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The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1947-11-08

"a attend the 24th B!onnial Cow.
vcntou 20 the N3Honai COJnc i
vi Gll Scouts Long Bcaca
Calf Nov Az b was annourt'8
TINS week by " Paul Riticn-
house national difCCtur of C"l
Scout Dclc1atos attending vll
cpgcs0t mllil9n and Gt
tor Nncr m zoo Councils
ard more than $4,000 troops.
Three leading national Nc-o
organizations have been inNicd
in have representatives. attend
th conceive Norman O. Hous-
ION president Of tho GC.ccn
state Mutual Life Insurance
Company has boon designated
u.s. the National Association iol
tire Advanccmcnt Of Col0icd
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1947-11-08
Pay Raises
Sought For


LANSING ~ Appropriations
log rost-of-llvng increases for
State employees for purchase of
Wondcc drug Tor TB treat.
nart and for the state labor
mediation board arc among the
tcnlS on which the legislature
Us acting in It's current special
css.on which opened Wcdncs
dav on the call Of Gov KIM
Siclcr
The state civil service Com-
mission has ordered a pay raiSc
for state employees effective Jan
! Siclc declared that II they
deserve the raise they deserve
II now
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1947-11-08
JingIes On Air Ask
Halloween Safety

The Detroit Police Depart
mont showed WIZ program di-
rrrior Worth Kramer statistics
moving that Halloween night
between 6 and 10 p. mn were
tbo most dangerous Of the en-
ire wear for young ler- %
Krancr decided 10 dc some
hing about it Thursday night
before Halloween and all curing
halloween DAY WJR local pro,
rrams and chain breaks flooded
Inc air with safety jlneles urg-
inr both children and adults to
be careful.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1947-11-08
NEGRO DOLLS

Every home should have .
rcloFed Doll. Special Sale on two
|sshY numbers with hair. NOV
b. eyes. shoes. stockings. nicely
|tesed. Price S6.49 and S7.69. II
!. 0. D. postage extra. Agents
|rd distributors wanted every.
Fhere. Write The National Com.
lsnY. 2S4 West l3Sih Street.
Few York City.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1947-11-08
Al Races At Scout Meet
NAACP, Urban League Attend
National Girl Scout Conclave

People as It's representative.
Mrs. Fcd Jordan OF Los An
coles. Calt VIII represent the
National Council OF Negro
Women and FLOYD Covineion
vas named 10 represent the Ma
tional Urban League Those rep
fcscntailves are expected io par
cipaic in various discussion
essions during the Convention.
The theme OF the fou day
Convention viii be Girl Scouts
lrnitcd by Ideals which wll
also bc Tho title OF the work
plan for 948 1919 TO bc offered
10 the delegates In addition 20
panel discussions and speeches
by nationally known persons.
MO Convention VIII feature a
vote on important changes m
the organizations Constitution
election Of officers and members
~ the board OF directors. and
announcement OF 30 new pro-
Icicncv badges These viii in
clude nine for work IN agrlcul-
tlrc
FETE FOR SENIOR SCOUTS
Senior Scouts who for the
rrst time arc attending a con-
vcntion in which they may be
voting delegates. VIII be given
dinner at the Wilton Hotel
hcadoualtcrs fol the delegates.
Sessions W the Convention VIII
be held ~ the Convention Hall
of the beautiful Pacific ocean
DO city
The Convention Will opcn
Tuesday afternoon at zoo o'clock
under the leadership OF Mrs c
Vaughan Ferguson % Science
adv. n. V. the national pres
dent who VIII welcome the
quests and read q message from
Mrs. Harry s Truman national
honorary president.
Evening star., 1947-04-17
Mans Body Found on Grave
OF Wife, With Pistol Nearby

william Arnold Barbour, for
mer personal assistant to two
st. Elizabeths Hospital superin-
tendents, was found shot TO
death today on his wife's grave
| in Rock Creek Cemetery with a
revolver at his feet. The head
stone that marked the grave also
bore his own name.
In the three years since his wife
died, Mr.. Barbour had come to the
grave two or three times q week.
/ He was found lying on his back be-
lside the granite marker.
Police said death apparently was
caused by a single bullet wound in
his head behind the right ear. The
weapon at his feet wss .32-caliber
revolver.
In the car. police found q two
page note. addressed ITO Whom It
May Concern In q large. sprawl
ing hand. Mr.. Barbour had written
that he was respondent over his III
Evening star., 1947-04-17
George Everett Dies;
Woodward & Lothrop
General Manager
Department Stores
Vice President Was
: Washington Native

George N. Everett, vice presi-
dent and general manager OF
Woodward g. Lothrop depart
ment store, died early today at
his home, 3134 Ellicott street
NV He was II years old and
had been Ill for the last two
months.
Born In Washington January 2
1876, Mr.. Everett became associated
with the store December "A, 1890
For several years he was treasurer
of the company. His brother, VIII
liam w. Everett, is president.
Mr.. Everett was a member Of q
family that traced its American an
cestry back to 1884. One of It's
members was Edward Everett, a
Secretary of State and renowned
orator of his day. Shepard S. Ev-
erett, father of William w. and
George Nichols Everett, came to
Washington from Boston in 1871
and several years later Joined the
then newly established firm OF
Woodward & Lothrop.
George N. Everett is survived by
his widow, Mrs. Alice Webster
Everett; his brother, and two sisters,
Mrs. Marion H. Hayne and Mrs
Prentiss Wilson, all Of this city.
He was a 32d degree Mason and
a member Of Lafayette Lodge of
Masons. Among his business in
terests was a dictatorship In the
National Bank Of Washington.
Private funeral services will be
held at the Everett home Saturday,
followed by private burial.
Evening star., 1947-04-17
BY the Assoeiofsd Press

LONDON, April ia letter
signed by Ill members Of Parlia-
ment. more than 100 OF them
Laborites, thanked Henry A.
Wallace today for "the contribu-
ton you have made during your
visit to Anglo-American under.
standing and to the cause Of
world peace"
Mr.. Wallace was handed the let
ter, whose signers included four
lords, shortly before leaving for
Scandinavia to continue a speaking
tour pleading for "the century Of
the common man" and unity Of the
world for peace"
The signers constituted about one
sixth of the House of Commons
membership of $40 and included
Konni Zilliacus and other Socialist
rebels who have opposed the La
Dor Government on foreign policy
Evening star., 1947-04-17
u. S. Agencies Asked
By Truman to Assist
In Texas City Relief
eY the Assoeioted Press

President Truman said today
he has asked every Govern
ment agency to cooperate in
relief of suffering in the Texas
City disaster.
He sent a telegram to Mayor
J. G. Trahan of Texas City say
ing: 81 know that the Red Cross
is ministering to your stricken
city and I have asked every
Government agency to CO.
operate in relief activity.
MY heart and the heart of
the Nation go out in deepest
sympathy to the suffering
people of Texas City. May God
tighten the burden of sorrow
which has fallen on the COM
munity with such tragic force. :"
Evening star., 1947-04-17
Truman Is Reported
Preparing Order 10
Abolish ; Agencies
OPA, ,CPA and OWMR Due
To Go Before DeodIine;
Rent Job for Creedon
BY tho Assoeiofsd Press

President Truman was report
ed preparing an executive order
today to wipe out three major
wartime emergency agencies and
transfer rent controls from OPA
to the housing expediter.
Officials familiar with q tentative
draft of the order said 1t will COM
plete liquidation of the ONCE OF
Price Administration, the Civilian
Production Administration and the
Office of War Mobilization and Re-
conversion. 7~s-7--.as
It also would put the skids under
the ONCE of Temporary Controls,
the agency set UP last December to
start the liquidation process.
Budget Bureau officials said the
order may be issued today or to-
morrow"
Could Beat Deadline by Weeks.
Congress already had tabled OTC
and its subgroups for liquidation
by June 30. BY issuing the executive
order quickly, the President could
beat that deadline by weeks.
Also Mr.. Truman could put in ef-
feet ahead of a final congressional
vote one change favored by the Sen
ate Banking Committee. This is a
proposal to shift rent control activi-
ties from OPA to the office of Hous-
ing Expediter Frank r. Creedon.
It further would have the effect
of eliminating OPA, as such, from
debate over the rent control extern
sion legislation.
However, the House Banking
Committee is debating q bill to re-
peal the Patman Emergency Hous-
ing Act, which Is administered by
Mr.. Creedon's Office, and put rent
controls on local basis.
Changes to Be Made.
The tentative draft Of the order,
officials said, directs these changes:
OPA-The rent division, along
with most of it's 6,326 employees,
would be transferred to the expedi-
ter. Functions of the enforcement
division would be shifted to the
Justice Department. The Commerce
Department would take over OPA's
records.
OPA-The agency will be slashed
to 400 employees by tomorrow. These
employees and administration Of
controls over rubber, hard cordage
fibers, tin, antimony, cinchona and
streptomycin, would be shifted to
the Commerce Department. Con-
gress extended rubber controls un-
til next March 81, the others until
June 80.
OWMR-About los employees and
the agency's functions also would
go to Commerce. OWMR handles
chiefly Government premium pay
ments on copper, lead and zinc pro-
duction from marginal mines.
OPA's controls over sugar, sirups
and rice recently were transferred
to the Agriculture Department by
congressional edict. These are all
that are left of thousands Of war
time price curbs.
Evening star., 1947-04-17

the first time since shortly after yes
terday mornings explosions, pene-
trated the Monsanto Chemical Co.
plant, located in the immediate vi
cinity Of the initial explosion on the
French vessel, the Grandcamp.
Only police, military personnel and
relief workers were permitted to re-
main in the city last night.
Danger of chlorine was reported
to be slight, in that the only known
gases at the Monsanto plant were
styrene, propane and butane. Thou
sands of homeless residents were
taken out of the city by Army trucks,
buses, special trains and private cars
to points as far away as Beaumont
Port Arthur and Orange, near the
Louisiana State line.
| Throughout the night relief work.
ers searched the waterfront ruins
for dead and injured. Men carried
stretchers - bloody, oil soaked
stretchers bearing, the dead.
Priests, some wearing gas masks as
protection from poisonous gases
from burning chemical company
plants, read services for each body
as it was brought into the ambu-
lance area. Some of the trucks
pulled away with bodies stacked -four
and five deep.
Police cars with public address
systems broadcast instructions te
rescue crews. warning against loot.
ing and smoking and calling fol
blankets, sheets. coverages."
| Fire aboard the French freightel
Evening star., 1947-04-17
Picture Of Actual Blast
Shows Bikini-Like Effect
BY the Asseeioted Press

HOUSTON. Tex, April 17-De-
scriptions of the blast which
wrecked a large portion Of Texas
City, likening 1t to the atom bomb
explosion at Bikini, were borne out
by picture of the actual explosion.
r. w. Frederick and j. w. Kuhne,
Texas A. & I. students from Kings
vile, Tex, were on Galveston
bay ferry taking pictures OF the
burning ship. Their lens caught
the ship as 1t blew up. The picture
was strikingly similar to the Bikini
blast.
The youths developed their pic
lures for the Beaumont Journal,
which made the print available to
its fellow Associated Press members
throughout the country on wire
photos Nationwide network. 1t ap.
pears In The Star today on Page A-s.
Evening star., 1947-04-17


late last night.
Basil O'Conor, national director of
the Red Cross, also said he had
wired Gov. Beauford Jester of Texas
that in addition to the $3.50, 900 i'm
mediately set aside for relief at the
Texas tragedy yesterday, more will
be available If it is needed.
The War Assets Administration
reported this morning that num-
Der Of surplus ambulances and med
ical supplies from its stocks in the
Texas area were already on hand
and In use in Texas City.
II Stations in Operation,
Already II Red Cross emergency
feeding stations and shelters are
in operation, and eight mobile can
teens serving outlying sections, ma
tional headquarters learned by tele-
phone today.
More than 240 Red Cross nurses
had checked in for duty with the
Galveston headquarters, and the
Galveston unit still was setting I'D
an information service that ham
died 5000 inquiries by mid-morning.
Some 5000 units of blood plasma
had been flown in by the Red Cross,
along with some whole blood. anti
tetanus serum and gas gangrene
ant.toxin.
Littlejohn Orders Supplies Sent.
Maj. Gen. Robert M. Littlejohn,
War Assets administrator, has
ordered all WAA Offices in the area
to direct all available surplus med
ical supplies to the scene immedi-
ately.
The Army said almost all facil-
titles at Brooke Field has been turned
Evening star., 1947-04-17

health. Police did not reveal the
details of the note.
No one saw Mr.. Barbour drive
into the cemetery or heard the shot,
but police found the radiator of his
car was still warm when they were
summoned to the cemetery shortly
before 8 am.
The cemetery through which Mr..
Barbour drove on his last visit to
his wife's grave was abloom with
crocus and forsythia. At many a
grave, relatives had left cut spring
flowers
At the Barbour grave, the head
stone carried the family name. Un-
der that was carved "W. Arnold,
1890 49," Beneath Mr.. Barbour S
name was that of his wife. It read.
"Olive S., 1897 1874"
Charles Boteler of White Oak,
Md, cemetery attendant who found
the body, said Mr.. Barbour came
often to sweep of dead leaves and
keep the grave tidy or simply to
(See HARBOUR, Page A-29
Evening star., 1947-04-17
Fate of 6 WAA Plants
Worth 36 Million in
BIust Area Unknown
BY The Asseeictsd Press

The War Assets Administra-
ton said last night it did not
know the fate of six plants
valued at $50, zoe, 900 which it
had for surplus disposal at
Texas City, Tex.
A spokesman said wAA held
the following properties at
Texas City:
American Liberty 100-octane
plant, s12,500, 900; Republic Oil
Refining Co, 1o0-octane plant,
$1l.700 900; Tin Processing
Corp, smelter, 1880, 900; Pan
American Refinery, $4,000. 600;
a butadiene plant operated by
Southport Petroleum Co. OF
Delaware. $500, 600, and the
utilities plant for Monsanto
Chemical, $500, 900. WAA sold
the main Monsanto plant to the
Monsanto Chemical Co. for
more than $1,000. 900. It cost
about SIS, 900 900 to build.
Evening star., 1947-04-17

loaded with nitrate, blew up. while
four tugs tried to get her away from
her berth.
A secondary explosion occurred at
S:25 am. but it was far from be-
ing as intense as the two earlier.
It appeared to come from one OF
the numerous Oil tanks that dot
the city.
Capt. Volney J. Shown Of the
Houston Police Department and di-
rector of rescue work, said that FIVE
minutes before the High Flyer blew
up he had ordered 400 rescue work
ers out of the dock area and that
only SO men were in the area at
the time of the explosion.
Officials were watching closely the
progress Of rescue workers who for
Evening star., 1947-04-17
TT British MPs Thank Wallace
For Aid to Peace During Visit
Letter, Presented Before His Departure,
Cites Contributions to Understanding

and conscription. William Gall
lacher, one of the two Communists
in the House, was one Of the signers.
The former Vice President of the
United States asserted in an inter-
view earlier that the Labor govern
ment had moral and spiritual
strength fully equal to that OF the
Roosevelt cabinet in the early days
OF the New Deal
The round robin letter said:
with you, we are convinced that
the pursuing Of any policy in either
Of our two countries which might
divide us from one another or from
the U. s. s. r. would be fatal to
world peace.
I'VE have been pleased to welcome
one Of the foremost advocates Of the
achievement through the United
Nations Of one world in which the
common man everywhere might
find security and peace. =.
Eve believe il our two countries are
(See WALLACE, Page AID
Evening star., 1947-04-17
Lewis Charges Krug
SIurred Mine Union
On Safety Charges
UNIV Chief Tells Senators
Federal Injunction Made
Cooperation impossible
By james Y. Newton

John L. Lewis today described
as "one of Mr.. Krug's slurs" the
charge of Secretary of Interior
Krug that the United Mine
Workers had failed to cooperate
with the Government in pro-
noting safety In the Nation s
soft coal mines.
Mr.. Lewis testified before a sub
committee of the Senate Public
Lands Committee, which is investi-
eating the recent Centraha, Ill0
mine explosion and coal mine safety
in general. 1t was before that COM
mittee that Mr.. Krug charged that
in the 10 months of Government
operation of the soft coal mines his
Office had received only 81 COM
plants of unsafe conditions from
individual mine safety committees.
He said all had been corrected.
THAT isn't so.n.Mr. Lewis told the
committee. That is another one
of Mr.. Krug's slurs. The fact Is
that we haven't been able to CO.
operate since last November because
Mr.. Krug went out and got himself
a yellow-dog injunction with which
to heat the miners over the head" !"
Refers to No-Strike Order.
He referred to the no-strike order
which the Government last NoveYI1-
ber obtained from Justice T. Alan
Goldsborough in District Court and
which Mr.. Lewis and his union
ignored to bring about their con-
viction for contempt.
Last week Justice Goldsborough
continued until April "a action on a
petition Of the miners Union to re-
turn $4,000, 600, the amount which
they had posted as bond above the
Supreme Court contempt fine. At
the time, Justice Goldsborough
warned Mr.. Lewis to show good
faith" compliance with the court
order and remarked that SO far the
union boss had been utterly con-
temptuous Of the court" The court
referred specifically to Mr.. Lewis
reference to the injunction as "the
yellow-dog injunction"
Despite that warning, Mr.. Lewis
several times in his testimony be-
fore the Senate committee today
gave the same description to the
court order At one time, in saying
that the miners had co-operated on
safety with the Government, he said
that last November a complaint Of
lack Of enforcement of the Federal
mine safety code was made to the
Interior Departments coal mines
administration.
And that was B. K. Y. D. t.
before Krug's yellow dog injunction
Mr.. Lewis told the committee. And
yet Mr.. Krug comes down here and
says we never had complained,
Mr.. Lewis charged that Fedora
(See COAL, Page A-50
Evening star., 1947-04-17
Hal Boyle Likens
7 exus Blast to
Attack on PIoesti
Writer in Plane
Describes Ruins
OF Burning Town
By Hal Bowie
BY HoI Boyle
A,soeiat.d Pres. staff Correspondent.

OVER TEXAS CITY, Tex.
April 17.-Flaming Texas City
today looks from the air like a
peacetime parallel to war
bombed Ploesti, Rumanian oil
capital.
It is now tbs am, central stand
ard time. We are making our third
fight over the burning town.
The fire-ravaged industrial Sec
ton and the peaceful residential
areas offer the contrast between
life and death.
One is a two-mile-wide torch
The other is the living pattern of
deserted village, its fate still de-
pendent on whether the present
favorable wind holds.
Angry smoke towering to 5000 feet
spreads from the city like a gigantic
black wing-deep and dense where
it joins the ground, feather thin
where the wind has dispersed it.
Capt. j. P. Talton of Atlanta, Ga,
turns the two-engined Eastern Air
(See BOYLE, Page Al
Evening star., 1947-04-17
Boston Leads Mats,
Al, With ; in Second
By Burton Howkins
s,or s.off corrsspan<,snt

Sfot Sfatf SoftnsFoff31Nt
BOSTON, April 17.-Boston, scoF-
ing three runs In the second, was
leading the Mats, 4 to /, In the third
inning here today.
FIRST INNING.
observation-disclosures He'd 70
Di Maggie. Lewis beat out hunt
down the third-base line. Spence
flied deep to Mele. Lewis was
picked of first pase, Dobsou to York
to Pesky to. Doerr.
BOSTON-Pellagrini doubled OF
the left-f1eld fence. Grace made
a fine running catch Of Pesky's liner,
Pellagrini holding second. Di Mag
gio walked on four pitches. VIII
liams took a third strike. Doerr
singled to right, scoring Pellagrini,
Di Maggie stopping at second. York
forced Doerr, Christman TO Priddy.
One run.
SECOND INNING.
Washington -- Vernon famed.
Travis lined to Dt Maggie. Priddy
flied to williams.
Boston Christman threw out
Mele. Partee looped q single to CEN
ter. Dobson attempted to sacrifice
but popped to Haefner. Pellagrini
singled to left, Partee stopping at
second. Pesky singled to right, scor-
ing Partee and sending Pellagrini
to third. Di Maggie doubled over
Lewis head, scoring Pellagrini ana
Pesky. Williams walked. Christ
man threw out Doerr. Three runs.
Evening star., 1947-04-17

TO join those on nand.
L. D. Romine, Red Cross official,
said the major problem facing them
today was the feeding of the home
less and the rescue and relief work.
ers. Financial aid was being given
to the poor in hospitals and else
where by the Red Cross.
Three new explosions rocked this
Texas Coast industrial city today,
They followed the two yesterday
morning at 9:12 am. that set off
the chain Of disaster and tragedy.
At dawn a blanket of billowing
black smoke. covered the city, the
result of new oil fires caused by the
newest explosions on the Liberty
ship High Flyer.
At lilo am. there were two violent
explosions as the burning High Flyer,
Evening star., 1947-04-17
Donish Kings Condition
Reported Unchanged
BY the Assoeioied Press

COPENHAGEN, April 17.-An Of
fetal bulletin said today that King
Christian x, who suffered heart
attack on Easter Sunday, had spent
a quiet night and that his condition
generally was unchanged.
Crown Prince Frederik told a
cabinet council yesterday that there
was little hope" for the 76-year-old
nonarch's recovery and physicians
said his strength was dwindIing.