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Evening star., 1947-01-31
Methodists to Set Aside
Day for Signing Pledge
BY The Assoeiotsd Press

CHICAGO, Jan. 31.-The Board
of Temperance Of the Methodist
Church yesterday voted to set aside
the first Sunday in Lent of 1948 as
commitment day, on which all
Methodists, including more than
8 900, 900 in the United States, will
be asked to sign pledges of total
abstinence from alcoholic beverages.
A report prepared for the board
by fact finding committee headed
by D. Stewart Patterson of Wash
ington asked for preparation of
textbooks on the "evils of hquor"
for use in public schools.
Evening star., 1947-01-31
Policeman Without Gun
Dies Fighting 3 Bandits
By the Assoeiuted Press

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. s1.-An
unarmed policeman of duty was
shot and killed last night as he at
tempted to halt the escape Of three
masked men who terrorized a
crowded market and took several
hundred dollars, police reported.
The policeman. Cecil Ingling, was
shot in front of the market before
the eyes of his wife Ellen, IS, and
their two children.
The three men fled after fierce
gun battle with three other police
men, but one was captured after a
2-mile chase.
Evening star., 1947-01-31
Two Marines Burned
In Guom Barracks Fire
By the Associated Press

PEARL HARBOR, Jan. 31.-Two
United States Marines were burned,
one seriously, in q fire last night
at the Marine barracks on Guam,
headquarters of the Fleet Marine
Forces of the Pacific said last
night.
A Miami (Fla) private, whose
name was withheld, suffered first,
second and third degree burns.
Pfc. James Carl Lewis. jr., Ports
mouth, Va, suffered second and
third degree burns, but was re-
ported doing well at the naval hos-
pitaI No further details were avail
able here.
Evening star., 1947-01-31
Chapter Thot Pledged
.CoIored Girl Disbunds
Rx the A,saeiatsd Press

BURLINGTON, VT, Jan. 31.-A
year-long controversy between the
University of Vermont Alpha XI
Delta Sorority and its Washington
national Office, involving the pledg-
ing of colored student, came to an
end last night when the local unit
passed into an inactive status.
The deadlock began a year ago
when the Vermont chapter made
plans to pledge and initiate Miss
Crystal Malone. The national chap
ter placed the local group on pro-
baton at that time.
The inactive status Of the YER
mont chapter Of the sorority came
to light this week when its mem
bers did not take part in rushing
activities, designed to recruit new
members.
Evening star., 1947-01-31
Msqr. O'Horo Arrives
AT Bucharest Post
By the Associofed Press

BUCHAREST. Romania, Jan. 81.
-Msgr. Gerald P. OHara, Bishop
of Savannah-Atlanta, has arrived
here from Vienna by plane to take
over the post of regent of the apos-
tolic nunciature In Romania.
Msgr. O'Hara had waited more
than six months for the Allied Con-
troll Commission in Bucharest to
grant him an entry permit so he
could assume the position assigned
hin, by the Vatican.
Evening star., 1947-01-31

Norwegian coast and approaches to
German-held ports, the admiral
said.
In one document, Admiral Raedei
reported that Hitler described ou1
own Navy as but a copy Of the
British and q very poor one at that.
Subsequently, Hitler, while await
ing a report on what turned out to
be an unsuccessful operation of the
German cruiser force against an Al
lied convoy, became impatient when
he could not get any reports Of its
success and spoke of the useless
ness of the big ships" Hitler then
and there decided to dispose of the
high seas fleet, according to Raeder
The high naval command con-
tended that after Dunkerque and
Compiegne there should have been
a large-scale reduction of military
operations and an extensive devel-
opment of the navy and Luftwaffe
for q vigorous prosecution OF the
war against England.
On every vital issue, they said
the naval war staff was able tc
assess the position accurately, but
was unable to defect the supreme
command from its own policy.
Admiral Doenitz said that once
Germany was committed to wal
her whole naval effort was directed
against British shipping and sea
communications. If this failed tc
achieve decisive results, then Ger
many's defeat became inevitable
He said failure to invade England
was due to the inability of the Ger
man Navy to maintain even local
and temporary command of the sea
in the invasion area and the inabil-
ity of the Luftwaffe to obtain COM
plete air supremacy.
Evening star., 1947-01-31

.Steffen, Chevy Chase; Attendance,
Miss Elizabeth Gilliland, Chevy
Chase, and Mrs. Ruth Bond, Poto-
mac; Transportation, Mrs. Morti-
mer Barkley, Brookmont; Publicity,
Mrs. Einar B. Christensen and Mrs
Toynley Gamble, Silver Spring;
Ways and Means, Mrs. Loretta
Collier. Silver Spring; Hospitality,
Mrs. Burrell Marsh, Chevy Chase
Evening star., 1947-01-31

The Travel Association of Great
Britain has launched at'Come to
Britain" drive for 1947.
Evening star., 1947-09-28
ArmedVictorious;;
Maryland Wins;
GU and CIV Bow

College football crowded the wan
ing baseball season into the back
ground yesterday. but had to share
the spotlight with horse racing.
Armed whipped Assault by six
lengths in their "race-of-the-year'
for a 100000 purse before crowd
of 51,573 at Belmont Park.
At least a half dozen nationally
prominent elevens found themselves
among the beaten. In the group was
Navy, which took a 14-7 drubbing
from California. Maryland upset
South Carolina, 1913, but George
Washington was overpowered by
Virginia, 1913. and Georgetown lost
to Wake Forest last night, 6 to 0.
Army with only three veterans
back from it's 1916 team, beat VIII
lanova. 1870 North Carolina, beaten
by Georgia in the Sugar Bowl last
January. rallied to hand the Bull
dogs a 14-7 setback. One of the
days biggest surprises was Vander-
bilt's 30 victory over Northwestern.
In another upset, L. S. U. scored
twice in the last quarter to beat
Rice, ri to IA.
On the baseball front here Ted
williams cracked out his 32d homer
of the season as the Boston Red
Sox routed the Nationals 81. Stan
Spence's round-tripper saved the
Mats from a whitewash. "Details
in Sports Section.)
Evening star., 1947-09-28
(See FOOD, Page AS.
French Line Is Blamed
For Texas City Blast
BY the Associoted Press

The Coast Guard yesterday rec
commended that operators of the
French vessel Grandcamp. which
caught fire and blew up at Texas
City last April, be cited to the
Attorney General for alleged vio-
lation of regulations covering ship
ment of explosives or "other dan
gerous articles
The Coast Guard previously had
Identified the French Government
as owner of the ship and the
French Line as operators.
The fire was attributed by the
Coast Guard to probable unauthor-
lied smoking in the hold of the
vessel while it was being loaded
with bags of ammonium nitrate
fertilizer.
In the series of explosions which
followed the fire, nearly 500 lives
we're lost. Heavy damage was in
fiicted in Texas City.
Besides recommending that op-
orators of the Grandcamp be cited
for allegedly failing to report dam
aged bags Of fertilizer, the Coast
Guard also suggested that action
be taken by the Attorney General
looking toward assessment of pen
alties against the ocean shipper OF
the fertilizer. This would be or
the stated grounds that the vessels
operator was not notified in advance
of the nature of the cargo tc be
handled. The shipper was not iden-
tilted.
Evening star., 1947-09-28
What theRussions
Are Saying of Us:

The Moscou radio, broadcdstin,
In Czech and SloUak last Ueek t,
Europe, said:
THE entire economic policy
of the British and Americans is
&to conceal their real intention
under false phrases about the
need to maintain German econ
omy for the reconstruction of
war-ravaged European countries,
and render deliveries to the So
Wet Union and other countries
impossible, thus violating the
p Crimean and Potsdam agree
ments concerning the economic
disarmament of Germany and
reparations to countries suffer-
ing from Hitler's aggression.
American expansionists spec
ulate with the difficulties that are
being experienced by the coun-
tries of Western Europe, and
stubbornly fulfill Truman's doc
trine which is based on the
endeavors of United States capi-
talist monopolies to achieve world
domination"
Evening star., 1947-09-28
District Goes Back
To Standard Time

The District, along with other
parts of the Nation where Daylight
Saving Time had been in effect,
went back to Standard Time at
2 am. today.
Many commercial and Office build
ing clocks probably will not be cor
rected until workers reset them to-
morrow morning. The majority of
the Offices were closed Saturday.
Any confusion that may result
from shifting the time probably will
come tonight and tomorrow when
the public begins to meet train. bus
and airline schedules or tune in on
favorite radio programs.
Railroads and airlines which set
their schedules last summer to meet
the convenience of customers al
though on paper they quoted stand
ard time, are shutting their time
tables again.
The buslines, which maintained
standard time, will generally ad-
here to their present schedules.
Greyhound, however, announced
that its Annapolis trips, which have
operated on daylight time, will 60
over to standard time to accommo-
date commuters to Landover Hills
and other points between here and
Annapolis.
Radio stations reported that most
programs would go on at regular
times. They urged the public, how
ever, to consult newspaper radio
schedules.
Evening star., 1947-09-28
picture on Page A-6.)
By the AssocIofed Press

TRIESTE, Sept. 27.-Three United
States soldiers in Yugoslav captivity
since Monday returned to the free
territory unscathed tonight, riding
their own horses and followed by
their big black mongrel mascot, Tiny.
They said they had been well treat
ed.
The men were First 1t. William
van Atten of East Orange, N. j.;
Pfc. Earl c. Hendrick, jr., of 1929
Sixteenth street South, Arlington
Va, and Pfc. Glen A. Meyer, OF
Edgerley, N. d.
They rode back to outpost No.
on the territorial border. where they
had been captured Monday, from
the Yugoslav village of Vipaco
about Is miles from Trieste. They
were given an immediate physical
check in an ambulance, hurried to
the outpost and then were brought
here for interrogation.
In a short interview, the lieutenant
said the Yugoslavs treated them
| well, took no personal belongings
and questioned them only twice. He
Evening star., 1947-09-28
Massachusetts Chairman
To Back McGranery
By the Asxo.joted Press

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 27-John
Cahill, Democratic State chairman
of Massachusetts,, said here tonight
he will lead a campaign in the
Democratic National Committee to
elect Federal Judge James j. Nc
Granery, of Philadelphia, Demo-
cratic National chairman as the
successor to Robert E. Hannegan.
Mr.. Cahill, declining to name any
national committee members who
would support Judge McGranery,
said he knows of great many"
He stipulated that he was not OPP
posed to Senator McGrath, of Rhode
Island, whom he described as "an
able, active and militant Democrat.
Judge McGranery, formerly a
special assistant to the United
States attorney general and for 10
years a member of Congress, has
agreed to resign if he Is named
party chairman, Mr.. Cahill said,
adding:
II understand he has been asked
by the president If he would accept
the post"
Evening star., 1947-09-28
Flanders Sees Prices Causing
Undernourishment in Bio Cities

that soaring food prices caused such
undernourishment.
The wage advances that have been
made go largely to those who al
ready were getting relative high
wages, the Senator said, adding that
these higher wage level workers
usually are found in fields where
unions are strongly organized.
Il think there is evidence that
white-collar workers and low-sal-
aried job holders are hurt each time
the upper level groups win a new
wage advance" he said. These ad-
vances often are at the expense of
the low-wage earners."
Previously Senator Flanders sug-
gested that the best relief for low
salaried groups would be increased
food production and stability OF
food prices. Il also favor an in
crease in the present Federal mini
mum wage law" he said, but have
not decided just how much"
The present law fixes minimum
hourly wages at 40 cents or SIS for
a 40-hour week.
Evening star., 1947-09-28
District Guard Budqe
Asks S2,5o0,o00 for
Airfie|d' Of lis Own
Increase of 391 % Over
'48 Sought for Units
Operating Expenses

The District National Guard,
having been told by the Army
that it cannot continue indefi-
nitely to keep its air units at An
drews Field, is asking the Dis
trict taxpayers for $2,500,000 to
spend in the fiscal year 1949 on
an airfield of its own.
For the local guard units oper-
ating expenses, Brig. Gen. Albert
L. Cox seeks 1887 ,O37. This is an
increase of 391 per cent over the
$68, 900 on which the Guard is
operating in the current fiscal year,
in which no money is being spent
on capital outlay. Most of this
operating increase results from the
units occupation last spring of the
new Armory at Nineteenth and B
streets Sc.
The airport plan, however, brings
the total appropriation request to
40 times the amount being spent
this year.
AS they viewed the scheme against
the chilling background of next
years total budget estimate of some
$144 1000, 900, District officials pri-
vately expressed the view that the
request could not be granted.
Assuming the $2,S00,000 were
available yesterday as to what the
airport might be expected to cost
by the time it was completed. Next
years appropriation request is only
for buying the land and starting
construction.
Gen. Cox, in his request, contem-
plates the possibility that the air.
port eventually may be established
in combination and cooperation
with other District of Columbia,
Federal, State. county ard other
agencies which may have an in
terest therin."
Gen. Cox was not available for
comment last night, but Col. Pey-
ton Nevitt, adjutant general of the
Guard, said it was felt such field
(See BUDGET. Page A-51
Evening star., 1947-09-28
BY the Associated Press

Senator Flanders, Republican, OF
Vermont, said yesterday food prices
have climbed so high in New York
City and other large metropolitan
areas that some white collar work
ers and low-salaried job holders are
seriously undernourished."
Senator Flanders has been direct
ing two weeks of public hearings by
a Senate-House subcommittee in
vestigating high costs Of food and
clothing in New York and other
cities.
1T is my personal opinion that
there is a submerged population in
New York City and some other large
cities" Senator Flanders said.
He defined submerged popula-
ton" as those persons whose family
incomes have not kept pace with the
rise in the cost of living.
Senator Flanders said data from
welfare agencies, hospitals and other
sources in the larger cities disclosed
Evening star., 1947-09-28
Mercury's Drop to Record Low
Endongers Maryland Crops
District Chilled With New Minimum Mark
Of 80 Forecast for This Morning

tomato and corn crops were ready
to be written off as almost a total
loss unless the weather gets warmer
in a hurry.
Near Hagerstown the frost was re-
ported so thick a rabbit could be
tracked in the white covering. Tenn
peratures were Is in Hagerstown
and 80 in Cumberland, but the %
degrees in the mountain counties
made almost certain the loss of the
tomato crop in that area. Balti-
more's Al was only two degrees
above the all-time September low
The cold snap was widespread.
The threat to the corn crop in the
Midwest was lessened yesterday
somewhat by cloudy skies and
slowly mounting temperatures, but
the Northeast States received a new
forecast Of freezing weather. The
first snow of the season fell in Sara
mac Lake in Northern New York.
For the District the forecast for
Sunday was clear and cool, with an
afternoon high OF IS, and gentle
northerly winds.
Evening star., 1947-09-28
Well Treated, 5 u. S. Soldiers
Say After Release by YugosIuvs

said their only complaint was bed
bugs.
He reported the only explanation
the Yugoslavs gave for their cap
ture at gunpoint was that they had
stepped over the line" 1t. Van
Atten said he still believed he was
on his side of the frontier at the
time He gave this account of the
groups experiences:
The three were held the first two
days in Goriano near the border.
and then, because there was no place
to shelter their horses there, were
taken to Vipaco. They were allow
ed to exercise daily under light
guard.
The Yugoslavs fed their dog and
gave them the same food as Yugo-
slav soldiers-a loaf of bread per
man every day. sauerkraut mixed
with flour paste, soup and coffee.
They also got Yugoslav cigarettes,
and liked them.
Before turning them loose, the
Yugoslavs gave them two loaves OF
bread and a generous supply of
cigarettes. Their horseback ride
fro-n Vipaco took two hours, the
lier tenant said.
Evening star., 1947-09-28
US. .ScienceMustGear
For War, Truman Told
In SteeIman Report
Nearly GA Million
Spent for Research
In Lost Fiscal Yeor
By Joseph A. Fox

American science must gear
for war, President Truman was
told yesterday.
In a report showing expendi-
lures in the last fiscal year of
$623, 100000 by the Federal Gov
ernment, for research and de-
velopment, John R. Steelman,
assistant to the President head
ing the Presidents Scientific Re-
search Board, said:
The armed forces are relying
heavily upon research and develop
ment as a vital adjunct to forces
in being. This choice, together with
the uneasy world situation, makes
effective prosecution of the programs
a matter of extreme national con-
Germ"
Atomic-powered aircraft is one
scientific goal.
The Steelman report was the sec
ond in a series of five covering the
general topic of Science and Public
Policy"
Covers Wide Scope.
1t is factual account of the re-
search activities of 16 Government
agencies, whose scope, as Mr.. Tru-
man explained in an accompanying
statement extends from the de-
velopment of guided missiles, rockets
and other military devices to the
control of soil erosion and the
development of disease-resistant
plants.
These programs, the President
said, vital to the people. cannot
profltably be undertaken by private
industry or agriculture.
OF last years expenditures, $40
000, ,000-or 80 per cent of the total
went to the work of the Navy and
War Departments and excluded
atomic expenditures, including those
of the Atomic Energy Commission
The report said that the Govern
ment has an investment of about
$4,000, 100000, including production
plants, in atomics, and that the
number of persons working on
atomic projects had dropped from
wartime peak of 100000 to Al SOC
last June l.
While the report placed emphasis
on military research, security rea-
sons prompted omission of many
details.
Armed Forces Alert.
'The armed forces are takine
more interest than ever before II
basic researt h. it said. There is 6
sharp awareness in all branches O.
the armed forces that new weapons
as contrasted with notifications ot
existing weapons, must be based or
fundamental exploration at the
boundaries of scientific knowledge
In fact, much O. the basic knowledge
necessary for the development o.
(See SCTENCE pooe A7N
Evening star., 1947-09-28
Manager Of Grocery
Is Robbed Of $1,000
In View Of Customers
HoIdup Man Threads
Way Through Crowd
In Store and Escapes

A shabby bandit robbed a
Northeast Washington grocery
manager of about $4,000 at gun
point yesterday afternoon with
in view of more than so custom
erS and clerks.
The Acme chain store at 1881 F
street NE. was crowded with shop
ping housewives in the usual Satur-
day rush at 4:25 pm, witnesses told
police, when the robber walked in,
threaded his way through the Gus
toners and clerks to the stores
Office where he committed the hold
up.
In the rear of the store, he walked
up to mezzanine Office where the
manager, Francis Feagan, AZ. of 1910
D street Sc, was counting the days
receipts preparatory to depositing
the money in a bank.
Mr.. Feagan said the bandit showed
a AS caliber pistol at him and
growled:
You don't want to die, do you?"
mol" the manager said he re-
piled.
We'll, keep quiet then" the bandit
commanded.
The holdup man then scooped up
the bills. stuffed them into his
pocket and calmly walked back
through the store and out the front
door.
Late last night a wide police
search was under way for him after
several customers described him. He
was said to be about 81 to 40 years
old, feet 8 inches TALL 100 to 200
pounds, unshaven, wearing a tan
cap, tan coat and dark trousers.
Policeman Oscar Rehbein, of the
Ninth Precinct, said Mr.. Feagan
began to shout and gave the alarm
as soon as the bandit had cleared the
front door.
Evening star., 1947-09-28

The District woke up chilled
today, as Maryland farmers, in
freezing temperatures, hoped for
a respite before their crops be-
came a total loss.
At midnight the Weather Bureau
forecast a drop to 80 before day
break, which would be three degrees
lower than the record low for Sep
tember %. The previous record of
~ was first established in 1889, and
repeated in 1898 and 1918. The 80
figure was for the city and the
temperature was to drop to near
freezing with frost in the suburbs.
The decline was steady after 6 pm.
yesterday, dropping from go to 48
at l am today.
Today's cold followed a drop
to Al yesterday, which was the low
est for that date in 6S years.
The sudden cold snap was far
more serious to Maryland farmers,
who experienced a low of % yes
terday morning, with little hope of
a break before Monday. The late
Evening star., 1947-09-28
NLRB Plans 10 Take
Steps Soon TO End
Affidavits Dispute
Get Taft Law Working
May Reverse Denhom to
Reports Declare Bourd
MEDIATION CHIEF to Concentrat,

MEDIATION CHIEF to Concentrate
on Large Disputes. Page A-9.
TOP UAW LEADER Urges Compli-
ance With Taft-Hartley Act. As.
By james Y. Newton
The National Labor Relations
Board plans early action in the
controversy revolving around the
filing by union officers of non
Communist aff1davits, which it
hopes will correct the almost
complete breakdown in admins
tration of the new Taft-Hartley
labor relations law, 1t was
learned last night.
There are indications the action
by the five members of the board
will come before the opening of the
big AFL and CIO conventions, set
for early next month. The AFL
meeting gets under way in San
Francisco October 6, while the CIO
convention opens a week later in
Boston
There has been no official word
as to how the board will decide the
issue. However, there are apparently
well-founded reports to the effect
that the NLRB would reverse the
ruling of Robert N. Denhan which
has been used by union leaders as
basis for attack on the Taft
Hartley Act and the NLRB.
Affidavits Required.
Mr.. Denham's ruling was to the
eject that all officers of the AFL
and CIO, as well as officers of in
dividual internationals and locals,
are required to file affidavits stat
ing they are not Communists if
any union affiliated with the two
big organizations is TO do busin ass
with the NLRB.
John L. Lewis recently blocked ac-
tion by the AFL Executive Council
on the matter. One of 13 vice presi-
dents of the AFL, the United Mine
Workers chief has made it clear he
Will llOU SlSll GllC dlliodNlU All oIilCl
AFL officers originally favored filing
the papers, but Mr.. Lewis now has
support for his stand from William
L. Hutcheson, head of the powerful
Carpenters Union, and possibly from
other officers.
Unless the issue is clarified be-
forehand. the issue promises to Gre
ate a real storm at the AFL conven-
ton. Daniel J. Tobin, head of the
Teamsters, who filed the required
affidavit, has stated that unless the
issue is settled to the satisfaction
of his union he may be forced tc
take the Teamsters out of the AFL
He pointed out that his union has
numerous cases before the NLRE
on which action has been suspend.
ed by the failure of all AFL officers
to qualify under the new law.
A number of smaller unions, both
IN the AFL and CIO, have indicated
they will be forced into independent
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