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Evening star., 1948-07-21
81 Virginia Miners
Admit Mob Assault
Dy the Assoeiotsd Press

GRUNDY, Va, July 2l.-The case
involving one of the largest numbers
of defendants ever to appear in .
single trial has ended.
Ninety-seven of the 17S union
miners charged with mob assault
pleaded guilty yesterday in Buchan-
an Circuit Court. They received
suspended penitentiary sentences OF
five years each.
Prosecution of 78 other men in the
case was dropped. Three, unable
to appear in court yesterday because
of illness, still face charges and will
be arraigned later.
The mass arraignment closed q
case which Circuit Judge Frank w.
Smith said "is without precedent in
the State of Virginia." He added !:
so far rs have been able to dis
cover, no court in any State has ever
had to deal with = case involving so
many defendants"
Each of the 81 men had been
named in 10 indictments charging
that they violated the mob violence
provision of Virginia's Anti-Lynch
Law in an attack on a nonunion
strip mine operator and nine of his
employees last April.
But Attorney General J. Lindsay
Almond, jr., directed by Gov. Tuck
to handle the case, and his associ-
ates agreed not to prosecute further
the nine other indictments.
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sity $500 to provide for a gold
medal to be awafdsds sanrually to the
best soldier-student IN the Reserve
Officers Training Corps Of the
graduating class.
Bequests of $4,000 each were
made to Mrs. Jessie E. Pershing and
Mrs. Gertrude E. Pershing, sisters
in-law OF the general. Both died
before the general.
Other beques:s included $500
to Col. Adamson and $500 each to
1t. Co.'s. Ralph A. Curtin and Char
les B. Shaw, who have served for
years in the generals headquarters
Office here.
Robert C. Schaeffer, his orderly
and chauffeur. and Cesar Santini,
his chauffeur in World War I, were
eft $500 each.
Gen. Pershing also left to the
Laramie County Hospital at Chey-
enne, Wyo., $4,000 as memorial
for his wife, Frances Warren PERISH
ing. and his three daughters, Helen
Elizabeth. Anne Orr and Mary Mar
garet PerShing. All of them lost
their lives in a fire at The Preside
in California in 1915 while Gen.
Pershing was absent
The general also directed that a
sum not to exceed $4,000 be spent
for suitable memorial to his moth
er. Anne Elizabeth Pershing, at the
place of her birth, near Maryville
Tenn.
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Pershinq Will
Continued From First Page.)


He requested that they be given ac-
cess to War Department records for
such work
Use of Records Authorized.
The will also directed that the
four examine his files of correspond
ence and personal records to de-
termine which files should be de-
stroyed in part or preserved as his
torical documents. They were au-
thorized to use such records for
whatever publications they might
deem desirable, the proceeds of
which were to become a part Of his
estate.
The general provided that the rec
ords to be preserved should be
turned over eventually to the Library
of Congress.
Gen. Pershing made numerous be-
quests of his personal effects and
property, as well as several none
tary bequests. The monetary be-
quests were made contingent on the
estate being valued In excess Of the
S15O,000 trust fund established for
Miss Pershing.
He left to his son all clothing
and wearing apparel. jewelry and
articles of personal use and adorn-
ment. his Distinguished Service
Medal. the sword presented to him
by the State of Missouri, his West
Point class ring. library, silver
household furnishings. horse and
saddle equipment and automobiles.
I He directed that the executors
select from his swords and othel
military equipment one such article
for the Museum of the Capitol o.
Missouri. He was born in thai
State. A similar bequest was made
for the benefit of the Nebraska Stats
Capitol.
/ His uniforms and other military
equipment not specifically bequeath-
ed were left to the Smithsonian In
stitution for the National Museum
! The University of Nebraska was
left his collection of Moro weapon.
and other articles of Moro origin.
The collection has been on loan t
the university.
II He also left to Nebraska Univer'
Evening star., 1948-07-21
States Rights Delegates
Believed 10 Be Students
speeioI pispo,eh 10 III. stor


CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va, July
21.-City Democratic Party leaders,
who are not eager to come to an
official decision on what nominees
to support in November, were dis
tGrbed to read that there was a
Charlottesville delegation" at the
Birmingham States Rights" con-
vention Saturday.
An Associated Press dispatch said
the Charlottesville delegates" reg
istered were E. w. Fontaine and H.
c. Fitzpatrick, jr.
The names were not known to
city party chieftains, but they had q
familiar sound around the Univers-
ity of Virginia. They sounded like
two vacationing students-Emmett
w. Fontaine of Martinsville, Va.
president of the Student Union, and
H. Cecil Fitzpatrick, jr., of Wash
ington, a member of the Student
Union Committee.
Evening star., 1948-07-21
Newspaper Publishers.
Discuss Printing Aids
At Pittsburgh Meeting.
BY the As,eeiofed Press

PITTSBURGH, July 2l.-Type-
writer's that Justify each line
they write, direct plate printing, new
etching alloys and how to use them.
were subjects before the goth me-
chanical conference of the Ameri-
can Newspaper Publishers Associa-
tion yesterday.
c. M. Flint. ANPA research di-
rector, said the association has a
very great interest" in developing
all these aids to printing, and added:
The use of cold type printing in
actual production has definitely de-
veloped problems of wide interest
which will eventually be overcome.
The major problem, of course, is the
time required to engrave page-size
plate by the usual acid etching
technique. Considerable work is
being done to reduce this over-a all
time and to produce results which
are equally satisfactory"
John G. Strange of the Institute
OF Paper Chemistry. Appleton, Wis,
told of advances made by a group
of II sulfits pulp manufacturers To-
Gated primarily in Wisconsin and
Michigan who for nine years have
been trying to find use for waste
sulfte liquor.
Careful investigation carried out
first in the laboratory and next
through two pilot plants seemed to
demonstrate that yeast for animal
consumption and perhaps for human
food could be economically produced
from the sugars present in the waste
liquors" he said.
Evening star., 1948-07-21
Foreign Agents
Continued From First Page

Immigration and Naturalization
Service had testified they did not
know what could be done to prevent
subversive agents coming into the
country as employees of the U. N.
and other world agencies.
Deputy immigration Commission
er John p. Boyd yesterday suggest
ed that the subcommittee advocate
more careful screening abroad" of
persons who request temporary visas
to attend U. N. sessions.
That, however, Is almost impos-
sible IN Russian satellite countries
where normal information chan
nels are closed to United States con-
sular officers, William Harlow, chief
OF the State Departments diplo-
matte visa section, testified.
Sees Threat 10 Security.
"The State Department must
have tangible evidence before it can
deny visa to any one seeking ad-
mission to the U. N. headquarters, !"
he said. Il don't think anything
can be done about it as long as the
seat Of the United sNations remains
in the United States"
Mr.. Harlow agreed with an earlier
witness, Robert c. Alexander, as
sistant chief of the State Depart
ment's visa section, that many at
taches and employees Of the U. N
and similar organizations, such as
the former United Nations Relief
and Rehabilitation Administration
came here primarily to do propa-
ganda work against the best inter-
ests Of the United States.
II believe every representative of
an iron curtain country is here for
one purpose-to disseminate propa-
ganda," he asserted. Their pres
ence here is threat to the security
of the United States"
The, possibility of congressional
action on the problem was raised
not only by subcommittee staff Of
f1cials but by Senator Revercomb,
Republican, of West Virginia, SUBJ
committee chairman. He said at his
home last night the Congress might
pass the Mundt-Nixon bill for
stricter control of Communists and
tigher regulation of entry and su-
pervision of foreign agents.
U. N. Oficials Surprised.
Testimony before the subcommit-
tee caused some surprise among
United Nations officials and United
States delegation chiefs at Lake
Success. A delegation spokesman
said the State Department has been
asked for further information.
Mr.. Alexander, however. vigorous
ly defended and amplified state
ments he made to the subcommit-
tee staff. He said at least several
hundred known or suspected sub
versive foreign agents are here now
and ARE not subject to exclusion
under our laws, even though we
know that their coming here would
not be in our best interests"
r. Clyde Larkin, chief of the
State Departments public safety
and security division, said some of
the agents have been moving about
freely trying to collect intelligence
data which will be OF benefit to their
own country, whoever they may be
serving, as well as for the enlight-
enment of various groups in this
Evening star., 1948-07-21
District Nurse Saved
From Chinese Reds
BY Ii. A,soeiatsd Pres,

PEIPING, July 21.-Eight Amer
lean evacuees from Red -besieged
Taiyuan, Shansi province capital,
were safe here today but four
others, all women missionaries, are
missing.
Five of the eight rescued are mis-
sionaries, one is nurse and two
are children. They are Mr.. and
Mrs Ernest Wampler and their two
children, Joseph, Is, and Eugene,
13. from Harrisonburg, Va; Oliver
Clark Sollenberger of Los Gatos,
Calf; John William Detrick of
Alliance, Ohio; William Satterth-
Waite of Yardley, Pa, and Nurse
Isabel Hemingway of Washington.
The missing women missionaries
were last reported at Fenyang, go
miles southwest of Taiyuan. They
are Misses Emma Noreen of
Brainerd. Mimi; Gladys Williams
of Oberlin, Ohio; Mary de War of
East Orange, N. j., and Louise
Meebold, address unavailable.
Evening star., 1948-07-21
Is F-80s in England
After Crossing Atlantic

OLDHAM, England, July 2l.-Six-
teen American F-80 fighter planes
completed today the first jet-pro-
PEELED air crossing of the Atlantic
from the United States.
They set down at this RAF field
at 5:3e pm. 11:39 am. EDIT after
a leisurely flight which began II
days and 3.725 miles ago from their
home base at Selfridge Field, Mich
Led by their commander, 1t. Col
David Schilling. the pilots from the
56th Fighter Group few over in
smart formation after a Commute
run from Stornoway, Scotland.
They touched down before a
crowd of 500 which included air at
taches from many capitals of Eu-
rope and South America.
The fight was preceded by two
B-29s. two C-54s. a Bit and CAT
carrying equipment, a ground crew
Evening star., 1948-07-21
Berlin
Continued From First Page

tor of the city to purchase at food
stores. The only stipulation was
that they pay in Soviet-sponsored
currency. The Russians have out
lawed the Western mark in their
territory
However, Berliners who tried to
make purchases Immediately after
the Russian announcement yester-
day found that food merchants had
not yet received orders to make
sales.
The official Soviet newspaper
Taegliche Rundschau said today ii
would take several days more to ar
range details of distribution. The
German Economic Commission OF
the Soviet zone is working out these
rules with Russian authorities, the
newspaper continued.
Britain Continues Air Lift.
In London, a British Foreign Of
flee spokesman announced that
Britain has no plans for the pres
ent" of abandoning the air lift
WilcllltI OI 1Ol huSSldn 1000 De-
comes available to the Western part
of the city.
The spokesman said American
Ambassador Lewis w. Douglas
French Ambassador Rene Massigli
and Sir William Strang, Britain's
expert on Germany. are continuing
talks on individual Western replies
to the Russian rejection of Allied
protests.
The Russian hint about supplying
power for all Berlin was issued
through the newspaper Neues
Deutchland. organ of the Soviet
sponsored Socialist Unity Party.
There was no official Russian indi-
cation when enough power could be
generated or how it would be offered
Heretofore Berlin power plants
and most factories have burned
Runr coal from Western Germany
Stoppage of rail freight by the Rus
Evening star., 1948-07-21
Amusement Industry
in Worst
Postwar Slump
BY III. Assoeiossd Press

NEW YORK, July 1I.--AmericsS
Entertainment industry Is reported
experiencing its worst postwar
slump.
Printing the results Of national
survey, the New York Times said
today the decline may be the most
serious manifestation to date of Q
trend that set in 10 months ago"
The slump may carry the amuse-
ment business down to Its prewar
level, the paper said.
The survey disclosed:
Movie box -ofiice sales have. fallen
OF between 2 and 10 per cent in
the last year
Numerous night clubs that never
before shut down in warm weather
have closed their doors
Record Sales OF.
Phonogrsph record sales have
dropped an estimated 10 to IS per-
cent, forcing the closing Of some
plant facilities.
Sheet music sales are OF almost
40 per cent. T.
Payrolls have been slashed on
many movie lots, because Of re-
duced margins Of profit
The number Of legitimate shows
on Broadway is less than q year ago
and several current productions are
in precarious financial condition.
Many radio stars face salary cuts.
"Television has thus become viz
tually the only major entertainment
f1eld-with the possible exception Of
some concert programs to show
continued growth" the Times said.
Reasons Cited.
The paper said top entertainment
executives cited these reasons for
the slump:
l. Increased living costs have led
to curtailment of luxury good time
spending.
2. Commodities not available in
wartime-such as automobiles-now
are competing for consumer dollars.
3. Competition from new amuse-
ment fields, such as night baseball.
4. Increased costs that the indus
try has been unable to pass along in
the form Of higher prices because of
customer resistance.
Brock Pemberton, president of the
New York League of Theaters, was
quoted as saying the present "finan.
cial slump is greater than anything
since the prewar depression"
The people have undoubtedly
stopped throwing their money
around" he said.
Evening star., 1948-07-21
8 Yugosiovs in Moscow
Back Cominform Stand

MOSCOW, July q [P.-Six Yugo-
slav officers studying engineering in
Moscow have demanded that the
Central Committee of the Yugo-
slav Communist Party honorable
recognize its mistakes" and correct
them.
Without the Soviet Union. with
out the Bolshevik Party and Com
rade Stain there can be no social
istic construction and there can be
no free Yugoslavia." they said in
a message published today by
Pravda.
"We students and the engineering
faculty Of the academy named for
Stain in q most energetic fashion
protest against the inimical policy
conducted by the Central Committee
Of the Communist Party of Yugo-
slavia in relation to the Soviet I'm
ion and the Bolshevik Party and
also against other brotherly Com
munist parties" the message said
adding:
''As membersDof the Communist
Party of Yugosl6via we demand that
the central committee Of the party
IN Yugoslavia honorably recognize
its mistakes as outlined in the reso-
luton of the Communist Informa-
tion Bureau (Cominform), that il
correct them ana return our party
to the brotherly alliance of other
Communist parties"
The message, dated July II, was
signed by Maj. Raspopovich Blazho
1t. Vlastlmir Mikailovich, Capt. Kos
Ivan, 1t. Kovachevivh Milovan
Capt. Savish Milorad and Capt
Raganovich Dzhyuro,
Evening star., 1948-07-21
MoIoyon Reds Attack
3 Rubber Plantations
By ths A.sociotsd Press

SINGAPORE, July 21.-Commu-
mist insurgents attacked three rub
ber plantations In the Sungei Siput
area of Perak State today. At least
three Chinese were killed there and
in other violence in Malaga.
Dispatches from Perak said so
Communist raiders burned down
buildings and warehouses at the
Cheal, Mabe and Krudda planta-
tionS.
Evening star., 1948-07-21
Congress
Continued From First Page.) "

President is on record in favor of a
measure providing $300.000,00 to
the States for aid to education,
which was passed by the Senate
under leadership of Senator Taft,
Republican, of Ohio but was held up
In the House Labor Committee dur
ing the last session.
1T ought not to require a tre-
mendous lot of time to act on that
item Mr.. Ross remarked.
He said he could not give any
details at the moment on new
measure being prepared by the
administration to attempt to hold
down prices. He said the anti-infla-
ton measure would be ready for
submission to Congress early in the
special session.
Mr. Ross emphasized that he
wanted to make clear that Mr.. Tru-
man was not asking the special ses-
sion to do the impossible" that in
large part the program to be pre-
sented by the President will consist
of measures which have already
gone pretty far along in the legis-
lative process.
Asked If Mr.. Truman would urge
again enactment of universal mill
tary training, Mr.. Ross said he
doubted it.
Message to Be Inclusive.
He said the message to be deliv-
cred by Mr.. Truman to Congress
Tuesday will be inclusive" but
would not foreclose the possibility
of later messages on particular
topics. "a ~
The time for delivery of the
Presidents s message was set after
consultation by phone with Senate
President Vandenberg and House
Speaker Martin. He added that they,
like their Democratic colleagues,
agreed to this plan
At his press conference yesterday,
Mr.. Brownell told reporters:
The Republican platform calls
for the enactment of a program by
Republican Congress, under the
leadership of Republican Presi-
dent.
obviously this cannot be done
at a rump session. called at a Spe-
cial convention for political pur-
poses in the heat of a political
campaign"
Repeated questions as to whether
this means there will be no legis-
lation at the extra session brought
from Mr.. Brownell only reiteration
of his statement.
Scott Not Present.
Mr. Brownell said he was opening
the national Headquarters for the
campaign in Washington. Repre-
sentative Hugh D. Scott. jr of
Pennsylvania, newly elected chair
man of the Republican National
Committee, was to have appeared
with him but was "swamped" with
organization work, Mr.. Brownell
said.
Mr.. Scott will open the campaign
In Maine at SkoWhegan on Satur-
day" said Mr. Brownell. The Maine
elections for Congress and State
Offices will take place in September,
although the Maine voters elect
presidential electors in November
along with the rest of the States.
No plans have been made yet for
Gov. Dewey to take the stump, nor
has any time been set. Mr. Brownell
continued. The Governor will re-
main in Albany or at his farm at
Pswling, N. Y, until he takes to
the road.
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Continued From First Page.l
planes, scheduled for duty in Ger
many
The planes which are due to
arrive in Glasgow, August 4. belong
to the 36th Fighter Wing. based
at Howard Field here It's "a fighters
will be stationed in Europe.
The Sicily is preceded by the
Army transport Barney Kirsch-
baum, which sailed for Bremen
haven by way of Glasgow July Is
carrying Is jets from the 36th Wing
The Kirschbaum also is carrying
one officer. eight men. and IS We
hicles, including gasoline trucks
trailers and tractors.
The Sicily will have $40 Air Force
personnel aboard and enough spare
parts to maintain the fighters unit
a new base is setup in Wiesbaden
Germany. where they will operate.
The jets will be unloaded at Glas.
gov and flown into Germany.
Evening star., 1948-07-21

program announced yesterday, will
begin August 30 with men As and
working down to the 18-year-olds
who will begin registering Septem-
Der II. Selective Service system Of
f1cials said 1t will be another month
or six weeks before they can set up
machinery on classification and de-
Evening star., 1948-07-21
Russians Are Reported
Leaving YuqosIovio

ATHENS, July 81 tP.-A senior
official of the Greek Foreign Minis
try said today that all Soviet techni-
cal staff members and their families
are leaving Yugoslavia.
The official told newsmen an Incl
dent occurred at the Belgrade air.
port when Yugoslav custom officers
insisted on searching the luggage OF
one Russian, who protested.
The Foreign Ministry officer also
said all traffic between Belgrade and
Tirana, Albania, by Yugoslav air
craft has been suspended.
Evening star., 1948-07-21
Reynolds to Be Honored
For Aluminium Output
Special Dispatch 10 The Stor

RICHMOND, Va, July 21.-R. S.
Reynolds, president of the Reynolds
Metal Co. of Richmond, tonight
will receive the Governments Ger
tificate of Merit for his services
in providing light metals to the
war effort.
Announcement of the award was
made by District Court Justice
Richmond B. Keech in Washington.
Justice Keech is secretary of the
Army Merits Board.
The presentation, with Army
Navy and Government officials as
guests, will be held at the John
Marshall Hotel.
Women in the United States own
pear r1y <a0 hillion of life inS,yra nce
Evening star., 1948-07-21
slams cut of most of these supplies
except what could be flown in.
big Bluff" Charged to Reds.

The German press in Western
Berlin called the Russian proposal
to feed all the city a big bluff
and crude propaganda maneuver
The Telegraf said the Russians
did not have the transport to de-
liver supplies to all Berlin.
The Christian Democrat Der Tag
said the Russian action was the
biggest compliment the Russians
have yet made to the Anglo-Amer-
ican air bridge which has foiled So
Wet plans to force the Allies out
and Berlin to its knees through
starvation"
The United States Air Force will
start next week to fly more than
5000 refugees housed in Berlin
camps to the American zone. H. J.
Fishbein of the International Ref
ugee Organization said.
Evening star., 1948-07-21

pavilion Of the old Yugoslav guard
officers. Two years ago Tito's secur-
fly policy brought Gen. Draja Mi
khailovich to trial there and SEN
fenced him To- be shot.
The YugoslSv people have never
been told that all other Communist
parties have refused invitations to
attend the congress.
Evening star., 1948-07-21
200 Year Old Ramsay House
In Alexandra to Be Restored

The Oldest house in Alexandria is
due for a fsce-lifting as soon as
sufficient funds for its restoration
can be raised.
To the unframed eye, the 200
year-old ramshackle Ramsay house
at the corner of King and Fairfax
streets appears to be in a hopeless
state of decay.
Daylight filters through it's splint-
cred frame walls and evidences of
fire that damaged it five years
ago still can be seen.
But according to Milton Grigg,
architect who has drawn plans for
the restoration, the Ramsay house
can be restored as a landmark for
about $4,000.
Link In City's History.
Sponsors of the restoration hope
the project can be completed in
time for Alexandria's bi-centennial
celebration next year because the
house is so closely linked to the
history of the city.
1t was built by William Ramsay
wealthy Scotch merchant. Mr.
Ramsay was one of the IL trustees
who, in 1749, carried out an order
of the Virginia House of Burgesses
to found a town where Alexandra
now stands by selling 66 half-acre
lots.
George Washington, a youth at
the time, assisted John West, jr.
surveyor and clerk of the Board
of Trustees, in laying out the new
town.
Another member of the original
Board of Trustees was John Carlyle
whose old Alexandria home is among
the city's leading tourist attractions
! It is IN the same block as the Ram
fszy house. Many historianssbelievs
the Ranisay house predates the CITY
of Alexandria. They say it wa.
built at Jones Point on the Potomac