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Evening star., 1948-04-25
Gasoline Plant Blast
Rocks California Area
BY the Assoeioied Press

Ell SEGUNDO, Calf, April "a
With a roaring jar that rocked a
smile radius, a gasoline finishing
plant blew up today in Standard
Oil OF CALIFORNIA; sprawling Ell
Segundo refinery.
Thirteen men, most Of them fire
fighters, were hospitalized for burns,
No one was injured in the blast,
scores of workmen having been
evacuated from the immediate area
when fire broke out Is minutes be-
fore the $3.50 am. explosion.
Fire departments from four nearby
cities helped local companies bring
the blaze under control in little
over an hour.
Company officials said an inquiry
was under way to determine cause
of the second major fire at the
refinery in five months. The blast
blew heavy piece Of steel nearly
a quarter of a mile, awakened thous-
ands OF residents in nearby cities
and lit the sky with roaring pillar
of fame visible Is miles away
Today's blaze was kept away from
vast storage tanks 6 atc the plant
one of CALIFORNIA; largest. One OF
the tanks blew up last December
killing one workman. It's cause was
never fully explained. the blast being
attributed variously to . bolt Of
tightening or to static electricity
which set of the finished gasoline.
Evening star., 1948-04-25
O'Connor to Retire Saturday
As Corcoron Gallery Curator
Native Of Washington
Quitting at IS After
20 Yeurs' Service

jeremiah O'Connor, rs, curator
OF the Corcoran Gallery of Art will
retire Saturday. He has held that
position for 20 years. He plans to
remain in Washington, which Is
his birthplace.
Mr.. O'Connor, tall. white-haired
man, who graduated from George
town University 56 years ago, was
interviewed In his bachelor quar-
tiers at the rear Of the gallery yes
terday. A short conversation re-
vealed that he rejects the 10th cen
turys' idea that the world was get
ting steadily better.
II used to do q great deal of walk
ing with friend who had the prog
ress idea," he recalled. THAT was
before World War I. Sometimes We
would walk all the way to Baltimore.
Do you know, he used to argue that
there would be no more wars be-
cause nations were moved by eco
nomic considerations"
Mr.. OiConnor then was an attor-
ney in the Land ONCE OF the In
terror Department. His great in
terest was art. When he retired
he spent some time looking at
pictures in the galleries of Europe.
In 1928 c. Powell Minnigerode, the
director, made him curator.
The acquisition in which he takes
most pride is the sculpture, Adam
and Eve" by Andrew O'Connor, j
tho relation.
To MIR. O'Connor great art is q
religious expression; it has to dc
with mans idea Of his role in the
Evening star., 1948-04-25
Fort Myer Household
OF Eisenhower Moved
To Columbia Campus

Almost all the household effects
of Gen. and Mrs. Eisenhower have
been moved from their quarters ct
Fort Myer and the General, hirnsek.
will take over the Columbia Univer.
sity presidents house on the cam
pus shortly after May l. the Army
said yesterday.
The household furnishings have
been removed by workmen. The
Eisenhowers, have been on vaca-
ton at Augusta, Ga. :,
A spokesman said the quarters 1t
Fort Myer would be renovated be-
fore the new chief Of staff, Gen.
Bradley, moves there.
Gen. Eisenhower will take a small
personal staff to Columbia from
Washington. Under the law a Ave
star general Is granted an allowance
for a small group Of assistants for
life. Gen. Eisenhower will have
three such assistants when he be-
comes Columbia's president June 2.
The assistants will be Maj. Robert
L. Schultz, aide-de-camp; Warrant
Omcer Margaret Hayes, private sec
retary, and Sergt. Leonard Dry.
chauffeur.
Maj. Shulz and Miss Hayes joined
the general after his return from
Europe but Sergt. Dry was picked
up by the general in the North
African campaign.
Like the offlcial chief of stan
quarters at Fort Myer. the presi-
dents four-story Italian Rennais-
ance home in New York has been
undergoing extensive alterations.
Mai. Shulz has been in New York
for several weeks overseeing this
work
Evening star., 1948-04-25
Trumbo Trial Opening
Tomorrow Is Second
In Contempt Series

Film Writer Dalton Trumbo, a,
will 60 on trial tomorrow in Dis
trict Court on a charge Of contempt
Of Congress.
He Is the second of 10 Hollywood
figures scheduled to be tried on
contempt indictments arising from
testimony at the House Committee
on Un-American Activities film in
dustry hearings last October. Each
is accused of refusing to answer
a question as to whether he ever
was a member of the Communist
Party.
The first tried, John Howard
Lawson, So, also a writer, was con-
victed by q District Court jury last
Monday. Justice Edward M. Cur
ran held sentencing in allegiance
pending disposition of Lawson's
motion for a new trial, filed Friday.
Trumbo's screen work includes
the scenarios OF kitty Foyle,"
"Our Vines Have Tender Grapes"
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo" and
Tender Comrade."
He will be tried before any judge
who Is free when his case Is called
tomurroG. r'1ndications" yesterday
were Justice David A. Pine probably
would hear the case. $50
Assistant United States Attorneys
william Hitz and Oliver Dibble will
conduct the prosecution. Trumbo
will be defended by -, = stan Of
lawyers headed by Robert w.
Kenny, who also was chief Of Law
sons defense counsel.
Evening star., 1948-04-25
|WhottheRussions.
| Are Saying of Us

Moscop radio, broadcast1ng Il
Czech to Europe, said:
THE United States and British
monoponsts in their desire to
renew their supremacy in the
Balkans and the Danube coun-
try, would like to restore the old
order in Eastern Europe. The
United States reactionaries' de-
sign becomes particularly mani
fest through United States en-
couragement Of subversive ac-
tivities in Central and Eastern
Europe. The conspirators, how
ever, we're foiled by the peoples
OF these countries. The result was
a violent rage among the ex-
ponents of international reaction
in the United States"
Evening star., 1948-04-25

their tenure is far more precarious
than the rest of the Governments s
employees, depending almost entirely
on the political fortunes OF the
Representatives and Senators who
appoint them to Office.
To be eligible for annuities, the
employees would have to be so or
over at the time of their involun-
tary separation. If, for example,
they lost their jobs at the age of
40, they could not collect the annui-
ties until the regular retirement
age of so or 81.
There's good chance that the
committee will approve the bill. If
it does, Government employees
groups are apt to ask the same
rights for the rest of the Govern
ment's workers.
CAPITOL ROUNDUP-The Sen
ate Appropriations Committee has
tackled on a rider to the civil func-
tions bill that would bar non-
United States citizens from civil
service jobs in the Canal Zone. It's
expected that the State Department
will oppose this legislation, contend
ing that it would damage our rela-
tionship with the Republic of Pan
anna. Examinations for perma-
nent secretarial jobs in the Gov
ernment probably will be given
within the next three or four
months. The Civil Aeronautics
has given cash
awards totaling $3.50 to three of its
employees for money-saving ideas
submitted by them. They are Eliza
beth M. Donnelly, Helen L. Gar
wood and Ernest Hackett.
(Be sure to listen in today at
3:15 pm. over WMAL, The Star
station, for Joseph Young's
broadcast persion OF the Federal
Spotlight, featuring additional
neWs OF Government AFFAIRS and
oerSOnnIities
Evening star., 1948-04-25
Reuther Political Foe
Freed After 7 Days Of
Quizzing on Attack
BY thu Asxocirfsd Press

DETROIT, April 24.-A political
foe of Walter P. Reuther was freed
today after two days Of questioning
in the attempted assassination OF
the fiery union leader.
The release on $4,000 bond of
Nelson Davis, So, was ordered by
Circuit Judge Arthur Webster de-
spite the pleas of Detroit police
that the Negro auto foundry worker
be detained another 48 hours.
Davis. a minor oficial of Mr..
Reuthers United Auto Workers,
was taken into custody Thursday
on a report from a union tipster
that he could give information on
Mr.. Reuther's shooting, police said.
Prosecutor James N. McNally said
Davis was an admitted Communist.
Bond Is Ordered.
Held without charge, Davis de-
manded freedom on grounds he was
"manifestly innocent and that
police had no specific reason" to
hold him.
telling all he knows"
At a hearing on Davis writ OF
habeas corpus today Judge Web
ster ordered Davis released on
bond
Davis was told, however to be
available for further questioning.
Specifically, he was told to appear
for questioning at II am. Wednes-
day. The hearing on the writ OF
habeas corpus was adjourned until
May 3, when authorities will either
give more information on Davis or
ask the court to dismiss the bond.
Court Acts Over Protest.
The courts action was taken
over the protests Of Mr.. McNally
who claimed I'VE got certain in
formation the other night which
we have been unable to check"
During these legal proceedings,
Mr.. Reuther was reported doing
well in Grace Hospital. He was
taken there Immediately after the
shooting, in which his right arm
was nearly torn off by the shotgun
blast.
Specialists said they believed he
might regain full use Of his arm,
despite injury to nerve.
Two other NAV unioinists were
questioned briefly Saturday. They
were Hodges Mason, described by
police as "a left-Winger, and Mar
lon Butler, another Reuther oppon-
ent, and a former UAW oftlclal in
Flint.
Evening star., 1948-04-25

clearance on three persons it was
planning to send overseas
All this was news to FBI Chief
j. Edgar Hoover, when word of the
testimony drifted back to him sew
eral weeks later. Mr.. Hoover prompt
ly wrote letter to Chairman Keefe
declaring that something funny was
going on. The Labor Department
never had asked the FBI to investi-
gate the loyalty of any overseas
personnel, Mr.. Hoover declared.
Confronted by Mr.. Hoover's letter,
Mr. Morse and his aides sheepishly
acknowledged that the FBI chief
was correct. 1t wasn't that they
wanted to mislead the committee,
they said. 1t was only that for
these many months they had been
under the mistaken impression the
FBI was doing all the investigating
for them, when all the while it was
the State Departments security di-
vision that was doing the investi-
gative work!
Hmmph! snorted Mr.. Keefe and
his colleagues on the committee.
You would think that the depart
ment would be expected to know
what is going on in its own bailiwick
If it doesn't, who should?"
What the committee will do about
the matter hasn't been decided
But Chairman Keefe is annoyed
about the whole thing and may
have something to say on the mat
ter when the full committee re-
ports out the Labor Departments
supplemental appropriations meas
ure on Tuesday.
PAY-Chairman Taft of the SEN
ate Policy Committee is expected to
come out this week in favor OF
Federal pay raises.
Senator Taft's announcement of
his stand will probably be made in
Canton. Ohio. on Wednesday, where
he will be campaigning in his
primary fight against Harold Stas-
sen.
The Senator will confer with
Federal employees groups at thst
time and is expected to give the
formal assurance Of his support for
some kind of Federal pay legislation.
Senator Taft's Endorsement of Gov
ernment wage increases would
probably help him in the primary
there are many thousands of Fed
eral employees who work and reside
in Ohio.
X y X
PLAY BALL-Last Fridays Con-
gressional Record took official cog
nizance of the opening OF the base
ball season. Inserted by Represent
ative Lane, Democrat, of Massachu-
sets was the stirring epic, easy
at the Bat
CAPITOL HILL-Legislative en-
ployes are urging the Senate Civil
Service Committee to give them
something special in the way OF
retirement benefits.
They want the right to receive
annuities starting at the age Of so
if they are involuntarily separated
from their jobs and have at least
five years of service.
Legislative workers contend that
Evening star., 1948-04-25

universe, the old idea of human dig
nifty, of being made in the image Of
the Creator. Modern art is denial
of this concept by atheists.
He has his definition of modern
art---a bit of double talk which he
delivers with something Of q num-
BILE. 1t goes:
"Ecstatically exuberant but rep
resentationally renunciatory. an ex-
cursion into esoteric escatology; or
|epexigatically apocalyptic; or a reve-
lation of a reaction to cosmic rhythm
SO idiosyncratic as to be pathogo-
monic of incipient paranoia super
induced by persistent hebephrenia
and synchronized by chronic bor-
oorygmony."
Then he says: "You see-very i'm
preSSive, but meaningless"
Evening star., 1948-04-25
Hungary Parliament 10 Get
Bill 10 NationaIize Industry
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

BUDAPEST, April "a - The
Ministry of Industry said today the
bill for nationalizing private in
dustry in Hungary will be presented
to Parliament next week.
The bill would place all private
industry employing more than 100
persons under state ownership. 1t
was approved in principle by the
cabinet March Is.
Terms of the bill, as disclosed by
the Ministry of Industry today,
would declare all such private en-
terprises to have become state prop
erty March 26-the day after the
cabinet acted.
All shares in such industries must
be delivered to the state regardless
Of whether they are owned BY Hun
gavians or foreigners. A deadiine
Of June 80 was set for reporting
ownership of shares by persons sout-
side the country.
Evening star., 1948-04-25
Air Force Hearings
In Senate 10 Speed
Decision This Week
By IN. As.oe;oged Press


A preliminary decision in the con-
test about the size and makeup OF
powerful combat Air Force may
be reached in the Senate this week
Senator Gurney, Republican, o1
South Dokota told a reporter today
that hearings opening tomorrow
morning on 70-air group money
bill should speed up decision or
this whole problem"
Senator Gurney is chairman o1
the Senate Armed Services Commit
tee which has been unable to CON-
plete its decision on an all-inclu-
sive bill covering expansion of the
Air Force and other armed services
temporary draft and universal mill.
tary training.
Bridges Favors 70 Groups.
Hearings on the House approved
70-group Air Force will be before
the Senate Appropriations Commit
tee. Chairman Bridges of that COM
mittee already is on record in favor
of the 7o-group plan rushed through
the House ahead Of all other mea-
sures by a 343-3 vote.
Secretary of Defense Forrestal
will be the first witness at the
Senate hearings. He already has
raised his original plans for 55-
group Air Force to 66 groups.
This caused Representative john
son, Democrat, of Texas to say yes
terday that the only issue now re-
manning is "jet or mothball planes"
Asks Conversion Now.
Mr.. Johnson, a member OF the
House Armed Services Committee,
urged Mr.. Forrestal and the Sen
ate to follow the lead of the House
in providing funds to Immediately
begin conversion from the moth
ball airplanes of World War H."
Mr.. Forrestal said his 66-group
compromise involves returning some
10 groups of World War II B-29
bombers to active service.
THE issue is" Mr.. johnson said
in a statement, mot one OF billions
of dollars more but rather of $822,-
100000 to provide in 1850 and 1851.
1056 modern planes Of which more
than IS per cent are jet powered;
804 of these are jet fighters and 80
are four-engine bombers.
Senator Gurney backed Secretary
Forrestal's estimates that the full
70-group program would add $9,000,-
100000 to next years defense costs
instead of the s3,l98,00o 900 voted by
the House.
UNIT. Compromise Seen.
When Senator Gurney's commit
tee meets tomorrow afternoon, it
expects to receive another admins
tration compromise on UNIT.
This would delay for at least a
year the original plan to set up
separate UNIT to train 18 and
10 year olds. Instead they would
train with. regular Army, Navy and
Air Force recruits and draftees but
for less than the two years which
drafted men would serve.
Mr.. Forrestal still is asking long
range UNIT program, but told Sen
ators he will go along with the COM
bination of draft and UNIT train
ing during the next year.
The House Armed Services Com
nlittee was to meet behind closed
doors to begin writing its tempo
rary draft bill. 1t calls for regis
tration OF men 1s through 80 years
with actual induction limited to
those 10 through Is.
Evening star., 1948-04-25
Marshall Return Stirs
Talk Of Early Meeting
With Western Bloc
BY the Assoeioisd Press

Secretary of State Marshall re
turned yesterday from the Inter-
American Conference and the brief
outbreak OF ''hot water" at Bogota
to resume direction Of American
strategy in the global cold war"
with Russia.
His arrival stirred speculation Of
the probability of an early meeting
between American ofiicials and
leaders of the Western European
nations to plan new joint efforts
to hold Russian-backed communism
in check for Europe.
American officials were uncertain
for the moment whether such
meeting would bring Gen. Marshall
together with top Western Euro
pean leaders, such as Britains
Foreign Minister Bevin and Frances
Bidault, or whether the sessions
would be at the diplomatic level.
Gen. Marshall himself is expected
to review the situation and lay down
a course for action this week.
COnfefS With L0vett.
The Secretary arrived at National
Airport at 9 am, after an overnight
flight from the riot-wrecked CO.
lombian capital. He had told other
delegates there Friday afternoon
that the pressure of important
events required his return to
Washington.
Within Is minutes after his ar
rival, Gen. Marshall was closeted at
the State Department with his dip
lomatic chief of staff, Undersecretary
of State Lovett, who has been run
ming things in his absence.
Presumably one of the subjects
covered in Mr.. Lovetts repeatedly
sweeping review of world affairs was
the Palestine crisis. Mr.. Lovett is
known to be deeply concerned over
the failure of Jews and Arabs to
respond to American supported
United Nations efforts to end the
fighting in the Holy Land.
Parley to End This Week.
Gen Marshall himself, stepping
down from the four -engined trans
port plane that brought him home,
confined his public comments to
the American Conference. He
told newsmen that he expects the
conference to complete its work this
week.
I'VE had reached decisions on most
of the fundamental considerations,
particularly as to the organic pact. ;"
Gen. Marshall said.
There remain the problems Of
economic consideration but very good
progress has been made in reaching
a decision regarding many issues
involved"
Gen. Marshall brought along on
the plane with him William Nc
Chesney Martin, president of the
Export Import Bank, and Brig. Gen.
Marshall Carter, Gen. Marshall's
secretary.
To See Truman Tomorrow.
Gen. Marshall is expected to con-
fer with President Truman tomor-
row. The President returned shortly
before noon yesterday from an over
night yacht cruise on the Potomac
with his wife and daughter. Gen.
Marshall went from. the State De-
,partment to his home at Leesbtrg,
Va. ,p ~ -4to4ult rt7R't
Meanwhile, official informants con-
firmed reports given out here Friday
that Gen. Marshall's decision to
leave the inter American conference
and get back to his desk here was
due not to any single crisis at hand
in world affairs, but to general
accumulation Of important issues
requiring bis attentions " 49, s...,
These evidently inalsdS tho Pales-
time problem, the ~teuse situation in
Germany where The Russians appear
Evening star., 1948-04-25

If the FBI thor
oughly investi-
gated all Labor
Department per-
sonnel sent over
seas.
"V cry t h or
oughly," replied
Mr.. Morse, de-
claring the FBI
was called in on
all these cases.
Mr. Kaiser VOL
unteered the in
formation that
the department
at the moment
Evening star., 1948-04-25
Virginia Fruit Crop
Prospects Held Good
~ the Assecjotsd Press

RICHMOND Va. April 24.-De-
spite damage from March and April
frosts, prospects for Virginia's fruit
crop look good
j. H. Henley, Winchester. super
visor of apple and peach inspection
for the State Department of Agri-
culture, reports that both apples
and peaches can do well. Even
though frost damage caused trouble.
especially in Nelson and Franklin
Counties.
Evening star., 1948-04-25

determined to make Berlin unin-
habitable for the Western powers,
and the problem Of American sup
port for the developing Western
European union. ~
In addition. Gen Marshall may
want an early look at, the initial op-
erations of the Economic Co-opera-
ton Administration.
Evening star., 1948-04-25
Church Anniversary Today

The Memorial Baptist Church
Airing ton, will celebrate its FIRST an
niyersary at special services today
fTlM congregation meets at the
Globe Tlestres At1ingtpn,s The Rev
James w. Farmer is pastor. ? 80 = r.
Evening star., 1948-04-25
The Federal Spotlight
The Federal Spotlight
Error Puts Labor Department
Into Jam With House Group
BY Joseph Young

comedy has got the Labor Department into quite
a jam with the House Appropriations Committee
started several months when House Approprla
tons headed by Kefe Republican
o wisconsin began hearings the Labor Departments 1949
lh,lo
Evening star., 1948-04-25
r.mper.ture. In Various Cities.

In 1e47 for the first time on rec
ord the average United States pro-
duction per COW was more than S.
900 pounds of milk.
Evening star., 1948-04-25

Undersecretary of Labor David A.
Morse and Philip Kaiser, director
of the Office of international Labor
Affairs, were asked by the committee
Evening star., 1948-04-25
Weather Report

District of Columbia-Today part
ly cloudy and quite warm, highest
in lower 80's. Tomorrow some
cloudiness and continued warm.
Virginia - Today considerable
cloudiness, warmer in extreme
north portion Tomorrow partly
cloudy and continued warm.
Maryland - Today considerable
ccloudiness and warmer and with
scattered afternoon thundershoWers
in the interior. Tomorrow partly
cloudy and continued warm.
= River Report.
(From United States EnglneersD
Potomac River cloudy at Hsrpers Ferry
and clear al Great Falls. Shenanooan
clear at Harpers Ferry.
Humidity.
Yesterday Pct Pct
pm. 81 10 pm. m.------- II
Evening star., 1948-04-25

High and Low for YESTERDAY.
High. rs, at 2:2o pm.
Low, As, at $50 am
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest, 50, on March 81.
Lowest, 8. on January 26.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-04-02
News From Wode -.
Grand Ole Opera" Presented AT
Wade School Last Friday Night

the bedside Of her mother in a
New Orleans hospital.
Earl Fairchild of Leaf, Miss,
spent the weekend in Wade visit
ing friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse Watson had
their son, Raymond, and his wife
and son, their daughter and SON
in-law, Mr.. and Mrs. John Knox
Mcleod, as Easter guests in their
home.
Roy Pendergrass of Tennessee
is visiting his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Earl Pendergrass, for a few
days.
Bobby Jean Brooks honored her
fellow senior classmates with a
hayride and weiner roast on We'd
nesday night. \
MI. and Mrs. Freddie O'Bryant
and Miss Walker of Pascagoula
came to Wade Tuesday and dug
wild azaleas to plant in their
yards.
A sunrise service was held at
Caswell Springs church Sunday
morning with a group of AZ at
tending.
The Rev. j. A. Williamson is
delivering a series of messages
this week at Caswell Springs on
THE Meaning of the Cross"
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-04-02
News From Arena .

There was an Easter egg hunt
at the Pine Grove Church of God
grounds last Saturday, with 20
children and several adults TAX
ing part. On Sunday, the chill
dren had an Easter program, fol-
lowed by preaching by Brother
Galway.
H. c. Stricken and Mrs. Eliza
Stricken went to Moss Point and
Pascagoula on Wednesday of last
week.
On Thursday and Friday of last
week, the teachers and pupils of
Mobile County had two days off
for the A. Z. A. meeting at Bir-
mingham which some of the
teachers and principals attended.
The Rev. and Mrs. H. l.. Gala
way shopped in Mobile on Mon
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Tour
quests two boys, Dudley and
Earl, spent the weekend with
Mr.. and Mrs. Drury Dudley.
Johnnie Stricken and Kenneth
visited in the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. John Strickler n day
last week.
Nose Williams has been very
lick at his home and has had
numerous visitors.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Strickler
recently had as their guests Mr..
and Mrs. Roy Settels, Mrs. w. c.
Lang of Wilmer, Ala, and Mrs.
Paige of Independence, Mo-, who
they took on a tour of Bellingrath
Gardens.
Mrs. Eliza Stricken, H. c.