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Evening star., 1946-01-17
Iran 5 Plan 10 Take
|Azerbaijan Issue 10
UN0 Opposed by u. 5
BY JOSEPH H. BAIRD.

The American Government, 1t was
learned today, has made clear to
Iran its view that it might be harm
full to the future Of the United
Nations Organization II Teheran's
quarrel with Russia over Azerbaijan
were brought before the newly born
peace league just now.
At the same time, Washington has
been equally clear in informing Iran
that there was no question of its
legal right as member of the
UNO to bring its grievances before
the international body. But the posi-
ton taken here is that Iran must
do this on its own responsibility and
without any advance commitment
Of American support.
Thus, it appears from London
dispatches, the United States has
taken position roughly parallel
to that of the British. The Iranian
Ambassador in London, Seyed Has
sen Taquizadeh, has announced that
he will appeal to the UNO to force
Russian troops out of Azerbaijan.
The American position, according
to informed sources, does not in
dicate lack of sympathy with Iran,
whose Ambassador here, Hussein
Ala, has presented to the State
Department mass of evidence
designed to show that the separatist
movement in Azerbaijan is Russian
inspired and has been aided by
Soviet arms
Concurrently, however, there is
deep feeling in official circles here
that if Iran brings charges of ag-
gression and treaty violation against
one of the Big Five in the very in
fancy of the Security Council that
issue might prove a bombshell which
would destroy 1t in the very mo-
ment of its creation. The Russians
have proved adamant in the face
Of Anglo American suggestions fol
a commission of inquiry in Iran
and have strenuously denied thai
they are interfering illegally in the
internal affairs of that country.
Meanwhile, 1t Is learned that the
Russians have refused-or at leas
failed to take any action on-ar
American request for more ac-
curate information on the real sit.
uation in Azerbaijan. The Amer.
lean Embassy in Teheran has asked
the Russians for permission tt
send two Of its secretaries to the
northern province and has inter.
ceded for the Associated Press
which wants to send one OF it:
correspondents there. Neither re
quest has been granted.
The Russian attitude on this re-
quest Is regarded here as extreme
ly high-handed. 1t is pointed ou
that under the wartime arrange.
ment for the stationing of Rus
sian troops in Iran, Moscow wa!
not given protectorate or even {
sphere of influence in Azerbaijan
but was allowed only to station
troops there. Legally the area /!
still under the authority of Teheran
Evening star., 1946-01-17
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stors for bottle Of BuekIey's CANADicl
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Evening star., 1946-01-17
O'Mohoney to Substitute
For Trumun at Dinner

Senator O'Mahoney, Democrat, of
Wyoming, is going to sit in for
President Truman at the annual
"sowbelly dinner" of the Colorado
Mining Association and affiliated
groups in Denver January 26.
The dinner is yearly event, and
the President designated Senator
O'Mahoney as his representative
there when he was unable to ac-
cept an invitation to speak, Press
Secretary Charles G. Ross said to-
day.
Evening star., 1946-01-17
Bushby Berkeley Sued
For Divorce Fifth Time

By the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES. Jan. 17-For the
fifth time, Busby Berkeley, so, Aim
dance director, is being sued for
divorce.
He was sued yesterday by Marjorie
Pemberton, %, former model, alleg-
ing cruelty. They were married last
May, separating six months later
His previous wives, all actresses,
were Esther Muir, Merna Kennedy
Claire James and Myra Steffens.
Evening star., 1946-01-17
Roberts Declares UN0
Is Inadequate; Urges
World Federation
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PEORIA, Ill, Jan. 17.-Owen J.
Roberts, retired Supreme Court JUS
tice, last night declared the UNO
was inadequate" in keeping world
peace, and urged immediate fedora
ton of two or more nations as
demonstration of the "inestimable
advantages of such a union"
The UNO, Justice Roberts assert
ed, was inadequate" in keeping
world peace because it is formed of
member nations instead of indi-
vidual citizens, and because the
UNO's Security Council cannot re-
move causes of dissension, but can
only repress acts resulting from such
disSsension."
World Confidence Destroyed.
Justice Roberts departed from his
prepared address to declare:
THE kind of things that are going
on in the United Nations Organiza-
tion today are destroying confidence
among nations, and you're just as
guilty of it as Russia. That's what
makes me sick. The ink wasn't dry
on the San Francisco Charter until
the United States began talking
about trusteeship in the Pacific.
Then Russia began talking about
trusteeShip in North Africa and you
said, Amt that awful?' That kind
of double talk won't go, you know"
Time Would Prove Plan.
Addressing civic meeting spon-
sored by Federal Union, an organi-
zation which advocates eventual
union of all mankind under Fed
eral constitution, Justice Roberts
said of his federation plan:
If two or more nations should
now form federation, 10 years of
experience under it would demon
strate to the world the inestimable
advantages of such a union. Belief
is that many would knock for ad-
mittance"
In question-answer period after
his talk, Justice Roberts said, THE
people should give Congress a man
date to appoint delegates to con-
Vention to discuss this thing Fed-
eral Union and bring it back to
them (the people,"
Il stand on the proposition that
a federation of the nations in which
the people shall be represented and
laws shall bind the people is the
only hopeful instrumentality of hav-
ing order under law in the world
a5d keeping world peace"
Evening star., 1946-01-17
D. {. Committee 10 Revive
Gas Death Chamber Bill

Chairman Bilbo of the Senate Dis
trict Committee promised today
that his. committee would consider
soon the bill of Senator McCarran
Democrat, of Nevada to substitute
gas for the electric chair as a means
of carrying out the death penalty
in the District.
At the request of Senator McCar.
ran, he called on the Commissioners
for new report on the bill, which
they earlier had asked be delayed
because gas equipment was not
available during the war.
Evening star., 1946-01-17
FOUND.
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DOG, young. collie type. Call North O403.
DOG, small white terrier-type female.
head markings. Telephone DI. 1887.
Evening star., 1946-03-27
Escaping Gas Kills
Woman, Causes Blast

Mrs. Dorothy Davis, 30, was found
dead today in the living room Of her
home, $500 Fortieth avenue, Hyatts-
vile, after Prince Georges County
police were summoned following an
explosion at the house.
Police said Mrs. Davis was lying
fully dressed on the sofa. Gas Jets
on the stove in the kitchen were
turned on. A note was found near
the body, but police refused to di-
vulge the contents.
Police said Mrs. Davis had been
dead for some time and that DR..
James I. Boyd, county deputy med
ical examiner, will issue a certificate
Of suicide.
They said the explosion appar-
emily occurred when escaping gas
came In contact with the pilot light
on the stove. The explosion set fire
to the house, causing damage esti-
mated by police at approximately
5000. The blaze was put out by the
Hyattsville Fire Department. No
one else was in the house at the
time.
Police said Mrs. Davis was un-
employed and had been separated
from her husband for several years.
She had no children and lived with
her father,
Evening star., 1946-03-27
Prince Georges Shifts
Five Assault Suspects

The four colored youths arrested
March II by Prince Georges County
police on charges of criminally at
tacking a l9-year-old girl near Seat
Pleasant, have been removed to the
Baltimore City Jail from the county
jail at Upper Marlboro as a precau-
tionary measure, it was learned to-
day.
Also removed was a fifth colored
youth held on charges Of being an
accessory after the fact in the mur-
der last month Of Mrs. Annie Jones,
81, White House Heights, Md.
The four accused of criminal as
sault are Raymond Washington, 16:
Willie Gray Taylor. Is, both of
Huntsville; Charles w. Ross, 20, and
his brother. Walter, 81, of Bright
seat. Washington also is charged
with Staying Mrs. Jones. The fifth
youth is Robert Scott, II, Huntsville.
County Sheriff r. Earle Sheriff
said the five were removed last Sat-
urday after he had received reports
that several persons planned to
break into the Jail that night.
All five are scheduled to appear at
a preliminary hearing at 10 am
Monday in Upper Marlboro Police
Court.
Evening star., 1946-03-27
Vepco, Union End Talk
Without Wage Accord
By the Associoted Press

RICHMOND, Va, Mar. 27.-Vir-
ginia Electric and Power Co. repre-
sentatives and officials of the Inter-
national Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers concluded yesterdays wage
negotiations without reaching an
agreement on the issue of retroac-
tivity of pay increases.
j. c. Mcintosh, IBEW interna-
tional representative, declared at
the close of the conference that the
session was the last unless the
company calls the union back"
j. G. Holtzclaw, Vepco president,
said that he had nothing to say at
this time.
Meanwhile, it was learned that
local unions are setting up Strike
Committees and selecting picket cap
tains In the event the membership
should refuse to accept the COM
pany's final offer.
Mr.. Mcintosh said that no fur
ther meetings of the Negotiating
Committee are scheduled, and the
union has informed the company
again that members expect to strike
at the expiration of their agreement
at midnight Sunday.
Gov. Tuck has announced that
the State will seize and operate
Vepco properties if a strike ma
terialiZeS.
Evening star., 1946-03-27
Study Ordered
On Legal Tang|e
In Relief Audit
US. Matching Fund
For Public Welfare
Seen Endangered

A study has been ordered by the
Commissioners of legal snarl In
public relief administration that may
endanger Federal funds granted the
District by the Social Security Board
annually on money-matching
basis.
The difficulty stems from hints by
the Social Security Board that it
would like Qualification as to who is
responsible for administering the re-
lief to which the board contributes
annually some $650,00O.
Several years ago, in response to
Ssh request, the Commissioners
designated the Board of Public We'll
fare as the agency responsible for
administering relief, but, according
to Commissioner Guy Mason, the
Ssh is raising the issue as to
whether a pre-audit of relief funds
by Auditor A. r. Pilkerton does not
constitute second agency sharing
the administrative powers.
Mr.. Mason said yesterday the
welfare board had been threatened
with loss of the Federal relief
funds, which go to old-age assist
ance, aid to dependent children and
aid to the blind, because Social Sc
curity law requires dealing with 4
single responsible agency.
Miss Jane Hoey, director of public
assistance for the security board,
seid yesterday that the auditor
either has assumed or been assigned
powers beyond those specified in the
law" She said the welfare board
does not have full authority II the
auditor on the basis OF a pre-audit
can hold up relief payments.
The Commissioners, after con-
ferring yesterday with Mr.. Pilkerton,
welfare officials, and Corporation
Counsel Vernon E. West, named Mr..
West chairman of a committee to
recommend solution to the tangle.
Mr.. Pilkerton said all district funds
except those of the District Unem-
ployment Compensation Board are
pre-audited.
Although 1t was officially denied
on all sides, belief persisted that the
issue is being raised as result of
the auditors recent report to a
congressional subcommittee charg-
ing that 10 per cent of the relief
cases are "chiselers." A welfare in
vestigation of the 81 cases cited by
Mr.. Pilkerton found only four ques-
tionable.
Evening star., 1946-03-27
Groups to Beoutify
College Park Named

Mayor William A. Duvan of Col
lege Park has announced the per.
Sonnel Of two committees to en-
courage the improved appearances
OF property in the community, in
connection with the Prince Georges
County program, launched under
direction of the County General
Civic Improvement Committee, of
which Joseph G. Longridge, College
Park, is chairman.
Named to committee to improve
appearance of business establish.
mentS are Harry L. Clarke, Council
man G. Stuart Parker, Councilman
c. R. Davis, Eugene M. Langdon, j.
A. Chaney, William G. Carroll and
A. A. Mothershead.
On the Residential Committee ara
DR.. Thomas B. Symons, Town Treas.
urer Stewart B. Shaw, Councilman
John w. Mckay, Mrs. George s.
Langford, Caster j. Carpenter, Fred
E. Weick and Ar& Beulah Keefase
yer.
Evening star., 1946-03-27
Two-Doy Air Defense
ParIey Opens Fridoy

The first joint air defense confer
ence called by the National Aero
.nautic Association will be held Fri
day and Saturday at the Mayflower
Hotel to discuss various phases of
national security.
Speakers will include w. Stuart
Symington, Assistant Secretary of
War for Air; 1t. Gen. j. Lawton
Collins, the Army's director of in
formation; Rear Admiral Thomas H
Robbins, jr., U. S. NJ; Gen. H. L.
George, commander of the Air
Transport Command; Mai. Gen
Patrick J. Hurley, former Ambassa-
dor to China; DR.. Vannevar Bush
director Of the Office of Scientific
Research and Development and
president of the Carnegie Institute;
j. D. Small, civilian production ad-
ministrator, and Vice Admiral Ar
thur w. Radford, deputy chief OF
Naval Operations for Air.
DR.. Paul Douglass, president OF
American University, will preside
at the sessions, to be attended by
representatives Of veterans organi.
cations, aeronautical associations
civil, industrial and labor groups.
Evening star., 1946-03-27
Plea Of Entrapment
.Acquits Liquor Seller

A Municipal Court jury late yes
terday acquitted John F. Burke,
~, Of charges of illegal dealing in
liquor after Attorney Thomas j.
Ahern argued Burke was en-
trapped into selling a fifth of liquor
March 6 to policeman dressed in
an Army officers uniform.
Testimony Of Government wit
nesses was that Burke sold the
liquor for $40 to Policeman Robert
G. Thompson Of No. / precinct,
former Army lieutenant, who went
to the hotel where Burke was living
in the 600 block of Fifth street NV.
wearing his Army uniform and ac-
companied by a policewoman.
Mr.. Ahern, who did not put his
client on the witness stand, rested
his case on the contention the re-
quest for liquor by one who ap-
peared to be an Army officer, ac-
companied by a young woman,
constituted an inducement for
Burke to obtain the liquor for him
in violation of the law.
Judge Almond w. Scott, in his
charge to the jury, explained that
entrapment would be constituted
If agents Of the Government in
duced a person to commit a crime
when he otherwise did not have
1t in his mind to do so.
The Government alleged the
arrest was one growing out of COM
plants of unlicensed selling of
liquor to members of the armed
forces.
Evening star., 1946-03-27
Old Offenders
Alias Fails to
Fool Judqe

Municipal Court Judge Thomas
D. Quinn felt sure today that a A.
year-old man before him on drunk
charge was no newcomer to the
court, although there was no previ-
GUS record under the name of Hanks
Tidewater, 100 block of D street Sc.
The judge was right. Under ques-
tioning the defendant admitted he
had been in court yesterday on a
similar charge, and Judge Quinn
had taken his personal bond not to
repeat the offense and let him go.
This time, however, the penalty
was $25 fine or 80 days in jail.
Police, who frequently run into
difficulty checking previous records
of defendants who give aliases to
escape the consequences Of a series
Of past ofenses, declared Mr.. Tide
water" is better known to them as
George Putnam.
Evening star., 1946-03-27
Blind Woman, Able 10 See
As Baby Came, 10 Visit D. {.

Mrs. Shirley Vetter, Is, a former
Washington woman whose sight was
restored after she gave birth to a
baby, will return soon for a visit
with her mother, Mrs. Mathilda j,
Rowland, 3130 Wisconsin avenue
NV.
Shortly after her marriage to
Bernard Vetter, then a serviceman,
in August, 1914, Mrs. Vetter sud-
denly went blind. Physicians called
it shock blindness" and doubted
whether she would see again.
But last July In Seattle, Mrs. Vet
ter gave birth to a daughter, Ia
mara Jane. Almost Immediately
her vision returned, and by slow
stages she completely recovered.
Mrs. Rowland, a nurse at S. Kann
Sons Department Store, said she ex-
poets her daughter and granddaugh-
ter to arrive Sunday.
Evening star., 1946-03-27

How Gen. Draja Mihailovich
spared the life Of Josip Broz (now
Marshal Tito) and permitted the
Partisan leader to leave an area of
Yugoslavia where Mihailovich,s s
Chetniks were in power in 1941, was
told today, shortly after the capture
Of the Chetnik leader was announced
in Belgrade, by a former American
Army officer who fought the Nazis
with the south Slavs.
Michael Rajacich Of IS M street
NV, now employed at the War
Department, parachuted into Mi
hailovich's territory in Serbia in
August, 1914, to aid in the evacua-
ton of Allied airmen shot down by
the Nazis, Bulgars and Ustashi.
Until his Once of Strategic Serv-
ices unit arrived, the rescue of these
airmen was part Of the days work
to Gen. Mihailovich, from the be-
ginning of the war in the Balkans.
In the following three months,
exit. Rajacich said, he worked with
Mihailovich and the Chetniks, wit
Messing vicious raids against German
garrisons at Kadina Luka, Lazarevac
and Ljig.
Evening star., 1946-03-27
Hearing Called May I
On Rezoning Proposal
For S20,000,000 Hotel

A hearing on a petition by Diplo-
mat Properties, Inc, ,.for the rezoning
from residential A to commercial D
Of the former 116-acre Corby tract
on the Rockville pike at Garrett
Park road to permit construction of
a $4,000, 900 hotel will be held at
2:30 pm. May Z in the Rockville
Courthouse.
A request to rezone the property
to residential c was denied by the
county commissioners in January
after the Maryland-National Cap
ital Park and Planning Commission
had recommended that the land be
reclassified to commercial
Plans call for .he erection of a
l l,000-room hotel on the site. It also
Is proposed to build tennis courts,
an 18-hole golf course, stables, ken
nels and approximately 40 houses.
The homes are to be located in the
rear Of the property.
The May 7 hearing was ordered
by the county commissioners at
their meeting yesterday. Hearings
on other rezoning petitions, all Of
which are scheduled May Is in the
Liquor Dispensary Building in Sill
yer Spring, were ordered as fol-
lows:
William M. Robins, residential
A to g Of lot 80, block 81, B. F.
Gilb6t's subdivision, Takoma Park,
pm.
Lawrence v. Lutes, residential A
to c of three acres on Colesville
road between Noyes drive and Moves
court, 2:15 pm.
John e. Weisman, residential A
to commercial D of part of 80 acres
at Glenmont, 2:3O pm.
Charles T. Schrider, residential A
to c Of lot 7, block A, Blair SUBJ
division, Silver Spring, 2:45 pm.
Joseph and Nabiha Saal1. resi-
dental A to c Of lot 3, block /, E. A,
Smiths subdivision, Silver Spring,
| 3 pm,
Evening star., 1946-03-27
Dunbar Alumni to Urge
School improvements

The Dunbar High School Alumni
Association, meeting last night, ap-
pointed a committee headed by
Louis Campbell, ST., to present to the
Board of Education a list OF what
were termed urgent needs" for i'm
proving, replacing or maintaining
the schools facilities.
A spokesman for the organization
said holes in the schools athletic
field, old plumbing and an made
quate and leaky gymnasium were
among items referred to in the list,
and that they were causing growing
dissatisfaction, on the part of both
parents and the student body.
Evening star., 1946-03-27

He has this to say Of the i'm
prisoned Serb leader:
After Russia was attacked, Mi
hailovich accepted Tito and the
Communists in the resistance move
ment against the enemy. He per-
sonally met Tito three times. They
disagreed after few months be-
cause Tito wanted to subject the
Yugoslavs to Sovietization and
communism.
"Mihailovich allowed Tito to leave
that terrain, even guaranteeing the
safety of his life"
. Mr.. Rajacich said Tito's charges
that Mihailovich was a traitor, deal
ing with the enemy, is an injurious
falsehood. He went on:
"Mihailovich loves the Russian
people. He despised the Nazis and
their satellites.
Our government should protest
to the Yugoslav government and de-
mand that Gen. Mihailovich be
given fair trial with authentic evil
dence and witnesses-not with false
propaganda emanating from Com
munist bulletins or stooges brought
in to mar the character of a Chris
tian individual"
Evening star., 1946-03-27
Jackson Seeks
ToLearnC Costof
j. ). BackPay
Budget Bureau Told
To Prepare Estimate
On Busis Of January |
By Joseph YOUNG

Chairman Jackson Of the
House Civil Service Subcommit-
tee revealed today that he has
asked the Budget Bureau and the
Civil Service Commission to pre-
pare estimates on the cost Of
making the Federal pay bill re-
troactive to last January /.
Mr.. jackson said he requested i'm
mediate action by the agencies so
that the figures would be available
to the full committee tomorrow
when 1t meets to take final action
on reporting out the pay bill.
His request, Mr. Jackson empha-
sized, does not necessarily mean that
he favors retroactive wage increases
for Government workers.
Mind Open on Question.
I have an open mind on the
question:" he said. Before 1 make
up my mind, I want to see Just how
much 1t will cost the taxpayers.
Mr.. Jackson's action was some.
thing OF a surprise since neither he
nor members of his subcommittee
evinced much interest in proposals
made during the recent pay bill
hearings that wage increases voted
Government employees be made re-
troactive.
However, the action last week of
the House Post Once and Post
Lands Committee in voting postal
employees retroactive pay raises ap-
parently convinced House Civil
Service Committee members that
the proposal at least deserved con-
sideration.
Believes Chances Slim.
The chances of retroactive wage
increases for Federal employees re-
main very slim, Mr.. Jackson ac-
knowledged.
Il don't think the sentiment in
Congress would be very strong for
it," Mr.. Jackson said. However. in
fairness to Government workers, T
think that we should have all tho
information and statistics on the
cost of retroactive raises ready for
the Congress consideration"
Government employees unions IA
vor1ng the proposal have pointed out
that most wage agreements reached
in private industry have been retro
active. Those opposed to the idea
assert that it would cost the Gov
ernment too much money and would
set a precedent In the Federal serv-
ice.
When the full committee meets
tomorrow, it will consider the pro-
posal of its chairman, Representa-
tive Randolph, Democrat, of West
Virginia, to increase the subcom-
mittee's II per cent pay bill to 49,;
per cent.