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Evening star., 1947-09-25
Mrs. Taft Humunizes Issues
In Humorous Political Speech

rolling voice, a sense of humor and
timing, she is capable of laying
them in the aisles. And how they
like it.
Running through her whole ad-
dress, it lasted just 80 minutes, was
her intense devotion TO American
ideals and ner pride in Bob Taft.
This was her first public speech
OF this Western trip, designed by
her husband to make clear to the
people the achievements of the Re-
publican Congress, of which he is
a leader, and to test his own
chances in the presidential race of
1948. Nearly all of the thirty-odd
political writer's who have consti-
tuted themselves a tail to the Taft
caravan deserted the Senator's
meeting to listen to her. They were
not disappointed. She has trick OF
humanizing the issues, and, like her
CONTINUED on Page A, Column y
Evening star., 1947-09-25
Freedmen's Budget forIndigents
Tops Average Private Hospital S
$17 Figure Due for Revision After Protests;
Paying Patients May Get Room for 81 q Day

Federal Security Administration
Officials say there has been no dis
cussion between the two agencies
of an increase in the private rates.
The figures cited above refer only
to the cost of hospital room and
board, whereas the Freedmen's in
digent rates will include all hos
pital costs.
To get the total hospital bill, such
extra charges as drugs, operating
room fees, X-rays and other spe-
cial services must be added.
The September edition of the Mod
ern Hospital estimates these charges
at $3.50 for ward patients and $4.3C
for those in private rooms.
Only % of Freedmen's rooms are
private, however. Except in cases
where medical condition demands
isolation, the hospitals INDECENT
patients occupy ward beds, some OF
them crowded 28 in a ward.
Ward beds can be obtained for
$3.50 at Doctors Hospital and
(See FREEDMEN'S Page A-4J
Evening star., 1947-09-25
By Gould Lincoln
Sfor Stoff CORRESPONDENT

SEATTLE, Sept. 25.-The Sec
ond half of the team of Bob and
Martha Taft has swung into
action, and the action is very,
very good.
While Senator Taft of Ohio, un-
announced candidate for the Re-
publican presidential nomination,
was addressing the Rotary Club
yesterday in the Olympic Hotel, inn
pressing the members with his
grasp of Government and the issues
of the day, Mrs. Taft was spellbind-
ing 500 members of the Republican
Women's Clubs Of King County at
Masonic Temple. Never let it be
said there is not a rabble rouser in
the Taft family.
Not that Mrs. Taft Is at all dena-
gogic. She isn't. But with rich,
Evening star., 1947-09-25
Three British Flyers Rescued
By Rome Pilot in Antarctic

tea. They had been living on an
emergency ration limited to 500
calories per man a day. They had
had to struggle against blizzards
through knee-deep slush a few miles
a day. dragging their supplies in the
belly tank of their plane. Their
boots were frozen and as stiff as
boards. The Britons had had no
sleep the last several nights, since
their sleeping bags were just chunks
of ice.
The intensive air and ground
search in which both British and
American expeditions participated
despite snow-laden winds of up to
80 miles per hour began September
Is, when the, small British plane
failed to make a rendezvous with
the Norseinan plane MANA" of
the Rome expedition. They were to
cache supplies at Cape Keeler, 100
tsec ROME, Page A-5)
Evening star., 1947-09-25
What theRussiuns
Are Saying. of Us:

The MoscoD radio, broadcasting in
German to Europe this ,Deek, said:
War is the favorite occupation
of dapper robbers such as the
financial magnates of the ruling
dynasty of capital. In this the
United States monopolists are
particularly successful. World
War I gave them a clear profit
amounting to the dizzy sum OF
$38. .000, ,000. .000. This immeasurable
wealth was created out of the
blood of scores of millions of vic
tins of that war. But still greater
was the stream of gold which
flowed into the United States
banks during World War II. The
United States monopolists made
$50, ,00o, 600, 900 out of war, out of
ruined and devastated Europe, out
of despoiled China. out Of the
oceans of blood-for blood drips
from each of these So, 900, ,000, ,000."
Evening star., 1947-09-25
Truman Names Bush
To Head Research in
New Defense Setup
President Also Nominutes
Borrows, Zuckert and
Whitney to Air Posts

President Truman today COM
pleted the top leadership of the
new national defense organiza-
tion by naming DR.. Vannevar
Bush, noted scientist, as chair
man of the Research and Devel-
opment Board.
He also filled positions in the new
Department of the Air Force with
these appointments:
Arthur s. Barrows, Chicago, to be
Undersecretary of the Air Force,
which is headed by Secretary w.
Stuart Symington.
Eugene M. Zuckert and Cornelius
Vanderbilt Whitney to be Assistant
Secretaries for Air.
Spaatz Gets New Title.
Mr.. zukert has been special as
sistant to the Assistant Secretary
of War for Air. Mr.. Whitney, an
officer in both World Wars, is pres
ident of a numbering company in
Northern New York State and head
of livestock properties in New York
and Kentucky.
Gen. Carl Spaatz was appointed
chief of staff for the Air Depart
ment. He has been chief of the
Army Air Force.
The board which DR.. Bush will
head is designed to keep America
in the forefront of scientific develop
ments and in obtaining new
weapons. DR.. Bush, one of the
masterminds in the development of
the atom bomb, now heads the
temporary Research and Develop
ment Board set up last year by the
Army and Navy as joint organ
ization. He also is president Of the
Carnegie Institution, scientific re-
search organization, and a member
of the National Advisory Committee
for Aeronautics.
He is ST and a resident of South
Dennis, Mass.
Truman Praises Bush.
In letter to DR.. Bush, Mr.. Tru-
man praised his willingness to con-
tinue in public service.
THE coordination of our scien-
tific effort" Mr.. Truman said, lis
one of the most important objec-
tives of the National Security Act.
1t is fortunate circumstance that,
in carrying out these objectives, the
Research and Development Board
will have the benefit of your guild
.ance."
Mr.. Barrows, the new Undersec-
retary of the Air Force, was asso-
ciated with mail order companies
for several years before retiring
early this year. For the last six
months he has been chairman of
the American portion of the eco
nomic control group in Germany
and chairman of the economic panel
dealing with the economic merger
of the British and United States
occupation zones
Evening star., 1947-09-25
By the Associated presx

LAKE SUCCESS, Sept. 25.-
Russia charged today that the
United States and Britain were
violating the Potsdam agree
ment by opposing the admission
of Soviet satellites to member
ship in the United Nations.
The new Soviet attack on the big
western powers took place in the
Security Council.
Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister
Andrei A. Gromyko. sitting as
Council president for this month,
declared he would not vote for
Italy's admission unless the Cour.-
Gil also admitted Hungary, Romania,
Bulgaria and Finland.
Separate Vote Called For.
The United States and Britain
supported Italy, but objected
vigorously to admission of the Com
munist-dominated governments of
Evening star., 1947-09-25
By Thomas 6. Buchonon

The District this year will pay
Freedmen's Hospital a higher
rate for INDECENT patients than
it would cost to provide them
with a private room in the aver
age hospital, if figures now be-
ing considered by the Budget
Bureau are approved.
While the city's officials are seek
ing reduction in the Freedmen S
rate-scheduled to be set at more
than SIT before protests forced con-
sideration of revision-patients are
getting private rooms at Doctors
Hospital for as low as $1050-and
Dctors is operated at a profit.
Private citizens can get individual
rooms at Garfield for 50, at George
Washington for the same fee, and
at Emergency for ST.
At Freedmen's itself, paying pa
tents can get a private room fdr
81 day. This rate is set by the
Evening star., 1947-09-25
Drive to Save Food Is Launched:
Truman Names Group to Draft
Stop-Gap European Aid Program
Dorothy Thompson Called Him
About EisIer, Messersmith Says
Former Stote Department Official Asserts
She First Brought Case to His Attention

knowledged yesterday that he was
admitted to membership in the Com
munist party in Germany many
years ago, is brother of Gerhard
Eisler, who has zen described as
top rank Communist leader in this
country. Hams denied yesterday he
is Communist now or ever was in
a real sense.
Mr.. Messersmith said he could not
recall the details of Miss Thomp-
sons telephone conversation, but
the committee placed in evidence
copy of letter he sent her in reply,
calling attention to the State De-
partment's information, which in
cluded the question whether Hams
Eisler was Communist.
Other nigh lights of today's session
included:
/. Representative Rankin. Demo-
crat, of Mississippi asserted Mrs.
Roosevelt was not acting officially
(See UN-AMERICAN. Page A-6O
Evening star., 1947-09-25
District Seeks
$6,772,000 for
Wafer System
Sewer Division Asks
So, sol, 900 Budget;
Hearings Under WAY

A total of se,772, 900 In District
money has been asked to supply
and distribute water to the Cap
ital during the fiscal year start
ing next July l, as well as make
improvements to the water
system.
This was disclosed today as Dis
trict Budget Oficer Walter L.
Fowler continued to make public
details of the record $4,000, 900 in
1888 budget estimates which city
agencies have asked the Commits
sioners to approve.
At the same time, the Sewer
Division has asked for $8,501 900 to
dispose of Washington's waste and
drain water in the fiscal year l949,
Mr.. Fowler disclosed.
Closed Hearings Begun.
He started closed hearings yester-
day on the budget at which de-
partment heads must justify their
requests. A public hearing on the
new budget is scheduled for Octo-
Der 9.
The total water request runs $81S,-
298 above the $5,953,702 being spent
during the current year for water
supply and distribution. OF this in
crease, $237 900 is asked for in
creases in personnel, equipment and
maintenance funds, while $420, ,298
OF the increase is asked for capital
improvements.
A total of S1.49O,0O0 is asked to
continue improving and expanding
the filtration and reservoir facil.-
ties that take water out of the
Potomac River at Great Falls and
deliver it to the city for distribu-
ton to consumers.
This money would be spent pr!n-
cipally to continue the expansion
of Mcmillan filter plant and re-
model the old Georgetown reser-
voir, where water destined for the
Mcmillan plant is cleared by sedi-
nentation.
81, 10000 for Georgetown Reservoir.
The Georgetown reservoir project
accounts for $1,l2000o of the
amount asked. There are also
minor amounts asked for circula-
tion facilities and for continuing
repair of new conduits.
A total of $1,536,00O has been
asked to improve the city's water
Evening star., 1947-09-25
By Comdr. Finn Rome
Copyright, ls7. by North American
Newspaper Alliance, Inc.

RONNE ANTARCTIC RE-
SEARCH EXPEDITION BASE,
Marguerite Bay, Antarctica,
Sept. % (Delayed.-The three
British flyers lost in the Ant
arctic for nine days have been
found. They were discovered by
Capt. James Lassiter, pilot of
the plane MANA, walking back
to base-but still 80 miles (or
about 10 days traveD away.
Each man had lost about 20
pounds and was exhausted. But
none was injured in the forced
landing and crash of their light
Auster plane.
The men are now sleeping, after
a light meaf of bread, oatmeal and
Evening star., 1947-09-25
BY J. A. OLeory

The House Committee on I'm
American Activities was told to-
day that Dorothy Thompson,
newspaper columnist, got in
touch with the State Department
about the admission of Hams
Eisler to this country in the fall
of 1888 before Mrs. Eleanor
Roosevelt had interceded in his
case.
Former Assistant Secretary of
State George s. Messersmith testi-
fed the Eisler case first came to his
attention when Miss Thompson COM
municated with him by telephone.
The committee is seeking to find
out how Eisler obtained admission
to the United States as a non-quota
immigrant in 1910 after he had al
ready arrived earlier as temporary
visitor.
The HOLLYWOOD composer. who ac-
Evening star., 1947-09-25

Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria.
They insisted that separate vote
be taken on each of the five ex-
enemy states.
Polish Foreign Minister Zygmunt
Modzelewski touched off the new
big power fight by proposing
formally that the Council give
blanket approval to all five ex-
enemies.
Mr.. Gromyko supported the Polish
proposal with a declaration that
the Potsdam agreement treated all
these eX-enemy states in the same
way without any discrimination
toward any of them.
THE United States and the United
Kingdom" he said, "deviate from
the Potsdam agreement when they
seek to have Italy considered sep
arately."
johnson, Cadogan Back Italy.
The Polish resolution was sub
mitted by Mr.. Modzelewski after
Herschel v. johnson. deputy Amer
ican delegate, and British Delegate
Sir Alexander Cadogan had urged
admission of Italy, but made no
mention of the other four appii-
cants under consideration.
Both Britain and the United
States previously had opposed the
admission of Hungary, Romania
and Bulgaria because of the atti-
tudeS of their Communist-domi-
mated governments.
The extraordinary Council ses-
sion came one day after the Gen.
erai Assembly's 55-nation Political
Committee unanimously voted in
Pakistan and Yemen. They will be
seated at a plenary Assembly
shortly, increasing the membership
to 81.
These two Moslem countries were
the only ones approved by the
Council out of II applicant nations
in deliberations last month. Fin
land applied last week after the five
European peace treaties went into
effect.
Evening star., 1947-09-25
U. 5. Balkan Proposal
Ready for Action by
u. n. Assembly Today
Resolution to Seek New
Commission to Keep
Greek Border Watch
By the Assoeioted Press

LAKE SUCCESS, Sept. 25.-I
The United States whipped a
new Balkans proposal into shape
for prompt United Nations ac-
ton today with the evident pur-.
pose of seeking strong interna-
tional reinforcement for the
Truman Doctrine in Greece.
The delegation under the leader
ship of Secretary of State Marshall
was reported to have worked out
already a tentative draft of a reso-
luton by which the U. N. Assembly
would set up what some officials
called a fairly large" commission
to maintain constant watch on
Greece's borders with Yugoslavia,
Albania and Bulgaria.
The commission, American au-
thorities contend, would serve by
its very presence to minimize the
number of border incidents and
otherwise help protect Greece
against alleged Communist aggres-
sions-which is also the stated polit-
ical objective of the Truman Doc
trine in that country.
The whole subject was slated for
action by the Assembly's 55-nation
Political Committee due to meet at
8 pm, with Mrs. Franklin D. Roose-
welt designated to assist Warren
Austin, American deputy, in meeting
strong Russian opposition.
Battle Lines Fully Drawn.
The problem of the Balkan coun-
tries was linked with general Amer
ican and British disapproval Of
Soviet and Communist policies in
Southeastern Europe. In the case
of Bulgaria specifically, Gen. Mar
shall has publicly charged that it
was one of three countries guilty
of aggression against Greece. He
named the other two as Albania
and Yugoslavia.
The Russian American battle thus
was on in full force in the commit
tee stage of the Assembly's work
here, but nowhere was it more
sharply focused than in the Polit-
ical Committee.
That body reversed yesterday an
earlier order of business which had
been recommended to it by Assem-
bly, President Oswaldo Aranha of
Brazil and put the Greek Balkans
dispute in No. 8 position. 1t then
disposed of the No. l item by ap-
Evening star., 1947-09-25
Water Meter Readers
Would Don Uniforms
HCongress Approves

The man who comes to read
the water meter will appear,
starting next summer, in a
snappy new uniform instead OF
his own clothes, if Congress
approves a 1948-49 budget re-
quest made by District Meter
Division Superintendent David
Auld. Mr.. Auld is asking for
$4,000 to uniform his meter
readers and inspectors Ito speed
the work of meter reading and
quiet the fears of apprehensive
house holders"
Evening star., 1947-09-25
U. S. Envoy in Moscow
To Report to Marshall
By the Associoted Press

MOSCOW, Sept. 25.-American
Ambassador Walter Bede1l Smith is
planning to go to Washington early
next month to report to Secretary
of State Marshall and other officials,
it was learned today.
1t was understood that Gen. Smith
planned to stay several weeks in the
United States and then return to
Moscow.
Evening star., 1947-09-25
Turk General to Visit U. S.

ISTANBUL, Sept. Is (P.-Advices
from Ankara today reported that
Gen. Salih Omurtak, chief of the
Turkish general staff, would leave
for Washington October to confer
with American Government officials,
presumably concerning the Amer
lean aid program.
Evening star., 1947-09-25
Cartoon in Izvestiu
Shows Eisenhower
Waving Atom Bomb
BY the Assoeiatsd Pres,

MOSCOW, Sept. 25.-A car
toon in Izvestia today depicted
Gen. Eisenhower as waving an
atomic bomb and shouting
through !. q megaphone labeled
Daily Hearst" that "the U. 8.
s. r. is going to attack Amer
ica."
= A cartoon in Trud showed
Franklin D. Roosevelt looking
down on q dance of war
mongers" and saying to himself:
Where are they taking Amer
ica?" The dancers included
Winston Churchill, with his son
Randolph on his back; an
American general waving a
bacteria war" bottle and an
American capitalist beating a
drum on which Greece and
Turkey rode.
Evening star., 1947-09-25
Italian Reds Threaten
To Seize Milan Plants
# Owners Close Them
TotoI Shutdown Would
Make $50, 900 Idle in
Textile Industry
BY the Assoeiofed Press

ROME, Sept. 25.-The Commu-
mist newspaper L'Unita declared
today that textile workers would
seize plants by force if owners
decided to close them completely
because of strike of approx
mately 10000 administrative
workers and technicians.
Some owners in Milan stated they
would be forced to close the plants
to avoid damage to materials by
workers lacking direction from the
technicians. A complete shutdown
would make all of the industry's
$4,000 workers idle.
The textile strike, which began
yesterday, was the third major la
Dor dispute in Italy in three weeks.
The first, involving 100000 farm
hands in the rich Pc Valley, lasted
IL days. While this was going on
350,000 metal workers staged a two
day demonstration walkout.
Drive on Government Seen.
Leaders of the Christian Demo-
crat (Catholic) Party have at
tributed the wave of labor unrest
to an apparently co-ordinated left
list drive to topple Italy's Christian
Democrat government.
Union representatives said the
textile strike, which has the sup
port of the Communist dominated
General Confederation of Labor,
was called to protest failure of
management to classify admins
trative workers as employees"
rather than "laborers." The tech
nicians complained also of i'm
proper classification.
The strike was reported complete
in some cities, but only partially
successful in others.
In the Rome area a strike of
some 10000 agricultural workers
for higher pay went into its fourth
day. No prospects for an agree
ment were in sight.
Evening star., 1947-09-25
Cubu Joins UNESCO

PARIS, Sept. Is tP.-Cuba today
became the 32d full -f1edged mem
Der of the United Nations Educa-
tional, Scientific and cultural or
ganization. DR.. Julian Huxley, di-
rector of UNESCO, announced that
the Cuban government had de-
posted its ratification of the
UNESCO constitution, thereby au-
tomatically assuming membership.
Evening star., 1947-09-25
Lute Bulletin
u. S. to Take Up Seizure
OF Gjs in Trieste at Once

The State Department an
nounced today it will take up
Immediately" with the Yugo-
sIav government the case Of
three American soldiers seized
and held captive by Yugoslav
troops along the Trieste FROM
tier.
Evening star., 1947-09-25

WARSAW, Sept. "a Delayed (P.
police announced today
they had liquidated an underground
band in suburban Praga and ar
rested a number of its members
including the vice president of the
local branch of Stanislaw Mikola-
jczyk's opposition Peasant Party.
Evening star., 1947-09-25
Sunny Weather Due
Here Tomorrow as
Heavy RAi;:=. rs
Police Ar 3ss:a' q s busy
Probing Iii .Iiii y = coused
n n X4aHV II taF9N
Dv FOOf rs
.t-
The first ..~ in of the
autumn seasE usae this morn
ing after pqeI ~ tity caused
by the. storf police busy

by the. storf police busy
throughout -yht investi-
eating scores fesdo1Eidents.
~-3n
The Weather Bureau reported 81
inches of rain fell in the District
from the time the storm started at
noon yesterday until 8 am. today.
Cloudy weather was predicted for
this afternoon with temperature in
the low COS. The sun might appear
late in the afternoon, it was said.
Tonight will be clear and cool, it was
said. with temperatures in the upper
40s. Sunny and cool weather was
forecast for tomorrow.
Youth Seriously Injured.
Robert E, Davis, 16, of the 200
block of Fifteenth street Sc, was in
serious condition at Casualty Hos
pital after being struck by hit-and-
run driver at the corner of Four
teenth street and Massachusetts
avenue about 10 o'clock last night.
Police said the youth was dragged
about 100 feet by the car, which sped
on after the accident. He was in
the crosswalk at the time of the
impact, they said.
The car described as the one which
struck the youth was recovered a
short time later by officers OF the
Traffic Investigation Bureau, but
police said Mrs. Violet A. Quinn of
AIT Thirty-sixth street NE. denied
any knowledge of the accident. The
car had been stolen earlier in the
evening, she told police.
The youth suffered a compound
leg fracture, fractured arm and
head injuries, police said.
Cab Smashes Into Pole.
-Four persons were hospitalized
when a taxicab struck a curb,
skidded across the street and
smashed into light pole on the
Fourteenth street causeway, near
Maine avenue S.W.
Those injured were Harry w.
Mullen. so, colored, 1900 block of
S street NV, operator of the car,
head and neck injuries; Perry An
derson, As, colored, of the same
address, shoulder injuries; Alonzo
Robinson, 46, colored, 1900 block OF
Swan street NV, fractured ankle
and skull injuries, and Monroe
Lenoff, Is, Arlington, injuries.
All were treated at Emergency
Hospital. Mr.. Mullen, Mr.. Ander-
(See WEATHER. Page A-5J
Evening star., 1947-09-25
jap Flood Casualties
Estimated at 3,603
BY the Associoted Press

TOKYO, Sept. 25.-The toll taken
by f1oodwaters which still cover
much of the great Kanto plain north
of Tokyo was placed at 1902 dead,
] SIG injured and 985 missing today
by Allied headquarters public health
and welfare section.
Previously, lst Cavalry headquar-
ters had estimated 1000 dead on
the basis of reports from its units
scattered throughout 10 of the
flooded prefectures.
Emperor Hirohito visited one Of
Tokye's flood districts today.
Evening star., 1947-09-25
Sub Sent to Rescue
Six on Rufts at Sea
By the Associoted Press

TOKYO, Sept. 25.-United States
Far East Air Forces announced to-
Gay that submarine had been dis
patched from Truk to rescue a six
man crew which bailed out of an
Army C-54 transport plane 430 miles
south of Guam late yesterday
The submarine was expected to
reach the men, who are aboard four
life RATS, sometime tonight. Addi-
tlonal RATS were dropped from a
circling Bit. The plane was on a
flight between Manus and Guam.
Evening star., 1947-09-25
British Dressmokers
Fight Paris Styles
With Spiral Design
BY the Assecioted Press

LONDON, Sept. 25.-British
dress designers, warning on
Paris long dresses, came up
today with a spiral design"
The guild of creative de-
signers promised details later.
Chairman Henry Scott said the
spiral gives the impression of
length but by no means shields
a shapely calf from the public
eye.
Some stylists said it ends
about IA inches from the
ground.
Evening star., 1947-09-25

MANILA, Sept. 25 tP).-Reports
reaching here today said three per-
sons were killed and about 100 in
jured or missing in the collapse Of
a bridge at Naga, Camarines Sur
Province, 235 rail miles southeast
of Manila.