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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-31
GREENSBORO

GREENSBORO. Aug. 3O-W.g-
James R. Townsend, a retired
Army colonel, today began his
new duties as Greensboro's 50. 0OO-
a-year city manager. Townsend
accepted the job late yesterday
shortly after his election by City
council.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-31
TEMPORARY BLEACHERS

DURHAM, Aug. 30-WD-Wlth
80, 900 tickets already sold for the
Duke-North Carolina State col
lege scrap at Durham Sept. n, Of
ficials Of the two institutions to-
day considered erection Of tenn
porary bleachers to handle the
throng.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-31
Greatest Victims

Initiation, like a plague, includes all
in it's broad damages.
Rare indeed is the American who
has not been swept up in the continual
spiral of the cost of living. Yet, there
are some victims whose suffering is
much greater than the average en-
ployed individual.
We refer to those depending solely
on fixed pensions or small returns on
investments. With the dollar contain
ing but half the value it held in 1889,
their standard of living has been slashed
in half. 1t is a wonder how they manage
to make ends meet. And the situation
is actually keeping many at work who
are entitled to retirement, thus MAX
ing a job available for someone else.
While this adverse effect upon employ
ment may not appear large when work
is plentiful, it is another of the many
means by which initiation has a direct
bearing toward making it easier for an
economic recession to appear.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-31
coon MORNING

Va sbal know them by their fruits. Do men
o.ther cranes Of thorns, or figs of thistles:-
Matthew 7:16.
our deeds determine us, as much as we
determine our deeds.@George El4ot.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-31

A man stole 100 pounds of meat
from an Ohio deep freeze concern
and now is in the cooler for some time
to come.
Evening star., 1947-06-03
Red baIkanF ederation
is Hinted in Maxine
By the lssosia.ed Press

BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, June B.
Reports circulated here today, with
out confirmation, that Balkan fed
Grafton would be formed here soon,
to include Albania and Macedonia
as an autonomous state under Yugo-
slay control Macedonia lies in
Yugoslavia and Greece.
These reports conceded with wide
ly circulated but likewise uncon-
firmed rumors that Soviet Foreign
Minister Molotov had arrived in Bel
grade for a visit and that Bull
garian Premier Georgi Dinitrov was
en- route
Officials who were asked about
Molotov -Dimitrov reports said they
had no knowledge of them, but re-
fused to deny them outright. A
brilliant red, streamlined railroad
car arrived in the Belgrade railroad
yards and the guard was increased
at the Russian Ambassadors Villa.
A Balkan federation and an au-
tonomous Macedonia have been de-
manded several times by Premier
Marshal Tito and other high Balkan
officials IN speeches m the past.
Evening star., 1947-06-03
By the Assoeiated Press

DOVER, Del, June 3.-The Su-
preme Court of Delaware today
reinstated Robert E. Ringing, so
Of New York, as president of the
Ringing Bros -Barnum g. Bailey
Combined Shows, Inc.
The courts decree also removed
James A. Haley. John Ringing
North and James r. Griffin, who
claim the Offices of president, first
vice president and secretary treas
urer, respectively, by enjoining them
from "in any manner interfering
with the conduct of the business
and affairs" of the circus.
The legal tangle over the officers
OF the circus stemmed from the last
annual meeting in 1916 when Mrs
Charles Ringing, mother of Robert
charged that Mr., Haley's wife. Mrs
Aubrey B. Haley. the widow of Rich
ard Ringing. had preached an
agreement which the two entered in
September. 1912.
The agreement. which continues
to 1851, provided that Mrs. Haley
and Mrs. Ringing were to vote
their stock in block and in the
event of a disagreement, the matter
Evening star., 1947-06-03
Clark Storts Grand Jury Probe
Of Rail Freight Car Builders

into agreements with each other te
fix non-eompetitive prices for freight
cars built by them for railroads and
other purchasers, and have ailocated
prospective railway freight car man.
ufacturing business among the va
rious companies in the industry
according to percentage quotas
assigned to various members of the
industry.
From that investigation 1t ap-
pears that four freight car building
companies have in recent years
secured approximately 80 per cent
of the freight car building business.
Congressional committees have
conducted lengthy Investigations OF
the shortage of freight cars.
The testimony of railroad officials
was to the effect that it was due
largely to wartime suspension oil
building new cars, and the heavy
strain the war placed on railroad
rolling stock.
They said that since the war cars
have been wearing out faster than
they could be replaced.
In view Of the continuing car
lSee BOXCARs, Page A-6.]
Evening star., 1947-06-03
By Joseph Young

Civil Service Commissioner
Arthur S. Fleming estimated
today that a full-fledged scrutiny
of the loyalty of Federal en-
ployes would mean the inveSti-
cation of $4,000 Government
workers.
He told House Civil Service
Subcommittee that a preliminary
screening of personnel would dis
close information of possible sub
versive activities that would make
necessary the examination of the
records of that number of employees.
The subcommittee today opened
hearings on the bill introduced BY
Chairman Rees of the Civil Service
Committee calling for Federal 10y
atty Investigations.
Mr.. Fleming made 1t clear that
this did not mean all of these
$4,000 employees or even a majority
of them were disloyal. He said the
Evening star., 1947-06-03
BY the Associated Press

Senator Taft, Republican, of
Ohio said today President Tru-
man and the Democratic admin
istration seem to have aban-
doned their campaign to keep
prices down in favor of heavy
spending abroad that will keep
them up"
The Ohio Senator told a reporter
the Senate House Committee on
the Economic Report, which he
heads, may order public hearings
on the price situation at meeting
scheduled later in the day.
1--WE plan to go ahead with an in
vestigation of prices and present
economic conditions, but I have
noticed that there has been little
interest on the part of the admins
tration on this. question lately"
Senator Taft said.
Apparently the President and the
Evening star., 1947-06-03
Universal Traininq
Hearings Ordered
BY House Committee
International Situation
Too Serious to Justify
Delay, Dr.. Compton Warn.
BY the Associated Press

The House Armed Services
Committee today ordered public
hearings on universal training
after Karl T. Compton termed
the international situation toe
serious to justify delay"
DR.. Compton, who headed Presi-
dent Truman's advisory commits
sion, which recommended universal
training, telegraphed the commit
tee:
There is no certainty that in
trigue backed with force has been
abandoned as an instrument for ma
tional aggrandizement and unhap-
PLY the present actual evidence in
some quarters points otherwise"
Chairman Andrews told reporters
hearings will start in "a week or 10
days" before the full committee, with
DR.. Compton as the first witness.
World Future Obscure.
DR.. Compton's message said:
IF anything impreSses our COM
mission on universal training more
than the wide implications of this
problem, it was the positive value
for peace Of adopting military train
ing program and the great risk in
not doing so.
THE international future is still
obscure despite our ardent hope and
effort for the success of the United
Nations as effective instrumentality
to insure peace. *"*
"All the other great nations now
have universal military service in
scope far beyond our more modest
proposal for universal training.
1--WE therefore believe situation
is too serious to justify delay or
to gamble on safely avoiding the
issue. Hope Congress will
tackle the issue promptly and cour-
ageously.'
Opponents to Be Heard.
Mr.. Andrews made it clear that
opponents of the plan will be given
Au1l oPPol Iu1A4Iy W plcSGUL CIl6lI
views.
The docket of the present session
does not provide for a training bill,
since measure of such controver-
sial nature would require long de-
bate, and Congress is slated to ad-
journ next month.
Mr.. Andrews said he sees no need
for prolonged hearings, explaining
that extensive hearings have been
held in recent years by the House
Military Affairs Committee and by
the now extinct special Postwar
Military Policy Committee. He has
been staunch advocate of univer-
sal training.
Evening star., 1947-06-03
By the Axsoeioted Press

Attorney General Clark said
today he has asked a grand jury
to investigate alleged violations
of the antitrust laws in the rail-
way freight car building in
dustry.
Mr.. Clark said that certain cor
porations and individuals" are al
legged to have engaged in restraints
of trade and violations of the anti
trust laws, but mentioned no names
His announcement comes after an
acute freight car shortage in the
country for many months.
The Justice Department said SUBJ
poenas are being issued 'for the
production for District of Column
bia grand jury of certain docu-
ments and records of the freight
car building companies, railway and
car building trade associations and
others"
This action" Mr.. Clark said, 'is
the result of investigation by the
Federal Bureau of Investigation OF
complaints that railway freight car
building companies have entered
Evening star., 1947-06-03
lute News
Bulletins
Argentine Accord Seen

Argentine Accord Seen
An end to long standing
differences with Argentina
was indicated after a confer
ence today between President
Truman and Argentine Am
bassador Oscar Ivanissevich.
The White House said MIR.
Truman indicated his will
ingness" to renew consulta-
tions with other American re-
publics on negotiation of an
inter-American defense pact,
which had been blocked by the
United States because of diff
ferences with the Argentine
government.
Probers Il ToId of Forqeries
A Senate Small Business
Subcommittee investigating a
gray market" in steel said to-
day it has found evidence of
forgeries of steel orders" on
"stolen letterheads" of the
Bethlehem Steel Co. The sub
committee said Bethlehem has
given it an amazing story
involving theft of company
letterheads from its Philadel-
pha district sales Office.
Evening star., 1947-06-03
Many Diplomats Reported
Scheduled for Call Home

BUDAPEST, June 3 LP).-Hun-
sarian political informants said to-
day that Hungarian representatives
abroad would be recalled soon by
the new unist-dominated
Hungarian government.
The diplomats are to report to
the government, the informants
said.
Prominent among those said to
be scheduled for recall were Paul
Auer at Paris, who was provost
ern in his views before he left
Hungary, and Ferenc Gordon, Min
lister at Bern, a friend of former
Premier Ferenc Macy, who resigned
as head of the government last week
while on vacation in Switzerland
Developments in the Hungarian
political situation moved swiftly. II
was announced that the new Pre-
mler, Lajos Dinnyes, the left-wine
Smallholder, had chosen two Com
munists to head his Offices press de-
partment.
The Smallholder newspaper, Mag
var Nemzet, reported that the Rev
Istvan Balogh, priest who is secre-
tary general of the Smallholders
Party. had announced his resigna-
ton because of ill health"
1t was announced that the Politi-
cal Committee of the Smallholders
Party, on Communist insistence, had
formed a subcommittee of five to
study the pasts-"after liberation
tSee HUNGARY, Page A-6.)
Evening star., 1947-06-03
Court Orders Robert Ringing
Restored as Head of Circus

was to be placed in the hands of
an arbitrator, Karl Loos, Washing
ton attorney. Mr. Loos directed
the Haley shares to be voted for
Mr.. Haley. Mrs. Haley, Mrs
Charles Ringing, w. P. Dunn, jr.,
and Robert Ringing.
At the annual meeting. Mrs.
Haley was absent and her husband
voted the shares for himself and
Mrs. Haley. Mrs. Ringing then
filed suit in Chancery Court to
have the election declared invalid.
Chancery Court last year held the
agreement between to two women
was valid and the Haleys appealed
the case to the Supreme Court.
Early this month the Supreme
Court upheld the lower court S
ruling but did not specify who yere
the legal officers of the circus.
Mrs. Rlngling's attorney, Clair
j. Killoran. then asked the high
tribunal to issue a decree which
would spell out the legal position of
the parties involved.
The court named Mr.. Dunn sec
retary and treasurer and Mrs.
Charles Ringing and Mrs. Haley.
vice presidents.
Evening star., 1947-06-03
Carson Testifies Nav
Refused Pay Because
Of Moral Obligation
Says He Offered Money
To Offset Burden on
Former Representative
By Robert K. Welsh

Henry M. Carson testified to-
day he tried to give Andrew J.
May compensation for business
help during the war but that the
former chairman of the House
Military Affairs Committee re-
fused it because he felt he had a
moral obligation" to prevent the
Carson munitions interests
from losing money on a Ken
lucky lumber enterprise.
Carson said he thought an
undue burden" was being placed
on May in the operation of the
Cumberland Lumber Co. He, there
fore, suggested to May that he &C
cept compensation, Carson asserted
But May, he declared, wanted to
make good" without pay, by helping
the lumber company produce timber
| needed by the Carson munitions
companies.
Henry and Murray Carson and
May are charged with conspiracy to
defraud the United States. The Gov
ernment declares that the munitions
makers bribed the former Represent
ative with more than $50 900, mostly
in payments through the Cumber-
land Lumber Co.. in return for favors
he obtained for them. May has
testified that he served without pay
as Kentucky agent for the Cars
sons in running the lumber company
Explains Reason for Work.
On the stand in District Court for
the third day, Henry Carson was
asked directly by his chief counsel,
Charles J. Margiotti, why May did
so much work for the lumber COM
pany if he received no pay. Speaking
slowly and deliberately, Carson
answered:
From time to time when May
spoke to me in connection with the
Cumberland Lumber Co., told him
I felt there was an undue burden
being placed on him. He answered
me that he thought he could ham
die it better than l could because
! ne felt there was a moral obliga-
ton on his. part to carry through
until somebody competent could be
put on the job and the company
could be put in running order
He told me he had brought me
into the picture to help me get
lumber, and also to get an industry
for his district. He said he felt he
had to make good on this promise
and until there was normal opera
ton of the company he would do
what he could.
Judge Asks Clarification.
IT said to him perhaps he should
be compensated. He said no, he
didn't want any compensation. He
said again he had a moral obliga-
ton and didn't want to let anybody
lose money on a proposition. He
said he had recommended the site
| to US
Justice Henry A. Schweinhaut in
terrupted to ask Carson what May
meant by the expression make
good Justice Schweinhaut asked
if that meant May had any idea of
making good financially"
Carson replied that he did not
consider Mays remark as meaning
any financial guarantee. He ex-
planned that he got the impression
!
Evening star., 1947-06-03
Rees Bill Means Loyalty Probe
|Of42, 900, FIemning Declares
Civil Service Commissioner Says Estimate
Does Not Indicate This Many Are Subversives

commission felt than an individ-
uars past associations or actions
would make it necessary to in
vestigate fully the $4,000 cases.
Mr.. Fleming used the $4,000 fig.
ure in registering the Commission
objection to some features of the
Pees bill, which differ from the
Presidents executive loyalty order
The Rees measure would set up a
Federal Loyalty Board which would
have absolute power in determining
whether an employe should be fired
or if job applicant should be hired
The Presidents order calls for the
board to serve In an advisory ca
pacity, with the final loyalty de-
clsions left up to the individual de-
partments and agencies.
The large volume of cases that
would come before the board unde.
the Rees bill would prove too great
burden and consequently the
board would fall far behind" in
(See I0yAITv Pace q eI
Evening star., 1947-06-03
Congress Hearings on Prices
May Be Ordered, Taft Says
Declares Truman Apparently Has Abandoned
Drive in Favor of Heavy Spending Abroad

administration are abandoning talk
of keeping prices down in favor of
heavy spending abroad that will keep
them up
Senator Taft said it is his view
that loans to other countries for the
purchase of goods here increase the
competition on home markets for
those goods and thus force prices up.
While he supported recent legisla-
ton for the $400, ,0o0, 900 Greek Turk
ish aid program, the Republican
leader said he did so reluctantly"
and with the understanding that the
program would be wound up as
quickly as possible
Mr.. Truman, who has been trying
to talk prices down for weeks. has
said nothing on the subject since
a May Is news conference when he
said the country could avoid de-
preston if it just uses common sense
and doesn't let greedy people get
(Cao ppJrEC Dee
Evening star., 1947-06-03
Appeal 10 President
Planned by0pponenfs
OF Labor Curb Bill
House Democratic Group
Seeks Appointment
To Request Veto
= BY the Associoted Press

House Labor Committee DEM
ocrats who are fighting the COM
promise union curb bill bid today
for an appointment with Presi-
dent Truman.
"Of course Representative Mad
den, Democrat, of Indiana told a
reporter, "We are going to ask for
veto"
Representative Lesinski, Democrat,
OF Michigan said the White House
promised to let the group know
something today about seeing Mr..
Truman. Others who want to carry
their appeal to the White House are
Representatives Kelley, Democrat, of
Pennsyl, ania; Kennedy, Democrat,
OF Massachusetts; Powell, Democrat,
of New York, and Klein, Democrat
of New York.
May Be Arranged for Thursday.
Mr.. Lesinski said the conference
may be arranged for Thursday.
The House is scheduled to act on
the compromise tomorrow, the SEN
ate Thursday, and there is no doubt
of approval.
Intended to check strikes and
various union activities, the measure
was whipped together from bill
by Chairman Hartley of the House
Labor Committee and another by
Chairman Taft of the Senate Labor
Committee.
The House passed the Hartley bill
and the Senate the Taft bill by more
than the two-thirds margins re-
quired to override a veto.
Chief Provisions of Bill.
Among other things the compro-
mise would:
Let the Government obtain court
orders to stop national calamity
strikes, as in the coal or steel
industries, for an 80-day mediation
period.
Ban the closed shop, which allows
employers to hire only union men,
bers.
Permit the National Labor Re-
lations Board to block jurisdic-
tional strikes or secondary boy
colts with injunctions.
Mr. Hartley and Senator Taft
said in a statement last night that
when "if''-the bill becomes
law, it will go far toward restoring
rpo 20 tn tho irdIJstria1 roIa fiore
field"
Significant parts of the bill, they
said, protect individual workers
against unfair treatment by unions,
protect employers against abuses
that almost everyone. including
most union leaders. agree are in
defensible, and protect the public
against practices that unnecessarily
restrict output of goods, increase
the cost of goods, or imperil the
public health and safety"
Recommital to Be Sought.
Mr.. Lesinsh said an attempt will
be made to send the bill back to
the Senate-Hous Committee that
drafted compromise.
But of course we won't get any
where he said.
Representative Hoffman, Repub-
1ican, of Michigan said he favors
that course, too, for a different
reason. He said the bill doesn't
(see LABOR, Page A-6.)
Evening star., 1947-06-03
Hungarian Minister
Here Called Home fol
Talks by Red Regime
Consultations With All
Representatives Abroad
Are Indicted in Order

Aiadar Szegedy-Maszak, Hun.
garlan Minister here, has beer
ordered by the new Communist.
dominated government in Buda.
pest to return home for con.
sultations.
A Legation official said a cable de.
coded this morning indicated tha
the new government in Budapesr
wanted to have conference Of al
Hungarian Ministers abroad.
The instructions were not inter.
preted to mean that Mr.. Szegedy
Maszak was to be replaced here
Members of his staff assumed, fol
the time being at least, that hs
would return after the consultations
in Budapest.
+ Mr.. Szegedy- -Maszak. a career dip
lomat who has not been affiliated
with any of Hungary's political par
ties, has represented his country
here since diplomatic relations were
resumed early last year.
Standing With Reds Uncertain.
His activities have indicated that
his political outlook was none Com.
muniSt, leaving his standing with
the new pro-Communist regime ir
Budapest uncertain.
1t was pointed out that he was
representing a non Communist gov
ernment, Premier Ferenc Nagy's
and that for that reason his own
activities might be considered non
Communist.
Uncertainty also surrounded the
future of the Hungarian legations
youngest attache-22-year-old Fer
enc Macy, jr., son of the Premier
ousted in the Communist coup last
week. He Joined the Legation staff
here early this year, beginning his
diplomatic career.
The Legation has issued no state
ment since the resignation of Mr.
Macy and today refused comment
Attaches said statement may be
issued in day or two "as soon as
the Sitlla tion is clorifed
Evening star., 1947-06-03
Troops Rushed to Check
Macedonian GuerriIIos
BY the Associated Press

| ATHENS, June 3-Press dis
patches from Northern Greece said
today that government reinforce
mentS had been rushed to the Gre
vena area in Western Macedonia to
combat guerrilla bands who burned
ITO houses in four villages and
killed Is insurgents who tried to
surrender.
Another dispatch said 300 guer-
rillas had attacked Servia, north
Of Larisa. Several women were said
to have participated in the at
tack, which was reported repelled
by government forces.
Evening star., 1947-06-03
Building Curbs SnagJ
Conferee Agreement
On Rent Controls
Senote Shouts Approval
Of Own Bill, 'RiddIed'
By Amendments
By the Associated Press

Senator Buck, Republican, of
Delaware said today a disagree
ment over restrictions on build
ing may be the chief stumbling
block to final congressional &C
ton on rent controls.
Senator Buck heads the Senate
conferees who will attempt to re-
solve differences between the bill
the Senate passed yesterday and
one approved earlier by the House.
Both extend rent controls beyond
June 30 without general increase
in ceilings. There are, however, a
number of differences. The Senate
set the expiration date as February
90, 1948, and the House as Decem-
ber 81.
(The Senate included in the
bill provision extending the
life of the Districts rent control
law until February 20. Except
for the new expiration date,
Washington's separate rent con-
troll law is left unchanged. The
present expiration date is next
December 3D.
Tobey Calls Bill Futile.
The Senate shouted approval of
its own measure after hearing Chair
man Tobey of the Banking Commit
tee, which sent the bill to the floor,
say it had been so riddled by amend
ments as to be ineffective.
Senator Tobey voted for a substi-
tute proposed by Senator Taylor,
Democrat, of Idaho, which would
have extended present controls
without any modification through
June 30, 1948 The Taylor substi-
tute was knocked down by a 58-to-
Is vote.
Senator Tobey attacked in par
ticular provision, similar to one
written into the House e-approved
bill. for pernissive increases up to
(See RENTS. Page A-61
Evening star., 1947-06-03
Quick Approval
of Pacts Asked
By Vandenberg
Says U. S. Cont Wait
T 90 Much Longer for
Soviet Cooperation
BULLETIN

In a Senate speech, Senator
Vandenberg, Republican, of
Michigan today called the
Communist coup in Hungary
"a treacherous conquest"
which may call for United Ma
tons action. He said the re-
placement of Fereno Macy as
Premier by Leftwinger Lajos
Dinnyes was an overthrow of
an elected government.
Evening star., 1947-06-03
7 Trumon May See Press

| President Truman probably" will
hold a news conference at 10:3O
am. Thursday, Press Secretary
! Charles G. Ross announced TODAY.
Evening star., 1947-06-03

(See PRICES, Page A-6.)
Evening star., 1947-06-03

tSee INDIA, Page A-6J
Evening star., 1947-06-03

(see RENTS, Page A-6.)