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Evening star., 1948-05-25
Legion S investigator
OF New Jersey Reds
Found Beaten Fatally
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

LONG BRANCH, N. j., May as.
A 57-year-old American Legion
worker, described by Assistant Pros
ecutor John M. Pillsbury as engaged
IN collecting data on local Commu-
mist activities, was found beaten to
death in his hotel room last night.
Mr.. Pillsbury said the Legion
worker. Harold S. Adamson, prob
ably had been attacked outside the
hotel but had walked to his room
and collapsed. He died Of a frac-
tured skull.
Police Chief Thomas J. Marks
said the case looks like murder" 4"
and Mr.. Pillsbury said his Office was
going along IN the investigation on
suspicion of murder"
Mr. Adamson was member OF
the Americanism Committee of the
American Legion in New Jersey.
Last November he went to Washing
ton to attend a Legion school on
combating subversive activities.
Mr.. Pillsbury said Mr.. Adamson
had collected material on Commu-
mist workers here and had turned
It over to the Federal Bureau OF
Investigation. The FBI said it had
no comment on the case.
Mr.. Pillsbury said Mr.. Adamson
probably was attacked Saturday
night-about "a hours before he was
scheduled to appear as one of four
sponsors of a Statewide American
ism rally sponsored by the Legion.
Evening star., 1948-05-25
Patho|ogists Discuss
Hiqh-Vo|t Treatments

Effects Of million-volt radiation
treatment on patients was among
discussions scheduled today by $50
pathologists meeting here under
joint auspices Of the College OF
American Pathologists, the Wash
lngton Society OF Pathologists and
the pathology section of the District
Medical Society.
Scientific sessions opened at WAL
ter Reed Hospital. moving to the
District Medical Society for the af-
ternoon meeting. 1t. Col Hugh w.
Jones. Walter Reed pathologist. was
to lead the talk on effects OF high
voltage X-ray therapy.
The pathologists yesterday heard
accounts OF studies of high-voltage
radiation being carried on at the
Bethesda Naval Center on animals.
At banquet meeting last night,
DR.. Paul F. Douglass, president of
American University, stressed i'm
portance of the role young women
can play as medical technologists in
working with pathologists. He de-
scribed the course at American Uni
versity as typical Of training women
for the speciality.
The two-day conference will end
with a scientific symposium at 8:15
o'clock tonight at the District Med
ical Society Auditorium. Speakers
will include DR.. Robert A. Moore
dean Of pathology at Washington
University, St. Louis, and DR.. Frank
w. Hartman. director of laboratories
at Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit.
Evening star., 1948-05-25
Mrs. Shelton S Note
Expected TO Shed
.Liuht on Drowning

Funeral service sfor Mrs. Minnie
May Shelton. "a, whose body was
found floating in Washington
Channel yesterday, will be held to-
morrow.
Coroner A. Magruder Macdonald
said today he would withhold a Ger
tificate of death until a further
investigation.
Police said they had been told
Mrs. Shelton, widow Of John Shell
ton. left a note in the kitchen OF
her home at 748 Quebec place NV,
but they have not yet seen the
note.
Mrs. Bobbie Faircloth. 1875 Mint
wood place NV, identified the
body as that Of her mother at the
District Morgue late yesterday.
Mrs. Faircloth said she was told
by her sister, Mrs. Janet Rhodes OF
the Quebec place address, that Mrs.
Shelton left a note saying she was
going to Hams Point.
The note, according to Mrs. Fair
cloth, was found at $50 am. yes
terday. She said Mrs Rhodes
called a cab and ordered the driver
to circle the point When the search
proved fruitless. Mrs. Faircloth said,
her sister returned home and called
her. Mrs. Faircloth said she called
police and was directed to the
Morgue, where a woman had lain
unidentified all day.
In addition to her two daughters.
Mrs. Shelton is survived by sister,
Mrs. Elizabeth Smith Of Norfolk,
Va.
Funeral services will be held at l
pm. tomorrow at the S. H. Hines
Funeral Home, 290l Fourteenth
street NV, with burial in Fort
Lincoln Cemetery.
Evening star., 1948-05-25
Palestine
Continued From First Page.)

said 1t is evident that the Jews are
not gaining ground there-they are
losing it. d -.... B .... .
Outside Jerusalem, both sides
issued communicates claiming sue
cesses.
Hagana said 1t had driven Arab
forces out of the Jordan Valley
Hagana did not say whether it
meant the entire valley from the
southern tip Of the Sea Of Galilee
to the northern edge of the Dead
Sea, or merely that much smaller
part of the valley which is in Israel
Hagana said Sha ar Hagolan and
Masada, Immediately south of the
Sea of Galilee, were recaptured and
the whole Of the Samakh area, on
the southern shore, was in Jewish
hands.
No specific points were named
beyond that area.
Arab Pressure "Terrific."
The Arabs attacked the Jews in
the Old City at $50 pm. A Hagana
spokesman said the pressure is
terrific"
Jews infiltrated into Arab terri
tory during the afternoon and am
bushed 40-car Arab supply convoy
from Ramallah to Jerusalem. They
wrecked six trucks.
The Arabs made their third effort
in three days to drive the Jews from
Notre Dame Hospice at the new
gate to the Old City. The Jews beat
off an armored column and infantry.
The Jewish commander of Hagana
posted an order on the city walls
calling up all persons and fortunes
as needed in the battle for Jeru-
salem. The order forbade the evac-
uation OF houses or closing Of shops
and threatened arrest and punish
ment to war profiteers and dealers
in the black market. The order was
an attempt to restore to normal the
Jewish quarters and to array the
city for total defense against an
Arab Army invasion.
British Close Haifa Port.
British authorities closed the port
of Haifa to incoming passenger
traffic. That means the Jews will be
unable to use the Holy Lands best
port in their program to bring i'm
migrants into their new state.
The British retain control Of
Haifa port as the evacuation point
for their military forces. The city
itself is under Jewish administra-
ton.
A Lebanese communique said
Jewish raiders crossed the Lebanese
frontier and attacked the village of
Table 8 miles northwest of the
Jewish settlement of Dan, and about
2l2 miles inside the Lebanese FROM
tier. Four villagers were killed and
the residence Of Village Leader
Ahmad Elassad was looted and de-
stroyed. the communique said.
A Hagana communique said the
Jews destroyed Kafr Hareb, vii
lage on the Syrian border about 2
miles southeast of Elm Gev. Jewish
settlement on the Sea of Galilee.
Evening star., 1948-05-25
Senate Committee Urges
5000 More Tax Agents
~ ths Assoeiotsd Press

The Senate Appropriations Com.
mittee recommended yesterday that
an additional 5000 Internal Reve-
nue. Bureau agents be hired to fer
ret out income tax dodgers.
1t did so in approving unani-
mously a bill carrying s2,0l0,6o1 zoo
to maintain the Treasury and Post
once Department for the fiscal
wear starting July l.
The amount recommended to the
Senate is S2s, ,S7S850 more than was
voted in the House. 1t is s34 .348,-
600 under President Truman's buog-
ct request for the two departments.
Treasury Department omeiais
had testified the Government Is
losing about $1,000, ,ooo, 900 a year
through tax evasion. They had
asked for an additional s27 900 600
to hire 10000 new agents. The
committee voted sl3,696,0o0.
The total recommended for the
Treasury Department was S308 .SSS,-
600. For the Post Once Depart
uent it was $l,7ol y6o2, 800.
Evening star., 1948-05-25
Grant Sees Danger
OF Higher Prices in
Bill 10 Abolish GSI

A proposed bill to abolish Govern
ment Services, Inc. and set up a
new Govefnment-owned corporation
to operate the l20 establishments
now run by GSI would cost at least
81 ,O00, 900 a year more than present
GSI costs and would require higher
food prices or Federal subsidy,
Congress has been told.
The warning came from Maj. Gen.
U. S. Grant III. president of GSI,
at a closed hearing yesterday OF a
Senate Civil Service subcommittee
headed by Senator Baldwin, Repub-
lican, of Connecticut.
Full committee action on It's sub
committees proposed legislation was
delayed today by lack of a quorum.
The next full committee meeting
probably will be held a week from
Thursday, committee clerks said.
In the meantime, Senator Baldwin
is expected to introduce the legis-
latior on behalf of the subcom-
mittee.
Gen. Grants testimony. made
public today. said the higher costs
would result from inevitable de-
mands by employees for all the bene-
fits received by other Government
employees.
Subcommittee Approves Bill.
He suggested instead continuation
Of the present GSI setup with some
notifications, including a prohibi-
ton against operation on Govern
ment property "of any profitable
business unless there be strict ac-
counting and payment to the Gov
ernment Of a portion of the profit"
The new bill, however, was ap-
proved by the subcommittee at yes
terday's session as the elimination
of several months of hearings.
The measure differs in only one
major provision from bill recently
introduced in the House by Repre-
sentative Dirksen. Republican, OF
Illinois. 1t would have the new cor
poration handle all present GSI ia
cilities in Washington and elsewhere
The House plan would apply to eat
ing places in Government buildings
The Baldwin subcommittee bill has
not been introduced in the Senate
Appointivs Directors Provided.
The new corporation proposed by
the subcommittee would be man.
aged by a Board of Directors con-
sisting of the Federal Works Ad-
ministrator, Secretary Of the In.
terror. chairman of the National
Capital Park and Planning Com
mission, the president of the corpo-
ration and three directors appointed
by the President and confirmed by
the Senate.
Employees of GsI, If transferred
to the new corporation, would not
have to enter the civil service sys.
tenn. The bill provides, however
they could 60 under the civil serv-
ice retirement program If the
Beard Of Directors so decided.
AS employees Of the Government
under the proposed setup, the work.
ers could not strike as was done for
several weeks early this year agains,
GSI.
Evening star., 1948-05-25
Father Of Three Gets Term
In Knife Attack on Wife

A father Of three children was
sentenced yesterday in Hyattsville
Police Court to serve six months in
Jail for assaulting his wife with q
butcher knife. and was ordered held
for the Prince Georges County
grand jury on a second charge OF
assault with intent to kill.
The defendant. John D. Gates, AZ,
of 66l1 Calvert court, Calvert Homes,
Riverdale, appealed the Police Court
conviction.
Gates was accused of attacking his
wife, Mrs. Iris Gates, 38, on April
Is. Police said he stabbed her in
the back, chest and lower regions
of the body. then slashed his own
throat and wrists. Both were treated
at a hospital and have recovered.
Trial Magistrate Alan Bowie put
Gates under total bond of $4,000, half
of it on the charge sent to the grand
Jury. He fixed a $500 bond in the
appeal to Circuit Court and ordered
an additional $500 peace bond for
Gates, who was a handyman at the
University Of Maryland housing
project.
Evening star., 1948-05-25

to the people of the District they
would be more interested in local
government of this city than they
would be in the welfare Of the
whole United States" He strenu-
ously objected to the dual voting
provision of the bill, declaring he
would always favor the right of a
person to vote only once in any
election
Representative McGarvey, Repub-
lican, of Pennsylvania, in urging
adoption of the bill without amend
ment. declared that it would carry
out the principles of the Constitu-
ton which had been adopted in
Phila delphia.
He cited a promise Of President
Madison that inhabitants OF the
District would have voice in the
selection of their own local govern
ment.
When Congress abolished the ter
ritorial form of government headed
by a governor in 1874, the legislator
told the House. there was no inten-
ton of permanently abolishing suf-
frage here.
Would Restore Vote.
The commission form of govern
ment which was set up by Congress
at that time, Mr.. McGarvey char
acterized as IAN un- American COM
promise"
The pending home rule bill. he
predicted, would restore the vote to
the residents of this city after the
long lapse.
Representative Walter, Democrat,
of Pennsylvania. member OF the
House Judiciary Committee, urged
the House to pass the bill. pointing
out that the people of the District
were given too little to say about
their government.
Mr.. Walter added that he was
glad the bill includes provision for
a District delegate in the House. He
sponsored a District delegate bill
some years ago and said this spokes-
man for the city would relieve many
inquire into city affairs.
Asking support for the bill as
whole, he said it should relieve
Congress of many of the details OF
the city government and permit
it to stop wasting time on such a
bill as was considered earlier IN
this Congress to require that COW
ers be placed on drinking straws at
soda fountains.
Another speaker supporting the
bill was Representative Norton,
Democrat, of New Jersey who rose
/ to its defense during the reading of
the measure for amendments. Chair
man of the House District Commit
tee from 1890 to 1887, Mrs. Norton
said Congress cannot devote enough
time to the business of managing the
District efficiently,
Mrs. Norton Makes Plea.
With all due candor," Mrs Nor
ton told the House, there are few of
us, not members of the District
Committee. who can say that We
have not looked upon District Day
as a day when we could we'll afford
to be absent from the floor to attend
to other business"
i Mrs. Norton cited the case of one
Representative who was defeated
for reelection because his opponent
charged IT, he, a conscientiou,
Evening star., 1948-05-25
Man Sought for Mo|esting
Two Teen.Aqe Girls

Frightened away twice, once by
the cries Of a baby, man who
forced his attentions on two South
west teen-age girls was sought by
police today.
Police said the man appeared at
the home of Richard Shorter, sl5
Sixth street S.W., where 17-year-
old girl was attending baby yes
terday afternoon.
He asked the girl to take a chance
on a punch board and possibly win
dagger dress pin with matching
earrings. When he attempted to
fasten the pin on her. she resisted
and the baby began screaming. The
man fed.
About the same time man OF
the same description tried to force
into his car a 16-year-old girl living
in the 400 block of H street S.W.
He drove off when she called for
help.
The man was described as about
As years old, weighing 200 pounds,
tall, partly bald. with a small black
moustache and wearing a gray
checked suit.
Evening star., 1948-05-25
Fields 10 Complete Term
For CONTEMPT Tomorrow

Benjamin r. Fields, self-styled
promoter who went to jail for refus-7H
ing to produce his business recordA
before a House committee in 1885,. :
will complete a s0-dsy term in
Lorton reformatory tomorrow. "o
He entered the reformatory March =
8. worked most of the time as s~'
clerk In the ONCE and earned about
two weeks of for good behavior, the
United States Attorneys ONCE waSs-
informed.
Before going to Jail. Fields carried
his contempt Of Congress conviction
to the Supreme Court. which refused
to review the District Court dsetstop.
Evening star., 1948-05-25
Community Planners
Urged 10 Push Social
Aspects Of Projects

Community improvement projects
should pay less attention to parking
facilities and more to social prob
lembs, Herman w. Steinkraus, .
vice president OF the United States
Chamber OF Commerce, said here to.
day.
Speaking before the second ses-
sion of the National Conference on
Community improvement in the
National Chamber Of Commerce
Building. the Connecticut indus
trialist, who Is president OF the
Bridgeport Brass Co., said the es-
sence of strong country is strong
communities.
Mr.. Steinkraus was one Of nine,
speakers who addressed approxi-i
mately 125 persons attending today's
session.
Carol M. Shanks. president of the
Prudential Insurance Co. Of Amer
lea, who presided. noted the small
attendance and said those who ar,
ranged the conference had BEEN,
aware of the risk Of planning quick
ly. More than 1000 persons hads
been expected to attend. :
Initiative Is Stressed. =
The opening sessions which wers~
held yesterday in the Statler Hotel
heard a dozen speakers emphasize
and reiterate the need for commu.~
nifty initiative and self reliance. =
The record Of the Selective Service
boards during World War II was
cited by Maj Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, Z
director Of the Once of Selectivs>
Service Records, as q fine exampless
of the acceptance Of local respon-.
sibility. :
Our only hope OF survival. Gen,.
Hershey told the conference yester.'
day. Is to develop individual local
initiative. =,
Last night the conference met In
three discussion sessions on YOUTH
trafic and general planning. Re-
ports on these sessions are to be-:
submitted to the full conference in
its closing session tomorrow. Majs
Gen. U. S. Grant III. chairman Of )
the National Capital Park and Plan-N
ming Commission, presided. y
Rickey Is Speaker.
Another speaker this morning, !
Branch Hickey. president Of the
Brooklyn Dodgers. noted that the
motto OF community planning, as Of
athletes, should be mot honors, but
honor"
Mr.. Hickey suggested that q little
Of the money now spent on ma
tional defense could better promote
peace if 1t were used for interna-
tional meetings of athletes. BY way
of Illustration. he told about q visit
of his son to Boy Scout jamboree'
in Scotland and concluded that his
son made so many European friends
he did not see how We could aght'
them =
Rolf T. Harbo. assistant director.
of the Federal Bureau OF Investiga-
ton. spoke before the conference in
place Of FBI Director j. Edgar
Hoover, who was prevented by
pressing business" from being pres
ent. Mr. Harbor called on commun.
tiles to lay the basis for solution Of
Americas crime problem.
Other speakers today included
Mrs. Raymond Clapper. author and
news commentator; Seward Mott.
director of the Urban Land Institute
Nf cl,ir ct r~
Robert w. Searle. director of COM
munity relations of the Protestant
Council OF the City of New York. -
Evening star., 1948-05-25

rights in their home States. He
argued sit won't work." inspiring
the later Dirksen attack on this
argument.
Recommitment Urged.
Mr.. Harris contended the bill
would raise untold numbers of
questions" as to voting rights back
home, income and inheritance taxes
and other issues. and therefore
should be recommitted to The Dis
trict Committee for further study
Mr.. Abernethy said the home-ruie
bill was Just shadow boxing" argu-
ing that the suffrage plan still would
give no real home rule to the Dis
trict but would leave all manner
of questions still to be settled by
congress, and in effect would create
a government within govern
ment."
Mr.. Abernethy also argued the
bill proposes an increase in the
Federal payment to District ex-
penses, while asking that the city
government be turned over to city
residents.
They can't have both," he de-
clared IF they want to run their
own government, they ought to get
along without any Federal help"
The bill proposes a formula to reg
ulate the size of the Federal pay
ment, but would put q mandatory
limit of $15,000,0O0 on the Federal
share, now totaling $4,000, 900.
Smith Cites Doubts.
Representative Smith, Democrat,
OF Virginia, a member Of both the
House District Committee and the
House Rules Committee, took the
floor long enough to say he would
hesitate to recommend to the House
that it act on this bill. He made
much of the point that there are
"a lot Of questions" involved, al
though he announced he had voted
for a report of the bill from the
District Committee and approval Of
a rule by the Rules Committee.
He said he had done this because
he thought the House should have
chance to vote on the measure.
but he listed numerous points
among thousands Of questions he
thought would be raised on the
House floor
Mr.. Allen, defending the pro-
posals for q city manager and nom
partisan elections in the bill. told
the House A cities in his State are
using the city-manager system.
Evening star., 1948-05-25

member of the District Committee,
had spent more time worrying about
Washington than about his own
constituents.
She said the Auchincloss bill
would bring a measure of democ-
racy to the only corner of our coun-
try where democracy in local mat
ters dose not exist today"
Representative Hall, Republican,
of New York said the present situa-
ton of District residents is grossly
unfair" adding he was certain they
would vote to enfranchise them
selves in the proposed referendum
next November if Congress gives
them the chance.
Representative Deane in his at
tack on the trade board called it
"a glorifed chamber of commerce
and said it represents about per
cent of the population Of the Dis
trict.
Members of its Board of Direc-
tors have openly Dragged that they
run Washington" Mr. Deane said.
With due allowance for Dragging,
the facts will demonstrate that
when the Board of Trade cracks
the whip, District government
jumps.
Reasons "Obvious."
Quite naturally the Board of
Trade is against this bill, and for
obvious reasons. In any locally
elected government. they would have
to share their influence with the
citizens associations and with the
unorganized electorate"
Mr.. Deane said that, except for
the trade board, there is no Or
ganized opposition to the Auchin-
Gloss bill in Washington. He said
he has nothing against the organi-
zation, but added its opposition to
home rule here is based on the
fact the board would lose some
of it's power and prestige, and it
knows it,
The government Of the District
of Columbia is a mess" Mr. Deane
said, "and the responsibility for
this situation rests primarily upon
the Congress"
Blames Failures on Apathy.
The North Carolina legislator said
it is a recognized phenomenon that
Washington residents are apathetic
about anything"
This apathy stems directly from
| the fact that the most significant
group activity in life-self govern
ment-has been denied them he
said IN my opinion, this apathy
is directly responsible for the failure
of successive Community Chest
campaigns, the failure Of at least
two campaigns for the National
Symphony.
Washington is losing the capacity
to act as a community on anything
And. in my opinion, 1t will not
again possess that capacity until
self-government is restored, so that
it may again develop the faculty OF
lco-operative community effort"
The home-rule bill cleared its
arst major House hurdle late yes
terday by the uncomfortably close
vote of lit to lat. after being
defeated on two preliminary tests
on adoption of an antifilibuster rule
/ More than 40 minutes of general
debate were held yesterday, after
the House finally had adopted rule
limiting sWsral debate to the two
Evening star., 1948-05-25
Bernodotte in Paris
On Way to Jerusalem

PARIS. May Is (P,.-Count Folke
Bernadotte, United Nations medi-
ator for Palestine. arrived by plane
from Sweden today, en- route to
Jerusalem.
He refused to answer newsmen's
questions on the Palestine situation.
Count Bernadotte plans to continue
his journey to the Holy Land to-
morrow.
Evening star., 1948-05-25

Twenty members of the House,
not voting. were paired. Those who
would have voted for the rule, If
present, were: jenkins of Penhsyl-
vania, Heselton, Grow, 'Jenison and
Dewitt. Republicans. and Carroll,
Norton, Klein, Hart and Hairless,
Democrats.
Those who would have voted no
were: Fellows and Owens, Republi-
cans, and Pace, Whitaker, Boykin,
Cox, Worley, Rivers, Hebert and
Price of Florida, Democrats.
Evening star., 1948-05-25
Freewoy-Airport Link
AT Baltimore Approved
BY ths Associated Press

BALTIMORE, May 25.-The State
Roads Commission has agreed to
build an access road connecting the
new Baltimore International Friend
ship Airport with the Baltimore
Washington freeway, Walter F.
Perkins, chairman of the city airport
board, said yesterday.
The cost of a four-lane road is
estimated at $1,000, 900, he said.
Evening star., 1948-05-25
Women Voters Convene
In Baltimore Today
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

BALTIMORE, May 25.-Ihe Mary
land League of Women Voters opens
its 2sth annual convention here
today.
At the first days session, Wilton
J. Allen will discuss New Assess
ment Procedures in Maryland" and
DR.. joseph Ray will speak on Meth
DDS Raising State Revenue"