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Arizona sun., 1948-12-24

from the radio
gallery of the
house of repre-
sentatives after
having watched
the opening of the
second session of
the historic 80th
con gress." Note
the word 'histor-
ic." No one guessed
then that other
adjectives applied
to that legislative
body were to help
cause one of the
gre at upset"
election victories
Arizona sun., 1948-12-24

BAUKHAGE great upset
election victories
If American history
On January z (my birthday
there was "a bright sun shining
lown on the Capitol but" I broad
cast, ''the shadows beneath it are
ieep and dark
On that day the President de-
livered his message and the
next day the Associated Press
said: "Most Of President Tru-
mans 1913 legislative prop0s-
ais, particularly his tax reduc-
tion and anti-inflation plans
appeared headed today fer q
congressional waste basket"
How true that was and how Il
helped re-elect him. In his an
nual message he Is to present
most of them again, more hope
fully.
January IL was a cold day in
New York which had just emerged
from a blizzard. was there COW
ering the assembly of the United
Nations and that day the Palestine
commission was preparing its pro-
gram of partition which was to be
completed with bayonets and hand
grenades.
JANUARY %. At 1870 a. m.
message came over the news tick
er. and such sigh of relief went
up from the White House and from
both Republican and Democratic
headquarters that the trees on Con-
necticut avenue bent nearly dou-
BILE. 81 am not available for and
could not accept nomination to high
political Office" Signed-General
Dwight d. Eisenhower.
JANUARY 80, Gandhi is dead.
The priest and prophet of Indian
independence was shot to death at
his prayer meeting on the lawn OF
the estate where he lived.
MARCH 9. Truman announces
his candidacy; Macarthur re-
nounces his.
MARCH 10. Jan Masaryk is dead.
Much died with that name.
From, the house radio gallery
again on March II I report the re-
enunciation by the President OF
what was then called the Truman
Doctrine"
MARCH 19. Wallace attacks the
Presidents foreign policy.
1t was no April FOOLS day
joke when the Russians stopped
the trains in Berlin.
The next day, April 2, cur
counter move: Congress passes
the European recovery pro-
gram.
The gaygreen Of leaf and lawn
on this 18th day of April are not
enough to dispel Washington's con-
Germ over the revolution in Bogota.
(Remember? A Communist directed
affair. Secretary of State Marshall
was there.)
At 10:30 in the morning Of April
10, Justice T. Allen Goldsborough
ruled John Lewis guilty Of GRIM
inal contempt.
On April q come the rumors Of
waI from Palestine.
The Moscow newspapers Of May
II are bought out-Ambassador
Bedell Smith is conferring with
Molotov.
The birthday of a state, May
14-Israel is born.
Dewey wins the primary in Ore
gon on May "a. Later he won the
state
A veteran steps down. Prime Min.
lister Smuts of South Africa is de-
feated on May %.
Oregon in the news again, trag-
ically. The little town~sof Vanport
is inundated. May 81.
Tragedy for a neighbor state on
June 10. Secretary of Labor Schwel-
lenbach of Washington state dies
at the age of So.
Outdoors. Philadelphia was cloudy
and gray on June 81. Inside Repub-
ican headquarters it was rowdy and
gay. Dewey starts his shock and
blitz tactics against the field Cor
respondents discuss the mystery of
the vacant seats in the gallery.
(Did this foreshadow the absence
Of the Dewey voters from the polls
on election dayO The attractive
Republican glamour lady, Clare
Booth Luce. hurls her barbs in a
Arizona sun., 1948-12-24
Mas ! 5d!sZ:]1sls lT:2:5y
Boukhoge Finds Old Dates
OF Interest in Year 7948
By BAUKHAGE
NetVs AnaLyst and Commentator.

WASHINGTON. = New Years day. according to an
encyclopedia which remember consulting is cele-
brated IN the western world by merrymakng and theoret
icaly at least, in the meeting of old friends.
remember when took the idea
That back western New York
student i'll Europe three of living the
which Americans abroad prefer boarding
consecuvey that the
possessed collectively could ALL that
Arizona sun., 1948-12-24

Linda Brown, 4, of San An
tonic, Tex, has been selected
the poster girl for the 1949
March of Dimes, January Ia to
81. Stricken with polio two and
q half years ago, Linda was
treated at the Robert B. Greene
hospital in San Antonio with
funds derived from the March
of Dimes. She now walks with
out braces anG has only a slight
limp.
Arizona sun., 1948-12-24

Today I have been meeting some<
old dates of 1948."
The first have to record is jan
uary 6 "Baukhage talking
Arizona sun., 1948-12-24
-WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS S--
New Spy Ring Data Revives Probe;
Tax Hike Bugaboo Frightens Some;
Berlin Red Vote Tightens Issue

NOTE When SpiniSn: % sxsd @ 5 in these thsy & Asss
Evening star., 1948-01-15
| Wrestler Dies
From Injury in
Match otC.U u.

William Calvin Mitchell II, 18,
Washington College wrestler, who
was injured in a match here Tues
day, died at am today in Provi-
dence Hospital His parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Horace Edwin Mitchell, live
at Salisbury, Md.
The youth suffered a severed
spinal column during a match at
Catholic University with Ralph Jo-
seplr Hubert. 165-pound C. u foot
ball quarterback. He fell to the
mat on his head after breaking his
opponents hold. Paralyzed from the
shoulders down, he was taken to
Providence Hospital, where he was
in a semiconscious condition until
his death.
A complete investigation will be
made, according to DR.. A. Magruder
Macdonald, District coroner.
A freshman at the college, which
is at Chestertown, Md, the Mitchell
youth had played center on the
football team this fall. He was a
graduate of Wicomico High School,
Salisbury. where he was a star ath-
lete and president Of his class. He
also was an amateur boxer.
He is survived by his parents, q
brother, Horace Edwin, jr., Phila-
delphia; sister. Mrs. Rachel
Milliren, Mansgeld, Pa. and his
grandfather, william c. Mitchell,
Salisbury.
Funeral arrangements have not
been completed, but the body will
be taken to Salisbury. n
Evening star., 1948-01-15
UAW Meeting Today 10 Fix
Demands for Pay Raises
BY the Associated Press

DETROIT, Jan.s 15.-The C1o
United Auto Workers convened q
special Executive Board meeting to-
day to set a precise demand for
third postwar round of wage in
creases.
The parley of top union strategists
preceded by only two days con-
ference of 200 UAW delegates from
IS General Motors Corp. plants
throughout the Nation.
Some observers linked the two
meetings as an indication that Gen.
eral Motors again would be the
target for a pattern-setting pay
boost.
STRENGTHENING this belief was the
fact that thousands of rank -and-file
unionists in four General Motors
plants in Flint, Mich, set up
cry for a 25-cent-an-hour raise
more than a month ago. Additional
thousands have joined the CAM
paign in Detroit and other cities.
UAW spokesman would say only
that the figure set by the Executive
Board probably will be in the
vicinity of 25 cents" He added.
however, that this figure was not
based on any research into the
increased cost of living"
Evening star., 1948-01-15
CIegg Case Witness Says Post
Offered Him Free Legal Service

An ex-prize fighter told the Police
Trial Board today that Washing
ton Post reporter and lawyer had
offered to give him free legal services
while they were asking him to sign
statement concerning the Clegg
case. ....-
The prize fighter, Ernest E. Byrd,
47oo block of Military Road NV,
was called as witness by the board
as the trial of the three policemen
accused of illegally arresting and
mistreating Julius We Clegg, 26-
year-old colored employe of the
Post, drew near a close.
The policemen accused by Clegg
are Detective Sergt. Alex K. Kapsol,
Pvt. John ]. Gibboney and David
S. Ennis, special investigator for the
sex squad. :.
The case was expected to go to
the trial board for decision late this
afternoon. Both the prosecution
Evening star., 1948-01-15
Arab League Planning
Palestine Occupation
When British Depart
Raj Reconnaissance Plone
Fired On by Aircraft
Over Area of Bottle
BY the Associated Press

CAIRO, Jan. 15.-Assad Dag
her, chief of the press section OF
the Arab League, told a news
conference today that the league
has recommended that Arab ma
tions occupy all Palestine with
regular armies when British
troops leave.
Britain has said she win termi-
nate her mandate in Palestine May
Is and that the deadline for evacu-
alton of her troops is August /.
Asked whether the plan to occupy
all of Palestine represented the de-
cision of each individual Arab
country or the recommendation OF
the Arab League, Assad said:
THE Arab League recommends
and each state is not forced to take
the recommendation"
Plan Fight to End.
Assad declared that the league
would consider it an "unfriendly
act" if an international police force
landed in the Holy Land before the
British leave. In such case, he
said. the league council would
take steps to meet this emergency"
Assad said the Arabs have decided
to fight to the end against partition,
and nothing will dissuade them.
Told that the Palestine govern
ment has agreed that foreign coun-
tries may send troops to guard their
consulates, Assad declared that if
the government were unable to
protect foreign nationals, each ma
ton is perfectly welcome to send
guards, but if the privilege is used
to disguise the sending OF large
forces, the league will make it's own
decision regarding such cases."
Assad said the league on several
occasions had sent the big powers
notes, some of which demanded
disarmament of Palestine Jews, and
warned that, refused this, the Arab
governments would arm Palestine
Arabs. He said this could be fin
ished in two months.
Will Win Last Round
Asked whether the Jews would
wait while the Arabs armed, he
replied, "We are ready to lose a
number of our fighters at the be-
ginning, but we will win the last
round"
Assad said Egypt had established
a camp at Huckstep. wartime
1See PALESTINE, Page A-3)
Evening star., 1948-01-15
American Ship in Distress
100 Miles From Hatteras
BY the Associoted Press

NEW YORK, Jan. 15.-Radio-
marine Corp said today it had re-
ceived an sos from the American
freighter, the Adrian Victory, which
said she was in distress 100 miles
east southeast of Cape Hatteras.
The Radiomarine report said the
ships cargo had shifted badly, caus-
ing it to list.
The Adrian Victory, 1906 gross
tons, left Port Tampa, January 9,
for Bremen with supplies for the
United States Army.
Owned by the Maritime Commits
sion, the ship is operated under
charter by the Aforementioned
Steamship Lines. She carries a
crew of So.
Evening star., 1948-01-15
Pickets Charged With Assault
On Policeman and GSI Worker
FIoreup Outside Munitions Building Is First
Violence in 1l-Duy Strike at Cofeterios

to have employed more than 1000
new workers to replace 1,500 strik-
ing members of the United Cafe
terra Workers Local 471 (CIO).
Capt. George Waldrodt, night su-
pervising officer, gave this account
of the Munitions Building episode:
Hearing complaints that strikers
were stoning workers leaving street.
cars on c street between Eighteenth
and Nineteenth street, Capt. Wal
drodt went to that point this morn
ing to observe" With him in the
cruiser were Sergt. Howard E.
Mowry and Corpl. Horace Childress
of the third precinct.
They followed group OF workers
to the Munitions Building and saw
a picket trip James M. Ensley. ~,
colored. of.l8l4 Corcoran street NE.
The picket, later identified as Willie
Jasper Thompson. 26, colored, OF
1882 Tenth street NV, then jumped
on Ensley with his feet.
'Corpl. Childress leaped 4 from,
the car and was trying to pull
Thompson off when another picket
identified as Augustus Dickens, a.
colored, of 1922 Church street NV.
Evening star., 1948-01-15
Anthony J. DrexeI, Sd,
Killed in Pistol Accident
BY the Assoeioted Press

NEW YORK, Jan. 15.-Anthony
j. Drexel, Sd, "a, member OF the
well-known banking family, died
last night at his plantation at Oak
ley, S. c., when a captured German
pistol he was examining accidentally
discharged, his attorney announced
here.
The attorney, Charles A. Roberts,
said the bullet struck an artery in
Mr.. Drexel's right shoulder.
Mr.. Drexel, who served as cap
tain with the 7th Army during the
war, was the son of Anthony j.
Drexel, jr., who died in 1916 and a
grandson of Anthony j. Drexel who
founded the investment banking
firm of Drexel, Morgan & Co. His
mother, Marjorie G. Drexel, is a
daughter of the late George j.
Gould. Young Drexel was educated
at Eton and engaged in investment
banking in New York and Philadel-
phia before the war.
Besides his mother, he leaves a
widow, Helen Howard Drexel; two
sons and a daughter.
Evening star., 1948-01-15
Senators Will Open
Hearings Saturday on
Rent Control Extension
Trumon's Wage Price Curb
PIeu Meets Criticism
In Democratic Runks
BY the Assoeiutsd Press

Senate committee hearings on
legislation to extend rent con-
trolls, now due to expire Febru-
ary 20, will begin Saturday.
Senator Cain, Republican, of
Washington, chairman of Banking
Subcommittee on Rents, today an
nounced plans for the hearings. He
said Housing Expediter Tighe Woods,
who administers rent control, will
be among the first days witnesses.
Extension of these controls is
called for in one section of Pres
ident Truman's l0-point cost-of-liv-
ing program. 1t is one of the points
he appears to have the best chance
of getting from Congress although
there Is opposition.
1t has not drawn the fire, how
ever, that has been leveled at the
Presidents request for price-wage
controls. Sharp opposition to that
cropped out in Democratic ranks
today with Senator Maybank, Dem
ocrat, of South Carolina asserting
that "all this talk about rationing
and price control is only serving to
frighten people and will do more
harm than good"
Hartman to Be Called.
Senator Cain told news confer
ence that other witnesses scheduled
to appear Saturday include Secre-
tary of Commerce Hartman and
Senator Myers, Democrat, OF Penn
sylvania, sponsor of rent control
bill.
Senator Cain said that in accept
ing chairn.lnship of the rent sub
committee he had written Senator
Tobey. Republican, of New Hamp-
Evening star., 1948-01-15
By Robert K. Welsh

With three of the nine justices
disqualifying themselves, the Su-
preme Court this afternoon be-
gan hearing oral arguments on
two District cases and one each
from Missouri and Michigan
testing the validity of racial
restrictive residential property
covenants.
Solicitor General Philip B. PERL
man opened the argument by de-
claring that the Justice Depart
ment believes such covenants which
bar colored people from white
neigborhoods should be declared un-
constitutional because they in
volve discrimination which works
irreparable injury to all our people
at home and harm to our relation
ships abroad"
When Chief Justice Vinson called
the cases, Associate Justices Reed,
jackson and Rutledge arose and
lett the bench.
Their Offices stated later that the
Evening star., 1948-01-15

Pickets in the Government
buildings cafeteria strike were
charged with assaulting a po-
liceman and worker in front Of
the Munitions Building today,
resulting in the first two arrests
of the 11-day work stoppage.
Police charged that the worker.
attempting to pass the picket line
at Eighteenth street and Constitu-
tion avenue NV, was thrown to the
ground and stamped by striker.
A policeman attempting to inter-
vene was knocked down by another
picket who attempted to jump on
him, police said.
A third arrest involved Lilly May
James, 80, colored, OF 925 M street
NV, charged with simple assault.
Police said she forcibly was attempt
ing to keep workers from entering
the building.
The f1areup occurred shortly be-
fore 6 am. and was the first violence
to come to police attention despite
the fact 40 of Government Service,
Ines, AZ cafeterias have remained
open during the strike.
The cafeteria management claims
Evening star., 1948-01-15
WhottheRussions
Are Saying of Us

The MoscoD radio, brOddcdst1ng u
to Europe, said.
The main positions of the
Italian economy are threatened
with absorption by United States
monopolies. American exporters
control the supply of raw ma
terials to Italy. The Marshall
Plan aims at paralyzing 1talys
heavy industry and at trans
forming the country into a
colonial market for the United
States monopolies.
American diplomacy inter-
feres In the internal political life
of Italy. The alliance of Italian
reaction with American i'm
perialism impedes the country's
economic development, and tries
to disrupt the progressive forces
which defend the country's free
DOM" =
Evening star., 1948-01-15
Josephus Daniels Dies at IS;
Ends Career as Editor, Diplomat

father, shipbuilder and a ship
wright for the Confederate Army.
died when his son was a year old
Mrs. Daniels, left in only modest
circumstances, moved to Wilson,
N. c., where young Josephus re-
ceived such early training as the
period afforded in that section.
In May, 1888, he married Miss
Addie Worth Bagley. Four sons,
three of whom grew up to become
connected with the News and OBJ
server, were born to the union.
Jonathan Daniels assumed the
editorship when his father became
Ambassador to Mexico. Josephus
Daniels, jr., and Frank Daniels went
into the papers business Office. The
fourth son. DR.. Worth Bagley DAN
iels, practices medicine in Washing
ton, D. C.
Mr.. Daniels became a power in
North Carolina politics about the
turn of the century largely because
of the aggressive editorial policy
he adopted for his Raleigh News
1See DANIELS, Page A-4
Evening star., 1948-01-15
Late News
Bulletins
Nicholson Leaves $50, 900

Nicholson Leaves 4IoU,WU
Charles Nicholson, former
publicity director for the Dem
ocratic National Committee
who died here January 8, left
an estate valued at 100000,
according to the petition for
probate of his will filed at Dis
trist Court today.
Jet Fighters in Fast Hop
Eight jet-propelled Army
fighter planes made a 970-
mile nonstop flight from Mi
ami to Washington today in
2 hours and Is minutes. The
planes, belonging to the 336th
SQUADRON of the 4th Fighter
Group, took off from Miami at
1850 am, EST, and landed At
1,o5 pm. ut Andrews Field.
Evening star., 1948-01-15

and the defense concluded their
cases before noon and closing argu-
ments were to be heard this after
noon.
Byrd, who was in the sex squad
room being questioned on August 2
while Clegg was there also, testified
he saw no one strike Clegg. He
added he was there the whole time.
He named Roger Robb as the at
torney and Robert Bruskin as the
reporter. Mr.. Robb is representing
Clegg and the various Post en-
ployes who have been subpoenaed
in the case.
Both Mr.. Robb and Mr.. Bruskin
called TO the stand after Byrd's
appearance and denied the charges.
Byrd said that on the night OF
August 6 Mr.. Bruskin came to his
home while party was under way,
to see him.
"He said he heard I had been a
prize fighter and wanted to know
7see CLEGG, PageSk-D
Evening star., 1948-01-15
Three Justices DisquoIify Selves
As Covenant Arguments Start
Action Of Reed, Jackson, RutIedee
Leaves 3-3 Decision Possibility

three Justices had disqualified
themselves in these cases. The Of
fees gave no reason.
Court attaches said that it is not
customary for a justice to give his
reason for disqualification and sew
eral added they could not recall an
instance where justice had an
nounced his reason. It is customary
for them simply to leave the bench
when the questionable case is called.
There is no court rules on disqulifi-
cation, each justice making his own
decision whether there are reasons,
such as past appearance as an at
torney in a similar case, why he
should not sit in judgment.
For some time prior to the calling
of the covenant case, reports had
circulated that several of the justices
would disqualify themselves. 1t was
reported that they eithed lived in or
owned property which is restricted.
Justice Rutledge lives in Spring
Valley, where deeds to property do
contain restrictive covenants. Justice
7Cee NOVE,N ANTS PAGE A-4D
Evening star., 1948-01-15
Mercury at Is,
Man Sleeping
In Truck Dies
Temperature Lowest
Of Winter; "a Due
In City Tonight

A temperature drop to IS de-
grees early today-lowest here
since last February 9-caused the
death of a 55-year-old man,
found frozen in a truck where
he had been sleeping near the
Union Market.
The Is degrees recorded at 7 am.
was nine degrees above the January
Is minimum set in 1885, 1t was far
below the 80 degree low reading for
January Is last year. The previous
minimum for the current winter was
10 degrees yesterday morning. the
Weather Bureau reported.
Unofficial temperatures as low as
6 above were reported today IN
nearby areas. A Bethesda resident
said his thermometer showed that
reading early today. Arlington
County police said they received
curbstone reports of readings rang
ing from 10 to IA above.
Rise to % Due.
The cold will moderate later today
and tomorrow. the bureau predicted.
The best that could be promised
was a maximum of about % de-
grees this afternoon ana low OF
"a tonight. Occasional snow Is ex-
pected for late today or tonight.
Thes man frozen to death, tenta-
lively identified by police as John
Morris, colored, of no known address,
was found in the cab of Mer-
chants Candy g. Tobacco Co. truck
parked near the company's office
at Fourth and Morse street NE.
An autopsy was to be performed at
the morgue.
Morris, according to police, had
made a living collecting cardboard
and papers in pushcart at the
Union Market. He apparently slept
every night in trucks near the mar
ket, they said. A driver for the
Merchants company found the body
about 1880 am.
Snow Strategy Discussed.
Meanwhile, District officials con-
cerned with the Capitals ability to
deal with a heavy snow met with
the Commissioners to discuss emer-
gency strategy. The consensus was
that the District would not be able
to meet the challenge of a big snow.
such as hit New York City recently.
Sanitation Director William A.
xanten submitted to the Commits
sioners his plan for limited clearing
Of major arteries during a heavy fan
and pointed out lack of sufficient
heavy duty snow removal equip
ment would preclude more than this
minimum effort in the event OF q
heavy snow.
The icy weather that struck
Washington yesterday and grew
worse overnight was part OF cold
spell that chilled the Eastern half OF
the country and caused acute suf-
fering particularly in many South
ern States.
Schools Close In Miami Area.
The Weather Bureau issued spe-
cial bulletin saying the weather was
the coldest of the year in the East
ern States from New England to
Florida.
There were below zero readings,
60 WEATuER page A-3D