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Evening star., 1947-05-02
Army Report Asked
On Theft Of Supplies

A House Armed. Services Sub
committee called on the War De-
partment today to tell what it is
doing to halt huge thefts of Army
supplies in the Philippines.
Representative Shafer, Republi-
can, of Michigan, subcommittee
chairman, declared the Army's
criminal investigation division has
placed the losses as high as $780,
900 a week.
Teapot Dome didn't get into
that high rate" Mr.. Shafer said
He added thefts of such magni-
tude obviously ARE we'll organized
and not simply a result of care
lessness."
At the same time Mr.. Shafel
asked the department to furnish
a report on Army scrap stocks
abroad.
There are hundreds of thousand;
OF tons of scrap in Europe and We
ought to bring them back home be-
fore somebody starts converting
them into bullets and shooting then
at U.S." he told reporters.
Lets be smart for change anG
get this stuff back home" he said
1--WE let the Japs have plenty o.
scrap once and what happened
They turned it into bullets ane
bombs and killed a lot of our boy!
with it."
In addition to being "a good de.
fense measure" Mr.. Shafer said
return OF the scrap would alleviate
q shortage in this country.
Evening star., 1947-05-02
By the Assoeioted Press

ROME, May pvt. Walter L.
Florek of College Point, N. Y,
was fined $25 today by a court
martial which convicted him of
disorderly conduct.
The court made no mention of a
charge that Florek had mishandled
the sYugoslav flag in a Belgrade bar,
and found him innocent of charge
that he had insulted the Russian
flag.
Florek, 20. told the court he had
overheard Yugoslav civilians in the
bar comment last August that
Americans have no right to fly over
our territory. 'ss 1t is a good thing
those flyers were killed"
Florek, formerly attached to an
Army Graves Registration Commis-
sion in Yugoslavia, said the remark
was made the day he returned from
Evening star., 1947-05-02
Cost Of Living Record Set Here
In nMorch, Labor Statistics Show
Food Leader in Advance Of Prices;
Rise 18 Pct. Over '46, 81 Pet Above 80

n per cent: eggs, per cent; butter,
II per cent; beverages, 81 per cent.
Clothing and housefurnishing
costs rose 0.8 per cent, with the
latter at a record high, the bureau
said.
A decline In some agricultural
prices promises to halt the food
price increases for consumers by
the time the next survey Is an
nounced. The bureau makes monthly
checks of cost-of- living trends.
The agency noted in separate
report that wholesale market prices
on 900 commodities dropped an aver
age of 0.3 per cent during the week
ending last Saturday. 1t noted a
decline in all non-agricultural items
except house furnishings for the
week.
A University of Maryland econo-
mist had more bad news for con-
sumers. He predicted eggs might
rise to 90 cents a dozen during the
summer. Lower milk prices went
into effect yesterday in several
Eastern cities, while one retailer
(See PRICES, Page A-5.)
Evening star., 1947-05-02
Reds Showed JET Planes
In Parade, Smith Says
BY the Associofed Press

BERLIN, May 2.-Walter Bedell
Smith, American Ambassador to
Moscow, said today the May Day
parade before the Kremlin was "a
very good show, with 100 jet planes
flying overhead and a large, four
engined bomber which looked very
much like a B-29."
Gen. Smith stopped at Templehof
Airdrome en- route to Washington.
He was called there, he said, be-
cause a group of War Department
historians wanted to talk with him.
Gen. Smith was Gen. Eisenhower S
chief of staff in the war. He said
his return had no connection with
reports that he might become an
assistant Secretary of State.
Evening star., 1947-05-02
By Joseph Young

Evidence seeking to show that
Government Services, Inc,
evaded priority regulations dur
ing the war In purchasing and
selling hard-to-get items was
presented today to the Senate
Civil Service Committee.
Frank w. Hoover, general man.
ager of the non-profit corporation
which operates So Federal cafeterias
here was subjected to . rigid ex-
animation by George D. Riley, COM
,nittee staff director.
At one point, after Mr.. Riley told
the cosninittee that his stan could
find no evidence that GSI had the
necessary prior.ties to buy and sell
Evening star., 1947-05-02
By MoIeoIm Lomborne, Jr.

Cost of living for Washington
families scared to an all-time
high on March Is, with food
prices leading the advance, the
Bureau Of Labor Statistics dis
closed today.
Prices at mid March were 18 per
cent above those year earlier and
81 per cent above the August, 1899,
level, the Labor Department agency
reported.
Consumers prices in Washington
rose 81 per cent on the average be-
tween February Is and March Is
as food prices advanced sharply and
all other items, except fuel, elec-
tricity and ice, rose fractionally, "
officials said.
The bureau estimated food prices
increased 5 per cent during the 30
day period surveyed. 1t gave this
breakdown of food increases:
Meat, 7 per cent; lard, "a per
cent; fresh fruits and vegetables.
Evening star., 1947-05-02
Roosevelt Executors
To Send Oil Papers 10
Senate War Probers
Head Of Hyde Park Library
Directed to Search Files
For Pertinent Documents
BY tho Assoeioted Press

NEW YORK, May Earl r.
Rooms, law partner of Basil
O'Connor, an executor of the
Franklin D. Roosevelt estate,
said today the executors would
comply with request by Presi-
dent Truman to make papers of
the late President available to
the Senate War Investigating
Committee.
The committee had asked for the
papers in connection with an in
vestigation into Arabian oil con-
tracts. President Truman rejected
a committee rquest that an investi-
gator be permitted to search
through the Roosevelt papers at
Hyde Park but did request the
executors to cooperate.
Mr.. Koons said "all papers and
documents relative to the scope of
the Senate War Investigating Com
mittee's Arabian oil investigation
will be made available to the COM
mite"
Library Director to Search Files.
He said executors of the estate
had asked Fred w. Shipman, di-
rector of the Franklin D. Roosevelt
Library at Hyde Park, to search his
files for the papers.
when the papers are found and
extracted from the files they will
be sent to Washington, Mr.. Koons
said.
Mr.. Rooms, who has been In
charge of settlement of the Roose-
velt estate, said the executors now
were preparing for a final account
ing of the estate in the Dutchess
County IN. " Surrogate's Court
which would determine final dis
position of Mr.. Roosevelt's papers.
The executors will request that
the papers be turned over to the
Roosevelt Library In accordance
with the late Presidents instruc-
tions, Mr.. Rooms said
The library operates under the
Archivist of the United States.
In Washington, Chairman Brews-
- = (See on, Page A-If)0
Evening star., 1947-05-02
GIWho Protested YugosIov SIur
On Slain U. S. Flyers Fined SIS

helping to locate the bodies Of Amer
lean airmen killed when iYugoslav
fighters shot down an American
Army transport plane. Four of the
men killed, he testified, were his
personal friends.
Describing the incident, F1orek
said he and friend, Sergt. William
Driver of the Royal Air Force, inn
mediately proposed a toast to the
dead airmen when they overheard
the Yugoslav remarks.
MY friend and drank the toast" !"
Florek said. then I got up on a
chair and took down a decoration
bearing the Yugoslav colors.
threw it at the Yugoslavs. 1t hit
one and fell to the floor and broke.
I then started out, stopped and said: !:
For this flag those men died"
The defense later, read an am
(See YUGOSIaAVIA, Page A-l0.)
Evening star., 1947-05-02
Carson Chicago Firm
Prepared Cumberland
Invoices, FBl Asserts
Expert Bocks Charge
Of Attempt to Cover Up
Payments to May
By Robert k. WuIsh

An FBI expert declared in Dis
trict Court today that typewrit-
ers in Illinois Offices of Carson
firms we're used to prepare lum-
Der invoice supposedly made out
in Kentucky by the Cumberland
Lumber Co. with which former
Representative Andrew j. May
was associated.
Frank M. Miller, Washington FB1
laboratory documentary identifica-
ton officer, who holds a doctor oi
philosophy degree, supported a ma
jor charge by the Government In
the war fraud conspiracy trial OF
May, Henry M. and Murray Cars
son and Joseph F. Freeman, Wash
ington wartime agent for the Cars
sons.
Government prosecutors hope te
prove that about the time the Sen.
ate War Investigating Committee
started looking into operations o1
the $78,O00,000 munitions combine
the Garssons attempted to cover ur
payments they allegedly made tt
May through the Kentucky lumber
company.
Photo Enlargements Displayed.
Mr.. Miller, pointing to huge pho
tographic engagements set up In
the courtroom, told Justice Henry
A. Schweinhaut and the jury thai
he was convinced after scientific ex-
animation that the typewriting or
the lumber company invoices, dated
in 1914 and early 1945, were iden-
tical in numerous respects with
samples of lettering taken by the
FBI early this year in Illinois.
Two other FBI agents testified
yesterday that they obtained these
samples from typewriters in the Of
fees of the Erie Basin Metal Prod
ucts, Inc, and the Batavia Metal
Products, Inc, Illinois afflliates o1
the Carson chain.
II reached the opinion and con-
clusion that the Cumberland Lum-
ber Co. invoices, introduced here as
Government exhibits, were prepared
on the typewriters from which sam
Piles of typewriting were made early
in 1947, and sent to Washington for
examination" Mr.. Miller testified.
Minute Study Described.
He explained how at the FBI lab
oratory he used not only magnifying
devises to study the several sets OF
samples, but also how he worked
with certain delicate instruments fol
measuring spaces between letters
and the angles at which some of the
letters slanted.
Under cross examination by
Charles j. Margiotti, chief counsel
for the Garssons, Mr.. Miller saio
he gave careful consideration to the
circumstance that the lumber COM
Ipany invoices purportedly were
typed more than two years ago
| (See CARSON. Page A-101
Evening star., 1947-05-02
AIenlan Is Given
Huge Welcome
In New York
Mexicon Visitor Says
Hemisphere Ties
Further Ends Of u. N.
BY tho Assoeiaisd Press

NEW YORK, May 2.-Presi-
dent Miguel Aleman of Mexico
received New York's noisy in
dorSment of a good neighbor
policy today as he drove past
cheering thousands to City Hall,
where he declared Western
Hemisphere solidarity is a FIRST
step" in the purpose pursued by
the United Nations.
Police estimated 100000 lined
his route down to and through lower
Manhattan despite a light rain that
shrouded the great towers Of the
financial district rising above the
f1ag-bedecked streets.
President Aleman, standing in
President Truman's private touring
car driven here for the occasion,
bowed and waved to the spectators
as he drove along Broadway.
Ticker tape showered on his bare
head. There were cries Of viva
Aleman!"
Police and Army bands were fol-
lowed by detachment Of the famed
3rd Battalion, 504th Parachute In.
fantry regiment of the SD Airborne
division from Fort Bragg, N. c.,
marching in close formation ahead
OF the Mexican Presidents motor.
cade.
Whalen Gives Up Scarf.
Riding beside the President was
Grover Whalen, chairman of the
City''s Reception Committee, who
loaned President Aleman his blue
silk scarf to protect his throat from
the rain. Also in the car with him
were 1t. Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway,
his United States military aide for
the occasion ana Rear Admiral
James Cary Jones, his United States
Naval aide.
President AIeman arrived early
today aboard President Trumans
special railroad car for New York's
biggest postwar reception to an
official visitor.
The train arrived at s:24 am. and
the Mexican President remained in
the car until Mayor William O'Dwyer
and Mr.. Whalen arrived at 7:50 am.
to escort him to the Waldorf-Astoria
Hotel where he will stay while In
New York.
Given Honorary Citizenshin
Speaking from City Hall where
Mayor o'Dwyer conferred honorary
citizenship of New York City on him
following a parade through rain
dampened Manhattan streets, Pres
ident Aleman asserted:
"Mexico's contributions to the
work of the United Nations has
been heartfelt and generous. But
Mexico believes that the first step
we must take In the furtherance Of
the ends pursued by that organ
ization is to uphold hemisphere
solidarity strengthening the ties
that bind the American republics
together"
Stressing Mexico's kinship with
the United States, he said, Let us
remember that our countries are
united by the similarity of their
institutions and their common love
Iof freedom rather than by their
geographical proximity and parallel
histories"
President Aleman referred to the
selection of New York City as the
seat of the United Nations, and said
THE stricken, distressed peoples
lof the world are placing their faith
Evening star., 1947-05-02
Ramadier Makes Plea
To French Assembly
10 Back Wage Freeze
Refuses to Grant Boosts
In Asking Confidence
Vote on His Program
BY the Assoeioied Press

PARIS, May 2.-Socialist Pre-
mier Paul Ramadier, fighting to
prevent the fall of his cabinet
over a new split with the Com
munist Party, appealed today to
the National Assembly for full
support of his wage and price
freezing program.
Asking the Legislature for a vote
Of confidence, he refused to con.
slider granting any wage increases
saying such a step would lead tt
skyrocketing prices and ultimate
disaster.
IF you agree with me we viii
continue" he said. ''If not, lei
others take the responsibility
He seemed assured of victory, ant
sources close to the cabinet sale
the Premier was preparing to ash
his party to let him form a new
government with Communists ex.
cluded If he won the confidence
vote.
Resignation Predicted.
A fellow Socialist minister, WHIT
refused to permit use of his name
expressed doubt, however, that the
party would revoke its nationa
congress pledge not to participate ir
any coalition which does not in.
clude the labor union-controllinl
Communist Party, Frances strong.
est single party.
This minister predicted that Mr.
Ramadier would resign during the
week end, even though he wins his
confidence vote with the backing
of his own party, the Radical-So.
cialists and the Popular Republican
Movement (MRP).
This is the end of the Ramadier
cabinet" this minister declared. "Ne
accord is possible"
Mr.. Ramadier decided at a special
cabinet meeting last night to pose
the confidence question to the legis-
lature today after the Communists
baked at continuing the nation.
wide salary freeze because they
favor meeting demands of striking
Evening star., 1947-05-02
GSI Is Accused Of ReseIIing
Hord-to-Get Items During War
Priority Violations Laid to Operators
Of Government Cufeteros al Hearing

the goods, MIR. Hoover snapped:
Gould we be put in prison for
that?"
Turning to Senator Flanders, Re-
publican, of Vermont, acting chair
man of the subcommittee investi-
eating GSI affairs, Mr.. Hoover said
Mr.. chairman, this happened
several years ago. I can't see any
reason to waste your time on rhat.'
Mr.. Riley retorted:
Other folks were going to prison
at that time because they didn't
observe prlorities.'
Mr.. Riley told the committee that
|persusaI OF GSTs records of the
disputed transactions failed to show
that priority requirements were OBJ
seFyed. even Though the Trsasslrl
Department has advised him that
Evening star., 1947-05-02
BY the Assoeioied Press

Senator Taft, Republican, OF
Ohio today abandoned his fight
for a labor bill provision that
would let private employers seek
injunctions against jurisdic-
tional strikes and secondary
boycotts.
The chairman Of the Republican
Policy Committee outlined to q re-
porter plans to modify the proposal
as the Senate got set to vote at
pm, on the first of four amend
ments which would add more re-
strictions on unions to its big labor
disputes measure. a
The amendment up for decision
would forbid union coercion of work
ers in selecting their collective bar
gaining representatives. COP lead
ers expect it will be adopted by 9
comfortable" margin.
Vandenberg Opposes Amendment.
Senator Taft yielded to opposition
in his own party in deciding te
forego an attempt to permit private
employers to file for injunctions
Among others, Senator Vandenberg
Republican, of Michigan, made II
clear he would not support such an
amendment.
Colleagues of the Michigan Sena-
tor said he Is against the plan on
the ground it would be regarded as
a move to Junk the l5-year- old
Norris-La Guardia Anti-Injunction
Act.
Senator Taft said he still is un-
decided whether to press for an
amendment which would authorize
United States district attorneys to
seek injunctions. His alternative
would be to accept the bill as II
stands, vesting the power in the Ma
tional Relations Board.
The Ohioan said that in any
event he intends to hold out for q
section of the amendment which
would let private employers sue for
damages resulting from a jurisdic-
tional strike or secondary boycott.
Sponsored BY Five Others.
Senator Taft's position all along
on the private employer injunction
provision has been that If 1t would
cost the bill votes, he would agree
to scrap it.
While debate on the bill went
slowly ahead, Senator Myers, Dem.
ocrat. of Pennsylvania told the
Pennsylvania Federation of Labor
that although he wants to helr
unions in what he called their "back.
to-the-wall' fight, 1.-The people ol
this country, including many in or
ganized labor, are sore at too many
| things which have been done in Ia
bor's name" He added: ITO a large
extent, it's labor's fault"
Myers Criticizes Ad.
| Referring to a 81, 500 900 AFL edu.
lcational campaign opposing pending
legislation. Senator Myers said in {
speech in Harrisburg. Pa:
You can run all the full-page ad!
you want in the newspapers, but i
they are not any more specific. any
more concrete, any more explana'
tory than the first one In the AFT
series, then you can run all tn,
ads you can pay for and you still
won't change the public feeling
lSee LABOR. Page A-1O.)
Evening star., 1947-05-02
By the Associated Press


E. M. Voorhees,, chairman of
United States Steel Corps FL
nance Committee, urged Sena-
tors today to cut income taxes
as an incentive to production.
He told the Senate Finance Com
mittee that, while there is heavy
replacement demand for goods, Con-
gress should free, through tax re-
vision, the profit incentive to pro-
duce, and substitute it for the print
ing and spending of money as the
guiding principle in our economy" :"
"Unless these incentives are re-
stored, it seems probable that as the
replacement demand is satisfied the
country will lapse into the condition
of chronic unemployment that pre-
vailed for many years prior to the
war" he added.
Mr.. Voorhees, said the present level
of taxation represents virtual con-
fiscation of income in the upper
brackets.
Senator Pepper, Democrat, of
Florida, who is not member of the
committee backed a proposed
amendment to permit school teach
ers to deduct from their taxible in
come the expense of attending sum-
mer school.
Senator Pepper said his proposed
ties in with current moves to better
tho aoo,,oy,,io ,o,,I;tio,, of faoo e,.e
He said they are leaving the schools
"in droves' to accept more attractive
offer, and the number of new teach
ers is substantially below needs.
The committee drove to complete
its hearings today on the $4,000, ,000,-
900 income tax cut bill already ap-
proved by the House.
Chairman Millikin plans detailed
consideration of the measure behind
closed doors next week-a job he
said should require no more than
two or three days. The tax cut has
priority in the Senate just behind
the labor bill now being debated.
Even Senator Lucas. Democrat, of
Illinois, member of the committee
who sides with President Truman in
the contention that now is no time
to cut taxes, says it is evident a
majority of the Senate disagrees and
will vote for reduction.
Accordingly, Senator Lucas is
plugging for substitute program
which would become effective jan
uary !, 1948, rather than last jan
uary !, as provided blythe House bill.
Evening star., 1947-05-02
Nicaragua President Sworn

MANAGUA, Nicaragua, May Z
R.-Dr. Leonardo Arguello was
sworn in as President yesterday in
the first change of that Office in
10 years. Representatives OF SO ma
tions, including all from the Amer
icas except Paraguay and Uruguay
attended. The day was q national
holiday.
Evening star., 1947-05-02
Fight for Injunction
Plan in Labor Bill
Abandoned by Taft
First Of Four Amendments
To Measure Is Up for
Vote in Senate Today
BULLETIN

The Senate today voted into
It's labor disputes legislation an
amendment prohibiting union
coercion OF workers. The vote
was so to % on a roll call.
Adoption of the proposal re-
stored a provision which had
been knocked out by the SEN
ate Labor Committee over the
objection of Chairman Taft.
Evening star., 1947-05-02
Official Of U. 5. Stee'
Tax Cut Bill
As Spur 10 Economy
Tells Senate Hearing
Lower Income Levy
Would Be Incentive
BULLETIN

The Senate Finance Com
mittee closed hearings on the
$4,000, 100000 income tax cut
bill today after hearing a let
ter from Bernard M. Baruch
opposing any tax reduction.
Evening star., 1947-05-02

(See ARMED FORCES, Page A-10.)
Evening star., 1947-05-02

Continued on Page A, Column /,
Evening star., 1947-05-02

(See FRENCH, Page A-10)
Evening star., 1947-05-02

(See OIL, Page A-103
Evening star., 1947-05-02

(See GSI, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1947-05-02

(See U. N, Page A-10.
Evening star., 1947-05-02

(See PRICES. Page A-50
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1947-03-05

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