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Evening star., 1948-01-06
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK, Jan. 6.-The New
York Daily News related today what
it termed "the extraordinary saga
of former British seaman who was
hustled" into the United States
Army in England, suffered court
martial and Imprisonment, yet COL
lected S2,500 in benefits" in his guise
as an American soldier.
The newspaper, in copyrighted
story. identified the man as Alistair
Nicholson, %, a native Of Glasgow,
Scotland, and said he was deported
/ from the United States as an alien
in April, 1916, only to be shipped
home" as CT after United States
authorities in England decided he
was an American Army deserter.
In Washington, Army spokesmen
said last night they had no COM
ment ON the case.
Aroused Officers Suspicion.
The Daily News said Nicholson's
fantastic odyssey began in South
ampton restaurant where he ordered
coffee instead of tea, arousing the
curiosity of an American Army Of
| fcer who accused him at first of
being an American seaman who's
jumped ship
In no time at all" the story
quoted the young Scot, -four MPs
/ pulled up in jeeps," handcuffed
him ana hustled" him off.
They finally decided I must be
deserter from the American
Army he said. "They wouldn't
believe 1 was British, and pointed
out that I had no British accent" "
The newspaper said Nicholson.
under persistent questioning, finally
gave up in despair and said: All
right, I'm an American and men,
ber of the Army
The news said Nicholson, giving
fantastic replies to the questions
of interroeators, ratified off the
first serial number that popped into
his mind-one that Il couldn't have
repeated" 10 seconds later.
A court martial followed, the
story related, and the Scot was
sentenced to three months and fined
Evening star., 1948-01-06

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Evening star., 1948-11-26
Venezuela Revolutionary Junto
Suspends Constitutional Rights
Provisional Regime
Promises Elections
As Soon as Possible
BY the Associated Press

CARACAS, Venezuela, Nov. 26.
The military junta that has
taken over the government of
Venezuela today suspended va
rious constitutional guarantees,
including individual security,
freedom of speech and privacy
of the home.
Other guarantees affected are
freedom of movement, freedom to
change residence, to leave and en-
ter the country and hold public
meetings.
The decree said the security of
the nation requires suspension OF
the guarantees. The action Is ex-
pected to be temporary.
Earlier, the Junta promised to
make plans for national elections.
The junta took over control OF
the country after Wednesday s
bloodless revolution in which the
army deposed President Romulo
Gallegos and his Democratic Action
government.
Consolidating its move for power
the junta last night appointed
new cabinet and made arrange
ments to name new state governors
1t. Col. Carlos Delgado Chalbaud
president of the junta, said the new
regime will plan for general cleo
tions so the nation can ELECT a
government that suits it."
Asked when the electionS would
Evening star., 1948-11-26
Chinese Reds Closer to Yongtze
After Shift From Suchow Front
Major Bottle Seen
As Both Sides Bring
Up Reinforcements
By the Associated Press

NANKING, Nov. 26.-Com-
munist forces shifted a step
closer to the Yangtze River today
in the fighting around Suhsien
and Lingpi:
Reds deployed on the eastern
flank of Suchow, 189 miles north
west of Nanking, suddenly pulled
southwark. The regrouped east OF
the Pukow- -Tientsin railroad 40
miles north of Pengpu.
Major fighting. was expected along
the Suhsien-L -Lingpi highway where
both sides were bringing up REIN
forcements.
The new development in the
battle for Suchow, gateway to the
capital, came as national forces in
the Peiping -Tientsin area got ready
for a major battle for that area of
North China.
The Central News Agency, quoting
a headquarters spokesman, said
government forces had not recap
rured Sushien, which almost hourly
in the past four days has been de-
scribed by various sources as in the
hands of one or the other warning
factions.
Government dispatches from Su-
Evening star., 1948-11-26

A Cancelled check for $1,000 600
and hundreds of hand-written
memoranda and newspaper clip
pings on almost every phase in the
life of Mrs. Eleanor Patterson were
found in a foot locker of the late
Charles B. Porter, former Times
Herald treasurer, according to a
deposition filed in District Court to-
day.
The testimony was taken in pri-
vate November IL and II from c. F.
r.. Ogilby, attorney for the Porter
estate. The questioning was done by
attorneys in the suit filed by Mrs.
Felicia Gizycka to break the will OF
her mother, Mrs. Patterson, Times
Herald published who died July "a
leaving an estate estimated at $l6,-
SOC, 900.
Mrs. Gizycka contends her mother
WITS of unsound mind and a victim
|of undue influence" in making a
will which, among other things, lett
Evening star., 1948-11-26
Mine Payroll HoId!up
Fooled, Emp|oye Shot
By the Associated Press

HARMARVILLE, Pa. Nov. 26.-
Three jittery gunmen shot COM
pany employe, beat another and alb
Quoted a third today as an attempt
ed payroll holdup was thwarted at
Republic Steel Corp. coal mine
near here
Mine office employees stalling tao
tics touched off the violence but
saved the payroll. The attempted
holdup occurred at Republics In
dianola mine near here.
A mine accountant. George Hig-
gins, 48, of Harmarville, suffered a
gunshot wound in the leg. Ira La
cey. about SO, mine electrician, was
beaten on the head with a revolver
butt.
The three gunner forced Mine
Policeman Al Grimm to accompany
them into the getaway automobile.
He was released in Prick Park, near
Pittsburgh, less than an hour later
First reports were unable to de-
termine whether plant guards par
ticipated in gunplay with the would
be robbers.
Mine Clerk Dorothy Bidek, 18,
also of Harmarville, said she heard
four or five shots" Miss Bidek said:
"The men came into the office
f1ourishing guns and demanded our
money. Everybody started to stall
them off. I guess our delaying tao
tics got them excited"
Evening star., 1948-11-26
Sunday Reading

The tools, talent and re-
sources of Americas once
great aircraft industry are
being reassembled to build a
mighty defensive air armada
w. H. Shipper, jr,, The Stars
aviation editor. has just re-
turned from inspecting the
West Coast plane making
plants. He reports in Sundays
Editorial Section on what he
found.
The Nations big unions are
going to demand early pay
ment of the Democrats cam
paign promise to scuttle the
Taft-Hartley Act. Labor Edi-
tor James Y. Newton, just back
from the AFL convention,
tells in the Editorial Section
what this group expects in the
way of labor legislation.
These and many other spe-
cial features, including an in
teresting profile on the new
British Ambassador, written by
Raymond P. Brandt, round out
the usual thorough and &C
curate news content of
CIR sunhay Star
Evening star., 1948-11-26

chow said a decisive battle was ex-
pected shortly. Control OF the
Northern Yangtze region hinged or
developments.
Red units east of Suchow cover
ing the Communist southwark
movements were said to be taking a
beating at the hands of government
ground and air forces.
TN Peiping a government off,
(See CHINA, Page A-3D
Evening star., 1948-11-26
Cancelled Check for Million
Found in G.. B. Porter's runk

the newspaper to seven OF its execu-
tives and beoueathed her a $4,000
annual income for life. IL.
Mr.. Ogilby's deposition dealt en-
tirely with Mr., Porter. who plunged
to his death September IA from a
Clarksburg, w. Va, hotel room win
dow. This testimony, as well as
a deposition taken from Mr.. Ogilby
November 9. however, contained nu-
merous references to, Mrs. Patter-
son.
Continuing his account of the con-
tents of the foot-locker he found
in Mr.. Porter's apartment at the
Kennedy Warren apartments here,
Mr.. Ogilby disclosed that the can
celed $1,000,000 check was in a
folder but obviously does not relate
to Potter's affairs"
Asked by William A. Roberts, at
torney for Mrs. Gizycka, if the check
had the personal signature of Mrs.
(See PORTER, Page A-3J
Evening star., 1948-11-26
2,eview Of Tax Ruling
On Actors Is Asked
by the Assoeioted Press

Representative Priest, Democrat
of Tennessee said today he has
asked the Internal Revenue Bureau
to review regulations under which
some professional entertainers have
INCORPORATED themselves and sold
their services as business. BY the
move, they cut high personal income
taxes.
Mr.. Priest told reporter he wrote
Commissioner George j. Schoene-
man asking his opinion as to wheth-
er the practice should be allowed by
tax laws.
Under such an arrangement, Mr.
Priest said, the entertainers pay a
25 per cent capital gains tax on the
sale of their services rather than a
higher income tax.
The Government may lose mil.
Hons of dollars Of revenue If the
practice of incorporating is allowed
to continue, Mr.. Priest told Mr.
Schoeneman. He added:
IF these highly paid professional
entertainers do not pay income taxes
at the same rate as other people
somebody else is going to have tc
pay more than they are paying
now"
Mr.. Priest told reporters he die
not have the cases of any particular
entertainers in mind when he wrot'
Mr.. Schoeneman. He said he under
stood the practice of personal cor
porations is becoming quite common
among radio entertainers.
Evening star., 1948-11-26

Harry B. Mitchell, president OF
the Civil Service Commission, who
was slated to retire December 81,
said after a talk with President
Truman today that he will remain
in his post indefinitely.
Mr.. Mitchell. who was 10 in April,
was to have gone out in June but
President Truman continued his
tenure for another six months.
Mr.. Mitchell said that when he
called at the White House today to
discuss his status with the President.
Mr.. Truman asked that he stay on
for a while and said they would take
up the question of retirement later.
1 Mr.. Mitchell has headed the Civil
Service Commission since May, 1888,
his IS years service being record
for a member of the Civil Service
Commission.
A former newspaper publisher, his
home is in Great Falls, Mont.
Evening star., 1948-11-26
U. n. Assembly Beat,
Soviet Bloc Attempt
To Discredit ERP
Recovery PIon Bitterly
Attacked by Poland in
Debate on Resolution
BY the Associoted Press

PARIS, Nov. 26.-The United
Nations Assembly defeated to-
day a Polish resolution to forbid
economic pressure by one nation
against another as a means of
influencing domestic or foreign
policy.
Poland's DR.. Oscar Lange carried
the ball in the debate for the Slav
bloc of nations. Bitterly attacking
the European Recovery Program as
an American economic cold war
against the Eastern European coun-
tries"
DR.. Lange contended the use of
economic power to influence the
policies of another country is inad-
missible."
The vote on the resolution was 80
to 6, with Russia and the Eastern
bloc alone supporting it. Afghan
istan, Burma, Colombia, Cuba. In
dia, Iraq, Iran and the Philippines
abstained Absent or not voting
were Bolivia, Dominican Republic,
Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala,
Honduras, Iceland, Lebanon, Mica
ragua. Paraguay and Venezuela.
Willard L. Thorp, American As
sistant Secretary of State, opposed
the proposal as an attempt to dis
credit the ERP by nations envious
of American assistance to European
recovery.
DR.. Lange charged that some
countries cannot sell materials to
some other countries for reasons of
military security, demanding:
rs the refusal to sell gramaphone
records and such a part of military
security?"
Mr.. Thorp denied there has been
any American attempt to dictate
other countries export policies.
In Political Committee No. 2.
Yugoslavia challenged the right of
the Assembly to recommend that
the Security Council drop the Big
Five veto power, or even to vote on
an Argentinian resolution aiming
at the elimination of the veto on
membership applications.
Yugoslav. Delegate Leo Mates
asked vote on whether the Assem-
bly, had the power to take such a
vote. He was supported by France
and Poland. Col. w. r. Hodgson
of. Australia said 1t was the first
time the right Of the Assembly to
vote on a resolution had been
Evening star., 1948-11-26
U. ). Hits Plan
OF British for
Negeb:Transfer
Amendments Offered
To Suve Palestine
Desert for Israel
BY the Associoted Press

PARIS, Nov. 26.-The United
States opposed in the United
Nations today a British proposal
that might take Southern PaleS-
tines Negeb Desert from Israel.
American Delegate Philip c.
Jessup submitted to the Political
Committee a number of amend
ments to Britain's latest proposal
for the solution of the Arab-Jewish
Palestine dispute.
The amendments would soften
Britains reference to the report OF
the late Count Folke Bernadotte as
a basis for a Palestine settlement
and give more weight to the U. N.
partition plan of November %, 1947.
Plan Held Too Restrictive.
DR.. Jessup said the British pro-
posal, without our amendments, is
more restrictive than necessary"
Under the Bernadotte plan, the
Negeb would be taken from the
Jews and they would receive West
ern Galilee in its stead. The
original U. N. partition plan gives
the Negeb to the Jews and Western
Ga1ilee to the Arabs.
AS the Political Committee de-
bated Palestine's political issues, the
Security Councils Committee on
Palestine scheduled a meeting for
$50 pm. today. A U. N. source
said the Council Committee would
discuss with Ralph J. Bunche. act
ing Palestine mediator, progress
made to date in carrying out the
Councils November resolution.
That resolution ordered the with
drawal of contending troops in the
Negeb to positions they held prior
to october IA, when U. N. truce
became effective.
Syrian Resolution Offered.
Faris el Khouri of Syria offered
a draft resolution calling for estab-
lishment of a commission composed
of five member nations.
The Commission would be en-
powered to study the Palestine situ-
alton on the spot and prepare for
setting up q single nation with an
Arab majority in Palestine on a
cantonization or federalized basis.
This was essentially the same
plan that was proposed by the Arab
nations and brushed aside by the
Assembly just before it voted in
New York last November 20 to par
tition Palestine between Arabs and
Jews.
Mr.. El Khouri said today that the
Arabs never would recognize partl-
tioning of Palestine. His resolution
was the first offered by an Arab
delegate during the Palestine debate
ar this ASSemhlv
Evening star., 1948-11-26
Express Showdown Ends,
Freioht Still Piled Up

NEW YORK, Nov. 26 (P).-Em-
ployes of the Railway Express
Agency were reported to have ended
a work showdown" early today, but
rail embargoes. truck strike and
the dock tieup still crippled ship
ping.
A Railway Express official said
workers resumed normal schedules
last midnight, clearing the way for
the eventual lifting of ban on
rail and air express shipments into
the metropolitan area.
However, the company said earlier
that a huge backlog of freight, piled
up here during the hree-day SLOW
down by some 5000 employees, would
have to be moved before the express
embargo could be lifted.
The employees were ordered to re-
sumo regular work today by an AFI
union, pending negotiations on a
dispute over 13 discharged workers
Evening star., 1948-11-26
The Campaign of '48
Star Cartoons

Copies Of The Stars attrac-
tive little book of cartoons,
arranged with a text that tells
the story of the 1948 campaign
and election. continue to be in
demand at the counter in The
Star Building lobby, Eleventh
and Pennsylvania avenue NV.
A second printing is going fast,
but a third is on the way.
A friendly neighbor across
the river, the Alexandria Ga
Zette, has offered to make
available the cartoon booklets
at its building, 317 King street,
and a limited number has been
placed there for the conven-
ience of Alexandrians.
The price of the booklet is
Soc. With thousands of others,
you will find it an entertaining
reminder of recent political
history.
Evening star., 1948-11-26
Red Contempt
Cases Expected
ToBeDropped
More Than 40 Refused
To Answer Questions
At Congress Hearings
BY the Associoted Press

Congress apparently will drop
contempt action against more
than 40 persons who refused to
say whether they are or ever
were Communists.
There are three reasons:
l. The Justice Department has
passed the word informally that it's
best to lay off until its own cases
against Communist Party leaders
are out of the way.
2. The House committees involved
Labor and Un-American Actiyi-
ties-propebly couldn't get their
members together before the end Of
the year to act on contempt cita-
tiolS.
3. House legal experts doubt that
contempt action begun in the pres
ent Congress could be carried over
to the new one. Their curbstone
opinion is that any contempt in
volved was against the Eightieth
Congress, but that the 81st couldn't
cite anybody except for contempt
against itself.
Balk at Big Question.
The Labor Committee was con-
sidering contempt action against
union spokesmen who were wit
nesses at Investigations to deter
mine the extent of any Red inflltra-
ton into their organizations. Dur
ing the hearings around 40 persons
refused to answer the big question
whether they were or ever had
been Communists.
About score more refused to
answer the same question at last
summers hearings of the Un-Amer-
ican Activities Committee. Con-
tempt action had been recommend
ed against several of them.
Most of the witnesses claimed that
answering the question would tend
to incriminate them and that would
be unconstitutional.
Justice Department officials who
talked things over with committee
agents have said that. if the IL
Communist Party leaders now un-
der indictment by New York
grand jury are convicted, that
might provide a real basis for the
self discrimination plea.
Consequently, the department has
suggested that the House commit
+ tees 60 slow for the moment.
But if they 60 slow until the new
Congress takes over January 8, there
may be no way to keep the cases
alive.
How Actions Are Handled.
Here's how contempt actions are
handled:
If an investigating subcommittee
recommends such action against q
witness because of refusal to an
swer its questions, then the full COM
mittee must vote to bring a con-
tempt citation before the House. II
the House approves, the case Is
turned over to a United States at
torney for prosecution.
| So whether the new Congress can
act on the cases or not, the full
committees would have to move first.
And there is some doubt that they
could.
The Labor Committee hearings
were conducted by Representatives
Kersten. Republican. of Wisconsin
and Schwabe, Republican. of Missou-
ri. They investigated the CIO Elec-
trical Workers Union, the Fur and
Leather Workers Union, and local
retail, wholesale and department
store unions in New York City.
Mr.. Kersten and Mr.. Schwabe are
out of town-neither was reelected
and there are no signs that the
Labor Committee could muster a
quorum for meeting before jan
uary 8.
The American Activities group
faces the same difficulty in arrang-
ing a meeting at this time.
Evening star., 1948-11-26
IA Are Rescued in Sinking
OF u. ). Vessel Off Guam
BY the Associated Press

GUAM, Nov. 26.-The Navy trans
port President Jackson proceeded
here today with IA survivors of the
18O-foot motorship Santa Maria.
which sank $50 miles northeast of
Guam yesterday with the loss OF
three crewmen.
The body of one crewman had
been picked up, another had been
sighted and a third repeatedly went
down with the ship in heavy seas.
The American-owned vessel, Of
Nicaraguan registry, carried a crew
of II. 1t sent out distress calls
Wednesday when a list developed,
The ship was en- route to Yoko-
hama.
Dispatches did not give the ship
owners, and marine sources in San
Francisco said they had no informa-
ton on the Santa Maria.
Evening star., 1948-11-26
One Cold War Thot's Getting Hot
Rail Signal Is Credited
WiihAverting Disaster
|nVirginiaTr
Traffic Tied Up II Hours
In ACL Champion Crosh
South of Fredericksburg

Automatic warning signals
were credited today with having
averted what might have been a
major train wreck near Freder-
icksburg, Va, last night.
An Atlantic Coast Line Miami
bound passenger train, warned that
something lay on the rails in its
path, ploughed into a wrecked
freight train 4 miles south of Fred
ericksburg, out at speed Of 70
miles per hour instead Of the 70
miles per hour at which it originally
was travelling.
Only one passenger and dining
car attendant required hospita
treatment after the accident w
A. Aiken. jr., general superintendent
of the Richmond. Fredericksburgh
e. Potomac Railroad, on whose
tracks the accident occurred, said
many passengers on the train were
unaware there had been an acci-
dent.
The locomotive of the passenger
train, the East Coast Champion, left
the tracks, but all the passenger
cars remained on the rails. Thou
sands of Thanksgiving travellers
were delayed for more than II
hours.
Mr.. Aiken told the Associated
Press in Richmond that some defect
in a freight car caused the derail-
ment of about II cars from the mid
die of a northbound freight at $40
pm. He said the derailed car fell
across the southbound track, setting
off the warning signals. The passen-
ger train reached the wrecked
freight about half minute later.
Limited Service Restored.
A 5O-man crew labored through
the night to restore limited service.
The accident recalled the wreck
of the ACL Champion near Hum
berton, N. c., on December 16, l943
in which 70 persons were killed. In
that wreck, a passenger car of a
northbound train had been deralled
but was leaning over the southbound
tracks without touching the rails.
In that wreck the southbound
train ploughed into the car at a
speed of about 80 miles an hour
piling up it's coaches. Had the de-
rallied car touched the rails before
the southbound train arrived, the
automatic signals would have warned
the engineer.
The Champions locomotive left
the tracks and nosed into bank
but it's tender and all the passenger
cars remained, on the rails. The
locomotive was an r. F. g. P steam
type used between here and Rich
mond, where the champion takes
its Diesel locomotive.
Twelve of the freight's 60 cars
toppled onto the southbound tracks
tearing up $50 yards of the r. F. &
P. right-of way.
Carloads of oranges and greer
peppers, in shipment from Florida
were strewn along the tracks.
The injured dining car attendant
was Fletcher Anderson, 81, colored
of Ohio. He was admitted to Mary
Washington Hospital, Fredericks-
burg, but his condition was not re-
garded as serious.
The injured passenger was an un-
identified woman who received first
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