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Evening star., 1947-05-12
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4 i
ahas unreservedly condemned ter
rorist hloodshed.
4. The Soviet proposal calling for
study of immediate Palestine inde-.
pendence loads the dice heavily
against the Jews"
American sources predicted today
that the United Nations would over
ride Russian move aimed at giving
Palestine full independence pos
sibIy within six months.
They predicted also the Russians
would be defeated in their effort to
include the five major powers on
the proposed inquiry commission
for the Holy Land.
Chances for unanimous agreement
on the scope and composition of the
inquiry commission faded over the
week end after compromise efforts
failed to reconcile conflicting Amer
ican and Soviet views.
Ready for Showdown.
But with the issues clear-cut and
two weeks of debate behind them,
the delegates appeared ready to
face showdown vote on the major
points of disagreement and possibly
end the assembly's special session
late this week.
The two major unsettled issues
were:
/. Whether the commission should
be given specific instructions to draft
proposals for the immediate estab-
hshment of an independent state
of Palestine.
q Whether the commission should
include the five big powers or should
be made up exclusively of small
neutral" countries.
The United States continued to
insist that the instructions to the
inquiry commission must be kept
broad and general. Russia con-
tended that the instructions should
contain specific provisions for study
of Palestine independence
Makeup of Commission Disputed.
This controversy may be settled
by adoption of proposal stating
that the ultimate independence of
Palestine should be borne in mind
as the main purpose of any plan
for solution of the problem. The
United States has indicated she
would go along with this, and Russia
has limited she might agree also if
her own proposal is defeated.
The controversy over the compo-
sition of the commission appeared
to be the main stumbling block to a
quick agreement The general belief
was that the United States had
enough support to force through its
plan for a commission excluding the
big powers and the Arab states from
membership.
| Argentine Delegate DIR. Jose Arce
virtually conceded this by with
drawing his proposal to include the
major powers. 1t was understood,
| however, that Russia would insist
on showdown.
| Before either of these two issues
are decided, the Jews and Arabs
were to be given an opportunity to
clear up several questions put to
them by members of the committee
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Films
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tinued, giving a distorted, sweet
ened picture of life In the United
States, advertising American capt.
talists as noble, prosperous people
who should be initiated in every way
and obeyed in every wish.
"At the same time these films pic
ture trade unions and other pro-
gressive organizations as dangerous.
harmful gatherings of suspicious
persons
Mr.. Zhukov said Hollywood's 1916
productions smell a mile of propa-
ganda." He asserted that while 100
per cent Americans" were always
shown as courageous, fearless he
roes, while Negroes were either SIM
ple-minded comedians designed to
produce laughter or wild beasts in
stigating the hatred of the specta-
tors" He added that persons born
outside the United States were char
acterized in a semicomic way as
the objects of pity or laughter"
"Infatuation- with mystics smack
ing with psychological perversion
and the beastliness of bandits are
especially characteristic of Ameri-
can postwar films" Mr.. Zhukoy
declared. 1.-THE murderer is the
hero of Hollywood films of 1916"
Mr.. Zhukov praised one American
film. THE Best Years of Our Lives.
tEussian film production is under
the supervision of the Official
propaganda Department..
Evening star., 1947-05-12
Anthony 4. Connolly,
Retired Attorney, 70
Be Buried tomorrow

Funeral services for Anthony a..
|Connollyl, 80. retired washington
lawyer who recalled that as q boy
he saw Lincoln carried from Ford,s
Theater after he was shot, will be
held at 8 am. tomorrow. Mr.. Con-
molly died Saturday at Providence
Hospital after a long illness.
The services will be held at the
Immaculate Conception Catholic
Church, Eighth and N streets NV,
with the Rev. John A. Lubey, assis-
|tant pastor. officiating. Burial will
be in Mount Olivet Cemetery.
Mr.. Connolly. a native of Pitts
burgh, came to washington in 1861.
During the Civil War, his family
said. he often visited the wounded
soldiers and Confederate prisoners
quartered here, and recalled watch
ing the troops which paraded
through Washington before going
South.
His family said Mr.. Connolly was
passing Ford's Theater the night of
President Lincoln's assassination,
and joined the crowd which gathered
as the President was carried across
the street,
Mr.. Connolly also was present In
Buffalo in 1901 when President Nc
Kinley was shot.
Mr.. Connolly was one of the first
graduates of st. Johns College High
School, and after studying at
Georgetown University, practiced
law here until about 90 years ago.
He was a charter member Of the
Washington Council of the knights
of Columbus, and belonged to the
Immaculate Conception Church.
Surviving are two sisters, Miss
Anne S. Connolly. and Miss Gene
|vive Connolly, both of 1918 Thir-
teenth street NV, where Mr.. Con-
molly resided.
Evening star., 1947-05-12
Divorce Rate Past
It's Postwar Peak,
SocioIogist Believes

The backlog Of bad war
marriages largely has been dis
solved and q lower divorce rate
Is indicated for the future, ac-
cording to Ray 81. Everett, ex-
ecutive director of the District
Social Hygiene Society.
MI. Everett made the state
ment before q group OF young
people last night at a meeting
of the Foundry Fcfge In the
Foundry Methodist Church.
1T is apparent that we are
over both the divorce and mar
riage peak OF both the war and
postwar periods, the sociologist
said. He urged that the long
range increase In the divorce
rate be "quarantined" by policy
Of stop, Look and Listen" on
the part Of marriage minded
couples.
Evening star., 1947-05-12
BY ths Asseciaisd Prsss

DETROIT, May 12.-Backed by
a strike vote, the Foreman's AS
'sociation of America went ahead
today with plans for a walkout
at the Ford Motor Co., probably
within q week or two.
A 30-day strike notice expires Sat
urday and leaders of the independ-
ent union indicated its members at
Ford would be ordered of their jobs
a short time later.
About $3.50 members approved
strike action at a mass meeting yes
terday. Robert H. Keys, FAA pres
ident, said the vote was unanimous.
Claiming a total Ford member
ship Of 3,785, the union has COM
planned OF an accumulation OF
grievances" at the company and
asked for revisions in its contract,
which had been in effect three years
before it expired last Friday.
John S. Bugas, Ford vice president
and director of industrial relations,
said the agreement simply had not
worked under test"
Mr.. Bugas and Henry Ford, II,
president, rejected invitations to
address yesterdays union meeting,
saying 1t had been widely adver-
tised" as strike rally.
At the same time they told Mr.
Keys a walkout OF foremen could
accomplish nothing" and said the
union would 'Ghave to take full
responsibility for the. irnmeasurable
harm strike will do to our 100, 200
employees, to the company and to
the American economy"
Then he added:
However, if you think you can
coerce the company into some agree
ment which we know is not work
Evening star., 1947-05-12
Wage Boost Ends Threat
or Budd Plant Strike

PHILADELPHIA, May II tP.-
Members of Local 813, United Auto
Workers, CIO, voted yesterday to
accept q i51s cent hourly wage in
crease, ending the threat Of a strike
by the unions 6,40o members at the
Budd Co.'S Hunting Park auto
mobile body plant.
Merlin D. Bishop, subregional di-
rector OF the UAW, who participated
in the negotiations, said the offer
made by the Budd Co. goes beyond
the pattern of Is cents an hour i'm
crease set by General Motors
recently"
The offer came a week after the
unions members authorized their
Executive Board to take strike vote
if further negotiations proved un-
productive.
The 151a-cent increase represents
10 cents in the form of an across
the board" pay boost, 212 cents in
holiday pay benefits, IL cents as an
elimination of ''inequities' and a
u cent in insurance benefits.
Meanwhile, company officials an
nounced a wage settlement for en-
ployes of the company's Bustleton
plant, amounting to Is cents for
5000 hourly employees and 121a cents
for Office workers. The Bustleton
workers are represented by the Budd
Field Employees independent Union.
Evening star., 1947-05-12
Orchestra She'll Is Begun
At University Of Virginia
speeioI Dispoteh TO The stor

CHARLOTTESVILLE. Va, May
Reconstruction was started to-
day on an orchestra shell In Scott
Stadium at the University of Vir-
ginia to be used during the Virginia
Music Festival for three concerts by
the National Symphony Orchestra
June 13, IA and Is.
The orchestra shell, which will
cost $4,000, is being built In Sec
tions so it may be taken down each
year.
Space will be provided not only
for the 80 musicians Of the National
Symphony Orchestra, but also for
the chorus Of the University Of Vr-
ginia Glee Club, which will sing at
the first concert with Miss Mona
Paulee, nezzo-soprano OF the
Metropolitan Opera.
Seats for 10000 viii pc available
for each concert.
Evening star., 1947-05-12
Cufeterius
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should congressional appropriations
be needed to bring the cafeterias in
line with the health regulations the
committee might then take some
action. But he made it clear that
|GSI must find its own solution to
the problem without the committees
help.
GAO Cafeteria Scored.
Health Inspector Henry Jenkins
told the subcommittee that the GSI
cafeteria in the General Accounting
Office building was lin atrocious
condition-one of the worse places
I have ever seen" Mr.. Jenkins also
named the cafeteria in the Coast
Guard building as failing to meet
any of the Health Departments
regulations. In addition, snack bars
in the Treasury Department Annex,
the Library of Congress and Build
ing D. Sixth and independence ave-
nue. S.W., fail to meet any of the
sanitary requirements, Mr.. jenkins
added.
Mr.. jenkins said the food in these
cases was unprotected from dirt and
dust and was handled in insanitary
fashion.
Charges against some of the re-
naming 43 cafeterias included in
adequate refrigerator drains, no
facilities for trash and garbage dis
posal, inadequate storage space for
food, crowded kitchen conditions,
bad floors and bad walls and nine
instances where toilets opened into
food rooms.
Baldwin Recalls Long Notice.
Senator Baldwin commented that
the Health Department had in
formed GSI of the needed struc-
turaI improvements many months
ago. While declaring that the COM
mittee would not interfere at pres
ent, Senator Baldwin indicated that
should the cafeterias face an imme-
diate threat of closing, the commit
tee might step in and see what it
could do.
GSI operates So cafeterias here,
but only 43 were cited by the license
Office in summoring GSI officials to
Municipal Court tomorrow for the
preliminary hearing.
Evening star., 1947-05-12

that he would do something about
getting you ira the Army? Mr.. Vim
cent asked,
5 He told me he would introduce
me to May" the witness replied.
when told May how was COM
missiOned and had my orders cam
celled, May said it was outrageous
treatment. .
Saw Undersecretary of War.
Mr.. Schwam testified that May
Immediately made an appointment
for him to meet the Undersecretary
Of War, Robert r. Patterson, now
Secretary OF War. This was about
April 20, 1912, the witness recalled.
Several days later, Mr.. Schwam
said, he saw May and Murray Cars
son in May Office and told them he
had seen Mr.. Patterson, Assistant
Secretary Of War Howard G. Peter
sen, and a "Mr. Taft"
Still later, he saw May and Cars
son again and told them he had
talked with a Gen. Philipson about
the commission problem
did the time come when Murray
Carson wanted to interest you in a
business offer?" Mr.. Vincent asked.
mo, not directly Mr.. Schwam
answered.
did the time come when Murray
Carson wanted you to lend him
some money!
Says Carson Asked Loan.
'Yes, sir. In June, 1912, I talked
with Murray Carson In a restau-
rant. He asked me to lend him
s25 900 for business venture. I
told him I couldn't do it. He asked
me If knew banker who could
arrange it.
Secretary Patterson is expected to
take the stand tomorrow and Under
secretary Kenneth C. Royal and
Assistant Secretary Howard G.
Peterson were believed likely to ap-
pear as witnesses in the trial today.
Gen. Eisenhower, Army Chief OF
Staff, may be called later.
The prosecution indicated it will
complete its presentation by the end
of this week, the fourth since the
start of the trial April %. The de-
fense estimated it will require at
least another two weeks.
In an effort to prove May took
more than $50, 900 from the Garssons
in return for favors, Government
prosecutors have brought numerous
witnesses from the War Department
to tell of alleged requests by May
| in behalf of the munitions makers
Evening star., 1947-05-12
Child Plugs KeyhoIe
Of Jail With Coin
BY the Assoeioied Press

SAN FRANCISCO.-Three-year-
old Michael Carter brought Federal
Court justice to an abrupt halt
when he poked a quarter into slot
and clogged the keyhole of the
United States marshal's jail.
Numerous trials in Federal court
rooms were delayed by absence of
principals until Guard Charles Rus
sell contrived a gadget out of wire
and metal to dislodge the coin.
Michael got his quarter back
Evening star., 1947-05-12
B nai.B' 'rifh 10 Honor
Marshall, Patterson
And Jackson Tonight

Four hundred Jewish citizens from
all the States, Canada and Mexico,
delegates to the triennial meeting of
B'nai Birth, conferred today at the
Hotel Statler on such subjects as
aid to veterans, housing, vocational
guidance, aid to university students
and tolerance
B'nai Birth is constitutionany
non political and such burning ques-
tions to the Jewish people as the
Palestine issue and political solu-
tions of the displaced persons prob
lens were not discussed.
Secretary of State Marshall, Su-
preme Court Justice Jackson and
Secretary of War Patterson are to
be given humanitarianism and JUS
tice" awards of the organization to-
night. Attorney General Clark will
be the principal speaker and his talk
will be broadcast over Station WMAL
and the ABC network at 10:15
o'clock.
Monsky Is Paid Tribute.
Tributes to Henry Monsky, the
president of B.nai Birth who died
May 2, were made in all the COM
mittee rooms where the B'nai Birth
men met.
B'nai Birth (Sons of the Gov
enant) was primarily a fraternal
organization from its formation in
New York 104 years ago until Mr..
Monsky became president in 1888.
He made 1t primarily service or
ganization in each of the commurl-
tiles where it's lodges are located.
B'nai Birth has 100000 male
members in 812 lodges and its wom-
ems organization has $4,000 men,
bers.
Earl G. Harrison, dean of the
University of Pennsylvania Law
School, and Alberto Shelley, B'na1
Birth delegate from Mexico City
were to address the delegates at a
luncheon.
Fiye-Point Plan Offered.
Yesterday the delegates gathered
at the Shoreham Hotel for the open.
ing session of the convention, which
is scheduled to continue through
tomorrow and Wednesday.
Justice Meier Steinbrink of the
New York State Supreme Court
made the opening address and
proposed a five-point plan of legisla-
tion.
His recommendations opposed
racial and religious discrimination
in employment and discrimination
in higher education; favored protec-
ton of civil rights of minority
groups; opposed restrictive cov-
enants in real estate deeds, and
urged making mandatory the dis
closure of the origins of defamatory
literature.
Justice Cad Frumkin of the
Palestine Supreme Court also ad-
dressed the delegates of the first
session before the meeting returned
To the Statler for the remainder oi
the convention.
Evening star., 1947-05-12

wishes for your happiness and con-
tinued success in private pursuits,
VERY sincerely yours.
Harry s. Truman. :"
Other Changes Likely.
Numerous other changes In the
top ranks of Gen. Marshalls adj
visers are expected during the next
several weeks.
There is considerable speculation
that Spruille Brader. Assistant
Secretary of State for Latin Amer
ican Affairs, and William Benton,
Assistant Secretary for Public At
fairs, may resign soon, but it is
understood no decision has been
made in their cases.
Two men handling European and
Far Eastern political affairs on a
level directly below that of Assistant
Secretary are due to leave the de-
partment this summer for foreign
assignments under a legal limita-
ton of four years upon any single
tour of duty in Washington for a
Foreign Service Officer.
These men to be replaced in the
department are H. Freeman Mat
thews, director Of the Office OF
European Affairs, and John Garter
Vincent, director of the Office OF
Far Eastern Affairs.
Foreign Service Change Due.
officials, while not disregarding
speculation that Mr.. Braden and
Mr.. Benton may resign soon, insist
ed that nothing definite has been
done so far.
There have been reports for
months that Mr.. Braden might leave
the State Department because OF
controversy over his tough" policy
with Argentina, which has brought
considerable criticism on Capitol
Hill,
Mr.. Benton is a central figure in
the controversy with Congress over
the "Voice of America" broadcasts
and other parts of the State Depart
ment's ONCE of international Infor-
nation and Cultural Affairs program
under his direction. The House Ap-
propriations Committee has recon-
mended the entire program be elimi-
mated.
Another important shift impend'
ing on a lower level in the State
Department will bring Garrett G
Ackerson, jr, career Foreign
Service officer, into the department
soon as chief of the Foreign Serv'
ice Personnel Division.
b Mr.. Ackerson will succeed Ceci
w. Gray, who is being sent to Mar
seille, France, as American Consu
General.
Evening star., 1947-05-12
Ruins Remain

Impressive ruins of the ancient
Greek city Of Heliopolis remain In
what is now Syria, although the old
Greek and Roman structures were
used as quarries for a century and
have been repeatedly shaken by
earthquakes and mutilated by con-
querors.
Evening star., 1947-05-12
Dr.. Polling Given Leoye

PHILADELPHIA, May IL P).-Dr.
Daniel A. Polling has been granted
an indefinite leave of absence as
pastor of Baptist Temple to recover
his health" the Board of Trustees
disclosed. DR.. Poling's son, the Rev.
Daniel K. Polling, co-ninister at the
church, was designated pastor dur
ing his fathers absence.
Evening star., 1947-05-12
"A =. THE EVENING STAR Washington D. G
MA
U. 5. Acts 10 Bolster
Defenses by Building
Big Base in Alaska
By The Associated Pres.

The United States is acting TO
secure the left flank of its northern
defenses by building at least one
base for its biggest bombers in
Alaska to balance similar project
ed base In Maine.
This became evident yesterday in
o War Department announcement
of construction program at Mile
26, Alaska, involving the building OF
q new runway, huge hangar and
other facilities for the Strategic Air
Command at q cost of 8.125, 900.
The base is 26 miles southeast OF
Fairbanks-and two hours fight
from the Bering Strait boundary.
The Strategic Air Command oper-
stes the Nations feet of B-29s and
will be equipped with planes OF still
longer range and heavier bomb
load as they are produced, includ-
ing the B-36 and B-50 types.
To Hit Back at Aggressors.
The defense concept includes the
theory of immediate retaliatory
action against any aggressive move
directed at the United States. The
very heavy bomber bases are being
built in accordance with this
theory.
Mile 26 was built during the war
as an alternate landing strip for
fighter aircraft If bad weather
closed in regular fields. So far as
is known here, its present runways
are merely blacktop paving capable
of handling only fighter craft or
small transport and light bomber
aircraft. Here is what the Army
Engineer Corps says will be built at
Mile 26:
A new runway; a hangar similar
to one ordered for another base at
Rapid City, S. D., having a single
span of $40 feet (the B-36 has a
wing span of 230 feet); barracks
for 400 men: base headquarters
building and various workshops and
warehouses; spur railroad track
from Ladd Field, at Fairbanks.
Chosen for Several Reasons.
The announcement said "the ia
cilities are provided expressly for
the Strategic Air Command units
stationed in Alaska in the interest
of national defense"
Presumably, Mile 26 was chosen
for several operational and strategic
reasons. 1t is in reasonably level
country, making 1t possible for
heavily loaded bombers to take off
without the necessity of a rapid
rate of climb to avoid mountains
AS Alaskan weather goes. it is in a
good weather belt with minimum
of fog and storm 1t is situated
far enough inland to allow for
fighter plane interception of an
attack from the sea.
Asgroup of B-29s from the 18th
Air Force has been undergoing
training operations in Alaska but
is due to return to its base in the
continental United States.
Evening star., 1947-05-12
Romney
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asked him to- help take a balance
and proceeded to stair the balance
by making a notation of $89 900.
After that, Fangmeyer said. Pillen
put down "Mahoney-$28, 300 .46"
and then added the amount of cash
in the Office. Mr.. Fihelly brought
out that the notation besides Ma
honey's name was larger than the
amount the bookkeeper had con-
fessed taking.
"Was the $4,000 put down by.
Pillen carried as part OF the cash
on hand?" Mr.. Fihelly asked.
'It was"
Included Smithwick Checks.
He said the figure included four
or five of Smithwick's checks, two
forged checks, Champ Pickens'
and Mckenzie checks" The govern
ment asked him to identify a check
for 1880 dated August 8, 1929, and
another for $500 dated June 10,
1880, both drawn in the name of
H. A. Mckenzie, a former employe
of the Sergeant Of Arms Office.
Justice Holtzoff wanted to know If
the checks ever were presented for
payment. When the witness told
him that one of them was, Justice
Holtzof asked: "You mean 1t was
Just carried as cash?"
The witness nodded.
The exhibits also included five
''Pickens" checks, each for $500 and
all dated February, 1888 Justice
Holtzoff wanted to know who Champ
Pickens was. The witness said he
didn't know. =
The Government has identified
Pickens as promoter"
Florida Deals Mentioned.
United States Attorney George
Morris Fay, trying his first case as
District prosecutor. told the jury In
his opening statement that the Gov
ernment would put on the stand ar
FBI agent to testify that Romney
admitted using funds of the SER
geant at arms Office to deal in the
purchase and sale of land in Flor
ida.
Mr.. Fay said the agent, Edward
Armbruster, would testify that
Romney passed through the SER
geant at arms Office checks involv-
ing more than $1,000, 900 which were
used in the Florida land deal. He
also declared that Romney admitted
losses in Florida real estate and
admitted that some of the checks
which bounced" were the result OF
those losses.
The prosecutor explained to the
Jury that two different figures would
be used as the total of the shortage
He charged that for years the
shortage amounted to more thar
S143,000 but that last November Z
Romney raised $4,000 which he
put in the cash drawer of the House
bank" thereby reducing the short.
age to $4,000.
Three of Panel Challenged.
Mr.. Fay charged that last june
Romney reported to the General Ac-
counting Office that approximately
s187 900 was the total of cash on
hand, when actually he had only
$43 900"
Defense Counsel William H. Col
Inns challenged for cause only three
jurors,
All were challenged because they
are employed either in the Treas
ury or the Bureau of Engraving and
Printing. Mr.. Collins told Justice
HoItzof that the Treasury was in
volved in the case since funds for
the sergeant at arms Office come
from the Treasury.
Selected to serve on the jury are:
Walter w. Starke, Post Office De-
partment employe, 1929 Trinidad
avenue NE.
Miss Dorothy j. Intihar, War De-
partment stenographer, 28l7 Con-
necticut avenue NV.
Miss Anne B. Stradford, 1928
Swami street NV.
Harry w. Lambright, Interior De-