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Evening star., 1947-09-03
By Gornett D. Horner

Acting Secretary of State
Lovett said today that Europe's
economic crisis is developing
much faster than expected and
that some type of American ac-
ton to help relieve the situation
will be necessary before the end
of this year.
He refused to say fatty whether a
special session of Congress would
have to be called late this year to
meet the problem, but he strongly
indicated such a step might be
necessary.
He told a news conference that
appropriate steps, either through
temporary devices or permanent
measures will have to be taken in a
matter of months, rather than some
time next year.
BY permanent measures, Mr.. Low
EFT obviously was referring to the
Marshall Plan for extension of
American assistance to Europe on a
Evening star., 1947-09-03

Plans to open an American con-
sular Office in Leningrad have been
blocked for more than two months
by failure of the Soviet government
to provide any Office or living quar-
ters, it was learned today.
After many months of negotia-
ton, the State Department an
nounced June 16 that Russia had
agreed to the opening of a United
States consular Office in Leningrad
G. Frederick Reinhardt, First Sec
retary and Consul serving in the
Embassy at Moscow, was selected as
Consul General at Leningrad and
went there to look for a place to
open his office.
Arrangements had to be made
with the Soviet government, which
controls all housing in Russia.
Mr.. Reinhardt informed the Rus
sian officials concerned that he would
like to have q building providing
Evening star., 1947-09-03
What the Russians
| Are Saying of Us:

Moscou Radio, broddcasting in
English to the United Kingdom,
said last Deek
Egypt is flooded today with United
States goods and this seriously i'm
pairs the interests of British eX-
porters. United States banks are
pressing upon the Egyptians their
services in financing irrigation prof.
ects, as, for example, the Aswan Dam
Egypt is swamped, not only by
United States statesmen, but by
United States military and other ex-
perts, and in furtherance of their
expansionist schemes, the Ameri-
cans support and use the services
of the most violent Egyptian reac-
tionaries.
"The financial bosses in Wall
Street are pressing for controi of
the economic and political life of
the whole Nile Valley. They agree
to supply the Egyptian defense min
istry with the equipment it wants
for the Egyptian Army. There is ac-
tive talk in Washington of the
United States taking the defense
of Suez upon itself; and SO, it is
remarked, the United States is
squeezing Britain out of the Nile
Valley. washington means to make
of Egypt a strategic stronghold OF
the dollar empire"
Evening star., 1947-09-03
Former UNRRA0fficiaI
Killed in Plunge
BY the Assoeiaisd Press

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Sept. s.
Thomas Bower, SIS, former UNRRA
foficial and at on time director of
general finance for the Persian gov
ernment, plunged to his death today
from an eighth-floor window of the
Fort Hayes Hotel.
Mr. Bower had registered at the
hotel Sunday night. The door was
locked from the inside. Several
partly smoked cigarettes were found
| in the room near the window.
Lewis S. Bower, a son, said his
father recently returned from
Shanghai after becoming Ill of a
heart ailment. The elder Mr. Bower,
the son said, was chief Of the in
dustrial rehabilitation section of
|UNRRA for China before leaving
that country.
He was graduated from Ohio State
University in 1916 with civil en-
gineering degree and travelled ex-
tensively in India, China and Japan.
Following World War I he was an
engineer for Near East relief in
Turkey and then became manager
of the Antolian Cotton Corp. with
Headquarters in Turkey.
Records of Ohio State University
show he assumed his finance posi-
ton in the Persian government in
1924.
| Coroner Mitchell Spyker plans to
conduct an autopsy.
Mr.. Bower was the former hus-
band of Mary Sells of the Sells
Circus family, the son said, adding
that they were divorced Is years
ago.
Evening star., 1947-09-03
Soviet Failure to Provide House
Bars u. S. Leninqrud Consulate

combined Office and residence space
for himself and his principal officers.
This would require five or six office
rooms, plus four or five apartments.
He saw many such buildings in Len
ingrad, presumably all occupied.
The Russians, officials here said,
promised to try to find an adequate
building, and Mr.. Reinhardt still is
waiting in Moscow for them to do so.
Cramped Office and living space
made available for Americans in
Moscow also is preventing expansion
of the Embassy staff there, officials
said.
They said negotiations to obtain
another building for Embassy use
have been going on for more than a
year. The building has been "desig-
nated," but not yet made available
At present, officials said, an Amer
ican diplomat can be assigned to
Moscow only when one leaves be-
cause there isn't a spare bed"
Evening star., 1947-09-03
Navy Is Silent on Report
Carrier Will Test w
BY the Associated Press

The Navy Department said today
that the aircraft carrier Midway has
sailed for exercises at sea-" but it
neither confirmed nor denied that
the 45,000-ton carrier will test-fire
a W. rocket from it's flight deck
somewhere in the Atlantic.
Responsible sources, asking to re-
main anonymous, advised the As
sociaJed Press at Portsmouth, Va,
last night that it is planned to fire
a W. from the Midway.
Asked about this report, Navy
Department spokesman would not
comment directly but made this
statement:
The Midway has sailed for exer-
cises at sea. A report on the opera
tions will be made later"
The giant carrier left Norfolk. Va,
yesterday and is due in Bermuda to-
morrow. Her destination there
after was not revealed.
Evening star., 1947-09-03
IAFL Delegates
lAttock on Russia
! Starts Uproor
BY the Associated Press

SOUTHPORT, England, Sept. s.
George J. Richardson of Washing
ton. D. c., American Federation oi
Labor fraternal delegate. threw the
British Trades Union Congress into
an uproar today with an attack or
Russia and the World Federation Of
Trade Unions.
Boos, shouts of get off the stage,
stop him." its a lie," and rub
bish" repeatedly interrupted the
speaker.
Smiling Mr.. Richardson con-
tinued, charging heads of the Soviet
state with violating the sovereignty
of the small states of Eastern
Europe.
Once when the shouts of derisior
rose to a below, Conference Chair
man G. w. Thomson, banging fol
order, demanded:
rs this the boasted free-speech oi
England?"
Just minute" Mr.. Thomson
cautioned the hecklers. I'VE honor
free speech in this country. We may
differ with one another, but we are
always willing to listen to another
mans point of view."
Evening star., 1947-09-03
Counter Revolt Chief
In Power in Ecuador
After Mancheno Quits
Former Vice President
Says He Will Call Special
Session Of Congress
BY the Associated Press

QUITO, Ecuador, Sept. 3.-The
9-day-old regime of Col. Carlos
Mancheno lay in ruins today and
Mariana Suarez Veintimilla, the
reputed leader of a counterrevolt
which caused Col. Mancheno's
downfall, assumed temporary
power over Ecuador.
Col. Mancheno resigned last night
as counter revolutionary forces bore
down on Quito without opposition
Diplomatic informants said he had
taken asylum in the Venezuelan
Embassy and intended to leave the
country as soon as possible. Other
sources said he had simply disap-
peared.
Col. Mancheno's resignation was
followed by an immediate cessation
of fire on all fronts and marked the
apparently successful conclusion of
a counter revolt which began last
Saturday night.
The vanguard of the counter rev.
olutionary forces entered Quito from
the north soon after Col. Mancheno
quit.
At Ills pm, DR.. Saurez Veinti-
milla, accompanied by colleagues of
his Conservative Party, entered the
Government Palace and assumed
authority as vice president. the office
he held under the regime of Presi-
dent Jose Marie Velasco Ibarra, who
was forced into exile by Col. Man
cheno's bloodless one-shot coup on
August "a.
DIR. Suarez Veintimilla immedi-
ately disclaimed personal ambitions
and said he would remain in power
only SO long as necessary to con-
woke an extraordinary session OF
Congress to designate a President
for the period until the next elec-
tions in May, 1948. He said the
Congress would be composed OF
members elected last June.
I, (Exiled President Velasco Ibar-
ra was reported hurrying back to
Ecuador from ArgertinaD
| Shortly before DR.. Suarez Vein
timilla entered the palace. civilians
crying viva constitution" assailed
the front doors of the palace, while
others shouted, Neither Mariana
(Suarez Veintimilla) nor Manche-
no." Occasional shots were heard
in the streets.
Interviewed by telephone, DR.
Suarez Veintimilla told reports that
there now exists a legal constitu-
tional order in charge of the presi-
dency." Within the next three OF
four days, he continued, there would
be discussions to reunite the coun-
Gil of state to confirm the legal
constitutional process.
Immediately afterward the coun-
Gil of state would convoke an extra
ordinary session of Congress tt
name presidential Congress, which
would recommend a President tt
act until constitutional presidential
elections could be held, he said.
Demonstrators marched through
the streets of Quito during the night
shouting long live the consti-
tuition"
Col. Mancheno, on assuming con-
troll, abolished the constitution
adopted last January and ruled
valid the 1906 charter which gave
him virtual dictatorial powers
The counter revolters had de-
(See ECUADOR, Page A-5.)
Evening star., 1947-09-03
Pressure Put on u. ).
To Back Jewish Hope!
For National iIome
American Conference
Demands Leadership
On Palestine Partition
BY the Assoeioted Press

LAKE SUCCESS, Sept. g.
Pressure was being put on thu
United States today to back Jew.
ish aspirations for a nationa
home in Palestine in the Unitee
Nations Assembly's Forthcoming
fight on the Holy Land.
The American Jewish difference
representing So major Je ,.lsh organ.
izations, demanded that the United
States take the leaders, on the
proposed Palestine part on plar
and warned that she dare not
shirk" previous commit ,nts re.
garding the future of the. ., Land
This development cemA ar
authoritative So' Ady had
hinted that Brit ask the
United States to d n. terially ir
the interim admins. =. atio of Pales.
tine if the United Mai agrees te
divide the Holy Land ir Arab anc
Jewish states, as recon- ended by q
majority of a United tions spe.
cial commission.
Moral Respon ,4O, ".
In an official statenle: =, the Jew.
ish conference declared:
"a great moral resper sibility rests
upon the United Stats, arising out
of its previous commitments, which
it dare not shirk. 1t must take the
lead consistent with past American
policy, for only in this way can il
insure an immediate and affirmative
solution for >the General Assembly
of the United Nations"
The commitments to which the
conference referred included Presi-
dent Truman's recommendation fol
prompt admission on 100000 Jews tc
Palestine-a suggestion disregardeC
by the British mandate power-anc
Tor Jewish state in an adequate
area" of Palestine.
Apparently believing the Assembly
will approve the U. N. commission.
partitioning plan, the Jewish grour
said that whatever position the AS.
sembly takes, we have no doubt
will have the support of the over.
whelming majority of American
Jews
1t said the U. N. special commit.
tees recommendation for the admis.
sion of 10000 Jews into the Holy
Land within the next two years anc
the granting of independence tt
both Arabs and Jews within thai
period points the way to workable
solution"
Need for Early Solution.
However, the conference drew at.
tention to the fact that the proposed
partition plan excludes from the
Jewish state Western Galilee anc
the Jewish sections of Jerusalem
which have been built up by Jew!
and where nearly 100000 Jews now
reside"
But" the groups statement
added, circumstances force an i'm.
mediate solution which is imperative
because of the sharp deterioration
of the position of the Jewish people
in Europe, and the status as self
(See PAL ALESTINE. Page Al
Evening star., 1947-09-03
'48Campaign Opened
By Democrats in Bias
MG. 0. P. Congress
Party Leaders Assoil
Republican Legislation
In Nationwide Rally
By Gould Lincoln

Adopting a new technique in
campaigning, the Democratic
National Committee poured hot
shot into the Republican Con-
gress last night in a coaSt-to-
coast broadcast.
Party leaders from all parts of
the Nation reported, via radio, a
sweeping popular reputation of
Congress and militant support for
President Truman and his program.
They warmed up for the 1948 cam
paign by hammering at the COP
record on labor, price, farm and
housing legislation.
With Gael Sullivan, executive di-
rector of the Democratic National
Committee, as master of ceremonies,
the program picked up the speak
ers from New York to California.
They included Mayor O'Dwyer of
New York, Representative Helen
Gahagan Douglas of California,
Mayor Hubert Humphrey of Mime
apolis, Senator Sparkman of Ala
bama, Marshall Hanley, president
of the Young Democratic Clubs of
Indiana; Senator Myers of Penn
sylvania and Senator Mcmahon Of
Connecticut. The last spoke from
Washington; the others from the
cities and States they represent.
Workers Angry, O'Dwyer Says.
1.-THE working people of New York
are angry" Mayor O'Dwyer re-
ported. They know the Republican
Congress has tried to turn the work.
ing people of the country into sec
ond-class citizens. A good many
of them remember the days when
the Republicans controlled the Fed
eraf Government. They recall the
days when the working people were
second-class citizens. They remem-
ber the days of sweat shops and
breadlines. They remember, too, the
days of lockouts and blackjacking
strikebreakers."
All this, Mr.. ODwyer said, had
been changed after the Democrats
had taken over control of the Gov
eminent in 1888, and he added:
"The working people of my town
are not going to let the Republicans
turn the clock back. They will in
stead follow President Truman's
leadership forward to world peace
and domestic prosperity"
High Prices Cited.
From Los Angeles, Mrs. Douglas
discussed the anger of the house.
wife over high prices, which she at
tributed to the refusal OF the Re-
publican Congress to continue price
control and the OPA.
THE housewife and her family
find" said Mrs. Douglas, that they
can't eat National Association of
Manufacturers philosophy and COP
politics"
They had promised, she said, that
prices would adjust themselves to
what consumers are willing and
able to pay" Not only has this not
happened, she continued, "but pro-
duction has actually fallen below the
wartime peak"
The American people, Mrs. Doug
las said. had come through the war
with prices up only IS per cent. But
after price controls were lifted,
prices went up IS per cent in the
first eight months. She character
lied the Republican Party as the
friend of big business and the real
estate lobby, which has set up,
cynically, sine said, congressional in
(See DEMOCRATS, Page A-4D
Evening star., 1947-09-03
Senator Lucas Kills
Bird and Gets Birdie
With One Tee Shot
BY the Associated Press .

ROCKFORD, ILL.,, Sept. s.
Senator Lucas, Democrat, of Il
linois, got two brides on the
par 3 tenth hole at Rockford
Country Club yesterday and has
three witnesses to prove it.
The Senator's drive on the
180-yard hole hit a bird and
both ball and bird dropped to
the green. Senator Lucas sank
the putt for a 2. The bird was
killed by the tee shot.
Members of the Senator's
foursome who saw the feat were
E. K. Todd, general manager of
the Rockford Register-Republic
and Morning Star; William
Todd, circulation manager of
the paper, and Emory Hall, ex-
ecutive of a Rockford printing
company.
Evening star., 1947-09-03
8 Florida Prisoners Die
Drinking Wood Alcohol
By the Associated Press

BELLE GLADE, Fla, Sept. g.
Eight prisoners were dead today and
another was dying after drinking
wood alcohol mixed with coffee at
nocturnal party" at the State
prison camp near here last night.
At Tallahassee, Chief Clerk 8. l..
Walters of the prison division said
l6 colored prisoners consumed a
pint of wood alcohol which was
filched earlier in the day by two men
working in the prison paint shop.
The two were listed among the dead.
All prisoners who drank the
poisonous mixture became violently
ill, and six died during the night.
The other two died today.
Mr.. Walters reported that the
prisoners consumed the alcohol at a
surreptitious gathering after supper
last night.
Evening star., 1947-09-03
IA Gestapo Men Get
Death Sentences
BY the Associated Press

HAMBURG, Germany, Sept. 3
British military court sentenced IA
Gestapo operatives to death today
on conviction in the killing of so
Allied flying officers on personal
orders from Adolf Hitler.
Two others were sentenced to life
imprisonment and two received 10
year terms.
All the secret police stepped one
by one with stiff, military bearing
before the dock to hear their fate.
The men they had killed had
escaped from a prison camp at
Sagan, Silesia, in 1914. After re-
capture, they were taken to a lonely
road and shot.
Erich Zacharias, convicted of be-
ing concerned in the killing of
Canadian Flying Ofiicer G. A. Kid
der, was one of those sentenced
to die.
Evening star., 1947-09-03
SEC Orders Inquiry
In Stock Registration
For Color 1e|evision
False Doto Suspected
In 10-MiIIion Plan to
Finance New Process
By the Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 3.-The
Securities and Exchange Com
mission today ordered a public
investigation into a $10,0OO,OOO
stock registration of Thomas
color, Inc, Los Angeles.
The SEC declared it has reason
able cause to believe that the COM
pany's registration statement in
cludes untrue statements of mater
ial fact and omits material facts
XXX"
At a public hearing September 16
the commission will determine
whether a stop order"-prohibitins
the sale OF the stock-shall be
issued.
Thomascolor, organized to manu-
facture and develop a color process
for television and motion pictures
registered 100000 shares Of its SIS
par common stock with the SEC
July 9, proposing to offer the shares
to the public at $40 each.
The SEC said it will investigate
the adequacy and accuracy" OF
Sc statements in the registration
including the statement that the
Thomas-color process sis a new
process of color photography"
Among other statements to be
investigated by the Government
agency are those regarding control
of the company by Richard Thomas
and the method by which control
was obtained.
The stock registration, repre-
senting the firms first publit
financing venture, stated the COM
pany planned to use proceeds tc
finance a three-year organization
program at a cost of more thar
So OOO. 900,
Evening star., 1947-09-03
Europe's Crisis Grows, U.S.. Aid
May Be Vital Soon, Lovett Says
Acting Secretary Of State Indicates Special
Session of Congress May Be Necessary

long range self-help basis. Temper
ary devices might ir "lude such steps
as extension of assistance by the
World Bank and the Export Import
Bank where possible.
The Marshall Plan cannot come
into operation until some time next
spring, unless matters are speeded
up to place it before Congress in a
special session this fall.
President Truman and congress
sional leaders have said they did
not believe a special session would
be necessary, but have left the way
open for Congress to be called back
before January if emergency needs
should require it.
Mr. Lovett said the State De-
partment has been eeeiving word
for some time that this country
would have to face E.. ope's critical
need for economic ASST sance sooner
than many people had thought was
necessary.
He added that he personally be-
(See LOVETT, .'age A-5D
Evening star., 1947-09-03
Rent Curbs 10 Stay
Unless Home Shortage
Ends, WoIcott Warns
Committee Head Believes
Problem Will Be Licked
Before March 81
BY the Associated Press

Chairman Wolcott of the House
Banking Committee predicted
today that "if the housing short
age is not licked by March 81
rent controls probably will be
continued"
However, he told a reporter, iii
we keep up the present momentum
of building, we may say that the
housing shortage is reasonably
licked" by that date. That is when
present control legislation expires.
Mr.. Walcott said his committee
will start rent study Immediately
after Congress convenes, probably
in January, to decide whether tc
recommend extension of the law.
He said the Banking Committee
may receive some guidance from the
$100,000 housing investigating being
organized by a Senate-House CON-
mittee headed by Representative
Gamble, Republican, of New York.
Mccarthy Confident.
Senator Mccarthy, Republican, OF
Wisconsin, vie chairman of the
joint committee, salad that if the
IA members can't find an answer
to the housing shortage I'VE should
resign our jobs and 60 home"
I'm sure we can lick it," Senator
Mccarthy declared at a news con-
ference.
The Wisconsin Senator said the
committee hopes to have some kind
of a legislative program ready for
Congress when it meets in January
Senator Mccarthy and Senator
Tobey, Republican of New Hamp-
shire, chairman of the Senate Bank
ing Committee which normally
handles all housing matters, staged
a bitter contest for the chairman
ship of the investigating group
BY persuading a majority to void
four proxy votes Senator Tobey
held, Senator Mccarthy succeeded
in electing Mr.. Gamble as chairman
and then was named as the New
Workers. deputy.
Senator Mccarthy said he has
called on the numerous Govern
ment agencies and officials dealing
with housing for all pertinent data
and suggestions at informal con-
ferences.'
Say They Take no Sides.
He said in a prepared statement
that he and Mr.. Gamble "are neither
pro nor anti public housing"
1--WE are concerned only with the
public interest in housing" Senator
Mccarthy continued. "Our first
effort will be to discover the real
causes of the shortage, our second
to make such recommendations as
will cure instead of merely allevi-
ate."
The Senator said public hearings
may begin next week but I'VE are in
clined to favor open conferences,
instead of formal hearings to which
witnesses would be subpoenaed."
Senator Mccarthy said all Sen
ators and Representatives will be
asked to conduct personal surveys
of the housing problem in their dis
tricts or States and hearings may
be scheduled wherever the replies
indicate a necessity.
No Witch Hunt, He Says.
Asked whether the investigation
will touch on labor costs in the con-
struction industry, he replied:
This is no labor witch hunt. We
are not out to conduct an inquisi-
lSee HOUSING Page A-4l