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Evening star., 1947-10-31
Sunday Reading

During the war the Govern
ment looked askance at the
housewife who loaded up" on
grocery staples she thought
might become scarce. Now,
Staff Writer John A. Giles re-
ports in the Sunday Editorial
Section, the Government itself
is busy buying and storing
away huge quantities of criti-
cal and strategic materials.
The why's and wherefores of
this stockpiling make inter-
esting reading.
For years the United States
has struggled to get the rest of
the world to do more trading;
to cut the maze of restrictions
impeding the flow of goods
from one country to another.
Fifty or sixty nations get to-
gether at Havana in a few
weeks to consider free enter
prise In foreign trade. Staff
Writer Garnet D. Horner, in
another Editorial Section ar
ticle, takes a look at the pros
poets.
Many other stories on for
eign and domestic develop
ments, plus special pages and
columns on new books, society.
art, sports, amusements, music,
etc, supplement the usual
thorough and accurate news
content OF
Chr Sunhay Star
Evening star., 1947-10-31
Ex-Bookkeeper Tells
OF Forging $4,000 in
Checks on Sorority
Lost Most of Amount
In Gambling, Defendant
Says at Arroignment

A 4o-year-old former book
keeper for University of Mary
land sorority today told United
States Commissioner Needham
C. Turnage he had forged about
$4,000 worth of checks on the
sorority's account and lost most
of it in gambling.
The erstWhile Alpha Omicron Pi
employe, James Hilliard Kinsey,
made the statement when arraigned
before Commissioner Turnage on an
FBI charge of passing a $95 check
in interstate commerce, to which he
pleaded guilty.
He was ordered held for grand
jury action and bond was fixed at
$500.
An FBI spokesman said investiga-
ton of the case was continuing.
The addressed and scholarly
appearing defendant told Mr. Turn
age the forgeries had occurred since
last July and involved the sorority S
account with the Prince Georges
Bank & Trust Co. of Hyattsville.
He added he later lost most of
it ION the horses and by gambling
on the dice at Jimmy La Fontaine's. y
Queried by Mr.. Turnage on how he
intended to plead, Kinsey said:
There's no point in fighting this
thing now. I'll admit was fool. -
Kinsey told the commissioner he
had been released from Baltimore
Jail early this year after serving six
months of a term for passing other
bad checks. He went to work for
the sorority in July. He was ar
rested yesterday by FBI agents on
the complaint of the Irving Liquor
Store, 14OO block of Irving. street
NV. =
He said he is veteran of both
World Wars who had been barely
able to exc out a living" on total
disability pension checks for serv-
ice in the first war. Kinsey added
he was drafted during the past war
and given a medical discharge after
serving seven months at Camp
Pickett, Va. He gave q local ad-
dress in the 1900 block of Otis
place NV.
Evening star., 1947-10-31
Commodity Markets Probe
Near Conclusion, Clark Says
By the Associated Press

Attorney General Clark said today
the Justice Departments investiga-
ton of speculation on commodity
exchanges will be concluded 'in a
few days"
He told reporters the inquiry has
centered around operations on the
Chicago, Kansas City and Mime
apolis exchanges.
These are all primarily grain
markets.
President Truman first announced
the inquiry at a news conference
recently in which he spoke out
sharply against what he said was
widespread gambling in grains and
fbers. He declared such gambling
contributed to high prices. pre-
sumably, fbers meant cotton)
Mr.. Clark said that if the inquiry
discloses law violation the evidence
will be presented to grand jury.
Otherwise, he said, he proposes to
bring any bad practices to the
attention of the public either
through a report to the President or
Congress
Evening star., 1947-10-31
War Dead From Bermuda
Arrive in Brooklyn
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK, Oct. 3l.-The trans
port Stevens Victory made her way
slowly through fog and rain to the
Army base in Brooklyn today with
127 American war dead from Fort
Bell Cemetery, st. David, Bermuda.
Military police stood at attention
as the ship pulled into the pier
where the transport Joseph v. Con-
molly is docked. The Connolly earlier
this week brought 6,251 war dead
from Europe and Newfoundland
The dead brought home by the
Stevens Victory we're men killed in
air crashes, ship sinkings and acct
dents in the area around Bermuda.
Most of them we're Navy casualties,
including a lSge group drowned
when Navy ship capsized near
Bermuda.
Evening star., 1947-10-31
Nourse Group Is Said to Deny
Initiation Threat in Foreiqn Aid
Marshall Plan May
Require Tax Rise,
Crawford Warns

The possibility of higher in
stead of lower taxes was held
out in both Republican and
Democratic quarters on Capitol
Hill today in discussions involv-
ing American aid to Europe.
Representative Crawford, Repub-
lican, of Michigan said the relief
program confronts the country
with the choice between higher taxes
or greater imitation.
At the same time, Senator O'Ma-
honey, Democrat, of Wyoming called
for new excess profits levy as one
to the twin problem Con-
gress will confront next month of
curbing high prices at home while
working out a multi billion dollar
European recovery program.
A Republican leadership decision
on whether to press a third tax re-
duction bill at the November II ses-
sion was delayed, meanwhile, by the
illness of Chairman Knutson of the
House Ways and Means Committee.
Mr.. Knutson had been scheduled
(See FOREIGN AID, Page A-5.)
Evening star., 1947-10-31
= Committee Delays Identifying
'8 More as Hollywood Reds =.
First Phose Of Un-Americon Inquiry Closed; i;
Soviet Quest for Atom Doto Revealed

individuals, Chairman Thomas an
nounced at the end of yesterdays
session. There are 68 to go"
The committee has recommended
contempt citations on 10 film per-
sonalities.
But the committee did follow
through on it's promise of ''sensa-
tional disclosures.
A former FBI agent, now a COM
mittee investigator, testified late
yesterday that Soviet agents unsuc-
cessfully tried to obtain confidential
information from DR.. 4. Robert Op-
penheimer atomic physicist, when
he was working in the University of
California's radiation laboratory in
1912.
The Investigator, Louis j. Russell,
(See UN- Page A-4D
Evening star., 1947-10-31
Many Unions Ignore
Today's DeadIine for
Non-Red Statements
Labor Boord to Eject
All Gases inflicted by
Those Not Complying
By james Y. Newton

Many of the Nations labor
unions, including four of the
largest, apparently were ignor-
ing today's deadline for COM
pliance with Taft-Hartley Act
provisions for registration and
filing of Communist affl-
davitS.
Unless the unions take at least
initial steps to comply with the new
law by midnight, the National Labor
Relations Board will throw out all
cases initiated by the organizations
which were pending August % when
most sections of the act became ef-
fective. The latest count showed
about $500 such cases still unde-
cided, but many of those involve
unions which have complied with
the law.
There was a last-minute rush by
unions to get in ahead of the dead
line. There were, however, no fig
ures available indicating the per-
centage of the estimated 10000 in
ternationals and locals which al
ready had filed the necessary papers.
Miners Expected to Hold Out.
Big unions which were considered
certain holdouts include John l..
Lewis United Mine Workers and
three CIO unions, the United Steel-
workers, United Auto Workers and
United Electrical Workers. The
combined membership of the four
organizations is more than $500, 900.
The United Mine Workers have
an estimated 200 old cases on the
NLRB docket which will be dis
missed by the board. Most of the
cases were initiated by District so,
the mine workers catch-all unit in
Guiding workers of many different
industries.
Noncomplying unions have set out
to boycott the NLRB as a means of
attacking the Taft-Hartley Act.
Just how long they will be able to
operate without board help is ques-
tionable. The NLRB ruled two days
ago that noncomplying union may
See J.AROR page A-4D
Evening star., 1947-10-31
What heRussions
Are Saying of Us:
The Mosco1D radio, bro

The MOScO1D rGGtO, 0roddcGSt1ng ~
said:
More than two years have
elapsed since the defeat of the
Japanese imperialistists but the
people of those countries which
have been occupied by the Japa-
nese have not yet enjoyed any
of the benefits derived from the
common victory due to the inter-
ference of the American monop-
olists who are trying to take the
place of the Japanese colonists.
THE American monopolists are
endeavoring to restore the poten-
tialities of Japan's munitions in
dustry in order to turn Japan
into a springboard for their ex-
pansion in Asia and the Far
East. According to this program,
Korea would become subordi-
nate country supplying raw ma
erials to capitalist monopolies
and a strategic base in the Ash
attic continent for capitalist and
monopolist expansion. 4
Evening star., 1947-10-31
Creedon Quits
Housing Post;
TakesAtom Job
Expediter Leaving
Government to Head
Construction Project
BY the Associoted Press

Frank r. Creedon resigned to-
day. as national housing eXpe-
diter.
In letter of resignation, Mr..
Creedon advised President Truman
he was leaving the Government to
take charge of large construction
program in connection with develop
ment of atomic energy. No details
were given.
While the letter did not disclose
the name of the firm which is un-
dertaking the atomic project, asso-
ciates Of Mr. Creedon said they
understood it is the General Electric
Corp.
In making the letter public, the
White House announced that Tighe
E. Woods has been named acting
housing expediter. He has been a
deputy under Mr. Creedon.
Woods Served With OPA.
Mr.. Woods, a native of Chicago
and a graduate of Notre Dame, en-
tered Government service in 1912 as
OPA rent examiner in the Chicago
regional office. Later he became
deputy housing expediter for rent
control
Mr.. Creedon, who managed the
construction of the Oak Ridge
tTenn.) atomic energy project,
wrote the President:
II weighed carefully in my mind
which would render the greater
public service. my present assign
ment or the help that I could con-
tribute in expediting the atomic
energy program"
He said he had concluded he could
be more helpful in the latter field
Truman Praises Work.
In letter of reply, the President
accepted Mr. Creedon's resignation
with reluctance" and told him You
have served your country faithfully
and we'll"
The correspondence disclosed that
Mr.. Creedon first indicated to the
President several weeks ago that
he had received an offer from a
Large industrial firm to take
charge of huge construction pro-
81 all Ill COllllSCJiOIl Will dGOlIllc
energy development.
Mr.. Creedon became housing eX-
peGiter last December, succeeding
Wilson Wyatt
In this Office he passed on recon-
mendations from local rent control
boards as to rent increases or con-
tInued control of rents in their area.
Under Fire From Unions.
He has been under fire from some
labor unions because of his recent
approval of a 5 per cent rent in
crease in the Louisville area. Mr..
Creedon took the position that he
had no choice under the rent con-
troll law except to approve an in
crease where there was "appropri-
ate substantiation" of local boards
finding that an increase was proper.
The unions contended he should
not have approved the composition
of the Louisville board or found
appropriate substantiation" of it's
findings. Members of the boards
are nominated by Governors, but
the nominations are subject to Mr..
Creedon'S acceptance.
Mr. Creedon, 81, is a native of
Brockton, Mass, who studied engi-
neering at Massachusetts Institute
of Technology. He served in World
War. I and was construction engi-
neer with various private concerns
between the wars end and 1884
when he joined the Government in
the old Public Works Administra-
ton.
During the last war he was in
the Army Engineers for three years
He left the Army to direct con-
struction of the Oak Ridge atomic
energy plant as vice president OF
Stone & Webster, firm which held
the construction contract through a
subsidiary.
Evening star., 1947-10-31

The film industry will have to
wait until some time in the near
future" to learn the identity of
SO more individuals classed by
the House Committee on Un-
American Activities as Commu-
nists or fellow travellers.
The committee rang down the
curtain on the first phase" of its
inquiry into communism in the film
industry without fulfilling Chair
man Thomas promise to identify
79 Hollywood Communists" Mr..
Thomas announced earlier they
would be named with their "com-
plete records" of Communist aff1lia-
tions.
I'VE have had before us II of these
Evening star., 1947-10-31
Rail Brofherhoods Demand
3O% Pay Raise Study Now
BY the Associated Press

CHICAGO. Oct, 81. - Spokesman
for five railroad brotherhoods who
have been negotiating rules changes
with the Nations railroads since
October 7, demanded today that the
railroads set aside those negotia-
tions temporarily and give inme-
diate consideration to demands for
80 per cent wage increase.
The brotherhoods, representing
about 350,000 engineers. firemen,
conductors, trainmen, switchmen
and yardmen, served their wage de-
mands, including a S3-a-day min
imum increase, on the railroads
September 30. The demands in
cluded a provision that any in
creases granted be made retro
active to November |. 1947.
Evening star., 1947-10-31
Sugar Price Lid Lifts
Tonight, but Hoarding
Holds Quotations Firm
Some Quarters See
Actual World Surplus;
Whisky Import Curb Hit
CREDIT CONTROLS end tomorrow
night; easier buying terms seen.
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Price controls on sugar end at
midnight tonight, but an ex-
pected drop in prices appears to
have been forestalled by house
wives who started boarding in
fear of shortage.
No such shortage is in sight,
however, and Agriculture Depart
ment experts anticipate no price
rise at present. The Government
provides a floor for prices by pur-
chasing raw sugar and selling it to
refiners at fixed price.
Other food developments include: ::
/. The National Association of
Alcoholic Beverage Importers an
grily attacked Charles Luckman,
Citizens Food Committee chair
man, for proposing that Scotch
whisky imports be halted during
the domestic distillery shutdown.
2. Agriculture Department an
nounced its grain export allocatio1s
for December, up 10 per cent over
the November figure, will bring the
six month total to 305 ZOO, 900
bushels compared to the goal for the
full crop year of 570,000,000 bushels.
Sugar May Be Surplus.
In the sugar situation, some sugar
brokers in New York were reported
by the Associated Press as believing
world surplus is in prospect for
1948. They cite the expectation OF
a huge Cuban crop, rapid restora-
ton of the war-damaged Philippine
industry and the recovery Of Cen
trail European beet sugar areas. The
International Emergency Food
Council has before it an estimate
that next years world surplus may
be 100000 tons.
Other brokers, however, think de-
mand will advance. They believe
the Marshall plan will result in
large shipments to Europe because
of sugars high caloric value. They
say 100000 calories currently can
be purchased cheaper in sugar than
in wheat.
The brokers told the Associated
Press they had feared price drop
when controls end tonight but that
boarding. reported from several
cities, was keeping supply closer to
demand. Agriculture Department
experts, however, say the supply is
good"
Sugar was the first food placed
under wartime price controls and
will be the last to be freed. Sugar
rationing and price control began in
April, 1912. Rationing ended this
spring.
Importers Hit Luckman.
The controversy over Scotch
whisky imports began on Wednesday
when Mr.. Luckman, in answering a
question at National Press Club
luncheon, said he had recommended
to the State Department that such
imports be halted during the do
mestic whisky shutdown. The do
mestic distillers are known to have
brought the matter to Mr.. Luck
mans attention.
In Chicago, Harry L. Lourie, vice
president of the National Associa-
ton of Alcoholic Beverage Import
(See FOOD, Page A-4)
Evening star., 1947-10-31
Capital Transit
Employees Get
15-Cent Raise
Company to Discuss
Fare Increase Todoy
AS Arbitrutors Act

Forty-five hundred Capital
Transit Co. employees were
granted a 15-cent-an- hour wage
increase plus an additional S
cents in fringe benefits in an
arbitration board award an
nounced today. The decision
will yield the employees $5oo,000
in pay retroactive to July /.
Tabulating the total cost at S2,-
10000 a year, company officials
said the increases leave no choice
but to effect economies and to in
crease revenues.
In addition to an estimated ST.
639 500 per year necessary to meet
the 15-cent wage increases, the COM
pany figured it must expand total
of $670,000 for fringe payments such
as vacations, sick leave and other
allowances. The fringe payments
will amount to about cents addi-
tional for each employe, the COM
pany said.
Transit officials called meetings
this afternoon and Monday to de-
termine what should be done about
asking for fare increases.
During the wage and hour hear
ings, j. E. Heberle, company vice
president, said Capital Transit would
be forced to ask 15-cents, or two
for-25-cent fares if the union
realized its full demands for
IS per cent increase, costing So
100000.
2-to-1 Decision of Board.
Later he pointed to estimated
deficits during the next year and
said fare increase would be needed
whether the Arbitration Board
ordered any wage increases at all.
The increases awarded late last
night in 2-to-1 decision amounted
to 121a per cent, the company said.
The award was signed by DR.. George
W. Taylor, public member and chair
man of the panel, and O. David
zimring, head of the Midwest Labor
Bureau, and the labor member.
Edmund L. Jones, Capital Transit
general counsel and company men,
ber, dissented and reserved the right
to set forth later the specific items
to which he objected.
Income Held insufficient.
E. D. Merrill, company president,
said in statement that Capital
Transit does not have the in
come to meet the obligations i'm.
posed on it by the award"
He said the amount of the award
is nine times the $246,0O0 net in
come of the company for the first
nine months of 1947
! "It completely wipes out the net
income and puts the company
deeper into the red than it was in
May, 1947, when the increase in
fare was granted by the Public
Utilities Commission after public
hearings" Mr.. Merrill explained.
Most of the 40 union demands
were granted in whole or in part,
the company said, adding that al
most all of its own 40 requests
were denied.
Retroactive Clause Hit.
Company officials regard as an
especially hard blow the clause
making the wage increases retro
active to July l.
The back pay will necessitate
lump-sum payment of approximately
$5O0,00O, the company figures, which
will more than wipe out the benefits
accruing from the higher fares ef-
fective since May II.
1t probably will be eight weeks
before the company can compute
1See TRANSIT, Page A-5.)
Evening star., 1947-10-31
Arlington Grand Jur,
Urges Seven Plans 10
~
Aid Police Efficiency
Trial Boord Is Asked;
Force Is AbsoIved of
Gambling Collision

Seven recommendations to
boost the efficiency and morale
of the Arlington police depart
ment are contained in one of
two reports drafted by a county
grand jury, it was learned today.
Chief among the proposals are es-
tablishment of police trial board
and appointment of a county di-
rector of public safety, with juris-
diction over fire and police depart
ments and related activities.
These disclosures were made by
Daniel A. Dugan, member Of the
Arlington County Board, who on
October 18 requested Circuit Judge
Walter T. Mccarthy to have the
grand jury investigate alleged collu-
sion between the Arlington police
and professional gamblers.
Force Is Absolyed.
Such instructions were issued to
the grand jury when the October
term of Circuit Court was convened
last week, but after seven days of
study the jurors absolved the police
of suspicion in a report submitted
yesterday Mr.. Dugan was one OF
81 witnesses who appeared before
the jury.
The grand jury told Judge Nc
Carthy that it found insufficient
evidence" to indicate any collusior
existed. The Police Department re-
organization was proposed in sep
arate report which Judge Mccarthy
declined to accept for the court be-
cause its findings went beyond the
scope of the jury's authority.
The latter report, however. ha:
been turned over to County Man.
ager A. T. Lundberg. who had no
made it's contents public.
In addition to the safety director
and the trial board, the jurors rec.
commended that all police be care
(See GAMBLING, Page A-5D
Evening star., 1947-10-31
Late News
Bulletin
Ouokers Win Peace Prize

~~ '
OSLO, Norway (P.-The'No-
bel Peace Prize for 1947 has
been awarded to the London
Service Council and the Phila-
delphia Service Committee of
the Society of Friends (Quak-
ers), the Nobel Committee an
nounced tOdnight.
Evening star., 1947-10-31

(See FOOD, Page A-4)
Evening star., 1947-10-31

(See GAMBLING, Page AS.
Evening star., 1947-10-31

Cloudy, COOL with occasional light rain and
temperature in lower SOS this afternoon.
Cloudy, lowest 48 tonight. Tomorrow cloudy,
continued cool. Full report on page A-2)
Evening star., 1947-03-02
Engagement announcements
attract Interest OF Society

Mrs. John D. Norton announces
the engagement of her daughter
Miss Thelma Anne Norton, to Mr.
Martin G. White, U. S. NJ, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. James L. White OF
Rochester, N. Y.
Miss Norton is the daughter Of
the late Mr.. Norton. She attended
Holy Cross Academy and Strayer
College and Is an employe of the
War Department.
Mr.. White attended Texas Ag-
ricultural and Mining College and
is engaged in radio materiel work
in the Navy Department.
The wedding will take place in
the spring.
Gord0n-Br0icn
Announcement is made by Mr..
and Mrs. John Boyle Gordon OF the
engagement of their daughter, Miss
Margaret Fleetwood Gordon, to Mr..
Andrew Hutton Brown, son of Mrs.
Carroll N. Brown Of Riverdale on
Hudson and the late Mr.. Brown.
A graduate of Holton Arms
School, the bride-elect also attended
National Park College and made
her debut in Washington several
seasons ago.
Mr.. Brown attended the Horace
Mann School and is graduate of
Harvard University. During the
war he served as a captain in the
Army Air Forces weather service
and now is with the National
Geographic Society.
Evening star., 1947-03-02
Garner.Rebh

| Gdfnef.hebh
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Leonard Gar.
ner Of Abilene, Tex, have announced
the engagement OF their daughter
Miss Lois Jeanne Garner, to Capt
George Anthony Rebh Of Dearborn
Mich.
Miss Garner Is an employe of the
War Department and Capt. Rebh
graduate of the United States
Military Academy, recently was
selected for Rhodes scholarship
and will 60 to Oxford. England
next fall.
The wedding will take place this
spring.
|Myers.Reed .
No date has been set for the
wedding of Miss Ruth Rebecca
Myers and Mr.. John Lincoln Reed
whose engagement Is announced by
Miss Myers parents, Mr.. and Mrs
Harry Myers Of Rockville.
Miss Myers attended Temple
School and for nearly two years
was a member of the Naval Reserve
Mr.. Reed is the son Of Mrs. Ernest
G. Reed of West Newton, Mass,
and the late MI. Reed and served
in Germany with the infantry. He
attended Staunton Military Academy
and Northwestern University.
Cohen.Ochsman
Announcement is made by Mr..
and Mrs. Samuel P. Cohen Of the
engagement Of their daughter, Miss
Meurice Cohen, to Mr.. Ralph Ochs.