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Evening star., 1947-04-29

Of entering his home at $50 an,
police described Mr.. Harris death
As = well l-planr1ed murder
Mrs. Minnie Harris, 37-yeAr-old
wife Of the dead man, told police
she found her husband lying In his
blood-soaked bed about $40 am.
when she returned from 4 30-minute
trip to nearby cleaning establish
ment.
Police found no sign Of q struggle
and there was nothing TO indicate
robbery was the motive. No weapon
capable Of infiicting the fatal blows
was found in the house. 3izo Tnir-
teenth street NV.
Mrs. Harris told police she found
the front door and bedroom window
open. She said her husband had
been asleep In his hrst-hoor bed
room when she left the house.
According to police, Mr. Harris
had worked on the picket line the
previous night and had come home
about 8 am.
frequently sobbing, Mrs. Harris
was questioned at police headquar-
ters yesterday afternoon.
Evening star., 1947-04-29
DR.. Eckener Leaves Reich
To Direct Tests in u. ). ,
BY the Associated Press

FRANKFURT. Germany, April
29.-Dr. Hugo Eckener, noted Ger
man designer OF Zeppelins, left
Frankfurt by air last night for the
United States, where, he recently
said, he plans to direct aviation
experiments by Goodyear Co. tech
nicians somewhere in Ohio"
Although DR.. Eckener last week
denied there was any military i'm
plications in his projected expert
ments, he was escorted by an Amer
,csn military intelligence officer who
forbade interviews or pictures as the
72-year-old scientist boarded an
Air Transport Command plane.
Airport officials said the plane
probably would arrive at Westover
Field, Mass, about 4 pm. today.
Evening star., 1947-04-29
BY ths Assoeiatsd Press

The Federal job patronage squab-
BILE between Texas Senators Connal-
ly and O'Daniel, Democrats, erupted
in earnest late yesterday and pre-
cipitated a heated verbal clash be-
tween Senators Connally and Lam
ger, Republican, of North Dakota.
The first Of the days develop
ments came when Senator ODaniel
issued surprise announcement
stating that he does not intend to
oppose the nomination OF Repre-
sentative Thomson, Democrat, OF
Texas as Federal district judge for
Western Texas.
The second major development
was an 8-to-4 vote by the Senate
Judiciary Committee to send the
nomination of Joe B. Dooley OF
Amarillo as 4 Federal district Judge
for Northern Texas to the Senate
floor with favorable recommenda-
tionion confirmation.
The tilt between Senators Con-
nally and LANCER followed the COM
mittee vote, when the Texan
harned that Senator LANCER had
simply voted for Mr.. Dooley's, nom
nation. to be sent to the Senate
foor without Recommendation. AL
13 Judiciary committeeman were
present. ~ .2'''''
z while the committee met behind
closed doors in q room just across
hie corridor from the Senate cham
ber, Senator Connally sat outside
on bench with reporters. AS soon
as the group adjourned, Senator
Connally went into the committee
Evening star., 1947-04-29
Czechs Begin Trial Of Batd
As Nazi Collaboration
BY the Assosjatsd Press

PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, April
20. Jan Antonin BAta, one-time
shoe industry king, went on trial in
absentia yesterday on charges OF
wartime collaboration with the Ger
mans.
The National Court named defense
counsel because Bata has refused
to acknowledge the charges or make
any defense. Bata, whose industry
now has been nationalized, is
charged with having worked for the
benefit of the enemy and having
supported the Nazi movement In
Czechoslovakia and abroad.
His defense lawyer, contending
that Bata actually now is a citizen
of Brazil, was overruled by the court,
One of the first witnesses. Edward
Valenta, Czech journalist who once
worked In the United States, testi-
fed that Bata refused to aid the
Czech resistance movement by per-
mitting his shoe industry branches
around the world to be used as re-
Sistance centers.
Evening star., 1947-04-29
ConnoIIy, LANCER Near Blows
On Nomination Vote PLEDGE

room along with the newsmen and
heard Chairman Wiley tell Of Sen
ator Langer's vote.
Senator Connally flushed and said /:
why, LANCER told me he would
vote aye. Where Is he? I want him
to change that vote and be recorded
like he said he was going to vote. "
With that the big, bristling Texan
hurried across the corridor and into
the, Senate chamber. Reporters
could not follow him on to the
floor, but \ minute later he and Sen
ator LANCER came back out through
the door engaging in an angry ex-
change of expletives.
Senator Connally hurled the
charge '1iar" at Senator LANCER,
and the North Dakotan, chewing
vigorously on . cigar, was heard to
reply: !
you might be big shot in Texas,
but you can't bluff me-"
For a moment a score or more
persons in the corridor thought the
men were going TO- resort to fsti-
cuffs. But they separated and re-
turned to the chamber. -
Questioned later about his posi-
tion, Senator Langer said, =. r.
o.. "As far as I know, Mr.. Dooley is
an honest man. Since coming here
I never have voted for any man
"a Senator. said was obnoxious. ~. /
don't believe q a nomination should
be kept indefinitely in =, commit
tee.
I'm going to vote against him
Dooley) on the floor on the grounds
that Senator O'Daniel says he is
personally Objectionable to him"
Evening star., 1947-04-29
q DonneIIO . Offers Sc oReword,
Coils Harris SIoyinq 'Outrcqe

81 A $500 reward for information
leading to the arrest and conviction
Of the person or persons responsible
for the death Of James e. Harris,
10, union business agent. was Of
fered today by Thomas O,Donneil
restaurant proprietor.
Mr.. Harris, colored agent for the
union which has been striking
against the O,Donnell restaurants,
was found slain yesterday morning
with deep sAsi1es In his face and
neck. He WAS In charge OF the
picket lines OF the stirling CIo
Cafeteria and Restaurant Workers
Union.
In notifying Chief Of Detectives
Robert j. Barrett Of the reward
offer, Mr.. ODonnell declared such
violence Is an outrage to our COM
munity."
without discomting the possibility
that Mr.. Harris position with q
striking union had some connection
with his death. police said they
also were investigating along other
lines.
AS the result Of an autopsy per-
formed late yesterday, Coroner A.
Magruder Mcdonald reported that
Mr.. Harris was killed with a heavy,
sharp instrument. He said the in-
strument might have been 4 large
butcher knife, meat cleayer or
bayonet.
Attorneys for both the union and
the restaurant conceded there had
been some threats exchanged in the
vicinity Of the restaurants, but
insisted the threats were not violent
enough to lead to killing and were
not directed personally at Mr.. Harris.
Inspector Barrett has assigned
four Of his best men to the case.
They are Detective Sergts. E. E.
Scott, Harold Huffman. Robert Tai
bot and John O. Curtis.
While friends OF the dead man
theorized that a gang would have
waylaid their victim At night instead
Evening star., 1947-04-29
u. S. Bars General Foods Corp.
From Grain Pit in Rye Price Case

late rye prices from January, 1914
to May. 1914.
Charles w. Metcalf, then execu-
tive vice president of General Foods
Corp, as well as the corporation
itself, was found to have attempted
to manipulate prices in the May
1914, future. ....
The corporation was freed of an
accusation that 1t had participated
in any corner or attempts to corner
the rye market.
Yesterdays findings-by the de-
partment's judicial officer, Thomas
j. Flavin-were made on the basis
of lengthy hearings on original COM
plants brought by the Secretary of
Agriculture under the Commodity
Exchange Act. This law gives the
department certain powers to police
the Nations commodity market.
The corporation has the right to
appeal the decision in the Court Of
Appeals.
Evening star., 1947-04-29
ParaguayCom
Reported 10 Have Fled
BY the Asseeioted Press

BUENOs AIRES, April 2e.-An
ofhcial Argentine source said today
that Col. Federico N. Smith, COM
mander Of Paraguayan government
forces before the capital Of Asun-
cion, has fed to Clorinda on the
Argentine side Of the Paraguay
River.
The informant said Col. Smiths
successor, whom he did not identify,
also fed Asuncion."
rs The Paraguayan government" in
ba communique transmitted direct to
the Associated Press, acknowledged
that insurgent centers of resistance
were still holding out in Asuncion,
Sc hours after marines fevolttd In
sympathy with northern 3insutgents.
The communidue said calm is
almost totally restored" and pre-
dicted the last rebels in the capital
would be wiped out soon. 1t said
there were two main centers of
resistance and added that the re-
belling marines had been aided by
civilians. the majority Of whom
are Communists"
Most of the navy was declared
to have remained loyal and naval
technicians were said to have re-
stored electric power In the city
after the powerhouse was recap
tured from the rebels.
Evening star., 1947-04-29

The Agriculture Department has
ordered 30-day suspension OF trad
ing privileges on grain and other
contract markets by General Foods
Corp, New York, effective June 7.
The department announced yes
terday that it had formally found
the corporation attempted to manip-
ulate prices Of rye on the Chicago
Board of Trade in May, 1914, in
violation of the Commodity Ex-
change Act.
It also found four individuals and
trading company had violated the
Commodity Exchange Act in connec-
tion with spectacular trading ac-
tivities in the rye market In the
same year.
Daniel r. Rice, Daniel r. Rice u
Co.. Phillip r. OBrien and Lawrence
J. Ryan, members of the Chicago
market, were found to have at
tempted to corner the rye market
and to have attempted to manipu-
Evening star., 1947-04-29
U. S. Chamber
CONTINUED From First Page

Americans-will there be depres-
sion and will there be war? -
Earl o. Shreve, vice president
Of the General Electric Co. and 6
vice president of the chamber, sale
I'VE are on the road to plenty.
There might be moderate bump
which some prefer to call reces.
sion accompanying readjustmeni
in ~prices, he said, but then the
country can catch its second wind
fors the long run in the race tt
produce and prove. the superior
merits Of the enterprise system.
Peace Outlook Gmprovedses
He was the keynote speaker oil
the first general session OF The
four-dsy meeting. @A g
Secretary. OF the Nayy Fueresta
tola the businessmen he thought
'tlfe outlook for peace is somewhat
Improved mostly because we are
facing the facts of international life
more realistically than we did two
years ago"
He said world stability was neces-
sary and the maintenance of armed
forces by the United States is one
of the great factors, if not at the
moment the greatest and most i'm
portant, contributing to the hope OF
such stability"
Walter Lippmann, author and
newspaper columnist, told the dele
gates both Moscow and Washing
ton are in the greatest danger of
losing control over the choice be-
tween war and peace"
I'VE are both playing the most
dangerous game in the world" he
said, which is to deal with one
another through satellites and pup
pets and weak clients"
To avoid war-which would end
in universal anarchy"-he said we
must resist the expansion of the
Soviet Empire, but that we must
accompany this pressure-which is
dangerous, expensive and difficult
with clear and realizable terms of
peace"
Canadian Chamber of Commerce
President C. Gordon Cockshutt told
the delegates prosperity of the world
is jeopardiZed unless North Amer
lean countries are prepared to ac-
cept goods made elsewhere and lead
in a breakdown of trading restraints
Yesterday. Lit. Gen. J. Lawton
Collins, War Department informa-
ton chief. told delegates the United
States is terribly weak" and Russia
is capable of putting 20 times as
many divisions in the field. He said
the United States has 10 divisions
compared with the 200 Russia could
put in the field right now"
Last night delegates. Senators
and Representative met at 30 diff
ferent State dinners.
At 7 o'clock tonight Henry Ford
II will talk on the obligations of
Business Management" at dinner
for delegates at the Hotel Statler.
Arch N. Booth, chamber president
Evening star., 1947-04-29
Alexandra Light PIani
Costing S3,33O,OOO
To Start in June
BY Robert J. Lewis
Real Estate Editor OF The s,o,

The Braddock Light g. Power
Co. In June will start a $40 ,Ooo.- :
900 expansion project which will
include construction of a power
generating plant In Alexandra
to cost s3,330,00o.
This was disclosed today after ff,e
Facilities Review Committee of the
Office of the Housing Expediter had
approved construction of the gem
Grating plant
James H. Ferry. executive vice
president of the Potomac Electric
Power Co., and vice president of the
Braddock Co. a Pepco subsidiary
which operates In nearby Virginia.
said the $4,000. 900 expenditure
would include about SIS 900 900 for
two 10000 kilowatt generating units.
The power plant will have space
for installation of an additional
three units, which may raise the
ultimate expenditure by as much as
s25,000,000 or $4,000 900, Mr.. Ferry
said.
oo 70 AtCTEHSE III tapACILy.
According to present plans, the
generating plant will be completed
by the end of 1949. One generating
unit Is expected to be operating by
rid-1948, six months before compile
ton Of the building.
Operation of the two generating
units In the present project will
increase the power generating capac-
ity of the two companies by about
IS per cent, Mr.. Ferry said.
Installation of the additional three
units, which is contemplated at Ave
year intervals over the next Is years,
would almost double the two firms
present capacity of 457, 1000 kilowatts.
15-Acre Site Planned.
The new generating plant will
occupy a site of approximately Is
acres along the Potomac River water
front in Alexandria at BashfordH
lane and the Washington 81 Old
Dominion Railroad.
The plart will use powdered fuel
and have smoke and cinder preven-
ton equipment, Mr.. Ferry said.
Transmission lines to carry $1,000
volts will be built underground.
eve are undertaking this project.
In order to prepare to meet the.
needs of sn expanding area" Mr..
Ferry said. Business needs are
growing so fast that it was neces-
sary to anticipate this growth
Stone & Webster Engineering Co.
will be the general contractors for
the project, ]
Evening star., 1947-04-29
Mcneil and NeWnIyer
Named Candidaiesi ior
ID. {. Bar Presidency

The District Bar Association =
Nominations Committee last night
named George 3. Mcneil and Alvin
L. Newmyer. .sr., Is candidates for
the associations presidency at an
election to be held June 5 In Dis-
trict Court.
Mr.. Mcneil served as Assistant
United States Attorney for II years
and was ad.interim United States
attorney briefly last fall, before re-
turning to private practice. He was
the bar associations choice for the
post, to which George NJ. Fay was
named In November.
Mr.. Newmyer, = graduate OF
George Washington University, has
been active in legal circles here for
Al years. He was 4 director OF the
District Bar Association in 1888, and
| is 4 member Of the judicial Confer
ence Committee Of the American
Bar Association.
Donohue, Gray Nominated.
For first vice president the COM
mittee nominated r. Joseph Dono-
hue and Wilbur L. Gray. Mrs.
Elizabeth M. Cox and Roger Robb
were nominated for second vice
president.
Kenneth N. Parkinson and Charles
E. Smoot were nominated for Sec
retary. and Lowry N. Coe and A. r..
Pilkerton for treasurer.
Nominations for the three vacan-
cies on the Board Of Directors in
clude Edmund D. Campbell, Walter
c. English, Jacob N. Halper. Joseph
o. Janousek, Mrs. Irene Kennedy,
Richard l.. Tedrow. Frederick A.
Thuee. South Trimble and Freder-
lex s. Tyler.
Bullet Ballot" Opposed,
r. Regis Noel. chairman of the
Nominating Committee, led a move
to outlaw the bullet ballot" at the
coming election. by which voters
cast several votes for single csndi-
date where more than one vacancy
Is to be filled.
Mr.. Noel's views, submitted as a
minority report" of the committee,
denounced this practice as unfair,
dishonest and dishonorable, espe-
cially among lawyers"
He urged that If the practice
continued at the Forthcoming elec-
ton the bylaws of the association
be amended to reduce the number of
nominees for the board OF directors
from nine to six-two for each
vacancy.
He also recommended banning
any candidate who has campaigned
for an association post in advance
Of nomination.
Evening star., 1947-04-29
Macarthur Rift With Army
On Reparations Is Denied
ey The Assoe;o.ed Pres,

TOKYO, April 29-An Allied
headquarters spokesman today
termed inaccurate" what he said
were reports of "a wide divergence
of opinion" existing between Gen
Macarthur and the War Depart
ment on reparations plans.
In statement issued without ex-
planation, the spokesman added:
There were initial differences in
the various plans for handling of
reparations problems. However, su-
preme commander. Allied powers
and War Department plans have
been easily reconciled where neces-
ssry. These plans were presented
TO the Far Eastern Commission as
the American plan.
Because soap does not deliber-
ate with the FEC, 1t Is patiently i'm
possible for any divergence to exist
between headquarters and the War
Department reparations outlook"
Evening star., 1947-04-29
Mclean
Continued From First Page.)

neiEhbor recalled, She would just
smile at him and say she was an Of
fetal. He learned to recognize her
even in the dark because of her
beautiful perfume. She worked very
hard at being an AFRAID warden. -
Il knew her from church work, .
said woman who lived near the old
Friendship She didn't belong to
my church but she helped every
body. If you went to her and told
her somebody was in need. she'd see
they were helped. Shed give away
clothes that were hardly worn and
when she moved from the old
Friendship, she gave a lot to the
Thrift Shop"
A man. sitting with his wife on
the low stone wall across the street
from the Mclean mansion, spoke
In a low voice.
when I was 13 years OLD" he said
"I was in the Industrial Home
School. I'll never forget the time
she invited all the kids from the
home school to Friendship. She gave
Us party"
Crippled Soldiers Enter.
As they talked. the mourners
across the street kept their eyes or
the closed door with its spray 81
purple orchids. They had seer
Supreme Court Justice Frank Murplts
enter the house They had also seer
the door open to two soldiers. One
Evening star., 1947-04-29
Art Judges Amazed When Told
Churchill Painted Selections

/ told of the report of Japans sur
render. ..
Good" he muttered, and went
on selecting. paint.
Mr.. Churchill never has thought
much Of his talent. During the
last war, . British serviceman Of
fered him copy of the first issue
Of Allied Post. q service newspaper
put out in Africa, in exchange for
one Of oils. Mr.. Churchill replied:
II regret I must decline as I am
merely an amateur painter who
paints for his own satisfaction.
|. Nevertheless, he once won honors,
several years ago, in strictly anna
teur exhibit.
His Royal Academy exhibits are
winter Sunshine" country
scene, and the The Loup River
Alpes Maritime" q river scene. The
latter goes on the line.
Evening star., 1947-04-29
BY the Assoeioied Press

LONDON, April pa mysterious
landscape painter who turned out
to be Winston Churchill had Lon
don's art world agog today.
/: Under the name of Mr.. Winter
of whom no art Judge had heard
the cigar smoking amateur sub
mitted two canvases to the Royal
Academy, Britains foremost gall
lery, and hoped, probably half
heartedly, that they'd be good
enough for q spot in its annual
exhibition.
Only arts elite ever make the
grade, but both of "Mr. Winters"
entries were accepted. One was
ordered hung ION the line" or at
eye level. Professional painters
have daubed for years without
achieving that distinction.
A spokesman for the academy
said the selection committee learn
ed only after finishing Its work that
Mr.. Winter" was IN fact the ma
tons wartime Premier and veteran
statesman.
You could have knocked us over
with an easel" he said.
He is really quite good" he said
with touch of wonderment in his
voice. TITS not the usual thing, you
know. for a man of u to start ex-
hibiting here"
Mr.. Churchill himself kept silent,
but his secretary said it would be
fair to guess that he was pleased.
Brickmason, diplomat. reporter
and historian. the stubby, eloquent
former Premier. began dabbling in
water colors before World War I as
way Of escape from politics.
But he didn't really get absorbed
until midway In the first war while
home on leave he entertained the
great painter, Sir John Lavery, at
his country home and mentioned
that he had trouble with oils.
Sir John said Mr.. Churchill could
learn and lent him the tools. Later
they painted each others portraits.
Mr.. Churchill has been painting
ever since. but only for fun.
Mr.. Churchill was buying paints
in a London shop when, as the new
ly retired Prime Minister, he was
Evening star., 1947-04-29
Head of B. { 0. Denies
Fraud in $50, ,OoO. 900
|RFC Loan 10 Railroad
By HE Asseeisssd pfeas

Roy B. White, president Of the
Baltimore q Ohio Railroad, fiatly
denied today that the ,. 4 O. ever
was = party to any fraudulent Oh
otherwise improper act'' In connec-
tion with an $s0. 200. 900 RFC loan
to the railroad.
Mr.. White made his statement
under oath to the. Senate Banking
Committee In reply to charges BY
Cassius Clay, former B. n O. solic-
itor general, that Jesse Jones, when
he headed the RIG, approved .
fraudulent" and fictitious bank
ruptcy" Of the railroad.
II deny without reservation the
truth Of any statement, expressed
or implied, chat the Baltimore Il
Ohio Railroad Co, has been party
to any fraudulent or otherwise Inn
proper act incident to its dealings
with the Reconstruction Finance
Corp. or anyone else"
Loan Extension Studied.
The committee is investigating
the extension to 1865 Of the matur.
ity date OF the $50, ,000, 900 RFC loan
to the B. o. The loan originally
was due in 1914. The Investigation
is preliminary to consideration by
the committee whether to extend
the life OF the EFC beyond June 80.
Chairman Tobey Of the Banking
Committee has termed the exten-
sion clearly Illegal and has con-
tended that it was arranged in an
atmosphere Of "skullduegery'' and
'thimble-riggerry"
Mr.. White testified that state
ments that the B. d. o. (reorgani-
zation) plan is in any respect the
result Of fraud or collusion on It's
part" are wholly untrue"
E. H. Burgess, general counsel and
vice president Of the B. O., Joined
Mr.. White in denouncing charges
against the railroad.
Il stoutly deny" Mr.. Burgess told
the committee, that there has been
any bad faith or fraud or mishan-
dllng or Wrongdo1ng."
Quizzed on Refusal to Delay.
This statement followed oues-
tioning by Tobey as to why the B. q
Q. refused SeCnator Tobey's re-
quest to delay the bonds exchange
extending the loan to 1865.
Mr.. Burgess said the courts have
approved the extension and the rail-
road regards this as 4 mandate"
to 60 through with the plan.
Mr.. Burgess said 1t would be bad
faith" on the part Of the B. h o.
ito go into court to seek a delay
on an action bondholders had ap-.
proved"
Senator Tobey replied that "any
court in Gods world would be glad
to acauiesce" In q delay to allow
the committee to probe what Sena-
tor Tobey called "chicanery" and
a "trumped- up" situation.
Robert D. L'Heureux. committee
counsel, previously had testified that
Mr.. Jones and his friends gained
effective control" of the B. g. O.
by placing former RFC officials in
positions with the B. 6s o. Among
others, he mentioned Russell l..
Snodgrass, former assistant general
counsel Of the RFC and now B. q
o. vice president in charge Of A..
nance. ..,-..r.
Mr.. White said he took the IN.
itiative In hiring Mr.. Snodgrass and
that Mr.. Jones was reluctant" to-
let him leave RFC.
Evening star., 1947-04-29
Bill Coils for Prompt
Loundry Claim Payments

If your laundry loses your shirt,
or dry cleaner loses your suit, you
would be paid promptly after filing
4 claim, under a bill introduced in
the House yesterday by Represen-
tative Beall, Republican Of Mary
land.
Mr.. Beall said he introduced the
measure as a result OF many COM
plants coming to him from people
who had had trouble collecting such
damages. Personally, however, he
said, he had experienced no diff
ficulty on this score.
His measure was referred to the
House District Committee, of which
he Is a member.