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Evening star., 1947-10-08
See AFL, Page A-40
Vepco Fined s. and Costs
On zoninq Violation Charge

The Virginia Electric & Power Co
today was found guilty in Fairfax
Trial Magistrates Court on charges
of violating the county zoning ordi-
nance by erecting poles for a high
voltage line.
Judge Harry Carrico fined Vepcc
IS and costs after company counsel
entered a plea of not guilty. Vepco
noted an appeal to the Fairfax Cir
cult Court.
The court action marks another
development in long battle be-
tween property owners along the
route of the power line and the
company. The Circuit Court re-
Gently named five commissioners tc
determine price which Vepcc
should pay for the land and the
commissioners are to report within
the next few weeks.
Property owners have been at
tempting to force the power COM
pany to select another route and
to place the high voltage lines un-
derprCund.
Evening star., 1947-10-08
Snyder Boys Attorneys
Appeai His Life Sentence
BY the Assoeioisd Press

ANNAPOLIS, Oct. 8. Attorneys
for Robert w. Snyder, IS, sought to-
day to reverse a life sentence i'm
posed after he was convicted OF
numbering his foster. father. on the
grounds that as a youth under 16,
he should not have been tried in
Montgomery County Circuit Court.
In an argument before the Court
of Appeals, John r. Reeves and Jo-
seph c. Cissel, attorneys for the boy
contended he should have been tried
in the county Juvenile Court. They
asked that the case be sent back for
further proceedings.
A jury convicted the youth of first
degree murder without capital pun
ishment. He was charged with slay-
ing Ross H. Snyder, his foster father,
last November %. His foster mother
and sister also we're fatally shot at
the same time.
Walter w. Dawson, Montgomery
County States attorney, and the
state attorney generals Office con-
tended the act establishing juve-
nile court in the county excluded
from its jurisdiction offenses for
which death or life Imprisonment
are prescribed.
Evening star., 1947-10-08
Home Show Section
In Todoy's Star

A section containing articles
by many nationally known
authorities on home planning,
building and financing is in
cluded in today's Star. The
pages are C-1 to C-16.
The section offers a number
of personal-experience stories,
explanations of Government
home building and repair
services and information about
the Metropolitan area.
Issued in connection with
the forthcoming Home Show
being sponsored by the Home
Builders Association of Met
ropolitan Washington, its pur-
pose is to be of interest to the
general public, as well as to be
helpful to families planning to
buy or build a home.
Evening star., 1947-10-08
British PiIotIess Rocket Plane
Believed to Have Hit0OOM.P.H,

speeds, which causes lack of stability
and leads to slack and inefficient
control in conventional planes.
The experimental plane was made
of polished mahogany. It had a
wing span of feet and a length
of about IL feet.
The robot was equipped with
transmitting apparatus to report
technical details of its behavior. Its
alcohol burning motor was an adap-
tation and improvement of those
used in German rocket propelled
fighters during the war.
Scientists conducting the expert
ment will require about a weeks
study of the records before precise
details can be announced.
Until there has been a thorough
study, we shall have no definite in
formation as to whether the robot
has actually broken through the
sonic barrier" said a scientist work.
ing on the project.
IF the tests yield the informa-
ton 1t is hoped they will, we shall
have made one of the biggest al
vances yet in the field of super
sonic research"
Evening star., 1947-10-08
Denham Reversal Fails
To End AFL's Troubles
On Loyalty AHidavits
Federation May Seek Way
Out by AboIishing All
Offices Except Two
By jones Y. Newton
By jones Y. Newton
Stor Stoff Correspondent

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. S.-The
American Federation of Labor
today still was beset with nom
communist affidavit troubles
and it's leaders were pondering
a drastic constitutional change
which would circumvent John l..
Lewis refusal to sign papers re-
quired in the Taft-Hartley Act,
it was learned here.
Heads of several international
unions said they would propose
formally to a meeting of the AFL
Executive Council tomorrow "a
change in the constitution which
would abolish all official federation
posts except those OF president and
secretary treasurer. This means
that 10 vice presidential positions,
one of which is held by Mr.. Lewis,
would be shorn away.
The men who now hold the 13 po-
sitions, including Mr.. Lewis, could
continue to comprise, together with
President William Green and Secre-
ry-Treasurer George Meany, the
Executive Council AS such, they still
would set federation policy. Only Mr..
Green and Mr.. Meany would have
to file the affidavits, so far as the
AFL itself were concerned, and both
are ready to do so.
Unions Directly Under AFL.
The new dilemma is caused by the
presence in the AFL of about 1,500
small unions known as federals.
They are attached directly to the
AFL rather than to any individual
union. AFL officers and council
members boss them.
At the last count, the federals had
a membership of $4,000.
Since the federation acts as
parent union for the federals, as the
law is interpreted here. AFL officers
must file the non-C Communist docu-
ments if the thousands of members
are to have access to and protection
of the NLRB.
The alternative to abolishing all
but two official posts, several coun-
Evening star., 1947-10-08
Modernizing Of Parit,
On Food Prices Hits
Snag in Congress
Agriculture Department
Anticipates Days Of
Plenty, Seeks Supports
By the Associated Press

The administrations proposal
for undermining" farm parity
prices, on which Government
price supports are based, bumped
into quick-forming opposition at
the Capitol today.
Present parity is formula de-
signed to give farmers the same
purchasing power they had in some
past favorable period, usually 1909
1914. It is used as a guide by the
Government in determining the Level
at which it will support prices.
The new formula proposed by the
Agriculture Department would boost
price parity for livestock and dairy
products and lower it on grains and
cotton.
It was suggested to joint meet
ing of House and Senate Agricul-
ture Committees as part of a long
range farm policy of organized, sus-
tained and realistic abundance"
Floor Under Prices Urged.
The department said Congress in
the future should take steps to see
to it that people get what they
want and need to eat"
Looking to the day when world
food shortages lessen and the
American farmer again may be
threatened by price-depressing sur
pluses, the department called for a
floor under food consumption
using food stamps or other means
if necessary. Such food coupons
were issued to needy persons in de-
preston days, enabling them to gel
food at cut rates, with the Govern
ment making up the difference.
Opposition to the program came
from Representative Pace, Demo-
crat, of Georgia, a member of the
House Agriculture ComWittee, who
called it undermining in reverse. ;
1T is an Abandonment of basic
principles of parity" he said TT is
hard to believe that Congress eve,
will adopt such program"
Representative Hill, Republican
of Colorado, another committee
member, told reporter, There's
going to be a real battle before the
parity formula is changed, and ]
predict there won't be much change
in it at ALL"
The proposed parity revision woule
(See FARM, Page A-4D
Evening star., 1947-10-08
Baby 1wister Injuries 8,
Damages Jacksonville
BY the Assoeiofed Press

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Oct. ga
freak windstorm which struck the
suburban North Shore section last
night sent eight persons to hospitals
for treatment and did unestimated
damage to homes and business
structures.
Hospital attendants said none OF
the injured was believed to be seri-
ously hurt. One man suffered a
broken leg. Police and Florida high
way patrolmen said they had re-
ceived no reports of any deaths.
The tiny 2-minute twister, which
came out of the southeast, whipped
down power lines and threw the Sec
ton into darkness.
An apartment house was unroofed
doors and windows were blown in or
homes, and store windows were
smashed. Part of the tile was taker
off the Main Street Methodist
Church.
A heavy squall which carried 60.
mile winds which struck Jacksonville
and Brunswick, Ga, early yesterday
morning, blew itself out over South.
west Georgia late yesterday.
Evening star., 1947-10-08

The Citizens Food Committee
will formally request the Ma
tion's distillers today to close
down for so days to save 10000
600 bushels of grain.
Industry members indicated the
reply at late afternoon conference
would be somewhat reluctant "yes.
This would be the third majo,
step in President Truman's cam
paign for a voluntary saving Of 1o0,-
900 900 bushels of grain to feed hun
cry Western Europe.
Already the principal grain ex-
changes have raised their margin
or down payment, requirements on
grain deals for future delivery and
the Nation embarked yesterday on
a program of self f-denial of meat,
poultry and eggs.
Meets Top Officials Today.
Charles Luckman, chairman of the
Citizens Food Committee, arranged
to meet with approximately 125 top
officials of the liquor industry at 4 80
pm. to discuss the proposed shut
down.
Joseph A. Engelhard, president OF
the Distilled Spirits Institute, de-
clined to predict in advance what
the industry response would be. He
said he is not authorized to speak
even for the members of the in
stitute, which represent about so per
cent of the Nations distilling capa-
city.
Another industry official said, how
ever, that the distillers probably
would go along after a protest to
Mr.. Luckman that they have not
been treated fairly.
This official said there is consider
able resentment over the way in
which the request to close down was
made.
When the Distilled Spirits Insti-
tute agreed last Friday to eliminate
Evening star., 1947-10-08
Robot Skymaster Leaves
Newfoundland for Ohio
By the Associated Press

STEPHENVILLE, Newfoundland
Oct. 8.-The mechanically guided
United States Army Skymaster
Robert E. Lee took off at 1882 am
today for Wilmington, Ohio, after a
successful robot flight yesterday
across the Atlantic.
The plane carried an air force
crew of 10, commanded by Col
James M. Gillespie of San Antonio
Tex.
No one touched controls of the
big C-54 until the aircraft came to
Harmon Field for the landing. Then
Col. Gillespie took over. He ex-
planned that automatic landing
facilities were not available here
1t was the first time the mechanical
brain" had been interrupted in the
round trip over the ocean.
The crewmen said they intended
to allow the plane to fly completely
by controls until it reached its Mid
western. base.
Evening star., 1947-10-08
| 7 German Warships Going
10 Russia Reported Sunk
By the Associated Press

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Oct. g.
The newspaper Dagens Nyheter sale
today that the former German
pocket battleship Luetzow and air
craft carrier Graf Zeppelin sank
in the Baltic recently while efforts
were being made to tow them te
Russian ports.
Both vessels were bombed by AL
lied planes at Stettin in 1945 ano
were damaged badly.
Dagens Nyheter said in a dis
patch from Szczecin (Stettin), a
former German port now in Pc.
land, that after the Russians en-
tered the city they began extensive
salvage work on the two vessels
and got them af1oat.
The 32,000-ton Graf Zeppelin left
The port early in August, but sank
off the isle of Ruegen, Dagens
Nyheter said. The Luetzow, which
formerly was called Deutschland
met the same fate a few weeks
ago, the paper declared.
Evening star., 1947-10-08
.Cripps Sees New Cut!
In Dollar Spending in
Prospect for Britain
Aid Must Come in Near
Future to Forestull
Action, He Worms
ly the Assoeia.sd Press

LONDON, Oct. 8.-Sir Stafford
Cripps told a news conference
today that Britain would "be
driven" to slash deeper on dollar
expenditure unless new dollar
aid for Britain and the rest o1
Europe came within the quite
near future"
Cripps addressed reporters for the
first time since his appointment tc
the new post of Minister for Eco
nomic Affairs.
He said more cutting OF expendi-
lures would start a process which
unless rapidly arrested, would lead
on to a gradual economic strangula-
tion.'
1--WE have already begun to dip
into our reserve OF gold and dol
lars-a reserve which is none too big
and which serves the whole sterling
area" he recalled, with an apparent
reference to Britain's recently an
nounced sale of $80,000,000 worth OF
gold to the United States.
May Cut Raw Materials.
Sir Stafford predicted Britain
would skid along "a descending
spiral of depression" which eventu.
ally would extend to other countrie.
if further sharp cuts in dollar buy.
ing had to be made.
In cutting dollar imports, he said
1--WE would probably have to begir
WITH food and tobacco, but it
unlikely that our raw material i'm.
ports could be exempt" He said tht
cutting of food resources beyond {
certain point would mean a falling
off in our total production" with {
resulting further reduction in Brit
aims trade powers.
THE blow would fall with par.
ticular weight on Europe, whose eco
nomic recovery and political stabil
ity are linked so closely with oul
own" he asserted.
Britain, living with present ration
levels at near the lowest poln
reached in wartime, already ha
slashed American movie and to-
bacco imports through heavy taxes
Evening star., 1947-10-08
u. 5. Reported Ready
10 Support Modified
Palestine Partition
American Statement Now
Under Preparation for
Issuance This Week
By the Associated Press

LAKE SUCCESS, Oct. ga
leading delegate to the United
Nations Assembly reported to-
day he had been told by a high
State Department official that
the United States would support
the proposal for partition of
Palestine with perhaps a few
notifications"
This delegate, who had talked
with Washington officials, said he
did not learn what notifications
the United States would seek.
A spokesman for the United States
delegation said q rough draft of
the American policy declaration on
Palestine had been completed, but
he refused to discuss its contents.
The American statement will be
made here probably tomorrow or
Friday.
A source close to the Soviet dele
cation said the Russians were wait
ing to hear the American declara-
ton before making their own pol
icy statement. This source said the
Soviet policy was not definitely de-
termined, although Russia was in
clined to support creation Of BIZ
national federalized state.
LIBERALIZATION Proposed.
The proposal for federalized
state was recommended by the mi
nority report of the U. N. Special
Committee on Palestine CUNSCOP)
but has been opposed by both the
Arabs and the Jewish Agency for
Palestine.
Poland, meanwhile, delivered her
policy statement. urging the U. N
to drop all other proposed solutions
and concentrate on plans to partl-
ticn the Holy Land.
At the same time, Poland demand
ed action to permit immediate i'm
migration of 250,000 European jew
ish refugees into Palestine, despite
vigorous Arab protests against fur
ther Jewish immigration.
Poland's position was outlined by
Josef Winiewicz before the Genera
Assembly's 57-nation Palestine Com
mittee, which already had heard
Uruguay and Panama support the
partition plan and the Moslem Do
fninion of Pakistan line up with the
Arabs in opposing it.
Arab Proposal Opposed.
Mr.. Winiewicz did not specifically
accept the partition plan, but he ex-
pressed opposition to both the Arat
plan for an Independent Arab state
and the minority recommendations
of UNSCOP for a federalized state
Poland's declaration made it clear
that the Eastern European countries
were not following unified Soviet
bloc policy on Palestine. Yugoslavia
and Czechoslovakia alReady had
taken different positions as members
of UNSCOP; Czechoslovakia sup
ported the partition plan and Yugo-
slavia advocated a federalized state
There still was no definite indica-
ton as to the stand either Russia or
the United States would take Both
were expected to make their main
policy statements later this week,
possibly Thursday or Friday.
Today's list of speakers included
Egypt and Czechoslovakia.
Evening star., 1947-10-08
Reds Reported Seeking
More Donish Exports
By the Assoeio'ed Press

COPENHAGEN, Oct. 8.-Danish
and Russian representatives en-
barked today on trade negotiations
which a high Danish official pre-
dicted would result in the Soviet
Unions getting a large share Of
the exports which Denmark pre-
viously sent to Britain
The official said Russia had Of
fered to import 1000 tons of DAN
isfl butter and 1000 tons of fats
at prices recently turned down by
Britain. He said Russia also had
offered to send Denmark 100000
tons of grain at prices 'lower than
the world markets.
Evening star., 1947-10-08

carried by the American, National
and Mutual broadcasting systems.
Speaking with him from their
homes were Mrs. David M. Levy Of
New York, daughter of Julius Rosen-
valid, noted Jewish philanthropist;
Mrs. Phillips L. Crowlie, who was
chosen by the OPA in l943 as the
typical American housewife" and
helped in formulating OPA policies.
and Anna Roosevelt Boettiger.
daughter of President Roosevelt and
co-publisher of the Arizona Times,
Phoenix, Ariz.
Voting Obligation Stressed.
l. Mr. Truman's speech was largely
a plea to women to take their part
in the affairs of this country. En-
phasizing their obligation to vote,
he said that your vote is your in
vestment in the future of the United
States"
The text of the Presidents speech
follows:
Il speak today to you-the women
of the United States-in order to
emphasize the need for greater par
ticipation of women in the affairs of
our country. Our Nation, at this
time, must have responsible citizens,
thoughtful citizens, earnest citizens,
who will work to solve the difficult
problems confronting u.s.
The women of this country, by
recognizing their responsibility to
take an active part in the deter
mination of the grave issues of the
day, can furnish this type of citizen
ship. Women can provide immediate
leadership in dealing with one of
these great issues. Women can make
an invaluable contribution to the
welfare of our Nation-and of the
world - by lending their whole
hearted support to our food saving
program. Indeed, the responsibility
for the success of that program rests
very largely with the American
housewife. She is an indispensable
fighter in our war against hunger.
The American housewife has never
failed her country when she has
been called upon to sacrifice in it's
interest. I know that she will not
fail in the great task now before us.
Threshold of Opportunity.
II know, too, that if the women of
our Nation exert the tremendous
moral force for good which they
possess, we shall make greater and
more lasting progress in overcoming
the other difficulties that concern
us and the world.
"As a Nation, we stand now on
the Threshold of a wonderful op-
portunity, unique in history. We
are a thriving country. The facts
of our high employment and our
great farm and industrial produc-
Evening star., 1947-10-08
Taft Supports
|NLRB Decision
|0n Affidavits
Says Congress Did Not
Intend to Require
Top Leaders to Sign
By the Associated Press

BY the Assoeiofed Press
DES MONIES, Oct. 8.-Senator
Taft, Republican, of Ohio said
today "the AFL and CIO boards
are just loose affiliations with no
control" over individual unions
and that "it was not logical to
require" the boards members to
sign communist afhdavits.
The Senator. who political OBJ
servers expect will announce soon
his candidacy for the Republican
nomination for President, also told
a news conference if Congress had
intended to require the affidavits it
would have been brought up there.
Senator Taft was referring to yes
terday's decision by the National
Labor Relations Board which over
ruled the boards counsel. Robert
Denham, who earlier had said that
such affidavits would be required
from all top officers of the CIO and
AFL If the local unions of those
organizations were to use the facili-
ties OF the NLRB under the Taft
Hartley Act.
The Senator was in Des Moines
to address the Iowa Bankers As
sociation and to participate at noon
with Harold E. Stassen, former Gov
ernor of Minnesota and an avowed
candidate for the Republican pres
idential nomination, in a separate
discussion of party policy.
Referring to the action of John
L. Lewis. United Mine Workers
head, in refusing to sign the loyalty
affidavit and thus blocking the ac-
ceptance of Mr.. Denham's ruling by
the AFL in whole, Senator Taft
commented:
I'VE wouldn't want to give Lewis
the opportunity to block all AFL
unions in use of the act.'
Evening star., 1947-10-08
Bank Deposits Gain
$4,000, 900 Here
In 3-Month Period

Washington banks and trust
companies scored a gain Of
more than s13,000,000 in de-
posits in the last three months,
it was learned today, after a
condition call issued by the
Controller of the Currency.
The call, as of October 6, re-
vealed a total of $1,028, ,345, ,527
District banks. Officials said
deposits have been picking up
for several weeks and have been
particularly favorable so far
this month.
Sixteen banks reported in
creases since the controllers
June 80 call.
"Details In Financial Section.)
Evening star., 1947-10-08
Decision to Be Discussed
By CONGRESS Unit and NLRB

Administrators of the Taft-Hart-
ley Act faced congressional quiz
today on their decision to exempt
top AFL and CIO officials from fill
ing Communist pledges under
the new law.
Senator Ball, Republican,, of
Minnesota called the five members
of the National Labor Relations
Board and Robert N. Denham,
board general counsel, to a closed
session of the Senate House
watchdog" committee on the new
labor law, which Senator Ball
heads.
1--WE won't put them on the spot
or anything but we undoubtedly
will discuss their decision," Senator
Ball told reporters.
The committee chairman and
Senator Ives, Republican, of New
York made it clear they think the
NLRB's to ruling reflected the
intent of Congress that AFL and
CIO officials were not to be in
cluded in the laws requirement
that union officers must file the
pledges.
NLRB Wrong, Says Ellender.
But Senator Ellender, Democrat,
of Louisiana contended the NLRB
was wrong. He said he feels that
AFL and CIO leaders should file
the communism disclaimers, too
although he added that he has nc
plans now to offer an amendment
to the law to accomplish that pur-
pose.
In its ruling the NLRB overrode
a prior, contrary opinion by Mr.
Denham. He had held that the Law
meant no AFL or CIO unions coulo
use the NLRB's bargaining repre-
sentation or grievance procedures
even if their officers signed the
pledges, until the top men in the
AFL or CIO did likewise.
Mr.. Denham told reporters he
intends to adopt the boards view
point in the future just as a lower
court accepts higher courts juris-
prudence.
This particularly irked Senate,
Ellender, who, noting that the ap.
pointments of Mr.. Denham anG
two NLRB members still must be
confirmed by the Senate, com.
mented the three are ION probation
(See NLRB, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1947-10-08
Truman ChuckIes
| At Buttons BOOSTING
| Him for President

Buttons bearing the legend
Truman for President" made
their appearance at the White
House today when the Presi-
dent spoke over the radio in
the program arranged by the
Women's Division of the Demo-
cratic National committee.
The buttons, of the kind Gus
tomarily used in campaigns, are
in red and white and blue and
white, and one of each variety
was worn by Mrs. India Ed
wards, associate director Of the
Women's Division.
President Truman saw the
emblems-and chuckled.
Evening star., 1947-10-08
President Dutro's Wife
In Serious Condition
BY the Associofed Press

RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct. 8.-At-
tending physicians announced to.
day that Mrs. Carmela Dutra, wife
of the President of Brazil, who has
been convalescing from an appen-
dicitis operation at Aeronautica,
Hospital, was in an extremely
serious condition"
Mrs. Dutra underwent the opera
ton IL days ago.
Evening star., 1947-10-08

A short string of pearls, 1925.
Miss Norman discovered the loss
early today as she was about to leave
for the National Airport to board
plane for Dayton, Ohio.
She had been in washington since
last Saturday in the course OF visits
to several cities for conferences with
her company officials.
Miss Norman said she went to
1See .IF,WET ,S page A-4D