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Economic
Continued From First Page

modities and Id regulating specu-
latton on the commodity exchanges.
And such voluntary agreements,
when approved by the President.
would be immune from antitrust
law violations. However, price fix
ing would be specifically barred, and
no agreement could extend beyond
March l, 1919.
Export Controls Continued.
2. Continue export, controls. for
one year from next February 90
and authorize the President to fix
maximum markups in export prices
over domestic prices.
g. Continue for the same period
existing presidential power to al
locate box cars and other rail
transportation facilities.
4. Increase from Is per cent
to 40 per cent the gold reserves
behind currency issued by Federal
Reserve banks; increase from Is
per cent to IS per cent the gold
reserves Federal Reserve banks
must carry to support deposits of
commercial banks.
If this program gets by the House,
1t goes to the Senate, where Repub-
lican members on Saturday put
much the same points and half
dozen others into their own plan
for fighting initiation. In addition,
the Senators called for a boost in
production, and cuts in taxes, the
national debt and Federal spending.
But for the special session, the
Republican Senators pledged action
only on voluntary agreements and
export and transportation controls.
Truman Plan Sidetracked.
Like the Senators, president Tru-
man has submitted 10-point pro-
gram to Congress. He has said any
thing less will be inadequate.
He wanted such things as export
and transportation controls, too.
But he asked in addition for power
to bring back selective price and
wage controls and rationing au-
thority for use if voluntary methods
of attacking imitation fail to get
results.
While the Truman program
definitely has been sidetracked,
neither the House nor Senate
Republicans ruled out completely
the kind of controls the Chief
Executive recommended on a stand
by basis.
A policy statement by the Repub-
Ican Senators said:
IF it appears that voluntary con-
trolls are inadequate to meet spe-
cific problems we will consider the
granting of authority to meet such
particular problems
And the House Banking Commit
tee said in report Saturday that it
expects to make further and
more detailed study of the Presi-
dents proposals at the next regular
session of more specific information
can then be made available to the
committee"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-12-15
Ferguson Will Succeed
Brewster as Probe Head
BY the Associated Press

Senate Republican leaders have
picked Senator Ferguson of Michi-
gan to head an inquiry committee
which will take over work of the
Senate War Investigating Commit
tee when it expires January 81.
Senator Ferguson, who currently
has taken the lead in an inquiry
into Edwin w. Pauleys grain mar
ket operations, thus will step into
the role Senator Brewster of Maine
expects to vacate.
Senator Brewster, war Investigate
ing chairman. has declared that he
has no intention of asking for an
extension of the life OF the COM
mittee, which was given a year last
January to finish and report on its
years OF poking into the machinery
of the Nations war effort. Origi-
nally. the committee was headed by
President Truman when he was q
Senator.
1t is his understanding, Senator
Brewster said, that Senator Fergu-
son will handle inquiries as chair.
man of an Expenditures Subcom.
mittee empowered to look into Z
broad field Of Government activities
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-12-15
Joe 7. Biff|e, 81, Dies;
Senate Officers Brother

Notice of the death Of Joe T.
Biff1e, 81. only brother of Leslie L.
Biff1e, staff director of the Minority
Policy Committee of the Senate, was
received today on Capitol Hill. He
died yesterday at Miami Beach, Fla,
after suffering from undulant fever
for two years.
Funeral services are to be held at
l pm. tomorrow in the Fort Myer
Chapel, with burial in Arlington
Cemetery.
Mr.. Biffle served for more than Is
years as a cotton specialist in the
Agriculture Department. In World
War I he served overseas with the
Armys 9Th Ammunition Train. He
leaves his wife, Mrs. Nonnie Biffle
and his brother.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-12-15
7 Oil Trucks Collide, Burn
In Baltimore; Drivers Safe
BY the Associated Press

by me %SSoCtOIto HTeSS
BALTIMORE, Dec. Is. Two oil
trucks crashed and went up in
flames on Southeast Baltimore
street early today but the drivers
escaped without injury.
Flaming fuel oil cascaded down
the cutters, soaring the fronts OF
houses and threatening large fac
tory. packing house and several
other buildings before firemen sum-
moned by five alarms could snuff il
out.
The heat was so intense it melted
the display sign on the front of 9
tavern. Residents of two blocks were
awakened at 6 am. and warned Of
the -danger.s -
One of the drivers was William L
Pastors, SO, of Alexandria, who was
driving here from Washington fol
a load of gasoline. The other truck
had just taken on ALSO gallons Of
fuel OIL
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-12-15
University Student S
Slayer Also Confesses
kidnap Death ofGir|,S

JEFFERSON, Wis, Dec. 15.-A
confession from a lifer's cell today
tied together two of Wisconsin's
most heinous crimes and brought
the long search for 8-year-old
Georgia Jean Weckler of Fort At
kinson, Wis, to a close.
District Attorney Francis Clarity
said he had obtained written con-
fession from Buford Sennett, o.,
sentenced to life Imprisonment last
month for the murder of Carl Carl
son, University of Wisconsin stu
dent, that he and an unnamed ac-
complete gave the Weckler girl q
fatal overdose Of sleeping pills last
May / after kidnapping her from the
lane OF her rural home.
The body, Mr.. Clarity said the con-
fession continued, was dumped into
the Blue River in Western Wiscon-
sin from the same span Sennett and
Robert Winslow, "a. dropped Mr..
Carlson's body. Mr.. Carlson was shot
and killed November IA after Sen
nett and Winslow had attacked his
sister-in-law on an all-night auto
ride.
I'VE dropped the body just oppo-
site the place we dropped Carlson's
body Clarity said the confession
related. TT was we'll weighted and
you should find it nearby"
Mr.. Clarity said dragging opera
tons had begun.
Sennett refused to divulge the
name of his companion, Mr.. Clarity
said, adding he was convinced it
was not Winslow.
The confession said the pair in
tended originally to kidnap the
child, whose parents are well-to-do
farmers, and hold her for ransom.
They picked the child up after
she had been dropped off by a
neighbor who gave her a ride home
from school.
Sennett said his car was used
in the original phase of the crime
and that he drove while his friend
kept the little girl on the floor of
the rear seat.
They drove to a woods near Rich
land Center, Sennett's home, Mr..
Clarity said, and got into the friends
car. They gave the girl two sleep
ing pills.
Sennett said he then drove away
to keep date with girl friend,
leaving the other man and the
Weckler child alone In the car
parked in the woods The next
morning, the confession continued,
Sennett returned to the woods and
found the girl dead.
Mr.. Clarity quoted the confession:
You will find, Mr.. Clarity, she was
snot, but I know she died of the
sleeping pills"
The district attorney said he was
unable at this time to explain the
reference to the shooting or when
it happened.
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k. of G.. Condemns YuIe Cards
Bearing Message From Wallace

ment and Mr.. Wallace was not i'm
mediately available.
In open letters to the public Mr.
Wallace and the Pea, Mr.. Kennedy
wrote, the cards were designed as
an attack against those who believe
in the nativity of our Lord - We
resent individuals and organiza tons
whose policy is designed to foment
discord among the peoples Of our
country"
Mr.. Kennedy said the council con-
sidered 'sacrilegious and obscene a
card entitled Mother and Child" by
Joseph Hirsch, which he described
as showing nude woman and child
Mr.. Wallace's printed message on
the cards said: Il hear no armies
marching. I hear only a world cry
ing out for peace"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-12-15

NEW YORK, Dec. 15.-The New
York State Council of the knights
Of Columbus has condemned a sci
Of six Christmas cards bearing 8
message by Henry A Wallace as ar
"atheistic attack against our Chris
tan belief and the things We hold
sacred"
The Progressive Citizens of Amer
lea, whose art division published
and offered the cards for sale, SAID
it had received copy of the K of C
protest signed by Matthew F. Ken
needy, chairman of the councils
Catholic Affairs Committee. on be-
half of $4,000 K. of C. members in
the council Jurisdiction.
The Pea had no immediate com.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-12-15
Power Shortage Seen
By Wickard as Peril
To Food Production

American farmers ability to pro-
duce food for urgent domestic and
foreign needs may be hampereo
seriously, unless something is done
to increase the Nations production
OF electrical power, Claude r
Wickard, rural electrification ad-
ministrator. said last night.
He declared that the United
States faces a serious shortage OF
electrical power, which is par
ticularly crucial for rural areas ano
that private power concerns are
failing to do enough about. it.
Mr.. Wickard hit at what he
described as the traditional lack
of foresight which power company
leaders have displayed in their
estimate of the potentialities o.
rural identification.
Cites Cakes Statement.
He declared that with power
shortages appearing in every sec.
ton of the country, Charles E
Cakes, president of the Edison
Electric Institute, has said tina,
"rumors' of an impending wide
spread shortage of electrical power
were "unWarranted and untrue"
Mr.. Wickard said that 80 long as
that kind of thinking dominate.
the power company circles. 1t Is
obvious that rural areas are going
to be severely handicapped
The rural electrification admin.
istration chiefs statement on the
power situation was based on g
special investigation of electrical
supplies made by committee oil
r. E. A engineers and power special.
lists.
This committee said the utilities
expansion program for correcting
the power shortage needs scrutiny
1t said the amount of new genera.
ton capacity scheduled is large, but
UP to now orders for new capacity
are scarcely meeting the increase ir
demand.
Rationing Considered.
The committee confined its in
vestigation to the II States Of
Arizona, Colorado. Iowa, Kansas
Minnesota. Missouri, Nebraska, New
Mexico, North Dakota, South
Dakota and wyoming.
The committee reported that in
some of these States and in some
others, power companies are con-
sidering rationing to cope with the
situation. In some areas, it said
utility companies are working out
arrangements with large industrial
consumers to curtail their loads dur
ing peak hours.
The residential and small COM
mercial consumers might not be
curtailed, although service they re-
celve may be less than satisfactory,
the committee said
The committee is deeply appre-
hensive lest rural areas, many OF
which were among the first to feel
the power shortage, may be among
the last to obtain relief"
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Military Rites Planned
For Lunoyher Re-BurioI

A military funeral will be held at
Arlington Cemetery att pm. We'd
nesday for S/Sergt. William H.
Langyher, who died June 7, 1914
while taking part In the invasion of
Normandy.
The re-burial services for the 29th
Division. veteran. who was rs when
he died, will be attended by his
wife, parents and sister, all residents
of Washington.
They are Mrs. Dorothy Langyher
Mr.. and Mrs. John H, Langyher and
Mrs. Elizabeth Atkins, all of 1853
Morse street NE.
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her room about midnight Saturday

her room about midnight Saturday
and attempted to kiss her. When
she screamed, he, fed. she said.
Detective Sergt. John Layton of
the Sex Squad said Printz admitted
going into the woman's room but
commended he only wanted to get
better acquainted" He said he had
met the woman at dinner in the
rooming house where he had been
living about a week.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-12-15
Treasury EmpIoye Held
In Attempted Assault

A Treasury Department employe
today faced charge of assault
with intent to commit rape after
a 34-year-old mother complained
to police. - go.
The complainant, mother, OF g.
year-old daughter, told police Oscar
M. Printz. jr.. %. of the 4l00 block of
Connecticut avenue NV, entered
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-12-15
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-12-15

SEEKS ANESTY-Carbed in Revolutionary costume, Ma
than Horwz of New York shown paradng today the
White House request amnesty for conscientious DIRECTORS and
other seectve volators still in deprived
civil rights The parader is member of the Committee
Amnesty which staged the demonstration Bill
Rights Star Staff Photo
Evening star., 1947-06-07
Tokon1u Park Painter Killed,
Wife Wounded in Shooting
Woman Is Recovering
In Suniturium After
Fleeing to Neighbor

Edmund Windsor, At, Takoma
Park painter, died shortly before
II am. today after he was found
shot in the head four hours
earlier in some bushes in the
$500 block of Piney Branch road,
Takoma Park, and his estranged
wife, who was wounded in the
face, had run to the home of a
neighbor.
Mrs. Windsor, A. of 1857 Piney
Branch road, is reported in good
condition at Washington Sanitarium
Takoma Park. She is being treated
for a bullet wound in the nose.
Her husband was found about 100
yards from her house, police said
His .22-caliber rifle lay beside him
He also had been taken to the
sanitarium
A neighbor, L. M. Larue, 1855
Piney Branch road, told reporters
he was in bed when he heard two
shots shortly after am. He said
he went to the front door and saw
Mrs. Windsor running toward his
house
He said she told him she was walk
ing up the road toward bus stop
when her husband stepped out OF
some bushes, pointed rifle at her
and fired.
Mr.. Larue said he bapdaged Mrs
Evening star., 1947-06-07
Tombstone HoIts Fleeing Man,
Another Caught Under Laundry

One suspect was knocked uncon-
scious when he ran into tombstone
and another was pulled from under
load of dry cleaning early today,
after police discovered the theft of
safe, laundry truck, two adding
machines and quantity of clothing.
This complicated case fell to
Policemen F. G. Long and o. M
Nelson Of No. IL precinct. They
were cruising In scout car on
Rhode Island avenue NE. at 3 am.
Noticing laundry truck proceeding
along the avenue, they fell in behind
it. thinking it an odd hour for
deliveries.
The truck turned right at Brent
wood road and, when opposite Mount
Harmony Cemetery, the police drew
up alongside. The truck stopped
and three young men jumped out
and fed into the cemetery.
The policemen caught one sus-
pect on the run and took another
into custody when he crashed into
la tombstone. The latter was
knocked out momentarily. The third
man escaped over q fence. Police
ipan Long lost the seat of his
Evening star., 1947-06-07
French Colt Wins English Derby
At 40 to l.; Fovorite Fourth
PeorI Divers Victory
Shocks Huge Crowd
Of About SOC, 900
sy the Asxoeioted Press

EPSON DOWNS, June T.
Pearl Diver, a 40-to-1 French
horse owned by Baron Daufray de
Waldner, scored an astonishing
4-length victory in the 168th
running of the English Derby
today as Tudor Minstrel, the
shortest-priced favorite in more
than a decade, finished out of
the money.
Backed down to 4 to 7 and vir-
tually conceded the $38, ,404 winner s
pot in all the pre-race speculation,
Tudor Minstrel finished a faltering
fourth, carrying with him. in defeat
once more, Gordon Richards, re-
garded by all Britons as the worlds
leading jockey. Richards has failed
to win a Derby in % tries.
A crowd of nearly half a million
including the royal family, turned
out for this renewal of England's
ancient classic and saw the colt
many had been calling Britain's
horse of the century" come home
far out of it-behind the flying
French winner and Migoli, 100-6
shot, who was the Aga Khan's hope
Evening star., 1947-06-07
Savage S Race Today
Viewed as Barometer
BY the Associoted Press

OLYMPIA, Wash, June Wash
tngton's unpredictable third district
was choosing a new member of Con-
gresS today in a special election
which is being watched nationally
as a barometer for possible changes
In popular political sentiment.
In a district which has swung
alternately Democratic and Repub-
lican in the last four elections. the
electorate was deciding the heated
contest between a 55-year-old Re-
publican newspaper publisher and a
Al year = old former, lumbermen's S
union official after a lively campaign
on the major issues of foreign policy
and the record of the Republican
Congress.
The Democratic standard bearer
Is former Representative Charles r.
Savage; his major opponent Russell
V. Mack. A third candidate who had
not figured prominently in the cam
paign is Harry Morton of the
Socialist-Labor Party.
- They are contesting for the seat
left vacant by TIE death of Rep
resentative Fred Norman, Repub-
:, lican, who beat Mr. Savage in 1916
after having previously lost his seat
TO him in 1914.
~ Political observers predicted vote
running to $4,000 or more, compared
with the $4,000 vote in the primary
which saw MIR. Savage poll more
than the combined vote of four
republicans. Mr.. Mack's hopes rested
on a large vote by persons who
failed to cast primary ballots and a
favorable split in the $4,000 votes
polled in the primary by Attorney
General Smith Troy, who ran as q
Truman Democrat"
Evening star., 1947-06-07
Reds Accused Of Reopening
Nazi Camp al BuchenwaId
BY the Assoeioied Press

MUNICH, June 7.-Dr. Max
Brauer, Mayor of Hamburg, says
the notorious Nazi concentration
camp at Buchenwald has been re-
opened by the Russians and now
houses 800 members of the German
Social Democratic Party, held on
political charges.
"We have it on very good author
|ity that 800 members of our party
now are in Buchenwald concentra-
ton camp, said DR.. Brauer. a Social
Democratic leader. Their fami-
lies have confirmed this"
He added that as a result of this
information his party had refused
to apply to the Russians for per-
mission to function in the Soviet
zone of Germany.
The mayor issued his statement
last night after German leader.
from the Russian zone walked oui
of the all-Germany parley on eco.
Inomic problems when their demand
that the conference also consider
political questions was rejected.
Evening star., 1947-06-07

trousers in scaling the barrier, and
his pursuit was slowed.
Police said they expected to ar
rest the escaped suspect today.
On returning to the truck, the
policemen saw pair of shoes pro-
truding from under the dry clean
ing The wearer was arrested.
The unopened safe and adding
machines also were found in the
vehicle. Investigation disclosed the
clothing, valued at $2,632, was taker
from the Pioneer Laundry, 92C
Rhode Island avenue NE. The
thieves had broken into the garage
to steal a truck in which to carry
away their loot
They then proceeded to the Hopes
Windows. Inc, 72l Charming place
NE. where the safe and adding
machines were taken, police said
Carl w. johnson, manager of the
flrm, said the safe contained $14l
in cash ard two rings, valued al
$275.
The three men arrested were
booked for investigation. Police CAV,
their names as George r. Davis, 20
Eof the 800 block of Eleventh stree
NE; Joseph A. Watson. 10, of ths
same address, and Charles E. Rock,
inberg. 81, of the $500 block of Lilly
Pond drive NE
Evening star., 1947-06-07
Higher Scores Due
In Capital Open as
Rain Softens Course
Houehton Hos 81 for =
Outgoing Nine Holes;
Hagen Shows Up Lote
By MerrelI WhittIesey

Higher scores were in prospect
for the third round of the Ma
tional Capital Open today as the
participants found the Prince
Georges Club course soft from
the light rain and some of the
pins in tricky positions.
The best of the early nine-hole
scores was a 1-over-par 81 by Al
Houghton, the host professional.
Walter Hagen, jr., pulled one of
his fathers famous tricks when he
showed up late saying he was
caught behind funeral procession.
He was allowed to play, however.
Snead May be Hard to Catch.
AS the low-6o pros and 10 top
amateurs teed off there was feel
ing that this is Sammy Snead's
comeback tournament With a
three e-stroke lead he may be hard to
catch.
The British Open champion is not
the grumbling, club-throwing, who-
cares Snead of the past several
months. His opening rounds of IS
and IS have made him jolly fellow,
and the fact that he has made r.
number of long puts for brides
and hasn't three-putted a green
have given him the hungry look of
a winner.
Two youngsters who are pro tour
regulars and occasional money win
ners, Tommy Wright of Knoxville,
Tenn, and Virginia Open Champion
George Payton of Hampton trailed
Snead by three strokes at the half
way mark with founder par 1874
totals for the distance. Both showed
qualities of, being able to stick close
over the full 72 holes.
Bobby Locke Posts 135.
But while Snead was in a IA
miliar spot at the top, Bobby Locke
in an expected contending position
with 81 and 68 for 1876 and most of
the name golfers considerably under
par, Washington's Lew Worsham,
surprisingly enough, found he was
only tied for second among the host
city players with his pair of 68s
for 1876.
Billy Griffin, the 22-year-old
George Washington golf team cap
tain, has reversed the usual pro-
cedure by playing the two finest
rounds of his career in his first
major tournament and is tied with
Locke, Jimmy Thomson and Ellis
worth Vines at 1876.
One stroke back at 1876 and tied
with Worsham and Ed (Porky)
Oliver is Roger Peacock, once this
sections greatest amateur and now
in his second year as pro. Pea
cock had eight brides in his second
round of 81 and pared the 18th
hole despite penalty stroke Ano
in there with Peacock, Worshan
and Oliver Is an another young pre-
with excellent prospects, Baltimore
Otto Greiner, who paired 68s.
One of the features of yesterdays
play was Ed Furgol's great 9-under
par 50 following Snead's previou:
course record-breaking 65 by only 6
few minutes and destroying any il.
lusion that Prince Georges was &
major test of golf.
To date. the subpar standing is 3.
tSee GOLF, Page A-31
Evening star., 1947-06-07
Former Croatian Cabinet
Gets Death Sentences
BY the Associated Press

e. BELGRADE, June THE SUI
preme Court of Croatia this morn
ing sentenced to death Slavko
Kvaternik and nearly the whole
cabinet of the former Quisling
Croatian government, after an IL
day war crimes trial
All the defendants were sentenced
to be shot except Hitler's envoy,
Siegfried Kasche, who was SEN
fenced to be hanged.
AS underlings of refugee Ante Pa
velic and his Fascist Ustachi regime
the defendants all admitted they
had collaborated with Germany and
Italy in an attempt to set up So
called independent state of Croatia
They declared that their main
strength came from the Croatian
Peasant Party, led by former Yugo-
slav Vice Premier Vladimir Mack
In winding up the trial, the pub
lie prosecutor-the same who pro-
Cured a 16-year hard-labor SEN
tence for Archbishop Stepinac-
declared, this trial proves that
Macek's authority in Croatia repre-
sented even before the war the ba sis
for the Quisling government of the
independent state of Croatia"