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Evening star., 1947-12-14
7 Die in Plane Crash;
a Chute 10 Safety
BY the Associofed Press

WILLIAMSPORT, Pa, Dec. 13.-
Two persons died in the flaming
wreckage of a National Guard twin
engined attack plane tonight while
four other crew members para
chuted to safety before the craft
crashed on farm a half mile west
of nearby Howard.
The plane was attached to the
175th Fighter Squad of the National
Guard unit at Sioux Falls, S. D.
M. w. Zimmerman, Howard
photographer who reached the scene
five minutes after the A-26 crashed
in flames, said Army officials were
withholding names of the dead.
Mr.. Zimmerman said both en-
gines were afire before the plane
plummeted to earth. The result
ing explosion shook the Howard
Telephone Co. building half mile
away.
An Air Force spokesman at the
Middletown air depot sad the plane
was enroute to Olmsted Field,
Middletown, from Orchard Place,
Chicago.
THE plane apparently ran out of
gas, the spokesman said. 1T was
due at Middletown about pm. At
that hour, however, the plane was
over Harrisburg-not far away
but the pilot reported he was lost" ."
The crash occurred about 7::5O pm.
/, S/Sergt. c. Gillen, fight engineer,
was identified by the Air Force
together with M/Sergt. Peter M.
Fitzgerald as two Of the flyers who
parachuted to safety. 4
Evening star., 1947-12-14
Big 4 Deadlock
Break Is Seen
Up to Marshall
by the Associated Press

LONDON, Dec. ia mo
quarter economic war between
the United States and the Soviet
Union for Europe appeared a
certainty tonight as Britain and
France looked to Secretary of
State Marshall to take any lead
in ending the deadlocked confer
ence of foreign ministers.
Today's meeting of the ministers
was postponed until Monday, on
Britains initiative, to allow tenn
pers time to cool after yesterdays S
violent East-West blow up.
Russian Foreign Minister Molo-
tov, who lambasted the Western
countries in severe fashion, had
lunch with Gen. Marshall today at
the home of Ambassador Lewis
Douglas. An authoritative source
said the luncheon was purely So
cial" and kept deliberately so by
Gen. Marshall. He said no subjects
connected with the conference were
discussed. 1t had been arranged
early in the week before Fridays S
blow up.
Deadlock Held Hopeless.
The majority of the French, Brit
ish and American delegations were
reported agreed that the London
conference was "hopelessly" dead
locked.
But French and British sources
said they were willing for it to con-
(See BIG FOUR, Page A-3D
Evening star., 1947-12-14
By Robert J. Lewis.

Chairman Flanders of a joint
Congressional su b om m t tee
which has been delving inten-
sively for weeks into housing
costs is ready to "blow the lid
off" the gray market" in nails,
which the Senator said last
night has virtually dried up dis
tribution of nails through regu-
lar channels all over the country.
At a session Wednesday to which
heads of 26 firms producing 95 per
cent of the Nations nail supply
have been invited, Senator Flanders
will disclose complete results of
the subcommittee investigation,
and demand that the industry work
out a. plan for voluntary self
policing to stamp out fragrant spec
ulation in nails.
"There is no evidence that the
industry itself is profiting from the
gray market" he said last night.
But the problem is so serious that
there will be strong support for
Evening star., 1947-12-14
By the Associated Press

Harold E. Stassen declared last
night that Edwin w. Pauley, special
assistant to Secretary of the Army
Royal, has not made full disclosure
of his grain dealings under investi-
cation by the Senate Appropriations
Committee.
Mr.. Stassen said he plans to con-
fer tomorrow with Senator Bridges,
Republican, Of New Hampshire,
chairman of the Senate Group, and
House Majority Leader Halleck re-
garding plans for a. Thorough in
vestigation of the food prof1teering
by insiders in the National admin
istration, of the purchasing prac-
tices Of the Government and, of the
effect of both on our too high food
prices"
The Minnesota candidate for the
Republican presidential nomination
Issued this statement on arrival
Evening star., 1947-12-14
Arizona Attorney General
Gets 18 Months in Prison
n By the Assoeioied Press

Stafford, Ariz., Dec. Estate
Attorney General John L. Sullivan
today was sentenced to serve from
18 months to two years in prison
for conspiring to violate gambling
laws.
Sullivan and two other men were
convicted last month. They were
charged with collecting protection
money from gamblers In the slot
machine racket.
Defense motion for q new trial
was denied today by Judge Edwin
Beauchamp in Graham County Su-
perior Court. The attorney general
then was sentenced.
John F. Sullivan, son of the at
torney general and one of the de-
fense lawyers, stood shoulder to
shoulder with his father when
sentence was pronounced.
In dramatic plea, the younger
Sullivan asked that his father be
spared a prison term and called at
tention to the fact that the attorney
general had twice voluntarily served
his country in time of war.
At the Capitol in Phoenix, Gov.
Sidney P. Osborn suspended Sullivan
from Office and appointed Evo de
Concini, former judge, to the posi-
ton.
Evening star., 1947-12-14
Bandit Robs Train Passengers,
Including 3 Judges, in Chicago

Among his victims, estimated by
police "at more than TO-" were Ap-
pellate Judges John c. Lewe, Roger
Kiley and Joseph Burke, all of Chi
cago.
Judge Lewe is prominently men
toned as a possible Democratic can
didate for the Illinois Democratic
gubernatorial nomination. Judge
Kiley Is former Notre Dame foot
ball great.
The judges, with a group of law
yers. had boarded the train at South
Bend, Ind, where they had attend
ed a meeting OF the National Law
Institute at Notre Dame University.
Included among the group was Alex
]. Resa, assistant Chicago corpora
ton counsel and . former Demo-
cratic member Of Congress, Benja-
min Palmer, professor Of law Ut the
(See BANDIT, PageTA.5.)
Evening star., 1947-12-14
Changes in Sex Laws
With 20-Year Penalty
Are Prepared by Fay
Amendments Directed
Particularly at Offenses
Aooinst Juveniles

The first draft of proposed
legislation carrying penalties
ranging up to 20 years for sex
offenses against children has
been completed by the United
States Attorneys Office. it was
learned last night.
The proposed legislation, which
United States Attorney George
Morris Fay hopes to have ready by
the first of the year, will take the
form of amendments to existing
laws.
1t is designed to fill the gaps in
the law which now provides less
protection for Washington children
than for children anywhere else in
the country.
The first draft provides:
l. A penalty of 10 years in prison
or $1,000 fine or both for persons
guilty of sodomy or any other un-
natural sex act
2. A penalty of 20 years in prison
(See sen Law Page AID
Evening star., 1947-12-14
PuuIey Hasn't Told Full Story
Of Grain Dealing, Stussen Says

here to attend the annual Gridlron
Club dinner.
Mr.. Stassen declared he was in
formed that "the insiders have been
getting out of the commodity mar
kets since my Doylestown (PaD ad-
dress" and that prices are dropping
and if the Government itself stays
out of the market this next week
the prices will remain lower"
Following up the Stassen charges
early last week, the Senate Ap-
preparations Committee called Mr..
Pauley to testify. He acknowledged
dealing in the grain market but de-
clared he had not used his Govern
ment position to obtain information
to guide his purchases.
Mr.. Stassen said: "Mr. Pauley's
statement that he does not consider
these dealings to be subject to CEN
sure indicates in my opinion that
his sense OF right and wrong Is not
fully developed and he should not
he In high public ondce." 1.
Evening star., 1947-12-14
Jews Kill u Arabs,
Wound Almost 100,
In Revenge Attacks
Battle East of Tel AvW
CIimuxes Day of Strife;
14-Doy Toll Is IA
BY the Associated Press

JERUSALEM, Dec. 13.-Jewish
warriors striking with bombs
and machineguns killed %
Palestine Arabs--including sew
eral women and children-and
wounded almost 100 in a series
of attacks climaxed tonight by a
battle east of Tel Aviv. Three
Jews also were killed.
Streets in teeming sections of
Jerusalem and Jaffa ran with the
blood of Arabs killed and wounded
in the bombings.
Arabs throughout Palestine tnirsted
for revenge as Jewish fighters re-
tanned their initiative in the bitter
communal fighting for the second
straight day. British soldiers and
police rushed to action stations to
await an expected retaliation blow
against the Jews.
A curfew was imposed on the
northern town of Salad after spo-
radio fighting broke out in that
region. One Arab was killed and a
small Arab girl and two Jewish set
tlement police were seriously
wounded.
224 Killed in Ia DAYS,
An Associated Press tabulation
showed 224 persons have been killed
in the Holy Land in the IA days of
Arab-Jewish fighting since the
United Nations General Assembly
voted to partition Palestine. The
toll for the entire Middle East is
$40.
Hagana militiamen, wearing
steel helmets and khaki uniforms,
stormed the village of Al Yahudiva,
in Arab territory east of Tel Aviv.
killing seven Arabs and seriously
wounding several others in the latest
of series of incidents today.
A spokesman for Hagana. self
styled Jewish defense army, des-
cribed the operation as a reprisal
attack designed to wipe out a nest
of brigands who attacked Tel Aviv.
Arab sources at the village claimed
the Jewish forces used mortars but
finally were driven off by the local
Arab guard. A house in the village
was blown up.
Observers said Irgun Zvai Leumi,
Jewish extremist group, was respon-
sible for bombing of an Arab mar
ketplace before Jerusalem's ancient
Damascus Gate and the blasting of
a Jaffa coffeehouse in which IL
Arabs were killed.
British Soldier Dies.
Two Arabs and three Jews were
shot to death in Beersheba, tradi-
tional burial place of Abraham and
Sarah. Police said the Jews fired
(See PALESTINE. Page A-12D
Evening star., 1947-12-14
GANG VICTIMS SON Missing
After Chicago Slayings. P. AS.

GANG VICTIMS SON Missing
After Chicago Slayings. P. AS.
By the Associoted Press
CHICAGO, Dec. ia lone gun
man staged a Jesse James holdup
on a New York Central passenger
train tonight as it neared its down.
town destination and terrorized its
passengers, most Of them prominent
judges and lawyers.
The gunman, a light-skinned COL
ored man about 80, boarded the
train-No. 25l, the Interstate Ex-
press, en- route from New York to
chicago-at the South Side Engle-
wood station. Using a bag to gather
up loot estimated at more than
$500 in cash and an undetermined
amount of jewelry, he completed a
holdup of the two rear cars in a
three mile run. He jumped of the
train at Thirty fifth
street and ned.
Evening star., 1947-12-14
American Train Is Gassed
In Soviet Zone Of Reich
By the Associated Press

BERLIN, Dec. 13.-Tear gas was
thrown into a passenger coach of
an American train while passing
through the Russian zone en- route
from Bremerhaven to Berlin, the
train commander reported on arriv-
al tonight.
The gas, thrown by persons un-
known, affected about Is passengers,
mostly GIs. The commander said
it entered the coach through an
open window at small station near
Magdeburg.
This is the second incident re-
ported in two days concerning an
American train in the Russian zone.
The United States Provost Mar
shals Office said yesterday a mill
tary freight train was held up and
broken into by Is armed Russians
who took no loot. Train guards said
the Russians were intoxicated.
Evening star., 1947-12-14
Presidential Aspirants
at Annual
Gridiron Club Dinner
Trumon and 500 Others
Hear Skitst on InfIotion,
Europeon Recovery Plan

Miss Imitation and Miss Erp
European recovery PLAN, as
we'll as a host of presidential
candidates, national and inter-
national figures, were grilled as
President Truman and 500 other
guests Joined in the traditional
satirical dinner of the CIR diron
Club at the Hotel Statler last
night.
Emphasis during the entertain
ment, which came fast on the heels
of the debut of Miss Inhs ton and
Miss Erp, was on high prices, Euro
pean recovery. and the Presidential
and Vice Presidential ambitions of
those many men in public life who
are looking forward with hopeful
nervousness to the campaign year
just ahead.
The evenings amusement carried
the guests into western ghost town,
to the North Pole, and into Dr.. Har-
rvs clinic. The members of the
club, assembled for their winter din
ner, also attacked with humor and
sarcasm the Administrations loyalty
program, the activities of the Pres
ident's Citizens Advisory Food Com
mittee, and the way in which the
supposedly dead OPA still turns over
in its grave.
Figures. being discussed as Presi-
Dental candidates, who were pres
ent, in addition to Mr.. Truman,
we're: Thomas E. Dewey, Harold E.
Stassen. Senator Taft, Senator VAN
denberg and Speaker Martin.
The General" Sings.
Some of the candidates pictured
on the Gridiron stage, frankly feared
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. The
General" however, refused to re-
veal his own attitude toward NOM
ination. To the haunting melody of
Kiss Me Again." he sang in part
But it's too soon.
Sometime next June,
Ask me, ask me again,
Ask me again,
Ask me, ask me again"
Mr.. Truman made the traditional
speech of the Chief Executive. He
was preceded by the opposition ora
tor, Speaker Joseph w. Martin, jr.
The remarks of both were off the
record, I'M keeping with the clubs
custom that reporters are never
present.
The dinner was opened with the
speech in the dark" delivered by
Harold M. Talburt, Gridiron Club
president for 1947. At the annual
meeting, during the day, Phelps H.
Continued on Page A-6, Column A.
Evening star., 1947-12-14
Dirksen Maps
ProbeofS School
Bui|dingsHere
Browne Parents Told
Study Will Include
Review of All Needs
By Colt HendIey, Jr.

A full investigation of the Dis
ptrict public school building stu
alton and other problems will
get under way as soon as Chair
man Dirksen of the House Dis
trict Committee can find the
proper man" to appoint as spe-
cial investigator.
Representative Dirksen announced
his intention to start the inquiry
yesterday after meeting with more
than 100 Browne Junior High School
parents who have been boycotting
the school and it's two annexes, the
Blow and Webb Schools.
Before seeing Mr.. Dirksen in the
afternoon, the parents walked from
Union Station to the White House
and attempted to get an audience
with President Truman. Guards at
the White House gates turned them
away. Then they walked back to
the Capitol.
Needs to be Studied.
The investigation will be a basic
study of the needs of the public
school system here, Mr.. Dirksen ex-
planned. He indicated the need of
new school buildings to give ade-
quate facilities to all children was
uppermost in his mind.
The parents said they were well
satisfied" with Mr.. Dirksen's stand.
but whether the boycott of the Blow
and Webb Schools would continue
was IN doubt last night. Some OF
the leaders of the parents felt sure
the strike would end when school
opened tomorrow.
But members of the Browne Par
ent-Teacher Association Friday
night decided to send all 1900 chill
dren to Browne-including the 500
supposed to report to Blow and
Webb. The parents said at that
time that they would 60 to the
school with their children to see
that they stayed. Thus, at Browne
School will be the 500 who are sup
posed to be at Blow and Webb, but
they will be unable to attend class
because their teachers will be at the
other two schools.
Second Probe Proposed.
A mass meeting of the. parents
scheduled for 8 o'clock this after
noon at the Metropolitan Baptist
Church, Twelfth and R streets NV.
will decide whether the strike will
continue.
Mr.. Dirksen said also that he
would ask Chairman ,Horan o. the
District subcommittee of the House
Appropriations Committee to ap-
point special investigator also. The
two investigators then would work
separately, he added.
The two reports would be sent to
Mr.. Horan's subcommittee in time
for consideration when the District
appropriations bill for the fiscal year
1949 is taken up at the next regu-
lar session of Congress, Mr.. Dirk
sen said.
Mr.. Horan told reporters he would
be delighted to cooperate with Mr.
Dirksen, adding that his subcom-
mittee had been looking into the
question already.
The pushing of school construc-
ton for which money already is
appropriated is another thing which
should be emphasized, he continued
Investigator to Be Expert.
Mr.. Dirksen said that when the
reports were in, additional legis-
lative authority would be provided
if it were needed to correct the
situation
The investigator who is appointed
will be an expert in the educational
field and an impartial observer
IAN outsider" the Illinois Republi-
can explained.
The parents have been keeping
their children out of the three
(See SCHOOLS, Page A-1OD
Evening star., 1947-12-14
Aid Bill
Gets Approval
Of Conferees
5o7-MiIIion Measure
Gives Four Nations
Unspecified Shores
By ChoImers M. Roberts

A stopgap foreign aid bill au-
thorizing the full $597, 900 900
asked by the administration but
cutting China in for an unspeci-
fled share along with France,
Italy and Austria was agreed on
late yesterday by Senate and
House conferees.
The measure will be brought to
the floor of both the Senate and
House for final vote tomorrow, ac-
cording to Senator >Vandenberg,
chairman of the conferees. If ac-
cepted by both Houses it will then
go to President Truman for sig
nature.
The total amount authorized In
the Senate-H House compromise is
the same as that requested by Sec
retary of State Marshall and voteo
by the Senate for the three Euro
pean nations. The House cut the
figure for Europe by SGT 1000, 900 and
then added 100000, 900 for China, al
though the figures were not written
into the bill itself.
Sum for China in Doubt.
The compromise likewise does not
break down the s597 900, 900 cell
ing for the four nations But it
was apparent from the explanation
given to reporters. by Senator VAN
cenberg that the conferees expect
that a sum probably much less than
s6o,G00,000 eventually will 60 for
Chinese aid. The Senator pointed
out that previous appropriation
of S30,000,000 for China is just now
to be used and will meet
Chinas immediate needs.
ut is impossible to say what pre-
cisely any nation will GET under
the compromise bill, Senator VAN
denberg said. WhateveE China does
receive will have to come off the
Others" he added.
He pointed out that an appropri-
alton bill actually voting the money
also must pass both Houses of Con-
gress before the amounts are de-
termined finally. 1t was agreed in
the House last week that no funds
for China would be included in the
appropriation bill expected to be
passed next week before the Christ
mas recess. Such funds could be
appropriated early next year, how
ever.
1t is far from certain that either
the House CT Senate Appropria-
tIons Committee will approve the
full S597 100000 figure in next week S
appropriation bill.
Attitude Explained.
The total for China, therefore, is
a "fiuctuating figure" as Senator
Vandenberg put it. He explained the
conferences attitude in these words:
The theory of the conference was
that this might pep up the State
Department and lead them to bring
in China program earlier"
Secretary Marshall told Congress
last month that he contemplates q
l5-month program for China to be-
giE about April l at monthly cost
of $2O,OOO,OOO.
Senator Vandenberg went on to
say:
There was a general feeling
among the Senate conferees that
China ought not to be in this bill
tSee FOREIGN AID Page A-13.5
Evening star., 1947-12-14
Housing Probe Set to Blow Lid
Off Gray Market Deals in Nails
rs Producers Invited to Session Wednesday;
Flanders Asks Sef-PoIicing by Industry

Government controls unless industry
itself can handle the situation"
Senator Flanders added that there
were indications that steel firms
were paying scrap dealers in nails
fog needed scrap metal, and that
this was one source of supply for
the gray market.
In recent check of 81 regular
Washington dealers, a spokesman
for the subcommittee said, only two
had a supply of nails available
One of the two limited sales to
three pounds to a customer, and
the other sold only 10 pounds to
a customer.
Elsewhere in the Nation, nails
also have disappeared from regular
channels and have been offered by
strange new dealers
For example, a ladies' ready-to-
wear dealer in Pennsylvania is re-
ported to be offering 100000 kegs of
nails at the market price of
$14. Such unusual sources as a
baby chick hatchery in Rhode Is
land, an exporting firm in New Or
Evening star., 1947-12-14
-Four From D. T.. Area
Died in Cal Crash;
; on Rocket Mission
20 Killed Near Memphis
Included Trio of Majors
On Duty at Pentogon

Four Washington area men,
including three ordnance officers
returning from a rocket research
mission at the White Sands, N.
Mex. proving grounds, were
among 20 Army personnel killed
in the crash of a CAT transport
plane near Memphis, Tenn,
Thursday.
They were:
Maj. William H. Hutson, %, who
lived at 719 South Pitt street. Alex
andria. with his wife and 16-month-
old SON.
Maj. Joseph P. Smith, %, of 1904
South Twenty eighth road Arling-
ton, where he and his wife made
their home.
Maj. Austin Haley, 36, who lived
with his wife and three children at
Arlington Farms.
Pvt. Joseph William Taylor, jr.,
10, colored, who was on his way to
Washington to spend Christmas
with his mother, Mrs. Marian H.
Taylor, 231 Oakdale place NV.
Three on Duty At Pentagon.
Maj. Hutson and Maj. Smith were
attached to the Rocket Develop
ment Branch of the Ordnance De-
partment Research and Develop
ment Division, and Maj. Haley was
with the executive division of the
Research and Development office.
All three were on duty at the
Pentagon.
Col. H. N. Toftoy, chief of rocket
research, said the three majors flew
to the White Sands Proving
Grounds last Tuesday in connection
with a rocket research and develop
ment mission. He said he could
not elaborate on details of the mis-
sion. The officers were at the
Ordnance Departments rocker
proving grounds only about 36 hours
and then boarded the Army CAT
for the return trip that proved IA
tai to all aboard.
Col Toftoy described Maj. Hut
son and Maj. Haley as IAN unbeat-
able team" in their line of work.
He said they were outstanding
young officers and worried together
(See CRASH, Paa( A-4J
Evening star., 1947-12-14
BY the Assoeioted Press

Complete Index, Pg. Az
,Radio Programs. Poss c-S
Evening star., 1947-12-14

Mostly sunny and warmer with highest In
middle 40s and moderate westerly winds
Mostly clear and not SO cold tonight. To-
morrow. sunny and slightly warmer
Evening star., 1947-12-14

(See SCHOOLS, Page A-1O.
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