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Evening star., 1947-10-04
Skipper Brooding
Over Ship Crash
| Ends HsLfe
By the Associoted Press

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. Capt
Joseph A. Gaidsick, So, an Amer
an-Hawaiian lines skipper whose
ship was involved In a collision in
Puget Sound two months ago,
hanged himself from bulkhead in
the steamer Sea Devil at its moor
ing last night, police reported.
The captains wife, falling to
meet him at the usual spot on the
wharf, called the watchman. He
found Capt. Gaidsick's body hang
ing by a rope from an electrical
conduit pipe in crews quarters.
Deputy Coroner Ray Brooks said
Capt. Gaidsick was to appear soon
before a Maritime Commission hear
ing into the August 13 collision.
The American Hawaiian Co. had
absolved Capt. Gaidsic6 OF blame,
in the collision, but nc had hrooded
over 1t.
Capt. Gaidsick was IN command
of the Fem Victory when it vas IN
collision with the freighter Diamond
Knot in the Strait of Juan de Fucs
during a heavy fog.
Evening star., 1947-10-04
Germans Told 10 Furnish
100000 Tons Of Grain
BY The Assoeioted Press

FRANKFURT, Germany, Oct. A.
Bizonal officials today directed
Germans of the British and Ameri-
can zones to deliver 100000 tons OF
bread grain for the 1947-48 ration
ing year and warned that failure to
meet the quota will result in less
food for the German consumer.
Under no circumstances" the
bizonal food and agriculture group
declared, will additional food i'm
ports be distributed to make up for
any shortcomings in the German
delivery program"
The only grain imported by the
United States and Britain will be
the amount necessary to compensate
for the difference between the Ger
man production and the require
ments to meet the official bread
ration, the announcement said.
The amount of -four to be pro.
duced from the 100000 tons OF
grain was set at 2,767 300 tons.
Forty per cent of the quota must
be met by the end of this month
rs per cent by the end of Decem-
ber and the remainder by February
% 1913
Evening star., 1947-10-04
Meetinq
Held at Silver Spring

Representative of the press and
radio from Montgomery and Prince
Georges Counties, together with Of
flcers of the Maryland Press AS
sociation, attended regional meet
ing and dinner of the association
last night at the Silver Spring Grill
Activities of the Maryland press
and plans for closer cooperation
among the 70 or more weeklies in
the State we're discussed by Glenn
T. James of Centreville. association
president. Ashby T. Land of Balti-
more, executive secretary, spoke on
advertising
Plans to improve the weekly news
papers through a Statewide contest
were announced by Blair Lee 3d.
editor of the Maryland News, Silver
Spring,
Rules governing the contest are
being sent out this week end, Mr.
Lee said. Fifteen prizes will be
given. including one for the best
overall paper and others for the best
editorials. features, and other mate
rial making up weekly. Prizes
will be awarded at the association s
State convention in Baltimore next
February,
Evening star., 1947-10-04
'Austere' Royal Wedding Cake
Will Be Four Masterpiece

emb]erns, and illustrations OF tennis
cricket and notwithstanding the
Kings colors.
Tier 3-Designs showing a cupio
holding shields bearing the initials
of the bride and groom, the cres,
of the Royal Navy, the badges OF
the Auxiliary Territorial Service
british equivalent of the WACS)
and the Girl Guides, and a painting
of HMS Valiant, in which Lt
Mountbatten served in the actor
at Cape Matapan.
Tier designs showing the
badges of Australia, New Zealand
Canada, South Africa, India and
?akistan.
Above the tiers will be a globe
CARRYING the names of all the coun-
tries of the British commonwealth
On top>of the globe will be vase
of flowers.
The bakers said the cake had beer
reduced considerably from the orig.
inal designs to meet the Princess
wishes for austerity.
Evening star., 1947-10-04
Sacco-v Sculpture
Refused by Gov. Bradford
BY the Associated Press

BOSTON, Oct. 4-Gov. Robert F
Bradford has refused to accept the
offer from a group of noted public
figures of a bronze bas-relief o1
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Van.
zetti as memorial ito the struggle
for justice to the individual"
The Italian immigrants were ex.
ecuted 20 years ago on a charge o1
killing paymaster during a holdup
The defense contended during Ions
battle to save their lives that they
were innocent and were persecutec
for their alleged Communist lean
ings.
In refusing the offer the Governor
said the memorial would serve nt
useful purpose in stirring up the
bitter passions and prejudices of q
years ago, particularly at time
when the world is striving for unity
not discord.'
The offer was made yesterday by
Arthur M. Schlesinger, sr., profes'
sor of American history at Harvard
University, in behalf of a grour
including Albert Einstein, Mrs
Franklin D. Roosevelt and former
Gov. Herbert H. Lehman OF New
York.
A suggestion that the bas-relie
by the late Gutzon Borglum b.
placed on Boston Common drew
from the Governor the assertion
that he has no more power to place
plaque on Boston Common thar
| the President of Mexico"
Evening star., 1947-10-04
Russian Critics of u. S. Trying
To Avert War, Ehrenburg Says

novelist) and others by American
movies and still others by the makers
OF automobiles.
However, the American looks
much more attractive from afar
than from nearby.
Our soldiers gave friendly
greeting to the Americans on the
Elbe River lin Germany. Our peo-
pie do not hold grudges and in their
Joyous victory they were ready h
forget the bitterness of 1912 when
Russia was covered with blood and
America was covering herself with
gold"
No Slander of u. S.
Mr.. Ehrenburg said Russian writ
ers who have visited the United
States never slandered the country
He said Konstantin Simonov's play
THE Russian Question" centers
more on the nobility of its Ameri'
can hero than on the American
press. The hero in the play, which
won the Stain prize. is an American
correspondent who balks at his en-
ployers' order to SANDER the Soviet
Union.
Mr.. Ehrenburg said that during
the war the Americans spoke quite
prettily about the rights OF all people
to a decent life, but after victory
they put in a correction-all people
are given this right under American
guardianship"
The writer's charged that "war-
mongers" in the United States nov
are proposing to use up the supply
OF bombs because certain Americans
did not like the Soviet system.
1T is not likely, however, that the
American social system will I'LL III
with rapture" the writer added
I'VE, for instance, think race dis
elimination and slavery which re.
main in the southern States anc
insulting to mankind, yet we do no'
state that because of this we shoulo
rain the fire of modern weapons or
Georgia and Mississippi.
Evening star., 1947-10-04
Bunch Fami|y's Attorney
Sends Young More Data

Counsel for the family of Johr
Forrest Bunch said today they sent
additional data to Commissioner
John Russell Young in repeating ar
earlier request that he investigate
the death of the 64-year-old car
penter at Gallinger Hospital August
4.
In the absence of John r. Fitz'
patrick, attorney for the Bunch
family, Edward J. Lynch, his part
ner, said a 1s-page letter was sent te
Commissioner Young Thursday ask.
ing that he look into police, hospital
and coroner reports in the case. Mr.
Lynch said Mr.. Fitzpatrick has re.
ceived no answer to that letter OF
to one he sent September rs te
Commissioner Young.
Mr.. Bunch died at Gallinger Hos
pital six days after his arrest on a
charge of intoxication. A coroner
Jury decided his death was accl-
dental and resulted from a skull
fracture suffered in a fall and a
stroke.
Mr.. Lynch said the 19-page letter
included the coroner's inquest testl-
mony, a hospital report and state
ments by two men who embalnleo
the body. This testimony, he de-
clared, substantiated the family
claim that Mr.. Bunch's injuries
were received after he was arrested
Evening star., 1947-10-04

Congress to make any offer 1t has
been without my knowledge.
There has been regrettable lack
of effort on the part Of our admin
istration officials to make clear what
the true situation is.
The discovery that there are
little funds available for interim
aid may have an educative effect.
While I think Congress will give
careful and even sympathetic con-
sideration to conditions that will
be reported by these various COM
mittees 1t should be elemental that
an elected Congress is not going to
appropriate funds and levy taxes
in the United States to establish
conditions in other countries on
levels better, in some instances, than
at home or higher than prewar lev
els abroad
Mr.. Case said the United States
was in a different position in Ger
many and Austria since, as an
occupying power" she irresponsible
under international law"
Mr.. Vursell assailed the role of the
Russians in the occupation of Ger
many and Austria, saying in every
instance the Russians in their zones
are doing everything possible to re-
tard and prevent the rehabilitation
of Germany and Austria
He said that aid to Germany and
Austria probably would have to be
increased
Mr.. Vursell added that in his opin-
ion American information broad
casts to Europe would have to be
overhauled.
From what I can learn" he de-
clared, "our propaganda from Voice
of America is not sufficiently effec-
tive
Il think it needs reorganization
and should be handled and prepared
by people on the continent to make
it closer to the people, more localized
and thereby more effective and ap-
preciated."
Evening star., 1947-10-04
u. N.
Continued From First Page.)

(COnLlnueQ from F1TSC PdRe.)
posal by Australia, called on an
American-Belgian Australian COM
mission in Batavia, Java, to get to
work at once in an effort to settle
the Dutch-1ndonesian dispute in
which fighting continues despite a
council cease fire" order issued last
August.
4. Czechoslovakia urged before the
Palestine Committee that the big
powers state as soon as possible
whether they are willing to enforce
any United Nations decisions or
the future OF Palestine.
S. The argument over American
demands for United Nations COM
mission to keep watch on the Greek
border with Yugoslavia, Albania and
Bulgaria entered a new phase when
Belgian Premier Paul-Henri Spaak
spoke of the possibility that the
three Soviet satellite countries
might "hoUt" such an agency If II
is established. He declared they fad
rejected cooperation with an earlier
Security Council commission. The
Political Committee was slated to
meet again today.
Evening star., 1947-10-04
OvereII
Continued From First Page.

Continued From First Pa9eo
defendants, was admitted In the
present trial solely In rejecting
upon his credibility as a witness"
ct may be used solely for the
purpose of impeaching the witness,
the court held.
witness Admitted Error.
DR.. Montanus, who told the grand
jury that he had examined the
hearts and lungs of the Overens
admitted on direct examination that
ne had been mistaken and that he
did not open their chest cavities
until a second autopsy was per-
formed after the indictments were
returned. His examination, 1t was
brought out, was to determine
whether Mr.. and Mrs. Overell hao
died from drowning or were deae
before their yacht was dynamited
as the State contended.
Public interest In the trial con.
Evening star., 1947-10-04
Selected Stocks Gain,
But Profit-Cashinq
Restraints Many
By Victor Eubonk
Assoeiated Press FinoneiaI Writer


NEW YORK, Oct. 4.-Assorted
stocks continued to make headway
for the sixth straight session today,
as Saturday market sessions were
resumed, but light proht-cashing on
the recent swing restrained many
leaders.
Professionals still bought more or
less cautiously on the hope that the
rally would be extended. Customers
were scarce in board rooms, the
majority maintaining the long week
end habit and the few who appeared
inclined to tighten accounts pend
ing foreign and domestic economic
developments.
+ Scattered steels, rails, aircrafts and
specials edged forward at a rela-
lively active opening. Carriers were
resistant on the expectation that an
interim freight rate decision might
be handed down next week. While
gains of fractions were we'll dis
tributed near the close, declines OF
as much persisted in most groups
shares for the two hours.
Ahead the greater part of the time
were Bethlehem Steel, Youngstown
Sheet, Goodyear, Goodrich, Sears
Roebuck, Santa Fe, Baltimore &
Ohio, Great Northern Railway, Gar
Wood, Schenley, Cerro De Pasco
International Harvester, J. I. Case,
Boeing and Douglas Aircraft.
Standard Gas S. preferred slipped
on word directors were at variance
on plans for reorganization. Back
ward were Mission Corp, Skelly
Oil, Pacific Western Oil, Du Pont,
Montgomery Ward, U. S. Rubber,
Anaconda and Electric Power &
Light. Numerous pivotals were un-
changed.
Railway bonds stiffened.
Evening star., 1947-10-04
By the Associated Press

LONDON, Oct. 4.-Princess Eliza
beths official wedding cake is going
to be a four TERED masterpiece OF
the bakers and confectioner's art,
decorated by scenes of royal cere-
mony, naval battle and sports, the
Bakers National Association an
nounced today.
The bakers described the cake
which is to be made from ingredients
supplied by British dominions,
colonies and dependencies, as
follows:
Tier 1.-The brides crest, the
crest of the groom. 1t. Philip
Mountbatten. and representatives
of Windsor, Balmoral and Buck1ng-
ham Palaces.
Tier Representations showing a
casket being presented to freeman
of Windsor, Princess Elizabeth tax
ing the salute as colonel OF the
Grenadier Guards, a night battle
scene at Cape Matapan, musical
Evening star., 1947-10-04
$l,140 Loot includes
100 Silver Dollars

The theft of s1,14o. including 100
silver dollars, from Georges Grill
at 3424 Fourteenth street NV, was
reported to police today by George
Simon. proprietor. .
Mr.. Simon said the thief entered
early this morning by breaking a
glass over the transom. The restau-
rant had been ransacked, and a case
of whisky was missing in addition
to the money.
Evening star., 1947-10-04
By Eddy Gilmore
Associated Press stoff Correspondent q


MOSCOW, Oct. 4.-Soviet writers
have been friendly to the United
States but have been forced to speak
out against Americans because
American imperialism is threaten
ing the peace" Ilya Ehrenburg, 6
leading Russian journalist. sale
today.
Mr.. Ehrenbure, who toured the
United States in l946. said the Sovie'
writer's generally remained quiet de-
spite one section of the American
press. but that now the writer:
must speak out and speak loudly
and not let the guns start
(The first part Of this dis
patch was received in the United
States four hours after the latter
section. indicating that the in
troductory paragraphs may have
been held up in the Moscow CEN
sorship office The dispatch as
received did not show where or
how Mr.. Ehrenburg made his
views knoWnD
Referring to the former American
Ambassador to Moscow, w. Averel
Hartman, Mr.. Ehrenburg said:
He knows very well that we wor
the war because we were the mos1
loving of people and hatec
war. &C. And this Mr.. Hartman de.
clares that the Soviet Union Il
threatening peace and the United
States must fight against Soviet
expansion, and-that the Unitec
States has a supply OF bombs"
Friendly in Past.
Mr.. Ehreiburg contended that the
Soviet people and Russian writers
have been friendly to the Unltec
States in the past, adding:
Our people never suffered, MOI
are Hhey suffering, evil relationships
With other people, The Soviet peo'
ple look on the United States VIII
friendly feeling. Some have beer
attracted by Jack London tthe
Evening star., 1947-10-04
COP. Labels Truman
AS Small in Preview
OF 1948 Campaign
BY the Asseeia,sd Press

Senate Republicans have unveiled
q preview of next years political
campaign that pictures President
Truman as small man" and New
Dealer" who attempted to under
nine the Republican Congress"
otter publicly pledging his cooper
afion.
The attack on Mr.. Truman and
tie Democratic Party came in a
report from the Republican Policy
Committee of which Senator Taft,
Of Ohio isfchairman.
sGeorge H. f. Smith. secretary of
the policy group, told reporter the
report was made available to news
men here "for any use they wish"
after first being distributed among
Republican Senators as back
ground material"
Entitled The Story of the 80th
Congress, First Session." the study
cited the difficulty that arises in
having a Democratic President and
executive department while Repub-
Ecans are in control only of Con-
gress.
Comment in Capitals.
It conceded that President may
be independent" and play the
fgame of party politics" and then
added in capital letters:
But when by his public pledge of
cooperation, he seeks public ap-
plause for what seems like high
level of craftsmanship and then
Systematically practices the reverse
of cooperation, he descends to ques-
tionable ethics, poor craftsmanship,
and makes himself out to be small
man after all"
Comments sandwiched in between
speeches by Republican leaders in
cluded:
A charge that President Truman
discouraged the Justice Department
from thorough investigations of
election frauds" such as the Kan
sas City (Mo) case. through "his
public silence" and possibly by
more direct action"
Tax and Labor Bill yetoes.
A protest against Mr.. Truman's
vetoes of the tax and labor bills.
A contention that the balanced
budget of the last fiscal year was
an accident" and unplanned.
Complaints that the President
tried to take public credit Repub-
licans had earned"
At one point in discussion of con-
gressional attempts to trim Govern
ment costs, the report stated:
The administration still uses
padded. pork-barrel budgets and
squeals like a stuck pig when the
waste fat is cut off.
It added that the Democratic
Party is still using fear propaganda
tactics, distorted facts and pressure
groups to incite the country to de-
mand Government spending"
Evening star., 1947-10-04
Byrd Questions Increase
In IVA Personnel

Chairman Byrd of the Joint Con-
gressional Committee on Reduction
of Non essential Federal Expend-
itures today asked the Budget Blu.
reau to explain why the Tennessee
Valley Authority has increased Its
personnel on an average of 240 en-
ployes month for the last 1e
months.
Senator Byrd asked Budget Di-
rector James E. Webb for "justif1ca-
ton of the personnel increases.
If the personnel increases are
justified, the Virginia Senator said
II would like to inquire further as
to whether continuation of the in
creases may be expected"
IVA now has 1920 employees.
Evening star., 1947-10-04
China
Continued From First Page.

scribed as rather tense" indicating
a possible Communist advance be-
yond the previously reported posi-.
tion-1O miles south of the city.
However, the optimism of Nation.
alist commanders in their ability tc
hold the Manchurian cities was un.
dimmed.
In Tientsin, the Catholic news.
paper Social Welfare reported that
only one of four troop-laden gov.
ernment trains which left Chang.
.chun for Szepingkai Thursday ar.
rived safely 1t said the others
struck Communist land mines.
Earlier, Nationalist dispatches in.
dicated a marked turn for the worse
in the governments military posi-.
ton in the sprawling northern ter.
ritory.
Describing it as a critical pc.
riod," a military spokesman ir
Mukden conceded that the vita
government port of Yingkow on tht
northeast coast of Liao-tung Gull
was virtually immobilized.
The pro-government dispatches
also reported an all-night battle or
the outskirts of Kaiyuan, about II
miles northeast of Mukden on thu
rail line of Changchun.
The Mukden military source es
timated about 100000 Communist
were engaged In the widely separated
attacks, with the main force con-
centrated within a 45-mile ares
southeast of Szepingkai. At Nanking
military observers predicted the Red!
would bypass Szepingkai in the mex
drive against Mukden.
Dispatches said the Communist
damaged the highway betweer
Changchun and Kungchuling. raj
city IS miles southwest of the capital
The rail line between the two point!
was threatened.
Evening star., 1947-10-04
Churchill
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his keen intellect to the revival OF
British economic life and will rise
superior to the strange quirks OF
mind to which he has so long been
a slave, he will receive all possible
help from U.S." he said.
Mr.. Churchill called for elin1ina
ton of "wasteful expense abroad,
including the withdrawal of Britain
from Palestine and cutting down
occupation expenses in Germany,
Our policy should be to make
the Germans keep themselves and
earn their own living in domestic
freedom with whatever help we can
give them and in accordance with a
treaty Of peace" he declared,
Regarding sterling balances owed
by Britain as a result of the war,
Mr., Churchill said that I'VE should
present our counterclaims for the
services rendered them, because
there is not Q doubt that In any
Evening star., 1947-10-04
AirpIone Demolished
| When Steamboat
| Runs Over 1t
By the Associated Press

CHARLESTON, W. Va, Oct.
4.-The oldest accident on rec
ORD was logged at South Charles
tons police headquarters today
"a steamboat ran over an air.
plane and demolished 1t.
The Maiscott Flying School
reported that Frank Isaacs,
plotting a a seaplane, miscal-
culated the shadow of electric
wires on the Kanawha River
and altered his course.
Result was he crash landed in
the path Of an oncoming ship.
Mr.. Isaacs was treated for cuts
on the ear.
Evening star., 1947-10-04
Palestine Police Chief
To Quit, Rejoin Army
BY the A.soeioted Press

JERUSALEM, oct. 4.-Col. Ber-
nard Ferguson, chief of Palestine
police operations and training. will
resign the post when he returns
from a brief holiday and will rejoin
the regular army, reliable source
said today.
Col. FERGUSON, hero Of the
Burma campaign, was a key figure
in this weeks trial of Capt. Roy
Farran, acquitted of the murder OF
16-year-old Jewish boy, Alexander
Rubowitz.
Evening star., 1947-10-04
Rodio Executive Returns

Howard Stanley, former washing
ton radio man. has returned here
as assistant general manager OF
radio station WEAM in charge OF
station operations. He has resigned
as director of advertising and sales
promotion for the radio sales di-
vision of Columbia Broadcasting
System in New York.