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Evening star., 1947-03-17
Coroner Studies Death
.0fChevy Chase Man

The death last night of Chevy
Chase man, apparently from an
overdose of sleeping pills, was being
investigated by DR.. F. j. Broschart,
Montgomery County coroner.
The dead man is James o. Gill
christ, 40, of 201 West Bradley lane,
beauty shop supply salesman,
Bethesda police said. He died at
Suburban Hospital about $50 pm.
Police said they were told by Mrs.
Ethel Gilchirst, SO, his wife, that
Mr.. Gilchirst had taken about 20
sleeping pills during the day. When
he became unconscious Mrs. Gill
christ called the Bethesda-Chevy
Chase Rescue Squad which took
Mr.. Gilchirst to the hospital. He
died about 20 minutes after losing
consciousness, DR.. Broschart said.
DR.. Broschart ordered an autopsy
and said that laboratory analysis
would be made before certificate
is issued.
Evening star., 1947-03-17
Nourse Cites Failure
.0f Business 10 Solve
Postwar Problems

Decisions by American business
executives since VI Day have not
added up to anything like work.
able solution of the Nations busi-
ness problems Edwin G.. Nourse
chairman of President Truman's
Council of Economic Advisers, said
today.
1t is true, he observed, that moth
ing can be done to change the law
iof supply and demand, but he
added:
II submit that you can act intel
ligently or stupidity within the con-
dition laid down by the law
Mr.. Nourse made his remarks In
talk before the Eastern Spring
Conference of the Controllers In
stitute of America. The conference
is being held at the Hotel Statler
He advocated moderate wage
increases in the lower or medium
wage brackets. Excessive" wage
increases would be merely a source
of further decentralization" he said
Those businessmen who are striv-
ing voluntarily to keep prices down
were praised by Mr.. Nourse. He
said they were showing the power
of well trained and responsible man.
agement to perpetuate our system
of free enterprise.
Emerson P. Schmidt, director OF
economic research for the United
States Chamber of Commerce, saio
the unstable value of the dollar was
probably the greatest single cause
of labor unrest. He added:
I'm spite of the phenomenal wage
rate increases of $50 per cent since
1888, the share of the national in
come going to labor is almost exactly
the same today. The only way to
augment the standard of living of
the workers and of all persons is
to produce more. A redistribution
Of income by law or by collective
bargaining does not seem to be very
fruitful"
The thirteenth annual controllers
conference began yesterday and will
continue through tomorrow.
Evening star., 1947-03-17

tell his colleagues that Russia "is
looking at Alaska with covetous
eyes" by voicing claims that the 1867
purchase arrangement was illegal.
There have been Soviet conten-
tions, the California lawmaker told
newspapermen in advance of his
speech, that the 100000 purchase
price was In reality but reimburse
ment of expenses incurred by the
then Gear in sending his fleets to
New York and San Francisco in
1862" to dissuade the British and
French from siding with the Con-
federacy in the Civil War.
Mr.. Gearhart said he planned to
ask the State Department anew
whether Moscow has been seeking
return of the territory.
Evening star., 1947-03-17
Macarthur
Continued From First Page

"the advanced spirituality Of the
world to protect it from undue ag-
sression" and that:
eff the United Nations are ever
to succeed, this is the most favorable
opportunity it has ever had. II
the United Nations cannot provide
these mild controls, it cannot meet
any challenge.
The Japanese, said Gen. MacAr-
thur, would consider United Nations
control protective rather than ag-
gressive 1t could continue as long
as it was muniflcent.'
He said Japan was under a con-
tinuing economic blockade.
Economic warfare along those
lines still is as bitter here as when
guns were firing. No weapon,
not even the atom bomb, is as dead
1y in its final effect as economic
warfare"
Japan "has got to be allowed to
trade with the world he went on.
We've got to take it out of the
hands of hte government and put 1t
in the hands of private traders"
Gen. Macarthur said Japan was
thoroughly exhausted" economi-
cally at the end of the war and that
all she had left was men,"
Even under strictest rationing,
Japan is not producing enough to
satisfy her needs. The difference
must be filled by the Allies. If we
keep this economic blockade up,
more and more will we have to
support this country.
TT is an expensive luxury. But
We will pay for it or let people die
by the millions" he declared.
Gen, Macarthur said no clear
cut economic framework had been
outlined in either Japan or Ger
rany-"but this is not a phase that
occupation can settle. We can only
enforce economic strangulation."
Discussing reparations, he said,
1T don't think there is any intent
to take away from the industrial
capacity of Japan that which would
destroy it."
The problem. he said, was to find
the exact balance. He warned that
eff reparations cut too deeply, the
United States will have to support
Japan because we have undertaken
ma ior burdens"
Evening star., 1947-03-17
Hungary
Continued From First Page.)

gans" and that the Communist had
declined to agree to parliamentary
investigation. The small holders are
in the Majority in Parliament. The
note said also that the four-man
court conducting trials of the alleged
Horthyist plotters was made UP
of three representatives of parties
aligned in a minority bloc as against
one responsible to the majority small
holders"
The note said further that Ko-
vacs, accused by the Russians OF
espionage against the Soviet Army
was not seized until the Hungarian
Communist Party had, without avail
resorted to numerous strategems
to get him to waive parliamentary
immunity so he could be arrested by
Hungarian political police.
Copies of the note were to- be
delivered to Premier Ferenc Macy
and the British representative on
the Control Council. When the
American note will be published In
the Hungarian press is problemat-
ical. The last American note, OF
March S, was not published here
until Gen. Sviridov replied.
Evening star., 1947-03-17
Radio Forum Favors
Daylight Saving Bill
By 8-to-2 Margin

With Senate action expected this
week on the McGrath daylight saw
ing time bill. renewed evidence of
support for the measure was given
last night in a radio forum over
Station VOL.
OF 10 speakers who presented their
views in the round table discussion,
only two registered opposition.
They were Miss Eta L. Taggart.
representing the Society of Natives,
and Charles H. Folk, president of
Local 20, American Federation OF
Government Employees.
Those who favored the bill in
cluded G. L. zuch, president Of the
Federal Recreation Committee; Vic
Gauzza, president of the Washing
ton Baseball Association: Douglas
Clarke. Connecticut Avenue Citi-
zens Association and Northwest
Council, and Edward N Lewis,
Washington Board of Trade.
Others in Favor.
Also in favor were Arthur C.
Katims, Federation of Businessmen
Associations, L. w. Lawder, presi-
dent of the Junior Board of Com
merce: Brandon Marsh of the
Washington Post. and Frank M.
Smith of the Washington Times
Herald.
Miss Taggarts arguments against
daylight saving time included the
assertion that it would cause hard
ship to elderly persons who would
be deprived Of their proper rest at
bedtime because the heat would
still be oppressive"
Mr.. Folk said 80 per cent Of his
local, consisting Of Bureau of En-
craving and Printing employees. and
q majority Of the Central Labor
Union were against daylight time.
He advocated a referendum on the
measure to determine the peoples
desires.
Points brought out by the eight
speakers favoring daylight time In
cluded:
/. 1t would provide greater oppor-
tunity for after-work recreation and
outdoor sports.
2. 1t would give amateur garden
ers chance to cultivate their back
yard plots.
3. Baltimore, Philadelphia, New
York, Boston, and other major
cities along the coast have adopted
daylight saving time. Unless Wash
ington falls in line, confusion will
result.
Newspaper Polls Cited.
4. Newspaper polls have shown
that most residents of the District
support the proposal. The Com
gressmen who voted against the
original McGrsth bill voted their
own personal preferences, rather
than the best interests of the Dis
trict."
In letter sent to all members of
the Senate today. the Washington
Board of Trade urged that the Dis
trict Commissioners be granted the
power to establish daylight saving
time If a public hearing demon
strates popular approval.
"If we stay on standard time"
the board contended, there will be
confusion for travellers and lost time
in the length of the business day Of
banks, financial institutions and ell
business houses engaged in inter-
state commerce"
Evening star., 1947-03-17
Truman Nominotes
Clay for Promotion
To Full General

1t. Gen. Lucius D. Clay,
American military governor of
Germany and commander of all
American armed forces in the
European theater, was nomi-
mated by President Truman to-
day for promotion to the rank
of full general.
The President also sent to
the Senate the nomination Of
Maj. Gen. Clarence R. Huebner,
Gen. Clay's chief of staff and
deputy, to be lieutenant gen.
eral.
Both promotions would be
temporary. Both Gen. Clay and
Gen. Huebner hold the perma-
nent rank of brigadier general
in the Regular Army.
Evening star., 1947-03-17
Delegates to Seek
Progressive Laws

Delegates from the State chap
tiers of the Progressive Citizens of
America will assemble in Wash
ington Friday to see their Repre-
sentatives and Senators for the pas
sage of progressive" legislation, 1t
was announced yesterday.
Among the major issues on which
delegates will concentrate, the an
nouncement said, will be the tax
program, antilabor legisla ton, rent
control and housing.
A meeting of the groups Board
of Directors will be held at 10 am
Saturday in the Willard Hotel.
Evening star., 1947-03-17
Continued From First Page.)
Speeches at Baltimore.

plating s25O,O0O, 900 for Greece this
year.
Speeches at Baltimore.
Senator Saltonstall, Republican,
of Massachusetts, at Boston and
Senator Tydings, Democrat, of
Maryland at Baltimore expressed
concern in speeches over far
reaching implications of the Pres
ident's proposal. They listed
weighty pros and cons without COM
mitting themselves and said the
question requires full consideration
by the people and Congress.
Former Undersecretary of State
Sumner Welles said in his weekly
broadcast that United States eco
nomic assistance to Greece is re-
quired to prevent "the establish
ment of a Communist-d dominated
dictatorship" He added the United
Nations lis not yet able to operate
in more than rudimentary way
and can never function sue
cessfully unless the great powers are
able to agree upon the basic pol
icies at ISSUE
On the issue of keeping the United
Nations abreast of any American
moves in the Mediterranean, Sena-
tor Smith, member of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee, told
a reporter he fears that If the
U. N. is ignored entirely in the pres
ent crisis, it's future ability to help
keep the worlds peace will be
weakened.
Wants Frank Statement.
T don't want to bypass the
United Nations in this situation,
even if it is unable to cope with the
present crisis because 1t has no
police force and no money for relief
expenditures, the New jersey Sen
ator said.
"I think this Government should
make a frank statement to the
United Nations OF what we are do
ing and why we believe that our
actions are for the benefit OF ulti-
mate world peace"
Senator Moore said he thinks that
if the United States extends aid to
Greece and Turkey it ought to make
certain that relief and rehabilita-
ton expenditures are supervised In
the best interests of building up de-
mocracy in those nations.
1--WE need some one to direct this
work in whom the whole country
can have confidence" the Oklahoma
Senator said. II think former Pres
ident Hoover is that man."
Hoover Rejection Implied.
After a White House visit last
Wednesday, however, Mr.. Hoover
told reporters that under no pos
sible circumstance" would he &C
cept any such role.
Mr. Hoovers suggestion that Con-
gress attach a please repay" tag to
a proposed $35O,000, 900 expenditure
for relief in several European coun-
tries was before the House Foreign
Affairs Committee today as it
studied legislation to authorize the
outlay. A committee spokesman
said it had nothing to report at the
conclusion of the session.
When the committee clears this
measure, Chairman Eaton said it
will be ready to act on the Greek
Turkey aid proposal, which he
planned to introduce today.
Swinging the spotlight halfway
around the globe. Representative
Gearhart, Republican, of California
called for time on the House floor to
Evening star., 1947-03-17
Huge IcicIes Formed
By Dripping Tower
By the Associoted Press

DETROIT.-The drip, drip, drip
from a water tower atop a six-story
downtown building posed problem
for Detroit police.
The water froze into 15-foot
icicles Weighing almost ton each
endangering motorists and pedestri-
ans on the street below.
Officials roped off the area but
not in time to save George Mlakus
car which was damaged when one
of the icicles fell on it.
Evening star., 1947-03-17
Fleming and Creedon Martial Law Is Lifted
Urge Group 10 Extend In Palestine as Jews
Rent, Housinu Control Celebrate Freedom
By the Associated Press

Two top Government ofiicials told
the House Banking Committee to-
day controls on rents and housing
should be extended.
Maj. Gen. Philip B. Fleming, tenn
porary controls administrator, pro-
posed continuance of essential
rent controls until June 80, 1948.
Housing Expediter Frank r. Cree
don told the committee that only
those controls necessary to get the
housing job done are being used
now.
The committee is considering q
bill by Chairman Wolcott to repeal
the 1916 Patman Emergency Hous-
ing Act to free the building indus
try of all Federal control. It also
would end rent controls on March
81, 1948, and place them on differ
ent basis.
Senator Fleming said the pro-
posed bill would lead to higher rents
in many instances and to hardships
for veterans and the lower income
groups.
Creedon Defends Controls.
Mr.. Creedon told the committee
"On the basis of the facts as ]
see them, 1t is my considered judg-
ment that the few remaining hous-
ing controls cannot be removed al
this time without causing serious
loss in the production of homes fol
veterans"
Before his appearance at the COM
mittee hearing, Mr.. Creedon issued
a statement saying that he didn't
know "how smany houses will be
started or completed this year." He
said he hoped it would be "at least
a million, a figure he attributed
to industry representatives, "and al
many more as materials and labor
will permit"
Mr.. Creedon said report pre-
pared by two of the agency's staff
on 1947 home building prospects
was mot an official report" He
added:
"In view of my own unwlllingness
to fix set goal for the year ]
naturally cannot accept responsi.
bility for a figure or set Of figures
that represent some one else's no.
ton"
Fleming Hits Rent Plan.
Gen. Fleming testified that the
rent control section of the Wolcott
bill fails to provide the Government
with the. tools that are necessary
to enable it to continue an effective
workable system Of rent control.
He listed these reasons:
l. 1t takes from the Government
any authority to enforce maximum
rents. leaving only court action by
individual tenants against indi-
vidual landlords as an enforcement
measure.
2. An individual landlord would be
free to challenge the validity OF the
established maximum rent when
brought into court by tenant, but
no standards to test the validity
are provided.
with the Government out Of the
enforcement picture" Gen. Fleming
said, many tenants anxious to find
a place to live will be forced to
agree to pay more than they should.
And it is not very likely, as prac-
tical matter, that they will then
bring their landlords into court.
Veterans and lower income
groups looking for a home will be
the principal victims of the result
ing scramble at illegal rents for any
available vacancies. They cannot
afford to pay the bonuses and the
side PAYMENTS"
Evening star., 1947-03-17
Dam Neurs Completion

France expects this year to COM
plete the immense dam and hydro
electric plant at Genissiat on the
Rhone River, second largest dam In
Europe. 1t will be $50 feet wide and
800 feet high and form a lake 14,3
miles long. The hydroelectrice plant
is one of % to be built on the Rhone
Evening star., 1947-03-17
jap Girl Teaches Flyers

A Japanese girl, former archery
champion, has an enthusiastic class
who now are drawing a long bow
Allied Air Force men at Milo, Japan.
The airmen use the Japanese type
Of long bow and metal tipped arrows
more than three feet long. The
bows are not toys. They will drive
arrows through four inches of solie'
wood at range of 40 yards.
Evening star., 1947-03-17
Moscow
Continued From First Page.)

Germany, was in Moscow to advise
Gen. Marshall in the treaty negoti-
ations. Summoned the day he took
command, he arrived from Berlin
at 2:45 pm. yesterday.
Mr.. Molotov tried when the con-
ference opened last Monday to get
China put on the agenda. Failing
in that, he wrote Gen. Marshall and
Mr.. Bevins Wednesday to ask for
informal discussion of the question.
Last night headquarters Of the
United States delegation made pub
lie Gen. Marshall's letter in reply,
dated Saturday night. Gen. Mar
shall agreed to an exchange of in
formation on China but said: Il do
not think it desirable to engage in
any conference, however informal" F."
"I suggest" he said, that each of
Evening star., 1947-03-17
Cupistrono Swallows
Arrive d Days Early
By the Assoeioted Press

SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, Calf.
Mar. 17.-Four days ahead of sched-
ule, according to the Rev. A. j.
Hutchinson, the swallows of San
Juan Capistrano Mission have ar
rived for the summer, after a winter
spent as far south as Patagonia.
Father Hutchinson, in charge OF
the mission, said the swallows
usually come back on st. Joseph S
Day, March 10, but the advance
guard rolled in, he said, at sum
down Saturday.
eve were surprised to see about
200 of them" Father Hutchinson
said. "A scouting party sometimes
arrives this early, but there are too
many for just that"
Legend at the mission has it that
the swallows arrive st. Joseph's day
and depart October %, the feast OF
San Juan Capistrano.
Evening star., 1947-03-17

The poison glands Of snakes re-
semble the salivary glands OF NAM
mails.
Evening star., 1947-07-31
Public VS.. Private Stakes
Hughes.Brewster Row Seen but Step
In Battle for Single Airline Rule

It was not enough. The ironical-
" free-aviation- enterprise, New Deal
Democrats consistently prevailed not
only in the Senate but in the Civil
Aeronautics Authority. TWA and
others got overseas routes.
Two Brewster Demands.
When the Republicans took over
Senator Brewster made two de-
mands: l. That the War Investigat-
ing Committee be continued. 2
That he be named to the powerful
Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Committee, although of the seven
Republicans allotted to it, his COL
league Senator White was one and
it's chairman.
He got both. 1t was then and con-
sistently evident through the ses-
sion that Senator Taft found it i'm
possible to say no to Senator Brew
ster. Then he got himself named
chairman of the aviation subcom-
mittee. Forthwith appeared in the
lobbies the cheerful countenance OF
Pan ANS Sam Pryor, the forever
famous I'VE Want Willkie" entire
preneur. Next came new hearings
on the chosen instrument.
The committee made no recon-
mendations. Mr.. Hughes now
charges that Senator Brewster was
holding back on investigation of the
Hughes cargo plane deals because
Pan American and TWA were try
ing to get together The subcom-
mittee's delays fit into this picture
also.
Politicos answer the question Of
what's in it for Brewster?' by con-
ceding first that his advocacy of the
chosen instrument policy fits into
his nationalistic thinking on foreign
affairs. They point out that he is
rich. Then they add that 1t will
not do his vice presidential ambi-
tions any harm to help powerful
hackers of the Republican Party.
Evening star., 1947-07-31

set up during Lowell Meiiett.
the war by executive order of Presi-
dent Roosevelt. Congress did this
by refusing any further appropria-
tions for the FEPC's work.
There also reposes In the Senate
Committee an extraordinary report
by a subcommittee. This subcom-
mittee collected the evidence re-
ferred to in the course Of consider
ing a bill to prohibit discrimina-
tion. The bill, introduced in March
has for It's authors, Senators Ives,
Ssltonstall, Smith and Morse
Republicans; Senators Chavez
Downey, Murray and Myers, Demo.
Gratis. It is modelled on State stat
utes that have been demonstrating
their value in New York, New Jersey
and Massachusetts,.
Startling Amendment.
The subcommittee, composed OF
Senators Donnell, Ives, Smith, Muir
ray and Ellender, began hearings
early in June, concluding them July
TO- Senator Smith, who had associ-
ated himself warmly with the pro-
posed legisla ton at the outset, i'm
mediately presented startling
amenoment-"for discussion pur-
poses only and without indorsins
it," 1t provided that any State
whose Legislature voted to do sc
within a reasonable period could
exempt itself from the enforcement
provisions Of the act.
The amendment was not accepted
by the subcommittee, but Senator
Smith clung to his expressed belief
that 1t would not separate the South
from the rest of the country Every
body else appeared to think it would
Evening star., 1947-07-31
On the Other Hand
New Jersey Senator Is Blamed
For Failure to Advance FEPC

have exactly that effect. Attorneys
for the Civil Liberties Union and
for various organizations supporting
anti discrimination legislation gave
their opinion that the amendment
would also make the act unconsti-
tutional.
Principal open opposition to the
bill in the subcommittee came from
Senator Ellender OF Louisiana. Wait
ing for him to produce witnesses
brought the sessions down close to
the adjournment date, which the
bills friends charged was his pur-
pose. If so, it was successful.
Substitute Motion.
Tuesday of the final week the
subcommittee met to act on the bill.
Senator Ellender moved to hold the
bill in subcommittee. He was de-
feated. Senator Ives, seconded by
Senator Murray. moved to report
the bill faborably. Senator Smith
declining to support the motion, Of
fered the following substitute:
Resolved, That the bill be re-
turned to the full committee with
the statement that the subcommit-
tee favors the general purposes of
the bill, but with the recommenda-
ton that the full committee give
further study to the provisions of
the bill.
And with the further statement
to the committee that Senators
Ives and Murray favor the bill in its
present form"
1t was so voted, only Senator. FL
lender opposing. Any hope Of get
ting the bill out of the full commit
tee and on the Senate calendar for
early action next winter was ended
Rightly or wrongly, the supporters
of the bill give the New Jersey Sem
ator the blame for this unsatisfac-
tory situation.
Working hardest for antidiscrim-
inatory legislation are a number of
Negro organizations, although rep
resentatives of the Jews and Mex
ican- Americans have been almost as
urgent. Their story is much the
same. They find the doors of en-
ployment closed against them in
many places or the jobs they are
qualified to I'LL withheld from them.
They are having a serious unem-
ployment problem at time when
workers are generally In demand
One survey presented to the SUBJ
committee revealed unemployment
among Negroes in some sections OF
the country to be proportionately
two to three times that Of other
workers.