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Evening star., 1947-05-01
WAREHOUSES WANTED.

WAREHOUSES WANTED.
WAREHOUSE WANTED - 5000 50. It.,
suitable for furniture storage. MALCOLM
SCATES. 4121 18th st. NV, IA. 5400. --5
STORES FOR SALE.
DGS-Small compact store. self-service;
doing q nice business: $4,000, lock, stock
and barrel. Call HO. 1000. No agents.
RECORD SHOP for sale. Call RA. e652
for details .
Evening star., 1947-05-01
COMMERCIAL PROPERTY WANTED.

SECUND CUMMEKCIAL, IN Wash, or VI
cinity; or story building or ground
to build same: Call DI. 1924. Il
BUILDING suitable for office. shop, spare
parts, rm;; approx. 1000 So IT,, located
ne. Wash. or Rt. No. l. Alex, Va. Call
WA. 7704. ask for MR.. FUNpOM .
Evening star., 1947-05-01
ACREAGE WANTED.

Ird road frontage; good Nd. loc
a. %. c. CO. 1915.
Evening star., 1947-05-01
LEGAL NOTICES.

THEODORE o. de MOLL, CHARLES A.
WELLS, Jr., sos z St.. NV, Attorneys
For Plaintiff.
Evening star., 1947-05-01

4-FAMuLY UNITS, N.w.-Two mod. apt.
houses located in the BriShtwood section
one with 2-bedrm. spts. and one with l.
bedrm. apts. To inspect, call RALPH D.
COIN. INC, tx. sos TIL Q pm.
Evening star., 1947-05-01
o. LIS ACRES

WOODED HOMESITES in Forest Heights
Md; Just "a mi. from District line: graded
sts,, water and sewer; from $500 UP. Call
Evening star., 1947-09-15
Appeals Court Bans D. 6. Tax
If u. S. Worker Plans to Leuve

The court then quoted Mr.. Beck
man as having stated he intended
to go back to Texas to practice law
when I am separated from the
service here" The quotation con-
tinued:
Question: You mean when you
are 76 years old?
Answer: If they force me out at
10 I will go back. At 76, ! do not
know. :
Justice. Bennett Champ Clark,
who wrote the majority opinion
held that the conditional answers
to hypothetical questions. pro-
pounded by the District counsel
constitute no substantial evidence
that the Beckhams have not had
during the period of their residence
in the District a fixed intention at
the end of MFR. Becham's Govern
ment service to return to their pre-
vious abode in Texas"
/ Justice Henry w. Edgerton. in a
dissenting opinion, held that under
"a Supreme Court ruling In another
case, intention to return to home
State must be unconditional
Justice Edgerton declared he
thought the Board of Tax Appeals
was right in its ruling. a
Justice Harold M. Stephans Scared
in the majority opinion.
Evening star., 1947-09-15
Boy, II, Leaps off
| 2OO-Foot Tower
With Old Chute
By the Associated Press

NEWPORT BEACH, Calf, Sept
15.-Once, at least, to almost every
BOY comes the day when he decides
he'll take shot at defying gravity
Mrs. Marge Hammer says her son
Richard Reicher, IL, did it up right
The conventional umbEella-from-a-
housetop method wasn't for him
She said he strapped war surplus
parachute to his shoulders yester-
day, climbed to the top of 200-foot
radar tower near the Newport
Beach High School and was car
ried into space by the billowine
chute when he pulled the ripcord.
Richard reported that the star
was fun, but the jolting landing
which bruised most of his body
made him decide that once wa!
enough. To make sure of this, Mrs
Hammer cut the parachute UP ant
is making it, into a nylon dress.
Evening star., 1947-09-15
BY the Associated Press

BONNEVILLE SALT FLATS
Sept. 15.-Jonn Cobb sent his 7,700-
pound racing car across the meas
ured mile on this Western Utah
speedway yesterday at faster pace
than ever attained on land before
but bad luck continued to dog him
and prevented the return run re-
CURED for recognition of a new
world record.
He later announced he will make
a new attempt between 4 and
. m. tomorrow, If weather permits.
The Londoner sent his 24-cylindel
racer over the mile at 370.75 miles
per hour, compared with his. owr
1889 record of 1868 miles per hour
and over the kilometer course al
1852, fastest speed ever attained
by man except In the air,
The previous kilometer bark, also
set by Cobb on this salEae fiat ir
1889, was 369.7 miles per hour.
Evening star., 1947-09-15
70 Of q Persons Lost
As Scottish Ship Sinks
By the Associoted Press

GLASGOW, Scotland, Sept. Is
Twenty persons, mostly wom-
en- or children, were dead or
missing and feared lost in the
sinking of the excursion boat
Ocean, which foundered last
night in heavy seas in the Firth
of Clyde.
Only three OF. % aboard the 5o-foot
motor cutter known to have survived
Five members of one family were
among the missing.
Search for the missing, abandoned
at midnight, was resumed this
morning I'M the 2-mile-wide stretch
of the firth where the craft went
down after being suffeted by a
southerly gale.
Loss of the cutter was reported
by the crew of a motor boat after
discovery of body in the water
Five passengers were picked UP
by naval motor vessels, but two OF
them died before they reached shore
-Four bodies we're found later. Among
the missing was John Travis of Port
Glasgow, owner of the cutter.
Mr.. Travis wife and daughter
were among the original holiday
party OF Is but left the boat before
the trip started because Mr.. Travis
lost his hat in a high wind a his
wife regarded that as bad omen
Evening star., 1947-09-15

In a 2-to-1 decision. the Court OF
Appeals ruled today that Govern
ment worker who definitely intends
to return to his former home in g
State does not have to pay Dis
trict income tax, although he ad-
mitted that under a certain condi-
ton he may not leave the District.
The ruling was made in the case
of Clifford G. Beckham and his wife
of the Highlands Apartments. Mr.
Beckham is a special attorney in
the Office of the general counsel to
the commissioner of internal reve-
nue., 1t was stated by his attorney
Leslie G. Garnett.
| In it's ruling the appellate court
reversed the District Board of Tax
Appeals, which had refused to allow
MIR. and Mrs. Beckham refund on
District income tax paid for 1910
The amount is little over $56. Mfr
Garnett said.
The opinion referred to an earlier
ruling OF the Court of Appeals in
another case, where a Government
employe declared his intention OF
returning to his home State and
thus avoided paying the District in
come tax
In the present case the appellate
ceurt said Mr.. Beckham, at khis
Pfesent age of IS, is eligible@for
retirement.
Evening star., 1947-09-15
By the Assoe;oied Pres.

PROVIDENCE, r. l., Sept. IS
The president of the Rhode Is
land State CIO today urged ar
immediate special session OF
Congress to re-establish price
control and rationing of scarce
commodities.
Testifyiug before congressional
subcommittee at the first of a
series of public hearings on the high
price problem, Frank j. Bent
charged that high corporate profits
rather than high wages were re-
sponsible for sky-rocketing prices.
The hearings were started in
Providence because food prices here
we're reported higher than in other
cities of comparable size and
economic, composition.
Goes to Boston Tomorrow.
The subcommittee will move on
to Boston tomorrow for three days
and will attempt to gather a COM
posite picture along the Eastern
Seaboard before completing its i'm
quiries in Georgia about the middle
of next month.
Senator Flanders, Republican, of
Vermont, subcommittee chairman,
said:
I'VE could do this in Washington
Evening star., 1947-09-15
SIovakia Arrests 80
In Plot 10 Overthrow
Benes' Government
Attempt to Assossinote
President Said to Involve
Many State Workers
By the Associated Press

PRAGUE, Sept. 15.-The state
of Slovakia announced today it
had nipped a plot to overthrow
President Eduard Benes' govern
ment and assassinate him. 1t
said 80 ringleaders had been
arrested.
Slovakia's Interior Minister said
many members of the band were in
government employ. 1t added the
plot was broken by the confession
of former Vlasov band terrorist who
had served with a German panzer
division in the war and later with
German SIS troops seeking to quell
the Slovak revolution.
Officials of the National Ministry
of the Interior began an inquiry to
determine whether the persons ar
rested were connected with last
weeks unsuccessful bomb attempts
on Foreign Minister Jan MasaryK,
Vice Premier Peter Zenkl and JUS
tice Minister Prokop Drtina.
Mr.. Masaryk left last night for
the United Nations meeting in New
York shortly after the national gov
ernment posted rewards for arrest
Of the persons who sent the explo-
sives to him and the other minis
ters. The explosives were sent in
gift boxes arranged to detonate ON
opening, but we're intercepted.
The Slovak ministry said the ar
rested persons were. ringleaders OF
an armed group with branches IN
all cities of Slovakia. They were
described as including members of
old pro- Nazi Hlinka and Vlasov
bands, which once .terrorized the
countryside and then went under
ground. The government said the
group planned a campaign of ter
rorism capped with an attempt on
MFR ReneS' life
Evening star., 1947-09-15
What theRussions
| Are Saying of U.s.:

The MoScot0 radio, brondcdStirg Il
German to Europe last week, said.
THE fact that the German
monopolists consolidate their re-
lations with the Americans who
want to sever the western zone
from the rest of Germany in
order to turn it into an american
protectorate, arouses justified
mistrust among the democratic
public toward any plans originat-
ing from Washington or London.
This is borne out by the miners
resolutions taken against the dis
memberment of Germany.
1.-The United States wants to
modernize the Ruhr mines, i'm
porting for this purpose United
States machinery to the value Of
$500, 600, COO, while according to
German experts no moderniza-
ton is required. But the aim OF
the Americans is quite plain. The
United States monopolies want to
utilize the present situation by
increasing their investment in
Germany and thus fikally DOM
mating German economy"
Evening star., 1947-09-15
Observation-Disclosures
Precautionary Alert
Ordered on Hurricane
Miomi Weather Bureau
Still Hopes Storm Will
Change Course, Miss Lond
By the Associated Press


MIAMI, Fla, Sept. 15.-The
Weather Bureaus storm warn
ing service tooay issued a pre-
liminary hurricane alert for the
Atlantic seaboard between Vero
Beach, Fla, and Cape Hatteras,
N. c., "as a measure of precau-
ton" -.-..
Chief Forecaster Grady Norton
said the alert is intended to inform
persons in the area that they should
keep themselves advised of coming
advisories and begin to plan for the
possibility of hurricane.
Actual warnings have not gone up
If justified, the red and black
signals will be hoisted lin plenty
of time to give the area an oppor-
tunity to prepare.
Travelling IL Miles Per Hour.
Mr.. Norton said the storm is at
latitude 26 degrees west, longitude
74.2 degrees north, or approximately
200 miles northeast of Nassau, or
less than 500 miles from Miami,
still travelling a course between
west-northwest and northwest
ward at IL to IA miles an hour
"It is getting too close to the
coast for comfort, but the prob
ability of northward turn is still
strong" he said.
Meanwhile. ship reports that a
second tropical storm was develop
ing in the South Atlantic today sent
an Army hurricane hunter aircraft
into the AREA of suspicion" to make
a visual survey.
Area Under Suspicion.
The Navy weather station at the
OPA Locka Naval Air Base reported
that the area under suspicion was
pinpointed at latitude II north
longitude so west-a few hundred
miles south of the point where the
major Atlantic storm was first
discovered last Thursday.
Mr.. Norton, said no definite storm
has yet been located, but reports
from ships at sea and the Sar
Juan, Puerto Rico weather station
had prompted the decision to seno
a hurricane hunter to investigate
The Navy reported radio contact
had been lost with one of its hurri-
cane hunters investigating the
major storm.
Winds of 125 to 143 miles per houl
whirled near the center of the storm
with hurricane force winds reach
ing out over an area more than II
miles from the core. Gale winds
extended outward 200 miles to the
north and east.
Evening star., 1947-09-15
Cobb Sets Mark of 37OM.P. H.,
Highest Land Speed on Record

Then, after the cloud of salt
driven up by the 28-foot snub-nosed
vehicle settled after the north-to-
south run, Cobb returned to the
timers stand in the middle of the
measured mile and reported that
a gaping hole" had been torn in
the body and the south to north
run would not be made.
Inspection by mechanics at the
garage in nearby Wendoyer showed
that the hole had been torn in the
metal sheet beneath the removable
body. loosening some, Of the fasten-
tass which hold the curved body to
the frame.
The tank holding the ice by which
the two giant engines are cooled al
SO sprung a leak, it was revealed.
American Automobile Association
rules require speed drivSs to make
runs in two directions within one
hour.
Evening star., 1947-09-15
Land Urges Air Fleet
OF 5000 Transports 10
Insure War Reserve
Tells Truman Commission
AirIines Could Draw on
Pool, Meet Military Need
BY the Associated Press

Vice Admiral Emory S. Land
president of the Air Transport
Association, today proposed
peacetime creation of a 5000
plane fleet of transports-and
that commercial carriers draw
ing on this supply be given the
job of military air transport in
wartime.
Admiral Land, appearing before
President Truman's Air Policy Com.
mission, suggested that commercial
AVIATION "be fostered and developed
by the Government with that twal
time transport needs in mind"
The special five man board callec
the head of the airlines' trade body
ard other air experts for public
hearings as a part of the moderni-
zation of the national aviation pro-
gram.
Questioning developed that Ad,
miral Land contemplated thai
some of the 5000 transport planes
be kept in a Government-owneo
reserve pool on which the airlines
could draw as their needs increase
He noted that 5,000-plane fleet
could not be supported commercially
at present, although the total, which
now stands at 1000, is expected to
grow as passenger and cargo oper.
ations develop.
Military Should Keep Nucleus.
Admiral Land said interest In
trade and travel and national
prestige also figured in the proposal
for developing such a peacetime
fleet.
He said the military services
should maintain nucleus military
transport service during peace tt
reach those bases not served by ci-
villain operations.
In general, Admiral Land, former
war shipping administrator who i:
retired from the Navy, said the Gov
eminent should share in "the de-
sign and development of new trans
port equipment and experimentation
with new operating techniques. ;"
Questioned about transfer o1
1See AIR POLICY, Page A-5.)
Evening star., 1947-09-15
Hundreds Flee Rains
In Van Of Jap Typhoon
BY the Associoted Press

TOKYO, Sept. 15.-Hundreds OF
families were evacuated from their
homes in various sections of Hon
shu island today as floods from tor
rental rains preceded a typhoon
rushing toward Japan from the Pa
cific.
Among those evacuated were
families of First Cavalry division
artillery units stationed at Ota. a
residential district IS miles north
of Tokyo. No casualties were re-
ported.
First Cavalry headquarters said
the Tonegawa River at Otto had
overflowed, inundating wide area
and washing out bridges and rail-
road tracks.
Japanese were evacuated from Ota
Shobukawa and Shiba. More than
1000 homes were flooded in low
sections of Tokyo and $50 others
were under water along the Haya
River running seaward from the
Hakone Mountains. Five levee
breaks along the stream inundated
wide areas and all rail travel in the
area was blocked.
The first fingers of the typhoon
reached the Tokyo area today with
winds of Is to 80 miles an hour and
occasional gusts up to As miles. :.
The center of the typhoon is ex-
pected to hit Tateyama, less than
100 miles from Tokyo on the tip OF
Chiba Peninsula across Tokyo Bay,
tonight, bringing winds of so miles
an hour to this area.
/. All damage reported so far has
dken from the rains which have
preceded the typhoon.
Evening star., 1947-09-15
Demand for Special Session
Marks Start of Price Inquiry
Rhode Island Stote CIO President Says
'Profiteers Are Having Their Day

with a lot of statisticians, but We
don't want to. We're going right
to the people
The Flanders subcommittee is ONT
of three which will attempt to de-
termine the reasons for spiralline
prices. Other groups will hole
hearings in the Midwest and Fal
West later.
THE spectators and the prof.
teers are having their day Mr.
Benti said.
1--WE of the CIO will not stand by
and see our wages cut by exorbitant
prices and profits.
Calls Situation "Insufferable."
THE situation has become in
sufferable," he continued.
I'VE demand an immediate spe.
cial session of Congress to take &C.
ton now. We have seen our stand
ards of living impaired by uncon.
trolled imitation. We have waiteo
long enough for businessmen to heeo
the call for voluntary restrain.
There is only one effective way
to control imitation: The Govern.
ment must control prices and ration
scarce commodities.
Mr.. Benti then cited figures to
show that meat prices have more
(See PROVIDENCE, Page A-4D
Evening star., 1947-09-15
Bank Of England Sells
80 Million in Gold
To Reserve System
Transaction Is First
Since Freezing Of Lost
Of American Loan
BY TIE Associated Press

LONDON, Sept. 15.-The Bank
of England has sold gold valued
at $50, 100000 to the Federal Re-
serve Bank of New York, the
Treasury announced today.
A Treasury spokesman said the
sale of f20,00OOOO from government
reserves was the first transaction OF
the kind since the remaining $400,-
0Oo,00 of the $3,750,000. Ameri-
can loan was frozen August TO-
Britain at that time suspended
the right to convert sterling into
dollars.
Since we can't get dollars from
the American loan we must draw
on our gold reserves" the Treasury
mar observed.
Cabinet Reshuffle Hinted.
This action conceded with al
authoritative report that Prime
Minister Attlee soon would re-
shuttle his cabinet. and a predic.
ton that Britain's already heavy
taxes would be INCREASED this fall as
a bar against imitation.
The Chancellor of the EXchequer
in announcing the end of sterling
convertibility August 20, said Brit
ain had $500, 100000 100000, ,000)
worth of gold and other basic re-
serves in addition to the loan re-
sources.
The prediction of new taxes came
from a government source.
This informant said the tax in
crease would be contained in an
emergency budget to be presented
to Parliament by Hugh Dalton
Chancellor of the Exchequer, short
ly after it convenes on October 20
Indirect Taxes Expected.
Although final decisions have not
been made, the expectation was that
indirect taxation would be employed
more than direct levies. The tax
increases would serve two main
purposes:
l. To relieve the people of money
so they could not bid up the prices
Of scarce cOmmOdltleS.
2. To release labor for export in
dustries by freezing out non-essen-
tial manufacturers and small-time
black market operators. the idea be-
ing that without money the people
would be unable to trade with them
The Sunday newspaper, Reynolds
News. said some tobacconists were
holding back supplies on the
strength of rumors that next
months taxes would include one
on cigarettes. raising the price from
So cents to S1.40 pack, The paper
said the fac. was that Mr. Dalton
had not made a final decision on
whether to increase the taxes or
limit imports.
In Letterkenny, Fire, Sean Le-
mass, Fires Minister for Industry
and Commerce, said in statement
that Fire was ready to cooperate
with Britain in measures to support
the pound sterling and was coilsld-
ering curtailment of purchases from
the United States.
Evening star., 1947-09-15
Freak Thunderstorm
And Wind Hit Civ,
Dropping Mercury
Trees Crush Two Autos;
Air Traffic, Telephone
Service Uninterrupted
. picture on Page A-3.) J

A violent thunderstorm, ac-
companied by 40-mile winds,
burst over the city shortly after
10 am. today, knocking down at
least three trees, injuring one
man and driving pedestrians
from the streets.
The Weather Bureau said the
storm was an unprotected freak
and would be followed by clearing
skies.
Hail and heavy rains fell within
Is minutes after black clouds &C
companied by lightning, began
gathering over the District. The
downpour was particularly heavy
in the downtown section and sent
the temperature from 81 to u In
Two hours.
One Hurt During Storm.
Despite the rain and the 9-degree
drop in temperature, the Weather
Bureau said the temperature woulc
go into the high 80s before nightfall
but that tonight 1t would drop te
64. More showers are expected to-
night, and tomorrow will be cooler
the forecaster said.
At least one person was injured
in an accident attributed to the
storm. He is Chan Gong. As, a
Chinese, of the 800 block of Sixth
street NV, who ran into the side
of a moving truck in the 1700 block
-of K street NV, police said, ap-
parently in an effort to escape the
heavy rain. He was taken to Emer-
gency Hospital with severe head in
juries and cuts.
/ Police said the truck driver was
George Perry, 26. Of the first block
of Myrtle street NE. He was not
neld.
Hail Falls in Virginia.
4! Hail fell in Annadale, Va, ano
lightning struck the Old Dominion
Garage, 833 North Pitt street, Alex
andria, burning small electrical
control box.
Police reported lightning alst
struck an air duct at the Maysta'
Evening star., 1947-09-15
Conodo Eases Controls
Over Most Prices e
BY the Assoeioted Press

OTTAWA, Sept. i5.-Despite COM
plants of labor and housewives
against rising prices. Canada re-
moved wartime price controls today
from everything except sugar, meat,
wheat, fats, dried fruit, iron, steel
and tin.
Rent controls were retained, the
wartime prices and trade board said.
but such commodities as flour, bread.
canned goods, textiles, clothing.
lumber, building products. agricul-
tural implements and wood pulp
were freed of control at midnight
Sunday.
Evening star., 1947-09-15
Partition Only Palestine
Solution, U. N. Officer Say.
BY the Asseeioted Press

NEW YORK. Sept l5.-Emil
Sandstrcem, chairman of the United
Nations Commission on Palestine,
said today that he could see mo
other solution" to the problem OF
Palestine than partition as recon-
mended by his commission.
Mr.. Sandstroem, who arrived with
his wife aboard the Swedish
American liner Drottningholm,
told reporters it was mot possible
for Jews and Arabs to live peace
fully side by side"
Stating that the Arab states were
opposed to partition, he added that
95 per cent of the Jews in displaced
persons camps wanted to go to
Palestine. immigration of Jews
probably will continue, he said, If
it is not prevented by force"
Evening star., 1947-09-15
Boy, z, Is Only Bruised
In Second 2-Story Fall
By the Assoe;o,ed Pres.

DENVER, Sept. 15.-A year ago
little Richard Salas toddled to a
windoW in the second story of his
home, and fell out. He got bad
fright but no injuries.
Yesterday Richard, now 2 years
old, was playing by the same window
and toppled out again, falling IS
feet to the ground.