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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-16
Moran Is Appointed
To D. {. Liquor Board

The Commissioners today appoint
ed James O'Donnell Moran, 43,
Washington lawyer. to fill the posi-
ton on the Alcoholic Beverage Con-
troll Board left vacant by the death
of William P. Meredith.
His appointment is for the six
months left before Mr.. Meredith's
term of Office expires in March.
Mr.. Moran, former associate of
the late Seton Darr, was COM
mander IN the Navy during the war.
He was born in Washington and at
tended local schools before taking a
bachelors degree at Catholic Uni
versity and a law degree at George
town University Law School. He
entered law practice in 1929 and
became associated with Mr.. Darr in
1880.
His wife Is the former Cecilia Al
faro. They have two children and
live at 2801 Allendale place NV.
While In the Navy, Mr.. Moran was
intelligence officer at Bremen, Ger
many. He Is former director OF
the District Bar Association and a
former director of the National Cap
ital Bank. 4
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-16
Tobin Calls on NLRB
To Reverse Ruling on
Anti-Red Affidavits
Teomsters' Head Signs
Document and Demands
Right to Boards Aid
BY the Associated Press

The AFL Transfers Union to-
day demanded that the National
Labor Relations Board reverse a
ruling by it's own general coun-
sci on the scope of the controver-
sial non-Communist section of
the Taft Hartley Act.
Daniel ]. Tobin, president OF the
teamsters, announced that he has
signed the required non Communist
affidavit and now contends his
union is legally eligible to use serv-
ices of the board despite a con-
trary opinion by Robert N. Den
ham, the boards general counsel.
Mr.. Denham has held that AFL
unions cannot qualify until all men,
bers of the General Executive Coun-
Gil have furnished affidavits. John
L. Lewis, a member of the council,
has blocked such a mass filing,
Union Called Autonomous.
Mr.. Tobin argued that his union
is completely autonomous despite its
AFL affiliation. He said Joseph A.
Padway, teamsters' union attorney,
would take the case to the board
today.
The Taft-Hartley Act says each
officer of such labor organization
and the officers of any national or
international labor organization Of
which it is an affiliate or constituent
unit" must furnish afidavits in
order for a union to be eligible for
NLRB aid.
Mr.. Tobin is the first top official
of either the CLIO or AFL to sign
the nom Communist forms.
His move is an aftermath of an
AFL Executive Council session in
Chicago last week.
Tobin Favored Signing.
Mr.. Tobin wanted Mr.. Lewis and
all the AFL leaders to agree to sign,
even announcing to reporters in ad-
vance that the teamsters would do so.
Mr.. Lewis, like Mr. Tobin. vice
president of the AFL, fatty refused,
although the Mine Workers for years
have barred Communists from their
union, as do Mr.. Tobin's teamsters.
NLRB officials say Mr.. Tobin is
not likely to get a decision right of
the bat. The board takes the posi-
ton that it cannot act on Mr.. Den
hams Interpretation of the law until
some union, denied use of NLRB ma
chinery by regional Office, appeals
to the board itself.
The CLIO has put over until its
Boston convention next month any
decision on what it will do about the
non Communist forms. But Secre-
tary- Treasurer James Carey said re-
Gently that neither he nor CLIO Pres
ident Philip Murray ever would
sign them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-16
Wa|kouts
Menaeing Italy as
Metal Workers Quit
Treaty Of Peace Termed
Infamous Dictate by
Rome Newspapers
BY the Asseeiefed Press

ROME, Sept. 16.-Spreading
strikes that menaced her al
ready shaky economy marked
Ita1y's return to sovereignty
today.
The peace treaty with the win
ners of World War II took effect
at 2 am. e pm, EDIT Monday.
Rome newspapers declared the
treaty Infamous" and a dictate. "
Adding their weight to a nine-day
strike of more than 100000 farm
workers in the north, 100000 metal
workers began a 48-hour walkout,
protesting the high cost of living
and demanding more pay. The farm
workers seek an eight-hour day, in
creased pay and other concessions.
In Rome a one-hour strike to
protest high prices was called in
Offices of railroads and bus lines.
In Palermo, Sicily, transport work.
ers struck for higher pay.
Misery Held Real Threat.
American diplomats here, mean
while, expressed belief that misery,
rather than communism, was the
real force to be reckoned with in
Italy and that the next seven
months would test Italy's resistance
to communism.
Prices of some foods had doubled
in the last six months to a year
The best meat cost 500 lire kilo-
gram against about TOO lire less
than year ago; spaghetti, 400 lire
a kilogram, against 100 lire; ra-
toned bread, 81 lire, against II lire
Black market bread was $40 lire.
GA kilogram is % pounds. The
official rate of exchange is $50
Italian lire to a dollar, making
the lire worth roughly a third
of a cent?
A check of representative Ameri-
can foreign service officers, includ-
ing the top advisers of Ambassador
James c. Dunn, revealed feeling
that the immediate problem was to
relieve the Italians hunger and
deprivation to strengthen their
morale in the face of a Communist
campaign to capture power.
Reds Want Bread Riots.
I'VE think it is the primary Com
munist aim to take Italy by legal
means" one of the diplomats said.
The one thing we can not afford
is bread riots. There is nothing the
Communists would like better"
The diplomats said they regarded
the farm strike in the predominantly
Leftist north as an opening gun in
the Communist campaign to harry
to death the on-Communist, non
Socialist Christian Democrat gov
eminent of Premier Alcide de Cas-
peri.
Mr.. de Gasperi warned Italians
(See ITALY, Page A-6D
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-16
Dynamite Caps Blind
7 Children and Injure 4
BY the Asseeioted Press

YUBA CITY, Calf, Sept. 10
Two children were blinded and the
sight of two others was in doubt
today as the result of an explosion
of dynamite caps last night.
Their 55-year-old grandmother
suffered serious abdomen injuries,
and two other children were injured.
Nine physicians worked over the
youngsters, who are the children of
Udell and Uell Reynolds, twin
brothers who live at nearby Suffer
County ranches.
The grandmother is Mrs. Elizabeth
Reynolds, SIS.
Blinded were Larry, 8, who lost
both eyes and may lose his left hand,
and Jimmy. 6, both sons of Uell
Reynolds. Ronald, 7, and Tommy
S, both sons of Udell, may lose their
sight, physicians said. Barbara, 6,
and Freddie, 7, were also injured.
Deputy Sheriff Kenneth Hooper
said he had no information on how
the children obtained the caps.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-16
City Heads Adopt Barrett Plan
For CentroIizing Police Records
Praise Chiefs Work,
Promote 1t. Agnew
To Head Bureau
By Rudolph Kouffmonn II

The Commissioners today
adopted in their entirety the
recommendations of Police Supt
Robert J. Barrett for reorganiz-
ing his department and passed
a resolution commencing him
for splendid work" in preparing
the report that carries the pro-
posed changes.
AS the first step in putting them
into effect, they approved the pro-
motion of 1t. John J. Agnew to cap
tain and four other promotions to
give Maj. Barrett manpower of SUI
f1cient rank to supervise new CEN
trail bureau for records, communica-
tons and complaints.
Maj. Barrett told reporters that
1t. Agnew would head the new bu-
reau, but that the four others were
being promoted merely so that there
would be enough lieutenants and
sergeants on the force to man the
bureau.
Other promotions are:
Detective Sergt. Carl D. Schamp
to lieutenant, Sergt. Ray Agglesor
to lieutenant and Corpls. Howard F.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-16
7 Flee Arlington Jail,
One for Second Time
In Less Than Month
Men Use Keys to Leave
Building, Pistol to Get
Ride Into District

Two prisoners escaped from
the Arlington County Jail today,
one for the second time in less
than a month, the Arlington
jailer reported.
The men were Robert Lee Ray,
81, of the 400 block of H street NV,
and Paul Crews, 80, colored. 1900
block Fort Myer drive, Arlington.
They walked OUT of the brick
structure on the courthouse grounds
sometime between $50 and 10 am,
according to Jailer Roland Howes.
Washington police had a report
one Of the men was armed with a
pistol.
About 20 policemen in scout cars
and motorcycles we're sent to Four
teenth street and Maine avenue S.W.
after the pair were reported seen
there. A police boat from harbor
precinct also patroled of shore and
occupants of the many private boats
moored in the area were questioned.
FlFSt Escaped august rs.
Ray, who has been held for sew
eral months following his indict-
ment on charges of breaking and
entering, first escaped from the jail
on August %. He was recaptured
about three days later in the Dis
trict when police surprised him as
he attempted to crack a safe.
Ray and Crews jumped in a
truck on a construction job at the
Arlington Trust Co. one block from
the Jail and forced the driver at
gun point to take them into Wash
ington, Arlington police said. The
driver of the truck was Charles
Marshall, colored, Chesterbrook, Va,
an employe of company which is
paving parking lot at the bank.
Mr. Marshall said he had just
pulled out of the parking lot when
Ray and Crews jumped into his
truck. Mr. Marshall said Crews
had a pistol. He said he went from
Lee boulevard to Shirley highway
and across Fourteenth street bridge.
At the overpass where Fourteenth
street crosses Maine avenue, the
driver went down the ramp and the
men got of at Maine avenue.
The truck driver said he at
tempted to speed up to attract
police but the men made him drive
at normal rate.
Six Did Not Try to Fee.
Mr.. Howes said there were six
prisoners who did not avail them
selves of the opportunity to go with
Ray and Crews. A number Of other
(See ESCAPE, Page A-4D
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-16
Woman Battles Off Stranger
AT Door of 10th St. Apartment

Mrs. Sandra Mona Sado, "a, wife
Of an importer-exporter, today told
police a man followed her to the
door of her Sixteenth street apart
ment shortly after midnight and at
tempted to strange her with an
Army necktie.
A colored attendant at the apart
ment house, who heard her screams,
said he saw a slender man in Army
uniform disappear behind some
bushes.
Mrs. Sado called her attacker
apparently mad stranger"
She told this story to reporters
today:
After visiting friends last night,
she drove back to her apartment
and was unable to find parking
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-16
What the Russians
| Are Saying of Us:

The MoScotD radio, broadcaStins
in English to North America las
week, said
The fight of the Paraguayan
people for re-establishment of
democratic freedoms and for
liberation of the country from
the yoke of North American
monopolies met with enthusiastic
solidarity of the progressive
circles of the Latin American
countries.
The United States, on the
other hand, adopted all measures
for saving the dictatorship of
Morinigo, even military support
including Intervention.
According to latest reports
from Paraguay. the North Amer
lean intervention succeeded in
preventing the rebels from &C.
cupying the Paraguayan cap
ital. Whatever may be the de-
velopments of these events they
demonstrated the role played by
dollar diplomacy in the Latin
American countries where it i'm
plants and supports reactionary
antipopular regimes hated by the
people"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-16
Britain May Request Loan
From International Bank
BY the Asseeiotsd Press

LONDON, Sept. 16.-A govern
ment source said today that Britain
soon might ask the International
Bank for a $500 900, 900 loan de-
signed partly to ease her economic
crisis.
The bank said last week that
"stopgap" loans for crisis relief
would not be permitted.
An informed British source sug-
gested, however, that Britain pre-
sumably could meet the banks re-
auirements by earmarking a loan
for reconstruction and develop
ment. Certain reconstruction and
development projects would have
the effect of relieving the nations
economic position.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-16
Living-Cost Pay Raise
For Federal Workers
Wins LANCER Backing
Civil Service Chairman
Reverses Stand in Talk
To Postal Employees
By Joseph Young

Chairman LANCER of the Sem
ate Civil Service Committee has
come out in favor of cost-of-liv-
ing pay raises for Government
employees, it was learned today.
Reversing his stand during the
last Congress when he refused to
sponsor pay-raise legislation, Sena-
tor LANCER indicated he would spon-
sor a wage boost bill when Con-
gress convenes in January.
The North Dakotans change of
heart was disclosed during his
speech last Saturday to group OF
postal employees in Los Angeles.
My mail shows tremendous suf-
fering among Government en-
ployes,' ne declared. The pinch
is beginning to tell.
absorbed" by Prices.
"We've got to do something, nc
matter how many times Congress
has been granting pay increases in
the past" Senator LANCER told his
cheering audience. $50 long as
those increases failed to endure and
were absorbed by ever increasing
prices, they are of no consequence. -
Officials of the various Govern
ment employees unions, who have
announced that pay raises for Fed
eral workers will be their No. 2
legislative goal next January, ex-
pressed optimism when informed by
The Star of Senator hangers state
ment.
Il think we've got a good chance
of getting some kind of cost-of-liv-
ing bonus with Senator LANCER on
our side,* one official said After
all, he is chairman of the Senate
Civil Service Committee, and if he
can rally his committee behind him,
think that there is a good chance
that Federal workers will get the
relief from rising prices that they
so sorely need"
Temporary Raise Sought.
Any pay raise measure that stands
a chance of enactment would be one
of temporary nature, and that is
the kind of bill that most Federal
union groups are working for They
are seeking a temporary $500 an
nual raise for Government employees
with the pay boost to be withdrawn
when prices come down to a point
approximating 1910 levels.
Union officials say the fact that
private industry employees have re-
ceived wage boosts during the past
year. plus the fact that living costs
continue to climb each month
makes them hopeful that Congress
will come to the aid of Federal en-
ployes. On the other hand, this is
an economy-minoed Congress, anc
union leaders realize they will have
a job on their hands in selling" the
legislation to the Republican lead
ership.
The powerful AFL postal unions
have Joined the pay raise campaign
and there are reports that an m
creasing number of Congress men,
bers have indicated to union leaders
their willingness to consider wage
boosts for Government workers.
Government employees in 1945 and
nI~rD o
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-16
Paul ha||on Quits Writing
Column 10 GO FISHING

NEW YORK, Sept. licking
Features Syndicate, Inc, announced
today that Paul Mallon, writer of
a column for the syndicate for the
last 10 years, had terminated his
contract.
A spokesman said Mr.. Mallon had
not given any reason for his decision
to end the contract. Efforts to reach
the columnist were unavailing.
I his last column published today,
however, Mr.. Mallon wrote, today
I feel strangely happy. With my
turned-up pantaloons and hame-
made fish pole nine feet long, it is
goodbye for the present to all my
good readers, You have been swell
to me for Is long years. Don't you
think a lot more people ought to 60
fishing?"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-16

space In front of the apartment, at
1900 Sixteenth street NV.
She spent some time circling the
block and finally parked near the
streetcar loop on Mount Pleasant
street. Then she started walking
down Lamont street toward Six
tenth street.
AS she passed the rear entrance of
the apartment on Lamont street, she
saw the door open and a man
emerged. He was holding something
IN his hands which looked to her
like a rope.
Mrs. Sado quickened her pace.
Then, as she saw the man coming up
behind her. she broke into a run.
Near her apartment entrance, she
(See ATTACK, Page AE.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-16
Ia RevoIutionuries' Held
After Cuban Bottle
By the Associated Press

HAVANA, Cuba, Sept. 16.-Four-
teen persons were held in custody
today after a two-hour gun battle
between police and a group Of sus-
pected "revolutionaries" at the home
of Police Inspector Antonio NORM
Dopico yesterday during which five
persons were killed and II wounded.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-16
Six Killed in Old Delhi

NEW DELHI. Sept. Is R.-
Police reported today that govern
ment troops killed six men ane
wounded three others in Q skirmisf
in front of the Old Delhi railway
station following the stabbing Of
two men-one fatally-during ar
otherwise quiet night.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-16

Mowry and J. w. Nally to sergeant
These four men, Maj Barrett was
careful to explain, are not neces-
sarily those who will be assigned to
the new bureau. He said five other
members of the force soon would be
1See POT,ICE- Page A-6)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-16

(See LANCER, Page A-6D
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-16

(See TRIESTE, Page A-6D
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-16

(See PRICES, Page A-4)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-16

(See POLICE, Page A-6.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-16

(See ATTACK, Page Al b
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-16

Sunny and cool, with low humidity this
afternoon Highest, IS. Tonight clear and
cool. Lowest. so. Tomorrow cool and dry.
Full report on page A-21
Evening star., 1947-12-07


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Evening star., 1947-03-08
Diplomas in Road Building
Given 20 Lutin Americans

tive Jennings Randolph, Democrat,
OF West Virginia, DR.. j. r. Colhgan,
who heads exchange student pro-
grams at the State Department,
and Col Maurice E. Gilmore of the
Office of Inter-American Affairs.
ut was done with mirrors" Mr..
Upham said, when asked how much
the program cost. I'VE had only
$4,000 to start with. Manufac-
turers of road-building equipment
increased that after their arrival.
State highway department employed
these engineers for several months
in their course of training. In all
I think 1t cost about $4,000. We
are going to keep our eyes On the
graduates. and, If they are as sue
cessful as We hope, we will bring
in another group every year."
Mr.. Upham said his greatest difii-
Guilty was that one Of the engineers
who came here with a strong bias
against the United States wanted
to stay and become q citizen on COM
pletlon of the course. He was per-
suaded to return to his own coun-
try to build roads.
Evening star., 1947-03-08
hiIey {. Fowler, 80, Dies
Of Heart Attack in Store

Miley E. Fowler, 80, retired Navy
Yard employe, died Of heart attack
yesterday in a downtown department
store where he was shopping. He
lived at 1920 Fuller street NV.
A native Of Washington, Mr.. Fow-
Ter was graduate Of Central High
School. He retired from the Navy
Yard just before the war after IS
years of service, but returned to his
position as an architectural drafts
man during the war.
He was member of the Associa-
tion Of Oldest Inhabitants and the
Society Of Natives.
Mr.. Fowler is survived by a
nephew, Henry M. Fowler, an attor-
ney here.
Funeral services will be held at |
pm. Monday at the Hines funeral
home, 2901 Fourteenth street NV.
Burial will be in Glenwood Ceme-
terry.
Evening star., 1947-03-08
Henry laHerner, 68, Dies;
Rites 10 Be Held Monday

Henry Latterner, ST., SO, a native
Of Washington and longtime resi-
dent OF Friendship Heights, Md.
died yesterday at his home there
303 Willard avenue, after an illness
OF several years.
Mr.. Latterner for many years
until his retirement seven years ago
operated the Quality Shop on Wis
consin avenue in Bethesda. Before
thathe was employed by restaurants
In Washington.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs
Letitia Clayton Latterner; two
daughters, Mrs. Constantine Eisinger
and Mrs. Horace Hampton, both OF
Bethesda, and a son. Henry Lat
terner, jr., Washington.
Funeral services will be held at
IL am. Monday at the Reuben
Pumphrey funeral home, Bethesda.
Burial will be in Prospect Hill
Cemetery.
Evening star., 1947-03-08

Export OF an outstanding part oi
United States culture or know-hov
was marked yesterday by q cere-
niony ut the Hotel Statler.
Twenty representatives Of is Latin
American countries were given d.
plomaS for having completed an
11-month course in highway and
airport construction under the aus
pices Of the American Road Build
ers' Association.
Dean" Charles M. Upham, en-
gineer director of the association,
whose idea 1t was to bring the Latin
Americans-all highway engineers
TO this country, gave out the d.
plomas. Like Cecil Rhodes, he hopes
that the recipients Of his scholar
ships will come to leadership in
their calling In their respective
countries and strengthen the bonds
with his own.
Representatives Cunningham, Re-
publican, Of Iowa and Wilmington,
Democrat, Of Mississippi, both of
the House Public Works Committee,
spoke. So did former Representa-
Evening star., 1947-03-08
Arthur R. John Dies;
Theatrical Reviewer

Arthur r. John, National Housing
Agency employe and a part-time
newspaper theatrical reviewer fol
many years, died unexpectedly early
today at his home, 1914 D street Sc
He would have celebrated his 37th
birthday tomorrow.
A native of Washington, Mr.. John
had been employed by the Govern
ment since he was 16. He entered
the Army In 1943 and was stationed
ae Camp Shelby, Miss, with an
Engineer unit. He returned to MIA
late that year after receiving a
medical discharge.
Known in theatrical circles here
Tor more than IS years, his reviews
appeared at various times in the
Washington Post, the Times-Herald
and the Daily News. He was a
founder Of the Burlesque Critics
Association and for several years
was Washington correspondent of
Tits, a theatrical trade paper.
He leaves his widow, Mrs. Alice
Jones John and daughter, Grace, 3.
Funeral arrangements have not
been completed, but burial will be in
Arlington Cemetery. The body is at
the Murray funeral home, 2OO7
Nichols avenue Sc.
Evening star., 1947-03-08
Brewster to Broadcast
In Forum on Turiff Polio,

A forum on whether the Ma
tions present tariff policy should
be modified. to be broadcast at )
pm. tomorrow over Radio Station
WARL, will feature Senator Brew
ster, Republican. of Maine, as one
Of the participants.
Others participating will be DR..
Joseph Solterer. professor of eco
nomics in the Graduate School at
Georgetown University, and DR.. AL
bert Meyer. economics professor in
the Foreign Service School at
Georgetown University.
Evening star., 1947-03-08
Z Cases Against Waller,
tx-Policeman, Dismissed

Two charges pending for more
than four months against Francis
Logan Wahler, 42-year-old former
policeman here, were dismissed in
Municipal Court yesterday.
A count of driving while drunk
was dropped on the action of the
corporation counsel's Office. Twice
previously this year juries had
been. unable to reach a verdict. In
another courtroom yesterday, a
charge of unlawful entry of pri.
vate property against Wahler was
dropped by the United States at
torney's Office.
Wahler was sentenced last month
to 45-day Jail term on drunk and
disorderly conduct charges.