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Evening star., 1947-03-01
15Die, IS Hurt
AsbIast Razes
Jerusalem Club
~ Others Missing;
Attackers Exchange
Shots With Guards
BY the Associated Press

JERUSALEM, Mar. IA ter
rife explosion wrecked a British
officers club in the heart of
modern Jerusalem today and an
official announcement said Is
persons were killed, Is injured
and "a missing.
Three Of the dead-two policemen
and a civilian-were killed in bursts
of gunfire between attackers and
police.
While>rescue parties clawed fran
tically through blackened debris,
police and helmeted troops searched
the Jewish Agency building and
Yeshuron Synagogue - beth across
the street from the club-for the
perpetrators of the Sabbath blast.
The area was cordoned, and traffic
throughout Jerusalem was at a
standstill.
Three Attackers Captured.
Eye-wltnesses said a number of
armed men surrounded the club, on
fashionable King George avenue, a
few moments before the blast, and
exchanged gunflre with guards.
1t was not Immediately learned
whether the bomb was carried into
the building or hurled from a
passing automobile.
An unofficial report said a group
OF men drove alongside the building
under cover of the fire laid down by
their companions, and threw ex-
ploslves through window into the
hall
Three attackers were believed to
have been wounded and captured.
A truck was found parked about
SO yards from the building, and Of
hcers said it might have been used
by the attackers in hurting the
bombs
Jewish Girl Is Victim.
The death toll was greater than in
any other. one incident in turbulent
Holy Land since last July when more
than go persons were killed in the
bomb explosion which wrecked the
King David Hotel.
IL was tIle nrSC major act of viO-
1ence on the Sabbath day in recent
Palestine history.
A Jewish girl receptionist was
among those killed.
Scores OF hastily organized rescue
workers brought out the bodies. and
ambulances whizzed through the
city. Twelve survivors were rushed
to hospitals within 20 minutes after
the blast.
The explosion occurred as nearly
1,400 uncertified Jewish Immigrants
waited off Haifa in three British
ships for final court decision on
whether they should be shipped to
detention camps on Cyprus.
Windows in the Jewish Agency
building and for blocks around were
broken by the blast.
The officers club, which was under
lease to the British Army, consisted
of living quarters for bachelor Off
GERS, lounge, bar and restaurant.
The club is opposite a modern Jewish
residential area, part of which was
requisitioned by the army a month
ago to house British civilian per-
SOnnel.
Evening star., 1947-03-01
Bridges Sees Adverse
Vote on CIapp as Sign
|LiIienthaI Will Lose
Culls 7-to-5 Action
Against Aide Shape
Of Things to Come
By the Associofed Press

Senator Bridges, Republican,
of New Hampshire claimed to-
day the signs are against con-
firmation of David E. Lilienthal
as chairman of the Atomic
Energy Commission.
Referring to a 7-to-5 vote by the
Senate Public Works Committee tc
recommend rejection of Gordon
Clarp's nomination as a director OF
the Tennessee Valley Authority
Senator Bridges declared:
ut is the shape Of things to come.
Mr.. Lilienthal, as IVA chairman
and Mr.. Clapp as general manager
were intimately associated on the
Big Valley project.
Both came under heavy fire from
Senator McKellar, Democrat, OF
Tennessee, and much of the testi-
mony in both confirmation hearings
came from the same witnesses and
followed the same. general line.
Senator McKellar has attempted
to prove that Communists infil-
trated into IVA without hindrance
by the directing heads.
Vote Held indicative.
Although the Lilienthal hearing
has been held before an entirely
different group of Senators-the
Senate panel of the Joint Congress
sional Committee on Atomic Energy
Senator Bridges told a reporter he
considers the Clapp vote yesterday
indicative of the Senate's final de-
cision on Mr.. Lilienthal.
He noted that four of the six
Republican first-termers on the
Public Works Committee voted
against Mr.. Lilienthals associate.
They were Senators Cain of Wash
ington, Martin of Pennsylvania,
Malone of Nevada and Williams of
Delaware. Freshmen Senators
Cooper, Republican, of Kentucky
and Watkins, Republican, of Utah
voted for Mr.. Clapp.
There are 16 Republican Senators
who first took the oath last January.
They are considered the great un-
known factor in the tense Lilienthal
struggle. Few have disclosed how
they intend to vote.
Regardless of the adverse COM
mittee vote, Democratic leaders an
nounced they will try to push Mr..
Clapp's confirmation through on the
Senate floor. President Truman told
Evening star., 1947-03-01
Strike Notices on File
In Behalf Of 5000
Phone Workers Here
Action Affecting Unions
In q Stotes Described
As 'FormoIity'

Thirty-day strike notices on
behalf of more than 5000 tele-
phone operators and plant, ac-
counting and commercial work.
ers employed by the Chesapeake
81 Potomac Telephone Co. were
on file today with the Govern
ment.
The notices were filed yesterday
along with others in at least %
States in what a union spokesman
said was part of a "co-ordinated
program" of the National Federation
Of Telephone Workers.
Filing here were the Washington
Telephone Traffic Union and the
District Federation of Telephone
Workers. Between them they repre-
sent more than 5000 workers.
The two unions have been nego-
tiating with the local company for
several weeks. Demands include a
$12 a week wage increase for all
workers.
Talks to Be Resumed.
Contract talks will be resumed
with company officials Monday.
Thomas A. Lambert, president of
the Mountain States Federation of
Telephone Workers, said the notices
were "a mere formality to keep
within the law in case negotiations
break down." He, and a union
officer in Chicago who asked anony-
nifty, said no strike, would begin
until April, at the earliest.
The National Federation of Tele-
phone Workers at its convention
last November in Denver approved
April 7 as the date of a telephone
strike in event such action were
needed to gain 1947 contract de-
mands of the so affiliated groups.
Under the Smith -Connally Act
labor organizations are required to
file 30-day advance notice of inten-
ton to strike. In Washington the
notices now being filed were re-
garded as mere formality in keep
ing with the convention action.
Joseph A. Beirne, NFTW president,
limited in his testimony before the
Senate Labor Committee February
(See T1ET .EpIJONE poro Aol
Evening star., 1947-03-01
Cunudu's Meat Ration
Won't t Be Reduced
BY the Associated Press

OTTAWA, Mar. ii. G. Gardiner
Canadian Minister of Agriculture,
told the House of Commons last
night that Canadians would get
their present meat ration of about
2 pounds a person a week even If
it means a decline in deliveries to
Britain.
He said agreements call for send
ing all surplus meat to Britain and
added, We've attempted to put into
figures what we think the quantity
is We'll be able to deliver and we do
attempt to reach that figure"
Evening star., 1947-03-01
Stain Proposes
Skyscropers for
IRussionCupitoI
By the Assoeioted Press

MOSCOW, Mar. I'D. Checulin
Moscow's chief architect, disclosed
today that Prime Minister Stain
has proposed erection of a number
of skyscrapers in the Russian capi-
tal.. ....-s,e
Accordingly. he said, the Soviet
Council of Ministers decided to con-
struct the following:
A 32-story building on the Lenin
Hills, in the center of the great
curve of the Moscow River. It will
include hotel and apartments.
Two 26-story buildings, one on
the Leningrad Highway, the other
near the Kremlin.
Several 16-story buildings near
the city's center.
ALI the buildings will contain liv-
ing quarters, one Of the capitals
greatest needs.
Evening star., 1947-03-01
Council BIumes Slow
Development on Lag;
Industry's Goals Set
BY the Associoted Press

MOSCOW, Mar. 1.-The Rus
sian Council of Ministers (cabi-
metz, blaming a lag in coal pro-
duction for delaying the nations
whole economic development, to-
day called for a 16 per cent in
crease in coal output as it set
goals for 1947 under the FIVE
year plan.
The Council, listing "shortcom-
ings" of 1916, said:
"The coal industry, = expert.
encing the greatest difficulties as q
result of the consequences of the
war, is tagging behind, thus holding
up the development of other
branches of heavy industry, railway
transport and the whole national
economy" '
The announcement said "a num-
ber of hardships" had been created
by consequences of the war, crop
failures and "backwardness of indi-
vidual branches of the people
economy" 1t added:
1.-THE Council of Ministers draws
the attention of ministers of the
union republics to the fact that the
task of fulfilling and overfulfilling
the f1ve-year plan requires radical
improvement in leadership in in
dustry and production planning"
The council noted that the 1916
housing program had not been full
filed and that production was be-
hind demand in electrical and agri-
cultural machinery, sheet steel for
automobiles, rails, train wheels and
building materials.
The Council estimated that
81 ,600,00 workers would be needed
this year and that they would draw
280, 900, 100000 rubles. (The official
exchange rate is 5.3 rubles to the
dollar; the diplomatic rate is Il
to the dollar.)
The Council said 1,060, 900 persons
would be called into factory, craft
and railway schools and 100000 OF
them should be graduated.
It called for increases in produc-
ton of upward of IS items ranging
from 10 up to 345 per cent above
the 1916 level. It said the armed
forces should be supplied with "the
most modern military equipment"
The Council proposed that house
construction be doubled and that
the proportion of housing to all
capital works be increased from 10
to 18 per cent. 1t sought a 1873 per
cent increase in prefabricated house
construction.
1t asked for 1873 per cent more
locomotives, 108 per cent more rail-
road cars and 316 per cent more
passenger automobiles, 1877 per cent
more tractors, ITO per cent more
tractor plows, 199 per cent more
threshing machines and 345 per cent
more cultivators.
Demands on Heavy Industry.
In heavy industry, it demanded
10 per cent. more steel, 81 per cent
more pig iron, 81 per cent more
rolled metal and A per cent more
tracks.
Other percentage increases sought
above last years production in
cluded:
Mining-Lead, 80; oil, 1s; gaso-
line, "a; coal gas, 1877, and natural
gas, Is.
Power-Electric current, Is; steam
turbines, 242.
Raw materials - Rubber, SO;
dressed timber, q.
Textiles and leather - Cotton
goods, AZ; woolens, 80; shoes, AZ.
Food-Meat, IT; butter, IL; vege-
table oil, II; fish, 80; sugar, "a;
soap, %.
Vehicles-Trucks, As; buses, "A.
Only yesterday the Communist
Party's Central Committee in Mos
cow, urging a drive for more bread
indicated that Soviet grain produc-
ton was so far below the prewal
level that at least three years would
be needed to regain that level.
Evening star., 1947-03-01
Allied Control Council
Abolishes Prussia
BY the Associated Press

BERLIN, Mar. IAN Allied Con.
troll Council law was published today
abolishing the state of Prussia which
it said from the early days has
been a bearer of militarism ano
reaction in Germany"
In dissolvng the Prussian state
its central government and all its
agencies, the Control Council said
it was guided by the interests OF
preservation of peace and security
of peoples and with the desire to
assure further reconstruction of the
political life of Germany on a demo-
cratic basis"
Evening star., 1947-03-01
Eight Reported Killed
In Korean Clashes
BY the Assoeiofed Press

SEOUL, Mar. American Army
Intelligence listed eight reported
dead in Southern Koreas Independ-
ence Day celebration today.
Four were reported killed in Seoul
where an estimated 100000 leftist
and rightist sympathizers, home
bound from separate celebrations
collided in the heart of the city
About $50 shots were fired as truck
loads of police tried to disperse the
crowds.
Two other deaths were reported
at Pusan and two near chongju
Intelligence officers said they as
sumed the victims were killed by
police gunflre.
The Seoul casualty list included
two seriously injured, four reported
seriously injured and rs known tc
be slightly injured.
American and Korean police saio
shots were fired at Korean police
attempting to maintain order, but
that it was not known who was re-
sponsible. Police fired into the all
to break up the crowds. An unde-
termined number of persons were
wounded, the police reported.
independence Day was observed
by 10000 Koreans in Tokyo. At 9
mass meeting they urged the United
States and the Soviet Union te
withdraw occupation troops from
Korea as soon as a unified govern.
ment could be set up.
Evening star., 1947-03-01
Chang Takes Place
OF Soong, 5hakeup
In Cabinet Expected
Defense Council Accepts
Premier's Resignation;
Minority May Get Posts
BY the Associated Press

NANKING, Mar. 1.-China's
Supreme National Defense Coun-
Gil today approved the resigna-
tion of Premier T. v. Soong and
named Generalissimo Chang
Kai-shek as concurrent presi-
dent of the executive Yuan
pending appointment of a new
Premier.
Mr.. Soong resigned dramatically
today, stirring speculation that Gen.
Chang might revamp his whole
cabinet and bring in minority party
members for the first time.
Mr.. Song, criticized by political
foes for his handling of China S
f1nancil crisis, made his announce
ment before a critical Legislative
Yuan (counciD which had sum-
moned him to defend his fiscal poll
cieS.
Before stepping aside, Mr.. Soong,
who is the Generalissimo's brother
in-law, declared the Communists
by destroying communications, were
responsible for the chaotic state of
| China's economy.
May Take Over Premiership.
Political observers. thought it
likely that Gen. Chang also would
take on the premiership and then
reshuffle the Executive Yuan (cabi-
metz, which now is loaded with Mr..
Soong's friends.
Some also thought it possible that
Gen. Chang would take advantage
of the opportunity to bring in mi
nority parties.
Two liberals Of Gen. Chiang's
Kuomintang Party-Sun. Fo, son of
the late Sun Yat-sen, and Gen.
Chang Chun, who served on Gen.
George Marshall's truce commit
tee-were offered the premiership
and declined it, these sources said.
Either might become vice premier.
Mr.. Soong gave no reason for his
resignation, but it came at a time
when criticism of his economic poll
cies was rising both in the press
and in the Legislative Yuan, which
is headed by Mr.. Sun.
Civil War Disastrous.
Mr.. Soong told the Legislative
Yuan that imitation went unchecked
after the war with Japan because
"the people Of China plunged into
a civil war cumulatively more ex-
hausting than the war with Japan"
'The truth can be told in one
sentence" Mr.. Soong said. "The
present economic crisis is the cumu-
lative result of heavily unbalanced
budgets carried through eight years
of war and one year of illusory
peace, accentuated to some degree
by speculative activities"
MIR. Soong, who said he was the
watchdog of the treasury" during
his years as finance minister, said
managed currency system enabled
China to Withstand eight years of
war with Japan. But, he said, it
contained the germs of poison from
which the country now is suffering"
for when expenditures outran re-
ceipts, the only recourse was the
printing presses"
The recent dizzy drop of the
-
Evening star., 1947-03-01
Man, 73, Is Trapped
81 Hours in Rungs
Of Rockinq Chair
BY the Associated Press

SAUGUS, Mass, Mar. L.
Seventy-three-year-old Edward
Berrigan was under treatment
at Lynn Hospital today for
shock and exposure after being
trapped Sd hours in the rungs
of rocking chair.
Mr.. .Berrigan told authorities
he fell Wednesday, entangling
his feet in the rocker, and
didn't have the strength to dis
engage himself.
His plight was discovered yes
terday by a neighbor who OBJ
served lights burning in the
house during the day.
Evening star., 1947-03-01
Democrats Seek
To Bar Al Tax
Cut, Taft Says
Decision on Budget
Delayed by Senate
Recess Until Mondoy
By j.. A. O'Leoy

Senator Taft, Republican, of
Ohio charged today that Demo-
Gratis are trying to block a tax
cut this year by amendments
they offered yesterday to require
a larger payment on the national
debt.
Republican leaders hastily ad-
Journed the Senate until Monday
without passing the $4,000 900 900
budget ceiling resolution when they
discovered the Democrats had a
temporary majority in favor of
heavy debt payments.
THE whole purpose of the Demo-
Gratis is to prevent the Republi-
cans from putting through a tax
reduction said Senator Taft, who
believes a 20 per cent overall re-
duction in personal income leyies
should be voted by July l.
Wherry Offers Amendment.
In mid-afternoon the Senate had.
voted unanimously-82 to 0-for a
compromise plan to earmark So
600 100000 for debt retirement out
OF any surplus resulting from hold
ing down on spending in the next
fiscal year.
1t looked for while as though
the budget resolution, recommend
ing a $4,500, 100000 cut in President
Truman's $37,5OO,0oO, 900 budget,
would be passed and sent back to
the House.
At this point, however, Senator
Wherry, Republican, of Nebraska.
offered another amendment to pro-
vide that all receipts from sale of
war surpluses 60 to debt retirement.
Senator Taft proposed adding a
clause to emphasize that such pro-
ceeds from surplus sales would be
part of the $4,000, ,000, 900. Senator
TydingS, Democrat, of Maryland,
succeeded, however, in killing the
Taft definition, 80 to 80. Some
Senators felt this was equivalent to
putting the Senate on record as
believing the Wherry amendment
would require bigger total debt
payment.
In moving to adjourn, Republican
leaders indicated they would try
to defeat, or sidetrack the Wherry
motion Monday, when more Sena-
| tors are present.
Budget Plans Differ.
When the budget resolution passes
the Senate it must go to a con-
ference committee, since it differs in
two major respects from the House
measure. which provided for cutting
Sc, ,000, 100000 from the Truman
budget, without earmarking any
definite amount for debt retirement,
Political sharpshooting enlivened
yesterdays debate. Democrats had
bombarded the Republicans with
warnings that sound economy re-
qulres emphasis on reduction of the
$259. .00o, 600, 900 debt.
Senator Jenner, Republican, of
Indiana, a freshman, jumped in to
defend his side of the aisle. He said
he realized newcomers are not ex-
pected to think, much less talk"
but felt the Democrats were hardly
qualified to advise the Republicans
on fiscal soundness, since they ac-
cumulated the debt during the last
IA years. He said also that some New
Deal economists had endeavored to
convince the country that public
debt was nothing to worry about
because you owe it to yourself"
AS soon as the Senate disposes OF
the overall budget resolution next
week, it must face its first practical
economy test by taking up the
$50, 100000 urgent deficiency bill.
involving the issue of how much
OPA should be allowed to liquidate
its remaining controls between now
and JULY 1
Evening star., 1947-03-01
Armour's Daughter Sued
For Divorce by Broker
BY the Associated Press

SANTA BARBARA, Calf, Mar. I.
"A general allegation of cruelty
was made in a divorce suit against
Mrs. Lolita Armour Wilder, 49,
daughter of the late packer, J. Og-
den Armour, filed yesterday by Paul
Wilder, SO, an investment broker.
His complaint, stating that he was
without funds, asked that Mrs
Wilder, once known as one of the
worlds wealthiest women, pay his
attorneys fees and court costs. They
were married September II, 1943.
Evening star., 1947-03-01
II Hurt in Hong Kong BIost

HONG KONG, Mar. / (P.-
Twenty persons were injured
tonight, five of them seriously, in
bomb explosion in the Ko Shing
Opera House.
Evening star., 1947-03-01

(See GREECE, Page A-3D
Evening star., 1947-03-01

Light snow this afternoon, mixed with rain
tonight. ending early tomorrow. Cloudy to-
morrow.
Temperatures today-High, 35 at 1920 pm;
low, "a, at 5 am. Yesterday-High, 40
at 4:2o pm; low, 20, at sos am.
Full Report on Page Az.
Evening star., 1947-03-01

(See TELEPHONE, Page A-3)
Evening star., 1947-03-01

(See SOONG, Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1947-03-01
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An Associated Press Newspaper
Evening star., 1947-07-28
Seven in Ohio Drown;
One Hit by lightning,
z EIecfrocuted in Lake
BY the Associated Press

COLUMBUS, Ohio, July 2s-
Seven Ohioans died by drowning
yesterday, two were electrocuteo
in a lake, 200 escapd death or Sc.
rious injury when lightning sent
a tree crashing through a dance
pavilion and a man struck by light.
ming lived to talk about it.
Mrs. Angeline Manchow, 81, saw
two sons and a daughter sink be.
fore her eyes in Pymatuning Lake
just east of the Ohio border ir
Pennsylvania, near Andover, Ohio
The dead were Cyril Wanchow
30. his sister, Nancy, 8, and broth
er, Robert, 8.
Two Warren youths-Lawrence
Rogers, jr.,, 18, and Andrew J. Scop.
acasa, 17-died near a pier at Ge.
neya- -the-Lake in Lake Erie wa
ter. charged with electricity from
a short-circuited power line used
for small boats, Coroner C. c. Roller
reported.
Jumped Into Water.
Rogers jumped into the water
to save Scopacasa when he saw
his friend, repeatedly a strong
swimmer, was in trouble.
John Baczkowski and Raymond
Czarnecki, 80, both of Cleveland
lost their lives in the Vermillion
River, Erie County officials said
going after a baseball dropped in
the water.
Mr.. Baczowski jumped in after it
and when he failed to come up
Mr.. Czarnecki also plunged in. Rela-
tives said neither could swim.
At Fairport Harbor, William
Wideman, 20, of Cleveland drowned
swimming for rubber raft. A wave
swept Michael Kaye, 80, of Cleve-
land from a speedboat near Lorain
and he drowned, the Coast Guard
said.
Tree Plunged Through Roof.
Nine-year-old Robert Donatillo
and his mother, Mrs Rose Dona-
tillo, "a, were the most seriously in
jured when a tree almost feet in
diameter plunged through the roof
and floor OF crowded dance
pavilion at Cincinnati during an
electrical storm. Three others
among 200 attending an American
Legion post outing also were hurt.
Only the fact that rain had driven
most of the crowd to another sec
ton of the pavilion prevented fur
ther injuries, authorities said.
The man struck by lightning
Roy Huffman, 54, of Lancaster
said he was enveloped by a green
fame and that it felt as If "thou-
sands of red not needles were stick
ing him. His shoes were ripped to
shreds and X-Rays disclosed three
broken toes.
Evening star., 1947-07-28
Firemen Save Denver
From Major Disaster
In Blaze at Arsenal
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

DENVER, July 28.-Fire depart
ment officials said "a major disaster
was narrowly averted last night
when a fire at Rocky Mountain
Arsenal, on the northeast edge OF
Denver, scared chlorine gas storage
tanks before it was brought under
control.
Denver Fire Chief Ollie Feldman
who directed Denver apparatus
called to the aid of Army fire.
fighters, said, WED have been pow
erless If those tanks had exploded.
Damage Estimated at $4,000.
The fire was reported to have
started in heavily loaded Goa!
bunkers in the main plant area
alongside the powerhouse and across
railroad tracks from the gas tanks
Maj. F. J. Stegmaier, fire marshal
said it spread rapidly. Before il
was brought under control, it causec
damage estimated unofficially by
tfiremen at $4,000 to the powerhouse
and nearby buildings.
Deputy Chief John P. Koran said
the tanks were in immediate danger
of exploding before sufficient water
could be played on them to keep
them safely cool.
Flames which shot high into the
air were visible from many parts
of Denver. Red Gross disaster
crews were. alerted. Spectators.
rushing to the area. created a
traffic jam that took Denver police
and State highway patrolmen more
than an hour to untangle.
Incendiaries Made There.
The arsenal, built during the war
and sprawling over 10000 acres,
Evening star., 1947-07-28
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