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Evening star., 1947-07-04
|taIyP|edges esPub|icity
On Use Of u. ). Aid
BY the Associated Press

The italian government today
promised to give continuous pub
licity" to Italy's share of the $780,
100000 foreign relief program au'
thorized by Congress.
The promise came in signing ar
agreement in Rome which cleared
the way for shipment of relief sup
plies from the United States undel
the new appropriation.
Premier Alcide De Gasperi ane
Foreign Minister Carlo Sforza sign.
ed the document, along with Ameri-
can Ambassador James c. Dunn
The agreement was made public
simultaneously here and IN Rome.
Under its terms, the italian gov
ernment promised to make plain the
origin of the relief goods by stamp
and label and to allow American re-
porters to observe freely and report
fully news of the distribution.
This marked the second such
agreement signed by the United
States with foreign countries ellg1.
BILE for aid under the program. A
similar accord with Austria was
signed several weeks ago. Five Other
areas, Trieste, Hungary, Poland
Greece and China also are eligible
for the aid.
Italy's ALLEGATION has not yet beer
made public but diplomatic officials
expect it to total about 100000, 900
Austria and Italy are considered tt
be the two eligible countries most
in need.
State Department officials already
have begun buying the supplies
Italy's first shipments are expected
to include grain, other food, ano
coal
Evening star., 1947-07-04
Russian Repatriation
Lists Started in China
BY the Associoted Press

SHANGHAI, July 4-Registratior
opened today for Soviet residents OF
China wishing to accept Moscow's
offer of repatriation to Russia
complete reversal OF previous Rus
sian policy of closing the door te
such people.
Registration will continue for three
days, with repatriation on a first
come, first-served basis. Those wish
ing to return to Russia were prom
ised jobs, guaranteed food and hous-
ing. exempted from customs duties
and promised loans for furnishing OF
repairing their new residences. AL
travel costs also are to be borne by
the Soviet government.
There was no immediate indica-
ton how many might accept.
NANKING, July 4 tP).-China s
State Council today approved, at the
personal request of Generalissimc
Chang Kai-shek, a Kuomintang
resolution calling for total mobiliza
ton of manpower and resources for
finish fight against Chinese Com
munists, the enemies of the state
The generalissimo, describing the
Communists as bandits" said total
mobilization is necessary in order
to end the blockade Of peaceful
reconstruction and permit realiza-
ton of constitutional government.
Evening star., 1947-07-04
By the Associoted Press

KNOXVILLE, Tenn, July A.
This independence Day has a spe-
cial meaning for a frail S-year-
old Knoxville girl.
Pretty Geraldine Massengill has
new dresses and her first bathing
suit, and has left for week end
of fun in the Great Smoky Noun
tains National Park.
1t is a far cry from yesterday.
She started the day her 18th
birthday-shackled to a bedpost in
her home by an eight-foot chain.
Police found her there later In
the day after she tossed a not'
from her upstairs window.
She told Police Capt. c. V
Christenberry that her father beat.
me all the time and this morning
he chained me to the bed" Officer.
said her body was black and blue.
Juvenile Court Judge H. b
Webster announced<the girls father
w. M. Masseneill, so. 4 part-time
preacher and paperhanger, and her
ste,nother, Mrs. Ellen MassengtH
Evening star., 1947-07-04
Health Bill Witness
Admits at Hearinq
He Is Communist

Two witnesses, including a self
styled Communist Party member
testified yesterday in favor of a
system of prepaid health insurance
but both opposed bill sponsored
by Senator Taft, Republican, of
Ohio.
Ernest Rymer. an official of the
international Workers Order, said
his group favored the health bill by
Senator Murray, Democrat, OF
Montana. and others. He said the
Taft measure proposes charity
medicine"
His testimony before a Senate
subcommittee touched off a round
of questioning by Acting Chairman
Donnell and Senator Ball, Repub-
lican, of Minnesota, as to whether
the workers group was linked to
the Communist Party.
After the two members had uues.
toned him at length. Senator Muir.
ray asked Mr.. Ryrner, Are you 6
member OF the Communist Party?'
Mr.. Rymer replied that he was
and said he had joined in 1882.
DR.. Allan M. Butler, professor o.
pediatrics at Harvard University anc
chief of children's medical service
at the Massachusetts, General Hos.
pital. urged passage of Fedora
health insurance program such a.
that offered in the revised Murray,
Wagner-Dingell bill and attacked
the Taft measure as more Social
istic' than the insurance scheme.
Evening star., 1947-07-04
10 U. S.'Church Leaders
Invited by YugosIoviu
By the A.soeioted Press


Ten leading Protestant churchmen
have been invited by the Yugoslav
government to visit that country
this summer, its Embassy announced
yesterday.
Ambassador Sava N. Kosanovic
told the churchmen they will be
given opportunity to consult with
"Yugoslav religious leaders of all
faiths"
Those invited are:
DR.. Emory Stevens Buckle. Boston;
DR.. George Walker Buckner, jr.,
indianapolis; DR.. Phillips B. Elliott,
Brooklyn; DR.. Paul Hutchinson,
Chicago; DR.. Louie D. Newton, At
lanta; Bishop G. Bromley Oman,
New York; DR.. Guy Emery Shipler,
New York: DR.. Alva N Taylor. Nash
vile; DR.. Samuel Trexler, New York,
and DR.. Claude Williams, Birming-
ham.
Evening star., 1947-07-04
Venezuelan kidshipmen
Due in Norfolk Sunday
BY the Asseeietsd Press

NORFOLK, Va, July 4.-The
Venezuelan transport Capana will
arrive here Sunday with 1873 mid
shipmen of the Venezuelan Navy
and a crew Of II officers and 1873
men for a two-week refresher course
in amphibious warfare.
The course will be conducted by
the Amphibious Training Command
Atlantic Fleet. 1t. Comdr. Julio A.
Vale CULLEN is skipper of the Ca
pana, the former LIST 907 which
vas sold to the Venezuelan Navy
last year.
The Capana will sail from Nor
folk July 20 and will visit Annapolis
and New York before starting her
return voyage to Venezuela Aug
uet 1,
Evening star., 1947-07-04
Senate Approves Return
OF Seized Italian Property
BY the Assoeioted Press

Legislation authorizing the re-
turn to Italian nationals of prop
erty seized by the United States al
the outbreak of, war was unani-
mously passed by the Senate yester-
day.
The measure, which now goes te
the House, also authorizes giving
Italy % Liberty ships in return fol
Italian vessels seized by Brazil ano
Venezuela and sold to this country
for war use.
Both actions are in accord with
the peace treaty with Italy which
the Senate recently ratified.
The Foreign Relations Commit
tee reported that the Italian gov.
ernment and italian nationals have
approximately $4,000, 900 worth ol
property frozen In this country.
Not all of this amount would bt
Immediately affected. however. Ne.
gotiations are being carried on tc
effect the release of that on which
the Italian government certtfies
there is German interest.
Evening star., 1947-07-04
u. ). Seeks Recovery
OF 0vercharge in War
Shipments Of Steel

The Maritime Commission is con-
Quoting an undercover investiga-
ton to recover for the Government
an estimated $10,000,O00 to $15,000,-
900 in overpayments on steel ship
ments during the war.
Miritime officials revealed that
commission auditors are checking
more than $4,000 invoices to de-
termine how much the Government
was "shortweighted" on steel
shipped to shipyards since 1941.
The investigation, it was learned
has been under way secretly for
almost year and was launched
after investigators discovered that
more than s2,000000 was due the
Government on short and damaged
shipments.
Top Concerns Involved.
Under investigation are accounts
with such top concerns as United
States Steel, Bethlehem Steel, Car
negia- Illinois and at least five OF
six smaller steel producers m othe,
parts Of the country.
1--WE are analyzing every invoice
submitted by these steel companies
over the last three or four years,
said Frank L. Lynch. director Of
the commissions division of ac-
counts. .-.
Mr.. Lynch indicated the investi-
CATION did not mean that particular
overpayments were necessarily due
to fraud of any kind and that the
Government may have been >short-
changed millions of pounds merely
through company and carrier
checking errors.
Weights Being Checked.
He said the commission had hireo
an outside inspection service te
check all the weights. Those that
indicate a much lower weight thar
what the Government was actually
charged for will be presented fol
collection by the Government.
Investigators termed the inquiry
"a tremendous job," which may
take months to complete Steel
shipments for almost all the 5000
merchant ships built by the COM
mission during the war are in
volved.
A sampling of overpayments al
ready uncovered has led the in
vestigators to believe that good
many of the short weights may
have been due to the speed-ur
practice of guess weight which
many companies used during the
war.
(Released by North American Newspaper
Alliance)
Evening star., 1947-07-04
.CIO Furniture Workers
Decide to Bypass NLRB
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK. July 4.-Tne United
Furniture Workers of America,
claiming a membership of $4,000,
Joined two other CIO unions today
in adopting a policy of bypassing
the National Labor Relations Board
as set up under the Taft Hartley
Act.
Similar action was announced
Wednesday by the Steelworkers
Union and the United Electrical
Radio and Machine Workers OF
America.
At the same time yesterday, the
General Executive Board Of the
furniture workers said 1t would give
ardent support" to third political
party, If it were formed, and named
Henry Wallace as the great Ameri-
CAR in such move.
Evening star., 1947-07-04
Girl, Is, Found Chained to Bed;
Father and Stepmother Held

are under $1,000 bond each on
charges of felonious neglect and
assault, and will be arraigned
Monday.
Policemen and a commercial
photographer contributed money
and Mrs. Eva Crane, clerk in the
Police Identification Bureau, took
Geraldine out to lunch, then on a
shopping tour and to a beauty
parlor.
She stayed last night in private
home, not her own, and this
morning headed for mountain
resort with Miss Hattie Love, secre-
/ tary to Police Chief Joe Kimsey.
Evening star., 1947-07-04
Illinois Town Flooded
As Barrier Co|Iapses;
!AII Residents Safe
BY the Asseciatsd Press

GRAND TOWER. ILL.,, July: A.
Flood waters coursingr through. a
breach in a hve-foot sandbags bar
rier covered the greater part OF this
Mississippi River town today.
The barrier, which the 1000 In
habitants, including women and
children, had labored to build, gave
way last night, but Mayor Jesse
fGrammer reported all residents
reached high ground safely. A boy
|swho Suffered a foot injury was the
Eonly casualty.
/ Mayor Grammer called it the
worst flood in the towns history.
The water reached q stage OF 40.1
feet, three inches higher than any
previously recorded, with indica-
tions that an even higher level
might be reached.
One Store Escapes Flood
Front street, which comprises the
business district and lies along the
river bank, was covered with two or
three feet of water. The street is
about mile long. Every store but
one was flooded and only about 500
square feet of the residential section
escaped, Mayor Grammer reported
Much of the residential section is
built on rising ground.
Persons driven from their homes
took refuge in school buildings and
in homes that were spared. Mayor
Grammer said the situation was well
under control today, with the Coast
Guard and Red Cross standing by to
give aid.
And our people are staying here,
Mayor Grammer declared last night
II have heard OF rev Instances OF
any one wanting to leave"
Grand Tower, which is rs miles
south of st. Louis, has been virtually
surrounded by water for several days
and the town has been supplied with
food by boat during the emergency
The town is not protected by a per-
manent levee and depends on has
tily erected sandbag barricades to
protect it when the Mississippi surges
over its banks.
Fight to Save Other Levees.
Meanwhile, the fight to save other
levees continued at several critical
points along the Mississippi, but
Army engineers reported most OF
the remaining dikeS in Illinois and
Missouri were expected to hold, bar
ring further rains.
The town of Dupo. Ill. just South
of st. Louis, apparently has won its
fight to save itself from the flood
waters. despite a warning by Army
engineers to evacuate three days
ago. The river was receding slowly
in that area.
Approximately $50 soldiers from
Scott Field, ILL.,. continued sand
bagging the Perry County (Moo
levees protecting $4,000 acres OF
farm land across the river from
| Grand Tower.
Below Grand Tower on the Illi-
nois side, about 200 military police
troops from Fort Sheridan, ILL.,, ano
civilian volunteers were strength.
ening a system of dikes holding the
flood waters back from $1,000 acres
Evening star., 1947-07-04
Two Million Surplus
| Artificial Teeth Will
Be Sold by WAA

There's nothing false about
the Forthcoming sale of nearly
100000 artificial teeth by the
War Assets administration.
The assorted molars and BIZ
cuspids have an estimated value
of about $105,000 They have
been declared surplus and will
soon be offered for sale to
dentists and dental laboratories.
They are available for dis
posal at the Medical Supply
Depot in Louisville, KY, and
will be offered for sale, fob,
location. at fixed prices from
July IL to August 6.
Evening star., 1947-07-04

Mrs. Katherine Weaver, 80, re-
manned today in the Prince Georges
County Jail at Upper Marlboro,
charged with murder in the death
of her 43-year-old husband as her
attorney prepared to ask for a writ
OF habeas corpus.
Mrs. Weaver, mother of two
daughters, was transferred yester-
day from the Prince Georges Cen
eral Hospital to the Jail pending
legal action to gain her freedom
under bond. According to police. she
somitted firing the five pistol shots
that killed her husband. Joseph
Weaver, in their home, 1902 Thirty
Evening star., 1947-07-04
CoIumnists Charqed
With Being Spoon-Fed
ByU.5. Propagandists
By the Associated Press

| Representative Miller, Republican
tof Connecticut told the House yes
terday that three nationally-know
columnists have shown themselves
to be "rewrite men for Government
propagandists."
His accusations, MIR. Miller told
his colleagues, based on identical
articles the three wrote In connec-
ition with hearings before a House
Interstate Commerce subcommittee
on legislat ton to amend the Federal
Power Act. -.&-.
/ He named the writer's as Thomas
l.. Stokes, Scripps Howard column
ist; Lowell Mellett, columnist for
The Star and other papers, and
Marquis Childs, of the Washington
Post.
! Mr.. Stokes and Mr.. Childs refused
comment on Mr.. Miller's remarks
Mr.. Mellett said:
I'm glad Mr.. Miller brought the
matter out on the floor of the House
1t may cause the House to look into
the whole situation regarding his
bill"
Emotional Arguments Cited.
In his speech, Mr.. Miller said:
The sole purpose of each column
was to discredit the hearings.
Their means to this end was in
each case identical. Each sought
to discredit the work of this COM
mittee by raising emotional argu-
ments rather than factual pres
entation.
What they have done proves the
ancient axiom that the truth will
out
Truth has been served by theil
willingness to be spoon-fed by a
Government bureaucrat, for the
simultaneousness of these three
articles clearly reveals the writers
for what they are-rewrite men
for Government propagandists."
Wants Investigation.
Mr.. Miller said the conclusion
"is inescapable" that the Govern
ment through one of its employees
directly or indirectly inspired the
writings of these columns"
| Asserting "it is not every day
that a civil servant can influence
the thinking of three such we'll
known Washington correspondents,
Mr.. Miller said:
IF that employe feels proud o1
his achievement, I trust that hi!
feelings for American democracy
are such that he will, after mo.
ment's rejection. realize how HI
has cheapened the Federal servic'
and the principle of self-govern
ment.
Il hope he feels ashamed, for h
is a shameful person"
Mr.. Miller said he was calling
this matter" to the attention of
House Expenditures Subcommittee
with the suggestion that 1t use it.
widespread powers to Investigate
these propaganda activities"
Evening star., 1947-07-04

seventh avenue, Cottage City, We'd
nesday night.
Dr.. James I. Boyd. county deputy
medical examiner, said today he
had issued a certificate attrihutine
Mr. Weaver's death to bullet wounds
in the head, chest and abdomen.
Mr.. Weaver operated filling sta
ton at 1927 M street NV. for a
number of years. The couple had
been married q years and have two
children, Mary, 20 and Nancy. 8.
Robert w. Mccullough, attorney
for Mrs. Weaver, would not discuss
the shooting but said he would ask
for a writ of habeas corpus.
Evening star., 1947-07-04
10 Killed as Tornado
Sweeps Minnesota
And North Dakota .
BY ths Asseeiotsd Press

GRAND FORKS, N. OAK, July
4.-Ten were known dead today
and 80 were in hospitals after a
tornado ripped down the fertile
Red River Valley to cut an 30
mile-long path of death and ruin
from Southern Manitoba, Cam
ada, into North Dakota and Min
nesota.
Telephone and electric wires were
torn out, scores of farms leveled.
many head of livestock killed and a
dozen towns and villages hit by the
twister. Witnesses said hardly
tree remained upright along the
windy trail. .
One man was killed at Windy
Gates. Manitoba, 100 miles north of
Grand Forks, where the blow appar-
emily originated. Seven died In
North Dakota before the roaring
funnel blew itself out after killing a
farm couple at Oslo, Mimi, 20 miles
northeast of here.
Second Storm Strikes.
A second storm swept the May
ville-Portland, N. OAK, area 40 miles
south of Grand Forks to level the
buildings on at least dozen farms
but there were no known casualties.
Heaviest death toll was at Au-
burn, N. D.. There, six died when the
wind collapsed a farmhouse quar-
tering a half dozen migrant Mexican
farm workers and their families.
Two of these victims were babies.
Only the church and town hall
remained standing at Warsaw, N. D.,
where Frank Rogalla was killed and
his wife reported missing. Staoes
Attorney Wallace Warner said the
able-bodied from among the town s
100 inhabitants were delving into
the wrecked building for more pos
sible victims.
Witnesses said a heavier death
roll was averted because the tor
nado was visible for miles across the
plains before 1t struck. Mrs. M. A.
Patterson, the telephone operator at
Oslo, said that community's 400 per-
sons were almost all watching ball
game when the twister was sighted
Organize Rescue Parties.
Abandoning the diamond, specta-
tors and players got into their cars
70 ofrA vitae IN fhA
wake of the spiraling black cloud
They recovered the bodies of Mr.
and Mrs. Martin c. Anderson from
their razed home miles east of
Oslo and took Is injured persons
to the Warren. Mimi, Hospital 20
miles farther east.
The other Is injured were in the
Grafton, NJ Oak. Community Hos
pital, brought mostly from the War
saw and Auburn areas. Officials
said at least 10 of those hurt were
In critical condition.
In the Mayville Portland district
Elmer Eide, farmer, said he watched
the family auto picked up like a. toy
and tossed onto calf, which was
killed in his barnyard. = He lost all
his buildings and the family survived
In the cellar of the house.
Only the brick home remained
standing at the farm of Conrat
Rigg, who said 100 large trees or
his property were blown down.
The Winnipeg Tribune said winds
of up to 10 miles per hour were
recorded in that city.
Evening star., 1947-07-04
Monthly precipitation N lncheS IN Z
rsnital (eurrent month to date):

River Report.
from United States EnEineersD
Potomac River muddy at Hsrpers Ferry
and clear at Great Falls; Shenandoah clear
at HaYpers Ferry.
Tempersture and Humidity.
tReadings At Washington National Airport)
Evening star., 1947-07-04
Weather Report

District of Columbia and vicinity
Clear today and tonight. Highest
temperature this afternoon about 80
degrees. Lowest tonight about 81
Continued fine weather Saturday
and Sunday.
Virginia and Maryland-Clear and
,ool tonight. Continued fine weather
Saturday and Sunday.
West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky
and Tennessee-Fair tonight ano
Saturday. Somewhat warmer Satur-
day.
Tide Tables,
Evening star., 1947-07-04

Reserd fsnpersturss This Yeas.
tevsss. tHss i'm February !:
Evening star., 1947-07-04

Alliance.) }
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-16
RED CROSS RESUMES
WARTIME SERVICES

The American Red Cross has
now resumed the wartime se--
vice of aiding persons in the Unit
ed States to locate civilians IN
foreign countries, Thomas r. Or
rel. president Of the local chap
ter, announced yesterday.
The service was offered during
the war, but was halted shortly al
ter hostilities. Inquiries will now
be accepted by the local Red Cross
chapter from relative. or friends
of the missing person" in every
country except &c many, it was
said. Arrangements have not yet
been completed for extending the
service to that country.
duplication for the service
should be made only after the In
%quirer's own efforts to communi-
cate d~ericetly with the person
SC lght have brought no reply by
the end of three months -, Or
reu said. i.
THE American Red Cross can.
not guarantee results in under
taking this service, MOI does it
wish in any way to give the i'm
preston that its service will be
better than that which is being
given by refugee agencies in this
and other, countries.
Every effort will be made to
give effective service or to refer
the inquirer to any other agency
whose. service may be more ap-
propriate to his particular re-
quest" Orrell said.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-16
FIFTEEN

1HAPTER FlE LIEN
onf,s did not try to hide his
na ICES. Il despised my uncle
b,,n that. You can't take any
liter liter from anyone you despise."
tnl1 me-, agreed Diane soberly.
wv, can't. And you do have to
"FUl cowardice. Then you ran
ayay?' - j.,
think of doing it at first,
all" ntil things got too impossible
n'' 70 | began to see how my
70 I'D made his money by keep
ulcle .hs men in his mills dow to
l's s+srving a e, | remembered
a ral;d way most of them had
the S - live, up in New England,
n aaa tne committees that were all
ways ' strihe in " the mills up there
wa lot of fighting. We thought
anu III exciting, bat that winter in
y an ! kept seeing the faces of
Geois NJ the mill.workers after
s sosIs gone back to work. driven
t back : BY the fear ~ Of star nsts hes AT
any indifferent to it all as my
% and sisters, but as 1t was
Df"' Isnded on it until | couldn't
food on my uncle's table
,,.ne money I'd earned my
.s,+ ! went off. There was a nurse
I'd had when I was, a little kid
and she'd married a farmer and
lived near Worcester. I'd visit
ed her often when we lived IN
BOSTON. | went to her and stayed
there until | was through high