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Evening star., 1947-10-06
1-Cent Milk Price Rise
Threatens D. T.. Area
In Plea by Producers
Association Asks Virginia
Boord to Allow Boost
In Rute Paid Farmers

A cent-a-quart increase in the
price OF milk 4 toughout the
Washington Met politan Area
within the next 6nXeeks was
threatened tod, E Mary
land and Virginia wink Pro-
ducers' Association petitioned
the Virginia Milk Commission
for a raise in the price paid the
farmer.
This increase, If it is granted
undoubtedly" will result in retail
price increase, according to spokes-
man for the Chestnut Farms Chevy
Chase Dairy.
Retail milk prices generally now
are II cents quart in stores and
1919 cents delivered by the daiiies
Cream and milk used in ice cream
would not be affected by the price
rise.
A hearing on the producers re-
quest will be held in Alexandria or
october II.
The group. in making public It's
request for a higher price for fluid
milk, said that producers are ''un-
able to continue to absorb rt.und
after round of ever increasing feed
and labor costs" which have been
greatly in excess of the cent
raise asked.
Since there is no Maryland milk
commission it is not necessary tc
take formal steps to increase the
price paid to farmers of milk pro-
duced in that State. However
prices for the two adjoining States
generally move up or down together
Maryland and Virginia together
furnished about 80 per cent Of the
metropolitan Washington milk sup
ply.
The Board of Directors of the
Producers Association said that they
are still hope that the present
efforts on the part of the admin
startion to halt the vicious spiral
of increasing grain prices (corn
oats, barley and wnea) may become
effective in time to prevent a fur
ther increase in the cost of milk. -
Evening star., 1947-10-06
Parliament Upho|ds
De Casper Regime
BY the Associoted Press

ROME, Oct. 6.-Premier Alcide
De Gasperi's Christian Democrat
government gained a new lease on
life today after beating down two
leftist motions of no confidence in
the constituent assembly.
In voting which climaxed a week
Of hot debate, the first notion
presented by former Foreign Minis
ter Pietro Nenni's pro-Communist
Socialists-was defeated yesterday
by count of 271 to 17S. with 6a
abstaining.
The second motion, offered by
Giuseppe Saragat's moderate Socia-
list Labor Party, was lost by a vote
of 271 to 224, with II abstaining
A third no confidence resolution
offered by the Communists, was
withdrawn.
The margin by which the gov
ernment won In both cases consid-
erably exceeded the margin of 43
ballots by which De Gasperi won a
vote OF confidence last June shortly
after he threw the Communists and
Socialists out of his cabinet.
Had the government been de-
feated on either no confidence mo-
ton, it would have had to resign.
Evening star., 1947-10-06

what it described as United States
imperialism.
Communists parties of two Mar
shall Plan nations, France and Italy,
were included.
In effect, the statement served no.
tice of the Communists intention to
wreck, if possible, the Marshall
Plan for European aid and the Tru-
man Doctrine to combat totalitari-
anism. 1t proclaimed that the
world had been divided into two
camps-led by the Soviet Union and
the United States-and called on
European Communists to defend the
national sovereignty of their peo-
pies against United States aggres-
sion."
Organized in Poland.
Pravda, Communist organ, re-
ported that formation of the new in
terna tional organization was COM
pleted at hitherto unheralded
meeting in Poland last month, at
tended by Communist leaders from
Russia, France, Italy, Czechoslo-
vakia,. Poland, Romania, Bulgaria
Yugoslavia and Hungary.
To implement the work of the or
eanization, an information bureau
is to be established in the YugoslaV
capital at Belgrade. To it will be
assigned, the announcement saio,
the task of exchanging experiences
and, if necessary, of "co-ordinating
the activities of the Communist
parties on a basis of mutual agree
ment.'
Russia was represented at the
Communist conference by two OF its
top Politburo leaders-Col. Gen.
Andreu Zhdanov and Georgi M
Malenkov.
(The Politburo is the political
bureau of the Centra Committee
OF the all-union Communist
psrtyJ
Signed Dissolution Move.
Gen. Zhdanov was among the
Communists who signed the resolu-
ton in Moscow in May, l943, calling
for dissolution of the Comintern-
the international ganizat o n
1See COMMUNISTS. Page A-4D
Evening star., 1947-10-06
NewConintern
To Battle U. 5.
imperialism
Communist Leaders
In Nine Countries
Organize in Poland F.
(Tert OF Communist Declaration
on Page A-4.j
By the Associated Press

MOSCOW, Oct. 6.-The Gen.
tral Communist Party of the
Soviet Union and its counter
parts in eight other European
nations served notice today that
they do not intend to give an
inch in dealing with the United
States.
This program of no concessions
was promulgated in a manifesto
setting up new Communist or
ganization which aroused in some
observers memories of the old
Comintern-the Communist Inter
national formed by Russian Com
munists in 1919 to further world
wide revolution. 1t was declared
dissolved four years ago, in the
middle of the war.
Moscow papers, after printing the
declaration yesterday, made no edi-
torial comment today.
Will Be All-Out Fight.
The manifesto rallied Communists
of the nine nations for an all-out
right against the Marshall Plan and
Evening star., 1947-10-06
Government S Food Plans
Bring Drop in Grain karke'
BY the Asseeiofsd Press

CHICAGO, Oct. 6.-Government
plans to decrease domestic grain
consumption, plus a presidential
request for an increase in margin
requirements, caused heavy selling
In cereals on the Board of Trade
at the opening today. Trade board
directors called q special meeting
presumably to discuss the margin
request.
Wheat dropped as much as IL
cents, corn Z cents, oats cents
and soybeans cents before the
market steadied and rallied slightly
Traders said wheat was aided by
buying traced to cash dealers. They
said this indicated cash grain buy
ing by the Government.
After about an hour Of excited
trading, wheat futures were about
3 to S cents under Saturdays close
corn down about 4 cents, oats oil
2 to 3 cents and soybeans 8 cents
lower.
Evening star., 1947-10-06
Two Big Unions May Leave AFL
As Result of Bitter Disputes
Alliance Between Lewis and Hutcheson
On kLRB and Jurisdiction Rows Reported

drawal Of Mr.. Lewis 600, 900 mine
workers and Mr.. HutcheSon s
equally large union from the AFL
and such a possibility is predicted
here. The conservatives among
federation officials do not expect it.
but they admit it could easily occur
and that the situation is explosive
District 50 Is Part of Dispute.
Part of the controversy revolving
around Mr.. Lewis Is well known, In
volving his blocking of access to the
National Labor Relations Board OF
all AFL unions by his refusal to
sign a Taft Hartley Labor Act nom
Communist affidavit.
But there is more to the Lewis
part of the story than that. The
rest of it involves jurisdictional dis
putes between the UNIV District
SO, a catch-all union of many crafts,
and numerous other AFL unions; a
recurrence of the old basic differ
ences over political activity, the in
dustrial union versus the craft union
setup, and the fact that siZable
Evening star., 1947-10-06
President Calls
ForSacrifices
ToFight Hunger
Attacks GombIing,
Sets Up MeotIess
And No-PouItry Days
(TertS OF Truman and Luckntdn
talks on Page A-5.)
By the Associated Press

An unprecedented "self-de.
nial' offensive against hunger
in Western Europe was touched
of today by President Truman's
call for food sacrifices as an
American contribution tc
peace"
Mr.. Truman asked all citizens
to go without meat on Tuesdays
without eggs and poultry on Thurs.
days, and to save a slice of breac
a day.
He demanded" OF the grain ex.
changes the raising of margins or
grain purchases to 33Es per cent tt
thwart what he called the inf1a
tionary operations of gamblers ir
grain"
II the exchanges refuse, he
warned in Nationwide broadcast
last night, the Government may
step in and limit the amount oI
trading" in wheat and other grains
Distilleries May Suspend.
A distiller described as a "bolt
from the blue another White
White House request-that the
liquor industry shut down for 81
days "at the earliest possible mo.
ment." Two whiskey makers pre-.
dicted the answer would be yes.
Chief aim of the whole program
is to save grain, the mainstay o.
Europe's diet, in the face of esti.
mates that American grain ship
ments will fall 100000,000 bushels
Evening star., 1947-10-06
First Operation Ever TeIevised
Performed by 6. u. Surgeons

his lower abdomen three months
ago, did not Immediately consult a
doctor. and recently had another
attack, which was diagnosed as ap-
pendicitis.
Asked to join the anonymous cast
in this mornings "play-by play"
broadcast, he gave his assent. He
was conscious for the entire time,
although his lower body was shield
ed from pain by a spinal injection.
He was able to tell the doctor from
time to time he "felt fine
When the appendix was cut away
he feebly managed to take look
at it and nod his head.
A member of the Georgetown staff
kept the audience posted as the op-
Grafton developed. The television
camera traced the operating room
technique from the time the doctors
(See MEDICAL, Page A-4D
Evening star., 1947-10-06
Bv Thomas 6. Buchonon.

Georgetown University Hospital
doctors today performed the first
surgical operation ever broadcast
by television.
People who always wondered
what an operation was like had
chance to watch a surgeon remove
an appendix from .23-year-old
youth who remained conscious
throughout the operation and ex-
changed comments on its progress
with the operating room stafi.
The history-making program
over Station WTTG was arranged
by the District Medical Society as Z
feature of this years scientific as.
sembly which opened today at thu
Hotel Statler.
The hero of the performance was
the patient himself. He was young
man who had felt severe pains ir
Evening star., 1947-10-06
New Prince Georges Grand Jury
Directed to Study Gambling

had refused to return indict-
ments on the basis of evidence
presented to it in the spring.
The grand jury then returned a
number of indictments. Many Of
the cases were transferred to
Montgomery County for trial
after the prosecution asserted it
could not obtain a fair trial in
st. Marys County,
In instructing the newly impanelet
grand jury, Judge Gray emphasized
that the jury was not to devote it.
self entirely to inquiring intt
gambling prosecutions, but was tt
study the extent lawbreakers in gen.
eral were being prosecuted.
For the first time, women were
sworn In for jury service in ths
county. Six were named to the %.
member grand jury and eight were
chosen for duty on the first week.
petit jury panel.
Evening star., 1947-10-06
PouItryIess Thursdays
Pose Thanksgiving,
| Christmas Problem

Poultryless Thursdays are fine
until you look at the calendar.
The three big turkey days
Thanksgiving, Christmas and
New Years all come on Thurs
day.
Asked If any one had noticed
this before the Citizens Food
Committee selected Thursday
as the poultryless day, Charles
Ross, secretary to President
Truman, said he didn't hear
any one mention it. AS to
whether the rule would be
relaxed for the holidays, he
said -r>
Wen cross that bridge when
We come to It,"
The Oregon Turkey Improve
ment Association says the
present program would force
the turkey industry into bank
ruptcy because so per cent of
the business comes from sales
for the three holidays.
Evening star., 1947-10-06
What the Russians
| Are Saying of Us:

The MoscoD radio, broddcastirg n
German to Europe last ,Deek, said:
Two and a half years have
passed since the collapse of the
Nazi regime. In the Soviet oc-
cupation zone during this time
quite important successes have
been achieved-by the active
parts played by the German peo-
pie in democratizing the coun-
try.
But 1t would be an unpardon-
able mistake to assume that
everything necessary has been
done in the fight against the
German carriers of Naziism who
are still at large. Recent events
make it clear that Naziism has
by no means been extirpated
completely from Germany.
"It is characteristic that the
majority Of Fascist outrages oc-
cur in the Western zone and
in particular in the United sec
tor Of Berlin.
I'm the United States zone
many war criminals and big
Nazis are occupying responsible
posts. 1t Is therefore not sur
prising that their followers
should try to express openly
their Nazi ideology."
Evening star., 1947-10-06
Five More Cholera Deaths
Bring Egypt S Toll 10 344
By the A,soeioted Press

CAIRO, Oct. 6-Five additional
deaths today brought the official to-
tai of fatalities resulting from
Egypt's two-week-old cholera epi-
demic to 344. The Health Ministry
said the number of reported cases
had mounted to 1,348.
A United States Air Force plane
arrived here this morning with L.
100000 units of anticholera vaccine
donated by the United States Navy
and simultaneously an Egyptian
plane began spraying the northern
half of Cairo with DDT.
The Health Ministry asked resi-
dents to keep doors and windows
open during the spraying to insure
destruction of flies and mosquitoes.
Evening star., 1947-10-06

short of the need unless domestic
consumption can be cut down that
much. The reason for asking Amer
leans to use less meat and poultry
products is to save on grain fed to
livestock.
Going direct to the people by
radio and television. MI. Truman
Joined Charles Luckman, chairman
of his Citizens Food Committee in
grave and sometimes sharply
voiced plea for conservation lest
prosperity at home and peace in
the world be "needlessly lost"
And-as Mr.. Luckman today be-
gan mobilizing an organization, in
side and outside the Government, to
wage a campaign of near-wartime
dimensions-at least one influential
Republican legislator gave ungrudg-
ing endorsement.
Praised by Agriculture Chairman.
Its a good program" said Chair
man Hope of the House Agriculture
Committee. 1T is something tangi-
BILE that the people can understand.
It was well presented and should
have the support of every Amer
ican."
And Chairman Bridges. just be-
fore the broadcast, called his Sen
ate Appropriations Committee to
meet November 49, on the Presi-
dents $3.50, 100000 proposal for
emergency aid to Western Europe.
This is the money which Mr.. Tru-
man says France and italy must
have to assure that they will sur
vive the winter as free and indie
pendent countries.
Senator Wherry Of Nebraska,
Republican whip, indorsed the
Presidents appeal but observed that
Mr.. Truman seems to be lin full
accord with the Taft program" :"
Senator Taft, Republican of Ohio,
declared recently that the people
in this country should eat less TO
help feed the rest of the world:
Gael Sullivan. executive director
of the Democratic National Com
mittee, said the Presidents ap-
proach to the problem of aid for
Europe is completely non-partisan"
but that this attitude is not shared
by Senator Taft or House Speaker
Martin.
Mr.. Sullivan made this statement
(see FOOD, Page A-4)
Evening star., 1947-10-06
BY q stoff Correspondent Of The s.or

ey Sfoff SoHeSPoh0eht OF ms Siof
UPPER MARLBORO, Md, Oct. 6.
The new Prince Georges County
grand jury today was directed to
make a special study of enforce
ment of gambling laws in the
county.
Judge John B. Gray, jr.. opening
the October term of Circuit Court,
warned that it had been revealed
in another court of this circuit
that law enforcement officers of
another county deliberately closed
their eyes to gambling laws >ap-
plicable to that county and to the
State"
Consequently" he added, there
we're no prosecutions, although
there we're hundreds OF violations" ="
In ST. Marys County the
grand jury was recalled in spe-
cial session last summer after it
Evening star., 1947-10-06
2 Gunmen Get S1,527
In Bank Door Ho|dup;
Miss $1,000 in Pocket
Poultry Firm Bookkeeper
Loses $5,470 in Checks;
Bandits Flee Down Alley

A bookkeeper for Morris Bres-
sler g. Co., poultry dealers at
1865 Fourth street NE, was
robbed of $1,527 in cash and
$5,470 in checks, carried in a
paper bag, by two men near
Eighth and H streets NE. shortly
before noon today, but saved
$4,000 in cash carried in his
pocket.
The robbery occurred as John l.
Tucker, 80. of 2755 Macomb street
NV. the bookkeeper, was about to
enter the Eighth street entrance to
the Northeast branch of the Hamil-
ton National Bank.
Both robbers, described as -colored
men about 28 years old. escaped
running across yard and down an
alley to Ninth street. One jumped
into a taxicab but leaped out a few
blocks farther on. leaving a pistol in
the cab. The other man apparently
got away on foot.
100 Persons at Intersection.
More than 100 persons were at the
busy intersection of Eighth and H
streets and several saw the holduI
but were unable to stop it, police
were told.
Mr.. Tucker said later that in
addition to the cash and checks in
the paper bag, he carried the $4,000
in large bills in an inside coat
pocket.
AS he started to enter the Eighth
street side entrance of the bank
he said, he was approached by Two
colored men. One pointed a pistol
at him and demanded that he hand
over the bag. Instead, Mr.. Tucker
hurled the bag over a fence into
the yard at 805 Eighth streer, he
said Both robbers hurdled the low
fence, scooped up the bag and raced
down nearby alley.
One Wore Army Jacket.
Police reported later that a taxi
cab driver told of having picked
up a man answering the description
of one of the robbers.
The man entered the cab on Tenth
street but jumped out at Tenth
street and Florida avenue NE.
One of the robbers wore an Army
jacket and the other a brown suit
police were informed.
Mr.. Bressler said his company's
receipts for late Friday and Satur'
day were taken to the bank by two
employees. one of whom went ther
earlier today. Mr.. Tucker arrived
at the bank shortly before noon MI
Bressler did not disclose how much
money the first employe took to tn
bank.
Evening star., 1947-10-06
One Reported Dead, 7 Shot
As Prisoner Goes Berserk
BY the Associoted Press

T MEMPHIS, Tenn, Oct. 6-De-
tective Chief M. A. Kinds said he
understood a trusty had been killed
and two deputies wounded by a
prisoner who went berserk in the
county jail shortly before noon.
There was so much confusion
around the Jail I couldn't get inside,
Chief Kinds reported.
However, they told me a Negro
trusty was shot and two deputies
wounded. A Negro prisoner went
'razy and started shooting all over
the place"
Evening star., 1947-10-06
|CiviI Service Officials
To Explain Loyalty File
To House Group Today
Hoffman Charges Smear
On Members Of Congress;
Holds Reds Responsible
BY Joseph Young

Chairman Hoffman of the
House Executive Expenditures
Committee today charged the
Civil Service Commission with
keeping a smear file" on some
members of Congress.
Mr.. Hoffman made the charge
as the committee summoned the
three civil service commissioners
to appear before it this afternoon
to answer reports that the COM
mission is keeping some congress
sional names in a special loyalty
investigation lead" file.
TT is nothing more than a smear
file from biased and prejudiced
sources" Mr.. Hoffman declared.
I'm my judgment some Reds down
there are trying to destroy the con-
fidence of the people in Congress. y
Files in Separate Dossier.
1t was revealed yesterday that
the committee had issued subpoenas
for the three commissioners In con-
nection with the loyalty file charges
Sumoned were Harry B. Mitchell
commission president, and his as
sociates, Frances Perkins and Ar
thur S. Flemming. Also subpoenaed
were the commissions files.
Commission officials said today
they did not know whether the
lead" file contained the names and
records of any members of Congress
They said the file In question is
dossier kept by the commission
investigators apart from their reg
ular records in compiling loyalty
and other Investigations on Federal
! job applicants and Government en-
ployes. This information, it was
said, is usually about persons not
now employed in the Government
which was picked up incidentally in
the Investigators inquiry into other
matters.
"Smear File" Charge Denied.
Commission officials denied the
charge that it was smear file"
TT is something like newspaper
library, where clippings, good ano
bad, are kept" one official said. III
is kept only for our investigators
information and use in future in
vestigations.
The information is usually usec
should the person involved apply
for a Government job, or in con-
nection with suspected employees
already on the Government payroll
it was said.
/ Commission officials said the files
existence was no secret. and that
its contents had been discussed be.
fore the House Appropriations Com.
mittee. However, at that time the
question of whether any members
of Congress we're involved was not
brought up.
Evening star., 1947-10-06
Chinese Clear Reds
Around Changchun
By thskssocioted Press

NANKING, Oct. 6.-Government
counteroffensive which cleared Chi
nese Communists to a radius 13
miles from Changchun, capital of
Manchuria. was reported today as
fierce battles ragged along the length
Of the railway south to Mukden.
Chinese dispatches from Chang
chun said Communist shelling
threatened the city from the south,
west and north and that at least
10000 Red cavalrymen were seeking
a weakpoint in the city's defenses.
The official Central News Agency,
however, said Government leaders
responsible fer ChangcEun's defense
were confident they had made 1t
IAN ironclad fortress"
Evening star., 1947-10-06
By Jones Y. Newton
Stor Sfoff Correspondent

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 6.-The
American Federation of Labor
opened it's annual convention
here today amid predictions of
officials that the meeting will
be as\rough as that at Atlantic
City in 1885, when John L. Lewis
created the CIO and marked his
exit from the AFL by punching
a fellow vice president on the
nose.
BY strange coincidence, Mr..
Lewis and the man he punched II
years ago are expected to supply
the drama in the convention this
time. Mr.. Lewis has formed an
alliance now with his former
antagonist, William L. Hutcheson,
president of the carpenters union,
and both have quarrels of almost
equal Importance with the rest of
AFL.
All of this could lead to the with
Evening star., 1947-10-06
Supreme Court Open!
Term With Reading
OF Jackson Dissent
Justice Douglas Absent;
Labor Law, Realty Deed
Cases to Be Heard
DC. COVENANT CASE is described
in an article, the first of two,
appearing on the Editorial Page.
By the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
Short one justice, the Supreme
Court began it's new term today
with a blast from Justice Jack
son against a So decision an
nounced last June %.
Justice Douglas was absent. He
underwent a tonsillectomy during
the summer recess and is recovering
from a throat infection. Aides SAID
he probably would rejoin the court
next Monday.
Todays was the first session OF
new term of the court during
which matters of far-reaching i'm
portance may be decided, including
whether the Taft Hartley Act is
constitutional and whether clauses
in real estate deeds which bar prop
erty owners from selling to Ne
groes are legal.
Justice Jackson's blast was dis
senting opinion in a case in which
the court upheld q Securities and
Exchange Commission order. That
order prevented the management OF
a company undergoing reorganiza-
ton from profiting by purchases OF
securities during the reorganization
Justice Murphy delivered the
courts majority decision in June
At that time Justice Frankfurtel
announced that he and Justice
Jackson dissented, but had not hac
opportunity to write their opinions
Their dissent was handed down to.
day by Justice Jackson.
Calls Decision Ominous.
Justice jackson asserted thai
there was admittedly no law fol
regulation to support the commits
sion's order" and said that h1
found the only reason the majorit,
upheld the order was that it fol
lowed "the principle of judicia
difference to administrative expert
ence."
THE truth is," Justice -sor
added, that in this decision tn,
court approve the commissions as
(See COURT, Page A-3D