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Evening star., 1947-08-12
Lotins Talk of Conference
On BoIstejng Economy

BUENOS AIRES, Aug. II (P.-
Latin American foreign offices are
considering the possibility of an
Inter-American Economic Confer
ence to be held between the Rio de
Janeiro conference on hemisphere
defense opening Friday and the
January meeting OF foreign minis
ters in Bogota, Colombia, informants
said here yesterday.
These sources, which are close to
the Argentine government, said sew
eral American countries feeling the
full strain OF the transition from
wartime economy believe that the
United States is giving a dispro-
portionate amount of financial as
sistance to Europe.
These countries, whose export
markets were guaranteed during the
war, now find their products are
meeting with competition from war
areas, as in the case OF tin, or buyer
resistance. as with coffee. Some
Latin american currencies. such
as the Peruvian sol and the Chilean
peso, have dropped in relation to
the dollar, while other countries,
although maintaining their ex-
change rate, are short on dollars for
imports.
The informants said the proposal
for the meeting might be discussed
Informally at the conference in Rio
| de Janeiro.
Evening star., 1947-08-12
Lawyer Reports Threats
In Arkansas Killing Probe
BY the Assoeioted Press

HOT SPRINGS, Ark, Aug. H.
An attorney chosen TO help the
Garland County grand jury in an
investigation of the fatal shooting
of Prosecutor Sidney MeMath's
father said last night he had re-
ceived numerous" threats Of polit-
ical harm.
State Senator Ernest Maner. who
was named by Circuit Judge Clude
H. Brown to assist the grand Jury.
also reported to police that he had
been struck by man at a down.
town parking lot last night.
After Mr.. Maner reported the
attack, a man identified as Henry
P, Coston, "a, of Hot Springs and
Benton, Ark, surrendered at police
headquarters and was docketed FOR
Threatening and assault"
The grand jury is scheduled to
convene tomorrow to investigate
the death last Thursday night of
Hal p. McMath, 81. Mr.. McMath
said his father was shot by his 26-
'year-old wife Anne. in self defense
and while she was ''hysterical with
fright"
Evening star., 1947-08-12
Teacher Missing 7 Months
Found Hanged From Tree
BY The Assoeioisd Press

STATE COLLEGE, Pa, Aug. IA
A wide spread search for DR.. Ray
mond Haber, 5s-year-old Pennsyl-
vania State College professor, who
disappeared June 3, ended in the
discovery of his body hanging from
q branch of pine tree 4 miles from
the college campus.
It's definitely suicide by hang
ing" Coroner Charles Sheckler said
There will be no inquest"
The body of DR.. Haber, who dis
appeared just before he was to have
conducted a final examination. was
found by Harry O'Connell, a college
student on a berry picking expedi-
tion.
Capt. Philip Mark, chief Of the
Penn State Campus police, said
Identification was made by papers
found In the professors pockets
after Mr.. O'Connell came on q pair
OF shoes and other clothing and then
noticed the body hanging from a
tree limb about eight feet from the
ground. .s..-s.
The disappearance Of DR.. Haber.
an associate professor Of zoology,
had resulted in nation wide
search spurred by the offer OF a re-
ward by his widow for information
Evening star., 1947-08-12
kayf|ower Employees Hold
Picnic in Rock Creek Park

More than 300 colored employees of
the Mayflower Hotel ate. danced and
played games in Rock Creek Park
yesterday-at the hotels first picnic
for it's employees.
From now on it'll be an annual
affair" D. A. Cook, personnel man.
ager said today. Il think everybody
had a good time. I did"
Those employees who work at night
attended the morning session, which
began at 10 O'Clock, and had lunch
in the park. Morning workers got
a chance to catch the afternoon and
evening festivities, ending at
o'clock
There were peanut and potato
races. softball games and horseshoe
pitching-prizes being awarded to
winners in sll events. Music blared
constantly throughout the area.
Grove %. Sixteenth street and Colo
RADIO avenue NV
Evening star., 1947-08-12
Col. Robert D. Harden
To Be Buried in ARLINGTON

Funeral services for Col Robert
D. Harden, Army Medical Corps
fretired), a former Washington res
ident, were to be held at / o'clock
today at Fort Meyer chapel with
burial in Arlington Cemetery. Col.
Harden. SO. a native of Georgia.
died Wednesday in Pratt General
Hospital, Miami.
He was stationed in the surgeon
generals Office in Washington from
1885 to 1910 and from 1927 to 1892.
Before his retirement in March,
1916, he was. commandant of Grille
General Hospital in Cleveland. He
was commanding officer of Gorgas
Hospital in the Panama Canal Zone
before his Cleveland assignment.
Since his retirement he had been
living In Marathon, Fla,
Survivors include his widow. Mrs:
Hermina L. Harden; three
daughters, Miss Jane Ann Harden
and Mrs. 6. J. Stickney, both of
Stanford University: Mrs. A. H.
Hofften. San Francisco. and one
sister. Mrs. Clara Harden Barber,
Atlanta.
Evening star., 1947-08-12
0vereH Judge Bars
Press Pending Ruling
On Admitting Letters
BY the Associated Press

SANTA ANA, Calf, Aug. IA
court ruling today on admiSsibility
of photographs of love letters writ
ten by Louise Overell, 18-year -old
heiress and George tBudD Gullum,
q, was to bring to a close the II
weeks prosecution of the college
sweethearts on charges of murder
ing the girls parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Walter E. Overell.
The bodies of Mr.. and Mrs. Over
ell were found in their yatch March
IA after it sank in Newport Harbor
from effects of an explosion.
Prosecutor Eugene D. Williams
said he would rest with the ruling
by Superior Judge Kenneth E. Nor
rfson.
Courtroom spectators and news
paper reporters were barred from
the trial late yesterday after the
jury had been excused for the day
and while Mr.. Williams argued with
the court to admit as evidence Is
letters written in Jail by the defend
ants. t -
These letters Mrs. Williams as
serted at the outset of the case,
show consciousness of guilt.
Newsmen were warned in open
court against printing direct pas
sages from the love letters as used
in arguments by Mr.. Williams. The
press section was cleared at the
same time spectators were herded
into the corridor. Newsmen who
protested against the exclusion on
the ground that Mr.. Williams
statements were part of the public
record in the case were told by the
court that Mr.. Williams remarks
were mot on record until he has
concluded"
The court action in excluding the
press section was requested by Otto
Jacobs, Miss Overells attorney, who
interrupted Mr.. Williams to re-
mark: 'It was my impression we
we're going to argue this matter in
regard to the law but he Is not SO
confining himself, These remarks
will be in the press unless the press
is excluded"
At adjournment late yesterday
Mr.. Williams had not finished
arguing and Judge Morrison told
newsmen in his chambers that they
would be barred today until the
prosecutor concluded his statements
Mr.. Jacobs told the court that Mr.
Williams statements would be car
ried In the press and therefore
would be prejudicial to fair trial
for the defendants. The trial jury
is not being kept together outside
of court.
Evening star., 1947-08-12
Italy Agrees 10 Pact
Giving u. 5. Control,
Soviet Paper Charges
BY the Associaisd Press

LONDON, Aug. 12.-The Moscow
radio broadcast Pravda dispatch
from Paris today saying that Ital-
American negotiators had agreed
upon a - friendship, trade and navi-
CATION treaty" that would place
Italy under the unlimited control
of American monopolists.'
I'm Washington State Depart
ment officials flatly denied that
any type OF agreement has yet
been reached between Italian
American negotiators who have
been discussing wide variety
of subjects in Washington for
the past several months.
CA standard treaty of COM
merce, friendship and navigation
is under discussion, but many
additional months of detailed
negotiation will be required, be-
fore a final draft is ready, they
said)
Pravda said the treaty provided
that several measures of mill
tary nature be carried out jointly
by the United States and Italy in
the event of war against a third
power or powers"
Military Agreement Reported.
1.-The incorporation of such ar
ticles in the treaty." the paper
added, is regarded in Paris as evil
dence that along with negotiations
between the United States and
Italy on the above treaty they were
also negotiating a military agree
ment directed in the first place
against Yugoslavia."
The dispatch also discussed Amer
lean activity in Greece, concerning
which Pravda declared 1T has be-
come known in Paris that American
Representatives are working out q
new plan of Intervention In Greece
They intend to form volunteer
detachments of German Nazis and
Polish Quislings now in the Ameri-
can occupation zone of Germany
and concentrate these detachments
in Italian ports then transfer them
to Greece to fight the guerrillas,'
Pravda said.
Open Intervention Seen.
American representatives con-
tinue jointly with the Greek gov
ernment to work out plans for open
military Intervention. The Ameri-
can representatives, convinced of the
inability of government forces to
suppress the ever-mounting guer-
rilla' movement, believe foreign mill
tary Intervention in Greece to be
essential.
"At the same time, these repre-
sentatives< believe it is necessary to
postpone for a time the dispatch of
American or Turkish troops to
Greece. since in their opinion this
would involve certain political diff
ficulties-domestic Or international
for Greece and the United States.
Evening star., 1947-08-12
American Veteran 10 Wed
Kurusu S Daughter in Japan
By the Associated Press

TOKYO, Aug. PA daughter Of
Japan's peace envoy" to Washing
ton at the time OF the Pearl Harbor
attack will wed q former United
States Army lieutenant - possibly
Thursday. anniversary of Japan's
surrender.
The wife of former Envoy Saburo
Kurusu announced today her 81
year-old daughter Pis would marry
Frank White of Gen. MacArthur's
Reparation Section, probs bly, Thurs
day.
Mr.. White, former student at
Michigan State and at one time q
resident of lockwood, Pa, said he
planned to remain in Japan another
year and then take his wife back to
the States to resume his studies in
engineering.
A civil ceremony will be held in
the American consulate at Yoko-
hama. Mr.. White said he first met
Pia IA months ago when he was sta
toned with the 1st Cavalry Division
at Kuruiza&a, resort near Tokyo.
where the Kurusus have lived since
American bombers destroyed their
home in Tokyo.
Evening star., 1947-08-12

nc u deo IN
Mr.. Reber's new work will be the
direction of a new radar station 10
be erected at Sterling. Va, DR.. Con-
don said. This powerful instrument
will be used to detect solar and
cosmic radiation which penetrate
the earth's atmosphere.
A wartime engineer on many mill
tsry radsr and communication prof.
ects. Mr.. Reber was employed by
several private companies engaged
in the manufacture Of radio and
electrical equipment before the war.
He is a graduate of the Illinois In
stitute of Technology, and did grad
uate work at the University OF
Chicago.
Author of several papers on inter-
stellar static and electrical engi-
neering. he is a senior member of
the Institute TO Radio Engineers.
and belongs to the American Rocket
Society, the Chicago Astronomical
Society and the Franklin Institute.
Evening star., 1947-08-12
Scholarly Brazilian
Slated 10 Be Head Of
ter-American Talks
sy shs Assee;.ssd ersss


RIO DE JANEIRo, Aug. 12.-The
probable president OF the forth
coming Inter-American Conference
for maintenance of continental peace
and security is a lean, reserved and
elderly scholar trained in interna-
tional law.
He p Brazirs Foreign Minister,
Raul Fernandes, who as chief dele
gate OF the host nation for the
conference opening Friday at Hotel
Quitandinha, is expected to preside
over the important convention.
His outstanding characteristic
absolute frankness-may be ex-
pected to create some surprises. This
trait already has startled some
diplomats who have tried TO engage
Mr.. Fernandes in idle chatter.
A. man Of few but incisive words,
Mr.. Fernandes is described by his
close friends as devoted to rugged,
old fashioned honesty who will not
tolerate q lie even for social rea-
sons" He Is man OF great moral
prestige. tA 1
Has Refused High ONCE.
Mr.. Fernandes has not always
agreed with his country's govern
ment and at such times he has re-
fused to hold public ONCE. He sew
cred all connection with the regime
Of former President Getulio Vargas
in 1887 when Mr.. Vargas created
his dictatorial new state
Although q prominent member OF
the National Democratic Union, the
opposition party. Mr.. Fernandes is
known to have the complete con-
tidence of President Eurico Gaspar
Dutra.
One Of Brazil's leading authoritie:
in the field Of international juris.
prudence, the tall and balding Mr.
Fernandes, is also the director o
Brazil's current program Of build
ing a career diplomatic service.
Important diplomatic assignment!
have gone to career men instead o
political favorites under Mr.. Fer
nandes, who has been in ONCE les
than year.
Mr.. Fernandes has been an i'm
portant figure in the background o
Brazilian foreign policy since tn,
Treaty of Versailles in 1919 when h,
was one Of Brazils delegates to tn
conference ending World War I.
Paris Meeting Delegated.
He was also q delegate to tn.
Paris conference closing the recen
World War as the opposition party
leader on foreign affairs. In tn,
Chamber of Deputies he was chair
man of the Committee on Foreigl
Relations.
He was q Brazilian delegate OF
the Preparations Commission and II
the assemblies of the League o
Nations from 1920 to 1925, and wa
a member of the Leagues commit
tee to organize the Permanent Cour
OF International Justice at Tn
Hague.
Serving in Congress, from hi
native state of Rio de Janeiro at in
tervals from 1909, Mr.. Fernando
was Brazil's ambassador to Belgium
in 1926-27. He headed Brazil's dele
cation to the Pan-American con
ference in Havana in 1928.
He was graduated by the la'
school OF Sac Paulo in 1893 a
valedictorian of his class. A spe
cialist in juridical science, he wa
awarded a trip to Europe as tn
prize for the highest scholastic at
tainment.
His aides say that although MI
Fernandes Is outwardly cool, n
has q great heart ard deep respec
for Justice
Evening star., 1947-08-12
Boiling Field Chief Nurse
Gets REGULAR Commission

Capt. Inez Mcdonald, a veteran of
10 years in the Army Nurse Corps.
yesterday became the first woman
at Boiling Field to be commissioned
in the Regular Army.
Capt. Mcdonald. chief nurse at
the base hospital there. was sworn
in under povisions of law recently
enacted by Congress which made
the Nurse Corps a part OF the Reg
ular Army.
Evening star., 1947-08-12
Hotel Night Manager
Loses $86 to Bundit

A bandit early today held up and
robbed Gordon w. Steadman. night
manager of the Potomac Hotel, 800
Eighteenth street NV, Of $86, Mr.
Steadman reported to police.
Mr.. Steadman, who lives at 909
Garland avenue, Takoma Park
Md, told police the man, about IS
years old, asked for a room. He
then demanded change for S.. As
the night manager opened 4 cash
drawer, the man placed his hand
in his jacket pocket and demanded
money. He then fied on foot, Mr.
Steadman told police.
Evening star., 1947-08-12

Mr.. Reber, a
re 81 d e n t OF
w h e a ton, Ill.,.
will direct sew
eTal new prof.
ects on the study
of cosnic and
solar r q d l o
noise. DR.. Con-
don said. This
n oise, thought
to originate In
outer space and
in the sun, in
direct ly affects
radio communl-
cation.
Evening star., 1947-08-12
Four Nations Draw Lots
For 81 jap Worships
4. H. A.>s:~,>d p~>.s

sy the Asseeioi.d Press
TOKYO, Aug. 12.-The United
States, Great Britain, Russia and
China drew lots today for 80 more
japanese warships-almost all that
remains Of Japans once powerful
navy.
Each nation obtained one large
destroyer. six destroyer escorts and
one transport. All vessels were de-
militarized.
Evening star., 1947-08-12
Father Removes Son
lust Before Tree
Falls on Pioypen
Nv the Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. IA
The workmen cutting down a
large maple tree near the home
Of Benjamin Blank assured him
1t would fall into the street.
Mr.. Blank-after a moments
Observation-Disclosures not to take
their word for it and removed
his 1-year-old son from play
pen in the yard.
A few seconds later the tree
came crashing down on the
playpen.
Evening star., 1947-08-12
Luwn Porty Planned

The Young Peoples Service
League Of the Episcopal Church Of
the Epiphany, 2001 North Quincy
street, Arlington, will sponsor a lawn
party at the church at 7 pm. to-
morrow.
Evening star., 1947-08-12
Tuck at Vireinio Beech

RICHMOND. Va. Aug. IL iFp.-
Gov. Tuck left Richmond yester-
day to begin his vacation at Vir-
ginia Beach. He expects to be away
from his Office the remainder OF
this month ..-
Evening star., 1947-08-12
Grote Reber Is Named
To Standards Bureau

Appointment Of Grote Reber, IS,
radio physicist and engineer, to the
staff of the National Bureau of
Standards has been, announced by
DR.. E. u. Condor, director.
Evening star., 1947-08-12
FOUND

ARMY Discharge Of Jack Mason: on
streetcar, Aug. 3, 1941. See MR.. CRUSOE
All 10th st. NV.
COCKER SPANIEL, bun. male; in Airing
ton. CHI. 6S14.
FOUND, GERMAN SHEPHERD, vicinity
Sherman Circle. ia. 6492.
SHELTIE ttoy collie), female; North Court
TERRIER, brown end white, male; in Falls
Church. CHI. 5S14.
TOY COLLIE, black feMsle, purebred
tan and white face; found on Wilson blvd,
Arlington. CH. 5e14 or CHI. Obs.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-16
Antarctic Find

ABOARD U.S.S.. MT. OLYMPUS
IN ICE PACK-Delayed)-P)-
Scientists poking into south polar
secrets have discovered a brand
new underwater mountain, rich
fa~mlands on the ocean bottom and
streams Of fresh water flowing
far out into the pacific.
The new mountain was found be.
tween two ancient volcano craters
by DR.. Jack L. Hough and William
G. Metcalf of the Oceanographic
Institute, Woodshole, Mass. They
did their exploring from the ice
breaker Northwind, using a fatho-
meter which sends out impulses
and catches echoes as they bounce
back from the sea bottom.
The mountain and crate-s show
eG up when they made %soundings
south of Scott island which itself
is a bleak rocky mountain peak
rising 100, feet above the water.
Scott island is just north of Ross
sea outside the ice pack.
The soundings showed a huge
crater almost two miles deep just
south of Scott island. Then came
a mountain rising two miles from
the cea bed with its peak 1000
feet under the ocean surface.
Further south was another crater
slightly more than two miles deep.
The craters were 80 miles apart.
Using a coring tube, Hough and
Metcalf got samples of the ocean
bottom and tiny pieces of volcanic
rock. These will be studied for
clues of how the Antarctic %contin-
ent looked when it was a sub
tropical area millions of years ago.
They also found the ocean bottom
near the Ross sea is something
like the rich facmlands of the
American Midwest. 1t is covered
with south polar soil deposited by
floating icebergs or possibly even
by glaciers which long ago extend
ed farther out from the shores of
Antarct1ca. these samples Will be
studied for minerals existing under
the Antarctic ice.
The cold fresh water currents
were detected through the use of a
bathythermograph which measures
water temperatures and saltiness
at various depths. The currents
come from melting glaciers. Start
ing out as fresh water, the cur
rents remain relatively fresh for
long distances and flow in layers
500 feet thick about 200 feet under
the surface. About 500 miles out
from the coast the currents dip
downward below the 900-foot range
OF the bathythermograph, but the
streams, becoming saltier all the
time, may flow as far north as the
leouator.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-16
The Book OF KNOWLEDGE

things that we see are living things.
The book that you are now reading
is not a living thing. The table
upon which you rest your book is
not a living thing, neither is the
coal in your cellar, nor the metal
IN your fathers automobile.
All things upon this earth are
either living or not living mon
living, we might say.) In certain
cases, to be sure, there is a certain
relationship between living things
and things that are not alive. The
paper in your Book of knowledge
is not a living thing. but it came
from a spruce tree which is very
much alive. The coal in your cellar
vas once a living thing in a great
tropical forest. What is the differ
ence, then, between paper and the
living tree from which it was
made; between coal and the fern
tree that flourished hundreds of
thousands of years ago?
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-16
Republican Tax Change

This matter Of taxes which, like death,
is always before us, is undergoing a con-
qressional change from the republican
forecasts a month or so ago. Then it
was generally believed that the republi-
can Congress would not only cut income
taxes by 20 per cent but roll back the
excise tax as we'll at its wartime expira-
lion, next July /.
Now comes word from Washinqton
that Representative Knutson, chairman
OF the House Ways and Means Committee,
proposes TO sponsor Legislation 10 continue
excise taxes indefinitely and 10 rush COM
mittee hearings on the proposal with the
hope of getting it 10 the floor not later than
Friday.
Apparently the republican leadership in
the House has swung into line with Presi-
dent Truman's recommendation. Fifteen
republican members of the Knutson com
mittee are reported Standing four-square
with their chairman.
Explaining his position Mr.. Knutson
says that with the billion and one-half
dollars obtained from the excise tax, a 20
per cent cut in income taxes, from which
the great majority Of the nations iaxpay-
ers would benefit, will "be easy" This is
quite clear, as the proposed income tax
reduction would reduce the Treasury reve-
nue. by three and one-half billions. But
it may be the plan Of the majority TO find
other means of bringing the two figures
into agreement through the slashing Of
federal spending, especially on payrolls.
The need for speed is explained on the
grounds that business generally is suffer:
ing from the uncertainty on the tax by con
sumers, who are Staying out OF the mar
ket in anticipation thai the levy will be
allowed TO die. 1T is necessary TO act
one way or the other quickly" says
Speaker Marlin, to end this uncertainty.
In view Of the countrY's economic situa
lion and the tremendous national debt, INT
change in position Of the House majority
is wise, however burdensome continuation
of the excise tax may be-