no Incl
dents had been reported since Octo-
Der %.
Gen. Bucher said he had made
Q two-day tour of the area and
found troops doing their best to
round UP hoodlums and restore
peace" He said the big immediate
problem of forces in East Bengal
was that of refugees and that the
urgent needs were food, clothiEe,
medicine. well-organized refugee
camps and money to help in the
resettlement of those stranded by
the disorders.
General Uprising Denied.
The commander said, 1T is untrue
to say that there was a general up
rising of one community (Moslem
or HindW against another in East
Bengal. although arson. looting
murder, forcible conversion and
abduction occurred. e.-
ut was all the work of thou
sand hoodlums who were well or
ganized and had planned the
method Of the attacks and the peo-
pies panic made their tasks easier. "
+ Acharya Kripalani, president of
the Congress Party, who returned
to Calcutta today after second
tour of East Bengal told a press
conference: --
THE refugee situation is critical
There are $4,000 refugees in Tip
perah and Noakhali. There is a
dearth of food, clothing and medi-
cine and bad hygienic condition
There is danger of epidemic at any
moment"
Evening star., 1946-10-27
Trumans Spend the Night
Al Presidential Camp

President and Mrs. Truman drove
to the Catoctin Mountains in West
ern Maryland yesterday for an over
night visit to "Shangri La" the
presidential camp.
Accompanied by secret service
men, they arrived at the camp
shortly after pm, the White House
reported, after two-hour drive to
the camp, located near Thurmont,
Md, 10 miles from Washington.
They are to return to the White
House after lunch today.
Evening star., 1946-10-27
MosIems Guard Mosque
Surrounded by Hindus
O.. praeAa. E.eua.

Associated Press Foreign Correspondent
BOMBAY, Oct. 26 GA, rear
guard of 40 Moslems, protecting a
small mosque in the heart of team
ing Hindu district, has been sue
cessful in repelling almost nightly
attacks by hundreds of rioters.
The area, known as Lal Bagh Kala
Chowkie, contains 10000. Hindus
crowded into few square blocks of
buildings two to five stories high.
In the midst of these are three
buildings, in which TOO Moslems
used to live, and the mosque.
AS tension mounted last month
from communal rioting, all but 40
of the Moslems fled to the compare
tive safety Of Moslem sections of
this troubled city.
The 40 remained to protect the
Evening star., 1946-10-27
Jules BruIatour Dies;
Millionaire Movie Man
BY the Associoted Press

NEW YORK, Oct. 26.-Jules Bru-
latour, rs, millionaire pioneer movie
magnate and husband of Actress
Hope Hampton, died tonight after a
prolonged illness.
His wife and members of the fam
ily were at his bedside when he died
in Mount Sinai Hospital. Mr.. Bru-
latour. an executive of Eastman
Kodak, and his wife were inveterate
first nighters" at New Yorks thea
tiers. He and Miss Hampton were
married in 1928
Evening star., 1946-10-27

Four historic documents bear
ing on the death of George
Washington have been found
tucked away in a storeroom in
the basement of the Capitol, Les
lie L. Biff1e, secretary of the
Senate, disclosed yesterday.
One is a letter written by Martha
Washington from Mount Vernon,
December 81, 1899, giving her
consent to plan Congress had pro-
posed to bury her husband in the
Capitol. The plan never was carried
out, and the bodies of George and
Martha still are at Mt. Vernon.
Yellowed by time, the manuscripts
were found in an old chest, covered
with faded silk brocade. In chrono-
logical order, they include:
/. A letter written from Mt. Ver-
non December Is, 1899, by Tobias
Lear, Washington's former secre-
Evening star., 1946-10-27

applications to become citizens OF
the United States" Mr.. Hebert said
Il do not believe that in passing
this law Congress had any intent to
disqualify individuals because they
technically did not come within the
purview of the law. I believe you
will agree with me that joining and
fighting with the American forces
was not a question of geography,
but a question of service and duty
to an ideal and way of life"
The combat veterans, now at
tached to AAF units at Boiling and
Andrews Fields, are Capt. v. N.
Skakich; First Lieuts. M. M. Jelich
and Z.>T. .Miloykovich, and Flight
Officer D. D. Radich. All are sur
vivors of four Liberator crews sent
here in 1912 by the government Of
- = 1SS0D AYPAETN poua w y -
Evening star., 1946-10-27
by J. A. OLeory

tary, notifying President Adams of
the death of Gen. Washington the
night before.
2. A letter from President Adams
to the House and Senate, transmit
ting the news of Washington's
death.
3. The report of a joint Con-
gressional committee, dated Decem-
ber, %, 1899, recommending that
the family be asked to permit the
burial of Washingtons body in the
Capitol, and that a marble monu-
ment to his memory be erected in
the building.
4. Martha Washington's answer,
in which she reluctantly consented.
Mr.. Biffle said he has no reason
to doubt the documents are origi-
mails. Annual reports of the Archi-
tect of the Capitol show that the
Evening star., 1946-10-27
Chest Quotas Filled
By I Federal Offices
And 15priyate Firms
PCA-copitoI AirIines,
Export-Import Bonk
First in Percentages

Seven Government Offices and
Is business firms have raised 100
on more per cent of their quotas
in the Community Chest Fedora
ton campaign. Daniel w. Bell,
campaign chairman, announced
yesterday.
The first Federal Office to report
reaching 100 of its quota was the
Administrative ONCE of the United
States Courts, under its director,
Evening star., 1946-10-27
II Germans Doomed

LONDON, Oct. 26 IP,.-The Mos
COW radio said tonight military
court in Belgrade had sentenced to
death 81 Germans who headed Nazi
concentration camps for Yugoslavs.
Evening star., 1946-10-27

The Navy Department announced
104 per cent of its quota of $100, ,578
had been received. Secretary of the
Navy Forrestal, chairman of the
drive in his department, said most
of the employees of the department
contributed to the campaign. -
With 100 per cent of its quota,
PCA-Capital Airlines, Inc, had the
highest percentage of any group,
Mr.. Bell said.
Export Bank Leads.
Among the Government offices.
the Export-Import Bank, with 1876
per cent of its goal, was at the top
in the percentage of contributions
received.
The Chest Federation campaign
goal is $4,200,000. Thus far, 17Oo
per cent of the total already has
been contributed.
The Government unit had raised
24.96 per cent of its quota of 81, ,79O,-
202. Edward H. Foley, Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury and
chairman Of the unit, says that in
the next few days his nearly 5000
volunteer solicitors will try to reach
all of the 235, 900 Federal employees
in offices in the metropolitan area.
In addition to the Administra-
tive Office of the Courts and the
Navy Department, other Govern
Evening star., 1946-10-27

Henry P. Chan
dler. A gold seal,
signifying at
tainment OF the
goal, was affixed
to the c h e S t
d r / v e r e d
Feather ther-
mometer in Mr..
Chambers Office
Evening star., 1946-10-27
PLebiscite information

For information on the No
ven1ber 5 plebiscite. telephone
Plebiscite Information Center,
Executive 1860.
Evening star., 1946-10-27

(See CALCUTTA. Page A-5.)
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lSee TAX, Page A-5.l
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tSee CHEST, Page A-4.9
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(See PLEBISCITE, Page AS.
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(see AIRMEN, Page A-5o
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(See LINCOLN, Page A-80
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(See MARITIME, Page ABB
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(See DOCUMENTS, Page ABB
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1see HOTEL STRIKE, Page A-3.)
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(See MEXICO, Page AL