davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1947-01-13
Eisenhower Back on Job :
After Florida Vocation

Gen. Eisenhower was back at his
desk in the Pentagon today after re-
turning yesterday from a Florida
vacation.
The Army's Chief of Staff arrived
at Union Station in an atmosphere
of strictest secrecy. Outsiders were
barred from the entrance to the
track to which his private car was
switched for detraining when his
train arrived from Miami an hour
late.
A depot guard said he had strict
orders from aides in the generals S
office that no one was to be allowed
where Gen. and Mrs. Eisenhower
alighted and were greeted by half a
dozen high. ranking officers.
Gen. Eisenhower spent a month in
Florida resting and taking treat
ments for bursitis, a shoulder all
lment,
Evening star., 1947-01-13
Butter Prices Drop
& Cents in New York
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK, Jan. ia sharp
drop of around cents a pound in
wholesale butter prices on the New
York Mercantile Exchange brought
the posting of lower prices in retail
stores in the New York area today.
Gristede Bros, one of the largest
retail chains operating here, an
nounced it would sell butter in all
its stores tomorrow at II cents
pound, decline of cents. Similar
actions were indicated by others.
just before the Christmas holi-
days butter sold in the retail chains
at SO cents pound.
Heavy offerings flooding the ex-
change here caused today's precipi-
tate drop.
Wholesale declines ran from 6 to
61s cents a pound for top grades,
with AA butter selling at 66 cents
and grade A at 65a cents pound
Meanwhile, the Dairymen's League
Cooperative Association, Inc, and
tour of its officers entered not guilty
pleas in Federal Court to a FIVE
count criminal information alleging
they manipulated the New York
butter market last month to support
the January milk price.
Federal Judge Alfred G. Coke
paroled the defendants in custody
of Seward A. Miller, general counsel
of the cooperative. Judge Coke
fixed the trial date for January a
The individuals who pleaded were
Henry II. Rathbun, cooperative
president, and Leon H. Chaplin, He'd
ley Benson and Herbert Seeley
members of the Cooperative Execu-
tive Committee.
Evening star., 1947-01-13
Two Bandits Cling to Wild Auto,
Get Coin Buqs as Woman FIees

The wife of a Maryland theater
owner escaped with her life last
night, but more than $400 in the
ater receipts were taken by three
bandits, two of whom chung to the
side of her automobile, punching
and shooting at her, before she
leaped from the moving car to get
away.
The driverless automobile crashed
into three parked cars, 18th pre-
clint police said, when the woman,
Mrs. Eleanor Weiner OF 2027 Thirty
sixth street Sc, jumped from the
car and fled into her home nearby.
Mrs. Weiner told police she was
driving home at HE'S pm. with
the money taken In by her hus-
bands waldorf Theater when she
halted for stop sign at Branch
and Alabama avenues Sc.
An automobile occupied by three
white men pulled alongside and
tried to force her to the curb, Mrs,
Weiner declared. She spun the wheel
and tried to drive around them. Two
of the men, she told police, leaped
from their car. One chung to the
window by her seat and the other
hung on to the far window as she
stepped on the gas.
They chung tenaciously, despite
the absence Of running boards on
the car, while Mrs. Weiner drove
two blocks east on Alabama sGenue
Evening star., 1947-01-13

in desperate attempt to reach her
home.
One of the men fired a shot from
a .45-caliber pistol which pierced
the window glass a fingers breadth
from her head. The other man
pummeled and punched her.
Near the intersection of Alabama
avenue and Thirty sixth street, she
slowed the car down and jumped,
hurting her hip. The men, she said,
remained with the car, in which
were two cloth bags containing the
money.
Mrs. Weiner ran to her home
without looking back. When police
reached the scene, they said they
found the Weiner car abandoned
where it had struck three parked
automobiles. The money was gone.
The estimate OF the stolen funds
at more than $500 was made by
police after a preliminary ques-
tioning of Mrs. Weiner. They said
the exact amount was not yet
known.
Three unexpended .45-caliber
shells were found in the street along
the route Mrs. Weiiaer drove, but
the shell of the bullet fired at her
by the bandit could not be located.
A private physician treated Mrs.
Weiner for bruises to the hip and
head, the latter inflicted BY q black
jack-like instrument, police declared.
Her husband. ]. I. Weiner, would
not discuss the case with neWsmen,
Evening star., 1947-01-13
Luzon Volcano Erupfs
In Shower Of Rock
BY the A.soeiotsd Press

MANILA, Jan. 13.-Southern Lu-
IONS towering Mayon volcano, boil
ing for five days, erupted this
morning with a furious shower OF
boulders and lava.
1t. Jg) Robert Case of Nevada,
Ohio, Navy weather officer, circled
the volcano at 10000 feet during the
display in an Army plane piloted
by Capt. Robert A. Harris, of Day.
ton, Ohio.
TT (the peak got redder and
swelled like a bubble, then broke" !"
1t. Case related. "A lava stream
went straight up to a height we
estimated at 5000 to 10000 feet
above the peak dtself 1908 feet).
I'VE saw huge rocks blown straight
up. They looked like small houses
to us even at a distance Of a mile
and half or two miles. The erup-
tion lasted about a half hour"
Camalia and Libou near the base
were ordered evacuated as lava
boiled over down the eastern and
southern slopes and black smoke
mushrooned miles into the sky.
Evening star., 1947-01-13
u. S. Court Of Appeals UphoIds
Conviction of Mayor CurIey
Smith and Fuller
Also Face Jail Terms
In Mail Freud Case
BY the Assoeiofed Press

The United States Court of
Appeals affirmed today the con-
viction of James NJ. Curley,. To-
year-old Mayor of Boston and
former member of Congress, and
two co-defendants on mail fraud
charges.
Curley, veteran of half century
of politics, was sentenced in Federal
Court here last February 18 to to 18
months in jail and a fine Of 81 900
for his alleged activities as presi-
dent of Engineers Group, Inc. The
Government contended the organi-
zation profited to the extent of
10000 by representing itself as able
to obtain war contracts for clients.
Donald Wakefield Smith of Pitts
burgh, former member of the Ma
tional Labor Relations Board, re-
ceived 4-to-12-month Jail sentence
and a $1,000 fine as treasurer of En-
gineers' Group. A third defendant,
James G. Fuller, received a 16-
month-to-4-year sentence as execu-
tive vice president. Fuller recently
Evening star., 1947-01-13
British Troops Man Food Trucks
As Thousands Quit in Sympathy
All London Police Leaves Cancelled as Wave
OfNew Wolkouts Threatens to Enguf Nation

The truckmen demanded a a.
hour instead of q 48-hour week, two
weeks paid vacations, half pay dur
ing illness and adjustment Of over
time pay conditions. The 45-mem-
ber Road Haulage Central Wages
Board met in emergency session to
consider the demands and a pre-
vious decision which touched off
the walkout.
London was tense. AL police
leaves were Cancelled and mounted
constables accompanied the con-
voys of military trucks.
Long lines of Army trucks poured
into the city's east end past thou
sands of unsmiling persons at the
curbs.
Almost Immediately after the
Smithfield workers struck, 5000 la
(See LONDON. Page ALA
Evening star., 1947-01-13
HebeIt Offers 7 Bills
With Heavy Penahie,
For Bribes in Sports
One Written Specifically
For District and Other
For National Events

Heavy penalties for bribery In
connection with sporting con-
tests, in the District and nation
ally, are proposed in bills intro
duced in the House today by
Representative Hebert, Demo-
crat, of Louisiana.
He said the two measures, one spe-
|cifically for the District and the
other for the interstate" contests,
elsewhere in the country, were the
outgrowth of the professional foot
ball scandal.
Referring to the case of Alvin
Paris, recently convicted in new on
charges of attempting to bribe Frank
Filchock and Merle, Hapes Of the
New York Giants, Mr.. Hebert told
the House:
Sports is a big business and the
public must be protected from the
fxers, the chiselers and the graft
ers." Congress in the past has struck
effectively at automobile theft with
the Dyer Act, narcotics peddling
with the Harrison Act and the white
slave market with the Mann Act,
he said.
He said he was not as much con-
cerned about protecting the person
who wanted to make bet on an
athletic contest as he was in pro-
tecting "the kids of the Nation who
believe our American sports are part
and parcel of our American way of
life"
"If we allow the ideals of youth
to be torn down by some cheap
crooks, chiselers and grafters who
want only sure things in life." he
said, "then we destroy everything we
teach our youngsters to believe"
His national bill applying to any
sports event for which contestants
travel interstate, proposes a maxi
mum penalty Of a fine Of $4,000 or
imprisonment for 10 years, or both.
It would apply to anyone found
guilty of bribing or attempting to
bribe, directly or indirectly, any Of
ficer, employe or member of an ath-
letic organization or team, or any
contest official with intent to induz
ence his decision or action"
The District bill proposes a maxi
mum fine of 81 900 or imprisonment
up to five years, or both. It would
apply to any person offering or ac-
cepting any bribe or promised gratu-
ity. In addition 1t would be applied
to 1any contest Of skin, speed.
strength or endurance Of man or
beast"
Evening star., 1947-01-13
$4,000 in Haifa Held
Under House Arrest
After Bomb Kills 4
British Impose Curfew;
142 Hurt as Explosion
Wrecks Police Stotion
BY the Asseeioted Press

JERUSALEM, Jan. 13.-Haifa's S
95, 900 Inhabitants were held
under virtual house arrest today
by a British curfew imposed last
night after a violent explosion
wrecked the city's police station,
killing four policemen and in
juring more than 142 other per-
sons.
The casualty list showed two
British policemen and two Arabian
temporary constables dead; 81 po-
Hcemen-British, Arab and jewish
hurt, Briton severely; 48 civilians
hospitalized; 80 given first aid, and
many more cut, bruised or shocked.
The blast-set of at $40 pm. in
an automobile load of explosives
planted outside the station-shook
Palestine's main seaport throughout,
sent glass splinters flying for as
much as o mile, disrupted traffic
and the telephone system and start
ed fires that ragged for half hour
in the next door post office and 9TH
er nearby buildings.
The government said the six-story
headquarters, at the foot Of Mount
Carmel and about 100 yards from
the harbor entrance in jewish
Arab neighborhood, was virtually
leveled"
officials reported that three men,
one in police garb and the others in
raincoats, drove the bomb car, la
beled police" up to the building
and fled into a tangle Of streets and
alleys. Guards fired after them
and noting a blazing fuse in the
automobile, gave an alarm to clear
the station.
About Is policemen got out before
the blast three minutes later. Debris
blocked the waterfront parkway
and glass Uttered streets for blocks.
Immediately guards on public
buildings were doubled, Bren gun
carriers took strategic posts and
road blocks established by the Brit
Gee pAT.TCTTNE pace All
Evening star., 1947-01-13
Chang Says Marshall
Showed Good Will
Rx The Associafed Press

NANKING, Jan. 13.-Generalissi-
mo Chang Kai-shek said today Gen.
Marshall's statement on China,
blaming extremists on both sides for
continued strife, was filled with
constructive criticism, showing his
good will toward China" an unofh-
cial source reported.
Chang gave this first formal re-
action to Gen. Marshall's statement
and departure from China at a me-
mortal service for DR.. Sun Yat-sen,
founder of the republic. Newsmen
were excluded.
An informed source said Chang
told the audience that Gen. Mar
shall's statement should not be
viewed separately but in conjunc-
ton with President Truman's dec
laration of policy toward China.
1--WE should reflect over the evil
conditions Marshall mentioned-if
they exist we must correct them, T"
the Generalissimo was quoted as
saying.
Evening star., 1947-01-13
Dean and Student Hurt
In Junior College Fire
BY the Assoeiosed Press

LEICESTER, Mass, Jan. 13-A
college dean and student suffered
injuries in leaps out second-f1oor
windows today as So other students
swung down sheet ropes or ladders
to escape flames sweeping Leicester
Junior College dormitory.
The blaze caused damage esti-
mated at 100000.
Dean Henry C. Ross, 54, and Al
bert G. Phillips, jr., Is, of Audubon,
N. j., were injured in jumping.
An unidentified war veteran stu
dent, with an artificial leg, was
helped to safety by classmates.
Firemen from Worcester and
Spencer raised ladders to upper
windows of the two-and-a-half story
wooden Colonial building where stu
dents were trapped by flames sweep
sog stairways.
Evening star., 1947-01-13
Know Your Orchestra
Neighborhood Concert
Tonight at Mckinley

The fourth of the series Of
Neighborhood Concerts spon-
sored by The Evening Star
will be played tonight at Nc
Kinley High School, Second
and T streets NE, by the Ma
tional Symphony Orchestra
with DR.. Hans Kinder con-
ducting.
Beethoven's symphony No.
5, @ Minor" j" will be the fea-
tured part of the program.
Guests at the concert are
requested to be in their seats
by 8:45 pm.
II the concert tickets are
exhausted and you cannot
attend In person, be sure to
listen In on the broadcast By
Station WMAL at q pm.
Evening star., 1947-01-13
Three Skiers Rescued
After 26 Hours in Storm
BY the Associated Press

SPOKANE, Wash, Jan. 13.-Three
Gonzaga University students, who
spent a narrowing 26 hours on
Mount Spokane in binding snow
storm, were safe at their homes to-
day after a three-man searching
party had found them cold and
hungry late yesterday.
The students. Ned Fqaherty, Or
deem Burtenshaw and Richard Pow
ell, were reported missing Saturday
while on a skiing trip.
Evening star., 1947-01-13
Points Of Arbitration
Cause Further Dispute
In Cafeteria Strike
GSI Board Considers
Union PIeo to Include
9 Issues in Settlement

Both sides in the week old
Government cafeteria strike
were willing today to settle their
differences by arbitration. The
question holding up a settlement
was: What points would be ar
bitrated?
Federal conciliators hoped to get
the answer this afternoon when ne
gotiators for Government Services,
Inc, and the United Restaurant and
Cafeteria Workers, Local All (CIO)
were called back into joint session.
During the morning, GSI's Board
of Trustees considered a union
counterproposal to place nine orig
inal issues in arbitration. Earlier
the company had offered to arbi-
trate four points contingent on GER
tain union concessions.
Demands Revamped.
A spokesman emerged to say the
company had revamped its original
arbitration demands and would pre-
sent its compromise effort to the
union this afternoon.
Conciliator Peter j. Manno said
negotiations had reached a crisis.
1--WE are very hopeful, but the sit
uation is far from being settled"
he said.
Determined to crack the case to-
day, Mr.. Manno said the negotia-
tors would be kept in continuous
session except for meals and show
ers."
Tieup Continues.
But while the discussions went
on so did the strike in SO cafeterias
operated by GSI as 1900 union en-
|ployes remained off the job. Only
limited service was being offered in
about half of the cafeterias by
supervisory workers.
The Governments interest in the
case was indicated yesterday by the
intercession of Assistant Secretary
of Labor John w. Gibson and Con-
ciliation Chief Edgar Warren to
augment a three-man conciliation
panel already on the job.
Their efforts began bearing fruit
when the company offered to arbi-
trate wages and some fringe issues
provided the union would drop other
demands.
Alternate Plan Offered.
After mulling over the proposal
for while, the union came back
last night with an alternate plan to
arbitrate nine issues in dispute be-
fore the strike. These were:
Twenty cents an hour wage in
crease across the board" Is days
annual leave after 18 months en-
ployment, Is days sick leave, hos
pitalization plan financed by the
employer and jointly administered,
layoff on basis of seniority, arbi-
tration of suspension and discharge
of employees, 10-cent differential for
employees working three through six
hours; eight hours work day for
all others; reduction of probation
ary period to two months with a 10
Evening star., 1947-01-13
High Court Rules, Sd.
Louisiana May Send
Youth 10 Chair Again
Second Trip Upheld
After Current Fails;
Burton Writes Dissent
By the Associated Press

The Supreme Court today de-
cided Louisiana may make a
second attempt to electrocute
Willie Francis, II, who escaped
electrocution once when the
electric chair failed to operate.
The decision was on a 5-4 vote.
Convicted of holdup murder, the
colored youth was strapped in the
States portable electric chair last
May. The electric switch was
thrown, but mechanical defect
prevented the device from killing
him.
His attorneys then asked the SUI
preme Court to save him from a sec
ond trip to the chair. They said a
second attempt at execution would
constitute double jeopardy, would be
cruel and unusual treatment and
would deny Francis the equal pro-
lection guaranteed all citizens by the
Constitution.
Burton Writes Dissent.
Justice Reed announced the ma
jority Judgment. Justice Burton
wrote a dissent with which Justices
Douglas, Murphy and Rutledge
agreed
Justice Reed said for the majority
that 1--WE see no difference from the
constitutional point of view between
a new trial for an error of law at
the instance of the State that re-
suits in a death sentence instead of
imprisonment for life and an execu-
ton that follows failure of equip
ment.
"When an accident, with no sug-
gestior of malevolence, presents the
consummation of the sentence, the
States subsequent course in the ad-
ministration of its criminal law is
not affected on that account by any
requirement of due process of law
under the Federal Constitution.
I'VE find no double jeopardy here
which can be said to amount to
denial of Federal due process in the
proposed execution"
PSychOlOg1cai Straln.
Justice Reed said further that the
majority found nothing in what has
occurred which amounted to "cruel
and unusual punishment" in the
constitutional sense.
Justice Reed noted that attorneys
for Francis contend that because
''he once underwent the psycholog-
ical strain of preparation for cleo
trocution, now to require him to
undergo this preparation again sub
jects him to a lingering or cruel and
unusual punishment"
The justice commented:
Gwen the fact that petitioner has
already been subject to current of
electricity does not make his Subse-
quent execution any more cruel in
Evening star., 1947-01-13
Blum 10 Confer With AfiIee
On French Economic Plans
By the Assoeiaied Pres

PARIS, Jan. 13.-French Presi-
dent Premier Leon Blum will go to
London today by plane for a series OF
conferences with Prime Minister
Attlee on Frances economic sit.la-
ltion, Mr.. Blum's Office announced.
MIR. Blum is expected to stay in
London as Mr.. Attlee's guest two
| or three days" assistants said.
Most OF the conferences viii con-
Germ Frances pressing need for coal,
quarters close to the Premier de-
Iclared, adding that Mr.. Blum would
Iseek Britafn,s assistance In obtain
ling larger quotas Of coal from the
Hhiueland and Rill1r.
Evening star., 1947-01-13
Griffith Signs Truman
For Openiag-Doy Job

Clark Griffith today lined up
President Truman as another left
handler for the season. opening
baseball game here April IA.
Mr.. Griffith, president of the
washington baseball club, told re-
porters after calling on the Presi-
dent att he White House that Mr..
Truman had agreed to throw out
the first ball at the opening game
and promised to have his southpaw
pitching arm In good shape.
"Just signed up another left
handler" Mr.. Griffith said.
Washington will oppose the New
York Yankees in the opening game.
Evening star., 1947-01-13
Committee Fight
Threatens Ball
Closed Shop Bill
Nose-Count Indicates
Majority Of Seven
Might-O Oppose 1t
By the Assoeiaied Press

Divided Republican opinion
points today to rocky going in
the 13-man Senate Labor Com
mittee for Senator Balls pro-
posals to break up closed shops
and industry wide wage bar
gaining.
Two of the eight Republicans on
the committee, Senators Morse of
Oregon, and Aiken of Vermont have
been outspoken against steps as far
reaching as those suggested by
their Minnesota colleague.
A third Republican member,
Senator Ives of New York has never
favored an outright ban on the
closed shop, and his friends said to-
day he has not changed his view.
Senator Ives, newcomer to Capt.
tol Hill, is dean of the New York
State School OF. Industrial and La
Dor Relations at Cornell University.
Most of the other Republicans on
the committee have not declared
themselves on the two Ball pro-
posals. Harold E. Stassen, former
Minnesota Governor and an an
nounced candidate for the 1948
COP presidential nomination, told a
press conference Saturday that both
bills "go too far" Stassen is not a
member of Congress.
Democrats Support Truman.
At the same time, a group of
Democrats in the Senate aimed
their strategy more and more to-
ward carrying out the labor law
recommendations of President Tru-
man.
Senator Murray, Democrat, Of
Montana, last years chairman of
the Labor Committee, told a re-
porter "some of us" are working on
legislation designed to put into ef-
feet all the Presidents proposals of
a week ago.
These include the outlawing OF
some jurisdictional strikes and COM
pulsory settlement of disputes which
arise over interpreting existing con-
tracts.
The eight Republicans on the
Labor Committee are Taft OF Ohio,
Ball, Aiken, Morse, Ives,
Donnell Of Missouri, Jenner of In
diana and H. Alexander Smith OF
New Jersey.
The five Democrats are Murray,
Elbert Thomas of Utah, Pepper OF
Florida, Hill Of Alabama and Eli
lender of Louisiana.
Seven Would Be Majority.
Four of the Democrats, Senators
Murray, Thomas, Pepper and Hill,
have generally opposed stringent
The attitude of Senator
Ellender on the closed shop and in
dustry wide bargaining is not clear.
On any issue if four Democrats
were joined by three Republicans the
total of seven would be a majority
Of the committee.
After the committee makes its
report to the Senate proposals can
still be made during Senate debate.
q committee vote on any
question will not be binding one
way or the other, but committees
generally have strong influence.
Senator Morse, announcing that he
plans to introduce labor legisla-
tion of his own soon, struck out to-
day at the doctrine he said is in
herent in most of the Taft, Ball,
Smith labor proposals" to promote
a system of benevolent paternalism
in employer and employe relations. "
Besides his anticlosed shop and
local bargaining bill, Senator Ball
teamed with Senators Taft and
Evening star., 1947-01-13
By the Assoeioted Press

LONDON, Jan. 13.-The Labor
government used 5000 troops
and sailors today to move strike
bound food to hungry Londoners,
touching off a wave of sympathy
strikes which involved more than
1000 workers and threatened to
mushroom to gigantic proper
tionS.
Within Is minutes of the arrival
of Army personnel at Smithf1eld
Market, the city's largest meat dis
tributing center, more than 1900
employees walked off the job in sup
port of more than $4,000 truck
drivers who started an unofficial
strike last Monday and rejected
pleas OF union leaders to return to
work 4.s.a
Evening star., 1947-01-13
Man Tries Suicide
In St. Peters, Forcing
Reconsecrotion Rites
BY fhe Associated Press


VATICAN CITY, Jan. 13.--
An attempted suicide in st.
Peters today forced closing of
the worlds largest church brief
ly until it could be reconse-
Grated.
A 24-year-old Roman shot
himself in the temple with a
revolver as he stood near con-
fessional booth. He was taken
to hospital in a grave con-
dition. No reason for the at
tempt was given.
The church was reopened to
the public after the ceremonies
Of reconsecration.