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Evening star., 1947-03-13
Family Service Association
Notes 5096 Rise in Cases

The Family Service Association Is
handling so per cent more cases,now
than it did at this time last year,
Mrs. Mildred Kilinski, director, told
a meeting of the Board of Directors
Yesterday at the association, 1922
Eleventh street NV.
She said most of the increase was
due to "the long wait-four or five
weeks-for appointments at the pub
lie welfare agency" The recent 20
per cent cut In District relief pay
ments and increased unemployment
among unskilled and semiskilled
workers also added to the number
Of cases handled by the association,
she said.
The so per cent increase also was
noted in January, she pointed out,
Last month. Mrs. Kilinski reported
314 new families and individuals ap-
piled for help. The total number OF
cases now under care of Family
Service is about 600, she added, with
about Is per cent of these receiving
financial aid.
The board adopted a resolution
urging Congress to approve the s1S4,-
200 deficiency appropriation request
from the District now before it.
Evening star., 1947-03-13

When he awoke this morning at
his home in Beltsville, Philip j
Carroll, 81, felt that something was
wrong. After moments reflection
he knew what it Washed left a
$63, 300 check on drugstore counter
in downtown Washington.
Mr.. Carroll felt a moments panic.
then realized it was cashiers
check, non-negotiable to any but the
Maritime Commission to which 1t
was made out. Nevertheless, he
hastened to telephone the Whelan
drugstore at Fourteenth street and
PENNSYLVANIA avenue NV. and was
told, yes, the store had his portfolio
containing the check.
Later, Mr.. Carroll identified him.
self and was given the folio intact
by Pharmacist Albert M. Windle,
Evening star., 1947-03-13
Six Territorial Legislators
Ask Statehood for Hawaii
By the Associoted Press

Six territorial legislators from
Hawaii asked the House Public
Lands Committee yesterday to per
NIT Hawaii to become the 4stf
State.
Representative Herbert K. H
Lee, Democrat. of Honolulu de-
clared, Statehood must not be lost
in the shuttle over any subsidiary
question such as the ownership OF
public lands"
The Interior Department has rec
commended an amendment to the
statehood bill to retain Federal
ownership of 100000 acres of Ha-
waiian public lands.
First opposition to statehood
during the hearing, which began
last Friday, came from DR.. Nicholas
Murray Butler. president emeritus
of Columbia University, in the form
of letter to Secretary of Interior
Krre. He wrote:
Under no circumstances should
Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico or any
other outlying island or territory
be admitted as State in our Fed
eral union. To do so, in my judg-
ment, would mark the beginning Of
the end of the United States as we
have known it."
Evening star., 1947-03-13
Futile Appeal 10 FB|
I'm Strike Reported
In McNear Testimony

George F. McNear, tr., slain
Peoria 1ll) railroad president, told
the House Labor Committee three
weeks before his death that efforts
to have the FBI investigate wrecks
and violence on his strikebound rail-
road had met with failure.
Speaking of several attempts to
wreck. trains" Mr.. McNear testified
that he was advised last month in a
letter from the Springfield Gn.)
FBI office that mo investigation OF
any of these occurrences has as yet
been authorized by the Attorney
General"
ION November 26, for example, 9
train was deliberately wrecked anc
thrown in the ditch near Secor, ILL.,,
the president of the Toledo, Peoria
e. Western Railroad said. Last Mon
day Mr.. McNear was ambushed ane
murdered by a rain of shotgun slugs
near his home in Peoria.
National Officers Blamed.
Mr.. McNear said that, in his opin-
ion, the violence on the railroad
was "instigated and planned by the
national officers" of two railroad
brotherhoods striking the railroad
He told the committee the unions
had called q strike three weeks after
eParl Harbor and that he replaced
the strikers with other ment.
He continued:
violence followed. Our employees
were assaulted and there were at
tempts to wreck trains carrying war
traffic. On Saturday, January 8,
1912, we obtained a temporary re-
straining order against violence, and
on January 10, 1912, the Federal
DISTRICT Court issued temporary
injunction after hearing under the
Norris-La Guardia Act.
For few days the operations
were peaceable and we began to
make excellent progress, but shortly
thereafter the violence was renewed.
Enforcing Order.
ION February 9, 1912. the District
Court issued an enforcing order re-
quiring the United States marshal
to employ additional marshals, at
the expense of the railroad, to en-
force the injunction. This order
was not obeyed, and the marshal
explained that he was not permitted
by the Department Of Justice in
Washington to put on any addi-
tional marshals to carry out the
courts order.
There was an attempt to dyna-
mite one of our largest bridges on
January 27, 1912. Local officers
caused the arrests and a Federal
jury found the three brotherhood
defendants guilty Of contempt Of the
injunction.
Trio Indicted.
"On August 20. 1912, these three
dynamiters we're indicted by Fed
eral grand jury. They were then
charged with unlawful possession
of dynamite in time of war, posses
sion of dynamite for the purpose OF
destroying railroad bridge, felon-
ious attempt to wreck trains and
criminal conspiracy.
"One of the defendants, the
brotherhood's chairman, later
pleaded guilty, ON February4, 1943,
to all of the charges Of this Fed
eral indictment. Nothing was ever
done to bring the defendants to
trial. and in December, 1914, the
United States district attorney at
Peoria nolle pressed the entire pro-
ceedings. We protested, and at. .
court hearing on the matter the
Evening star., 1947-03-13
Rome Group Sights Iceberg
And Steward Wins Pool
By the kssoeio,ed Press


ABOARD PORT OF BEAUMONT,
Mar. 13 (N.A.N.A).-Icebergs were
sighted by the Rome Antarctic Re-
search Expedition for the first time
at 7:25 am. yesterday. At least one
man aboard was glad to see these
monsters of cold Steward Sig
Gutenko, whose POOL guess at the
time the first berg would be sighted
was only 35 minutes off.
Evening star., 1947-03-13
Daily Worker AssaiIs
.Truman's Greek Plan
By the Associoted Press

NEW YORK, Mar. 13.-The Daily
Worker, organ of the Communist
Party in the United States, said
today in an editorial that President
Truman's recommendation for finan-
cial aid to Greece and Turkey
marks a day of national shame
for our country"
The newspaper described the
President as "the willing mouth
piece q the Standard Oil trust in
the Middle East" and declared that
he was selling the American peo-
pie the fools gold Of empire in
complete abandonment Of Roose-
velt's vision of a stable postwar
peace"
The editorial added: 1--WE are be-
ing swindled into rushing American
dollars and American ammunition
to save a rotten and hated Greek
monarchy. And to 90 this we will
have to move in on Greece and
make a Quisling colony out of it
drowning in blood the democratic
aspirations of the Greek people"
OF the proposed aid to Turkey
the editorial said: ut is to bribe the
present Turkish tyranny into acting
as the Quisling police state for Wal
Street investments and the Stand.
ard Oil Empire in Arabia, Iran ane
Palestine"
The Daily Worker said the Presi.
dents proposal deliberately insult.
and bypasses the United Nations
where we are supposed to collab.
crate with the other powers to solve
mutual problems.
I'VE do it deliberately to poison
the Moscow negotiations and fling
obstacles in the path of a peace
settlement" the newspaper added.
THE empire grab." said the Daily
Worker, masked by anti-Commu-
mist hysteria, is doomed to failure.
Evening star., 1947-03-13

Ter. The persuasive argument was
that Italy thus would improve her
position at the peace table by be-
coming a co-belligerent.
The efforts of the American and
British representatives were sue
cessful and on October 1.-two
months before the Big Three con-
ference at Teheran-Italy declared
war on the Nazis.
Once the Italian government took
this step it. fulfilled its pledges to
the utmost. According to official
American reports which wartime
secrecy has prevented from publi-
cation, Italy worked her passage"
fully. Her navy carried out 900
missions for the Allies under her
own flag.
No Question Of Partiti0ning.
Already in September 1943 the
United States and Britain had
promised the Italians that the ques-
ton of their fleet would receive
careful consideration" Since Italy
then became a o-belligerent, the
term war booty" could no longer
be applied. Marshal Badoglio was
told that at the end of the war
some italian ships might have to
be scrapped. but at no time until
the Teheran conference was there
any question Of the fleet being par
titioned like those of other enemy
countries.
Only after Teheran did it become
known that Russia had been given
a third of the Italian fleet. The
indignation that followed was SO
great that President Roosevelt felt
compelled to make public declara-
ton stating that the Big Three
agreement provided that the U. S.
S. r. would get one-third of the
tonnage of the italian fleet, or its
equivalent from the American and
British navies.
A 10,000-ton cruiser, the MilWau-
kee, was loaned" to Russia as a
first part of that payment. But
the Soviets decided that they did
not want antiquated American and
British naval vessels. The peace
treaty signed early this year re-
vealed the real terms of the Teheran
agreement concerning Italy. A por-
ton of the Italian feet will be
handed over to the U. S. S. r.
Evening star., 1947-03-13
House Committee Head
PREPARED to Get Tough

Chairman Hartley OF IIle aOuS
Labor Committee, aroused by al
anonymous threat a member o
the committee said he received, sait
today he was prepared to "ge
tough, if necessary" with what HI
called "strong-arm stuff" by som'
labor unions.
Mr.. Hartley discussed the "mys'
terious' telephone warning Repre-
sentative Kearns, Republican, O.
Pennsylvania said he got warning
him to, change his views, abou
labor" - .- 20
I'm view of all the difficulties ant
sluggings and shooting we've beer
having" Mr.. Hartley said, ANY
thing might happen.
II am not going to start wearing
bulletproof vest or anything. bu
if anybody is going to get toug h
I'm prepared to get tough myself
If necessary"
Investigation Asked.
Mr.. Hartley was no more specific
than that. but he already has asked
Attorney General Clark to investi'
gate the Kearns threat and the
mul der of Mr.. McNear.
Mr.. Kearns told the committee
the warning to him about changing
his labor ideas came from a mar
who said he had seen the Repre-
sentative dining with Mr.. McNeal
at the Wardman Park Hotel two
weeks ago.
At the time, Mr.. McNear hac
come to Washington to testify or
labor legislation before the com.
mittee. Mr.. Hartley said he thought
there was direct connection be-
tween Mr.. McNear's appearance
here and his Staying.
Klein Offers Protest.
Representative Klein, Democrat, o.
New York protested to the commit
tee yesterday any inferences "tha
labor organizations are indulging IL
these threats or are involved In th'
unfortunate death of Mr.. McNear." !"
But Mr.. Hartley told newsmer
this strong-arln stuff by unions Il
pretty widespread.
He said he had just had a visi
from the American Veterans Com
mittee, which asked him to look int
sluggings in Philadelphia. Vet
Grams there. he said he was told
have been beaten up" and suffered
"all sorts of intimidation" when the!
sought their old jobs back.
Evening star., 1947-03-13
Pair Speeding on Motorcycles
Arrested After 2-Hour Chase

They were not seen again until
7 pm, when County Police Privates
J. r. Wiley and Edward r. Barber
spotted them going through Bethes-
da Somewhere between 10 and &c
miles an hour" Mr.. Barber arrested
one and Mr.. Wiley pursued the sec
ond motorcycle across Connecticut
avenue "as fast as he could go" to
the Meadowbrook Riding Club
where he apprehended the driver.
Bethesda police charged Joseph F
Mccarthy. 10, of ITO F street Sc.
and Robert E. Barkdoll, 10, TIVE lfth
and B streets Sc. with operating
without a license and Barkdol with
exceeding so miles per hour.
Evening star., 1947-03-13
Selection of New Head
OF Virginia U. DELAYED
BY the Associated Press

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va, Mar
13.-The Board of Visitors of the
University of Virginia, faced with
the problem of selecting a successor
to President John Lloyd Newcomb
has deferred until March 81 its
meeting originally scheduled fol
March IA.
The Norfolk Ledger r-Dispatch said
it had learned from a reliable source
that former Gov. Darden "is ex-
pected to be named the next presi-
dent of the University of Virginia. z
Dr. Newcomb will retire as soon
as his successor is named and Mr..
Darden, the newspaper said, will
probably fill the post in the summer
or fall"
Evening star., 1947-03-13
German Unificat!ion
Necessary, McNarney
Says in Last Report
By the Associated Press

FRANKFURT, Mar. 13.-Gen. Jo-
seph T. McNarney declared today
that after two years of military oc-
cupation "the major tasks are only
begun" in Germany and cannot be
completed without four power agree
ment on unification of the country
In his final report as military gov
ernor of the American occupation
zone, Gen. McNarney emphasized
that one of the chief remaining
tasks was to "re-educate the Ger
man people to cause them to desire
to live and govern themselves by
democratic principles Another
task, he said, was to establish a
peaceful and stable German econ
omy which will allow the German
people to exist free of the constant
fear of hunger and cold now
prevalent.
Economic Merger Hailed.
eve must work ceaselessly for
iqnadripartite agreement on all is
sues which will contribute toward
this end" he added. es s.,.tse- -
The recent economic merger OF
the British and American zones is
"a step in the right direction" Gen
McNarney declared, "but the re-
habilitation of a peaceful Germany
has and will be strongly impeded
as long as four-power agreement
in the basic political, economic and
financial fields is lacking
Experience to date" Gen. Nc
Narney said, has demonstrated
that such an agreement is beyond
the power of the Allied ControI
Authority in Germany. Our basic
disagreements can only be resolved
on a governmental level"
Will Be Succeeded by Clay.
Gen. McNarney will retire as mill
tary governor Saturday and be sue
ceeded by 1t. Gen. Lucius D. Clay
Although asserting that substan-
tial industrial recovery has been
achieved in the American zone
Gen. McNarney said that even "the
maximum possible industrial prog
ress in the United States zone alone
would not mean the revival Of the
German economy to the level en-
visaged by the Potsdam declaration
to be the lowest on which Germany
could survive peaceably."
That level will be achieved only
when Germany is treated as single
economic unit he said.
Evening star., 1947-03-13
American Transport
Missing in Britain
By the Associated Press

LONDON, Mar. 13.-The United
States Army Air Transport Com
mand said today that a twin-en-
gined transport with two Army fly
ers aboard was hours overdue on
fight last night from Prestwick
Scotland, to Bcvington Airfield, near
London.
A spokesman said the Beechcraft
utility transport was unreported
from other fields and that its gas
must have been exhausted before
midnight.
The names of the pilot and COM
munications officer were withheld.
Evening star., 1947-03-13
Communism Blamed
By Paraguay Regime
For Troops Revolt
By the Associated Press

ASUNCION, Paraguay, Mar. 13.-
The government blamed "interna
tional communism" today for the
current uprising in Paraguay anc
asserted that the revolt was con-
fined to the besieged town Of Con-
cepcion, where 700 troops refused
demands to surrender.
(The Buenos Aires newspaper
Ell Mundo, an independent Con-
servative tabloid, said that, de
spite official announcements OF
the .Paraguayan government,
everything indicates The move
ment is essentially military" Ell
Mundo said persons arriving
from Asuncion reported "the sit
ustion in that capital is abso-
lutely chaotic and that barri-
cades were being erected in front
of the government pslace)
The government radio Naciona
continued round-the-clock broad
casts, made up of propaganda talk!
and dance music.
Aid Charged 10 Communists.
Minister OF Economy Guillerme
Enciso Velloso said In a speech:
Material and moral support Ii
offered the rebellion by the Com
munist Parties of Bolivia and Uru'
quay"
A similar speech was made last
night by Finance Minister Natali'
clio Gonzalez, who said Rafae
Franco, former President and lead
er of the FebrerisJa Party, had con-
nived with the Communists since
last July. He asserted that "ir
this emergency, those who Oppose
the government and the Colorado
Party oppose law and order in favol
CT bloody tyranny"
Loyalist troops besieged Concep'
cion, a town of $4,000 in Northern
Paraguay, 100 miles from Asuncion
where the revolt started six day:
ago.
The government, announcing last
night that the city had been sur
rounded, said 1t was urging the
rebels to surrender Ito avoid useless
bloodshed."
Air Operations Limited.
A government communique re-
ported no ground action and said
air operations had been limited te
military objectives outside the city,
which were not identified. The gov
ernment evidently had not yet car
ried out its threat to bomb Con-
cepcion.
1n Buenos Aires, the Para
guayan Embassy said government
planes had dropped only leaflets
in flights over Concepcion)
The government called on civilians
to help set up road blocks to stop
the revolutionists if they fed. The
Colorado Party's National Commit
tee broadcast instructions to party
members to become partisan fighters
Government sources said they had
information that armed Communists
helping the soldier rebels had ar
rested priests, nuns and other citi-
zens and had plundered many Con-
cepcion business places, including
a bank. These reports could not be
confirmed elsewhere.
Evening star., 1947-03-13

4012 Third street NV, who hac
locked it in the safe overnight.
The folio was found yesterday or
a counter by a soda clerk, Janet
Sewell, who turned it over to Mr.
Windle. He looked at the contents
discovered the check and concluded
that before long somebody woulo
call for it.
The check was drawn on the Ma
tional City Bank of New York by
the Blidberg Rothehild Agency
Corp. steamship brokers of so Broad
street, New York City. Mr.. Carroll
is manager of the purchasing and
sales department fer the agency
and had brought the check tc
Washington to make a down pay
ment for a ship his company is pur-
chasing from the Maritime Com
mission,
Evening star., 1947-03-13
Correction

In an account of the Capital
Transit Co. rate hearing printed
in The Star yesterday. Robert
Phillips of the American Youth for
Democracy was quoted as replying
in the Affirmative to the question
rs your group aff1liated with the
Communists"
The transcript of his testimony
shows that he replied:
They are not in any way AFFILIATED
with the Communist Party"
Evening star., 1947-03-13
Army Investigator
Tells Of 'DoubIe.Cross'
by Hesse Gem Fence

The story of mysterious double
cross" in a Chicago railway station
was retold today by the final prose-
cution witness at the court martial
of Col. Jack w. Durant for alleged
conspiracy in the Hesse jewel theft.
1t. Col. Ralph Pierce of the Crimi-
nal Investigation Division testified
after the court ruled the defense
could have an "expurgated" copy of
Col. Pierce's confidential report to
his superiors on the result of his
investigation.
The trial had been held up for
several days to obtain ruling on
whether the defense could obtain
the report to aid in completing the
examination of Col. Pierce.
Colonel Queried on Trip.
Capt. Glenn Brumbaueh, defense
counsel, questioned Col Pierce
closely about his direct testimony on
the. "trip to Chicago he made with
Col. Durant to recover jewelry from
a Chicago fence after part of the
loot had been recovered from q
Chicago railway station locker.
This return trip was made, Col.
Pierce previously had testified, be-
cause Col. Durant insisted the
largest gems were missing" when
he was shown the jewelry found In
a baggage locker at a Chicago rail
station. Returning to Chicago, Col.
Pierce said, the defendant made
several telephone calls and led them
to telephone booth in another sta
ton.
1t was on this occasion, Col.
Pierce said, that Col. Durant
searched for baggage check ticket
supposed to have been hidden in
the phone booth by the mysterious
fence and returned with a note
which said, Sorry, my hat knocked
your ticket of-guess I have a right
to keep the baggage"
Col. Pierce said the defendant felt
sure the fence had not double
crossed him, but that the parcel OF
jewelry had been reclaimed by per-
SoiA "iio elSSAtStienlAJ OIoSoNClCu lIlS
ticket to the locker.
Question Prompts Exchange.
Mai. Joseph S. Robinson, prose-
cution counsel, objected to a oues-
ton which, he said, assumed that
Col. Pierce might know where Col.
Durant got his information.
He might have gotten his In
formation from Alice in Wonder
land as far as this witness knows"
Map. Robinson exclaimed.
Capt, Brumbaugh protested:
There is no testimony and no
charge before this court relating
to Alice in Wonderland. I ask that
the prosecution's remarks be strick-
en- from the record"
The court explained 1t would pre-
fer to ignore the remark rather
than waste further time by having
it stricken. Maj. Robinson has an
nounced he will rest his case after
Col. Pierce finishes his testimony.
Evening star., 1947-03-13
ReportAwaited on Test
OF Man 5 Glove Found
After McNear KiIIinq
By the Assoeioisd Press

PEORIA, Ill.,, Mar. 13.-Police to-
day awaited reports from the State
criminal Identification laboratories
of tests which they said may give
them possible clues in their investi-
CATION of the ambush Staying OF
George P. McNear, jr, president OF
the Toledo, Peoria & Western Rail-
road.
The tests were made of mans
glove found beside tree about rs
feet from where the 55-year-old rail-
chief was shot as he walked near
his home on Monday night. Fred
Nussbaum, chief of detectives, also
said police took plaster impressions
of a toe and heel print found near
| the tree.
Meanwhile, police held for ques-
tioning and without formal charge,
Roy Daily, 36, former chief guard
of the strike-bound railroad. He
was one of four guards who were
acquitted on manslaughter charges
in connection with the fatal fight
between guards and pickets at Grid
ley, ILL.,, in February, 1916. Two
strikers were killed and three others
were wounded in the skirmish, which
was one of the several acts Of vio-
lence in the long labor dispute be-
tween McNear and 13 railroad broth
erhoods. The railroad has been
strike-bound for II months.
McNear Fired Guard.
Mr.. Nussbaum said that the for
mer guard had told him he had
been discharged by McNear last
May. but he added, didn't know
why" Nussbaum said that police
were checking the former guards
story of his whereabouts at the time
Mr.. McNear was killed by shot
gun blast. He said that If it is cor
roborated he will be released.
The actual evidence in the Staying
is limited to the shotgun pellets
which tore into Mr.. McNear's body
and some shotgun wadding. There
were no witnesses to the shooting
and at a. coroner's inquest yester-
day the jury returned verdict Of
murder by person or persons un-
known"
Mr.. Nussbaum told the jury that
investigation by police indicated
that some one had been trailing
Mr.. McNear and had learned his
habits. ." He was ambushed, ap-
parently by some one waiting for
him. Our investigation shows a car
evidently was there, or had been
there, and had been driven along
and had picked up man after the
shooting"
Although there had been uncon-
firmed reports that FBI agents have
been assigned to the case, States
Attorney Roy Hull said he had asked
United States District Attorney Ed
ward l.. Doyle in Springfield to give
him help because of the many
ramifications of the case" The
States attorney said Mr.. Doyle
promised full cooperation"
Funeral services for Mr.. McNear,
who is survived by his widow and
four children, will be held tomorrow.
Evening star., 1947-03-13
Dr.. Lyle, Hand SURGEON, Dies

NEW YORK, Z Mar. 10 P.-Dr.
Henry Hamilton Moore Lyle rs. one
of the Nations outstanding authori-
ties on surgery of the hands. died
Tuesday. He retired from practice
last wear. e.