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Evening star., 1947-07-25
Communists Control
Clio Electrical Union,
Fs4SsF SY$A 80
Official Of Local Says
Agent From New York
Testifies He Belonged
To Purty Once Himself
BY the Associated Press

James j. Conroy, New York
local union official, told Con-
gress today that Communists
have "lock, stock and barrel
control of the international
Union of the CIO-United Elec-
trical Workers.
Mr.. Conroy, business agent of New
York UEW Local 1887. testified be-
fore the House I'm American Activ-
tiles Committee and swore that Ton,
Fitzpatrick and William Sentner
international union vice presidents
are Communists.
Described himself as former
Communist who soured on the party
Mr.. Conroy said Reds control the
International, although they have
but l per cent of the membership.
Names 13 Others as Reds.
He identified 13 other individuals
in the UEW as Communists, saying
they either had told him they were
members of the party or had at
tended Communist meetings at
which he was present.
Mr.. Conroy testified that he quit
the party in January, 1915, when its
leaders attacked the head of the
Catholic Church, of which he is 9
member. Prior to that he said he
mad lacked the courage to quit.
lie said ne joined the party ir
1S40 when urged to do so by variou:
international representatives of hi!
union, whom he did not name. Hi
joined, he said, because he felt ther
that he could best serve the in.
terests" Of labor through that con
nection.
Had Him Fired, He says.
Mr.. Conroy testified he quit the
party while he was affiliated with
UEW Local 419 at Mount Vernon
N. Y. He said he returned to. worl
for Decca Records. Inc, but his EN-.
ployment ended after only pne weel
because of protest from Anthon.
Salese, president of Local No. 430
and Peter Abdoni. UFW interna'
tional representative.
They went to the management
and demanded my dismissal OF
grounds I had been disbarred by tn,
UE and expelled by the CIO,' thu
witness said.
He denied he had been expelled
by the CIO and told the committe,
tSee COMMUNISTS, Page A-6.)
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about l,100 to around 500.
The general field Office here has
handled the United States territor-
les, areas around the Capital. and
three "Greenbelt" experimental
towns. Its duties will go to the New
York office, which will be -consoli-
dated with the Boston unit The
Chicago and Cleveland Offices will
be merged at Chicago and the San
Francisco and Seattle Offices will
be combined at San Francisco.
Reorganization of the central office
here will lump four branches-into
a single program operations branch.
An administration branch will be
handle budget. personnel, fiscal and
other functions.
The FPHA budget for admini-
strative purposes is s11 SOC. 900 COM
pared with SIS, ,soo, 900 in 1947.
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By the Associated Press

"A return to unrestricted INSTALL
ment buying November l appeared
likely today with the possibility that
President Truman might end con-
trolls on time-payment purchases
even earlier.
Compromise legislation to kill the
credit buying curbs at the end OF
October passed the House by voice
vote and was sent to the Senate
Senate action is expected to send
the measure to the White House by
tomorrow night.
Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve
Board predicted that Mr.. Truman
will lift the restraints, as he prom
ised last June 5 to do unless Con-
gress passed a law. specifically au-
thorizing the restrictions in peace
time. He said he wanted the curbs
for a time as a safeguard against
imitation.
Current controls. invoked by Pres
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By Don S. Worren

The House District Committee
today served a blunt demand on
the District Commissioners to
explain in writing why they are
keeping Herbert A. Friede, for
mer director of the fire alarm
system, on the District payroll.
Chairman Dirksen released re-
port of the Auchincloss Subcommit-
tee on its investigation of CORE
spondence between Mr.. Friede and
the Gamewell Corp, manufacturers
of fire alarm equipment, which
charged that Mr.. Friede wrote spec
ifications for the District purchase
of equipment that practically elm
mated bidding by any other firm
than the Gamewell Corp"
Soon afterward Commissions
John Russell Young told reporter
Evening star., 1947-07-25

UNIVERSAL MILITARY training
bill approved by House Commit
tee. Page b-l
The House completed congress
sional action today on a measure
to unity the Nations armed
services, thus clearing one OF the
few remaining hurdles in the
way of adjournment tomorrow.
The action, sending the bill to
President Truman for anticipated
quick approval, came on voice vote
in accepting a joint Congressional
committees recommendations for
ironing out differences between the
House and Senate on the uniflcation
plan.
Final approval cleared the way
for a long-postponed house show
down on another piece of major
legislation-a Senate-approved bill
ordering extension of wool support
prices.
Present Waste Cited.
Before the final vote on the armed
services unification, Chairman Hoff-
man Of the House Expenditures
Committee asserted it had become
necessary to prevent ''inexcusable
duplication and waste" which he
said had been widespread during the
war.
AS now drafted the bill grants
the President wide leeway to pick
| top officials to supervise the armed
services from either civilian or mil
itary ranks.
Single Secretary Provided.
The Senate passed the revised bill
Yesterday. 1t incorporates safe
guards designed to preserve the
identity OF the Marine Corps and
! the Navy's air arm.
The main provisions would create
a Secretary of Defense replacing the
present Secretaries OF War and
Navy in the Cabinet, establish the
Air Corps as a separate branch, and
create a powerful. policy-making
national defense council
Although stiff opposition was an
ticipated, supporters of the wool
price measure claimed sufficient
strength to insure its passage
Originally scheduled for action yes
terday, it was begged down by work
on appropriations bills.
The measure would extend the
| So IINIFIrATT0N pooe Az
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Sunday Reading

From the lowest form OF
diplomatic life" the way he
felt when third assistant to an
ambassador 80 years ago, Nor
man Armour emerged as the
"ideal diplomat" the para
gon of the foreign service"
AS new Assistant Secretary OF
State, this genial gentleman
now pulls the strings on all
American ENJOYS. In an en-
tertaining Sunday Editorial
Section article, Richard L.
Stokes examines the colorful
career of the man Gen.
Marshall lured out of retire.
ment to bolster his staff.
Companion pieces by Gar
nett D. Horner and Constan-
tine Brown deal with agenda
hisn lights of the approaching
inter-America Security Con-
ference at Rio de Janiero and
with efforts of the United
States to revive the Ruhr's
coal and steel industries as a
stimulant to foreign trade and
to aid Europe's recovery.
An artistic color cover OF
THE Old Mill Wheel graces
the Pictorial Magazine, while
special coverage of current
books, gardening. amuse-
ments, sports, society, art,
music, ETC., round out the
usual thorough and accurats
news content of
nkx 6.s.~As.< 6$~~
Evening star., 1947-07-25
House D. C.. Group Demands
To Know Why FHiede Isn't Fired
Commissioners Asked for Explanation
As Fire Alarm Probe Report Is Released

the Commissioners would make a
statement as soon as they are re-
quested formally to do so.
He said the case is not closed, that
Mr.. Friede's conduct still is being
carefully investigated. and that as
far as he was concerned, there has
been no "willful reluctance on the
part of the Commissioners to CON-
clude the investigation and take
action.
The Commissioners as we'll as
other District officials, he reminded
reporters, have been busy for the
last several months with vital Dis
trict legislation and have spent a
great deal of their time on Capitol
Hill.
Mr.. Friede was denoted from di-
rector of the firm alarm system last
February, but was retained in the
lCoo EPTTnE po0o Az
Evening star., 1947-07-25
|PatroIman Ordered
Fired, Another Fined
In Georgetown Case
Boord Acts on Stewart
And Gorrett in Attack
On Student June a

A three-man Police Trial
Board today recommended the
dismissal of Pvt. James A. Stew
art, jr., IS, and a $3.50 fine for
Pvt. Warren L. Garrett, 80, as a
result of charges that they
struck a Georgetown University
student while arresting him
June 4.
The recommendation now 60 to
the superintendent of police for
forwarding to the District Com
missioners for final approval or
disapproval.
Pvt Garrett should pay the fine
at the rate Of SIS each pay day be-
ginning on or before September Is
the board recommended.
Have Five Days to Appeal.
The two Seventh Precinct police
men have five days in which to ap-
peal the recommendation to the
Commissioners
Capt. Walter Storm of the Twelfth
Precinct, a member of the board
dissented in the recommendation
as to Pvt. Stewart and recommended
that he be given 6 s400 fine in lieu
of the dismissal. ..
The student, Stanley Joseph Fitz-
patrick, was arrested by the police
men on May 80 and again on June
and it was out of the second arrest
that the dismissal and fine recon-
mendations grew. At the time OF
the first arrest Mr.. Fitzpatrick was
charged with drunkenness and dis
orderly conduct. He was found not
guilty of the first charge and fined
IS for being disorderly.
On the second arrest he was
charged with drunkenness and was
found not guilty on June II.
Convicted on 3 Counts.
Pvt. Stewart was found guilty by
the board on charges of unnecessary
violence toward a prisoner. conduct
unbecoming an officer and making
untruthful statements to superior
officer. He was found not guilty OF
the charge of neglect of duty.
Pvt. Garrett was found guilty OF
neglect of duty, conduct unbecom-
ing an officer and untruthful state
ments to superior officer.
Presentation of their cases were
completed yesterday. Inspector
Clement P. Cox was chairman of the
board.
Witnesses Records Hit.
In his closing argument, Defense
Attorney James J. Laughlin con-
centrated on the police records OF
several prosecution witnesses. Such
persons would swear to anything
in order to strike back at police
man who had taken them into Gus
tody. he argued.
Testifying in his own behalf
Stewart said he was certain a mum.
Der of the witnesses appeared
against him because he had arrested
them while enforcing the law ir
Georgetown.
Assistant Corporation Counse
John J. Donnelly, jr.. who handled
the prosecution, waived closing
argument.
. Both policemen denied all charges
placed against them.
Evening star., 1947-07-25
Bulletins
GAO BuiIdino Authorized

The House today passed and
sent to the Senate a bill au-
thorizing construction of a
S28,85O, 900 General Accounting
Office building at Fourth and
G streets NV.
Game RepIoy Ordered
NEW YORK P.-President
Ford Frick of the National
League today ordered "in the
name of common sense and
sportsmanship" that the dis
puted game of last Sunday be-
tween the Brooklyn Dodgers
and St. Louis Cardinals at
Ebbetts Field be replayed on
August 18, thus upholding the
protest of the st. Louis Club.
Robert J. Wott Dies at Sea
Robert Watt of this city,
American labor leader and
former member of the War La
Dor Board, died at sea on the
liner Saturnia while returning
to the United States from
Geneva, where he had been
American delegate to the In
ternational Labor Organiza =
tion Conference, according to
advices received here today.
Seek to lmpeoch Witness
Gerhart EisIer's lawyers
moved this afternoon to i'm
peach the testimony of key
witness who testified last week
at the District Court passport
fraud trial that Eisler met
with Earl Browder and two
Canadian Communist leaders
in Buffalo in 1888. The attOr-
neys claimed the two Cana
dams were in Jail throughout
1888, and sought dispositions to
this effect from the superin-
tendent of the Kingston (On-
tario) Penitentiary.
Earlier Story on Page A-2D
Emergency Statutes Out
President Truman today de-
clared the war over, insofar
as veterans benefits and q
batch of other war and emer-
gency statutes are concerned.
He signed a Senate joint reso-
luton making imperative
some IT'S laws whose effect was
based on the states Of war and
emergency.
Evening star., 1947-07-25
Noel Coward Leaves for u. 5

LONDON, July Is LP).-Playwright
Noel Coward sailed on the Queen
Elizabeth today for New York, where
he will combine a vacation with
professional activity.
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(See SENATE, Page A-6o
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(See GERMANY, Page, A!
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(See FRIEDE, Page A-5D
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See UNIFICATION, Page A
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See BUS FARES, Page A-5J
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House Sends Truman
Military Merger Bill
sgf
With Quick VoiceVote
Measure for Support
OF Wool Price Is Lost
Bio Must to Come

UNIVERSAL MILITARY training
hill annroved bv House Commit
fee, Page B-1
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(See MAY, Page Az
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Guide for Rea d ers

An Associated Press Newspaper
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(See CREDIT, PagNA-5J
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-05-17
CONGRESS URGED
 10 ENACT SWEAR
 NATL. AIR PLAN
Healthy Commercial Avia- lion Is Vital for Nation $
 Defense, Is Claimed

WASHINGTON, May l7.-tR- Oliver P. Echols president of the Aircraft Industries Association, has urged Congress to enact five year national air production pro- gram. He emphasized need Of healthy commercial aviation"
 Echols told Senate Commerce subcommittee that American air leadership is placed in jeopardy by lack of a national policy" The program should include rapid ex- pansion" for latest air weapons, he said.
 Chairman Brewster (R-Me) of the group which heard Echols as the first witness in a study of policy told reported in advance of the heaiing that the nations aircraft industry needs government help quickly.
 Our hemispheric defenses are going out the window while we are stalling around" Brewster declar- ed.
 Echois, reired Major General of the Army Air Forces, said ex- isting aviation procedures are out of date and there is need for a lcng range production program.
 Under questioning by Senators af- ter reading a prepared statement, Echols said the concensus is that Russia continued her wartime pro- duction after hostilities ceased and that she transferred to Russia the German aviation plants in her oc- cupied zone in Germany.
 Urging a boost for commercial aviation, he said
 An air transport system >cnd a vigorous and progressive non- scheduled aviation, including priv ate flying, are recognized by mili- tary authorities as vital compon- ents of national air power, and hence of national security
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-05-17
TRUMAN GOES TO BEDSIDE OF. ILL MOTH ER
Signing of Greek Turk As- sistdnle Legislation
 Now Delayed

WASHINGTON, May 17-R- President Trumans absence from Washington at the bedside of his mother in Grandview, Mo, will de- lay his signing of the S400000, ,000 Greek Turkish assistance bill.
 Ehen Ayers, Presidential aide told reporters today that MT. Tru- man had planned to sign the mea- sure Monday or Tuesday. He said the ceremony will be postponed pending the outcome of Mrs. Mar tha Truman's illness. The President flew to Grandview today tosbe with her.
 Congress gave final approval to the measure Thursday and MT. Truman has 10 days to affix his signature and make it law Mean while, he is seeking a director Tor the aid program, whose nomina- tion must be confirmed by the Sem ate.
 Senator Vandenberg indicated Congress may close the door on fur ther direct foreign relief with ap- proval of a pending bill, but he did not foreclose action on rehabilita- tion and other assistance funds.
 The chairman of the Senate For eign Relations Committee told re- porters without elaboration that he expects no further direct relief requests. However, it seems likely President Truman must seek addi- tional funds for economic assistance for nations hard hit by the war.
 Korea has been mentioned as one possible recipient of help and oth- CT countries are expected to line up with requests after the Presi- dent signs into law the $400,000, ,000 Greek Turkish assistace bill now before him.
 A Senate-House committee agree ment yesterday on the terms of the $35O,0O0,000 relief measure will be submitted to both chambers next week Because of it's terms, Con gress is expected to take no action on a special United Nations fund to provide medicine and nourish- ment for Europe's hungry children.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-05-17
.ATTLESHIp
 OKLAHOMA
 GOES DOWN
Once Mighty Survivor of Pearl Harbor Attack
 Takes Last Plunge

SAN FRANCISCO. May l7-4R- The battleship Oklahoma went down for the last time today.
 The once mighty survivor of a sinking in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor plunged to the bot tom at 435 am. (PSTD $40 miles out of Honolulu in an area of the Pacific approximately three miles deep
 Abandoned by the Navy as a fighting ship, the 33-year-old ves- sel was under tow to an Oakland, Calf, drydock company for scrap ping.
 there were no crewmen aboard.
 The Oklahoma, launched March 23, 1914, had been reported earlier as listing badly and Young Broth CTS, Ltd, Honolulu agency which handled her purchase for scrap, had ordered the tugs Hercules and Monarch, who had the ship under tow, to return to Pearl Harbor ra- ther than try to make the main- ,and. She left Honolulu last Satur day.
 Little of the Oklahoma's former might renamed for her last voyage.
 Her superstructure, including her anti-aircraft batteries, her 10 14- inch guns and 16 5-inch guns, was gone.
 Much of her machinery, however, including boilers remained intact.
 Torpedoed from the air in the Japanese air attack at Pearl liar Dor, the Oklahoma turned turtle in shallow water. She was righted and refloated in May, -1943, and re- built.
 The Moore Drydock Company of Oakland had purchased the Okla homa as junk for $46,000 and plan ned to begin reducing her to scrap in June.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-05-17
STOCKS IN
 PLUNGE ON SHORT DAY
Closing Price on Average Lowest Since in Jdnu-
 ary, t945

NEW YORK, May 17.-tR-H Heavy selling knocked down stocks a few cents to more than $2 share in today's market. It was the second day in row that prices were un- der heavy pressure.
 At the close prices On the average were at the lowest since January, l945 Total losses for the week were the largest for any similar period since September last year.
 Volume of 98o,0O0 shares topped any short session foE more than a year.
 Investor pessimism in the face Of business uncertainties and foreign developments was rated by brokers as the main reason for the fresh setback
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-05-17
POLITICAL BATTLE ON
 Al POLLS
Democratic Pri- mary, Wash. State,
 Attracts Attention

OLYMPIA, Wash, May 17.-IR National attention was focused today on special Democratic primary in Washington's Third Congressional District in which State Attorney General Smith Troy, who labelled himself a Truman Democrat" and former Congressman Charles Savage whose supporters said favored Henry Wallace's foreign policy views, sought their party's%> nomi- nation.
 Savage has refrained from dis cussing Wallace in the campaign.
 The Democratic fight over- Shadowed interest in the Repub- lican primary in which there are four candidates for the June 2 special election to fill the vacancy in the House of Representatives, caused by the recent death of Rep. Fred Norman, Republican.
 Troy, a World War II veteran, has made speeches urging the Democratic party to throw out Communist sympathizers. Savage, who served one term in Congress before being defeated by Norman last year, said he was flor the loan to Greece and Turkey if it is used to feed hungry people, but I don't believe the money should be used for political or military purposes. 7
 While the Democratic conserva- tive raction lent support to Troy, Savage's campaign was aided by the Progressive Citizens of Ameri- ca groups.
 The four way Republican race Is between Russell V. Mack, Hoquiam publisher and formed Republican congressional nominee; Herbert Sieler, of Chehalis, former State Senator; State Rep. Thomas Hall, Wahkiakum dairy farmer, and Monroe Burnett, Olympia real es- tate man.
 Observers forecast a rather light vote-35, 900 to 5O,o0O in the nine county district.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-05-17
.TEAM5TEP5' STRIKE
 INp0RTLAND ENDED

PORTLAND, Ore, May l7.-lR-- AFL teamsters prepared today to remove pickets immediately fol- lowing signing of contract that would end a four-week long strike that had tied up 66 drayage and warehouse firms here.
 It calls for a 10-cent hourly wage increase, plus an additional } cens hourly for night work.
 The strike had affected HOO teamsters and held up delivery Of furniture, home appliances and some magazines.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-05-17
MOCK RAID 'DESTROYS'
 NEW YORK

NEW YORK, May 17.-lR-New York was in theoretical ruins" to- day after a mock raid by 101 Army B-29 Superfortresses wit messed by millions of persons on the Eastern seaboard, but Gen. George c. Kenney, commander of the Army Air Forces Strategic Command, says that "even though this force looked formidable it wouldn't last long in shooting war"
 This force you saw today is mobile and all right and it is capable of dealing a real blow, but for sustained operations it would not last long," Kenney said in a network radio broadcast last night from New York.
 About 130 B-29's-representing every plane of the type available in the United States for opera tional work at present-were to have been in the armada yesterday but a score and a half were di- verted because of bad weather.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-05-17
The W ashington Merry Co., Round
By DREW PEARSON

WASHINGTON - World traveller Harold Stassen talked off the re- cord to about 60 freshman Repub- lican congressman at the Army Navy Club last week.
 Only one question hurled at Stas- ren went unanswered. It was asked by young Claude Blakewell of Mis- souri:
 What do you think your chances are for winning the Republican nomination next year?"
 Immediately Congressman at : larfe William Stratton of Illinois interposed point of order, which was upheld by Chairman Abe Me Gregor Goth of Idaho.
 Most of the evening was spent in review of Stassen's trip abroad.
 "The Russian people hope to see things work out peacefully Stas- sen reported And I'm not so sure their government doesn't feel the same way. One thing l did while was there vas try to inspect the plants which I understood had been vital in supplying the Russian Army during the war. Most Of them are today converted to peacetime production.
 For instance, the huge tank plant in the Urals, which made one of the fines: production records of all Russian plants during the war.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-05-17
Archbishop
 (urIey Dies

BALTIMORE, May 17.-tR-The Most Rev. Michael J. Curley, Archbishop of Baltimore and Washington. who held senior rank over all other Roman Catholic archbishops in the United States died here last night at the age of CT.
 Archbishop Curley died without regaining consciousness, about an hour and half after a cerebral hemorrhage. at Bon Secours Hos pital, Dr. Frank J. Geraghty an nounced
 Archbishop Curley, who had giv- en up public appearances in l943, as a result of an eye impairment, listened to a radio broadcast at 8 o'clock last night. A short time later he was found unconscious on the floor, apparently having risen from his chair when the stroke came.
 The prelate, who became the ninth archbishop of Baltimore in 1921 and also first archbishop of Washington in 1889, was the only prelate to preside over two arch dioceses in the U. s. He held senior rank by virtue of the fact Baltimore is the primal see of the United States.
 He was born October 12, 1879, at Athlone, County Westmeath, Ire land.