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Evening star., 1947-07-25
Only 3o4 Of $4,000
In Arlington Agree
To Rent Increases

Only 304 of Arlington's approx
mately $4,000 apartment dwellers
have signed agreements providing
for voluntary rent increases in ex.
change for 18-month leases, q check
with the Rent Control Office dis.
closed today.
OF the 304, a total Of 1877 have
been from the 1S,000-unit Bucking.
ham Apartments, according to Rem
Control Administrator l.. Chance
Buchanan. J-u.ltt : IS 5sadDluo.v,
No notifications have been received
from a number of large apartment
developments as yet, Mr.. Buchanan
said, pointing out that at least two
Colonial Village and Arlington Vii.
lage, had set q deadline of August
for tenants signing and presumably
no notifications would be made until
after the deadline.
Haywood Tenants Organize.
Six hundred tenants of the 1000
unit Haywood Gardens housing de-
velopment in Mount Rainier, Md.
last night set up haywood tenants
organization at a meeting called tc
protest the recent request of the
management for 10 to Is per cent
increases in exchange for 1S-month
leases. The session was held at the
Mount Rainier High School.
After unanimous passage Of res
olution stating the group would not
pay rent increases, an Executive
Committee of about 80 was named
to inform the management of the
groups stand.
Sliding Scale Rejected.
In Arlington, about 200 residents
of the Fillmore Gardens Apartments
heard a special committee report
that the management would not
consider a sliding scale of increases
in new leases. The management
the committee reported, desires the
increase to start when the lease il
signed rather than have it spread
over a period of time. The group
indicated the offer of new leases
would not be accepted but no for
NAL action was taken.
The tenants committee of Buck
ingham Apartments, also in Ar
lington, did not hold a meeting
originally scheduled for last night
because of an "all-out" membership
drive now in progress, according te
Chairman Robert B. Kennedy. Mr.
Kennedy said a meeting will be held
next week.
Evening star., 1947-07-25
Vaccination or Quarantine
Ordered for 1873 on Train
BY the Asseeiafsd Press

BY the AsseeIefsd Prsss
LOS ANGELES, July 25.-Vac.
cination or 14-day quarantine
faced passengers and crewmeu
aboard a Santa Fe train due here
today after removal of a colored
dining car waiter with smallpox at
Clovis, N. Mex.
City health officers planned tc
board the third section Of the Grand
Canyon train at San Bernardina
more than an hour before 1t is due
here at IL am.
DR.. H. C. Pulley, chief assistant
health officer, said instructions from
the State Bureau of Preventive
Medicine were to vaccinate all OF
the 1873 persons aboard, but any
who refused would be quarantined
for IA days at their homes.
The train includes f1ve carloads OF
delegates en- route to Lions Club
international convention at San
Francisco.
Evening star., 1947-07-25
u. 5. Will Call g at Trial
OF Njsei in POW BrutaIities
By the Associoied Press

LOS ANGELES, July 25.-Tomoya
Japanese-Americar
charged with treason for alleged
brutalities as a foreman in the
Honshu japanese prison camp, will
be confronted by SO witnesses-in.
cluding three Japanese-at his triaI
starting October 81.
United States Attorney James M
Carter disclosed yesterday thai
Meiji Fujisawa. camp Interpreter
Soturo Mori, president ofSti1e Nip.
pom Metallurgical Industries which
used prisoner labor, and Takeshirc
Hayakawa. personnel manager, will
be brought from Japan to testify.
Fujisawa, like Kawakita, was born
and reared Inc CaaexicoG oath :, Mr.
Garter said. Ts1o2 { F.61E 3@ar
Most of the other witnesses named
in a bill of particulars will be for
mer GIs who served in. the prison
camp where, 1t is charged, Kawakita
beat prisoners and among other
things forced them to run four times
around the camp after full days
work.
Evening star., 1947-07-25
Arlington Man Named
Assistant to Reese

Richard B. Walsh Of 4l56 South
Thirty-sixth street, Arlington, has
been appointed assistant to B. Car
roll Reese, chairman of the Repub-
lican National Committee, it was
announced today.
A former newspaperman, Mr.
Walsh formerly served as director
of public relations for Connecticut
and was secretary to Senator Bald
win, Republican, when he was Gov
ernor of that State.
Evening star., 1947-07-25
Officials 10 Confer Today
On Cables in Silver Spring

The Montgomery County Commis-
sioners will meet with Potomac
Electric Power Co. and Chesapeake
g. Potomac Telephone Co, officials
at 4 pm. today in the Silver Spring
County Building to discuss the pos
sibility of placing telephone and
electric cables underground in the
Silver Spring business district.
Also attending the meeting will
be representatives of the Silver
Spring Board of Trade, the Silver
Spring Volunteer Fire Department
snd civic associa tions.
According to County Commissioner
o. w. Younghlood, the county and
Silver Spring merchants would help
bear the cost of the project. Mr.
Youngblood added that officials of
the electric and telephone cofnpan-
les have indicated approval of the
proposal at previous meetings with
the County Commissioners.
Evening star., 1947-07-25
Soviet-Backed Party
In Germany Opposes
All Credits From u. ).
BY The Asseeiossd Press

BERLIN. July 25.-Three days
after German leaders Of the western
zones at Frankfurt had overwhelm-
ingly Endorsed the Marshall plan for
Europe, the Soviet-sponsored So
cialist Unity Party Of Eastern Ger
many today declared its opposition
to all proposals for American credits
to Germany.
The Communist dominated party
apparently with Russian approval
also made public its own plan for
Germany's rehabilitation, which
closely paralleled proposals made by
Soviet Foreign Commissar Molotov
at the Foreign Minister'S Council
meeting in Moscow last spring.
The Socialist Unity Party (SED)
statement published in Its official
newspaper Neues Deutschland,
charged that American credits for
Germany would force industrial
Western Germany into a west bloc
dangerous to the peace"
1t reiterated Communist claims
that Germany would sell her future
for the sake of economic help" and
alleged that attempts would be made
to deliver Ruhr industry to the d.
rection Of American monopoly,
which would kill plans for socializa-
ton.
"The German nation previously
has had most bitter experiences with
American credits" the SED state
ment asserted, when after World
War I the American credit policies
were aimed to kill socialization plans
sponsored by the German workers
Inotead, they strengthened the pow
er of German heavy industries and
the Junker class and thus these
credits led to crisis, Fascism ano
war"
The SED asserted that Germany
should strive for peace economy
evolved through her own powers ano
said foreign aid should be accepted
only on short-term basis when g
German government had beer
established.
Evening star., 1947-07-25
Congress in Brief
By ths Assoeioied. pres,

Senate:
Leaders conclude all-night session
return at noon to dispose OF urgent
appropriation bills before resuming
fight over proposal to investigate
Attorney General Clark S. handling
of Kansas, City vote fraud charges
Labor Committee considers NOM
ination of former Senator Abe Muir
dock and others to new NLRB.
House:
Considers compromise appropria-
ton bills, mine inspection bill ano
miscellaneous legislation.
UnAmerican Activities Committee
continues investigation of Commu-
mist infiltration into labor unions.
Armed Services Committee meets
to approve universal military train
ing bill.
Evening star., 1947-07-25
EisIer Trial Is Stalled
b Legal WrangIing
On G-Man's sEvidence
By NewboId Noyes, Jr.

The passport fraud trial of Ger
hart Eisler begged down in legal
technicalities today as attorneys
spent the morning arguing about
what portions of testimony regard
ing Eislers statements to the FBI
last year were fit for the ears Of
the jury.
Assistant United States Attorney
William Hitz. who had expected
that by today the Government
would have concluded presentation
of its case against the alleged
Kremlin agent, said the prosecution
could not possibly rest until next
week.
The testimony which caused all
the argument was that of Francis
X Plant, New York agent Of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation,
who told late yesterday of an inter-
view he had with Eisler on July 10,
l946.
Heard in Absence of July.
Mr.. Plant, native of Washington,
whose parents live at l421 Saratoga
avenue NE. gave his testimony in
the absence Of the jury, to avoid
prejudicing the panel in case some
of the evidence turned out not to be
relevant.
A principal bone of legal conten-
ton this morning was whether Mr..
Plant should be allowed to tell the
jury that Eisler admitted to the
FBI he had lied in 1941 when he
told immigration authorities he had
no Communist Party connections.
Eisler Is being tried on charges
that when he applied for an exit
permit to his native Germany in
1945, he fraudulently neglected to
tell the Government about these
Communist Affiliations, as we'll AS
about his use of aliases and the
fact that he had been in the United
States in the 1930s.
Mr.. Plant said Eisler admitted
having perjured himself in order to
get into the country in 1941.
Said He Was Fleeing for Life.
"He told us that he was fleeing
fascism to save his life" Mr.. Plant
said.
The defense took most of yester-
day cross-examining key prosecu-
ton witness, Louis Budenz, former
managing editor of the Communist
newspaper. the Daily Worker. Mr..
Budenz now is an anti-Communist
teacher and writer at Fordham Uni
verSity
Mr.. Hitz would not give the names
of witnesses yet to testify for the
Government. He said there are
several" of them. Mr.. Plant fol-
lowed Mr.. Budenz on the stand.
Eisler told him, Mr.. Plant said,
that he was in Austria in 1882 and
1888, in Czechoslovakia and France
during the next two years and went
to Spain to help the Republican
forces in the civil war in 1886.
Mr.. Plant quoted Eisler as saying
that he then returned to France
where, shortly before the outbreak
of war, he was imprisoned by the
French as a spy"
It was at this point that Mr.
Isserman insisted the jury leave the
room. He said the matter being
discussed had nothing to do with
the subject of the indictment and
threatened to seek mistrial.
Evening star., 1947-07-25
Man Who Escaped Mob
Is Convicted in Murder
BY the Associotsd Pres.

CARROLLTON, Ca, July 25.-A
o. year -old colored man who barely
escaped a mob which stormed the
County Jail here June so was con-
victed yesterday by a Carroll County
jury of numbering a white man and
was sentenced to die in the electric
chair.
Judge Samuel Boykin, however,
stayed, the death sentence imposed
on Eddie Brown, jr., pending hear
ing August % on an appeal for a
new trial
Brown was convicted of Staying
David Andrew Boyd, a 23-year-old
| farmer.
Evening star., 1947-07-25
Soft Coal Operators
Report Higher Output
BY the Asseeiotsd Press

The National Coal Association es-
timated today that bituminous pro-
duction in the first full week under
the new contract with John L. Lewis
was 100000 tons-better than
average production under the pre-
viouS 9-hour day.
The new agreement calls for 8
hours underground for the coal dig
gers, 61s hours of which is in actual
production. The remainder OF the
time is allowed for "portal-to-portal'
travel and eating.
Evening star., 1947-07-25
Quebec Archbishop Installed

QUEBEC, July Is (P.-The Most
Rev. Maurice Roy, soldier-priest
was etnhroned as the 18th archbishop
of Quebec yesterday in colorful cere-
monies which officially brought to
an end mourning for his predecessor
Rodrigue Cardinal Villeneuve, who
died in January.
Evening star., 1947-07-25
u. N. Commission to Leave
For Switzerland Today

BEIRUT, Lebanon, July Is lP.-
The United Nations special COM
mission on Palestine returned here
last evening from visit to Amman
where 1t interviewed Arab leaders
and prepared to depart today fo1
Geneva to compile its report.
Evening star., 1947-07-25
Wholesale Prices Climb
0.6 Per Cent Over Old Hiqh
Nv the Assoeie,ed Press

Wholesale prices hit new post
war peak last week.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics
reported It's index based on the 1926
average, stood at 1903, topping the
previous postwar high Of last March
by 0.6 per cent.
Substantially higher prices for
farm commodities and a number OF
industrial goods were responsible fos
an increase of i.3 per cent In av-
erage wholesale market prices dur
ing the week ended July 10.
Farm products and foods rose "a
per cent and 1.3 per cent, respec-
lively.
Food prices were 1.6 per cent be-
low the March peak but 1873 per cent
higher than year ago.
Guatemala exported nearly 10000
pounds of bananas by air in one
Evening star., 1947-07-25
Farm Tenancy Is Reduced

As much as AZ per cent Of United
States farms were operated by ten
ants in the '30s, compared with 80
per cent in 1945.
Evening star., 1947-07-25

Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest 90. on June IL.
Lowest, z, on February 8.
Tide Tables.
FURNISHED by United States Coast ane
Geodetic Survey.)
Evening star., 1947-07-25

The Sun and Mool
Evening star., 1947-07-25
Weather Report

(From United states Cngineers)
Potomac River clear at Harpers Ferry
and muddy at Great Falls. Shenandoah
clear at Hsrpers Ferry.
Temperature and Humidity.
(Readings at Washington National Airport
The globe-independent., 1947-01-30
BEHIND
HOME PLATE
Baseball
By DOUG STEWART

Baseball
It was quite pleasant surprise to
run into Mr.. and Mrs. Oren Sterling
in the lobby of the Hotel Alexander
on Thursday evening. Mr.. Sterling,
who not only looks well, but is also
feeling fine, told me that he was in
town to sign his annual lease on the
Municipal Stadium for the 1947 base
ball season, and to look over the base
ball field at Winchester, Va, as pos
sible training grounds for the "Owls. y
He was good enough to invite me to
drive to Winchester with Frank Col
ley and himself on Friday, but un-
fortunately, l was unable to go. ]
talked with him again, however,
when they got back, and he told me
that he was really sold on the Win
chester field and that, if arrange
ments can be worked out to house
the team, he expects to close the deal
this week.
The Winchester diamond is in fine
condition; the armory is practically
next door to the field and could be
used for changing clothes and also
for indoor training on bad days; and
the Winchester Chamber of Com
merce has offered it fullest cooper
alton.
Bunny" Griffith, the "Owls''
manager, is strong on having the
team train outside of Hagerstown
(and 1 heartily agree with him).
Winchester is close enough, so that
the team can ride to Hagerstown
for exhibition games and return
after the game.
The Owls will open their train
ing camp on April 7 and if they
use the Winchester field, they will
stay there until April 27, when they
will come back to Hagerstown and
remain here until the season opens
on April 80.
Discussing the working agreement
with Detroit, the Owls president
said that both he and Griffith are
really optimistic. The major clubs
front office is showing every sign
of cooperation and is constantly
in touch with both Sterling and
Griffith. Bunny" by the way, is
going to spend week in the train
ing camp of the Williamsport, Pa.
club (Which also works with De-
troit) and there is a possibility that
he may also spend a week at the
training camp of Buffalo.
And while l am on the subject
of baseball, I want to pay we'll
The globe-independent., 1947-01-30
Ten Teams In Boys
Bowling League
Captains Picked and Competi-
ton Starts Saturday Morning
At Raney's Coliseum.

With sixty-nine boys from the
various boys organizations in Hag-
erstown qualifying, the newly
formed Hagerstown Boys Saturday
Bowling League, sponsored by
"Gene" Raney, really gets under
way at Raney's Coliseum, 140 West
Washington street, at $3.50 on Satur-
day morning.
The ten boys with the highest av-
erages in the qualifying rounds have
been selected as captains and all
ten teams will be averaged up, with
an equal number Of high score and
low score bowlers in each team. A
feature of the league will be a spe-
cial alley for the really little fell
lows, who while too young to bowl
in competition with their older boy
friends, get real kick out of bowl
ing-as do the grown ups who are
helping Rufus Edwards and his
floor managers get the league start
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ed (and who spend most of the
time with the little fellows, some
of them barely able to pick ball
up and get it started).
All boys are urged to be at the
Coliseum promptly at $50 Satur-
day morning so that they can be
assigned to their teams and get
started. The ten captains are:
Charles Squibbs, Charles Williams,
Eddie Owens, John Brewbaker,
Ralph Byers, David Nigh, R. Shove,
Charles Wolfensberger, Joe Burger
and Albert Brown.
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The Loser

The Loser
Sweet Young Thing-Do YOU be-
lieve that marriage is lottery?
Married Mani certainly don't.
A man is supposed to have chance
in a lottery.
The globe-independent., 1947-01-30

At the regular meeting of the
Firemen of Smithsburg, the follow
ing officers were elected: President,
Howard P. Neuman; vice-president,
Reno Harp; secretary, Lewis Hersh-
berger; treasurer, R. r. Frey;
chief, William Kendall.
The globe-independent., 1947-01-30

Mrs. Simon Chopper and Mrs.
Margaret Winters have returned
home, after visiting relatives in
Baltimore.
DR.. o. F R. Treder, Mrs. Perry
and A. L. Towson, are delegates to
the yearly convention of the Dio-
cese of the Episcopal Church, in
Baltimore.
Mr.. Henry Pressman, who is 81
years old, is a patient at the Wash
ington County Hospital.
Mrs. Fred Ditto and Mr.. Charles
Gardener are guests in the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. c. L Wolfnger.
Trinity Lutheran Church is spon-
soring a clothing drive for families
in the Far East The whole church
is taking part in the drive, with Rev.
Francis R. Bell, acting as chairman.
The Smithsburg Lions Club held
a meeting recently at the Lutheran
Church. About 25 members and six
guests were present. Prior to the
business meeting a delicious dinner
was served by the ladies of the
church.
Philip F. Warrenfeltz and J. Hugh
w. Warrenfeltz, both of Smithsburg,
William Wheatley, Winchester, Va,
and j. A. Warrenfeltz, William
Ramsey and Ernest Hahn, all of
Charles Town, w. Va, attended the
Harrisburg Farm Show recently. Be
fore leaving, they were the guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. J. Hugh Warrenfeltz,
where a delicious breakfast was
served.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph L. Newcomer
have moved to Riverdale, Md. Mr.
Newcomer, who has served four
years in the Navy, is now a student
at the University of Maryland.
Approximately so persons at
tended the Greensburg PIT. A.
meeting, which was held January
% at the school house, with Mr.
Howard Noble presiding The pro-
gram included a violin solo by Rob-
ert Letter; and a poem, ITO Water
Fowl" by Rev. J. Orvin Thomas.
Mr.. Warren Large. a graduate of
The globe-independent., 1947-01-30

member of the House of Delegates,
spent the week end at his home,
after attending session of the
State Legislature in Annapolis.
Mr.. Robert S. Winders was host
at a recent meeting of the Mems
Bible Glass of the Evangelical and
Reformed Church, Cavetown, at
which twenty three members and
eight visitors were presnt. Follow
ing the meeting, which was presided
earned tribute to Frank Colley,
sports editor of the Morning Her
aid, for the fight he is putting up
to get the Field Athletic Associa-
ion to make some badly needed
Improvements in the stadium press
box; an up-to-date score board, and
the smoothing down of the bleacher
seats so the ladies won't ruin their
nylons every time they sit down.
Frank attended the meeting of
the association on Thursday (ifIwas
on the job I'd have been there too,
to back him up) and made a strong
plea for these badly needed i'm
provements.
Nice work, Frank! here's hoping
that it gets results.
Basketball
My former gang of Scouts, play
ing with the Woodland Way varsity
five on Tuesday night, lost a tough
one to Waynesboro, 29 to 26. Nice
going gang and here's hoping you
run into a real winning streak.
st. Mary's High School Varsity
squad also lost a tough one at the
Armory on Tuesday afternoon. The
final score was 24-23, with the Viii
Transport lads coming out on top
in the last few seconds of the game.
st. Mary's Jayvees evened things
up, however, when they took the
measure of the Williamsport Jays
18 to Is.
Uncle Johns Cabineers are still
riding high, wide and handsome.
They won their game at the Ar
mory on Sunday; kept their slate
clean in the City League, when
they beat the High Street Mark
eteers on Monday night; and then
went on to trim Grencastle VFW
in the Infantile Paralysis benefit at
the Armory on Tuesday night.
And before I close out for this
week, let me offer my congratula-
tions to everyone who had a part in
the Tuesday night Benefit for Polio
victims, which netted over two
hundred dollars for the fund.
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Mrs Norman McCardell of Will
Transport, was a recent visitor at
the home of her mother, Mrs. Allan
Geiser.
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Cornell University, gave splendid
talk on Winter Birds and Their
Habits, illustrated with colored
slides
Following the meeting refresh
ments were served.
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over by R. R. Frey, president of the
class, delicious refreshments were
served by Mrs. R. S. Winders and
Mr.. Shirdie E. Winters.
The globe-independent., 1947-01-30
Quitting Time

Qulttlng Time
$50 that stout woman is deserting
her political party"
eyes; she says she's against ex-
pansion under any consideration.
The globe-independent., 1947-01-30

Mrs. j. Clark Fraver, Smiths
sburg, spent several days recently,
visiting relatives in Delta and
Waynesboro, Pa.
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Rev. ]. Odell Zechman, Cave
town, has returned after spending
several days with Rev. and Mrs. A.
L. Zechman, Lancaster, Pa. He was
accompanied by DR.. F. D. Eyster, Ha-
gerstown, and Rev. Gordon Sperry,
Hagerstown.
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Mrs. Shirdie Winters, Catawba
Drive, will leave next week to visit
the Rev. and Mrs. r. H. Winters,
1913 Walnut St, Allentown, Pa.
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This is your town, boost it.
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Sn1ithsburg News

Mr.. John Newcomer, Ringgold,
member of the House of Delegates,
spent the week end at his home,
after attending a session of the
State Legislature in Annapolis.
The globe-independent., 1947-01-30

Under the supervision of Mrs c,
1. Wolfnger and Mrs. Stanley Hau-
yer, the Community Association of
Smithsburg served a delicious and
enjoyable dinner to the members
of the Chewsville Cooperative, Jan
uary 16. IT'S gusts were in atten-
dance.
The globe-independent., 1947-01-30

Former S. 1/c Frank r. New
conner, son of Mr.. and Mrs. John
Newcomer, of Ringgold, who was
recently discharged from the Navy,
is now a student at the Junior Col
lege in Hagerstown. While in the
Navy he served on board the U. S. S.
New Jersey.
The globe-independent., 1947-01-30

Mrs. Simon Chopper and Mrs.
Margaret Winters have returned
home, after visiting relatives in
Baltimore.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph L. Newcomer
have moved to Riverdale, Md. Mr.
Newcomer, who has served four
years in the Navy, is now a student
at the University of Maryland.
The globe-independent., 1947-01-30

DR.. o. F R. Treder, Mrs. Perry
and A. L. Towson, are delegates to
the yearly convention of the Dio-
cese of the Episcopal Church, in
Baltimore.
The globe-independent., 1947-01-30

And before I close out for this
week, let me offer my congratula-
tlons to everyone who had a part in
the Tuesday night Benefit for Polio
victims, which netted over two
hundred dollars for the fund.