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Evening star., 1947-09-29
McC orthyWM Manage RedSox;
Cronin Takes Over Front Office
Collins Continues
As Adviser and
Vice President
BY the Assoeioted Press

NEW YORK, Sept. 2s.-Joe
Cronin, manager of the Boston
Red Sox. announced today that
Joe Mccarthy, former manager
of the New York Yankees, had
signed a two-year contract to
direct the Boston American
League club, with Cronin becom-
ing the general manager.
Mccarthy, who left the Yankees
in May. 1916, because of i'll health,
takes over his new job at once
Cronin, who also takes over imme-
diately, refused to divulge either
his or McCarthy's salary.
Eddie Collins, who has been Red
Sox general manager. continues in
an advisory capacity and as vice
president.
Cronin has directed the Boston
club since October, 1884. and brought
the club into the World Series last
year. This year slow start dropped
the Red Sox to third place behind
the pennant-winning Yaqkees.
Mccarthy is the only manager
ever to win pennants in both the
American and National Leagues
He was in charge as the Cubs tri-
umphed in the National in 1929 and
then directed the Yankees during
their long reign at the top in the 30s
Cronin said he called Mccarthy
at Buffalo last week and asked him
to meet him here last night.
we sat up all night discussing II
and Joe finally accepted" he told
reporters. Mccarthy will have
Evening star., 1947-09-29
Grain Market ADOPTS
Variable Margin Plan
By the Associufed Press

CHICAGO, Sept. 29.-Directors Of
the Chicago Board of Trade, in a
special meeting before the opening
of trading today, adopted variable
system of margin requirements.
The new rule provides that If any
one future of any one grain ad-
vances 10 cents, both the initial
margin shall be increased 5 cents
on all futures Of that grain.
For each subsequent advance Of
10 cents in the price, both the
initial minimum margin and the
minimum maintenance margin
shall be increased an additional 5
cents.
At the opening today margins were
IS cents bushel on wheat and corn
and Is cents on oats.
Grains scared at the opening.
Heavy buying entered all pits in re-
sponse to recommendation over the
week end by the Hartman Com
fnittee studying the Marshall Plan
that this country set its export goal
this year at 50O,000,00o bushels OF
wheat and flour,
After a slight reaction caused by
moderate selling near the end OF
the first hour, wheat was Ga to 8
cents higher, corn was up 5 to 6
cents, while oats were 39s to cents
higher.~ ~
Evening star., 1947-09-29
Temperature 10 Rise
To II Before Niqht

After two straight days of nippy
weather Washington's temperature
was expected to rise to 70 degrees
before night. At pm. the temper
aure was SO degrees.
Tonight's expected low tempera- =
turS of Sc degrees will ease the
minds of Maryland and Virginia
farmers whose late crops were en-
dangered over the week end by frost
and temperatures ranging down.
ward from AZ degrees.
Tomorrow will be even warmer,
the Weather Bureau forecaster said,
with the mercury rising to "a de-
grees, but scattered showers will
keep the thermometer from going
any higher.
A new cold snap, meanwhile, is
building up in Canada and NOV
ing slowly eastward The latest
high-pressure area is expected to
send the temperature back intS the
low 40s here Wednesday, the fore
caster said. The cold wave already
has chilled Bismarck, N. Oak, with
28- degree temperature.
The temperature in the Wash
ington area dropped to A degrees
last night and to AZ degrees early
yesterday - equaling an ali-time
record low for the date. In the
suburbs the temperature dropped
perhaps 10 degrees below the city's
42-degree reading. The last Sep
tember 2s to experience a degrees
was In 1918.
Evening star., 1947-09-29
Appeals Court Bans
Foremen S Right 10
Collective Bargaining
NLRB Order Set Aside;
New Labor Law Cited
As Reason for Decision
By WilIiom 6. PoIIord

The United States Court of
Appeals today held that super
visory employees are excluded
from collective bargaining privi-
leges by the Taft-Hartley Act.
The ruling was made in setting
aside an order of the National
Labor Relations Board, which had
certified Chapter No 155, Fore
mans Association of America, as
the exclusive bargaining agent of
the foremen and assistant foremen
In the Los Angeles plant of the L.
A. Young Spring and Wire Corp.
The opinion, written by Justice
Wilbur K. Miller, said the board had
relied in its ruling on the Supreme
Court decision in the Packard
Motor Co. case, under the National
Labor Relations Act. Under that
act, the court indicated, the NLRB
was correct in its ruling, but since
the appeal was filed in the present
case, the Taft-Hartley Act has be-
come law, modifying the old act
in part.
New Law Altered Matter.
Except for the intervening Taft
Hartley Act, the court indicated it
would have been compelled to af-
firm the NLRB's action.
The appellate court said;
Before the adoption of this
amendatory legislation it was, of
course, true, as the Supreme Court
said in the Packard opinion, that
there was nothing in the National
Labor Relations Act which indi-
Gated that Congress intended to
deny its benefits to foremen as en-
ployes."
The opinion added that cit is now
unmistakably clear, However, that
the Eightieth Congress intended to
deny, and has denied, the benefits
OF the act to supervisors.
Must Uphold Present Act.
The court held that "in these cir
cumstances it is the duty of this
court in disposing of the matter to
apply the law as it now exists" In
conclusion the appellate court de-
clared:
Since the statute as now amended
is to be applied. we shall set aside
the order of the respondent board
which, II allowed to stand, would
operate in future in manner con-
trary to the amended statute. An
appropriate order to that effect will
be entered"
Evening star., 1947-09-29
picture on Page A-3.)
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK, Sept. ga Hud-
son River pier was destroyed and
100 firemen were injured today
in a $5,OOO,OOO blaze-one of the
most serious New York Harbor
dock fires in history. About 400
tons of cargo, including TOO bales
of cotton, were lost.
All but Is feet of the 1,000-foot
pier 81 crumbled and fell into the
river from the effects of the 15-hour
fire and the tons of water poured
onto it by 30 pieces of flrefighting
equipment,
The still-standing section of the
creosote-soaked pier continued to
smolder and flremen fought to
prevent the flames from spreading
to piers 56 and So.
None OF the fircf1len was reported
hurt seriously, although some were
taken to hospitals for emergency
treatment. Some were injured in
the collapse of huge sections of the
pier. others were hurt while fight
ing the blaze from six flreboats in
Evening star., 1947-09-29
by the Assoeiotsd Press

JERUSALEM, Sept. 2s.-Ten
persons were killed and n
wounded today when a dis
trict police headquarters in
Haifa was wrecked by a shatter-
ing bomb explosion which Jewish
underground agents boasted
they had set off as reprisal for
the deportation of uncertified
Jewish immigrants.
The dead included four British
constables, four Arab policemen, a
l6-year-old Arab girl and an Arab
coffee vendor. Injured were 20 Brit
ish constables-of whom 13 were
critically hurt-and various Jewish
and Arab civilians. Up to 300 police
men, half of them asleep, were in
the seven-story building.
Most of the injured civilians were
passengers on an intercity bus from
Jerusalem which was passing the
police headquarters when the ex-
plosion occurred.
Police said the bomb-a tar barrel
loaded with high explosives-was
dumped from a truck which backed
up to the wire barricade surround
ing the police station and dropped
an improvised ramp over the bar
rier. Rolling down the ramp and
crashing into the building, the barrel
exploded moments later with roar
which shook the whole harbor area.
The truck, which pulled away just
before the blast, later was found
abandoned in nearby square.
Irgun zvai Leumi, Jewish under
ground organization, Immediately
issued communique declaring that
its agents had carried out the at
tack in retaliation for rransship.
Evening star., 1947-09-29
Hoifo Police Station Is Blasted
Killing 10 Persons, Injuring II
Jewish Underground Uses Truck to Roll
Barrel Of Explosives Against Building

ment to Hamburg of the Exodus
1947 Jews and the deportation to
Cyprus Of refugees who reached
Palestine Saturday aboard the
Afalpi.
Irgun labeled the bombing, "oper-
alton Hambaf"-a contraction of
the words Hamburg and AfaIpi.
The attack was the first major
outbreak of violence in Palestine in
three months. The casualty toll was
exceeded only by the bombing of
the King David Hotel in Jerusalem
on July %, 1916, and the Goldsmith
Officers Club last March both op-
erations for which Irgun Zvai Leumi
assumed responsibility.
Ninety-one persons were killed in
the King David bombing and 16 at
the Goldsmith Club.
Today's bombing, which conceded
with the opening of the Arab case
on Palestine before special United
Nations committee in New York,
came as Haifa Jews began celebra-
ton Of the eight-day feast of the
tabernacles (succoth), commemorate
ing the ancient trek of the Jews
from Egypt and recalling their eat
ing of mama from heaven.
1t. Gen. G. H. A. Macmillan,
commander of British forces in Pal
estine, had returned from a visit to
England only a short time before the
bombing occurred.
Troops Rushed to Scene.
Troops of the British 9th Airborne
Division were Immediately rushed
itno Haifa with bren Gun carriers,
armored cars and tanks. They
strung barbed wire barricades across
street intersections to isolate the
lower part area from the predom-
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Evening star., 1947-09-29
Fire Co||opses New York Pier;
1OOHurt, $5 100000 Lost
Fifteen-Hour, Eieht-AIorm Blaze Still Burns;
Grace Liner Moved From Nearby Moorinq

the river, and still others were
overcome by the dense, acrid smoke.
Two were thrown into the river
but were rescued.
Frank Murphy, fire department
chief of staff and operations, esti-
mated it might be three or four days
before the fire was completely ex-
tinguished.
There were no vessels at Pier 81,
owned by the Grace Line, when the
blaze first was reported at 7:30
o'clock last night. However, the
liner Santa Rita, scheduled to leave
today for Chile, was moored at Pier
So and was quickly moved out into
the river for safety.
Smoke from the piers underpin-
ming was notice by pier guard who
turned in the first alarm.
The blaze was designated as an
eight-alarm fire by officials of the
fire department and caused trans
mission OF IS fire bell signals, one
Of the greatest alarms In the depart
ment's history.
Chief Murphy, who estimated the
damage of $5,00o,00O, said it was
about Is per cent greater than the
loss in the Cunard Line pier fire in
1892.
Evening star., 1947-09-29
Machine-Gun Bandit,
Raid Ohio Club and
Flee With 100000
Potrons Of Coming Spot
Thought HoIdup Was
Part of Floor Show
By the Associated Press
PAINESVILLE, Ohio, Sept. 2

PAINESVILLE, Ohio, Sept. 20.
"A band of IL masked bandits
bearing machine guns early to-
day robbed the exclusive Mounds
Club, near Painesville, and $50
club patrons of cash, jewelry and
furs worth an estimated $780,
600, Sheriff James Maloney re-
ported.
Sheriff's Deputies Edward Cook
and Clarence Arm, who investi-
gated the robbery, said club officials
gave the preliminary estimate Of
cash and jewelry taken from gam
bling tables and patrons.
The patrons at first thought the
holdup was part of the floor show"
Gang Rushes Guard.
The gang rushed the guard" out
side the club, Mr.. Arm said, and
then entered the establishment and
lined up all the employees and
patrons against walls.
After forcing Mark w. Schaffner,
manager Of the club, to open the
gambling bank" the bandits
dumped all their loot into table
cloths and made their escape in
three stolen cars, the deputy said
Mr.. Arm quoted witnesses as
giving this version of the holup up;
Mary Healy, singer, and he1
husband. Peter Lind Hayes, coined
ian, we're giving a performance when
the gang burst into the club. The
tall leader" shouted: That's all
boys. This Is stickup."
Fires Machine Gun Burst.
Customers thought the holdur
was part of the Healy- Hayes act
and Miss Healy turned to the gun
man and said, "if you're going tc
misbehave, I'll have to ask you to
leave"
I'm not fooling,' the gunman
Evening star., 1947-09-29
BY the Assoeioted Press

The United States has demanded
that Russia disavow Soviet writer's
article comparing President Truman
with Adolf Hitler and Moscow has
fatty rejected the American protest,
the State Department disclosed to-
day.
It said the United States called
the article insulting.
Foreign Minister Molotoy turned
down the American protest in a Bit
terly worded note that attacked the
American press for Its criticism Of
the Soviet Union.
1t. Gen. Walter B. Smith, Amer
ican Ambassador to Moscow, pre-
sented a stifiiy worded sprotest
Thursday against an article by Boris
Evening star., 1947-09-29
Rees Renews Demand
For j. ). 10 Dismiss
Many War Workers
Attacks Federal Agencies
Failure to Provide Posts
For Career Employees
By Joseph Young

Chairman Rees of the House
Civil Service Committee today
renewed his demands that the
Government dismiss many of its
war service employees.
The Kansan said there were 849.-
984 war service and temporary en-
ployes still on the Federal payroll
constituting Al per cent of all Gov
renment employment
These figures again show the
reluctance of the departments and
agencies to reduce the number of
temporary wartime appointees," Mr..
Rees declared in an official COM
mittee report.
Total Above 2.000, 900.
Notwithstanding the claims that
drastic reductions are being eff
feeted, total Government employ
ment is still above 100000, Mr..
Rees said. AS of August 81, Federal
employment totaled 2,044,13 the
committees report showed.
Commenting on these figures,
Civil Service Commission officials
today pointed out that many war
service employees are filling jobs for
which there have been no examina-
tions given since before the war,
when the Government stopped
making permanent job appoint
ments.
Consequently. many war service
jobs normally would have been
classified as permanent-status po-
sitions had tests been given during
the war years, the officials said.
Now that the Government is again
reverting to permanent status
personnel policy, those war service
employees who fail to pass examina-
tions will lose their jobs as quickly
as the current tests are graded, it
was said.
Employment Too High.
Mr.. Rees contends that, in any
event, the total Federal employment
is far too high.
Little progress was made by the
executive branch of the Government
in the reduction of Federal person.
mel during August" Mr.. Rees de-
(See U. S. WORKERS, Page A-60
Evening star., 1947-09-29
u. 5. Destroyer Fox
Hits Mine Off Trieste;
; Killed , Z Injured
Steering Geor Wrecked,
Compartments Flooded;
l8 Miles From Coast
BY the Associated Press

TRIESTE, Sept. 20. - The
American destroyer Douglas H.
Fox struck a mine 18 miles off
Trieste this afternoon as she was
heading for this free territory.
Three men were killed, according
to a message from the destroyer
J. c. Owen. which went to the
Fox's rescue. Naval headquarters
here earlier had reported one dead,
and it was assumed that two of
the injured men had died.
The Owen reported she was bring
ing In 10 litter cases and two walk
ing wounded. The Fox had COM
plement of about 200 men.
Two tugs were sent to escort the
Fox to Venice, only nearby port
equipped with a drydock. The Fox
was en- route from Venice to Trieste
when she hit the mine.
The Navy said here that the mine
exploded the destroyer, wrecking
the steering gear and flooding all the
after compartments. The Fox was
one of the newest type warships.
May Have Been Old Mine.
Navy officials said the mine may
have been an old one, broken loose
from an area pot yet swept clear
since the war.
The names of the victims were not
made public at once.
The Fox, which was on her way
from Venice, Italy. to Trieste, Is one
of the most heavily armed of Amer
ican destroyers. Her main battery
carries six 5-inch guns plus 10 tor
pedo tubes. She joined the United
States warships in the Mediter-
ranean after leaving Norfolk, Va,
July 81.
Annapolis Man Skipper.
The Fox's skipper is Comdr.
Charles w. Travis, Annapolis. Md.
A Sumner class destroyer, the Fox
was built in 1914, displaces 1900
tons
The steering gear was wrecked,
(See DESTROYER, Page A-6D
Evening star., 1947-09-29
Two Ships Disabled,
Navy Tug Lost as Sea
Batters Florida Coast
Two Sailors Are Drowned;
$500, 900 Damage Set
For Jacksonville Beaches
BY the Associated Press

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Sept. 20.
Coastal shipping from Flor
ida's Keys to North Carolina wal
lowed today through a running
sea which beat heavily against
the shore and which already has
disabled two ships, sent a tug to
the bottom and cost two lives.
The Bayano reported a man lost
overheard off the Eastern tip of
Cuba, while farther north, off Geor-
gia, the Navy Tug 274, waved until
she broke her towline, capsized and
went down carrying one man to the
bottom.
At Savannah, Ga, the Coast
Guard cutter Aurora put out to the
assistance of the motor vessel julius
Il. Barnes, disabled and drifting IS
miles off New Smyrna, Fla.
The Nays seagoing tug ATA2Os
has taken the Cuban merchant
ship Cibara in tow and is expected to
reach Charleston, S. c., at 3 pm.
today. The Cibara reported yester-
day she was without a propeller in
heavy weather.
Tanker Has Ship in Tow.
From Charleston, S. c., the Nays
sea- going tug Alta 200, poked her
bow into the swells and made for the
Cuban steamship Gibrara which re-
ported she was without a propeller.
The American tanker ESQ Manhat-
tan radioed she had the Gibrara in
tow, awaiting the tug.
The 60-foot fishing vessel Emma
was hard aground off Fort Pierce
and the Coast Guard reported ef-
forts were being made to ref1oat
her.
The sea-going tug Alta 210, out OF
Charleston for Glen Cove Springs,
Fla. reported she was unable to
make much headway and was
standing for open water until the
storm subsidies.
Meanwhile, the turbulent Atlantic
was making mess of some of
Northern Floridas Fairgrounds.
High tides, whipped by a stinging
northeast gale. destroyed two houses
near Jacksonville and damaged sew
eral others.
100000 Damage at Jacksonville.
The great combers cut through
sections. of seawalls in this area,
washed away beach cabanas, dam
aged waterfront approaches and
eroded lands behind protective bar
riers
In the beach area near Jackson
vile, damage was estimated at
100000 or more. Fifty Coast
Guardsmen and residents worked to
shore up cottages believed under
mined by the breakers.
At Fernandina several houses were
damaged and power lines were
down. Daytona reported its beaches
Uttered with debris and winds up to
IS miles per hour.
A Red Cross life saving station
at New Smyrna Beach, south OF
Daytona. was washed into drift
wood. So was an ocean front house
and part of another. The ocean
front Casino at New Smyrna also
was reported in danger of collapse.
Evening star., 1947-09-29
Soviet Rejects Protest on Article
Comparing Truman to Hitler

Gorbatov In the Literary Gazette
No. &c.
Mr.. Smith advised the Russian
government the article was libel
Gus on the President Of the United
States and added:
Il must assure you in the most
solemn terms that every fair minded
American citizen. regardless of his
political opinion. will be deeply
affronted by this article and will
feel that he In some way shares
the personal insult thus gratuitious-
ly offered to President Truman"
In the official Russian reply. Mr..
Molotov said the Russian govern
ment cannot bear the responsibility
for this or that article. and so much
the more, cannot accept the protest
you have made In that Qonnection. !"
Evening star., 1947-09-29
What theRussiuns
Are Saying of Us:

The Moscow radio, broddcasting i,
Norwegian to Europe last ,0eek, said
Conventions of reactionary
organizations of this type (Air
Force Association of the United
Statesr are held every week in
the United States. Not long ago
a convention of war veterans was
held In Cleveland and a conyen-
ton Of the American Legion In
New York. All these conventions
are summoned with the one
propaganda aim of creating in
every possible way hatred of the
Soviet Union among the peaceful
masses of the United States and
to give an impression that an
other war is inevitable"
Evening star., 1947-09-29
Armed Services Group
Cancels European Trip

At least one congressional COM
mittee will not join the procession
of investigating groups going to
Europe this fall. The Senate Armed
Services Committee today called
of its trip.
Evening star., 1947-09-29
Ten Die in Spanish Flood

MURCIA, Spain, Sept. 20. (P.-
Ten persons drowned today in floods
caused by a cloudburst in the Segura
River Valley Santomera and Ori-
huela and number of small villages
were flooded. Property damage was
high. and fields of flax. potatoes and
other crops we're injured.
Evening star., 1947-09-29
Three Marines Die in Crash
OF liqhf Plane in Rain
BY the Associated Press

CHICAGO Sept. 29.-Three Ma
rine privates were killed today when
their light plane crashed into a
field in suburban North Riverside
during a misty rain.
They were identified by Sergt
Elmer Cont of the Cook County
sheriff's police as: Pfc. Edward L.
Bond, 10. Wichita, Kans.: Pfc. Char
lyn B. Hokenstad, 18. Sioux Falls,
S. Oak, and Pfc. Paul Martin Gil
f1llan, jr., 10, Mount Vernon, Ohio.
Evening star., 1947-09-29
QuodrupIet Girls Born
To British Bakers Wife
BY fhs Assoeioisd Press

BRADFORD, England, Sept. o.
Quadruplet girls we're born last
night to Mrs. Eileen Horner, wife of
Frank Horner. q baker, and all were
reported thriving today on a diet Of
Glucose and water administered by
"penholder" tubes. q
Evening star., 1947-09-29
France Seeks
u. S.-Russian
Accord in j. n.
Move Made to Tone
Down Findings on
Aggression Charge
bulletin

LAKE SUCCESS R.-The.
United States today accused
Russia and her satellites of
trying to divert attention from
the real cause of the Balkan
conflict by dragging in 'irrel-
evant" questions. American
Delegate Herschel johnson
called the U. N. Political Com
mittee's attention to gross
calumnies" against the Amer
lean aid program and prom
lsed to make public "every
detail" of aid to Greece.
Evening star., 1947-09-29

complete charge Of the team and
will have the power to make any
deals"
Mccarthy said: II am glad to be
with the Red Sox organization. I
could have gone with other clubs,
put chose the Sox."
Evening star., 1947-09-29

(See BANDITS, Page A-6.f~
Evening star., 1947-09-29

(See BLAST, Page A-60