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Evening star., 1948-01-19
Catholic Veterans
Back Marshall Plan

Wholehearted support OF the Mar
shall Plan by Congress was advo-
Gated and universal military train
ing opposed yesterday by the Cath
olic war Veterans Executive Board
Support of the Wagner-Taft-Ellen-
der housing bill was re-emphasized
at the meeting.
The board met Saturday and yes
terday in its new national headquar.
ters, BIT Fourteenth street NV.
In disapproving universal mill.
tary training, the board said II
would support the measure If world
conditions prove it absolutely neces'
sary. Referring to its belief that ar
unwilling soldier is q poor soldier
the board backed ROTC school pro.
grams, reserve units such as the
National Guard, Government sup
port for gifted research students
and added inducements to get better
men in the Regular Army as substi'
tutes for UNIT.
National Comdr Max Sorenson o.
Philadelphia presented the 1874
CWV athletic award to John Lujack
all-American Notre Dame football
quarterback. The ceremony tool
place yesterday afternoon. The Rev
Msgr. Edward J. Higgins Of Astoria
N. Y, founder Of the organization
officiated at a special mass fol
members yesterday morning in st
Matthews Cathedral. He also dedi'
Gated the new headquarters.
Evening star., 1948-01-19
New Heads 10 Be Named
By Anti Saloon League
1y the Asseeiotsd Press

PITTSBURGH, Jan. 19.-Ihe Anti
Saloon League of America, meeting
here in its 35th national convention
today studied the choice Of new
executives to replace two top Of
flcials resigning to clear the way for
younger men.
Younger members, who say they
can carry on the fight against
liquor better under a new name,
put forth a proposal to change the
Organizations title either to the
National Temperance Federation or
the National Temperance League.
George w. Crabbe of Baltimore
told delegates from 40 States yes
terday that he plans to submit this
week his resignation as general
superintendent, q post he has held
since 1910. IT am just as interested
In the activities Of the league as I
always was and I will be as long as
I live" Mr.. Cranbe said In explain
ing that he was retiring because OF
Mrs. Crabbe's health and my age.
I'm To-"
Later Bishop Ralph s. Cushman
Of st. Paul, MINI, announced he
was resigning as president because
duties in evangelism in TOO
churches across the Nation take up
too much of my time to devote to
the expanding anti-saloon program"
He has been president for 10 years.
Evening star., 1948-01-19
S225,O00 Cleveland Fire
Makes 40 Homeless in Cold
RY fhs Axsaciafsd Press

CLEVELAND, Jan. 49,. Forty
persons were homeless today follow
ing q $225 900 fire which swept a
row of business houses and apart
ments in downtown Cleveland early
yesterday. ..
The blaze, the city's third major
fire in five days, drove an estimated
100 residents into near-zero cold in
night clothing.
The 40 who escaped with only
the clothing they wore were taken
in charge by the Cleveland Red
Cross disaster unit. A number fed
barefoot and in night clothing into
the snowy street, where the tenn
perature registered above zero.
The Elliott Electric Co. was de-
stroyed by a $250,0O fire Wednes-
day and two firemen were killed
when a brick wall collapsed while
they were fighting a 5000, 600 fire at
winery in the same area Friday
Evening star., 1948-01-19
Boy Found Dead in Bed
Had Been III With Cold

A 4-year-old boy was found dead
in bed at his home this morning
by his mother, Mrs. Albert A. Harris,
1927 Fourth street NV. Thesboy's
father, Veterans Administration
employe, said the child, Richard I.
Harris, had never been seriously Ill
before
The parents told police that
Richard had been suffering from
a head cold since Friday, but had
played around the house yesterday
and seemed to be recovering.
When Mrs. Harris discovered her
son this morning at about 8:45 she
summoned neighborhood physi-
clan, DR.. Millard F. Ottman, 401
Kennedy street NV, who pro-
nounced the boy dead. Police in
dicated that death was due to
natural causes.
Mr.. Harris said his wife had
looked at the child during the night
and, at that time, he appeared to
be trembling. They did not think
his condition was serious. the father
said. Richard shared a bedroom
with his 14-year-old brother, Barry
The couple have another child
Sharon, 2.
Evening star., 1948-01-19
Social Democrat Leftisfs
Score Victory in Japan
BY ths kssoeiotsd Press

TOKYO, Jan. 1s.-Prime Minister
Tetsu Katayama's Social Democra-
tic party turned back toward ag-
gressive socialism at its annual
convention today when -wingers
scored an important policy victory.
Despite Katayama's warning that
his cabinet would be threatened, the
convention voted to demand abro-
cation of an interparty agreement
by which he had consented to
shelve demands for state socialism
in return for political power.
The vote of 366 to 345 was the
first definite left-wing triumph in
party policy making.
Actual political results, however,
depend on the outcome Of ballot
ing for key party positions. The
new central executive committee
will determine just how aggres-
sively the party will resume its pro-
gram Of naturalization and there
fore in effect will decide how long
Katayama can hang on to his Job.
Evening star., 1948-01-19
Mrs, Edith Calf Mish
Dies al 81 in Detroit;
Rites. Here Tomorrow

Funeral services for Mrs. Edith
Gait Mish, 81. member OF the
Board of Trustees Of the Presby-
terian Home, will be held at 2 pm
tomorrow at the s. II. Hines funeral
home. 2s01 Fourteenth street NV
Burial will be in Fort Lincoln Gene
terry.
Mrs. Mish died Saturday in hos
pital in Detroit after a two-week
illness. She had been living in that
city since 1912 with her son, Robert
G. Mish.
From 1887 through 1s41, Mrs
Mish was president Of the Presby-
terian Home at 1918 Newton street
NV. She had also been super
intendent of the Gunton Temple
Memorial Church Sunday school for
25 years and superintendent OF the
primary department.
Mrs. Mish was born here Of an
old Washington family, the daugh-
ter of the late Mr.. and Mrs. William
M. Gait. Her father, who was
CIldu IIldu Ol tllc 6hCCuGlfc SOdns
mittee for the inaugural ball fof
President Cleveland, operated w. M
Gait & Co., flour and feed mer-
chants at First and Indiana avenue
NV. She was a distant cousin OF
Norman Gait of Gait jewelers.
whose widow married President
Wilson.
Mrs. Mish attended finishing
school here and in 1887 married
the late Robert C. Mish, who was
in the foundry business in Lebanon
Pa. After his death six years later
she returned to Washington and
made her home for many years at
1888 New Hampshire avenue NV
She lived at 1904 Delaf1eld place
NV. from 1915 until she moved
to Detroit.
Besides her son, she leaves q
sister, Mrs. Lucy Gait Hanger, New
York; a brother, William Matthew
Gait, Glendale, Ohio, and three
TrandchildrenG
Evening star., 1948-01-19
Martial Law Declared
In Colombia Province
BY the Associated Press

BOGOTA, Colombia, Jan. 1s.-
The northeastern Province of San
tander del Norte was under a gov
ernment-imposed< state of siege to-
day as Colombian troops moved tn
to stop fighting between Conserya-
tive and Liberal Party members
(which repeatedly has caused 80 cas-
ualties.
News dispatches from Cucuta
department capital, said a virtual
civil war" had been waged all week
In nine municipalities, with the
-participants employing artillery as
well as small arms.
President Mariana Ospina Perez
in his martial law decree, appointed
Gen. Gustave Matamoros civil and
military governor of the department
The Bogota newspaper El TEMPO
the Liberal Party, publication, said
persecution of Liberals" in San
tander del Norte was responsible
for the strife. The Conservative
newspaper Ell Siglo said supporters
of Jorge Gaitan, Liberal leader, had
started the fighting.
Both papers said Mayor Segunde
Gonzales of Pamplonita and Bruno
Miranda, president of the Pamplo-
nita Municipal Council, both Con-
servatives, had been asSassinated.
The Bogota newspaper Ell Liberal
said it had been learned the gov
eminent would mobilize 1000 troops
under Gen, Matamoros' command.
Evening star., 1948-01-19
Navy Men Leave Bethesda
For Expedition 10 Africa

A five-man team from the Be-
thesda Naval Medical Center has
departed on q years expedition to
Africa to obtain information on
topography, sanitary conditions,
diseases and their carriers.
Headed by DR.. Julius M. Amber
son, officer in charge Of epidemiology
and sanitation at the medical center,
the party left Bethesda last Tuesday
for Norfolk to board ship. The ex-
pedition is expected to cover. the
length of the African continent
from Cairo to Cape Town.
With DR.. Anderson are Comdr
Trenton K. Ruebush, bacteriologist
of the Nays Medical Service Corps;
DR.. M. Schwartz, civilian ethnolo-
gist; Harley Francis Cope. jr., pho
tbgrapher's mate, and Deaner K.
Lawless, chief pharmacists mate.
The men represent the Navy med
ical section of the University of
California African Expedition.
Evening star., 1948-01-19
Member Accuses F1C
Of Wasting Time on
'Hif-and-Miss' Actions
BY the Associated Press

A member of the Federal Trade
Commission accused that agency to-
day of spending too much time on
"hit -and-miSs" prosecutions of in
dividual complaints.
Lowell B. Mason, a Republican
from Illinois and one Of FTC's five
commissioners, suggested that the
agency put more emphasis on "a
mass understanding and acceptance
of the law"
Mr.. Mason issued a three-page
leafiet setting out what he thinks
Is the matter with FTC.
A Republican colleague, Robert E
Freer of Ohio, the commissions
lS48 chairman, promptly disagreed
with the criticism.
Mr.. Mason said the FTC's "cease
and desist" orders-which are or
ders directing a business to discon-
tinue some practice the agency re-
CARDS as unfair-rarely result In
protection to the public If the
banned practice is common to 9TH
ers in the same business.
This Mr.. Freer denied. These
orders, the chairman told re-
porter, have benefited the public
by many millions of dollars"
Mr.. Mason and Mr.. 'Freer dis
agreed on other things, too.
Mr.. Mason recommended in the
FTC's annual report sent to Con.
gress today that the five commits.
sioners be given q raise from theil
$4,000 salary.
Mr.. Freer said he does not believe
the commissioners should discuss
their pay in an annual report.
Mr.. Mason said the FTC chair.
man should be designated by the
President instead of by our present
musical chair procedure which pre-
vents log rolling and spreads the
glory but doesn't operate for the
benefit of the taxpayer" (The
Craftsmanship is rotated annually
and Mr.. Mason is scheduled to be-
come chairman next year,.
Mr.. Freer called the rotation "a
pretty good thing" and said it tends
to keep political issues out of COM
mission considerations.
In addition to Mr.. Mason and Mr.
Freer, members Of the FTC are Ewir
l.. Davis. William A. Ayres and Gar
land L. Ferguson.
Evening star., 1948-01-19
Father Tokes.GrI
lon Movie Date,
Dies in Theater
BY the Assoeiofsd Press

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 19.-Joseph
E. Friell, SO, kept a date yesterday
with his daughter, Patricia, 7.
The little girl had just recovered
from a severe cold, and her father,
as he had promised, took her to
the movies. Inside the theater she
felt him slump in his seat.
Daddy, wake up," she whispered.
When repeated nudges failed to
rouse him, the little girl sought help.
The theater manager returned with
her to the seat, then called an
ambulance.
Patricia rode with her father to
Misericordia Hospital, where he was
pronounced dead.
Where is daddy? Why did he
fall asleep?" Patricia sobbed to the
nurses.
Mother, they told her, would ex-
plain-later.
Evening star., 1948-01-19
ParoIee, II, Captured /;
Broke Into Church

Police today were holding q IT.
year-old parolee from the National
Training School, who was seen
breaking into the Metropolitan Bap-
fist Church, Sixth and A streets
NE, shortly before midnight.
The youth pretended to be asleep
when police entered the church and
said he had entered to get out OF
the cold, police reported. When
his nearby residence was searched,
however, his parole papers were dis
covered, as well as set Of silver
ware which, police say, the youth
admitted having stolen from house
on Potomac avenue Sc. New Years
eve.
The cold weather featured in a
second HOUSEKEEPING arrest yester-
day when police picked up a, man
on the street In his shirt sleeves
and held him for, an attempted safe
robbery.
Police said a filing station at $50
Kennedy street NV. had been
broken into and the thief had gone
to work on the safe. A scout car on
q routine mission pulled up, and
the thief fed, leaving his suitcoat
and overcoat behind. o.,
After lookout was broadcast, po-
lice picked up the first man they
spotted in shirtsleeves. The man,
arrested at Michigan avenue and
Park place NV, gave his name as
Eddie Coppedge, rs. colored, of the
unit block of M street NV. His
finger prints matched those on q
light bulb at the filling station, po-
lice said.
Alfonso Grubhofer, 3001 Beech
street NV, reported to police last
night that thieves had entered his
home and made off with his wife's
So, 800 mink coat and a $500 silver
fox jacket. Police said the house
had been entered either through an
unlocked basement window or with
a duplicate key.
Evening star., 1948-01-19
Soviet Western Break
On Bi-zona| German
Setup May Be Averted
BY The Asseeietsd Press

BERLIN, Jan. 19.-RuSsia Is
expected to sound OF sharply
against the new British-Ameri-
can bi-zonal occupation setup in
Western Germany when the Al
lied Control Council meets to-
morrow, but officials of the two
western powers predicted an
outright break with the Soviet
Union would be averted.
These officials and Germans
themselves wondered, however,
whether the Russian occupation
commander, Marshal VASTLY Soko-
lovsky, would demand that the
United States, Britain and France
pull out Of Berlin, on the ground
that the new bi-zonal set up nulli-
f1es four-power agreements for con-
troll Of Germany.
The council has not met since
the London Conference of Foreign
Ministers broke up. Subsequently
the United States and Britain
established their new joint govern.
mental set-up in Western Germany,
giving Germans more power in
the government Of the economically
merged zones.
Speculation on New Orders.
The bi-zonal establishment has
been attacked bitterly by the Soviet
press, which suggested that the
Western Allies would be asked to
withdraw their forces from Berlin.
Marshal Sokolovsky is reported
just back from an extended visit to
Moscow and there has been con-
siderable speculation as to whether
he received new policy orders from
the Kremlin.
Suggestion that the Russians
might try to take over sole control
of Berlin has spread alarm among
the 100000 Germans living in the
Western occupied zones of the Ger
man capital.
However, none OF the Western
powers officials here expects the
Russians to make any open move to
force them from Berlin. All three
powers have announced their deter
mination to stay.
Clay to Seek Currency Accord.
Gen. Lucius D. Clay, American
commander, Is expected to make
two major points when the Control
Council convenes. He has an
nounced he will make q final effort
to obtain Soviet agreement on Ger
man currency reform, with the rec
ommendation that it be printed and
issued under joint control In Berlin.
If the Russians still insist that
half the money in such reform
be printed in their zone, Western
Germany will go ahead with . re-
form of It's own.
Also, Gen. Clay and the British
commander, 1t. Gen. Sir Brian
Robertson, will inform Marshal
Sokolovsky of the bi-zonal setup In
Western Germany and invite Rus
sia to join.
Some predict that Russia may
reply by setting up q central occu-
patton of its own and claim 1t rep
resents all Germany as the only
true government.
Evening star., 1948-01-19
NegroC College Offered
10 South if Regional
Schools Adopted
By the Assoeioted Press

NASHVILLE, Tenn, Jan. 19.-
Meharry Medical college here.
which last year enrolled So per cent
Of all Negro medical students in the
United States, has been offered to Is
Southern States If they adopt a
cooperative program for separate
regional schools for white and Negro
students.
The trustees of the $4,000 600 in
stitution offered it to the States for
Joint operation at meeting yes
terday of a five-member Committee
on Regional Education from the
Southern Governors Conference.
Gov. Millard T. Caldwell of Florida,
chairman, reported complete agree
ment at a closed meeting of the
committee on the necessity for re-
gional schools in highly specialized
fields for all Southerners, regardless
of race.
Sees Joint Support.
No single Southern State is f1nan-
cialfy able to supply adequate train
ing in all fields. he said, while
schools in all professions could be
supported jointly by the States. He
added that due to the comparatively
sman numbers of students seeking
specialized education, regional
schools should be able to accept all
qualified applicants.
The program, the Governor said
Yesterday is not aimed at resolving
racial questions. Earlier, however,
Gov. Caldwell had said that for the
plan to become effective the Su-
preme Court must rule the inter-
state school would fulfill each
States obligation to provide its Neg
roes medical training facilities equal
to those available to its white stud
ents.
Proposed by Tennessee Governor.
The cooperative school was first
proposed by Gov. McCord of Tenn
essee At meeting of the Southern
Governors Conference last October.
The committees findings will be
placed before the conference at a
meeting to be called at a future
date. .
. Mefarry, with an enrolment OF
400, includes a 190-bed hospital, a
class A dental school, medical col
lege approved by the American Med
ical Association and nursing
school.
Cows. McCord, Caldwell, M. E.
Thompson Of Georgia, William Tuck
OF Virginia and William Preston
Lane of Maryland make up the
Committee on Regional Education.
Gov. Lane is chairman of the South
ern Governors Conference.
Evening star., 1948-01-19
Army Investigating Blasts,
Fire at Fort Sam Houston
By the Associotsd Press

SAN ANTONIO, Tex, Jan. ia
three-rnan board of Army officers
today continued an investigation
into the series of storm sewer ex-
plosions which shook Fort Sam
Houston Saturday night and early
yesterday.
The blasted area of the post was
barricaded and guarded.
Fires following the explosions
swept through portions of the post
and an adjoining residentials area,
destroying three homes, five garages
and several other small frame build
ings.
Fire Chief c. A. Hart of the San
Antonio Police Department esti-
mated the damage at $4,000.
Chief Hart said "the fire in my
opinion definitely started at Fort
Sam Houston and spread south
ward"
Army Capt. Gerald M. Delany
declared the fire apparently started
outside the reservation and ignited
gas that had seeped into the storm
sewer system, causing the ex-
plosions"
A post fireman and an Army pr1-
vate received slight injuries.
Evening star., 1948-01-19
James R. CroweI|, 81, Dies;
Former Newspaperman
~ fhs A,,eeiafsd Prsss

NEW YORK. Jan. 19.-James r.
Crowell 81, former newspaperman.
author and =. advertising executive,
died yesterday.
He was native Of Bryn Mawr,
Pa. Beginning newspaper work with
the Washington Times, he later
Joined the Washington bureau Of
the New York Herald, for which
paper he served as correspondent In
London, Paris, Brazil and the West
Indies. He also formerly was news
editor and sports editor OF the New
York Telegram.
Evening star., 1948-01-19
Broadcast Scheduled
AT White House in
March Of Dimes Drive

Mrs. Truman viii be hostess TO
representatives of the Women's
Division OF the National Founda-
ton for Infantile Paralysis at the
White House wednesday for a
broadcast ut 2:30 pm. in behalf Of
the 1948 March Of Dimes.
Mrs. Fred M. vinson, wife Of the
Chief Justice, will preside ct the 15-
minute program to be broadcast
over the Columbia Broadcasting
System network.
Speakers are to include Lady
Inverchapel, wife OF the British
Ambassador; Mrs. Ralph Edwards,
wife of the master Of ceremonies on
the Truth or Consequences" pro-
gram, and Mrs. John Baker, OF
Charlottesville, N. c. physical ther-
apist who has worked ir the foun-
dation's emergency service in four
epidemic areas since 1945.
Lady Inverchapel had nfantile
paralysis when she was child.
Meanwhile the March Of Dimes"
office at the District Building today
had begun to receive returns from
coin cards mailed last week to 15O,-
900 Washington residents, and
Charles Stofberg, secretary OF the
District committee of the national
foundation expressed hope OF ex-
ceeding the $4,000 sum collected
from similar cards in the 1947 drive.
Almost every suebscriber named
In the Washington telephone direc-
tory has received or will receive one
Of the coin cards, Edgar Morris,
general chairman Of the District
committee, said.
"The use Of coin cards precludes
use OF other methods of raising
funds that would be more expensive
and would result in less funds for
infantile paralysis victims" Mr..
Morris said. The cards are a per
sonal appeal" to Washington citi-
zens to help polio victims, he de-
clared.
Mr.. stofberg, director Of the
mailed coin-card phase of the 1948
campaign, said the amount received
from them to date cannot yet be
estimated.
Many Saving for Months.
The cards are designed to hold
20 dimes and any checks or bills
that q donor may wish to include.
The District Veterans Informa-
ton Center. 1850 Pennsylvania ave-
nue. NV, was represented among
the first contributions turned in.
Employees there gave an average OF
81 each.
Some contributors have been saw
ing dimes for months in anticipa-
ton Of the drive. cards opened to
date indicate, Mr.. Stofberg said.
Many cards contain all Roosevelt
dimes and may have substantial
checks.
Mr.. Stofberg stressed that the
special cards are not necessary and
that any one may inclose gift In
an envelope and mail 1t to the
March of Dimes" headquarters,
room 800, District Building, or pre-
sent their donations at March OF
Dimes" stands in front Of ofnces,
theaters and stores throughout the
city.
Funds obtained in the District
during the campaign-January IS
through 30-will be split $3.50 be-
tween the District unit and the
national organization.
The District chapter will use its
share for treatment of polio cases
here, and the share going to the
national organization will be used
for research into the causes OF In
fantile paralysis and its cure.