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Evening star., 1947-08-13
British Government, Industry
And Labor Plan Recovery Drive
OfficioIs Meet Privote Leaders to Discuss
Use Of New, Extensive Economic Controls

beating down Conservative and
Liberal attempts to shorten the
recess to September 16 in view of
the economic situation.
Anthony Eden, speaking for the
Conservatives, declared the $780,
900, 900 American loan would be ex-
hausted before the recess ends and
that the Labor regime had not told
Parliament what practical steps it
would take in dealing with the ma
tion's plight.
Winston Churchill scheduled 90
minute radio address for Saturday
night which was expected to be a
reply to Prime Minister Attlee's
speech of last Sunday appealing for
national cooperation. Mr.. Churchill
will go on the air at BIS pm. 4:15
pm. EDIT. Conservative party
Evening star., 1947-08-13
Russians Are Reported
Shifting Reich Personnel
Nv the Assoe;oted p,ess

BERLIN. Aug. 13.-Die Neue zei-
tung, American military government
newspaper, said today a houseclean-
ing of Russian occupation forces in
Germany was In progress, with
many Soviet military leaders slated
to be> replaced by civilians more
closely in touch with Moscow's cur
rent policies.
Under the changes, the paper
said, Gen. P. A. Kurochkin, deputy
Soviet commander-in-chief, will be
returned to Russia and v. Semjo-
now, political adviser to Marshal
VASTLY D. Sokolovsky, commander
in-chief, will lose his influence.
A new man is to take over the
work Of "populariznig" Soviet poll
cies in the occupation zone, Neue
Zeitung said.
Evening star., 1947-08-13

Last nights thieves entered the
place in the same manner as before,
by breaking in through a rear door.
A woman resident of the Queens
Chapel Manor subdivision behind
the restaurant reported a noise at
the establishment shortly after 3
am, just 10 minutes after Hyatts-
vile Policeman Charles Williams
made his rounds of the area.
James D. Coates and Milton f.
Carrick. proprietors of the estao-
lishment, said the same safe was
taken April Is and later recovered
in a stream, near Fort George g.
Meade. About $3.50 was stolen then
it was reported. The Rfe later was
repaired.
Evening star., 1947-08-13

A 2-degree rise over yester-
days temperature of 81 was in
prospect for Washington today,
as promise of some crop-reviving
showers for parts of the North
ern Great Plains area came from
Weather Bureau officials.
The District forecaster, predicting
the temperature here would equal
the 93-degree record for the year
registered on July 13, held little hope
for relief from the heat for at. least
two more days.
The prediction included scattered
thundershowers in the area, posi-
bly, in the District proper, but held
no promise they would break the
heat.
AS the entire Washington area
sweltered, workers at the District
Evening star., 1947-08-13
400 Pound Safe Stolen, Rif|ed
Second Time in HvuttsviIIe

Thieves who apparently knew the
routine of Hyattsvile town police
last night broke into a restaurant
in the Queens Chapel shopping cen
ter, West Hyattsville, and stole a
4o0-poll1id safe containing approxi-
|mately $317 in cash and rniscellane-
GUS papers.
The safe was recovered less than
two hours later on the side of Mont
gomery road at Beltsyille. It was
spotted by man who was en- route
to work. according to police. The
door had been broken and the con-
tents removed
1t was the second theft Of the same
safe from the Four Seas Seafood
Grill, 3o1o Hamilton street. since the
restaurant opened last Farch 3.
Evening star., 1947-08-13
15% Pay Raise in '46
For Building Trades
Is Largest Since 1920
Increases in District
Averaged 9 Per Cent.
U. S. Report Reveals
BY the Asseeiofsd Press

Wages of union workers in the
building trades rose Is per cent
in the last year, the largest Jump
in a single 12-month period since
1920, the Bureau of Labor Sta
tistics reported today.
In Washington the increase for
union building workers averaged
per cent.
For the country as a whole the
increase amounted to about %
cents an hour for nearly 100000
workers in seven major construc-
ton crafts. Working hours showed
little change during the year be.
tween July l, 1916 and July l, 1s47
Most of the hourly wage In
creases came after wage control.
were dropped November 9, 1916, the
bureau said. During the control
period from July, 1912, until that
date. however, pay scales increased
Is per cent.
Total Gains Listed.
The total rise from July, 1889, to
July, 1947, amounted to approx
mately 40 per cent. During the
same eight years the consumers
price index dormerly the cost OF
living index increased by SO per
cent, and wholesale prices of build.
ing materials scared SO per cent
the agency reported.
The bureau said plasterers and
plumbers, who received an 1875 pei
cent wage increase, scored the
largest gain from collective bar
gaining last year in the IS cities
covered by the survey.
Bricklayers, with an estimated
average hourly rate of $237, are at
the top of the wage ladder, but
plasterers in New York city nego-
tiated the highest rates. per hour
1t was a rs per cent increase above
the rate prevailing there on July /
1916.
1947 Estimates Given.
Preliminary estimates of increases
from 1946 and the rate ranges fol
1947 follow:
Bricklayers, 1872 per cent increase
SITS to $2.75 in rate range; carpen-
ters, 154 per cent, $1.40 to $3.50;
electricians, 1876 per cent, $3.50 tc
$3.50; painters, 11.6 per cent, $l2s
to $2.15; plasterers, 17.6 per cent
$162a to $500; plumbers, 1873 per
cent, SITS to $2.81; building labor
ers, 1873 per cent, 10 cents to SITS
These preliminary figures were
given for wage increases in Wash
ington, listing, first, the percentage
of increase; second, the amount OF
increase in the hourly rate, and
third, the present wage per hour
Bricklayers, lib per cent. q
cents, $237k; carpenters, 6.5 pei
cent, 1919 cents, $205; electricians
SO per cent, 1914 cents, s2.25; paint
ers, 90 per cent, 171a cents, $1.95;
plasterers, 12.5 per cent. Is cents
s2.25: plumbers, 1873 per cent, a
cents, $2.121a; building laborers,
14.3 per cent, Is cents, $1.20.
Each of these categories was below
the average for rs cities surveyed.
Evening star., 1947-08-13
ABC. Board Proposes
Change in Act 10 Ban
Drinking by Minors
Letter to Commissioners
= Asks Amendment to
Reverse West Ruling

The Alcoholic Beverage Con-
troll Board today recommended
to the District Commissioners
adoption of a new regulation
that would override the opinion
of Corporation Counsel Vernon
e. West that minors can obtain
liquor in a place where drinks
are served if it is ordered and
paid for by an adult.
The regulation proposed by
the ABC Board would prohibit
a licensee from allowing "consump-
ton of beverages by a minor upon
the premises of the licensee."
The board, In a letter to the
Commissioners, said It believes the
Commissioners have the power and
authority to promulgate the new
regulation under Section Z Of the
Alcoholic Beverage Control Act and
strongly recommended its adoption
The new regulation recommended
is as follows:
Section 45a-It shall be unlaw-
full for any licensee to sell, serve,
deliver, give, or in any manner dis
pense, any alcoholic beverage with
the exception of light wine and beer
to any person under the age Of 81,
or light wines or beer to any person
under the age Of 1s years.
ID. It shall be unlawful for any
person upon any licensed premises
to sell, give, serve, or In any man.
ner dispense any alcoholic beverage,
with the exception of light wines
and beer, to any person under the
age of 81 years old, or light wines
and beer to any person under the
age of IS years.
&C. No licensee shall premit or
allow the consumption of beverages
with the exception of beer and light
wines to any person under the age
of 81 years, or beer and light wine
to any person under the age of 18
years, upon the premises for which
any class of license has been issued
by the Alcoholic Beverage Control
Board.
ID. Any person who falsely and
or knowingly misrepresents the age
of any minor for the purpose OF
securing for such minor any bever-
ages shall be guilty Of misde-
meahor and be fined for each Of
fense not more than - dollars and
in default of payment Of such fine
shall be imprisoned not exceed
| ing - days.
All Three Cases Dismissed.
After Mrs. Agnes K. Mason, a
member of the board who was re-
called from vacation by Chairman
Alan w. Payne, arrived this morn
ing, the board Immediately went
into executive session.
It's first business involved three
cases In which selling alcoholic bev-
erages to minors was charged. All
three cases were dismissed by the
board.
! One was the case against the
Mayflower Hotel which led to Mr.
Vests opinion. Another was against
the Lotus Restaurant, which was
charged with selling beer to young
girl, and another was against Janet
and Emanuel Laios, 3 H street NV.
-. 1TT1TODC po1a Az
Evening star., 1947-08-13
by the Associoted Press

LONDON, Aug. 13.-Govern-
ment officials met with trade
Union leaders and industrialists
today to make plans for combat
ting British economic ailments
with the newly voted and ex-
tensive controls over labor, in
dustry and wealth.
The controls became law with
King Georges assent after receiving
final preliminary approval from the
House of Lords this morning. The
'"crisis" bill empowers the Labor
Government to muster all British
resources and guide labor into es-
sential industries in efforts to
achieve economic recovery.
The House of Commons voted 1913
to "a to adjourn until October 20,
Evening star., 1947-08-13
FOUR KILLED as bomber and
training plane collide. Page AS

FOUR KILLED as bomber and
training plane collide. Page AS
Army officials today were investi-
eating the crash of a Psi Mustang
fighter plane miles south of Alex
andria. and the death Of its pilot,
Maj Frank w. Hess, 80, Palo Alto,
Calf, whose body and unopened
parachute were found about 2 miles
from the scene last night.
The flyer, whose body was taken
to Boiling Field, was en- route from
Memphis, Tenn, to Andrews Field,
with man identified as Capt.
Kramer, plotting another Psi.
According to Andrews Field au-
thorities, the two planes apparently
ran into bad weather and were low
in gasoline as they approached
Evening star., 1947-08-13
Child Fearful
IOf Thunder Dies
| As Drums Roll
By the Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. l3-Two-
year-old Nancy Lee Pollock, whose
mother said the child was desthly
afraid of anything that sounded
like thunder" collapsed and died in
her crib as drum and bugle band
practiced nearby, Detective Albert
Helvitson reported.
Mrs. Elba Pollock, who came from
her home in Stockton, Calf, to visit
a sister. said Nancy Lee awoke
screaming last night and then fell
limp in her bed The child was
rushed to the ONCE of DR.. Hubert
Manazuk, but was dead on arrival
here.
Evening star., 1947-08-13
Motor Vessel Sinks
In Crash Off Seattle
BULLETIN
PORT ANGELES, Wash. R.-
The motorship Diamond Knot
sank today near Crescent Bay,
west of here, while in tow of
two tugs.
By the Associated Press

SEATTLE, Aug. 13.-The 10,681-
ton freighter Penn Victory and the
coastal motorship Diamond Knot
collided early today in thick fog off
Vicoria, British Columbia, and the
Diamond Knot was rapidly filling
with water
Three hours after the 1:l0 am
collision, which left gaping hole
in the motorship. three of her holds
were flooded and her crew was TAX
ing to lifeboats.
The vessels collided in the treach-
erous Strait of Juan de Fuca.
The Penn -Victory's bow still was
stuck fast in the side OF the $685.
ton Alaska-to-Seattle motorship
Part of the Diamond Knots mast
head tackle was, hooked over the
bow of the larger vessel, and the
contact was helping to keep her
af1oat.
Capt. c. II. Goodwin of the Dia-
mond Knot radioed the Coast Guard
here that he hoped salvage tugs
would arrive in time to pull his
vessel to Esquimalt. a few miles
away. Her engine room still was
dry.
Capt. Goodwin said his No. and
No. 8 holds we're flooded and No.
had 10 feet of water.
The strait was fairly calm ex-
ceps for ground swells. The two
ships were obseured by a heavy,
low-lying fog bank.
There was no report of casualties
on either ship. The Penn Victory
normally carries a crew of so.
The Diamond Knott was launched
here September 8, 1914, by the Con-
solidated Steel Corp. as the first
in Its series of long-range cargo
ships.
Her wartime mission was to carry
Army and Navy supplies into the
Pacific area. She and her sister
ships were designated Avis, with q
length of 326 feet. 5o-foot beam
and ls-foot draft.
Evening star., 1947-08-13
Tropical Storm Center
Near Campache, Mexico
By the Assoeiotsd Press

NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 13-The
center Of a tropical stern in the
Gulf Of Mexico was located at 9
am, Central Standard Time, about
120 miles west-northwest of Cam
pache, Mexico.
The Weather Bureau here said
the storm, which moved across the
Northern Yucatan Peninsula yes
terday from the Caribbean Sea into
the Gulf. is moving west or west
northward at II to IS miles per
hour.
The strongest winds near the
center are about so miles per hour,
with squalls extending 200 miles to
the east and north of the center.
Evening star., 1947-08-13
Lute Bulletin
CurIey Plea Rejected

Mayor James M. Curley of
Boston lost another bid for
early freedom today when Dis
trict Court Justice James M.
Proctor refused to reduce the
6-to-18-month sentence given
Curley on his mail fraud con-
viction. The ailing Curley
went to Jail to begin his sem
tence on June 26.
Evening star., 1947-08-13
Tryeve Lie Flying to Rio
For Hemisphere PorIey
BY the Assoeio.ed Press

NEW YORK. Aug. l3.-Trygvt
Lie, Secretary General of the United
Nations, left La Guardia Field early
today aboard Pan American Worle
Airways clipper for Rio de Janeirt
to address the Inter-American Con.
ference opening Friday in the Bra.
lillian capital
William Stoneman, his adviser
accompanied Mr.. Lie, who will at.
tend the conference as special OBJ.
server for the United Nations anc
give the keynote speech Friday
They are due in Brazil tomorrow
morning.
Evening star., 1947-08-13
Paraguay Insurgents
Are Reported Fleeing
Positions al Asuncion
LoyoIists Declare They
Are Pursuing Rebels
North From CopitoI
BY the Associated Press

BUENOS AIRES, Aug. 13.-An
official Paraguayan source here
said rebel forces were fleeing
from their positions around
Asuncion today after suffering a
sharp defeat at the hands of
loyal Paraguayan troops in the
latest action of five month old
civil war.
This informant said the Loyal
lists were "tenaciously pursuing the
eating insurgents in the direc-
ton of Piquete Cue and Villeta,
north of the capital. An earlier
official announcement last night
said q Loyalist relief column
pressing down from the north,
where the rebel capital of Concep-
cion was captured July 31-had
reached a point only u miles from
Asuncion.
The ofhcial source here said the
message he received from sAsuncion
last night reported that insurgent
forces around the threatened Loyal
ist capital had been destroyed" :"
He did not make plain, however,
whether the insurgent troops men,
toned constituted the entire rebel
force concentrated there or part
of 1t. ..5
Rebel Broadcast Heard.
On the other hand, rebel sympa-
thizers in the border city of Formosa
said they heard a broadcast rebel
communique last night which said
the insurgents were fighting in the
center of Asuncion and advancing
steadily despite desperate govern
ment resistance" They said the
communique stated that the fall of
Asuncion was only a matter OF
hours"
Paraguayan refugees reaching
Argentina said that when they left
the government was preparing
Asuncion strongpoints for build
ing to building defense in the event
of breakthrough by the rebels.
Relief of the Loyalist capital
would end a paraxodigal situation
which found the government of
President Higinio Morinigo faced
with defeat less than 10 days after
its troops conquered the rebel capi-
tai, 125 miles to the north, in what
then appeared to be the victorious
climax of the 18th Paraguayan re-
bellion in IL years.
The explanation of the paradox
still is obscure and even military
experts would like to know exactly
what happened between the fall of
Conception July 81 and. August 7,
when rebel forces appeared at the
gates of Asuncion.
How Tide Was Reversed.
/ One Paraguayan military man
here said he thought this is about
what happened in that first week
in August:
The Loyalists had been pushing
toward Conception ever since the
revolt began there March 7. Weeks
ago it became obvious to the rebel
leaders that they could not defend
Conception successfully. Conse-
quently, they left their lines thinly
manned and sent their best men
filtering through the advancing
Loyalists.
The Loyalists had sent most of
their forces to the front, keeping
the remainder as a defense for
Asuncion, thus leaving the inter-
vening country-which is heavily
wooded, mostly uninhabited and
sliced up by numerous streams
practically denuded of manpower.
The infiltrating insurgents, there
fore, we're able to make their way
to the outskirts of Asuncion almost
unnoticed. When the Loyalists
finally pushed into Conception they
found only a few hundred rebels
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Evening star., 1947-08-13
Probe Of Prices
ToCenter on
'Conspiiracies'
Drive Held Justified
By Complaints; CIO
Agoin Urges PurIey

The food, clothing and housing
price investigation ordered by
Attorney General Clark was de-
scribed today by Justice Depart
ment officials as move, justified
by many complaints, to protect
the public and the majority OF
businessmen from "conspiracies'
to push up or keep up costs in
those fields.
"It is not against the law to earn
money and make legitimate profits, u
Mr.. Clark said. 1--WE are simply
trying to ferret out violators of the
antitrust laws who Illegally main
tain or increase prices"
While Justice Department officials
were pushing their plans for the
investigation, the CIO renewed a
request that President Truman call
an industry Government-labor con-
ference to seek voluntary price re-
ductions. And on Capitol Hill a
congressional critic called the At
torney Generals program fan
tastic."
CIO Welcomes Probe.
The CIO, which yesterday asked
a special session of Congress to
deal with prices and conference
as an alternative, welcome Mr..
Clarks announcement of his in
vestigation.
Emil Rieve, chairman of the CLOS
full employment committee, said
however, that many prices are set
by large monopolies and monopolies
do not necessarily fall under
criminal law and Mr.. Clark's in
vestigation."
For example, in the automobile
industry General Motors controls
probably 60 per cent of the business
and therefore is able to dictate
prices
Price Conference Asked.
For that reason, he said, CIO feels
the President should at once sum-
mon a conference for voluntary
price cuts and Congress, immedi-
ately on reconvening. should re-es-
tablish price and rationing controls
At the Justice Department
spokesmen refused detailed COM
ment on the investigation program
because this is a time for action
instead of words" They said the
department had no wish to get into
an argument with anybody or te
give the impression the investiga.
ton was "out to smear any one"
The investigation, they explained
will be directed by Assistant Attor.
ney General John r. Sonnet, chief
of the Antitrust Division, and con-
Quoted not only through headquar.
ters here but through branch Offices
In New York, Boston, Chicago, Den
yer, Seattle, San Francisco and Los
Angeles.
1t will involve, they said, the
examination of complaints, prosecu.
ton of cases, convictions in court
and specific requests for jail
sentences.
Consent DEGREES, fines, nolo con
tendere (no contest) pleas and sc
forth have been tried and found in.
effective an official said. The 9;
United States district attorneys
throughout the country and the
special prosecutors who will work or
these cases for the department have
been instructed to recommend tc
judges that persons found guilty OF
conspiracy to keep up or raise high
prices for housing, food and clothing
be given Jail sentences"
Department officials refused tc
disclose what complaints may have
Evening star., 1947-08-13
Reds Fire on u. S. Sector

BERLIN, Aug. 13 tR.-German
police notified American military
police early today that Russian SOL
diers in a motorboat had fired on an
island in the Wannsee, inside the
American sector of Berlin. The
motorboat had vanished when an
American lake patrol arrived. A
liaison officer said the party might
have been out hunting ducks.
Evening star., 1947-08-13

(See PRICES, Page A-6.)
Evening star., 1947-08-13

(See MINORS. Page A-6.)
Evening star., 1947-08-13

(See PARAGUAY, Page A-5)
Evening star., 1947-08-13

(See BRITAIN. Page A-5D
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1947-05-05

consolidated rural schools to re-
place the one-room schools, Mr..
Bittikofer believes that increased
emphasis on the teaching Of
health has been tn e biggest
change he has seen in so years.
"Other than that, methods and
subject matter are about the same
as they have always been," he be-
lieveS.
Now, at 20, and nearing retire
ment, the veteran pedagogue still
looks ahead to better schools. He
thinks courses in family relation
ship and industrial work which
would fit boy, or girl, for spe-
oific job, should be included in
curriculi.
after all, the schools are to de-
velope good healthy citizens, and
happy ones, and we're not doing
our duty until we prepare boys
and girls for our modern life," he
declares.
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SENIOR PLAY
WELL RECEIVED
CONTINUED from page ID

as Hugo Willifred; Harold Coed
eking as Stephen Reynolds; Dale
Bell as Butch Reynolds; Joann
Allemang as Hildred Reynolds;
Ethel Monroe as Madge wilkins;
Charles Swink as Philip King;
Claude Sharf as Sascha Sevinsky;
Marion Luh as Damon Gottsehalk;
Jeanne Schalip as May Houston;
Pat Haggard as Veronica Nicols;
Arthur Brandt as Barney Fellows;
JoAnne McCory as Margie Cot
ton; Rebecca Borden as Jeanie
Cronin; Violet Stierhoff as Janet
Hardman; Anne Wade as Connie
Mason.
Special mention should be
made of the concert band which
presented some very fine musical
/ numbers between acts. The bano
was directed by Donald Euverard
and it added a great deal to {
thoroughly enjoyable evening
The play was written by Marri-
jane and Joseph Hayes was pre-
sented by permission of the Sam
uel French co.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1947-05-05
TRIO FINED HERE
FOLLOWING FIGHT

A man, his wife, and her son
were fined S25 and costs each,
Saturday afternoon, as the result
of fight at the Davis Taxicab
co. office, Friday evening. They
were:
Washington Potts, 49, his wife,
Leona, Az, both of Marysville, and
her son, Elba McAllister, 2l, of
near Lancaster
They were arrested by Officer
Richard Simpson about IL p. m.
Friday and appeared before May
or Asman at A p. m. Saturday
All three were charged with in
toxication and disorderly conduct.
One of the trio is said to have
used improper language in the
presence of Mrs. William Call,
wife of one of the Taxi co en-
ployees. Call demanded they re-
frain from such conduct, and this
led to the fight.
Potts pulled knife on Call,
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1947-05-05

Council, all of them club advisers
with several years service be-
hind them, are: Carl Jacobs, York
township, chairman; Mrs. Frences
Kasper, Jerome township; Mrs.
Sam Westlake, Taylor township;
Mrs. Harold Kent, Allen town
ship; B. F. Anthony, Dover town
ship.
Junior Concil members, all of
whom were last years club Con-
gress delegates; are: Wanda Sue
Low, Dover township Jean Null
aney, Liberty township; Inez
Jackson, Taylor township; David
Kerns, York township; Max Cow
grill, Claibourne township; and
Hugh Snepp, Liberty township,
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Continued from page ID
is estimated at $4,000 and Milo l.
Myers is attoney. George Scheid-
erer, Dana Morey and 0. A. Will
gus are appraisers.
Petition to sell real estate, con-
sisting of a house and lot on w
Sisth St, to pay debts and claims
against the estate, has been filed
in Probate Court. The property
is appraised at S6500.