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Evening star., 1947-10-30
Standard Boosts
Gas, Fuel Oil Prices

Consumers in Washington today
were paying four-tenthS OF a cent
more for gasoline at most Standard
Oil stations and eight-tenths of a
cent more for fuel oil as the result
of price increases announced by the
Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey.
Under the new rates, Standard
said, its tank wagon price for gaso-
line was three-tenths of a cent
higher. Wallace Linfoot, an ESQ
dealer and head of the Retail Case
line Dealers Association of Wash
ington, said most Standard stations
had advanced their prices four
tenths of a cent, to 22.5 cents for
regular gasoline and 24.5 cents for
high test.
Mr.. Linfoot said some other COM
panies had raised their prices a half
cent some time ago and the four
tenths of a cent raise in response
to the Standard Oil increase was
to equalize retail prices here. He
made it clear the association itself
was taking no action.
The new retail price for fuel oil
is 10.9 cents a gallon as a result of
the eight-tenths of a cent increase
There was an equal increase an
nounced by Standard for kerosene
and Diesel oil.
The high prices were attributed
by Standard to a recent 20-cent-a-
barrel increase in crude oil prices
and to higher freight rates.
Evening star., 1947-10-30
New Medical Substance Kills
Typhus, Other Deadly Germs
Ch|oromyeetn Effective on Spotted Fever,
Parrot Fever and One FiIteroble Virus

Parke, Davis Co. of Detroit and
tested on egg embryos and infected
mice at the Army Medical Center
here by Drs. j. E. Smadel and E. B
Jackson.
1t has proved effective against
the rickettsia responsible for scrub
typhus, ordinary typhus, marine
typhus, spotted fever and the newly
discovered ricksettial pox and
against psittocosis, or parrot fever,
which is caused by fllterable virus.
The experiments are so conclusive,
DR.. Smadel reports, that the sub
stance probably will be valuable in
treatment of human cases.
This may open the doors to treat
ment of the rickettsial and virus
diseases with a group of new anti
biotics as bacterial diseases now are
treated with penicillin, streptomycin
and the sulpha drugs. The maladies
mentioned are among the greatest
scourges of the human race.
In only one previous case, ss yet
unpublished, has any antibiotic been
1See HENRY. Page A-6.)
Evening star., 1947-10-30
Krug Collapse Halls
Talk on Reclamation
By the Assoeioted Press

PHOENIX, Ariz., Oct 30.-Secre-
tary of the Interior Krug became i'll
today while delivering a speech be-
fore the National Reclamation As
sociation and was unable to continue
He was taken to his hotel room
and physician was called.
Robert w. Sawyer, president of the
association, finished Mr.. Krugs
speech, reading from manuscript
Members of the Secretary's party
said fatigue probably caused his ILL
ness. They said his condition was
not serious.
He was scheduled to leave by
plane today for Washington but
the fight was cancelled.
William E. Warne, Assistant Sec
retary of the interior, reported that
the physician had described Mr..
Krug's collapse "a fainting spell
brought on by exhaustion"
Mr.. Warne said Mr.. Krug would
have to remain in Phoenix for sew
eral days of rest.
Mr.. Krug has Travelled extensively
during the last several months.
In his speech Mr. Krug proposed
a seven-year reclamation construc-
ton program costing $2,148, ,000, 900.
Also a message from President
Truman had stressed the need for
long-range planning in reclamation
work.
Evening star., 1947-10-30
Oregon Search Party
Finds Plane Wreckaqe
And Governor S Body
Two Other Top Officials
And Pilot Also Killed
In Demolished Craft
BY the A Led Press

KLAMATH FALLS, Greg, Oct
30.-The wreckage of a plane
carrying Gov. Earl Smell of Ore
gon and two other top officials
and the pilot was reached by a
search party today and there
were no survivors, Fremont For
est Supervisor Merle Lowden said
today.
Mr.. Lowden said that Ranger
Jack Smith, with the party at the
wreckage, reported by portable radio
that the aircraft was completely
demolished and four bodies were
found.
Mr.. Lowden said that an attempt
would be made Immediately to es-
tablish further communication with
the crew. He said he believed the
bodies are now being moved out.
The shattered wreckage was
sighted and identified late yesterday
by two civilian pilots who reported
the small craft was 80 damaged
that no one could be alive"
The party left here Tuesday
night on one-hour flight to Lake
County's Warner Valley to hunt
ducks and geese.
Speaker Next in Line.
Aboard the single -engine, four
place sports plane were Gov. Smell
3d. State Senate President Mar
shall Cornett, 40, next in line OF
succession to the governorship;
Secretary of State Robert S. Farrell
jr, Al, and Cliff Hogue, AZ, klamath
Falls, the pilot.
The search was centered in a
small sector of heavy timbered ter
rain in the Rim Rock country 70
miles east of here and few miles
north of the Oregon-California
border.
The Forest Service established
headquarters at the Dog Lake
guard station, approximately 4 miles
east Of the scene of the crash
Searchers criss-crossed the imme-
diate area all night, but failed to
find the plane because of the dark
ness and the density of the forest
Confirmation of the death of the
Governor and his normal successor
the Senate president, automatically
1See GOVERNOR. Page A-6.)-
Evening star., 1947-10-30
Marshall Works Fast
To Draft Final Plan
For European Aid
Will Submit Program
To Capitol Before Leaving
For London Next Month
BY the Associated Press

Secretary of State Marshall
returns to his desk today to take
a leading role in shaping final
recommendations to Congress
for a four-year European recov-
cry program that may cost up to
$4,000, 100000.
The program he and other top
administration officials are due to
turn out within the next week is
expected to be laid before congress
sional committees November 10
with the argument that it offers a
reasonable" chance of Cd saving
Europe from economic disaster and
co preventing a vast westward ex-
tension of Russian Communism.
Gen. Marshall returned late yes
terday from New York, where he
has made his headquarters for the
past six weeks personally directing
the American diplomatic offensive
in the United Nations Assembly.
Leaves for London Soon.
He is scheduled to remain here
until mid November, when he will
leave for London and the Big Four
Foreign Ministers Conference on a
German peace treaty.
Officials said that despite Gen.
Marshall's close attention to United
Nations affairs in New York, he has
kept himself fully informed of
European recovery planning here
along the self-help lines he himself
suggested last June. Hence, they
say, he is ready to move into the
tasks of the next few days of de-
cision at full speed.
The department faces a tight
schedule. Tomorrow, those handling
the plan will hand the Budget Bu-
reau the special request to be made
of Congress by President Truman
for S642 100000 in stop-gap aid this
winter to France and Italy. 1t is
separate from the Marshall long
range plan.
Outlines Visible Now.
Actually, diplomatic and economic
officials say that while almost no
final decisions have been made, the
broad outlines of the Marshall plan
already are we'll laid down. In gen.
eral and subject to last-minute
changes, they cover these main
points to be laid before Congress
when the special session opens No
vember IT:
l. The United States would make
available to Europe next year a
combination of relief and recovery
(See FOREIGN AID, Page A-6)
Evening star., 1947-10-30
Hungarian Statement Due
On Arrest Of AP Secretary
by the Assocjoted Press

BUDAPEST, Oct. 30.-LasZlo
Rajk. Communist Interior Minister,
promised to issue a statement today
concerning the arrest and interroga-
ton of Miss Elizabeth Pallos, secre-
tary in the Associated Press Office in
Budapest who has been held by
Hungarian authorities since Mon
day.
An American Legation official said
last night that Communist Foreign
Minister Erik Molnar's secretary was
most unco-operative' when the
Legation phoned to ask when Amer
ican officials could interview Miss
Pallos-an American citizen.
Previously the Legation had sent
notice to the Hungarian Foreign
Ministry demanding the right to
interview Miss Pallos under terms
of existing treaties.
Hungarian police refused to state
where or on what charges Miss
Pallos was being held.
Evening star., 1947-10-30
Five Masked Bandits
Get $4,000 Payroll
Al Plant in Boston
Sixth Man Waits in Car
At Westinghouse Corp.
To Make Getaway
By the !. cioted Press

BOSTON, Oct. 80. = Five
masked bandits held up a fac
tory office today and took a
$4,000 payroll.
The men, two of them armed with
sawed-off shotguns, walked into the
office of the Sturtevant division OF
Westinghouse Electric Corp. in Hyde
Park only IS minutes after an
armored truck delivered the money
in small bills.
When some of the Office workers
indicated they thought it a prank,
one of the robbers shouted men
acingly: This is no Halloween
party" -.
They escaped in a large sedan in
which a sixth member of the band
waited at the wheel.
Dressed in OverallS.
Dressed in overalls, the men en-
tered the plant grounds unnoticed
among workmen arriving for the
day.
During the holdup, one of the
bandits wore a gunnysack over his
head, two had harlequin masks over
the upper parts of their faces. The
others had makeshift masks.
Two of the men went directly to
the switchboard. ordering two tele-
phone operators away from their
places.
One of them broke all connec-
tions and herded the operators into
the main Office, where 20 employees
were ordered to lie down with their
faces to the floor
Two other bandits went directly
to a large vault, where Paymaster
'R. w. Marshall and five employees
sat around a table, just beginning
to count the money for the pay
envelopes of 1000 employees.
Money Put in Bag.
Mr.. Marshall and his aids were
forced to stand, facing a wall, while
the men pushed the money into a
bag.
The fifth bandit, meanwhile, went
to the main entran,, where he
knocked down John Cheever, 81, a
special police guard, with a blow
in the face
One of the bandits in the main
Office said:
I'VE don't want to hurt anybody
all we went is the cabbage
In the vault, the bandits an
nounced this is stickup, stand
with your faces to the wall"
The bandits left behind ali un-
determined amount of money in
silver which was delivered with the
bills for the payroll.
Police Commissioner Thomas F.
Sullivan described the holdup as the
biggest and boldest'' in Boston
police records,
Evening star., 1947-10-30
Postwar TotaIitarianism
Denounced by Pope Plus
By the Assoeiofed Press

VATICAN CITY, Oct. 30.-Pope
Plus XII today denounced postwar
totalitarianism which he said sought
to submit church to state, although
he declared it an error to believe the
two could be entirely separate
The pontif addressed members of
the sacred Roman Rota, one of the
three highest ecclesiastical courts
calling on him at the Castel Gan
dolfo summer residence at the start
of their work year.
The same arguments which the
tyrannical governments of yester-
day adduced against the church ir
its fight for the defense of divine
rights and of just dignity and hui
man liberty today are used by new
rulers to combat her persevering ac-
ton in behalf of truth and justice,
he said.
Evening star., 1947-10-30
u. S. Is Firing More Veterans
Than 1t Hires, Rees Charges
Former Sevicemen Feel Brunt Of Cuts
In Federal Agencies, Chairman Asserts

Chairman Rees of the House Civil
Service Committee said today the
Government is firing more war vet
Grams than it is hiring, although
such Federal employees were prom
ised and have every right to job
security"
The Kansan said that during the
first nine months of this year 270,-
OIL veterans have lost their jobs
with the Government. During the
same period, 21,425 veterans, or
48 ,586 fewer, we're hired. he said.
Veterans who were promised and
have every right to expect job Sc
curity are feeling the full brunt
of the reduction n-force programs
of the agencies Mr. Rees said. I'm
September alone 34,897 veterans
were separated from the Federal
service, while only 26,390 veterans
were employed"
Despite the heavy dismissals of
veterans, Mr.. Rees said. 8l8,840 war
service and temporary employees re-
manned on the Federal payroll at
the end of September.
Evening star., 1947-10-30

At the same time. Mr.. Rees
charged that the Civil Service Com
mission is making little progress"
in its campaign to find jobs for
displaced career employees. The
commission recently announced a
new program to find jobs for per-
manent-status persons.
Meanwhile, Senator Byrd, Demo-
crat, of Virginia, today asked Secre-
tary of Defense Forrestal to ex-
plain an increase in civilian en-
ployment by the Army Depart
ment, which he said was counter to
the trend in other Government
agencies.
Senator Byrd, who heads the
Joint Congressional Committee on
Non Essential Federal Expenditures,
said that 1925 civilian employees
were added to the Army Depart
ment in September to boost it's
total to 495, 5,227, with most of the
increases in the technical services
and civil functions. He noted that
the Navy Department had continued
it's reduction in civilian personnel
Evening star., 1947-10-30
New|nquestto Be Hello
Next "Wednesday in
Bunch Death Case
Deputy Coroner Agrees
To Foy's Request to
Hear New Evidence

Deputy Coroner christopher
J. Murphy today called new in
quest to hear additional evidence
concerning the death of John
Forrest Bunch, 64-year-old car
penter who died in Gallinger
Hospital last August 4.
DR.. Murphy announced the in
quest would be held next Wednes-
day, beginning at 10 am. He said it
had been requested by United States
Attorney George Morris Fay in a
letter to Coroner A. Magruder Mac
Donald.
Attorney General Clark mean
while told a press conference that
the Justice Department has "about
completed" it's investigation into the
Bunch case.
1.-THE criminal division is now con-
sidering it," he said, adding that the
Federal Bureau of Investigation has
completed its inquiry.
The cabinet officer refused tc
comment on the contents of the FB1
report, indicating that would be
improper at this time.
Limited to New Evidence.
In regard to the new Bunch in
quest, Deputy Coroner Murphy, who
presided at the first inquest, when
jury decided Mr.. Bunch died acci-
dentally. said he also would conduct
the new hearing and the same cor
oner's jury would sit.
DR.. Murphy pointed out to re-
porters he had stated after the first
inquest that the case was closed as
far as the coroner's Office was con-
cerned. He explained, however, he
concurred with Mr.. Fay as to the
advisability of further hearing tc
present evidence turned up by the
several Investigations conducted
since the first death verdict.
DR.. Murphy said the inquest
Wednesday would be confined tc
the new and additional evidence
mentioned in Mr.. Fay's letter. He
said the witnesses called at the
initial hearing would not be heard
except as further testimony by them
appeared advisable in the light OF
the new data.
New Evidence Not Disclosed.
In replying by letter to Mr.. Fay
on behalf of the coroner, DR.. Muir
ply wrote that his Office will be
most willing to cooperate with the
Office of the district attorney and
all the investigating agencies named
in your communication and will
reopen this case and have presented
to the same jury the newly discov-
cred evidence"
Mr.. Fay had been requested by
the Commissioners last week to in
vestigate the death of Mr. Bunch
and to present all evidence to the
grand jury.
In deciding to ask reopening OF
the case by the coroner, however
Mr.. Fay indicated he felt whatever
further was done should be done IN
public, as at a coroners inquest,
rather than in the secret grand jury
procedure.
Mr.. Fay did not mention any
specific item of new evidence, but
called attention to the three investi-
cations made since the case pre-
sumably was closed by the verdict
of the coroner's jury.
Three Groups Investigating.
The three independent inquiries
include:
l. Mr.. Fay's study, initiated after
lSee RIINCH Page AL
Evening star., 1947-10-30
Philippine Vessel
Sinking in Typhoon
BY the Associated Press

MANILA, Oct 30.-Towering seas
whipped by the winds of typhoon
frustrated attempts today to rescue
26 crewmen and one or more
passengers from the stricken motor
ship FS-277, in distress in Butuan
Bay in the Mindanao Sea.
The FS-362 reported this after
noon that the 27o-ton interisland
freighter was "in a sinking condi-
ton very close off shore" Ahead
of the distressed vessel lay the
rocky cliffs of Mount Tubay, in
Northern Minadanao.
The FS-362, in a message inter-
cepted by Globe Wireless, said it
had been forced to give up rescue
attempts and seek shelter because
of the violent seas.
Evening star., 1947-10-30
Philippines Ask a Billion
As japanese War Claim
BY the Associated Press

MANILA, Oct. 30.-The Philip
pines government has entered a
$4, 1873, ,675, PA claim against Japan
for war indemnity, the Evening
News said today.
The newspaper quoted high
government source as saying the
claim was filed with the Far East
ern Commission in Washington by
Brig. Gen. Carlos P. Romulo, the
commissions Philippine member.
Evening star., 1947-10-30
By Thomos R. Henry

The first substance-an anti
biotic of the type of penicillin
and streptomycin-which is ef-
fective against a great family of
microscopic organisms RESPONSE
BILE for some of the worst human
diseases was announced here
today.
1t may constitute one of the most
significant medical developments OF
this generation.
This material, chloromycetin, has
proved effective eXperimentally
against the type of micro-organisms
known as rickettsia, responsible for
typhus and a host of other maladies
and against one filterable virus.
It was obtained from a minute
organism closely related to that
from which streptomycin was Sc
cured, found in a mulched field near
Caracas, Venezuela, and isolated by
DR.. Paul r. Burkholder OF Yale
University.
The drug was developed by the
Evening star., 1947-10-30
Bavarian Leader Abandons
Red Party After II Years
BY the Associated Press

MUNICH, Germany. Oct. 30
Heinrich Schmitt, first Bavarian
Minister of Denazification, said to-
day he had broken with the Com
munist Party after q years of men,
bership.
II Cancelled my membership be-
cause I am opposed to the idea OF
implsnting Russian conditions In
Germany" he told an interviewer.
II am and I always shall be a
Marxist, but ( am not a stubborn
dogmatist, and I think what is good
for Russia is not necessarily good
for other countries"
Mr.. schmitt spent IL years in a
Nazi concentration camp.
Evening star., 1947-10-30
U.S., British Ships Collide
In English Channel Fog
By the Associated Press

LONDON, Oct. 30.-The Liberty
ship Billings Victory, owned by the
United States Maritime Commission,
and the 500-ton British steamer
Warren Chawe collided in Q thick
fog in the English Channel today.
Both were slightly damaged but
continued on their way. There were
no casualties. The Billings Victory
was bound for Southampton from
Sweden.
The fog paralyzed shipping in the
port of London, slowed traffic in
parts of London and delayed air
planes at Northolt Airport.
Evening star., 1947-10-30
Witness Called
10 Tell Inquiry
OF Red Spying
Jackson, Committee
Investigator, Begins
Surprise Testimony
BULLETIN

The House Committee on
Un-American Activities this
afternoon called Louis j. Rus
sell, a committee investigator,
as it's surprise witness" to ex-
pose what Chairman Thomas
has called Communist atom
bomb espionage"
A refugee playwright's firm
assertion to the House Commit
tee on Un-American Activities
today that he was not Commu-
mist climaXed a session in which
the committee recommended
that two more Hollywood writer's
be cited for contempt of Con-
gress.
The German refugee playwright
was Berthold Brecht, who told in
halting English the story of his
fight from naziism, resisted the
committee investigators efforts to
link him with communism and re-
ferred to Hams Eisler as IAN old
friend Eisler, Hollywood compos-
er, has been charged by the COM
mittee with being Communist.
Latest to face contempt action
.or avoiding questions as to their
reported Communist Affiliations
were:
Ring Lardner, jr., son of the late
noted writer, who left the stand
declaring he could answer the COM
mittee's 1864 question" but if he
did I'D hate myself in the morn
ing"
Lester Cole, another screen writ
er, whose appearance was briefer
but ended in the same way as had
Mr.. Lardner's.
Witness Called Good Example"
Committee Investigator Louis j.
Russell testified that both Mr.. Cole
and Mr.. Lardner had held Com
munist Party cards.
In contrast with the two witnesses
who preceded him, Mr.. Brecht oc-
cupied the witness stand for nearly
an hour and left with the thanks
of Chairman Thomas, who told him
he was good example to the other
witnesses" and to attorneys for l9
of them-Robert w. Kenny and
BARLEY c. Crum.
Chewing vigorously on long
cigar, Mr.. Brecht asked for the
services of an interpreter. David
Baumgardt of the Library of Con-
gress was sworn in for that duty,
but Mr.. Brecht asked his help only
on an occasional word.
When Chief Investigator Robert
E. STRIPPING asked him if he had
ever been a member of the Com
munist Party in any country, Mr..
Brecht asked first to read his state
ment. When Mr. Thomas termed
the statement "a very interesting
story of German life, but not at all
pertinent to this inquiry" Mr..
Brecht took the refusal with a phil
osophical shrug.
Refreshing" Testimony.
He SAID ne haQ nearQ his COL
leagues-those recommended for
contempt citationsAsay they con-
sidered the question should not be
asked, but he said with some dig
nity:
II am a guest in this country and
don't want to enter into any legal
arguments, so 1 will answer the
question. I was not and am not
a member OF any Communist Party
There was a long pause. Then
Mr.. Thomas observed: well, that's
refreshing"
Mr.. STRIPPING, in his questioning.
had brought out that Mr.. Brecht
came to this country in 1941 on
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