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BRITISH ZONE
TRIES TO PAY
WAY IN JUNK
AP NeqvSfeafnres

HAMBURG = The British mill
tary government of Germany has
set up in the junk business in a big
way.
In an effort to wipe out soma of
the Gripping cost of running the
the zone-borne by the British tax-
payer-a special disposals groun ia
selling surplus stores of both the
British and German armies.
There are five dumps of British
surplus stores and 20 of former
Wehrmacht equipment.
Biggest item is surplus vehicles
thousands of which line the auto'
hahn between Hamburg and Pre-
men and between Hamburg and In
beck. A further 10000 have been do
clared surplus by the Rhine Army
bringing the total of vehicles for
sale to $4,000, already 17,15O have
been sold to Denmark, Holland and
Belgium. anu
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1947-08-01

tinues to supervise him as long as
necessary during his period of en-
plOyment.
VA representatives are constant
ly surveying all the job fields for
potential training facilities, and
keeping in constant contact with
Representatives of business and in
dustry. They emphasize the advan-
tage to the employer hiring a dis
abled veteran. These VA men point
out what surveys have shown, that
handicapped employees average
less absenteeism, fewer accidents,
longer periods Of employment, and
higher production records than
their able-bOdied fellow workers.
American businessmen know that
when they hire a disabled veteran
they are not dispensing charity, for
they have found through experience
that those who have sacrificed so
much in the defense of their coun-
try have lost none of the initiative
and fighting spirit that saw them
through the war and through the
long months of recovery and re-
Mobilization after the fight was over.
In addition, these disabled vet
Grams have been trained by experts.
Their work does not suffer as a re-
suit of their. handicaps, rather they
have overcome their disability, they
have realized the limitations i'm
posed upon them, they have chosen
a line of business in which their
disabilities either will have no af-
feet upon their efficiency or will
increase it. Employers owe it to
themselves to investigate this
source of trained manpower.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1947-08-01

During the 1916 season the New
York Yankees admitted free to
their games more than 100000
youngsters. This season, on 20 play
ing dates, the Yankees will play
host to more than 100000 juveniles.
Evening star., 1947-04-05
BY the Assoeiated Press

LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y, April s.
The United Nations today was in the
unusual position of having sellout
on its hands without knowing
whether the "star" of the show-An-
drei A. Gromyko-would speak his
lines.
More than 5000 overflow applica-
tons for seats to Mondays Security
Council meeting already have been
rejected, the u. N. press division
reported. The Council chamber
seats only 514 spectators and al
tickets were exhausted last WedneS2
day.
The q. N. added that nearly all
written and telephone requests were
accompanied by the comment that
the applicants wanted to hear
Gromyko's answer to American Dele
gate Warren r. Austin's statement
last week on aid to Greece and
Turkey"
Included in those holding seats
were at least one member of Con-
gress, Representative Gary, Demo-
crat, of Virginia and 100 West Point
cadets who are students in interna-
tional relations.
Meanwhile, the usual secrecy sur
rounded Russian plans, and Mr..
Gromyko, Deputy Foreign Minister
and Council delegate, turned aside
queries as to whether he would speak
with, "No comment"
Evening star., 1947-04-05
By Joseph YOUNG

The Senate Appropriations Com
mittee today served notice on Gov
ernment agencies that beginning in
July the committee will employ an
investigating staff to keep close
watch over all Federal spending
activities.
Tie. new policy will permit the
committee to keep an up to date
check on all funds appropriated
to Government agencies duinrg a
fiscal year, instead Of the present
system of waiting until the end of
the year to review a departments
spending activities, it was said.
Senator Reed, Republican, of Kan
sas, acting chairman Of the SUBJ
committee on the Treasury-Post
Once 194S appropriation bill, made
the announcement - postal officials
requested the Senate TO restore some
Of the cuts made BY the House.
Starting In July. We viii keep
Evening star., 1947-04-05
Gun at His Back,
|Cobmon Violates
Laws to No Avail
BY The Associated Press

BALTIMORE, April 5.-Gerald E
Caldwell, cab driver, told police
today he broke every traffic regula-
ton he could think of in a 5-mile
crosstown trip but couldn't get ar
rested. His passenger had a gun in
his back.
Mr.. Caldwell said the fare climbed
into his cab with the declaration:
This is pistol I've had a
rough time tonight, and now I'm
going to give you a rough time"
He gave a destination and Mr..
Caldwell set out on his carefully
planned orgy of speeding and stop
light running, expecting any mo-
ment the gunman would relieve him
Of his receipts.
! At the end of the trip, Mr.. CaId-
well said the passenger got out and
told him:
Here's $525. That's all I've got,
and that's all you're going to get .
The meter reading was $50.
Evening star., 1947-04-05
U. N. Session Monday a SeIIout,
With Gromyko Big Attraction

The thousands seeking seats ap-
parently were banking on Mr.. Gro
nyko's statement in response to Mr..
Austin. who last week laid before the
Council President Truman's proposal
for a $4oo, ,00o, 900 program OF uni
lateral aid to Greece and Turkey
At that time the Russian delegate
said he would touch upon these
questions" at the next Council meet
ing.
There also was a possibility that
Mr.. Gromyko would offer RuSsia'S S
proposals on arms reduction at a
morning meeting of the Commission
on Conventional Armaments. Per-
sons topping the List of reflections for
Council seats were given tickets for
this session.
The largest previous Council crowd
IN Lake Success history appeared for
Mr. Austin's major policy speech on
Greece, several hundred being turned
away. The U. N. said, however, that
the current demand for Mondays
meeting was unprecedented.
There still was no indication whether
Mondays meeting would be broad
cast. as was done by three major
networks when Mr.. Austin spoke.
The q. N. press division said no ar
rangements could be made pending
the answers to these two questions.
/. Will Gromyko speak?
:. Wili he speak Ia Englishf
Evening star., 1947-04-05
Senators to Hire Investigators
To Report Agency Spending

close watch over the money we have
given agencies for the next IL
months" Senator Reed said. "In
this way, we will be in good posi-
tion to know if the money was spent
wisely when the agency comes to us
with new appropriation requests at
the end of the year"
The Kansan added until now the
committee has had no staff to do
this work but it will be different
from now on"
Senator Hayden, Democrat, of
Arizona, another member of the
subcommittee, commented that's
the only way to do it,
The Post Office Departments in-
spection division asked the commit
tee to restore a $247 900 reduction In
its budget request made by the
House. j. j. Doran, chief postal In
spector, said his division has . tire
number OF investigations
to make during the next year"
Evening star., 1947-04-05
Marines Pursue Reds
Who Killed Five in
Arms Depot in China
Six of 16 Wounded in
Attack Near Toneku
Not Expected to Live
BY the Assoeioted Press

PEIPING, April 5.-Chinese
Communists, sweeping suddenly
out of the early morning dark
ness, today attacked an Ameri-
can Marine artillery supply
depot near Tangku, killing S Ma
rines and wounding Is others,
6 of whom were not expected to
live.
Papers found on the bodies of
slain attackers verified they were
Communists, an official Marine
statement said.
The statement did not mention
the number of casualties suffered by
the attackers. but Chinese military
officers reported 100 of the band
killed or wounded.
These officers announced that 900
government troops from Generals
simo Chang Kai-shek's I'd Army
had been dispatched from Tientsin
to aid Marines in tracking down the
attackers, whose numbers were not
known.
Marines Start on Pursuit.
Even as the attackers faded into
the darkness from which they had
struck at the ammunition dump, q
heavily-armed Marine convoy was
made ready at Tientsin, Is miles to
the west, to set out in pursuit.
Stung by the biggest casualty toll
in long series of clashes with North
China irregulars, Col. Julian N.
Frisbie, commander of the 5th
Marine Regiment at Peiping, was
flying to Tientsin to take personal
command.
A brief Marine announcement
confirmed that the fighting, at
Hsinho, 5 miles west of Tangku,
ragged for 4 hours and Is minutes
beginning at lis am.
The reports of the fighting were
fragmentary, saying that one Marine
tank was disabled by a land mine,
and that several explosions of stored
ammunition rocked the dump.
Fighter Planes Sent.
Marine fighter planes were called
out, but the Chinese had vanished
before the airmen could get into
action.
This same dump was raided last
October by an estimated 200
Chinese who wounded a Marine
slightly but left several of their
own dead behind. They succeeded
in carrying off some ammunition.
That may have been their motive
this time, but they found the dump
manned by about company. of
Marines from the 1st Battalion of
(See MARINES. Page A-3)
Evening star., 1947-04-05
Reynolds World Flight
Delayed by Weather
BY the Asseeiassd Press

NEW YORK, April 5.-The round
the-world fight Of Milton Reynolds
Chicago pen manufacturer, and his
two-man crew has been delayed
until nidafternoon by rain and
murky weather conditions, Rey.
nolds spokesman said today.
Frederick Lamb, trip director, said
the converted AIS Douglas bomber
in which Mr.. Reynolds hopes to set
new globe e-circling mark of So
hours would leave Roosevelt Field
on Long Island about / or 2 pm.
for Newark Airport, the takeofi
point. New York earlier had re-
fused to permit the takeof on New
York airports because of the danger
of fire from the heavy gasoline
load.
At Newark the plane will be fueled
and readied for its record-breaking
attempt, Mr.. Lamb added.
He said meteorologists' reports in
dicated the flyers would encounter
clearing weather when approx
imately $50 miles out over the
Atlantic.
Poor weather conditions had
forced several postponements in the
scheduled takeoff and delay also
occurred when the flyers found ID
necessary to install and repair .
new gas tank flown in from Cali
fornia.
Mr.. Reynolds crew members are
William Odom, ~, Of Roslyn, N. Y,
the pilot, and T. C. Sallee, Of Roose-
welt Field, the flight engineer, the
pen manufacturer. himself an ex-
perienced pilot, will act as navigator.
The flight log for the trip includes
stops at Paris, Cairo, Calcutta,
Shanghai, Tokyo and Anchorage
Alaska
Evening star., 1947-04-05
Rock Island Locomotive
DeraIiIed by RocksIide
S5y the Associated Press

LINWOOD, Kans., April 5.-The
locomotive of the Rock Island
Rocket, fast passenger train running
between Minneapolis and Houston,
Tex, was derailed near here last
night after striking a small rock
slide.
Only casualty was the engineer,
who suffered a slight back injury.
The seven cars of the train re-
manned on the tracks and work
crews were attempting to return
the engine to the rails.
Parallel tracks of the Union Pa
cific we're blocked for a time but
railroad officials estimated at least
one line would be cleared early to-
day. Traffic was rerouted over
Santa Fe tracks.
Heavy rains were believed respon-
sible for the rockslide.
Evening star., 1947-04-05
Jefferson Day Dinner
AT Mayf|ower Sold Out

The jefferson Day dinner which
President Truman will address at
the Mayflower tonight is 1000
ticket, 100000 sellout.
House Minority Leader Rayburn
was accepting checks today with the
understanding that they are simply
contributions to the party treasury
not meal tickets.
Mr.. Truman, making his first po-
litical speech since the Democratic
defeat in November, will go on the
air at 1890 o'clock, with all net
works carrying his Commute speech
He will be heard at other Jefferson
Day dinners from coast to coast.
The President is expected to urge
anaw his legislative program. in
cluding fiscal stabilization, better
housing, increased public health
care, improved labor relations ma
chinery.
While Congress has taken no ac-
tion on any of these issues, friends
did not look for the President to
criticize openly the Republican ma
jority, in view of his plea for CO.
operation between White House and
Capitol Hill.
Evening star., 1947-04-05
Gerig Appointed Deputy
On U.N. Trustee Council

President Truman today named
Benjamin Gerig, chief of the Divi-
sion Of Dependent Area Affairs of
the State Department, to be deputy
representative on the
Trusteeship Council of the United
Nations. The American representa-
tive is Francis B. Sayre.
Mr.. Gerig has been in the State
since 1912. From 1890
to 1889 he was a member of the
information and mandate section
of the League of Nations Secretariat.
Evening star., 1947-04-05
Marshall Confers 90 Minutes
With Beyin on Big 4 Progress
Foreign Minister'S co-ordinoting Group
Finishing Report on Reich Government

Of Foreign Ministers to date, to-
gether with possible future moves.
At the same time, the Councils
Co-ordinating Committee was put
ting last-minute touches on a re-
port for today's Council session on
the subject Of Germany's future
provisional government.
There was some speculation that
if the discussion Of this report was
finished in time, the Ministers might
be able to begin a discussion OF
German frontiers.
In the meeting Of Deputy Foreign
Ministers working on the Austrian
peace treaty today, the Russians
lined UP with the United States
against British and French demands
for compensation from Austria for
war damage to property of the
United Nations and their citizens.
The British and French deputies
insist on compensation at the rate
of two-thirds of the full value of
Evening star., 1947-04-05
Record Crowds Pour
Into City 10 Spend
Weekend Holiday
Weather Bureau Soys
Prospects Are Good
For Eoster Sunday
EASTER SUNRISE SERVICES
scheduled for the District. See
story on Page Ala.
Record-breaking crowds S

Record breaking crowds still
were pouring into Washington
today for the Easter week end
with good weather for Easter
Sunday quite possible"
The Weather Bureau predicted
that showers would. fall tomorrow
but that they should end in the
early morning and should be fol-
lowed by cloudy skies and winds
Today will be cloudy and warm with
few showers both today and
tonight. The weather will be mild
both days with the temperature
reaching the COS this afternoon.
TITS fair chance i will clear
up before noon on Easter Sunday,
the bureau said.
Over the city churches were pre-
pairing for the Easter services. Yes
terday, Good Friday services at
tracted thousands during the three
hour observance starting at noon.
In addition to the religious services,
organizations over the city planned
other traditional Easter events. The
Monday program of the District
Recreation Department includes egg
hunts. egg rolling and picnics at the
various parks and Fairgrounds.
10000 Visitors Expected.
An estimated 10000 visitors will
be in town over the week end, ac-
cording to Clarence A.. Arata Of
the Greater National Capital Com
mittee. This marks the heaviest
influx since the Easter week end of
1899 which was a prewar peak year
for visitors to Washington.
Mr.. Arata said the incoming
travel was expected to be equaled
and possibly surpassed by the num-
Der of Washingtonians leaving to
spend the holidays elsewhere.
Heaviest travel was reported to the
New York area.
Hotels are booked to capacity,
according to Arthur j. Hartnett,
secretary Of the District Hotel As
sociation. Many without reserva-
tions were turned away.
Some relief in THE rooming situ-
alton was being given by the Board
Of Trades housing bureau which is
operating from the lobby of the
Star Building.
Mr.. Arata said thousands of per-
sons seeking rooms have been placed
Evening star., 1947-04-05
U. 5. Experts Pressing
last-Chance' Efforts
To Avert Phone Tieup
Continuous Conferences
Held; Settlement Is Aim
Ruther Than Seizure

Government conciliators to-
day were engaged in virtually
continuous conferences at the
Labor Department representing
a last-chance effort to avert a
Nation wide telephone strike at
6 am. Monday.
Though there was no indication
of progress toward a compromise,
Assistant Secretary of Labor John
w. Gibson and C Cancellation Director
Edgar L.. Warren emphasized they
still were thinking in terms OF set
tlement rather than Government
seizure. They hoped to better or at
least duplicate last years feat, In
which strike was averted less than
an hour before the deadline.
AS the conciliator fought to avoid
serious consideration of Federal
seizure, they had before them a
statement by Joseph A. Beirne,
president of the National Federation
OF Telephone Workers, who chal-
lenged the Governments right to
seige the telephone system.
IF seizure is decided upon, we
will then determine what action is
to be taken," Mr.. Beirne declared
last night.
Clark's Opinion Disputed.
He said Attorney General Clark's
opinion of yesterday, in which he
stated President Truman could
take over the telephone system
under war powers in the Commune
cations Act, was contrary to the
opinion Of our legal counsel"
HE is stretching the law to the
breaking point in handing down
such decision" Mr.. Beirne added.
A Labor Department spokesman
said early this afternoon that con-
ferences between the conciliators
and representatives Of the unions
and the long Lines division Of the
American Telephone g. Telegraph
Co., and the Southwestern Bell Tele-
phone Co. show signs of going on
for some time"
The conferees did not indicate
whether progress was being made,
he said. He quoted conciliators as
saying the conferences would be
kept in almost continuous session
from now on"
Meanwhile, the Virginia Fedora
ton of Telephone Workers an
nounced that a second conference
with the Chesapeake & Potomac
Telephone Co. had adjourned with
out agreement. A. v. Atkinson. head
of the Virginia FTW, said notifica-
ton of the unsuccessful outcome of
Evening star., 1947-04-05
Howard Hughes to Test
New Photo PIone Today
BY The A,soeioied Press

CULVER CITY, Calf, April S.
Howard Hughes was scheduled to
make another try today at test
flying his sharp-nosed AF-11 photo
reconnaissance plane.
His first attempt with similar
plane last July almost cost him his
life and he spent weeks in a hospital
after crashing in a Beverly Hills
residential area.
Hughes aircraft spokesmen said
the plane is duplicate of the first
except that it has single rotation
propellers instead of eight-bladed
counter-rotating props. Mr.. Hughes
said after his crash that one of the
counter-rotating propellers failed.
Evening star., 1947-04-05
Four Reported Killed
In Oklahoma Storm
BY tho Assoeiated Press

WISTER, Okla, April 5.-The st.
Louis g. San Francisco Railroads
station agent here reported that
four persons were killed when
wind storm struck the Glendale
community in LIE Flore County in
Eastern Oklahoma early today.
The Red Gross reported that the
four dead were from the Vaughn
family and listed them as Andrew,
George, Jewell and Nancy. Their
ages were not known.
The storm struck the area about
am, destroying several houses and
uprooting trees.
Evening star., 1947-04-05
Trygve Lie in Boston
On Way to New York
BY the Associated Press

BOSTON, April 5.-A Swedish
Airlines transport carrying Trygve
Lie. secretary general of the United
Nations, landed at Logan Airport
from Oslo today, unable to go on
to New York because of weather.
Passengers remained aboard the
plane awaiting decision by air.
ways traffic control CAB whether
to let the ship continue to La
Guardia Field on entrain here for
New York.
An American Overseas airliner
from London also was held up here
because of weather.
Evening star., 1947-04-05
Russians Seen Aiming
To Put Blame on u. ).
II Conference Fails
Deliberate Effort to Slow
Progress of Ministers
Attributed to Reds
Ry NewboId Moves Jr.
By NewboId koyes, Jr
Stor stoff Correspondent

MOSCOW, April 5.-That Rus
sia is trying to slow down the
Foreign Ministers German ne
gotiations just as hard as we
are trying to speed them up is
becoming more apparent every
day here.
There are many possible reasons
for the Soviet delaying tactics. Her
attitude is probably conditioned by
several of them.
It may reflect the fact, for in
stance, that Russia is in more i'm
mediate need of what she is after
here-reparations from Germany's
production and a hand in control
of the Ruhr-than we are in what
we want-an economically united
Germany which has a chance Of
developing into our kind of demo-
cratic state.
Russia, too, may have the i'm
preston that we want to go home
and, If exasperated enough by de-
lay, might agree to a f1in1sy COM
promise which would, however, give
her what she wants. If this is one
of her hopes it Is forlorn one.
Secretary of State Marshall does in
truth have urgent business In Wash
ington. But so far as Americans
here are concerned-the day of the
fiimsy compromise, patched up to
make discord sound like harmony,
is definitely over.
World Reaction Eyed.
Russian Foreign Minister Molo-
tov also doubtless has his eye on
world reaction, especially German
reaction, to a failure of this con-
ference to achieve anything signi-
ficant. He may think that failure
is inevitable, reasoning at the same
time that if he stalls long enough
and forces Gen. Marshall into call
ing halt on behalf of America, we
will appear as villains of the piece.
This last point is matter OF seri-
GUS concern to members Of the
American delegation, particularly as
it relates to German public opinion.
There may be some doubt as to
why Russia is applying the brakes
to these already stalemated ne
gotiations. But there is no doubt
as to how she is doing it.
Gen. Marshall, to get things mov-
ing, is trying to push. the ques-
tions on which the ministers bog
down into the hands of subordinate
committees. While the Council
forges ahead to new problems, he
wants these committees to do as
much of the tedious routine hag-
Cling as possible. When commit
tees have produced something, the
ministers themselves can take up
these questions again.
Two Russian Tactics.
Russian delegates deal with this
situation in two ways. First, they
slow up the work of committees as
much as possible, quibbling on every
point. Secondly, when a commit
tee finally reports to the Council,
Mr.. Molotov argues even about
points on which-after hours of
work-it managed to produce an
agreement.
Today, for instance, the Council
may finally get report from the
Co-ordinating Committee on the
Evening star., 1947-04-05
Wreck Of Dutch Plane
Sighted on Peak in Juvu
BY the A.soeioied Press

BATAVIA, Java. April 5.-The
wreckage of a Netherlands East
Indies Air. Force Dakota fDC-3)
plane, which disappeared March 13
with 27 persons aboard. was sighted
today on the 6,00o-foot peak OF
Mount Boerangrang, 10 miles north
west of Bandoeng.
The reconnaissance pilot who re-
ported the discovery said1Ae saw no
signs of life. He said both wings
were ripped of, but that the body
OF the plane was intact. A ground
searching party Immediately started
the long climb toward the wreck.