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Evening star., 1946-10-31
Hughes Ends 50 Years
With Weather Bureau

A Weather Bureau employe who
once delivered weather maps per-
sonany to Presidents Mckinley and
Theodore Roosevelt retires today
after so years of service with the
bureau.
He is Everett H. Hughes, 10, of
1913 Colorado avenue NV, head of
the carpenter shop at the bureau at
Twenty-fourth and M streets NV.
The Weather Bureau chief, F. W.
Reichelderfer, was scheduled to join
fellow employees in ceremony hon
oring Mr.. Hughes this afternoon.
He will be presented gifts.
Before Mr.. Hughes came with the
bureau, maps went up to the White
House each day by mule rider. Mr.
Hughes performed the job on a
bicycle
Mr.. Hughes. native of Indiana,
has been living with brother at the
Colorado avenue address since his
wife died in 1s42. Before that he
lived for many years in Takoma
Park. Mr. Hughes. after serving as
a messenger, became a watchman
and later captain of the guard be-
fore transferring to the carpenter
shop.
He said he was just going to take
things easy from now on and maybe
fix a few household gadgets of
neighbOrS from time to time,
Evening star., 1946-10-31
Break in Butter Price,
May Head Off Boost
In D. {. Milk Costs

Agriculture Department experts
today watched the wholesale butter
market In New York to determine
whether Washington consumers will
have to pay another cent quart for
milk starting tomorrow.
/ A break in butter prices yesterday
gave hope that the threatened in
crease could be halted without the
department acting on a petition of
the Maryland and Virginia Milk
Producers Association.
The association seeks elimination
Of a section of the milk marketing
order for the Washington area that
requires an automatic increase in
wholesale milk prices If the price
Of butter at New York averages 81
cents or more for the last 10 trading
days of October.
Until yesterday, butter had been
averaging about 81 cents a pound
However. it took sharp dip to 761a
cents a pound during yesterday S
trading. Department experts figure
that unless the prices goes up to
1914 cents pound today, the milk
rise will be averted.
The drop in butter quotations in
New York also is good news for
housewives who have been paying
high prices for butter.
Butter prices in Washington are
governed generally by those in the
New York market Yesterdays sharp
drop in New York as well as Chi
cago quotations, however, may not
be reflected in retail stores here for
several days more, a spokesman for
the butter and egg division OF the
Merchants and Manufacturers said
Wholesalers and retailers in the
Washington market are selling but
ter today on the basis of prices they
paid during the past week. This
will continue, the spokesman said,
until dealers dispose of Stockssnow
on hand. The wholesale price drop
should be felt here within two days
but the retail prices might not
change until early next week, he
added.
Evening star., 1946-10-31
Rome
Continued From First Page.)

Mr.. Stewart said. There are, OF
course. many irresponsibles who
might have done it-Palestine Jews
Egyptian nationalists and so on, but
couldn't give guess"
A detective on duty at the scene
held the theory that diehard Fas-
cists who strewed explosives around
a half dozen Italian cities Monday
on the oath anniversary of Benito
Mussolini's march on Rome might
have been responsible.
Used for Formal Occasions.
Mr.. Stewart said the wing where
the explosion occurred. had been held
as part of the Embassy residence
but had been used only for formal
banquets and receptions.
Rome's morning newspapers de-
manded vigorous police action to
find those responsible.
Foreign Minister Pietro Nenni,
who rushed to the scene at once
with high police officials, issued a
statement saying that the ex-
plosiveS were left on the Embassy
doorstep in two black suitcases and
apparently were detonated by a
clockwork mechanism.
He said a red flag. marked DAN
ger-Mines,' was draped over the
suitcases and that similar flags were
draped on each side of the door,
way. He said he hoped "the guilty
whoever they may be-will soon be
brought to justice.
Mr.. Ward told police that an EN-
bassy driver had noticed the suit
cases and had picked them up, set
them down again and then walked
around the building to report them.
A few seconds after he left them,
the blasts occurred.
Evening star., 1946-10-31

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Evening star., 1946-10-31
Miner Guilty in Killings
OF Two Police Officers
BY the Associofed Press

KEYSER. w. Va, Oct. 31.-Mark
McCauley, 35-year-old miner, was
found guilty last night, by a jury
on a first-degree murder charge
growing out of the slayings of two
West Virginia police officers. He
faces death by hanging
The jury, which deliberated SO
minutes, failed to return recon-
mendationS, which makes a SEN
tence of death mandatory.
Judge Ernest See deferred pass
ing the sentence when Edward j.
Ryan and H. G. Shoes, defense at
torneys, announced they would file
a motion for a new trial.
McCauley was tried for murder
in the death. of State Police Sergt.
Joseph Horne. He also was accused
of numbering Tucker County Sheriff
o. Guy Hovatter in an affray last
which followed his ar
rest at Emoryville by the two Off
GERS on truck theft charge.
Evening star., 1946-10-31
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double your money back

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Ing gas stomach and heartburn. doctors usually
prescribe the fastest acting medicines known for
symptomatic relief-medieines like those In Bell ans
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Evening star., 1946-10-31
Woman Fails 10 Identify
Traffic Victim as Husband
By the Assoeiofed Press

BRISTOL, Va, Oct. 31.-The body
of a man killed by an automobile on
October 18 when crossing street
in Salt Lake City, tentatively iden-
titled as that of Clyde Ebert
Cross of Bristol, was declared not
to be that of Mr.. Cross when viewed
by the supposed victims wife and
other relatives here yesterday.
Identification of the man as Cross
was made in Salt Lake City by
means of liquor ration book, which
police there said was the only thing
on the person except coins. Mrs.
Cross was notified that her husband
had been killed there and she ar
ranged to have the body shipped
here.
Fingerprints of the unknown VIC
tim were taken by Britol police and
sent to Washington in an effort to
establish the mans identity.
Evening star., 1946-10-31
Lewis Seen FORCING
Higher Wage Demand
In Soft Coal Farley
By jones Y. Newton

John L. Lewis will use the
threat of a cold weather fuel
strike to force the Government
into talking higher pay for soft
coal miners whether it wants to
or not, an official close to the
coal dispute said today. III
Cff1cials of the Interior Depart
ment's Coal Mines Administration
were preparing to go into the con-
ference with United Mine Workers
tomorrow "just to
talk" the official said. He added,
however, that before the meetings
were over, it was safe bet that Mr..
Lewis would have the Government
talking turkey about a new wage
agreement.
Officials said the country could
not afford coal strike at this time
,0f year, so that 1t appeared likely
the miners would win further pay
concessions. 1t is believed that Mr..
Lewis will demand the take-home"
pay the miners now receive for a
54-hour week for a shortened 40
hour week, which would include five
hours of travel time.
Federal coal officials were regard
ing the meeting with the mine work.
ers from the point Of view of Secre-
tary of Interior Krug. He holds that
it. is not a reopening of the entire
Government contract, but merely
meeting to discuss changes in the
agreement sought by Mr.. Lewis.
Lewis May Avoid Meeting.
While there was no word on 1t
one way or the other from the,
union, it was held possible that Mr..
Lewis might not attend the session
tomorrow with Navy Capt. N. H.
COLLISION, coal mines administrator.
He may save his appearance until
the return of Mr.. Krug, who is still
travelling in the Far West.
In any event, the first several
meetings likely will be of highly
preliminary nature. Capt. Collision
was described as not regarding the
sessions with enthusiasm and de-
termined to go through with Mr..
Krug's opinion that the agreement
under which the Government has
operated the mines since May %
cannot be reopened.
Federal officials outside of the
Interior Department. including some
of President Truman's own advisers,
believe that Mr.. Lewis is within his
rights in demanding reopening of
the agreement to obtain wage ad-
justments.
The situation is extremely eXplo-
sive and could lead to blowup on
either side While Mr.. Krug has
been in the West, these other off,
cials have engaged in good bit of
talk in support of Mr.. Lewis and
opposing the Secretary.
Regarding the meeting with the
United Mine Workers, Capt Collis-
son told this to an Associated Press
I'VE will listen to anything Mr.
Lewis has to say. We have an
agreement to meet Mr.. Lewis. If
there is anything he doesn't like,
any grievances the miners have, or
any iniustices they feel exist, we
will be glad to listen to them Fur
ther than that, we cannot go in
advance of the negotiations them
selves"
Behind the whole argument was
the fact that any further wage con-
cessions' made to the miners will
make it just that much harder to
persuade the private mine operators
to enter into a contract themselves
with Mr. Lewis that would enable |
the Government to release the
properties Many of the operators
have fatty refused. to buy the
present Krug-LeWis agreement.
Evening star., 1946-10-31
.Hannegan Repudates
Communist Support;
OFFERS Il 10 COP

Democratic National Chairman
Robert E. Hannegan told the Ma
ton last night the Democrats want
no Communist support in the cleo
tions, as the. wave of political
claims and counterclaims continued
to tall like autumn leaves on Wash
ington.
In a blast at Representative May,
Democrat, of Kentucky. who figured
in the Carson munitions inquiry,
Senator Capehart. Republican, Of
Indiana, came up with:
This is one time that May will
end In November
Representative Drewry OF Vir-
ginia, chairman of the Democratic
Congressional, Campaign Commit :
tee, joined in the forecasting con-
test with a prediction his partylwill
keep control of the House by q
ma ajority of "25 to 30"
In apparent recognition that
Communist backing would be no
asset in this campaign, Mr.. Hanne-
gan QeclaFe0.
To. the Communists I say, this
administration neither wants nor
deserves your support. Yc' should
give it to the Republican FArty. In
that party are. your best friends, the
proven champion of chaos. Give
them your vote: For they, not the
Democrats have earned it."
The Democratic chairman also
followed the administration cue of
centering its attacks on Senator
Taft, Republican. of Ohio This
time, however, he added House
Minority Leader Martin. Mr.. Han
negan said:
"A vote for a Republican candi-
date is vote for Taft and Martin
and for the party that undermined
Americas stabilization program in
the last Congress. 1t is a vote for
the party that wanted to give the
secret of atomic defense into the
hands of those who are interested
only in their own private profit"
Asserting that Mr.. Martin long
and faithfully has served as the
prophet in the temple of the
proflteers," Mr.. Hannegan declared
''he voted against the soldier, against
The working man, against the vet
eran and the housewife"
Mr.. Hannegan said the sRepub-
lican record straight through the
years is -condemning
In prewar days." he said, Repub-
lican leaders opposed preparedness.
Tn time of war. they Stunned the
role of loyal opposition and spent
their time grumbling on the floor
Of Congress.
Since the war, they have ma
neuvered for high prices. They
have encouraged profteers - they
have put politics before the recov-
cry of America"
Evening star., 1946-10-31
HoIifox's Son to Wed
War Hero's Duuqhter

LONDON. Oct. 3l-Lord Hall
fax's son, the Hon. Richard Wood
26. who lost both legs, in the war
will marry Miss Diana Kel.ett,
daughter of a fellow 9th Army offi-
Ger who lost his life. it was an
nounced today. 49,.
Miss Kellet's father. 1t Col. E. O.
Keilett. M. P. was killed in action
in March, 1943. al the age Of 40.
Mr.. Wood served rs his fathers
secretary when Lord Halifax was
Ambassador to Washington. and is
vice president of the British Limb
less .Ex-sefvicemen's Associa ton.
Northern Ireland has started a
campaign against an increase in
road deaths.
Evening star., 1946-10-31
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ward. Call IA. 0267 after 6 pm.
Evening star., 1946-10-31
FOUND.

COCKER SPANIEL. full grown, all black,
female, well trained pet, Fort Myer. CHI.
5000, Ext. 1892.
PURSE-Small black, vic 18th and D SITS
ne. LU. S210.
Evening star., 1946-10-31
Mills Named President
OF Burbed Wire Club

The Barbed Wire Club, an organi-
zation of former prisoners of wal
now living in the Washington area
has elected officers for the coming
year, it was announced today.
Irving j. Mills, an American Uni
versity student living on the uni
versity campus, was named presi-
dent. Other officers are George w
Love, 4023 Beecher street NV. vice
president; Clifford D. Jones, 1915
street Ne, treasurer. and Les Madi-
son, 1922 Fifteenth street NV, Sec
retary.
Evening star., 1946-10-31
Lightning Loys Ghost

The 1,000-year-old st. Mary Abbey
near Bedford. England, is for sale
but its celebrated hooded monk
ghost will not be included among
the effects The monk has not been
seen since lightning struck two trees
in the grounds a few weeks ago.
Evening star., 1946-10-31
Mine Kills 10 on Ship

ATHENS, Oct. 81 (P).-Greek press
dispatches reported today that 10
persons were killed yesterday when a
small sailing vessel struck mine
near the island of Zante off the
Greek west coast.
Evening star., 1946-05-26
D. {. Transport Crisi,
Comes 10 Abrupt End
As Trains Roll Again
Partially Filled Coaches,
Freight Shipments Move
With Return Of Strikers
pictures on Page A-I0)
pictures on Page A-10)
By julia Edwords

Washington's transportation
crisis ended abrutly last night.
Half filled passenger trains be-
gan rolling out of Union Station
on regular schedules. Freight,
strike-bound for two days,
started moving out of railroad
yards as trainmen and engineers
returned to work.
Many would-be travellers will
spend Sunday at home, however
either because the national railroad
walkout ended so quickly they
didn't have time to plan trips, OF
because settlement did not come
quickly enough to give them a full
weekend out of the city.
Except for two Cancelled trains
operations were normal at Union
Station early in the evening. But
the crowds were light. Weary trav-
elers had taken the news of the
strikes end calmly. Only at the ball
park did the announcement evoke
a cheer
The Greyhound bus terminal
jammed throughout the strike, re-
turned to normal with the departure
of the last three extra buses fol-
New York at $50 pm.
So hurriedly was the strike ended
(See TRAINS, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1946-05-26
Senate Group Votes
To Lift Price Control
On Meat June 80
Dairy Products Also
Included in Amended
OPA Extension Bill
BY the Associoied Press

The Senate Banking Commit
tee voted yesterday to lift price
controls from meat and dairy
products June 80.
The action came only a few hours
before President Truman personally
urged a joint session of Congress to
continue the price control law lin
an effective form"
The committee, which is drafting
"a one-year price control extension
bill, adopted two amendments. both
introduced by Senator McFafland
Democrat, of Arizona. The one COW
Iering livestock and poultry, and food
and feed products manufactured
from those items, carried 10 to 8
A 8 to vote put over the other
affecting milk and foods and feeds
made from it.
The committee wrote in a safe
guard against the possibility of run
away prices. A decontrol board
which is to be set up under the
Senate bill, would be given addi.
tional authority to reinstitute price
controls on meat and dairy products
upon application of the Secretary
of Agriculture.
| Senator Mcfarland said he as.
sumed the current meat subsidie!
will be removed when the control:
are lifted.
Evening star., 1946-05-26
SteeImun Ends NeWsmen|s Vial
With The Strike Is Over
Whitney and Johnston Shake Hands With
Carrier Official as Statement Is Read

of the days events which had seen
18 non-striking brotherhoods sign
an agreement with the operators.
That left it squarely up to Mr.. Whit
ney and Mr.. Johnston to join up or
be left on a siding.
The strike was over as of that
minute, Mr.. Steelman said, and all
20 brotherhoods were returning to
work on the basis of Mr.. Truman's
recommendation of May %.
Mr.. Steelman was not that abrupt
about it. He led off with the formal
announcement of the agreement
while the white haired presidents OF
the striking brotherhoods stood
silently by.
A minute before, at the request
of newsreelmen and photographers
Mr.. Johnston and Mr.. Whitney had
rather grimly shaken the hands OF
John j. Pelley, president of the AS
sociation of American Railroads.
SteeIman Reads Hurriedly.
Hurriedly, Mr.. Steelman read:
The basis of settlement was 9
wage increase of 16 cents an hour
or $128 per basic day as recon-
mended by the Presidents emergen-
| (See RAILROADS, Page A-4)
Evening star., 1946-05-26
By Hermon F. Schoden

Hours of waiting, speculation
and rumor ended at 4:05 pm
yesterday when John r. Steel
man, President Truman's ace
labor advisor, walked into Suite
1910 of the Hotel Statler and
announced the nation wide rail-
road strike was over.
His audience was group of news
men who had seen the clock push
five minutes beyond the deadline
President Truman had set for the
men to be back on the job Soldiers
stood by in railroad centers to start
the trains rolling If the trainmen
refused.
On either side of Mr. Steelman
as he strobe into the pretentious
press headquarters were A. F. Whit
ney and Alvanley Johnston, respec-
tive presidents of the Trainmen and
Engineers Brotherhoods, whose $780,
600 members had quit the vast net
work of railroads at pm. Thursday
Announcement Was Simple.
Mr.. Steelman's announcement was
simple and not unexpected in view
Evening star., 1946-05-26
Eight Passengers
lon First Limited
oLeoye Here

The Liberty Limited-first all
Pullman train to leave here after
end of the railroad strike-pulled
out of Union Station at Z o'clock
last night with only eight passengers
on board for the ride to Chicago.
The train of IA cars could have car
ried 300.
The 16-man crew of the Liberty
thus outnumbered passengers two
to one. Odd situations arose. Por-
ters bemoaned the tips they
wouldn't get. Dining-car attend
ants pondered the problem of dis
posing of food for 300.
Trainmen said the almost unin-
habited condition of the crack
sleeper was due mostly to the fact
that lews of the strikes end reached
potential travellers too late.
Evening star., 1946-05-26
China Peace Hopes Rise
After New Conference
By the Associated Press

NANKING, May 25.-Government
and Communist leaders met for two
hours tonight seeking a peace for
mula in Manchuria amid general
optimism that a truce might be
near.
While no final agreement was
reached between the high-ranking
negotiators, one conferee said there
was overall satisfaction with the
progress made.
Earlier the Communists had an
nounced officially their withdrawal
from Changchun, Manchurian cap
ital, and a new mayor was ap-
pointed by Generalissimo Chang
Kai-shek to move in behind the
conquering Government troops.
Meanwhile, the departure of Gen.
George c. Marshall's special plane,
which had carried Gen. and Nine.
Chang to Mukden, gave rise to
belief there that the American
emissary himself would soon ar
rive, to continue in Manchuria his
efforts to end China's internal
conflict.
Evening star., 1946-05-26
Weaver Is Defeated
Fo|ger Falls Behind
In North Carolina
Other Incumbents Leod,
With Durham Facing
Possible Second Primary
BY the Associated Press

RALEIGH, N. c., May 25.-Rep-
resentative Zebulon Weaver was
defeated for denomination in
the 18th district and Representa-
tive John H. Folger was threat
ened with defeat in the 5th on
the basis of representative re-
turns from today's Democratic
primary in North Carolina.
With all but 10 of 141 precincts
unofdcially tabulated, Mr. Folger hac
1864 votes, Thurman Chatham
Blanket manufacturer, 1920, anc
Joe J. Harris, 635. A second primary
loomed as a possibility.
In 149 of 1913 precincts, Mr.. Weaver
had 12,728 votes against 21,052 fol
Monroe Redden. former chairman of
the State Democratic Executive
Committee. Mr.. Weaver has served
in the House since 1917 except for
one term.
LII lllc OlAl1l DlStllC lCt Iecpl cStllld-
tive Carl T. Durham also was faced
with the possibility of a runoff.
Representative Robert L. Dough-
ton, chairman of the Ways and
Means Committee, was unopposed in
the Ninth. So were Representatives
Barden in the Third, Cooley in the
Fourth, and Bulwinkle in the
Eleventh.
First, 1877 of lat precincts, Repre-.
sentative Bonner, 1928; Richard L
Humber. 9,505: Second, 1T of 1877
Representative Kerr, 1925: Archie
Gay. 10,179; Sixth, ia of 1875, Rep.
resentative Durham. 1864; E. Ear
Rives, 1854: D. E. Scarborough
1885; Seventh. l35 of 1855, Repre-.
sentative Clark, 22960; w. S. Britt
14,441: Eighth, 161 of 2O5, w. E
Horner, 1888; C. B. Deane. 14,450
Tenth, 156 of ITS. Hamilton c
Jones. 16907; Manley R. Dunnaway
1898.
Miss Jane Pratt, Democrat. hae
1896 votes, against $50 for Franz
Hulin, Republican, in special elec.
ton in the Eighth District to namt
a Representative to fill out the tern
of the late w. o. Burgin.
Evening star., 1946-05-26
All Advertising to Be
Resumed 7 omorrow

With the effective resumption of railroad traffic,
The Star is pleased to that it will print its
usual advertising content both display and classified
commencing with tomorrow's issue of The Evening
Star, Monday, May 27th
The Star regrets that its limited supply of paper,
shipment of which was stopped by the railroad strike,
made it necessary to omit practically all advertising
from it's columns yesterday and today
missed insertions Classified Advertisements ordered
for Saturday and Sunday will be made up commencing
Monday that advertisement will receive the full
number of insertions ordered
If the advertiser does not wish these missed insertions
to be up please call National 5000 and have them
Cancelled.
Evening star., 1946-05-26
Conferees May Create
International Unit 10
Fight World Famine
1916 Food Supply Bigger
Than l945, bufStiI|. Is
Below Prewor Levels
By MoIcoIm Lomborne, Jr.

The international food confer
ence may bring into being this
week the international Emerg-
ency Food Council, comprising
representatives of both have and
have-not food countries, to deal
with threatened famine through
1947.
This was disclosed last night as
the Agriculture Department made
public survey, as of early May
showing that while the world will
produce more food this year than
in 1945, total supplies will be below
prewar levels and short of require
ments.
In another development relating
to the famine, Herbert Hoover left
from National Airport for South
America, where, as special repre-
sentative of President Truman, he
will make study of food supplies
that may be made available fol
famine relief. Secretary of Agri-
culture Anderson was on hand te
bid the former President farewell.
Committee Backs Agency.
The international food agency
has been recommended by the
steering committee of the specia
conference on urgent food problem.
sponsored by the United Nations
Food and Agriculture Organization
and meeting here during the past
week.
AS now planned, the proposed
council would replace the Combined
Food Board, made up solely of the
United States, Great Britain and
Canada. The board came into being
during the war and has been the
(See. FAMINE Page A-3)