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Evening star., 1947-01-29
Vandenberg Urges
Big Consultation
On Polish Election
Coils for Quick Action
To Clarity Rugged and
Terrified Voting
BY the Associated Press

Chairman Vandenberg of the
Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee called today for frank
and immediate" Big Three con-
situations on what he called "a
rugged and terrified" election in
Poland.
Senator Vandenberg, who served
as adviser to former Secretary of
State Byrnes, told the Senate he
believed there must be immediate
clarification by the United States,
Great Britain and Russia of who
is who and what is what in Poland. u
Supporting official State Depart
ment criticism of the conduct of the
election in which new government
was chosen January 10, the Michi-
gan Senator declared that the
solemn promises of the Big Three at
Yalta and Potsdam for a "free and
unfettered' election had been vio-
lated.
Noting that the State Department
had protested in much the same
vein, Senator Vandenberg asserted
"We must establish the total truth
in respect to the State Department
charges of yesterday and then we
must face realities"
These realities, he said, must GO
beyond the filing of a mere unpur-
sued indictment" beyond which
nothing would be accomplished.
I'VE must have frank and i'm
mediate consultations between the
Big Three with facts summarily ac-
Iquired to find out who is who and
(See POLAND, Page A-SD
Evening star., 1947-01-29
Streetcar Crash Hurts One,
Shakes Rush-Hour Patrons

Passengers on Pennsylvania ave-
nue. streetcars were delayed 20 min
utes during the morning rush hou1
today when two streecars collided at
Seventeenth street and Pennsyl-
vania avenue NV. One woman
suffered minor injuries.
Police said an east-bound Car
split switch and swung northward
into Seventeenth street, striking
another car headed west on Penn
sylvania avenue. The accident oc-
CURED few minutes after 9 o'clock
Passengers on both cars were
jostled and Miss Mary Harnden, %
Maine. Hall, Arlington Farms, was
taken to Emergency Hospital to be
treated for bruises described by hos
pital authorities as minor. She was
released after treatment.
The front end of both streetcars
was badly damaged, according to a
Capital Transit Co. spokesman.
Jesse S. Tucker, of the 76O0 block
OF Georgia avenue NV, was listed
as the operator of the east-bound
car and Roy C. Wilson, of the $500
block of Sixth street NE. as the
operator of the other streetcar.
Evening star., 1947-01-29

Washington taxpayers are left
holding the bag while the Fed
eral Government profits under
the system by which foreign en-
bassy property here is exempt
from real estate taxes, a survey
disclosed today.
Foreign governments own tax-ex-
empt property in the District with
an assessed valuation of $10,933 ,486
At current tax rates, this means
loss to the District of $l91 1886 a
year in revenue.
The United States saves much
more than this from reciprocal ex-
emption from taxes of most of the
property it owns for diplomatic anc
consular purposes in foreign coun.
tries. But none Of this profit il
passed on to the District, the onl,
American locality whose finance.
are directly affected by the practice
lHot any extent. aas
Frederick Larkfn, chief Of thu
Evening star., 1947-01-29
, BY the Associated Press

SHANGHAI, Jan. ga Chi
nese commercial airliner carry
ing Methodist Bishop and Mrs
Schuyler Edward Garth, Madi-
son, Wis, among it's 26 occupants
exploded aloft 100 miles west of
Hankow and the official Central
News Agency said today Is per-
sons were killed.
The agency said the sole survivor
was very seriously injured foreign
er who was being rushed to hos
pital. The survivors identity was
not reported. The agency said its
report came from Chinese civil air
authorities.
The plane, second lost in the in
terror of China in four days, was
piloted by John Papajik of New
York and carried several foreign
missionaries and their children.
Other foreigners listed by the
company, the Chinese National
Evening star., 1947-01-29
Reds Seen Launching
Drive TO Win Support
OF Reich al Moscow
Soviet Actions Within
Lost 10 Days Cited by
Americans in Berlin
By Yves GoIIoeher
Associated Press Foreign Correspondent

BERLIN, Jan. 29.-Soviet ac-
tions concerning Germany with
in the past 10 days have led high
American officials in Berlin tc
express the conviction that Rus
STA has launched an intensive
propaganda campaign against
the western Allies to win German
support on the eve of the Mos
cow conference.
Recent Soviet press attacks or
the occupation policies of Britain
and the United States and moves
by Marshal VASTLY Sokolovsky, the
Russian occupation commander
have drawn expressions of resent
ment from high Western diplomats
and other officials. Some of these
said they fear the Soviet course
foreshadows a deepening of the
cleavages between East and West
which they have been trying tt
mend.
Some expressed fear today that re-
cent Russian actions and state
ments foreshadowed an uncompro-
missing Russian attitude in the Mos
COW meeting, in which the foreign
ministers of the -Four Big Powers
will attempt to draft peace treaties
for Germany and Austria. They
also said it might bring on an out
right rivalry between East and West
to win German favor.
Play Into German Hands.
Even persons who do not take this
extreme view asserted that the sit
uation was playing into German
hands, setting one Ally against an.
other and putting the Allies in the
position of currying favor with the
defeated enemy at time wher
unity is needed more than ever.
The alleged new Russian attitude
became apparent some 10 days ago
when Marshal Sokolovsky, in 6
sudden unilateral action, announced
through the Soviet-sponsored Socia
Unity Party that the removal O.
factories from the Eastern zone o.
Germany was at an end. Further
Evening star., 1947-01-29
Gang Invodes Town,
Kills 7 Spuniurds
By the Assoeiated Press

VALENCIA, Spain, Jan. 29-The
civil governor announced today that
a truckload of unidentified men in
vaded the village of Losa del Obispo
Sunday. herded the villagers into a
cafe and killed seven with machine
gun fire.
Six persons yere badly wounded
and slight injuries were suffered by
numerous Others he said. The mo-
tive for the shooting was not an
nounced.
Evening star., 1947-01-29
1oday's Spring Weather
To Continue Tomorrow

Washington got another spring
like day today and another one just
like it is in prospect for tomorrow,
the Weather Bureau said. The
forecaster observed this has been
one of the warmest Januarys in
recent years.
The temperature was expected to
rise to about IS degrees this after
noon, degrees short of the all
time record for January %, with a
drop to no lower than so degrees
tonight. Yesterdays high was 81
and the mercury sank to 80 during
the night.
Tomorrow will be like today under
the influence of the prevailing winds
from the South, the forecaster said
A cold snap is expected Friday.
Evening star., 1947-01-29
BiIbo Pronounced Free
OF MALIGNANT Growth
RY the Associated Press

NEW ORLEANS, Jan. Ex-senator
Bilbo, Democrat, of Mississippi, re-
covering from an operation on his
jaw, today was pronounced COM
pletely free of the effects of ma
lignant growth, which was removed
from his mouth in previous
operation.
He is still under treatment at
Touro Inirmary, after the second
operation performed January 20. A
mo visitors" sign hangs on his door
Mr.. Bilbo is expected to remain in
the hospital for 10 days to two weeks
longer.
In another month Ms Bilbo will
return to the hospital for work de-
scribed by his surgeon as plastic
construction.
This would be in the nature of re-
construction of the jaw from which
a piece of dead bone was removed
in the second operation.
Evening star., 1947-01-29
Europe's Cold Wave Takes
Mounting Toll Of Life

LONDON, Jan. 29.-London tenn
peratures tumbled to 18-year low
and icy blasts of the most severe
cold wave of the winter took {
mounting toll of life in fuel-shor
French and German cities today.
Swept by gales from Siberia, tn,
British capital was colder than Mos.
COW. The cold even affected Biz
Ben, making the big clocks chime.
stutter in the night.
Suburban London temperature!
dropped to II above zero. The Kew
Weather Observatory reported /;
above, lowest since February, 1929
and the coldest January night since
1894.
In the 5 above in Berlin, where
thousands huddled in cold lodging.
or crowded into public warming
halls. More than so persons have
frozen to death there since Decem-
Der /, city health officials reported
During the seven weeks from De.
cember / to January IS, the Berlir
city health office also announced
1888 persons were taken to hospital.
with frozen limbs and 1900 other
required treatment for froStbite.
At least three deaths from th,
.cold were reported IN Par 5 today.
Evening star., 1947-01-29
Momentum Is Canine
For Federal Stadium
In National Capital
Resumption of Study
On Useful Memorial
To War Dead Urged

A renewed drive was underway
today, both in and out of Con-
gress, for a national stadium
here as a useful memorial to the
heroic dead of the World Wars
Hopes were voiced for an early
resumption of studies Of the project
begun two years ago. One of the
first objectives would be agreement
on stadium of adequate size, but
rot the mammoth" structure once
envisioned by some.
Funds will be needed for the draft
ing of detailed drawings, once the
Stadium Commission has charteC
the general scheme, officials said
Whether this work would be
financed through public or private
funds is yet to be determined.
The stadium Congress was ad-
vsed in a preliminary report SUBJ
mitted by the original commission
which Congress created by special
act-would pay for all its cost over
period of years.
Prospects for action on the prof.
ect all but died last year when Sen
ator Bilbo, Democrat, of Mississippi
former chairman of the Stadium
Commission, belligerently insisted
the project would have to be one for
a stadium seating 100000 persons.
When he warned he never would
stand for a small, dinky affair
seating less than 100000, his plar
for a Federal loan of $150, 900 to pay
for the plans was put on the shelf.
Public and congressional interest
quickly revived Monday, however
when Speaker Martin announced to
the House the appoir tment of three
representatives to serve on the sup
posedly defunct commission. Words
of approval came from members OF
(See STADIUM, Page A-4D
Evening star., 1947-01-29
NavyMen FindSecls That Gnow
Antarctic Ice to Reach Water
Colony of Thousands Living in Grottoes
Few Miles From Byrd Expedition Bose
BY Thomos K. Henry
Stor Stoff CORRESPONDENT

warmblooded animals, except fol
birds. Yet the Weddell seal lives
here throughout the year.
Several thousand of the animals
have been counted by air surveys in
the last few days. They stay close to
water holes in the ice which give
them access to deep Ross Sea waters
for fish-their only food. When
these holes freeze over several inches
thick, the remarkable seals saw
doors through the ice with their long
teeth to keep open access to deep
water.
In winter, the Weddell seals live
(See HENRY, Page A-49 7
Evening star., 1947-01-29
u. ). Cafeteria Heads
Resisted Audit Effort,
GAO Aide Charges
Senate Group Hears
Manager Defend
Firms Purchases

A charge that officials of Gov
ernment Services, Inc, resisted
attempts to audit the corpora
tons books were made today
before a Senate Civil Service
Subcommittee investigating the
operation of Government cafe
teriaS.
Francis Matchett, General Ac-
counting Office auditor, said officers
of Government Services were "very
nonco- cooperative" and put obstacles
in the way of the audit.
"They resented our going into Ger.
tain matters and kept stalling us
I would say they offered passive re-
sistance," Mr.. Matchett said.
Answered Few Questions.
Mr.. Matchett said the officials
asked the auditors to put any ques-
tions they had in writing. Then, he
said, they answered very few of them.
Acting Chairman Flanders said
the subcommittee had addressed a
letter to the Attorney General ask
ing him to have the Federal Bureau
of Investigation supply accountants
to go in the books of GSI.
Capt. Frank w. Hoover, Govern
ment Services general manager, told
the committee he was surprised at
the charges of nonco-operation and
said r. r. Ayers, associate general
manager, had conducted most of the
business with the auditors.
1.-The books were thrown wide open
to them" Mr. Hoover said.
Mr.. Matchett replied, Eyes, but the
books were not clear in all instances
and additional information was
hard to get"
Purchases Are Questioned.
Among items that Mr.. Matchett
questioned were the furnishing of
music in some cafeterias, the pur-
chase of large supply of dungarees,
the purchase of large supply of
whisky, what happened to 10000
pounds of prize beef bought by Gov
ernment Services, why large guam
tity of rice was permitted to become
rat-infested and why payment of
interest was made on a small loan
when enough money was on hand
to pay off the loan entirely.
Capt. Hoover said the music was
installed to raise the morale of war
(See CAFETERIAS, Page A-6D
Evening star., 1947-01-29
A Magazine Of Local Interest

Features of local interest will predominant in The Stars
enlarged and improved section which makes its first
next Sunday under the title Washingtons
Pictorial Magazine
Produced by the Stars staff of editors writer's photo
graphers and artists the 24page tabloid magazine will apply the
modern technques of pictorial journalism to the Washington
The result will be and different kind of gravure
section designed especially for District residents and their
Maryland and Virginia neighbors.
ful-color will be used each issue, and special
articles and picture features inside will subjects suc
emily varied to interest every member of the family
Watch for
WAsHINCToNs PICTORIAL MAGAZINE
starting next Sunday in
Ute 6llanay 6tar ,
Evening star., 1947-01-29
Three German SIayers
Of U. ). Flyers TO Hang
BY the Associated Press

DACHAU, Germany, Jan. 90
An American military court today
sentenced to death by hanging three
Germans who admitted on the wit
ness stand that they shot five
American flyers in the back while
the airmen were being marched
ahead of them as prisoners of war
The Germans, Gustav Stork, Gus
cav Deppe and Franz Durschke-
two former policemen and a Chin
ney sweep said they shot the
Americans in August, 1914, on order
from a rural district police chief.
Six flyers had parachuted to earth
near Hohenhausen. One was killed
in the drop. The other five sur
rendered.
Stork and Deppe took two of the
flyers to a wooded area and shot
them. They returned to town and
with Durschke, took the other three
to hillside and shot them.
All five we're buried in common
grave which was found by Ameri-
cans in April, 1945.
The current trial at Dachau OF
81 Nazis accused of numbering Al
lied airmen will be expanded to in
clude a whole series of similar cases
officers of the Army's war crimes
branch said today.
The trial at Dachau involves the
slayings of American and other
Allied flyers forced down in only
one military district of Germany
In that district alone, the officers
said, "at least 1900 airmen were
beaten or murdered" on orders sent
down to SIS troops, the Gestapo
and the civilian population from
Heinrich Himmler, Hitler's chief
terrorist.
The report on the trials was given
to a news conference by 1t. Col
William Smoak of Aiken, S. c., of the
investigation section of the War
Grimes Branch, and 1t. Col. Edwin
j. Carpenter of Corning, N. Y, chief
of the Evidence Branch.
Evening star., 1947-01-29
rs Reported Killed as Plane
ExpIodes in Mid-An in China
Methodist Bishop, Wife Among Passengers;
One Survivor Declared Seriously Injured

Aviation Corp, included Mr.. anc
Mrs. R. A. Wick of the American
Baptists (North) of Cheshire, Conn.
their two children; Mrs. F. Miller
and her three children of Canada
and Mrs. B. Kitchen of the United
Church of Canada.
Mrs. Miller was en- route to join
her husband who is attached to the
China Inland Mission at Chengtu
Szechwan Province. Her three chill
dren are Paul, 4; Peter, Z, and Philip
believed to be an infant.
Mrs. Miller was native of Auck-
land, New Zealand, and her hus-
band was from Vancouver, B. C.
They came to China in 1882.
Bishop Garth and his wife, both
of whom came to China last De-
cember 81, had boarded the plane
at HankoW.
Radio contact was lost shortly
after the plane took off from Han
Evening star., 1947-01-29

NAVY ANTARCTIC BASE
Jan. ga few miles from this
base, hidden among blue ice
grottoeS is an enormous colony
of drowsy giants-the worlds
SouthernmoSt mammals.
They are Weddell seals. These
creatures exist in the inferno-like
region of pressure ice in the Ross
Barrier, which is always suf1used
by strange blue light and traversed
by deep hidden crevices so that men
can go there only in parties of three
roped together. Their home marks
the southern limit on earth of
Evening star., 1947-01-29
Embassy Property Exemptions
Cost D. c. $7o7 1886 in Taxes
US. Saves Levies on 80 Million in Holdings
Abroad, but District Takes Loss

State Departments Division of For
eign Buildings Operations, estimates
the value of this Governments real
estate holdings abroad at approx
mately $50,000,000.
On at least $30, ,000, 900 of this prop
erty, he said, the United States pays
no taxes, and the remainder is only
partially taxed. He could make nc
estimate of the savings under re-
ciprocal tax exemption, because OF
the multitude of varying rates in
different countries.
If the District tax rate Of SITE
per 500 were arbitrarily taken az
basis, the saving would amount tt
more than $500, 900.
In any event, Mr.. Larkin said. "w,
are the gamer, and our margin O
gain increases every year as nev
projects are undertaken in our for
eign building program
The loss to the District also i
steadily rising. Thirteen foreign
Evening star., 1947-01-29
u. S. Ends Effort for China Peace;
5000 Marines to Be Evacuated
With Army's Truce Staff Of 900
Chang Koi-shek
And Communists
Are Notified
BY the Associated Press

NANKING, Jan. 29.-Amer-
lean Ambassador j. Leighton
Stuart today notified the Chi
nese government and the Com
muAists that American media
ton had ended in failure and
the elaborate machinery Gen.
Marshall established for bring
ing peace to this strife-to torn land
was being withdrawn as soon as
possible.
Withdrawal from mediation means
evacuation of more than 1000
American officers and men assigned
to Executive (truce) Headquarters
in Peiping, as well as an estimated
5000 Marines remaining in North
China for the purpose of servicing
and guarding American installations
connected with headquarters.
Mr.. Stuart, who was summoned
from his Peiping University post to
help Gen. Marshall in the final
vain efforts to bring the warning
factors into agreement, notified
Chang Kai-shek that the United
States was withdrawing from the
Committee of Three and from Ex-
ecutive Headquarters.
Marshall Gives Up.
An hour later he gave the same
message to Wang Ping-nan, the
Communist representative here, for
transmission to Yenan.
The decision means Gen. Marshall
had surrendered final hope for ac-
cord. A year ago the presidential
envoy told both factions, on the eve
of an apparent successful agree
ment which later collapsed, that 'I
hate failure"
An embassy spokesman said the
announcement meant no change in
the status of Ambassador Stuart.
Communists here refused to ex-
press the Red reaction pending ad-
vice from Yenan. The govern
ment's reaction was contained in a
statement issued through the Min
istry of Information, with the ap-
proval of Chang.
1t stated that the Communists
refusal to reopen negotiations left
the government no course but to
continue the policy of political
democratization' with the as
sistance of the minority parties.
May Intensity Civil War.
The American action-Expected
since Gen. Marshall's departure
from ChinaAhas been delayed only
by the forlorn hope that the Com
munists would abandon their famous
two demands" and accept new gov
ernment officers of negotiation.
The announcement may signal in
tensifcation of the civil war which
in recent weeks has broken out on
various new fronts.
Several weeks may be required to
accomplish the physical removal of
executive headquarters personnel
under 1t. Gen. Alvan c. Gillem and
the remaining Marines.
Evening star., 1947-01-29
Palestine Broadcast
Hints Underground
Still Holds Banker
Police, Troops Continue
Search After Release
Of Abducted Judge
BY the Associated Press

JERUSALEM, Jan. 29.-One of
the two British victims of under
ground kidnapers was at liberty
today and an Irgun zvai Leumi
broadcast heard in Tel Aviv in
dicated that the second would be
freed, like the first, "at a time
which we have decided"
Judge Ralph Windham of the
Tel Aviv District Court, who was
kidnapped from his courtroom Mon
day by armed men whom police
identified as Jews, was released un-
harmed last night in Ramat Gan,
a suburb of Tel Aviv.
Police and troops still were seek
ing H. A. I. Collins, Jerusalem
banker and a former major in the
British Army, who was abducted be-
fore the eyes of a friend, Mrs.
Bella Ferguson, here Sunday night.
Mayor Israel Rokach of Tel Aviv,
one of three Jewish leaders given
48 hours by 1t. Gen. Sir Alan Cum
ningham, the British high commits
sioner, to return both men, said to-
day the ultimatum had been pro
longed." He Gid not disclose the
new deadline.
Threat Is Repeated.
The broadcast of Irgun Zvai Leu
mi, militant Jewish underground
group which had claimed the two
as hostages for an Irgun member
sentenced to be hanged, was re-
corded as saying:
"We have decided to liberate these
men at a time which we have de-
cided. This goes for the agent OF
British intelligence (CollinS) and
for the foreign judge, whose place
is in London, not Tel Aviv.'
It repeated threat that each OF
our soldiers 1rgun members) cap
tured by the enemy will be reprieved
with British blood"
The Jewish Agency announced
yesterday it had received word that
Mr.. Collins was already freed, but
authorities failed to find him in ar
Overnight hunt. Police speculatec
he might be dead or held by the
kidnapers for treatment of injurie:
received when he struggled against
them He was reported to have beer
struck on the head with an axe han
die and chloroformed.
All roads to Jerusalem were
blocked as police patrols searched
for the missing Collins. At the same
time, a reliable source said, an in.
tensive manhunt was under way fol
(See PALESTINE, Page A-6)
Evening star., 1947-01-29
Southern California Hit
By BIizzurd and Winds
BY the Associated Press
By the A.soeioisd Press

LOS ANGELES, Jan. "a gale
driven blizzard swept Southern CAL
ifornia's mountains today, sending
temperatures plummeting to 20 de-
grees at some points. Winds as high
as 100 miles per hour were reported
by the Weather Bureau on Mount
Laguna In San Diego County.
Small craft warnings were raised
along the coast as winds approached
40 miles per hour. Two 50-foot tugs,
the U. s. C. and Calheta, radioed
they were out of commission OF
Santa Monica. Rescue craft towed
them to safety.
Evening star., 1947-01-29
u. S. Personnel Will Begin
Withdrawal Immediately

PEIPING, Jan. 20 P).-Lt. Gen.
Alvan C. Gillem, American COM
missioner at executive headquarters,
assured the Communists today that
necessary time would be allowed
for the return of Communist head
quarters personnel to their areas
and American aid would be given.
Withdrawal of American person.
mel and their families will begin
Immediately and is expected to take
about month. Approximately 1000
officers, enlisted men and women
are attached to the American
branch.
Americans on "a field teams and
lSee NANKING Pare AL
Evening star., 1947-01-29
Mitscher at Naval HospituI

NORFOLK, Va, Jan. 20 R.-
Admiral Marc A. Mitscher, COM
mander in chief Of the Atlantic
Fleet is in the Norfolk Naval Station
Hospital for a complete and thor
ough checkup,' a feet spokesman
reported yesterday. He said the
admiral's condition was very good. :"
Evening star., 1947-01-29

(See SOVIET, Page A-6.)
Evening star., 1947-01-29

House advocates of contin-
ued wartime excise tax rates
on liquor, furs and other items
scored an initial victory today
when they overwhelmingly
beat down a move to open the
legislation to amendments. A
humping voice vote to leave
the bill unchanged presaged
it's passage later in the day.
Evening star., 1947-01-29

(See EMBASSIES, Page A-4J
Evening star., 1947-01-29

(see NANKING, Page AL
Evening star., 1947-01-29

(See CRASH, Page A-6.)