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Evening star., 1947-08-09
.3Dead, 200 Injured,
1900 Acres Swept
In Coast Forest Fire
BY the Assoeiofsd Press

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 9.-A death
toll OF three, nearly 1000 acres OF
watershed burned out and a few
danger spots along a 16-mile perrin
eter yet to be stamped out today
told the story of the forest and
brush fire in big Tujunga Canyon
some 20 miles north of here.
More than 1000 fireflghters re.
manned on the job or ready for a
recurrence of the blaze, the worst
OF the season in Southern Cali
fornia, that began roaring last
Tuesday and was not pronounced
under control until late yesterday.
Two firefighters met death Tues
day and an elderly resident. seeing
the flames approaching his home
died of a heart attack Yesterday
Red Cross officials said approx.
mately 200 fireflghters suffered in.
juries, mostly minor burns.
A freak summer shower, high
humidity and the valiant efforts OF
regular and volunteer firemen final
ly curbed the fiery menace as il
ranged through the Angeles Ma
tional Forest.
Forest Supervisor William v
Mendenhall said that even after the
fire is definitely out, constant patrols
will be maintained for a week tc
prevent new outbreaks.
No estimate Of the damage can be
given until winter rains set in and
the danger of flood water surging
down and through the denuded
areas presents itself.
AS far as is known no dwellings
or buildings were burned.
Evening star., 1947-08-09
South Africa Rejects
u. n. Irusteeship Bid
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

LAKE SUCCESS, Aug. s.-The
United Nations yesterday made
public a letter from the Union Of
South Africa rejecting the recon-
mendation of the General Assembly
that the inundated territory OF
Southwest Africa be placed Hnde,
q. N. trusteeship.
The letter, signed by H. T. An
drews, Minister to Washington, said
the Assemhly's resolution was con-
trary to the wishes Of the inhabit-
ants OF the territory and added:
In the circumstances the Union
Government have no alternative but
to maintain the status quo and to
continue to administer the territory
in the spirit of the existing man
date"
The letter also called attention to
resolution adopted by the South
African Parliament initiating steps
to give the Southwest Africans
representation in Parliament.
The territory in question was
placed under South African admin
istration as part Of the League OF
Nations mandates system. At Yer
sailles, South Africa had demanded
outright annexation of the forme,
German colony but had been vigor-
ously opposed by Woodrow Wilson
Evening star., 1947-08-09
7 Detectives, Charged
|by Man as Attackers,
Under Investigation

Two detectives, identified by Julius
Willie Clegg, 26. 1106 Twenty first
street NE, as the men who allegedly
beat him at police headquarters
while he was being held without
charge, were being investigated to-
day by police officials.
The two detectives were picked
from a lineup Of 10 officers late
yesterday by Mr.. Clegg in the pres
ence of Inspector Floyd A. Trus-
colt, chief of detectives, and Roger
Robb, Mr.. Clegg's attorney, the law
yer said today. Their names were
not revealed.
Inspector Truscott repeatedly de-
eide any disciplinary action against
the two detectives would await the
outcome of an investigation, due to
be completed next week.
Meanwhile, Mr.. Robb said he
plans to get from police on Monday
the $50 collateral posted in q previ-
Gus case by Mr.. Clegg. In that
case, the colored veteran was ac-
cused by a cousin of assault, when
he took a pistol from her last May
and turned it over to police. She
was given a six months suspended
sentence, police said, but MIR. Clegg
never got his collateral back.
MIR. Robb said Mr.. Clegg was
never in police custody before last
Saturday, when the latter claims
he was falsely arrested after being
accused of molesting white women.
Mr.. Clegg was not permitted, dur
ing his illegal detention, to phone
either to his home or his employer,
Mr.. Robb said. He was held on
investigation" but later freed with
out definite charges being placed
against him.
The two detectives denied beat
ing Mr.. Clegg.
Evening star., 1947-08-09
Marine Reserve Unit
Leaves Here Today
For Camp Lejeune

The Fifth Marine Reserve In.
fantry Battalion will leave Union
Station at pm. today for Camp
Lejeune, N. c.. to undergo its first
l5-day training period since re-
activation.
The unit will be under the COM
mand of 1t. Col. John E. Fondahl,
U. s. M. c. r., who recently relieved
1t. Col. William F. Thyson, U. S. M.
c. r. Col. Thyson requested in
active status because of the pressure
of personal affairs.
Col Fondahl obtained leave from
his regular duties as captain of the
eighth police precinct to make the
training trip.
He joined the Marine Corps Re-
serve here in 1929 as first sergeant
of the 40lst Company, the first vol
unteer Marine Reserve company or
ganized.
AS a captain, he went on active
duty in 1910 and served in the Pa
cific with the 4th Marine Division
from June, 1943, to November, 1945.
He received the Bronze Star Medal
FOR service at Tinian and also par
ticipated in the battles for Saipan
and Two Jima.
His son, John w. Fondahl, was a
Marine staff sergeant with the 5th
Amphibious Corps in the Two Jima
operation.
Ten officers and 125 enlisted men
will go to Camp Lejeune, Col. Fon-
dahl said. He said the battalion's
local elements still need additional
personnel and said new recruiting
effort would be started after COM
pletion of the training period.
The Headquarters Company and
Company "a" are assigned to Wash
ington, while Company &C" is being
organized in Silver Spring and Com
pany "B" is assigned to Lynchburg,
Va, he explained.
Col. Fondahl said the battalion
undoubtedly could have another
company here If sufficient recruits
were obtained.
Evening star., 1947-08-09
Reed Threatens Probe
Of Boxcar SHORTAGE
By the Asxoeio,ed pyess

NEW YORK, Aug. ga Kansas
Senator and the president of the
American Railway Car Institute
don't see eye-to-eye on the volume
OF freight cars being produced by
the Nations car builders.
Senator Clyde M. Reed, Republi-
can legislator, declared at his home
In Parsons, Kans., yesterday that
he intended to trace the where
abouts of some 10000 tons of stee
which he said had been delivered
but not used for freight car pro-
duction.
Senator Reed said he had wired
S. M. FELTON,, president of the Amer
lean Railway Car Institute. his
strong dissatisfaction" at what he
termed the manner in which cal
builders had fallen down in the
matter of throwing steel in theil
hands into freight car production.
Mr.. FELTON, replied here that cal
production was on the increase
even though builders had not been
getting as much steel as Senator
Reed credited them with receiving
The Senator had said that unless
the new-car output climbed to 1000
this month and 10000 in September
he would call a meeting of Senate
Interstate Commerce Subcommittee
which he heads-in October and
subpoena the records of car build
ers.
Senator Reed said the 100000 tons
represented the difference between
steel delivered to car manufactur-
ers from March to June and that
which appeared in finished cars for
that period. e
MIR. FELTON, said in a statement
that freight car deliveries had risen
from 1898 in February to 5,5l4 in
June and 5,879 in July.
Evening star., 1947-08-09
On the Other Hand
Offering Guess as to What
Henry Wallace Is Really Up To

But when the votes were count
ed in November. Messrs. Coolidge
and Dawes had the necessary num-
ber to win. Times were still good
and still getting better. ~And the
Republican slogan, Coolidge OF
Chaos" seemed to have worked.
What times will be like a year
from now nobody knows. We've got
the boom; we may or may not get
the bust. If a bust, chances are
the Republicans will be- given the
blame. They certainly have asked
for it.
So if prosperity takes a tailspin
and relations with Russia continue
bad or get worse. Mr.. Truman
should be reelected. We tend to
rally around our President when
we think we're facing war.
However, that's forgetting Henry
Wallace. Actually the Democratic
managers cannot forget him. They
know he can wreck their hopes, nc
matter how high those hopes may
soar. They are fearful he may dc
just that. 1t wasn't Henry Wallace
who said, MY party. may she ever
be right, but right or left, my
party!" He has to be convinced
that the party is getting back to
where Mr.. Roosevelt placed it, a
little left of center.
His Real Ambition.
1t is my guess that Mr.. Wallace S
real ambition is to bring this to
pass and to do it without wrecking
the party's prospects by running
independently. While he isn't dis
couraging those supporters; such as
Kenny in California, who hope to
send some Wallace delegates to the
national convention, his real re-
lance will not be on delegates. It
will be on labor.
La Toilette had only the Railroad
Brotherhoods back of him in 1924.
There was no CIO then and the
AFL clung to the Sam Gompers
theory that labor should stand clear
Of politics. That theory has
finally been discarded; William
Green has declared the Aft in and
is picking up the remarkable know
how demonstrated by the CIO. And
organized labor, as a whole, has
multiplied in membership since
1924.
Mr.. Wallace has pretty good
reason to believe that this new
political power will support him
This would not mean, if my guess
ing is correct, another candidate
than Mr.. Truman. 1t would mean
a satisfactory candidate for Vice
President, the right kind of plat
form and commitments more bind
ing than the platform, as to party
policy.
(copyrisht, 1s47. by Globe syndicate)
Evening star., 1947-08-09
Reds Permit Newsmen
To Talk 10 Inmates Of
Sachsenhausen Camp
BY The Associoted Press

SACHSENHAUSEN NTERN-
MENT CAMP, Russian Occupied
Brandenburg, Aug. 9.-Soviet au-
thorities opened the heavily guarded
gates of this former Nazi concen-
tration camp yesterday to 30 Al
lied and German correspondents,
who interviewed German prisoners
of war sentenced recently to long
prison terms for mass shooting Of
Russians during the war.
The correspondents were admitted
only to the Russian headquarters
building. They were not permitted
to tour the camp, where German
press accounts have said many Ger
man political prisoners are confined.
Maj Alexei Kostuchin, Soviet
commander, said he could not an
swer question about the camps pop
ulation because I am chief only
of the war prisoners here. here"
Soviet Concentration Camp.
(Berlin's Social Democratic
Party charged publicly last week
that Sachsenhausen was one of
13 large concentration camps"
in the Soviet zone holding many
German Social Democrats and
others considered undesirable"
by the Soviet-sponsored Socialist
Unity Party)
Ar-vSaH pf,ccinya ftNNv,~ hrNxtnk.f {vH
representatives Of ITO members of
the German 9Th Police Reserve Bat
talon convicted here by Soviet mill
tary courts for the shooting Of more
than $1,000 Soviet citizens, including
women and babies, during the Nazi
occupation of Soviet territory
The prisoners received sentences
of Is to Is years in labor camps.
Their trial was held after the aboli-
ton of the death sentence in Soviet
courts.
Denied Defense Counsel.
The prisoners, in the presence of
Russian authorities, said they had
been sentenced after a two-day trial.
They said they were not given de-
fense counsel but we're permitted
to make a personal closing plea"
Bruno Fuchs, 48, accused of per-
sonally killing 1907 persons, said
Il think it was nearer 800"
Another prisoner, Herbert Men
Eel, said he was glad to get off
with his life but added latter I
heard that some of the Nuremberg
war criminals got off with 10 to
Is years I thought my 25-year
sentence was harsh"
Armed With Tomnyguns.
The part of SachSenhausen the
correspondents saw lay just inside
grim, barbed wire topped walls
under the shadows of strongly
manned watch towers. Guards were
armed with tommyguns.
| The avenue up which the cor
respondents walked was lined with
well-kept flowers and vegetable
gardens. Between the camp streets
was pleasant pool on which ducks
swan, children's swings, q band
stand and a small outdoor dance
floor. Along the streets scampered
Russian children who belonged to
families of guard personnel.
Evening star., 1947-08-09

torney General is the most savvy
politically. He comes by it naturally
his father was political lawyer
in Texas and In the South politics
is an honored trade Of equal rank
with business.
Bred in that atmosphere, Mr..
Clark needs no tips on how deeply
politics and business are intertwlned
in the great airlines stakes. He IS
aware that, as things are going, a
full-scale investigation can hardly
be avoided; he only wants to get
the whole picture.
Roosevelt Takes Over.
Because it is quite clear to him
as to others that the hearings have
escaped Senator Ferguson, the
Senator's friends say, "It never pays
to be a gentleman" They conceded
that Elliott Roosevelt, with all the
family positiveness, took his hear
ing into his own hands and for a
change got himself some good pub
licity. Howard Hughes press agent,
Johnny Meyer, has also been getting
away with an insolence hardly
creditable TO senatorial dignity
while Mr.. Hughes transformed his
appearance into a prosecution OF
Senator Brewster which is doing
the Sene tor from Maine no good.
Apparently realizing this, Senator
Ferguson is now attempting to re-
eain lost ground by a no-more-
courtesy rule. But the shift in en-
phasis remains.
Nor has the Michigan Senator, de-
spite glowing advance reputation
as a prosecutor. displayed any tai
ent foExselarifying the main issue
and elk#hg testimony to illumine
1t. He wanders, gives the impression
he is fishing; clever witnesses seize
the chance and confuse the issue
further.
Senator Brewster, more coldly in
tellectual, and quite pitiless, could
have helped but finds himself
obliged to step aside. The other
Republicans on the committee don't
count. Quite satisfied, the Demo-
cratic members coast.
Differ Over Probe.
There is some difference of opin-
ion here as to who ought to do an
airline investigation. Certainly the
Justice Department can If 1t ap-
pears that the airlines are using
their Federal subsidies to lobby to
get bigger subsidies.
Normally the Senate likes to take
over such matters. And in the Sen
ate there are wheels within wheels.
Pan American has powerful Repub-
lican connections-but Pan Ameri-
- cans Sam Pryor made powerful
enemy when he marshaled those
we Want Willkie" phalanxes in
the galleries of the 1910 Republican
National Convention at Philadel-
phia.
Senator Robert Taft, who thought
he was going to grab that nomina-
ton, has always felt he was robbed
by that ruthless gallery play of
Mr.. Pryor's. He has pointed out
that Mr.. Pryor was smart enough
to stampede the convention for a
man who was actually a Democrat
but of course didn't win the elec-
ton for him. And it is hard to
do much in the Republican Con-
gress with Senator Taft against you
Historical note: The last ocean
air mail investigation was early in
Roosevelt's administration and con-
Quoted by Senator Hugo Black, now
senior member of the United States
Supreme Court.
Evening star., 1947-08-09
This Changing World
Yodrs Story on German Soldiers
In Russian Army Held Top Secret

Yodi placed these Germans in two
categories: the fervent Nazis, who
saw in Germany's association with
Russia the hope of continuing the
totalitarian ideals of their leaders
against the rotten Anglo-Americar
capitalism" and non-Nazis who were
impressed by Free German argu-
ments that they would receive good
treatment in the Moscow-sponsored
Free German army and eventually
would be permitted to return tc
Germany and obtain positions OF
importance.
These Germans loyalty to the
Red flag would be amply rewarded
not only by good positions in the
postwar Reich, but their families
also would benefit by having ration
priorities once the Russians enter
Germany.
German aviators and specialists in
new weapons were to receive prefer
entail treatment at the hands OF
the Russians, and a particularly
strong invitation was extended to
Nazi naval officers, who were Of
fered treatment on par with that
accorded only to important scien-
fists.
100000 Is Estimate.
1t Is impossible at this time to
obtain accurate information about
the strength of the German di-
visions serving the Soviets. But
there have been frequent 'uncon-
firmed reports that the Red Army
contains now no less than 400, 1000
Germans, either former prisoners OF
war or former Hitler Youth men,
bers who were not yet ripe for active
military service when Germany
surrendered.
Those members of the Free Ger
man forces who are too old for
valuable use in the field act as
recruiting agents in the Russian
zone of Germany and are achiev-
ing some success. Many young
Germans-Nazi and -Nazi-are
anxious to join the Soviet ranks be-
cause service with the Russians
offers them a sure living and in
most cases helps their families.
The new international brigades
which are being prepared for use in
the Balkans include large pro-
portion of Germans, with a good
sprinkling of former Hitler officers
who fought in Western Europe, the
Balkans and North Africa.
The Yodl report helps the Ameri-
can and British governments to OBJ
tain a clear view of how Russia
means to incorporate into its forces
new type of mercenaries, who have
been sufficiently indoctrinated to
make them loyal and fanatical
soldiers.
Evening star., 1947-08-09
Service Merger Note:
| so Officers to Attend
Joint Cooking School
Ry the Assoeiofsd Press

One place the armed. forces
can begin unification is right
around the cook stove, says
Maj. Gen. T. B. Larkin.
He announced today chat so
Army, Navy. Marine Corps and
Air Forces officers will be Sc
lected for the advanced food
course to be given at the quar-
termaster school at Camp Lee,
Va, September 20.
The objective is to train Off
GERS how to teach a cook to
add that little extra some
thing to food that will make a
CT want a second helping, the
general said.
Evening star., 1947-08-09
Bella Kovaes Reported
Dead in Red CUSTODY
" BY the A:s,liufed Press

b. BUDAPEST, Aug. "a reliable
informant said yesterday that
Soviet authorities had reported the
death Of Bella Kovacs, whose al
legged confession duplicating former
Premier Ferenc Macy in a plot to
overthrow the Hungarian govern
ment led to the Communist coup in
which Mr.. Macy was exiled.
The informant said he had seen
q letter from Russian authorities
reporting to the Hungarian govern
ment the death of Mr.. KovacS, for
merf secretary general of Nagy's
Smallholders' Party.
This source, who could not be
quoted by name, said Soviet Min
lister G. M. Pushkin had reported
the death without specifying the
place or time to the Office of Acting
Foreign, Minister Emo Mihalyfi. A
spokesman for Mr.. Mihalyfl told a
news conference nothing is known"
about the state Of Mr.. Kovacs'
health.
Russian troops arrested Mr.. Ko-
vacs at his home the night of Feb
ruary as on charges of espionage
against the Soviet Army. Later it
was announced he had confessed"
to a plot to overthrow the Hun
garian government in which Mr..
Macy was implicated.
The American Government pro-
tested strongly against Mr.. Kovac's
arrest. The Russians refused
American demands for copies of the
alleged deposition from Mr. Kovacs
which contained the alleged confess
sion.
The United States charged that
the coup Of May 20 in which Mr..
Macy was ousted resulted in the
Communists assuming control of
Hungary, although they were not q
majority party. The Russians, in
turning down an American refusal
for British-Soviet- et-American in
vestigation into Hungary's internal
affairs, said the American charge
was "unfounded fiction"
Evening star., 1947-08-09
Trumun Yacht Steward
Freed in Firearms Case
By tho Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 9.-Gavine
Rey, 50-year-old Filipino whose at.
torney said he was chief steward
aboard the presidential yacht Will.
liamsburg. was found innocent yes
terday on charges of violating the
Witkin Firearms Act.
Judge Frank Smith of Quarter
Sessions Court ordered the &C.
quittal after he learned that Rey
a Navy chief petty officer for q
years, has only IA months more 0.
service before retiring and has 6
perfect service record.
Rey was arrested August l aftel
police found a revolver in his pos.
session when they responded to Z
call at the Rey home.
Evening star., 1947-08-09

Yodl estimated that between L.
100000 and 1,250,0O0 German Off
GERS and men would take service in
the Russian Army. OF this number,
he thought, only a relatively small
portion-not more than 80 per cent
would be rank and file Germans
conscripted into the Russian Army.
The remainder would be Nazis so
thoroughly Underlined that they
would not care whether they served
under the swastika or the hammer
and sickle.
Free German Forces.
Before the collapse of Germany
Yodl had been studying the rela-
tionship between true Nazis and the
Russians. He made Thorough ex-
animation of the fate of the army
at Stalingrad and reported that
about 80 per cent of the soldiers and
"non-coms" and more than IS per
cent of the officers joined the free
German movement which began in
Russia Immediately after Stalin-
grad.
Later, when Russian armies began
to smash through the German ranks,
wholesale desertions were the order
of the day. Special groups, COM
posed Of units OF the Free German
army, accompanied the Reds and
acted as lure to Hitler's soldiers.
Whenever large body of Nazis
surrendered or was captured, the
free German teams, clad in clean
uniforms and apparently well-fed,
appeared and told the prisoners that
the future of the fatherland lay in
the closest possible association with
its great neighbor in the East.
The fanatical Nazis joined their
compatriots who had been won over
by the Russians. Many prisoners
captured before Stalingrad also ad-
hered to the movement, offering
their services with enthusiasm under
the Red flag.
Evening star., 1947-08-09
Dr.. Coffin Named Speaker
Al Chautauqua Institute

DR.. Henry Slone Coffin, president
emeritus OF Union Theological Semi
nary, New York, will be one of
the speakers at an Institute of
World Missions to be held August
II to "a at Chautauqua, N. Y.
Sponsors of the institute are the
Home Missions Council of North
America, the Foreign Missions Con-
ference of North America and the
United Council Of Church Women,
all Protestant interdenomina tional
groups.
Among the other speakers to
address the institute will be Bishop
John A. Subhan of the Methodist
Church in India; Miss Mabel Head
United Nations observer for the
United Council of Church Women.
and DR.. Staunton Lautenschlager
professor of history at Cheeloo Uni
versity, Tsinan, China.
Subjects to be discussed include
What of Russia?" Missions In a
World of Change" and What Is
the Present Status of the United
NationS?"
Evening star., 1947-08-09

NSASAA w
in this falls
Chest drive.
Announcement
of the appoint
ment was made
today by Mrs.
A n gus Dun
chairman of the
campaigns res
idential unit.
Mrs. Glover, one
Of SO members
of the Board of
Directors of the
c o m m u n i t V
Chest Fedora
ton, has been
Evening star., 1947-08-09
Danes Seek 729 Million
Under Marshall Plan
BY the Associated Press

COPENHAGEN, Aug. 9.-Foreign
Minister Gustav Rasmussen esti-
mated yesterday that Denmark
would need 3,5O00o0,o0o kroner
ts729. .000, ,000) in economic aid under
the Marshall proposal for European
reconstruction.
This aid would permit the coun-
try to reach and exceed her pre-
war agricultural production, he said.