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Evening star., 1946-06-21
House Group Approves Measure
Extending District Rent Control

Legislation extending rent
control in the District until the
end of next year, approved by
the Senate Wednesday; was
speeded toward House action to-
day when the House District
Committee voted to report it ia
vorably.
Extension of permitted alley
dwellings from July l to the same
date in 1947 also was approved by
the committee. This bill, likewise,
has passed the Senate.
The committee deferred action,
however, on a measure authorizing
banks and building and loan asso-
Citations here to close Saturdays
throughout the year. Chairman
Mcmillan said the bill would be
taken up again next week.
The committee considered the
Saturday bank holiday bill In exec
utive session after q hearing at
which several members questioned
whether this would not inconven-
fence employers and workers alike.
Evening star., 1946-06-21
.lichfieId Is likened
To Dark Ages Dungeon
BAD NAUHEIM,

BAD NAUHEIM, Germany, June
21.-The prosecution charged, today
that the Lichfield guardhouse was
worse than the dungeons of the
dark ages" and that cruelties on
American prisoners there were done
on direct orders" of Col. James A.
Kilian. the camp commander.
After four days of legal maneu-
vering in which Kilian was blocked
in attempts to quash the indict-
ment and secure a change of venue
to the United States, Maj. Joseph
S. Robinson of New York started
presenting the Army's case against
the cavalry veteran from Highland
Park, Ill
He charged kilian had attempted
to stif1e the cruelty charges, and
said:
I'VE will show that prisoners were
cruelty beaten with his knowledge
and in accord with a policy he him.
self inaugurated. Why, he even
told the guards they weren't rough
enough; that they had to get
rougher."
He asserted that the policy was
to make Lichfield so tough on pris-
oners that none would dare come
back"
Earlier the defense had attempted
to introduce secret message from
the War Department, and had made
repeated complaints that Kilian
was being maliciously accused Of
authorizing cruelty to prisoners.
Maj. Robinson, leaping angrily to
his feet. said that if the complaints
continued the prosecution would be
forced to call witnesses to show that
Col. Kilian made every effort to
suppress charges against him, be-
cause of his connection with other
people i'm the Army.
Evening star., 1946-06-21
Tokyo City Workers
Operate Municipal
Government on Own
By the Associoted prs.s

TOKYO, June 21.-Tokyo
City employees quietly took over
sole administration of several
municipal functions today at
the climax of a lengthy wage
dispute, defying recent govern
ment~ condemnations of such
methods.
The federation of six ma jor
Tokyo labor unions called for
the business control" move af-
ter Mayor Matsui refused to
answer a demand for special
food crisis" cash payments.
The city had agreed to wage
increases.
While operating city services
ION their own" the workers,
if they follow recently set labor
precedent, will help themselves
to salary increases from cur
rent revenues which they ham
die. They will avoid disrup-
ton of service, however.
Evening star., 1946-06-21
1946 Pig Production
lin Nation Estimated
AS Lowest Since 40
Nine Nation Committee
Sets Up Organization
To Combat Fomine
By Malcolm Lomborne, Jr.

The Agriculture Department
estimated today the combined
spring and fall pig crop in the
United States will be the smallest
in six years and will mean less
pork products for consumers
during the next IL months.
Combined production was esti-
mated at 81,5O0, 900 head, which the
department said will be 6 per cent
below last year and the smallest
since 1910.
Breeding intentions for the fall
crop are off 16 per cent from yea
ago, despite the fact the Govern
ment had asked farmers to reduce
their narrowing only 10 per cent in
the light Of the feed shortage.
Based on June l Estimate.
Since the pig report was based on
June l stimates-several weeks
after the Government raised the
ceiling price of corn-it is believed
that todayis announcement reflects
the trend away from excessive feed
ing OF grain to hogs.
Meanwhile, nine-nation Central
Committee of the new International
Emergency Food Council was at
work today on organzational de-
tails OF the new unit formed to
combat famine on worldwide basis.
The committee will report to the
full council at meeting later in the
day.
The council. which takes over
from the Combined Food Board the
job of directing food shipments to
famine areas at least through 1947,
was brought into being formally
yesterday with 19 nations as full
participants. A Goth country, Ar
gentina, was expected to join short
ly. Only Russia of the major ma
tions failed to send a delegate.
At this afternoons session, the
council will receive nominations for
the post OF secretary general to
guide operations of the group.
D. A. Fitzgerald, director of allo-
cations and requirements for the
agriculture Department and United
States deputy member of the Com
bined Food Board, has been men,
toned as a possible candidate for
the secretary generalship. An en-
ploye of the department for more
than Is years, he accompanied for
mer President Herbert Hoover on
his recent world food surveys for
President Truman.
An Argentine representative at
tended yesterdays meeting but ex-
planned that instructions had not
arrived in time for that country to
join the council.
While Russia sfailed to send even
an observer, the way remained open
for that country to join. The coun-
Gil had hoped to have all large pro-
Qucer nations renreSented
Evening star., 1946-06-21

that he suggested similar 25-year
treaty for Germany.
Would Use Smaller Forces.
One purpose of the treaties would
be to end the present mass occupa-
tions of both countries as quickly
as possible and to substitute for the
regular occupation armies smaller
forces of troops especially trained in
disarmament control duties.
The avowed purpose of the jap
anese treaty is to insure that, fol-
lowing the total disarmament and
demilitarization of Japan by occu-
patton forces, the country shall be
kept in state of disarmament and
demilitarization las long as the
peace and security of the world may
require"
Five Principal Steps
To accomplish this, the following
principal steps are set forth:
l. Japan's military organization
shall remain completely disarmed
demobilized and disbanded ano
Japan shall be deprived of all sorts
of arms and explosives, including
atomic energy materials. The Jap.
anese shall also be deprived of all
sorts of bases and factories for pro-
ducing arms and shall be allowed
only civil police having small arms
and such explosives as are necessary
for industrial uses"
2. To enforce these objectives, the
four powers would operate, through
the control commission, an inspec-
ton system which would keep con-
slant check on japanese disarma-
ment and demilitarization.
3. The japanese themselves would
(See JAPAN, Page A-6.)
Evening star., 1946-06-21

The present rent control law here
expires at the end of the year. The
pending Senate and House bills
would extend it to December 81, 1947
Robert F. Cogswell, rent control
administrator, asked by Chairman
Mcmillan If the present law required
amendment, said he did not think
So. Mr.. Cogswen added that he
thought the administration was get
ting along pretty well under the
present law. He pointed out, in
response to another question, that
the administrator has authority un-
der this law to adjust rents upward
where it is found that an owner or
landlord has made unusual expendi-
lures to improve the property.
The bill to make Saturday a per-
manent bank holiday in the Dis
trict was indorsed by Francis G..
Addison. jr., chairman of the Legis-
lative Committee Of the District
Bankers Association.
Mr.. Addison said the banks had
(see RENT, Page A-6J
Evening star., 1946-06-21
Big Cities of India in Turmoil
In Protest at Nehru's S Arrest
100000 Bombay MiI|workers Stoy Home;
Korochi, CoIcutto, Madras Markets Shut

most portion of India to defend
Shiekh Abdullah and others ac-
cused of sedition in connection with
a recent abortive revolt against
the Hindu Maharajah, Sir Hari
Singh.
Mohammed Ali Jinnah, president
of the Moslem League, called on
Kashmir's Moslems, who make up
80 per cent of the states population.
mot to be misled by slogans and
stampeded into an action which
would gravely prejudice their cause." F"
Nehru, president-designate of the
rival Congress party and president
of the All-India Peoples States Con-
ference Of which Abdullah is men,
ber, was reported still in Kashmir,
but reports confiicted whether he
had been released from custody.
Military officials at Rawalpindi,
near the Punjab-Kashmir frontier
said they were informed Nehru was
released but did not know where
he was. A dispatch from Sprinagar,
Kashmir capital. said the congress
leader was still detained.
Evening star., 1946-06-21
Is More Jap Suspects
Put in Sugomo Prison
BY the Associated Pres.

TOKYO. June 21.--Lt. Col. Shi-
geji Mori, former commander of
Camp O'Donnell and Cabanatuan
prison camps in the Philippines, and
Is other war crimes suspects were.
admitted to Sugamo Prison in the
week ending June 80.
The announcement of their ap-
prehension said Mori was charged
with responsibility for the death Of
four Americans and atrocities
against others.
Evening star., 1946-06-21
Occupation Slash Plan
Reported byMcNiarney
By the Assecioted Press

BERLIN, June 21-Gen. Joseph
T. McNarney today said a plan was
in existence to reduce American
occupation forces in Germany to
10000 men, but at has not yet been
determined if it will be imple-
mented"
tWar Department officials here
today said Gen. Eisenhower last
January had estimated that
American occupation forces in
Germany and Austria would total
about 100000 by July l. The
Army also said 406,371 troops
now are in the European theater,
including Austria and the British
Isles. There was no breakdown
for the American zone of Ger
many)
Gen. McNarney told news con-
ference that German civilian rationS
would be raised from 1,180 to 1,225
calories a Gay on June 26 because
the food situation had improved. He
said 10000 tons of food were ex-
pected from the United States this
month for the American occupation
zone.
He said American sources had
supplied 562,550 tons of food for
German civilians from last August
to June l. He said the ration could
be raised to 1850 calories a day if
monthly imports from the United
States increased to 10000 tons.
VIENNA, June 81 (P.-Two ships
loaded with 1900 tons of UNRRA
wheat for Austria have been diverted
to Italy in midocean, officials said
yesterday
Diversion of this grain, expected
to furnish about 300 calories daily
for month to Austria's population,
was a blow to the Allied Council,
which only last month scraped UP
some 25,000 tons of food supplies to
tide UNRRA and the Austrian gov
ernment over Q crisis.
Evening star., 1946-06-21
y. S. Proposes 4-Power Control
Of Japan After Occupation Ends
To Insure 25-Year Disarmament
7 reoty Is Sought
With Soviet, China
And Britain
BY the Assoeioted Press

The United States announced
today it has proposed to Russia,
Britain and China the creation
of a four-power control COM
mission, backed by military force
to keep Japan dsarmed for at
least Is years.
The commission would take over
at the end of the present occupa-
ton which is being carried out
largely by American troops under
the command of Gen. Macarthur.
That action presumably would mark
the end of Americas virtually sim
gle domination of japanese
affairs and begin new period of
control By all four powers.
Secretary of State Byrnes pro-
posed the 25-year japanese dis
armament treaty to the Foreign
Ministers of Britain, China and
Russia et the same time in April
Evening star., 1946-06-21
Five Die in Blast
Al Dallas HOTEL;
Scores Injured
Jam Of Spectators
lmpedes Rescue Work
In Downtown Area
BULLET
DALLAS (P).-!The death toll
in the Baker Hotel explosion
rose to five this afternoon.

DALLAS, June 21.-At least
three persons were killed and
scores injured here today in an
explosion at the Baker Hotel.
Several of the injured are be-
lieved to be fatally hurt.
The explosion, which occurred
about 1l:20 am, shook the central
business district. 1t was believed
to have been caused by an explod-
ing boiler and ammonia gas from
shattered pipes in the air-condi-
tioning system.
Firemen Don Gas Masks.
The blast occurred beneath the
coffee shop, and most of the DAM
age centered around a parking lot
which adjoins the hotel on the east
side.
Dense smoke poured out of the
hotel, causing firemen to don gas
masks as they raced to rescue the
injured.
Thousands of spectators jammed
to the scene, impeding rescue work.
Downtowp streets were blocked of
to allow free movement of at least
3e ambulances rushed to the hotel.
Injured Being Removed.
At noon, the injured were still
being taken from the hotel, one of
the largest in the southwest, and
from an adjoining parking lot,
where many were injured when the
blast scattered plate glass and lum-
Der among pedestrians.
One man, pronounced dead on
arrival at Parkland Hospital, was
tentatively identified as William e.
Cotton, purchasing agent for the
hotel. He was killed while sitting
in his basement office The body was
pulled from the wreckage by Gar
land Mashburn, another employe.
Six victims were taken to Baylor
Hospital. Two were unconscious
and were not identified. The others
were j. p. Howe, 80; Eugene Hyde,
IT: Robert Carter, %, and Hem
rietta White, %, all of Dallas. Their
conditions were not Immediately re-
ported.
Eyewitness Description.
c. v. Allin of Waco wa sstanding
across the street at the time. He
gave this eyewitness description:
There was a dull, heavy thud,
something like a dynamite explo-
sion. The glass windows bulged out
and several bystanders on the side
walk were cut.
'Thehe was a lot of excitement
and it seemed that every policeman,
fireman and ambulance in Dallas
began to arrive.
Two girls who stepped off the
sidewalk stepped right in front of a
(See EXPLOSION, Page Al
Evening star., 1946-06-21

Part of the increase was allowed
to offset losses suffered by the op-
orators during the 59-day strike.
Most of the mines were operated for
two weeks during the latter part of
that period in a truce called by Mr..
Lewis.
Most soft coal is consumed by
railroads and industrial firms. OPA
said less than Is per cent of total
production goes to householders for
heating purposes.
However, OPA expects to an
nounce next week a price increase
averaging perhaps 81 a ton for hard
coal, used generally for home heat
ing. This also will Offset anthra-
cite miners pay raises
The soft-coal price order is effec-
tive Immediately, but in most cases
the higher costs apply retroactively
to all sales since May Is, when OPA
authorized seller-buyer agreements
lSoo ONAY DpTT1E1c
Evening star., 1946-06-21
Two 4-lane Bridges
Recommended in
Subcommittee Report
House Expected to Beck
Plan in Opposition to
Single 6-Lone Spon

The Chapman Subcommittee
today voted to report favorably
to the House Interstate and For
eign Commerce Committee the
bill to construct twin four-lane
bridges across the Potomac River
to replace the Highway Bridge.
Meeting in closed session, the Ave
man group terminated more than
18 months of controversy over the
bridges.
Indications were the full commit
tee and the House would back the
committees stand, especially since
President Truman has said that he
favors the twin bridges rather than
a single bridge of six lanes.
S2,OO0,000 Available.
The bridge controversy, which
brought numerous clashes among
high Government officials, has gone
on since January 3, 1945. A 81, 900 900
initial appropriation made for this
year has remained unspent as the
District government and Public
Roads Administration and Fine Arts
Commission argued the matter out
with the National Park Service and
the National Capital Park and Plan
ming Commission. Civic and pro-
fessional groups Joined the dispute
from time to time.
Thousands of words of conflicting
testimony had been heard by the
subcommittee before it made its
decision today, with both sides ar
riving at different answers from vir-
tually the same set of traffic sta
tisticS.
Recognized Bottleneck.
The President entered the con-
troversy several months ago by GO
ing on tour of the bridge site. He
became the first President to ascend
to the top of the Washington Mon-
ument, going there to get birds
eye view of the congested river
crossing. The committee has made
two tours, one up the Monument.
All parties have agreed all along
on one thing-that the Highway
Bridge is one of the worst traffic
bottlenecks in the Washington ares.
Almost daily for the last few years
traffic has piled up when cars have
stopped for motor or tire trouble ;,
have run out of gas or have become
involved in collisions.
The bridges proposed in the bill
would cost $1,000 1000. The south
bound span would be built approx
imately at the site of the present
bridge and the northbound span
about 600 yards downstream, toward
the Railroad Bridge.
Evening star., 1946-06-21
SIS 100000 Sewer Program
Sought in Master D. G. Plan
Gen. Young Calls for New Police and Fire
Buildings, Rodo System Rehabilitation
Third of a Series.)
By John W. Thompson. Jr.

A SIS, ,000, 900 construction pro-
gram for the Sewer Department
during the next six years. which,
among other things. would
greatly reduce pollution in the
Potomac and Anacostia Rivers
was recommended to the Com
missioners today by Engineer
Commissioner Gordon R. Young.
He also called for $2,735 600 worth
OF capital improvements for the
City Refuse Department, involv-
ing two new transfer stations, new
garages and shops and completion
OF Incinerator No. 3, at West Virginia
avenue and Mount Olivet road NE.
The city now has two incinerators.
Brig. Gen. Young's proposals to
meet these needs followed his an
nouncement yesterday Of . $4,243-
Evening star., 1946-06-21
RFC,sAuditinq
asLaxity
With Billions
Controller General
Says Agency Lacks
Control of Investment.
BY the Assoeioied Press

Controller General Lindsay C.
Warren today recommended in
sweeping criticism of Recon-
struction Finance Corp. ac-
counting practices, that all RFC
be merged Into an in
tegrated structure under a single
management"
Mr.. Warren declared in a report {
to Congress, that the RFC had lost
accounting control of it's $1,000, ,O00,-
600 investment properties and its
$500, 900 900 investment in inven-
tories OF the Defense Supplies Corp,
Metals Reserve and United States
Commercial Co.
The report said RFC doesn't keep
adequate records of its cash receipts,
rentals earned and surplus property
sold.
Cities Delay in Audit.
1t said the RFC does not control.
IN an accounting sense, certain i'm
portant liabilities recoveries due it
on plant extensions and the activi-
ties OF the United States CONNER
cial Co. affiliate.
The report noted that the ac-
counting Office had been attempts
ing for eight months to complete
an audit of the RFC and its affiliates
as OF June 80. 1945, adding:
Under ordinary circumstances it
would have been reasonable at the
outset to expect that this work
would now be approaching COM
pletion, but the circumstances en-
countered have made this impossible.
Indeed, it has been found that a
satisfactory audit cannot be made
and that no certification may be
given Of the financial statements of
the companies at the close of June,
1945."
Charges Lack Of Understanding.
The corporation and its affiliates,
the report, addressed to House
Speaker Rayburn, said, have not
developed an adequate concept Of
the control of financial and operat-
ing responsibilities through accounts
ing"
No complete determination OF
the amounts actually invested in
the individual plant projects has
ever been made by the company,
and no accurate determination has
been possible under the accounting
methods employed" it went on.
The nearest approach to such
determination, it said. has been
the occasional totaling of disburse-
ments made, whether they were
investments or expense disburse-
ments, in order that it might be
known that the aggregate amount
authorized for expenditure on any
project had not been exceeded. This
test has not taken the capitalized
expense disbursements into account,
because these are not deemed to
be covered by the authorizations"
AS specific examples of the fall
Evening star., 1946-06-21
Club Women ADOPT
Resolution CaIIinq fol
Votes for District
Proposal Is Accepted,
3S8 to l49; Only One
Speaker in Opposition
By Gretchen Smith
Sior Sfoff Coryesoondsnt

CHICAGO, June 21.-National
representation for the District of
Columbia received the support
of $500, 900 members of the Gen.
eral Federation of Women's
Clubs in a resolution adopted to-
day at the federation's 55th an
nual convention.
A standing vote taken following
arguments for and against the reso-
luton revealed 38S votes in favo,
and 149 against.
The tally vote was taken on re-
quest OF Mrs. E. Morgan Pryse
delegate from the District Of Co
l,,mbia. representing the Marietta
Park Women's Club, the only one
in the assembly to speak against
adoption of the resolution.
Mrs. Ernest Howard, Washington
delegate from the Houskeepers
Alliance, made a brief statement
that as delegate from a club favor
ing national representation, she was
obliged to vote for its adoption. but
that she personally was opposed
to it.
Invited to MicrophOne.
Immediately after presentation of
the resolution by Mrs. Horace B
Ritchie, chairman of the resolutions
committee, those wishing to speak
for and against it were invited tC
the microphone by Mrs. La Fell
Dickinson, federation president.
Mrs. Gertrude s. Parks, presi.
dent of the District of Columbis
Federation of Women's Clubs, which
presented the resolution, told how
the District federation had stood
for legislation giving national repre-
sentation to the District of Colum-
bia for 20 years.
Mrs. Parks told the convention
that more than 5000 professional
and businessmen in the District had
urged national representation fol
many years.
Keeps 100000 Voteless.
Mrs. Parks declared that those
opposing national representation
were keeping the approximate,
1000, 1000 citizens in a state of tax
alton without representation"
This was the principle which
our forefathers fought against, the
overthrow of which brought about
the foundation of-this Nation" Mrs
Parks declared.
Mrs. Harvey w. Wiley, chairman
of the federation,s legislation de-
partment, a member of the District
federation, was next to plead fol
adoption.
Mrs. Pryse. in her arguments
against adoption, declared that il
the District were given national
representation you will see Wash
ington in the hands of few local
politicians 49,. .
washington now belongs to every
man, woman and child in the Unit
ed States, but if you give the Dis
trict a representative in Congress
you will take away their share" she
said, adding: If you change the
(See FEDER RATTON page Az