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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-01
Of
dos
Soviet Power
Is At Stake
Middle East Threatened By
Great Britain's Shaky
Position
LEADERS CONFER
American Move Would Be
Expected To Produce
implications

WASHINGTON, Feb. % - W.D -
The United States is considering q
momentous decision to bulwark
Britain's lettering position in
Greece with money and military
materiel to halt a feared expan-
sion of Russian power across the
middle east into Asia, it was
learned today.
The urgency of the situation
was laid before a delegation of
congressional leaders by President
Truman and Secretary of State
George c. Marshall a secret
White House conference yestec-
day.
In effect, the President and
Marshall warned that the British
stand in Greece must be main
tanned at all costs and that Bril-
tain, beset by economic troubles
at home and along her far line
of empire, cannot hold on alone
for more than another month or
two.
To prevent a British collapse
which would unsettle the whole
shaky balance OF power in the
middle east, they r understood
to have informed the ~congression-
al delegation that the United
States must assume the bulk of
Britain's commitments in Greece,
even at the risk of a serious rift
with Russia.
It was emphasized that no
American troops would be sent to
Greece to replace the 10000 Bril-
fish soldiers there, but that MIR.
Truman and Marshall wanted U.
S. military equipment and
supplies for the Greek army and
substantial economic aid for the
Greek people.
Early this week senate Republic
Continual I'm Pare TyU0. Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-01
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NOW AVAILABLE TO
READERS IN AREA

In answer to numerous re-
quests by listeners, the Star
News is making available
scripts Of the current salute to
Southeastern counties being
broadcast each Sunday over
WMFD.
The scripts, written and pre-
sented by Ben Mcdonald on
the weekly Star-Newsreel de-
scribes the home areas serv-
ed by the Star-News, in both
the present and past tense.
A letter to the offices of the
paper requesting the script Of
your choice will be answered
by return mail.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-01

ST. LOUIS, Feb. %. -(Pe Mrs.
Beulah Greenwalt Watcher, Army
nurse heroine of Bataan and Cor
regidor, filed suit in circuit court
here today for $500, 900 damages
against Loew's Inc, exhibitors OF
the motion picture, "They We're
Expendable," alleging she was
made the 'so-called live interest
in the film without her knowledge
or consent.
The former Licking, Mo-, nurse
alleged the motion picture through
characters called Sandy" and
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-01
WEATHERMAN SAYS
WARMER WEATHER
PLUS RAIN DUE

With a low of SO degrees predict
ed for early morning, Paul Hess.
Wilmington weather observer,
said that the mercury is due tt
rise today to about So degrees,
slightly. warmer than yesterday.
Occasional rain is also predict
ed for today. There will be very
little wind. Hess said,
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-01
OF CONTROL
OVER LUMBER SET
FOR MARCH 81

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2S.-LR
The office of temporary con-
trolls said today that most gov
eminent controls over produce
ton of lumber. soft wood,
plywood, hardwood flooring and
mill work will be lifted March
81.
CPA said lifting of the pro-
ductiOn controls resulted from
general Improvement in the
lumber supply.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-01

TVA-The senate public works
committee voted mo" on the
nomination of Gordon R. Clapp as
mead OF the Tennessee Valley Au-
tnorlty, but President Truman
slghalled a fight to the finish on
'le senate floor. Criticisms in
.iuoed accusations that Clapp
"ierated communists in the IVA.
Continued On Page Two: Col. II
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-01
Day In Washington
BY THE ASSOCIATED r.

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
neutrality-suspicious. lead
srs were reported inclined to BACK
up President Truman if@he decided
that the United States should take
over hard-pressed Britain's coma
mitments in Greece and Turkey.
But they also weighed the possible
impact on delicate relations with
Russia.
oPA-The senate appropriations
committee voted 11-2 to wind up
oPA by June 30. Members said
controls on rent, sugar and rice
viii continue under other agen-
cies.
RELIEF - Former President
hoover advised congress to hang
please repay" tags and impose
other qualifications on a proposed
1850, 600, 900 relief fund for five
hungry European nations and
emma. He also urged this country
10 stop, look, and listen" before
making further foreign relief COM
mitments.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-01
RAkDONE'S MEDlTATIONS

continued On Page Two: Col. u
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-01
FORECAST:

WILMINGTON AND VICINITY - DC.
a. sioral rain Nexpected today with little
change in temperature. Sunday colder.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-01

Continued On Page Two; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-01

Continued On Page Two; Col. 2.
Evening star., 1947-01-17
De Casper in Rome,
Fiqhts Political Crisis
BY the Assoeiofed Press

ROME, Jan. 17.-Premier Alcide
de Casper returned today from a
two-week trip to the United States
and Immediately began negotiations
to save his six-month-old, four
party government from collapse
threatened by a Socialist Party split.
The Christian Democratic leader
arrived from Paris in a United
States Army transport plane this
morning. He greeted a welcoming
party of about 300, kissed his wife
and children and then hurried off
to his Office for political conferences.
Mr.. de Gasperi, who won prom
Use of a $100,000,0o0 loan from the
United States, said: II will report
to the President, to the government
and to the Assembly on the eco
nomic and political results of the
trip"
He called for serious effort to
consolidate the democratic-repub-
lican regime in liberty and in popu-
lar discipline"
Pietro Nenni, Socialist Foreign
Minister and acting Premier. head
ed group Of Mr.. de Gasperi's min
listers on hand to greet him. Mr..
Nenni last week postponed pro-
jected visit to Britain because of
political confusion produced by his
party's split. Some political COM
mentators have called for his res
ignation on the ground his advocacy
of cooperation with the Commu-
nists divided the party.
Evening star., 1947-01-17
Three Die as Fire Sweeps
Hotel in Watertown, n. Y.
By the Associated Press

WATERFOWL, N. Y, Jan. IT,
Three persons died today and two
others were injured when fire swept
the three-story Graystone Hotel
here.
r Twenty-Five other guests fled to
safety or were rescued by firemen.
Two of the dead we're identified
at a funeral home as William Null
len, IS, and Eugene E. Godfrey So,
both of this city.
Samuel Poole. IS, also of Water
town, died in Mercy Hospital, where
the condition of Joseph Killing, IA,
was listed as serious
A fifth person, Clarence Kendrew
%, was treated at the House of Good
Samaritan for shock.
Cause OF the blaze, brought under
control after three hours, has not
been determined.
Twenty-seven guests occupied
rooms on the second and third floors
of the 37-room brick-and-wood
hotel, known for years as the City
Hotel. q landmark here.
Evening star., 1947-01-17
BY the Assoeioted Press

House leaders face the choice to-
day of violating the jealousy
guarded Congressional Reorganiza-
ton Act or rewriting it.
Their decision may determine
whether Representative Marcan-
tonic, American Laborite, of New
York, only minor party representa-
tive in Congress, will be rescued
from his man without committee"
plight.
To their surprise, congressional
leaders have discovered belatedly
that the Reorganization Act of 1916
hailed as the final word in stream
lining Congress and a charter not
to be tampered with-requires every
House member to serve on a COM
mittee.
However, four members have not
been assigned and three have had
no intention of doing committee
work. The three are Speaker Mar
tin. Majority Leader Halleck and
Minority Leader Rayburn.
Evening star., 1947-01-17
CIapp Asked 10 Explain
Russian Trip Of IVA Men
BY the Associofsd Press

Senator Mcclellan, Democrat. oi
Tennessee said last night he had
requested Gordon r. Clapp, nominee
for chairman of the Tennessee VAL
ley Authority, to explain what right
iva had to send three of its engi-
neers to Russia to explain its pro-
gram.
Senator McKellar, long a foe o1
David E. Lillienthal, former iva
chairman, gave reporters copies of a
letter he has sent to Mr.. Clapp
which also asked 20 other questions
Chairman Revercomb of the Sen
ate Public Works Committee, now
considering the Clapp nomination
said Mr.. Clapp would appear Tues
day at public hearing.
Evening star., 1947-01-17
'Conqress Finds 1t Must Violate
Or Change Reorganization Act

Mr.. Marcantonio was pointedly
ignored by both Democrats and Re-
publicans when they parceled out
their committee posts.
And traditionally neither the
Speaker nor party floor leaders
serve on committees. In the past,
however, that tradition did not con-
fict with any law such as this pro-
vision of the Reorganization Act:
Each member shall be elected
to serve on one standing commit
tee ="
Mr.. Rayburn, Mr.. Martin and Mr.
Halleck conceded that a strict in
depreciation would require them to
take a committee assignment and
also would give Mr.. Marcantonio a
legal claim for an assignment.
There still are five committee
vacancies, two Democratic and three
Republican.
Democrats are holding place for
the representative to be elected to
I'LL an Alabama vacancy. Repub-
licans are doing likewise for . Wis
consin vacancy.
Evening star., 1947-01-17
|Disunlity u Here Barred
Naming Jap Invasion
Chief, Patterson Says
Reveals No Commander
Was Chosen Due to Split
In Navy, Army Planning
By the Associated Press

CHICAGO, Jan. 17.-Secretary
of War Patterson disclosed to-
day that wartime disunity of
command in Washington pre-
vented agreement on a supreme
commander for the projected
invasion of Japan.
He added: IT trust that we shall
not face that condition again"
In addressing the Council of State
Governments, Secretary Patterson
emphasized the value Of the unified
command system used in the the
aters and commented on its lack In
the top planning levels in the capital
His comment came only a day
after President Truman announced
full and complete" agreement be-
tween the Army and Navy on a plan
for unification of the Armed Forces.
Run by COMMITTEE"
Noting that Admiral Chester W.
Nimitz commanded all forces in the
Central Pacific and Gen. Douglas
Macarthur controlled Army, Navy
and air in the Southwest Pacific,
Secretary Patterson said:
But in the planned invasion of
Japan no overall commander ever
was selected. The reason for this
defect-and it might have been a
threat to success-was that here at
home there was no unified COM
mand. The war was conducted by
two separate departments, the War
Department and the Navy Depart
ment, with the joint chiefs OF staff
acting as a kind of committee"
The Secretary, in discussing the
structure of the Nations present
military defenses, reiterated that the
day of "push-button war; has ar
rived as a result of scientific prog
ress. ......
Favors Disarmament.
For the first time, Secretary Pat
terson said, there are real prospects
OIL WOIIQ u kdIlIAdt4Oli AOA PSh~C w
cause 'the United Nations Is going
concern. He recalled that he is on
record as favoring disarmament
across the board, from atomic
bombs to pistols"
However. the fact remains "that
nations still talk and act in terms
of force" Secretary Patterson said,
and the maintenance OF an adequate
force by this country during the
period of transition is necessary.
Warren r. Austin told the Coun-
Gil last night that use of the veto
power in the United Nations Securi-
ty Council to protect an aggressor
nation would nullify the U. N. Char
ter and that there Is only one
certain answer to notification
war in support of the law and Of
the union"
Mr.. Austin, United States repre-
sentative to the U. N. said use OF
the veto ito protect the aggressor
from the consequences Of his crime
would, in itself, be q violation Of
the Charter"
Evening star., 1947-01-17
Excise Tax freeze Adopted
Unanimously by House Group
Measure to Continue Wartime Postal Rate
Will Be Drafted for Introduction Soon
By Robert K. Walsh

The House Ways and Means
Committee today unanimously
approved legislation to extend
indefinitely the excise taxes on
liquor, jewelry, furs and other
luxury levies which otherwise
would expire July l.
Chirman Knutson,. announced
that the committee hopes to obtain
floor action in the House early next
week. The bill, introduced by Repre-
sentative Grant, Republican, of In
diana, would bring the Government
approximately $1,130,000,0o0 in ex-
else tax revenues during the fiscal
year beginning July /. the commit
tee estimated.
Under the proclamation issued
January / by President Truman
terminating war hostilities, the ex-
else taxes would automatically expire
July /. Mr.. Truman recommended
Evening star., 1947-01-17

that they be continued after that
date.
Committee members explained
that the effect of the Grant bill not
only is to freeze these present ex-
else taxes for an indefinite period
but also leave the committee free
to adjust specific luxury taxes at
any future time.
The committee also made two
other important moves today. 1t
announced that a bill will be in
troduced in the House soon to con-
tinue the wartime postal rate, which
raised the local mailing charge from
70 to cents and boosted mailing
costs in some other categories. This
also was urged by Mr.. Truman and
is expected to yield $65,00o,000 a
year.
The committee also voted to re-
port out bill introduced by Repre-
(See TAXES, Page A-4)
Evening star., 1947-01-17
Sunday Reading

Retiring Secretary Of State
Byrnes performed so well in
so many of the Nations top
jobs that he became known in
some circles as "Mr. Efficiency"
A going-away accolade to this
tired statesman is presented
by Gould Lincoln in this weeks
Editorial Section of The Sun
day Star.
In the same section. w. H.
Shipper, jr., The Stars avia-
ton editor, takes a long look
at Americas air transport in
dustry and draws the conclu-
sion that things are somewhat
muddled because everybody Is
trying to crash the act"
A color cover of the interior
garden at the National Gallery
of Art leads the Rotogravure
Section, while the usual inter-
esting coverage Of books, the
theater, music and other spe-
cial subjects will be found in
Thr Sunhan Star
Evening star., 1947-01-17
Kansas City Star Misses
Edition in Carrier Strike
By the Assoeioied Press

KANSAS CITY, Jan. Icon
tract carriers, members of the In
ternational Printing and Pressmen
and Assistants Union, AFL, pick
eted the Kansas City Star today,
demanding recognition as q bar
gaining agency and forced the news
paper to miss its first edition.
Union printers, stereotypers and
pressmen, reporting to work this
morning, refused to cross the picket
line and both the composing room
and pressroom of the newspaper
were idle,
Charles Bond of st. Louis, special
international representative of the
union, said the strike against the
newspaper had been called because
the Star had refused to recognize
the contract carriers as employees
and the union as the bargaining
agency for them. He said about
208 carriers were involved.
Evening star., 1947-01-17
u. S. Worker Is Indicted as Red,
Was in OSS, State Department
Falsely Stated He Was Not Communist,
Grand Jury Charges in First Result Of Probe
By WiIIiom A. MiIIen

The District grand jury today
indicted Carl Aldo Marzani, alias
Tony Whales, IS, a former State
Department employe here, on
charges of making false state
ments in denying his member
ship in the Communist Party.
The Justice Department said the
indictment is the result of an in
|vestigation that has been under way
for some time. The Justice Depart
Iment and other Federal agencies
have been inquiring into Govern
ment employees suspected of subver-
sive affiliations, officials said.
This Indictment is the first to re-
suit from this investigation, officials
declared.
A State Department spokesman
indicated other similar prosecutions
may be forthcoming. He said Mar
zani was zone of those against whom
the departments evidence, after ex-
haustive investigation, was deemed
sufficient to justify his dismissal and
Evening star., 1947-01-17
By J. A. O'Leary

New sensations in connection
with the cost of the war were
promised today by Chairman
Brewster of the Senate. War In
vestigating Committee if the
committee is kept alive another
year.
AS the Senate neared a vote on
the extension the Maine Republican
said that if given the go sign he
will call on the White House Tor:
Detailed information on how the
late President Roosevelt and Presi-
dent Truman spent about $648, ,000,-
600 of special war funds that were
clothed with secrecy while the fight
ing was going on.
A secret mobilization report, pre-
pared before this country entered
the war. Senator Brewster said Mr..
Truman tried without success to get
this report while he was chairman
of the Senate War Investigating
Committee.
Meanwhile, Senator Taylor, DEM
Ocrat, OF Idaho, declared alter a
visit to the White House that Mr..
Truman favors discontinuance of
all special Senate committees.
Most of the A Democratic Sena-
tors are taking the same view, con-
tending that if any special COM
mittee is continued 1t will start a
gradual weakening of the Con-
gressional Reorganization Act, under
which the House and Senate are
trying to increase their efficiency
The Republicans deny that ex-
tension of one or two special COM
mittees is contrary to the spirit of
the La Toilette -Monroney Act
They point out that the Senate re-
fused to write into that act spe-
cific ban against special committees
AS the third day of debate be-
gun, Republican leaders were con-
fdent they have a majority for con-
tinuance of the Brewster Commit
tee for a year, and a special Small
Business Committee for eight
Evening star., 1947-01-17
|Chicogo Apartment Fire
Kills Four, Hurts Two
By the Assoeioted Press

CHICAGO, Jan. 17.-Four colored
children were killed and their
mother and their brother injured
last night in fire in a four-story
apartment on the city's Southwest
Side. More than 80 tenants were
routed by the blaze.
Mrs. Anna Hickman, 40, and two
of her sons, Willis, 20, and Leslie,
IA. leaped from their attic apart
ment and Leslie was fatally injured.
Firemen found the bodies of the
other Hickman children, Alzana, 9;
Sylvester. 7, and Valvana, 3, near
Ia charred bed in the apartment
where the fire was believed to have
started. Their father. Willis, was
at work.
Evening star., 1947-01-17
BY the Associated Press

PARIS, Jan. 17.-President
Vincent Auriol offered the pre-
miership today to Edouard Her
riot, but Mr.. Herriot felt he could
not form a cabinet and turned
down the job, a member of his
Radical Socialist Party reported.
Leon Blum, the resigned interim
Premier, was reluctant to resume the
premiership, associates said Mr..
Blum's hesitancy, because he is IA
and not in good health, led to specu-
lation that Mr.. Auriol's choice might
be one of two other Socialists-Paul
Remadier, recent Justice Minister,
or Edouard Depreux, resigned In
terror Minister.
The new President scheduled con-
ferences with two leaders of the
French Communist Party, Jacques
Duclos and Maurice Thorez, both
reported willing to enter a coalition
cabinet If they get certain posts.
Observers say the Communists will
seek the foreign ministry.
Blum Formally Resigns.
The last of Frances four post
was President-P -Premiers, Mr.. Blum,
formally resigned last night, shortly
after returning from London, where
he had conferred with British
leauers on a future French British
alliance.
Under the French constitution,
the President is required to nomi-
nate Premier after consulting
parliamentary leaders. The Premier
then drafts a program which he
submits to the National Assembly
-Parliament's lower house. If the
Assembly approves the nominees
policies, he then sets about choosing
men for his cabinet posts.
Mr.. Auriol spent last night in the
Assembly speakers quarters in the
Palais Bourbon-a post now vacant,
due to his elevation to the presi-
dency. The presidential palace in
the Rue Faubourg st. Honore,
where he will spend the next seven
years, was not yet ready to receive
the new executive.
Herriot Due for Speakership.
Within the next few days the
Assembly will select Mr.. Auriol's
successor for the speakers post.
Evening star., 1947-01-17
Senate Report Urges
S1,5o0,ooo,ooo Cut
In Military Budget
No SIushes at Cost
Of National Security
Planned, Bridges says
By the Associated Press

The Senate Appropriations
Committee received a report to-
day showing Congress how to
whittle $1,5O0,OO0,O00 off Presi-
dent Truman's budget estimates
for the Army and Navy.
Since the figures were prepared
even before the White House an
nouncement that the armed services
have agreed on a merger plan, they
gave economy advocates high hope
of making deep cuts in the $11 ,200,-
600 900 Mr.. Truman proposed for de-
fense spending.
Congressional proponents of mer-
ger have contended all along that
unifying the forces under a single
cabinet member would eliminate
many costly Implications.
Chairman Bridges of the Appro-
priations Committee said no slashes
would be permitted at the cost OF
national security. But he remarked
to a newsman that the report to the
committee was written by former
Army and Navy officers who know
their way around budget.
Bridges Gives No Details.
Their study indicated about ST.
000, 600, 900 could be Topped off the
War Department spending estimate
of more than $500, 900, 900, and half
as much off the Navy's allotment
of around $4,500,000,000. Senator
Bridges refused to give details.
Any such slash, cutting President,
Truman's figure for the armed
services to $9,700 100000 would be
good news for legislators seeking to
balance the budget and trim taxes.
"As far as the Senate committee
is concerned" Senator Bridges said
II think I can say that we are not
going in with a meat ak.
I'VE are going to see if We can't
reduce the outlay by taking a little
away from here and little away
from there, but I shall oppose any
cuts that can be shown to impair
national defense"
The Army Navy budget is likely
to be one of the main topics for
talk when 20 members of the Senate
ISee nEEENSE pace Al
Evening star., 1947-01-17
Danish King Reported
Considerably Better
BY the Associated Press

COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Jan.
ia bulletin from Amalienborg
Castle said today that the condition
of King Christian x was "con-
siderably better" and added that
the ailing monarch,s lung infection
was decreasing" His temperature
was said to be 1904 degrees.
The Copenhagen press reported
yesterday that the King was re-
ceiving penicillin treatment for his
lung Inflammation.
Evening star., 1947-01-17

a submission of the facts, to the
Attorney General for criminal
prosecution.
The Justice Department said,
Marzani is native of Rome, Italy.
When his father became naturalized
in 1928, he attained American citi-
zenship. The department gave his
address as 508 North Fillmore street,
Arlington, Va.
The grand jury charged Marzani
in II counts with violations of sec
ton 80, Title 13 of the United States
Code This law is commonly known
as the fraud upon the Govern
ment" statute 1t provide a $4,000
fine or 10 years imprisonment. or
both, for making false or fraudulent
statements in matters within the
jurisdiction of Federal departments
or agencies. Each of the IL counts
charges Marzani with a separate
offense.
Marzani is charged in the indict-
ment with making false statements
20. 1FAn n0 HIT 49,. a q
Evening star., 1947-01-17
Mon Killed in Crosh

STRASBURG, Va, Jan. II tR.-
william Bradfield, 56, Of Star Tan
merry, IA miles west Of here, was
injured fatally when station
wagon In which he was riding went
out Of control and crashed in a
ditch on the John Marshall high
way yesterday.
Evening star., 1947-01-17
New Sensations Sure
# War Probe Goes On,
Brewster Promises
Senator Wants Look
At Special Secret Funds,
Mobilization Report
BULLETIN

Senator Tydings, Democrat,
of Maryland urged the Senate
today to turn over the work of
it's special War Investigating
Committee to the standing
Committee on Executive Ex-
penditures. This was regarded
as a new maneuver to block a
Republican effort to continue
the war investigating group
for a year.