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Evening star., 1947-02-26
UPWA Denounces Layofs
OF Veterans Housing Force

The CIO United Public Workers
of America yesterday charged that
"hasty and ill-advised" layoffs in
the Office of the housing expediter
have jeopardized the veterans hous-
ing program.
Daniel H. Schwartz, UPWA re-
gional director, declared that the
firing of 400 housing employees "vio-
lates sound civil service practice and
is an evasion of the reduction i'm
torce procedure of Government
personnel"
Mr.. Schwartz said the 400 en-
ployes formerly were with the Ma
tional Housing Agency and were
transferred to the expediter's office
with the specific intent ito liqui-
date them"
"It is our feeling that the more
than 400 employees of OHE who have
received dismissal notices are the
victims of arbitrary action" Mr..
Schwartz said. "Layoffs are being
conducted without waiting to ascer-
tain needs under the housing pro-
gram essential to Government work
erS. The mass dismissal of employees
working on the veterans housing
program can be explained only IN
terms of false economy, which would
save money by crippling Govern
ment services or in terms of a ma
neuver on behalf Of private profiteers
at the expense of houses for vet
Grams. In either event, the 400 en-
ployes of OHE have been the first
victims"
Evening star., 1947-02-26
Truman S Schedule
Set for Mexican Trip

President Truman will leave here
at 7 am. Sunday on the first leg
of his flight to- Mexico City to
meet President Miguel Aleman.
Announcing details of the trip
late yesterday, the White House
said the President would spend
Sunday in Grandview, Mo, with his
mother, Mrs. Martha Truman, who
recently broke her hip. He will take
off at am. Monday for the seven
hour fight to Mexico City.
The schedule then is as follows:
Monday-Luncheon at the Amer
lean Embassy where Mr.. Truman
will stay; dinner as President Ale
mans guest, after which both Presi-
dents will speak at time not yet
fixed: formal reception at the ma
tional palace.
Tuesday-Placing of wreath at
the base of the Independence Monu-
ment in Mexico City; attendance at
a festival of folk dances; luncheon
at the American Embassy in honor
of President Aleman; afternoon re-
ception at the embassy: reception at
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Wednesday-Flight over the VOL
cano Paricutin; automobile drive to
the pyramids of Teotihuacan:
greetings from the American colony
at the Mexican Army Officers Club;
dinner with President Aleman at
his private residence.
Thursday-Flight to Waco. Tex.
where AIR. Truman will receive an
honorary degree from Baylor Uni
versity and have lunch with Uni
versity President Pat Neff before
flying to Washington Thursday
night.
Evening star., 1947-02-26
Commissioners Defer
PurIey on St. EIizubeth's

The District Commissioners yester-
day postponed a meeting with repre-
sentativeS of the Metropolitan
Health Council interested in the
proposal of Budget Officer Walter L.
Fowler that the city take over st.
Elizabeths Hospital from the Fed
eral Government as a master hos
pitaI and welfare center.
The conference, originally sched-
uled for yesterday, was deferred
Indefinitely, officials said, because
the city heads had to attend hear
ings at the Capitol.
Mr.. F'owler's proposal was based
largely on economy grounds. He
pointed out that nearly 5000 of the
more than 5000 patients at the
hospital are paid for by the District
government at increasing daily rates
over which the city has no control.
The bill in 1948 is due to exceed
$4,000, 900, he pointed out.
DR.. Winfred Overholser, superin-
tendent of St. Elizabeth's, has op-
posed the plan,
Evening star., 1947-02-26
Closed Shop Bills Advance
In Georgia, North Carolina
By the Associated Press

ATLANTA, Feb. 26.-The Georgia
House of Representatives over
whelnaingly approved the anticlosed
shop bill by a vote of 157 to % yes
terday after a round of oratory
against the measure in which one
speaker declared the issued
"stemmed from the National Asso-
citation of Manufacturers"
The House then approved by a
voice vote of 146 to 16 bill to re-
strict mass picketing. The anti
closed shop bill and mass picketing
measure are companion pieces to two
bills that passed the Senate last
week. The House bills now must go
to the Senate for action. Senate
approval of the two bills is an al
most foregone conclusion.
The action of the Georgia House
was paralleled by the North Car
olina Representatives yesterday
when they adopted an anticlosed
shop measure by a voice vote.
The North Carolina measure,
which now goes to the Senate, de-
clares as the public policy of the
State that the right to work shall
not be denied or abridged on &C
count of membership in any labor
union or labor organization or as
sociation"
Contracts in which membership in
unions is required as a condition of
obtaining work would be against
the public policy and an illegal con-
spiracy in restraint of trade"
Evening star., 1947-02-26
Boys Show GoIIontry to Last
As Three Drown in Pussuic River

both 10, were recovered a few hours
after the accident yesterday.
Search was resumed today for the
body of the third boy. Police said
they believed he was Richard Kowal,
9. cousin of John.
The human chain" of policemen,
firemen and volunteers was only a
few feet from the spot where the
boys broke through the ice when
the last two boys, chilled and ex-
hausted, lost their grip on the jag
ged ice.
Police said two of the men in the
rescue chain, Michael Robel of Wal
lington and Passaic Patrolman John
Neubauer, almost lost their lives,
and were hauled unconscious from
the river after the last two boys
vanished.
All three victims lived in Passaic.
The boys were believed to have been
crossing the 250-foot- stream
from the Wellington side of the river
to Passaic when the ice gave way.
Evening star., 1947-02-26
River Terrace Citizens
Back Teacher Pay Rise

Approval OF the pay increase for
teachers in the District as proposed
by DR.. Hobart M. Corning, superin-
tendent of public schools, was ex-
pressed last night by the River Ter
race Citizens Association.
c. v. Parker, president Of the
association, urged the members tc
give full support to the plan. The
meeting was held at the River Ter
race Church House, AIS Thirty
fourth street NE.
Evening star., 1947-02-26
By the Associofed Press

PASSAIC, N. j., Feb. 26.-Eye-
witnesses who helplessly watched
three youngsters drown in the ice
choked Passaic River credited the
boys today with showing gallantry
to the last.
Don't come any nearer" one boy
was said to have called to men OF
the human chain" that sought
futiIely to rescue them yesterday.
"The ice is cracking We're going
under. You'll go too"
After one boy had slipped beneath
the frigid waters, spectators lining
the banks saw another trying to hold
up his remaining companion, a
colored boy. Weakening, the white
boy lost his hold and both disap-
peared.
Bodies of John Kowal, jr., and
Theodore Hunter, the colored boy,
Evening star., 1947-02-26
Federal Jury 10 Hear
Charge That Couple
EnsIaved Housemaid
BY the Assoeiafed Press

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 26.-Investi-
cation of charge that Mr.. and
Mrs. Alfred Wesley ingalls, of Coro-
nado, Calf, and Boston, Mass, held
a 57-year -old colored housemaid in
slavery for 80 years moved to the
Federal grand jury room here today.
ingalls,, 64, a retired Boston law
yer, described by William Ritz, as
sistant United State attorney, as a
former member of the MaSsachu-
sets Legislature, and his wife, Eliz-
abeth, 81, were arrested yesterday
at their Coronado residence.
Arraigned before United States
Commissioner George r. Baird in
San Diego on a complaint slleg-
ing they held the maid, Dora L.
Jones, in involuntary servitude, the
Ingals were released on $2,500 bail
each. Miss Jones was held In pro-
tective custody by the Federal Bu--
reau of Investigation as material
witness.
Charge Termed Ridiculous.
ingalls, told reporters the charge
was ridiculous" said he and his
wife would be cleared and"expressed
concern over Miss Jones welfare.
Police in Berkeley, Calf, disclosed
that last October the ingalls,
daughter, Mrs. Helen ingalls, Rob-
erts, complained that the maid was
being held" by her parents but no
police action was taken.
United States Attorney James M
Carter said he would present the
case to the grand jury today and
ask an indictment charging the
couple with violating the 18th, anti
slavery, amendment to the Consti-
tuition.
FBI Findings Revealed.
Mr.. Ritzi said FBI investigation
gave this sequence of events:
In 1905 Mrs ingalls,, the former
Elizabeth Kimball, went to Alabama
as missionary school teacher, be-
friended Miss Jones, then II, and
later, after she married Walter
Harmon, brought the girl to Wash
ington, D. c., to work in her home
as maid
Ten years later the Harmons were
divorced, Mrs. Harmon married In
gals and moved to Lynn, Mass, and
Boston. Meantime, an incident had
occurred which enabled Mrs. ingalls,
to threaten the maid with prosecu-
ton or commitment to an institu-
ton.
Mr.. Ritz claims the FBI inves-
tigation showed Miss Jones worked
without compensation for the In
gals in Boston and that since they
came to California last fall the
maid had been forced to sleep in
bathtubs or in an automobile.
Evening star., 1947-02-26
Closed Relief Hearina
0uizzes Clayton on
Russian-U. 5. Angles
BY the Assceiofsd Press

The House Foreign Affairs Com
mittee called Undersecretary OF
State Clayton into a closed door
huddle today on United States re-
lief plans in areas where the inter-
ests of Soviet Russia and the pow
ers have clashed.
Mr.. Clayton's reluctance to dis
cuss details of the projected $3.50,
100000 program in public raised
speculation on Capitol Hill in these
two directions:
l. How the appropriation-if and
when voted by Congress-will be
shared among Greece, Italy, Hun
gary, Poland, Austria and China
On the basis of unofficial reports
Italy would receive nearly a third
of the total.
Yugoslavia Not Listed.
2. Whether the State Department
contemplates using the relief as
an instrument for obtaining greater
cooperation from needy countries
among them Poland, with whom
diplomatic relations have cooled In
recent months.
Members of the Foreign Affairs
Committee saw some significance in
the fact that Yugoslavia-one of the
chief beneficiaries of UNRRA relief
was not listed among the countries
for whom the new program is des-
ignated.
In his initial presentation of the
program yesterday. Mr.. Clayton
made it clear that the relief will be
used to some degree to raise the
iron curtain" screening the recon-
struction Of the countries on Russia's
border.
Discrimination to Be Barred.
The undersecretary told the COM
mittee the United States will insist
that the American press and radio
be given full freedom to report on
distribution of the supplies. He
made it equally clear that promise
will be exacted-and its execution
supervised-for distribution without
racial and religious discrimination
Former President Herbert Hoover
will testify before the committee
Friday. He has been on a fooc
study mission to Germany and is tc
report to President Truman To-
morrow.
Evening star., 1947-02-26
Carr, New President
OF Home Builders, TO
Fight Rise in Costs
By Robert J. Lewis
Reel Estate Editor of The Stor

CHICAGO, Feb. 26.-Edward r.
Carr of Washington, new president
of the National Association of Home
Builders, today promised early con-
ferences would be held with labor
and materials producers to prevent
further increases in construction
costs.
1--WE must get in position in the
year ahead to translate the better
supply situation into lower home
costs and more rental units for the
family with the average income"
he said.
Mr.. Carr, former president Of the
Home Builders Association Of Meta
ropolitan Washington, was elected
last night by the associations Board
of Directors, succeeding Joseph
Meyerhof of Baltimore. He was
member of the groups seven-man
Executive Committee last year.
More Than so From ID. c.
More than SO Washington home
builders are attending the conven-
ton, which closes its f1ve-day ses-
sion tomorrow. More than $500
paid registrations made this the or
ganization's biggest convention, Of
f1cials said.
John H. Fahey, commissioner OF
the Federal Home Loan Bank Ad-
ministration, today told the conven-
ton that interest rates on long-term
amortized mortgages "are now too
low to be safe"
I'm my opinion, 1t is unsafe and
unwise to establish interest rates on
long-term amortized mortgages for
home owners generally below 5 per
cent.
William F. Patterson, director OF
the Labor Departments apprentice
training service, today said he be-
blieved the labor supply would be
increased sufficiently in the months
ahead to build 100000 homes this
year.
IT am certain few residential units
will be retarded because of skilled
worker shortage in 1947,' he said.
Washington Delegates Doubtful.
Washington delegates expressed
doubt there would be many appl1-
cations to take advantage of yeSter-
days ruling to permit rental cell
ings of UP to $3.50 month on new
construction.
Housing Expediter Frank R. Cree
don said yesterday that in hard
ship cases" he would permit g. raise
in the present $50 a month average
rental for apartments up to $32
room in very large metropolitan
areas"
On a five-room apartment, this
would mean a $3.50 monthly rental.
Ernest F. Henry, executive di-
rector Of the Washington home
builders group, commented:
"I very much doubt whether
there would be many instances
where hardship applications of this
kind would be necessary in Wash
ington."
Mr.. Creedon also indicated at
press conference later that he be-
lieved present restrictions on nom
residential construction could be re-
moved altogether before the end OF
this year.
At this conference, Raymond M.
Foley, national housing admins
traitor, said some buyer resistance
had been noticed by builders in
certain areas, owing to present
prices on new homes, but that 1t
wasn't general and did not ind1-
cate "any significant trend"
Earlier, spokesmen for the Vet
Grams of Foreign Wars, American
Legion and American Veterans OF
World War II told builders home
prices were too high and indicated
they were placing main reliance on
rental units.
Evening star., 1947-02-26
Stounton Woman Guilty
In Pocketknife, ,KiIIinq
By the Associofed Press

STAUNTON, Va, Feb. ga 12-
man Circuit Court jury yesterday
found Viola Virginia Thompson,
colored, 18, of Staunton, guilty of
manslaughter in the pocketknife
death of a colored war veteran last
August "a and recommended pun
ishment of four years in the State
Penitentiary
Judge F!oridus S. Crosby with
held imposition of sentence after
Defense Counsel Curry Carter asked
that the verdict be set aside on
several grounds. The woman was
charged with knitting George Wash
ington Hansberry, %, at a Negro
night spot.
Evening star., 1947-02-26
Actor Injured SKIING

SUN VALLEY, Idaho, Feb. 26
P).-Movie Actor Kurt Kruger
broke his left leg yesterday while
skiing in the Sawtooth Mountains
north of here. He was running
slalom. gates when one of his skis
caught in deep snow and tripped
him.
Evening star., 1947-02-26
JAW Extends Contract
with ChrysIer 80 Days
BY the Assoeioted Press

DETROIT, Feb. 26.-The contract
of the Chrysler Corp. with the CIO
United Auto Workers, which was
due to expire at midnight last night,
has been extended an additional
30 days by mutual agreement,
Robert w. Conder, director of labor
relations for the company, an
nounced last night.
Negotiations on a new contract
Evening star., 1947-02-26

have been under way for several
months. The union repeatedly is
seeking q 231z-cent hourly wage
increase as well as a union shop and
other concessions.
Evening star., 1947-05-16
|NiHi Named 10 Form
New Italian Cabinet
BY the Assoeioied Press

ROME, May 16-President Enrico
de Nicola asked Francesca Saverio
Nitti today to form q new Italian
government. Aged vittorio Emanuele
Orlando, World War / Premier, is
willing to participate in the new
cabinet, Mr.. de Nicola said.
Mr.. Nitti, 79-year Independent
who was Premier in 1921, before the
rise of Benito Mussolini, was ex-
|pected to form a broadly biased gov
ernment of national unity to succeed
the Communist Socialist Christian
Democrat coalition headed by Chris
tian Democrat Alcide de Gasperi.
Mr.. de Gasperi resigned Tuesday.
The task apparently was assigned
Mr.. Nitti because of his reputation
as financial expert. Italy's latest
government crisis arose principally
over her economic problems.
Mr.. Nitti indicated that he would
undertake the task, but said he would
reserve decision" on accepting the
premiership until he had ascer-
tanned whether he could assemble
ID cabinet-the usual parliamentary
procedure.
Throughout most OF the Fascist
regime Mr.. Nitti was voluntary
exile In France. He returned to Italy
In l945 and was elected TO the Con-
|Stituent Assembly on the National
Democratic Union ticket. coali-
tinn OF liberals and conservatives.
Evening star., 1947-05-16
Five Argentine Ships
Reported Bombed
By the As.eeieted Pres.

RIO DE JANEIRO. May l6.-The
Brazilian news agency Asapress
quoted a Paraguayan rebel broad
cast today as saying loyalist planes
damaged five Argentine merchant
ships and wounded several crewmen
during a bombing Of insurgent head
quarters at Conception.
The broadcast said Quartermas-
ter Fernando Cachela was the most
seriously wounded. Pedro A. Con-
zalez. commander of the river fleet,
was said to have sent a list OF the
wounded to Buenos Aires and asked
the Argentine Navy Ministry to
protest.
Evening star., 1947-05-16
Sunday. y.Reoding -.

A strong flow of interna-
tional trade could do much to
wash away the doubts and
suspicious that block the road
to firmly established peace.
In Sundays Editorial Section
Sigrid Arne of the Associated
Press reports that foreign
commerce is at least trick
ling-raising hopes that it will
succeed where politics and
diplomacy thus far have
failed.
Now that American finan-
cial aid for Turkey Is assured,
Lothrop Stoddard, In another
Editorial Section article, lists
some interesting reasons why
the intensely patriotic Turks
are worthy recipients of such
assistance.
AS vacation time approaches,
the resort and travel section
grows in size and Importance
for those casting about for
new havens. The 24-page Pic
torial Magazine and special
columns on farming and gar
dening, new books, amuse-
ments, sports, society, ETC.,
round out the usual thorough
and accurate news content Of
T4f 6nnnalJ 6tar
Evening star., 1947-05-16
Navy Says Cut Will Cost Jobs
Of5 900 on Civilian Staff Here
DISMISSED Of 4O, 900 in u S. Predicted
If fConqress Approves ! Pet Fund Slush

$43, $50, 900 to pay the 5000 depart
mental employees, but this was cut
$11 100000.
More than 5000 Of the 5000 dis
missals here will result among de-
partmental personnel, with about
1000 in the field establishments in
the area. Navy officials say the
dismissals among regular depart
mental employees will be greater here
because the committee cut the reg
ular bureaus salary requests by 25
per cent, a larger slash than was
ordered for the field establish-
ments.
The committee was especially
critical of what it termed the zap
parent lack OF desire" Of Navy Of.
ficials to reduce their civilian force
both here and in the field. Tota
(See PERSONNEL, Page A-6.)
Evening star., 1947-05-16
Spread Truth 10 Fight
Anti-U.S.Propaganda
Marshall Tells Hearing
Backs Voice Of America
Broudcosts Before House
Foreign Affairs Group
By Gornett D. Horner

Secretary of State Marshall
said today the only way to COM
bat ,anti-American propaganda
abroad is to spread the truth. !"
He told a House Foreign Affairs
subcommittee that the United States
must sttake very definite action" to
make its purposes and actions under
stood by people in other parts OF
the world.
Gen. Marshall testified before the
committee in support of bill for
mally authorizing the Voice OF
America" broadcastS and other State
Department international informa-
tion and cultural activities for which
the House yesterday refused to ap-
propriate any money for the 1948
fiscal year
Little Credit Given for Generosity.
He. said the activities authorized
by the measure are ''very important
to us as people, very important to
the State Department in connection
with our foreign policy, and to the
Congress. whose generosity to
peoples In many parts of the world
Is little understood by those peoples. !"
1T is hard for us here at home, /"
Gen. Marshall said, ito comprehend
the degree to which we are not COM
pretended but are misrepresented
abroad.
Il doubt If any nation ever has
been so generous to other nations
and got so little credit for 1t.
Gen. Marshall remarked there
naturally are differences of opinion
on procedure, but declared that Is
no reason why we shouldn't go ahead
to compromise those differences and
get on with the business Of getting
the world to understand us"
Benton Objects to Provision.
Gen. Marshall testified after As
sistant Secretary of State Benton,
Evening star., 1947-05-16
Moy Due TO Testify
Today or Monday
In War Froud Trial
By Robert K. Walsh
the Senate WAR I,

Describing the Senate War In
vestigating Committee as a "po-
litically controlled committee
that was headed by a candidate
for Governor of New York." de-
fense counsel. in the May y-Gars-
son trial told a District Court
jury today that the Government
was relying solely on circum-
stantial evidence and unfounded
"suspicious-looking" incidents to
convict former Representative
Andrew J. May and the Carson
brothers.
Charles j. Margiotti, counsel for
Henry M. and Murray Carson, an
nounced in his opening statement
for the defense that Henry Carson
would take the stand. The attorney
declared Carson welcomed this OPP
portunity not only because Of un-
favorable publicity during the past
year but because he never before had
an opportunity to tell his story
publicly to an impartial" tribunal.
May, 71-year-old former head of
the House Military Affairs Commit
tee, was expected to take the stand
this afternoon although defense
counsel were still considering the
possibility of delaying his appear
ance until Monday SO there would
be no break in his testimony.
Mr.. Margotti cited two pieces of
evidence which the Government
brought out in recent weeks in its
case against May, and the Garssons,
who are charged with conspiracy to
defraud the United States.
This evidence, the defense at
torney asserted, is an example OF
the Governments effort to convict
the defendants simply by putting
up single fact.and saying it showed
conspiracy and then not giving all
the circumstances surrounding that
single fact"
Note Payment Defended.
The 5000 in notes against May
paid off by Murray Carson in a
New York bank in 1912, were part of
a legitimate transaction involving
manganese deal with a West Vir-
ginia company. Mr.. Margiotti ex-
planned. This had nothing to do, he
added, with the Cumberland Lumber
Co., Kentucky concern which, the
has declared, was used
by the Garssons to pay more than
$50 900 to May.
Similarly, Government evidence
concerning $2,500 sent by Henry
Carson to May and deposited in
Mays account in a Washington
bank had nothing to do with the
Cumberland concern, Mr. Margiotti
Evening star., 1947-05-16
Eyewitness Describes Events
In FutuI Shooting Affruy

Walter r Bramhall, clerk Of Mu-
nicipal Court. was an eyewitness to
some events following the shootings
in the Municipal Court Building to-
day, when Daniel Williams, colored,
Mississippi lawyer, shot and killed
Pvt. Hubert Estes, a District police
man, and wounded Cecil A. Claig, a
Government guard. and George
Walter Dalzell, another court
official.
He gave this account of what he
saw:
Il was on the first floor of the
building when the shooting oc-
CURED. Shortly afterward VIII
liams stepped out of the elevator
and Claig, one Of the Govern
ment guards. said to me: That's
the man who shot Dalzelli'
Mr.. Claig and I followed
Williams who was walking rapid