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Evening star., 1947-04-07
High Palestine Court
Rejects Gruner Appeal
From Death Sentence
barely showing.
Rx .b. Associated Pros,

JERUSALEM, April THE Pales-
tine Supreme Court rejected today
plea that the death sentence Inn
posed on Dow Bella Gruner, con-
victed member of the Jewish under
ground, be set aside as contrary to
the terms of the British Mandate in
the Holy Land.
The plea was filed last week by
the Jewish community of Tel Aviv
after the Privy Council in London
Britain's Highest Court-had re-
fused to consider an appeal filed
by Gruner's uncle.
Gruner. a 33-year-old Hungarian
Jew and veteran OF the British
Army, has refused to take any ac-
ton in his own case, maintaining
he Is prisoner of war and should
be treated as one.
He was condemned to death jan
uary / for participation in an Irgun
Zvai Leumi raid on the Ramat
Gan police station last May, in
which two policemen were slain.
Immediately after the courts de-
cision was announced today, At
torney Max Kritzman, who appeared
for the petitioners, asked leave to
carry the matter to the Privy Coun-
Gil, but the court ruled it had no
Jurisdiction to grant the request.
Mr.. Kritzman then said he would
cable Immediately to associates IN
London and ask them to take the
matter up directly with the Privy
Council.
Denial of Mr.. Kritzman's request
raised speculation in some quarters
that Gruner might go to the gallows
tomorrow-Tuesday being the tradi-
tional day for executions throughout
the British controlled prison system.
Irgun Zvai Leumi has threatened
immediate and violent" retaliation
If he is hanged.
Evening star., 1947-04-07
Army Day
Continued From First Page J

Army units. Among them will be
components of the 82d Airborne Di-
vision, a battalion of WACS and
the United States Army Band, Ma
rine Band and Drum and Bugle
Corps, Navy Band and Army Air
Forces Band.
Next will be a division which
includes the Districts new National
Guard units, with the 356th Engi-
neer Band from Fort Belyoir. The
third division will include unit Of
Officer Reserve Corps members, the
new Organized Reserves, and Wash
ington cadet organizations. Thou
sands of veterans and veteran auxil-
iary units will march in the fourth
division.
All District employees who could be
spared from their work were to be
dismissed between pm. and pm.
to permit them to see the parade.
AS part OF Army Week observance
Walter Reed Hospital held open
house yesterday afternoon. Stages
in the treatment Of wounded
soldiers from the first moments
after injury until final cure were
demonstrated.
loco Tour Hospital.
The hospitals observance Of Army
Day began with Easter Sunrise
services in the Walter Reed
Amphitheater.
High-spot on the tour for most
visitors was the demonstration by
a battalion aid station unit under
actual battle conditions. Battle
ground" was a small hill near the
Sixteenth street entrance to the
hospital, and while the guests
watched, wounded" soldiers were
brought to the first-aid station and
given emergency treatment. Sound
effects, smoke screens and soldiers
in battle dress added to the illusion.
During the demonstration, Capt.
Paul Ellis, a combat veteran Of
World War II, explained by loud
speaker the emergency treatment
given each one.
Other exhibits by Brig. Gen.
George C. Beach, commanding offi-
Ger of the hospital, and his staff, in
cluded visits to physical and occu-
pational therapy centers, the cancer
treatment section and recrea ton
halls.
Evening star., 1947-04-07
Is Nations Delegate!
Gather al Geneva 10
Discuss Tariff Cuts
81 lie Assesls,sd prs..

LONDON, April 7.-Delegates Of
18 countries gathering Id Geneva to-
day Tor United Nations-sp0nsored
trade talks, may reach historic null
tilateral agreements on tarin cuts
and begin trading with each other
under the rules Of q projected Inter-
national organization. 4
The second formal session Of the
United Nations Preparatory Ccm-
mittee on Trade and Employment,
scheduled to begin Thursday. April
10, will face these two main tasks:
/. To complete charter.
2. To relax trade tariffs, prefer
ences and barriers on reciprocal
basis.
Countries to appear are Australia,
Belgium, Brazil, Canada. Chile,
China, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, France,
India, Lebanon, Luxemhslrg, Hol-
land, New Zealand, Norway, South
Africa, United Kingdom and the
United States.
Russians Refuse Invitation. N
Russia refused an invitation to the
initial talks IN London late last year.
The Geneva Conference, in seek
ing to wite q charter for the Inter
national Trade Organization, will
study q draft prepared by q special
18-man committee set up at Lon
don.
No government so far has pledged
itself to any part of the draft char
ter. Final adherence by prospec-
tive signatories will take place at
a later international conference on
trade and employment in the
United States.
Negotiations for relaxation OF
trade tariffs, preferences and bar
riers-the conferences second but
probably more important task-will
represent the first attempt Of its
kind in the history Of world COM
merce.
Procedure Outlined.
Here is the procedure to be fol-
lowed In the negotiations:
Each country has compiled q list
of tariff cuts wanted from the other
II states.
Each country has compiled a
schedule Of concessions" 1t would
be willing to make in its own tar
ifs.
The two lists will comprise the
basis for the horse trading to fol-
low, which, at all times, will be re-
ciprocal and mutually advanta-
geous, and not unilateral.
The principle Of give and take"
will guide the negotiations on tariff
preferences. and the aim Of the
conference will be to insure that
the differences between the general
tariff rate and the preferential rate
shall not be increased.
Evening star., 1947-04-07

sions here probably would end after
about two more weeks. The Amer
leans and British, 1t was said, may
not press for speed in fixing the
date of the next Council confer
ence. Some Western diplomats
were represented as believing that
progress next summer in restor-
ing economic well-being to the
economically merged United States
and British zones of Germany might
be good enough to better the two
powers bargaining position in re-
lation to Russia before the next
round Of talks.
On the other hand, the feeling
also was evident in official quar-.
ters that German problems were
too big to be allowed to go too
long without attention, and some
authorities were said to believe that
consideration would be given to a
meeting in London or Paris in mid
summer, prior to possible Sep
tember session in New York at the
same time as the yearly United Ma
tions General Assembly proceedings.
Evening star., 1947-04-07
U.S.. to Halt Art Show Called
Vulgar in Congress Attack

CzechoSloVakia. The C7ecnoSlovak
government set aside 5000 to A.
nance this tour. This must be held
up now. :.
Meanwhile, the State Department
mas been advised by Reeves Lewen-
thai, art dealer and president of the
Associated American Artists Inc,
that the s49, 900 paid by the Govern
ment for the collection of paintings
was far below their market value
and that he would like to submit
an offer for them If they should be
put up for sale.
Representative Stefan, Republ-
can, of Nebraska. has led congress
sional criticism of the paintings Sc
lected by the State Department for
exhibition in other countries as a
part Of its cultural relations pro-
gram.
Mr.. Stefan objected especially to
one painting entitled Circus Girl
Resting" dipicting sloppily dressed
fat woman seated in q chair.
Evening star., 1947-04-07

The State Department has de-
clined to hold up further exhibitions
of a group of paintings whice have
been denounced in Congress as @vul-
gar" until the paintings are judged
by a group of outstanding American
art authorities.
Oficials said today the $4,000
collection, divided into two exhibits
for showing in Europe and Latin
America, will be withdrawn from
public view after current exhibitions
in Haiti and Prague.
Reports from Prague indicated
some international embarrassment
to the Department as result OF the
decision to withdraw the exhibits
because of Congressional criticism.
Czechoslovakia President Benes
was so impressed with the exhibit in
Prague these reports said, that he
asked and obtained permission from
American Embassy officials there to
send the collection on tour of all
Evening star., 1947-04-07
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the present tax burden Is too heavy
but the people in Congress must
wait until he says the proper time
has arrived to cut taxes. Presum-
ably, that will be just before the
1948 campaign, when he is running
for reelection.
Urges Prompt Action.
"But the time to adjust the tax
burden to the needs of peacetime
economy is now, making that ad-
justment apply to the third year
after the end Of the war"
Senator Taft has advocated a
slash in personal income taxes, ef-
fective July /. He has indicated
that Is one of the major changes
he desires in the House-approved
bill now before the Senate Finance
Committee. That bill would pro-
vide reductions ranging from 20 to
80 per cent for most taxpayers, ret
roactive to January l.
In his speech Mr.. Truman took
the Republicans to task-without
naming them directly-when he
said:
ANY substantial reduction of the
1948 Federal budget, as submitted
to the Congress, must be clearly
understood as venture into false
economy"
Senator Taft said, on the other
hand, that the Republicans are go
ing to find ways of reducing ex-
penditures without crippling neces-
sary Government functions.
Every department of the Govern
ment now has more money and
more personnel than it ever had
before in peacetime," he said.
Promises Balanced Budget.
The only time the Chief Execu-
tive mentioned the Republicans by
name was when he announced off,
cially that the budget for the cur
rent Government year ending june
80 will be balanced-the first time
in II years.
"And that was done without help
from the Republican Party,r Mr.
Evening star., 1947-04-07
Moscow
Continued From First Page)

his government would not be salts
fed with the role of mere observer
such as it had at the Paris peace
confersnce.
Baked Over Details.
The Austrian deputies were work.
ing through economic clauses today.
The agreement on the return OF
Jewish property finally begged down
In a dispute over how compensation
should be paid if property had been
destroyed and over who should re-
ceive the property, or its value, If
the owner had died without heirs.
The Russians were reported to
have favored letting the Austrian
government designate a representa-
tive organization as beneficiary
The United States and France took
the position there were so few Jews
left in Austria that the designation
should be made by Ambassadors OF
the Big -Four powers at Vienna, who
would be empowered to select suit
able organizations outside Austria.
The Russians and the western
powers also got into wrangle over
Austria's future financial response
bilities. The western nations argued
that Austria should be held to her
obligations made before Germany
absorbed her and that any modif1ca-
ton ofsthose debts, which ran into
many millions, should be made not
in the treaty but in conference
Of creditor nations.
Clark Presents Argument.
Russia, not being a creditor ma
ton, declined to agree, but pro-
posed that Austria be held respon-
sible for the payment OF all relief
and rehabilitation supplies delivered
to her by the occupation powers.
Gen. Mark w. Clark, United
States deputy, argued that Austria
should pay only for supplies I'M
ported and not for those delivered
because under their formula, the
Russians would charge for Austria's s
own food produce which they deliv-
cred to the Austrian people.
Gen. Marshall's proposal to return
to Germany farm lands now held by
Poland was expected to place Russia
in a delicate position, in. view of the
Soviet desire to strengthen Com
munism in both countries.
This would involve revision Of a
previous provisional agreement OF
the Big Four setting the boundary
between Germany and Poland on
the Oder and Neisse Rivers. The
United States delegation was re-
ported to view such q revision as
highly essential to a balanced econ
omy in Germany-a thickly popu-
lated, highly industrialized country
now short on food-producing lands.
Hot Political Issue.
Any such proposal was deemed
certain to become one Of the hottest
political issues of the current con-
ference to draw up German and
Austrian peace treaties. The Poles
are strongly against losing any ter
ritory they have taken over. The
Germans are just as strongly in
favor Of getting back all they can.
The Ministers cleared up minor
points by agreement Saturday on
some details for setting up German
administrative agencies over food,
agriculture, transport and the like.
But top officials still saw no pros
poets of actual major decisions here
on Germany, and the final outcome
of efforts to complete an Austrian
treaty seemed highly uncertain.
Uno6acial talk was that The So
Evening star., 1947-04-07
Actor Dies During Play

NEW YORK, April .-P-Sam-
uel Gerstenzang, SO, an actor for 40
years, collapsed last night while ap-
pearing as comedian in the A. and
S. Yiddish Theater groups produc-
ton of a melodrama at the Bronx
Art Theater, and died Of a heart
attack. Louis Freimer, author Of the
production, First Love-" took over
Mr.. Gerstenzang's role and the per-
Torrance was continued.
Evening star., 1947-04-07
FEC Attorney Found
Dead in Plane Crush
BY the Associoted Press

ELKINS, w. Va. April THE
wrecked airplane and the body of
John r. Mannierre, A, Federal Com
munications Commission attorney,
were found late yesterday on the
side of mountain few miles from
Lanesville, In Tucker County.
State Police Sergt. j. M. johnson
said the smashed craft was dis
covered by a young man and boy
who were hunting strayed sheep.
Mr.. Mannierre, whose home was
in Winnetka, Ill, disappeared March
Is while making a fight alone from
Huntington to Elkir1s.
Evening star., 1947-04-07
De Gaune Asks People
10 Organize 70 Back
Hin and His Ideals
II IL Assaeistsd Press

STRAsBOURG, France, April Z.
Gen. Charles de Gaulle called on
the French people. today to organ-
ize themselves into what would
amount to q political party support
ing him and his ideas. He said this
would prevent dictatorship. an
archy or overthrow of "the inde-
pendence Of the state.
It was the former provisional
presidents frankest bid for return
to political power and came q day
after he had declared that, should
q new tyranny menace the world,
..the United States and France will
stand together IN opposing IT.
Gen. De Gaulle told q crowd Of
10000 massed In front Of the City
Hall that he believed the new con-
stitution should be revised to pro-
vide for q strong executive.
Hopes to Avoid Enmity.
At one point in his address, Gen.
De Gaulle declared:
America and Russia are auto
matically rivals, though one has the
right to hope they will not become
enemies.
France, he said, is placed between
these two great powers and the
maintenance of our independence
becomes for us the burning and
capital problem"
He declared that one solution was
for France to take the lead in setting
up bloc OF Western European ma
tions in order to have "an element
of equilibrium at the side Of the
two masses"
Gen. De Gaulle recalled his pre-
vious warnings to France to reject
the present constitution, and de-
clared that now ''it Is clear that the
nation does not have to guide 1t
state whose cohesion, efficiency and
authority measure up to the prob
lens which face It,
He said the result of the division
between Frances multiple parties
was that mo one party is able to
direct the state, while all or several
would like to share 1t among them
selves
Offers Economic Program.
Gen. De Gaulle. backed his bid for
a return from self -imposed retire.
ment with a program of economic
and social as well as foreign policies.
Some observers interpreted his re-
marks yesterday about new "tyr-
amy" made at a ceremony honor
ing American war dead as an allus-
ion to communism and an indication
that he would tie France closely to
the western powers, should he re-
turn to authority.
Gen. De Gaulle shared the plat
form with American Ambassador
Jefferson Caffery at yesterdays
ceremony, during which a plaque
was unveiled at Strasbourg cathe-
dral bearing the names of Americans
killed in the liberation of Stras-
bourg.
The ceremonies included a mass
in the 18th Century cathedral in
memory Of the 5000 Americans who
died in the battle of Alsace.
Evening star., 1947-04-07
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mission, setting up q working COM
mittee to meet in closed session and
in turn farming out tasks to special
lied committees
The stage was set for Mr..
Gromyko's remarks on Greece 10
days ago, when Warren r. Austin
laid President Truman's program
before the Council. At that time.
the Soviet delegate said he would
touch" on the problem at todays
meeting.
Mr.. Austin planned no supplement
tary statement at this time, but held
himself in readiness to reply to Mr.
Gromyko if necessary. When Mr..
Austin gave his speech he delivered
advance copies nearly "a hours
ahead to Mr.. Gromyko and the other
members, but the American delega-
ton said it had received no text
from the Russians.
Regardless of the extent OF Mr..
Gromykos' remarks, British Dele
gate Sir Alexander Cadogan was
observers on Greece's northern from
tier pending Council action on
report Of the current investigating
commission. The 11-nation group
which toured the turbulent Balkans
will begin writing its report in
Geneva this week.
Interest in the Council session
was intensified by the fact that the
Senate begins debate on President
Truman's program in Washington
on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, the United States
gave official approval to a special
session of the General Assembly
on the Palestine question. The note
was in answer to a poll Of the SIS
nations being conducted by Secre-
tary General Trygve Lie.
Several other countries have sup
ported the step and on receipt OF 26
Affirmative replies, Mr.. Lie will set
a doto for tho r,nootipr
Evening star., 1947-04-07

Truman said, departing from his
prepared text.
The Presidents speech, the first
he has delivered to a wholly polit-
ical audience since the Republicans
gained control OF Congress, was
widely interpreted as indicating he
will be available as the Democratic
nominee In 1948.
His promise to cut taxes even
tually, added to his pledge to en-
force stringent economy" in Gov
ernment, was regarded as a coun-
teroffensive against two Of the
Republicans strongest campaign
talking points.
Evening star., 1947-04-07
Jean Arthur Goes Back
To School at AGE Of 80
BY the Asseeioied Press

COLUMBIA, Mo-, April Jean
Arthur, the actress, has returned to
school at the age of 38.
She has enrolled at Stephens Col
lege, a girls school, taking courses
in philosophy, humanities, marriage
and the home, biology and horse
back riding.
Miss Arthur's education was inter-
rupted in high school when she went
to work as a model.
1--WE had to work all my life," she
said. "And now / want to learn"
Evening star., 1947-04-07

Switzerland has cut passenger
train service to conserve essential
electric power.
Evening star., 1947-04-07

The President, proponent of a
$400, ,000, 900 program of Greek
Turkish aid, called in his Demo-
cratic dinner speech Saturday night
for "a positive stand" against ag-
gression abroad and said the United
States had responsibility to stand
guard" before the U. N. and when
necessary, supplement its activities" :"
Evening star., 1947-04-07
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Evening star., 1947-04-07
lass Scores Truman Talk
As Crossing Aims Of U. n.
ey the Assoeiosed Press

MOSCOW, April 7.-Tass, report
ing President Truman's Jefferson
Day speech from washington, said
today that he again tried to create
the impression that uni
lateral action OF the United States
does not contradict the existence
of the United Nations.
He did so, the Soviet news agency
declared, without mentioning di-
rectly his proposal concerning inter-
ference in the affairs of Greece and
Turkey"
Evening star., 1947-04-07

his government would not be salts
fed with the role of mere observer
such as it had at the Paris peace
conferSnce.
Evening star., 1947-08-03

York, and elsewhere in this country,
as we'll as in Mexico, Argentina,
Haiti, Costa Rica, Guatemala and
the q. s. S. r. He is represented in
permanent collections in some of
these countries and our own, and in
many private collections.
Summer in Washington
The Artists Cooperative, 1920 M
street NV, opens at 2::30 this aft
ernoon, q group exhibition of oils
and water colors by the Potomac
Plein Air Painters. The summer
scene in and around Washington is
the general. subject matter. The
show will be open from l to 6 daily
through August Is.
Evening star., 1947-08-03
Art
and
Artists
Hassam Is,Credited
With the Revival of
Lithography as Art
Medium in America
By Florence S. Berrymon

Childe Hassam was the United
States outstanding exponent of
French Impressionism, from the
188os when he first went to study in
Paris, to his death in 1885. He
obtained dazzling effects of form in
light, with his employment of dots
OF pure color, subsequently built up
by the eyes Of the beholder into a
unlf1ed tone. Not until he was
nearly so, did Hassam undertake
print mediums; but he became out
standing in those also. He is cred
tied along with Joseph Pennell, Boil
ton Brown, George Bellows and
Albert Sterner for the revival of
lithography as an art medium in
this country.
An exhibition of 80 of his litho-
graphs has just opened in the Divi-
sion of Graphic Arts, United States
National Museum, Smithsonian
Building. to remain through Sep
tember l. These have been drawn
from the museums permanent COL
lection, to which Hassam's widow
gave impressions Of his etchings
and Autographs about seven years
ago. This is the first showing of q
selection of the Autographs since
November, 1910.
Years Of working and thinking as
painter, however, stamped his
etching and lithography. Instead
of the flowing sure line of the artist
who works primarily in graphic