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Evening star., 1948-05-08
War Potential Saved
OF 423 u. S.-BuiIt
industrial Plants
By John A. Giles

The Government has preserved
the war potential of 423 Worle
War II Government-buil industria
plants worth about $1,000, 900 900.
preservation of the designed pro-
ductive capacity of these plants
means it will not be necessary te
undertake the costly and time-con-
Stunning task of replacing them dur
ing any emergency which might
occur within 10 or 20 years" the
Munitions Board said late yesterday
in issuing a summation of the &C.
tions.
The latest action, the board an.
nounced, was the dispatch of letter
to the War Assets Administration
requesting that the national security
clause be applied to ia surplus wal
plants which cost 81 ,254 ,000,00 This
clause in a plant sales contract pro-
vides that the designed productive
capacity will not be altered in any
way that will prevent its rapid re-
conversion to war production within
120 days in the event of an emer-
gency.
The announcement followed by a
day Senate passage of a bill pro-
viding for a 70-group modernized
Air Force. The ia plants including
several which produce airplanes
steel and aluminium.
Application of the clause was the
result of an examination of all re-
naming surplus properties by the
Army, Navy, Air Force and NUM-
tions Board and followed the is
suance of freeze order by President
Truman on April 8, allowing time fol
such a survey. The Presidents order
expired today.
OF the 423 plants, Isl have been
retained by the services on a virtual
standby basis. Their cost is esti-
mated at 1926, 100000 These in
clude some aircraft factories, ship
yards, ammunition plants, etc.
Another 158 plants already have
been protected by the national Sc
curity clause. OF these 81 have been
sold by the WAA, and IL by the
Navy; 30 have been leased and %
are engaged in essential Govern
ment production. SiXty-two are now
up for sale, but the Munitions Board
said that % were of such nature
that it was unlikely that they could
be disposed of with or without the
clause. Legislation designed to pro-
tect these plants now is pending be-
fore Congress.
Evening star., 1948-05-08
|Taxicab Driver Sues
Senator for $4,000
After Fare Dispute

John B. Edelcamp, jr., 1876 g
street NV, a taxlcab driver, yes
terday brought a $4,000 suit in
District Court against Senator
Young, Republican of North Da-
kota, charging the legislator struck
him Wednesday during dispute
over a fare.
The complaint contends Senator
Young hired the taxicab at the Sen
ate Office Building and instructed
the driver to go to Ninth street
and Constitution avenue NV,
where a woman passenger alighted
from the taxicab.
Senator Young then, according
to the complaint, instructed the
driver to take him to his home at
the Wardman Park Hotel.
On arrival there, the complaint
says, Senator Young tossed the
driver dollar bill and told him to
give him Is cents change. The
taxicab driver then informed the
Senator that the fare was 80 cents
instead of so, the complaint said.
An argument ensued, during which
the driver, after noticing Senator
Young looking at his license plate,
attempted to return 25 cents, the
complaint says. At that point.
Senator Young became angry and
struck Edelcamp, it is charged.
Asked about the incident at his
office, Senator Young said he had
made the trip repeatedly, first taking
the young woman. who is member
of his secretarial force, to Ninth
street and Constitution avenue NV,
and then going home. He said the
charge always has been SO cents.
After the dispute, Senator Young
said, he told the driver to keep the
dollar. He said that, after starting
to drive away. Edelcamp stopped
and attempted to return the quarter,
trying to put it into Senator Youngs
pocket. Senator Young said he then
struck the taxicab drivers wrist,
causing the quarter to fall to the
Evening star., 1948-05-08
Art Calendar Contest
Honor Awards Made

A number Of honorable mention
awards were made in The Stars
Student Art Calendar contest. The
names of the pupils and their
schools follows:
Art Contest Runners Up,
RAYMOND Musselwhite, jr., Montgomery
Blair High School; Eleanor Hodgson, Nc
kinley Tech High School: George Nc
Donald, Priory; Maria Kamecka, 1881
North Carolina avenue NE: Jill Mills,
woodrow Wilson High: Jack Metherell,
Margaret Brent High: Jan Nicholson, Cen
tral High; James H. HeffneY MONTGOMERY
Blair; Dorothy Lukin. Roosevelt; Margue-
rite Hui, Washington-Lee; Buddy Hen
derson. Washington-Lee: Eugenia Brand
enburger, .Washington-Lee: Yolanda Gloria
Fiorayanti. Maryland Park; Susan Segal,
SldWel Friends; Don Chapman, Leland
Jr.; Howard W.. Scott, Randell Jr; Jean
Royal, Wilson: Mary e. Lewis, Bethesda
Chevy Chase: Claresa Minano. Sacred
Heart Convent: Peggy Bowman, Mont
Lorchen Hermann, Greenbeit: GaIi ptni Tipton
Stringer, Bethesda Chevy Chase: Walter
Hawthorne, Cardozo: Ed Robins, Mont
gomery-Blair: Joe Rothrock, Washington-
Lee; Warren Allin, Bethesda Chevy Chase;
Jeanne Christie, Washing gton-Lee; Mar
guerite King. SidWell Friends; Priscilla
ridge, Montgomery-Blair.
One of the winners in the Senior
Biological Science Division of tn
Evening star., 1948-05-08
Group to Give Puntomime

A pantomime. "The Seven Ages Of
Woman" viii be given by the Young
Peoples Group of the Washington
Society for the Hard Of Hearing at
$3.50 o'clock tonight in the society
headquarters, 2431 Fourteenth street
NV. Proceeds Of the show will 60
toward the groups annual Florence
P. Spofford Memorial Scholarship
Fund.
Evening star., 1948-05-08

ground. It was picked UP by q
doorman, Senator Young said.
Senator Young said the taxicah
driver later came to see him, talked
over the incident and left, SEEM
ingly in good humor.
MIR. Edelcamp is represented by
Attorney James j. Laughlin.
Evening star., 1948-05-08

Science Fair, also sponsored by The
Star. was Shirley A. Harris Of Dun
bar High School. Her name In
advertently was given as Shirley A.
Grant in Yesterdays Star,
Evening star., 1948-07-12
By the Associated Press

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, July
12-Customs Collector Charles
Collins said today he had i'm
pounded a mystery Bit bomber
from New York which landed
here last night on what the pilot
said was a navigational training
flight.
Capt. Erwin B. Schandler of
Miami, Fla, the pilot, denied that
the big aircraft, which had no Wis
ible armament, was on its way to
Palestine with nine Israeli air re-
cruits.
Mr.. Collins made his announce
ment a few minutes before the
plane was scheduled to take of on
what Capt. Sshandler said would
be a return fight to Westchester
County Airport, New York. Mr..
Collins said his action was tenn
porary until he could receive a rul-
ing from the Canadian government
at Ottawa.
All Air Force officials here would
say was There's a Bit forced
down by weather here. It's from
Teterboro, N. j. But we don't know
anything about her"
The control tower at Teterboro
Airport, however, said it had no in
formation about "any Bit bomber. .
At Harrison, N. Y. it was reported
the plane landed at Westchester
County Airport yesterday and took
Evening star., 1948-07-12
Justice Douglas Says
He Would Not Accept
Any Public Office
Believes No Member of
Supreme Court Should
Seek Political Position
BY the Associoted Press

PORTLAND, Greg, July 12.-
Justice Douglas of the Supreme
Court told reporters today that
he would not accept vice presi-
Dental nomination.
Confirming reports from the
Democratic National Convention in
Philadelphia, the justice declared
in statement Il say definitely
and finally that am not available
for any public Office"
Justice Douglas said he felt that
no person. while member of the
Supreme Court, should seek politi-
cal preferment.
The justice was cloistered in a
Portland hotel room this morning
instead of in his scheduled hide
away in beach cottage, at Oyster
vile, Wash, which has no telephone.
1t is accessible only at low tide.
Justice Douglas, who had been
called President Truman's choice
for running mate, expressed grati-
tude for the expression of con-
fidence" from the people. Yet I
feel deeply" he added, that my
greatest service to the Nation at
the present time is to remain on
the Supreme Court"
Has Not Been Candidate.
Justice Douglas complete state
ment:
-Four years ago at the time of
the Democratic convention, when
President Roosevelt found me,
among others. acceptable as his
running mate, I said that I was
not candidate for public Office. I
thought then, as think now, that
no person, while a member Of the
Supreme Court, should seek po-
litical preferment. And so in this
year of 1948 I likewise have not been
a candidate and am not now can
didate for any public Office.
Il appreciate the great expression
of confidence which in recent
months has come to me again from
men and women of all walks of
life No American can have such
Evening star., 1948-07-12
Twin Arab StronghoIds
OF Er Ram|e and LYDIA
Surrender 10 Jews
Israeli Victory Opens
Way for Drive on Lost
Barrier to Jerusalem
BULLETIN
CAIRO R.-The twin Arab
strongholds of Err Ramle and
LYDIA surrendered today to
the Israeli army, front-line dis
patches said.
By the Associated Press

CAIRO, July 12.-The Israeli
high command announced in Tel
Aviv this morning that Arabs
defending the strategic town OF
Err Ramle have offered to sur
render to encircling Jewish
forces.
The spokesman said Arab and
Jewish commanders have arranged
a meeting outside the town to sign
surrender terms.
The fall of Err Ramle would open
the way for a two-way Jewish as
sault on Arab Legion forces de-
Tending Latrun, now the last bar
rier to Jewish entry into Jerusalem.
Never in the 3,000-year history OF
Holy Land wars has Latrun hill
fallen to direct assault.
A few hours earlier Israeli units
seized LYDIA. Jewish commanders
reported large-scale Arab flights
from the Lydda-Er Ramle area.
The obvious immediate objective
of the Jews was to burst the La
trun barrier and carry the battle
to Jerusalem.
In the face of the Israeli advance
the 1000 Trans-Jordan legionnaries
defending Latrun may be forced
into a withdrawal to avoid being
outfianked or into coming out on
the plains for a showdown battle
of armor, Tel Aviv dispatch said.
Before the truce the legionnaires,
7See DAT ,ESTTNE page As
Evening star., 1948-07-12
is JETS Reach Maine
On Atlantic Flight
By the Associated Press


BANGOR, Me, July 12.-On their
way to Germany in the Air Forces
first jet-propelled transatlantic
fight, a group of F-80 Shooting
Stars roared into Dow Air Base to-
day from Selfridge Field, Mich.
First of the Is pioneering jets
came in at 1905 EDIT Others quick
ly followed. The first plane to take
off from Selfridge left there at 10:0S
am.
1t. Col. Dave Schilling of Ira
verse City, Mich, fight commander
said the flying time was l hour and
As minutes for the 725 miles. an
average speed of 400 to 420 miles per
hour.
ut was a very simple trip" said
Col. Schilling. There wasn't any
trouble. We were testing our cruis-
ing speed
All Is came In within 10 minutes
and we're Immediately serviced.
Arrival here of the jets on the
first leg of what the Air Force de-
scribes as a training and study
flight coincided with London reports
that Britain had sent considerable
numbers of new troops to Western
Germany because CT Gerlins So
Wet blockade tension.
AS the Ameri' all planes fi.w east
ward, six Royal Air Force Jet vaIl-
pire lighters landed az Reykjavik,
Iceland, after swift flights from
Stcrnoway. Scotland. They are
bound for Montreal and New York
on the first east-Test crossing.
The Is American jets were fully
armed.
A two-hour layoyer here o. the
group before the next hop to Labra-
dor was planned.
Evening star., 1948-07-12
First Draft of Platform
Finished by Committee
By J. A. O'Leory
Stor Stoff correspendeni

PHILADELPHIA, July H.
Democratic platform builders
were still struggling today with
the almost hopeless task of try
ing to reconcile the conflicting
views of the North and South on
civil rights.
Senator Myers of Pennsylvania,
platform chairman, announced at
$3.50 am. that the small group Of
seven members had completed the
first draft of the platform on which
they have been working secretly
since Saturday morning.
He still refused to say how they
had handled civil rights, or any
other plank, since this first outline
still faces further wrangling among
members of the 18-member Draft
ing Committee this afternoon. Even
after that group has gone over it,
the text must be submitted to the
full Resolutions Committee of more
than 100 members, to be appointed
by the convention today. Every
thing that happened yesterday.
however, pointed to a minority re-
(See PLATFORM, Page A-6)
Evening star., 1948-07-12
II. ). Steel 10 Increase
Wages for 10000
By the Associoted Press

PITTSBURGH, July PA
spokesman for the United States
Steel Corp. says the company will
increase wages for its 10000 work.
ers Sin view of a continuing climb
in the cost of living"
The spokesman. who asked that
his name not be disclosed, said the
increase will be announced this
week. THE corporation is under no
obligation to increase wages" he
said, but feels "the workers should
be protected" because of the cost OF
living.
Philip Murray's CIO United Steel
workers Union, which represents
us. steel workers, had sought a
pay raise earlier, but the corpora
ton refused on the ground 1t was
seeking to halt an inflationary spiral.
The union is working under the
second year of two-year contract
and under the terms OF the pact
wage negotiations were reopened
last April.
Mr.. Murray, president Of the url-
ion, refused comment on the state
|ment. The corporation spokesman
said that Benjamin F. Fairless,
president of us. Steel, had been
meeting with Mr.. Murray on the
increase
us. eel normally sets the wage
pattern in the industry. -
Evening star., 1948-07-12
Customs Impounds BIZ, Down
At Halifax on Mystery Flight
Pilot Denies Plane Was on Way to Palestine
With Air Recruits for Israeli Forces

off. after the pilot, who identified
himself as A. Frederick, refused to
file a flight plan or disclose his
destination.
An airport spokesman described
the planes arrival and departure
as very hush-hush."
More than 1890 gallons of fuel
were poured into the plane at the
field, he said, according to pur-
chase arrangement made last week.
The New York Herald Tribune
said it had been told the plane
along with another Bit and four
AIS attack bombers-was to arrive
at the Westchester Airport this week
for fueling.
Airport officials we're told the
plane was owned by the Overseas
Air Trading Co. Of Salina, Kans.,
and operated by World Air Ferries.
Neither firm is listed in the
american Aviation Directory" and
a check at Salina failed to disclose
the existence of any such firm.
Capt. Schandler said he was "on a
navigational training flight up the
coast when bad weather blocked my
return to the home air base so I
kept on coming and was darn lucky
to make the Eastern Passage base.
Asked who his passengers were he
said, "just some guys who are
learning navigation"
Asked if his fledgling navigators
were being trained for Israeli forces
he said, well, some of them are
jewish"
Evening star., 1948-07-12
By the Assoeioted Press

The White House was silent today
on Democratic Convention maneuv-
ers.
Presidential Press Secretary
Charles G. Ross refused comment on
published reports that President
Truman had sought Justice Douglas
of the Supreme Court as his running
mate.
There's no news here. It's all in
Philadelphia. Mr.. Ross told a
morning news conference.
While it is regarded as probable
that President Truman will fly to
Philadelphia to accept if he is NOM
mated for the presidency. Mr.. Ross
said that no firm plans have been
made for such a trip.
A reporter asked:
Has President Truman heard
from Justice Douglas on whether
he will accept the vice presidential
nomination."
mo comment" Mr.. Ross replied.
He again replied mo comment"
when asked if President Truman
had telephoned Mr.. Douglas to re-
quest his acceptance. Mr.. Douglas
is vacationing in Oregon.
Evening star., 1948-07-12
Germans Cheer Berlin
As 'StoIinqrod of Liberty

BERLIN, July IL (P).-Berlin's
powerful Social Democrats have ac-
claimed a call to make the Soviet
blockaded city "the Stalingrad OF
German liberty
That call was made last night by
Ernest Reuter-, Social Democratic
mayor-elect of Berlin. The Rus
slams have refused to seat him.
Speaking before some 10000
cheering party members in the
American sector, Reuter- declared:
I'VE must establish frontier to
Russian power. If Berlin falls, the
liberty of all east of the Elbe falls
with it,"
Lewis D. Douglas, United States
Ambassador to Britain, arrived in
Berlin by plane last night and be-
gan immediate talks with Gen.
Lucius D. Clay, American military
governor.
Mr.. Douglas told newsmen his
visit was not part Of any particular
diplomatic maneuvering. He said
he planned to return to London
today.
Responsible officials said. how
ever, that Mr.. Douglas probably
would map the next Allied move, II
Russia rejects the notes OF the
three Western powers demanding
that the blockade be lifted.
Gen. Clay's Office said yesterday
Evening star., 1948-07-12
Democratic Convention Opens;
Douq|as Makes Refusal Final;
Compromise Reported on'Rights
States Rights Line
Believed Dropped;
Text Is Moderate
By the Assoeioied Press

PHILADELPHIA, July H.
Democratic platform trainers
were reported today to have
drawn a preliminary civil rights
plank bidding for party unity
through a revival of the 1914
race stand.
But there were no immediate signs
whether the proposed compromise
can stop convention floor fight
between Southerners and self-styled
'liDerals"- that could determine
whether the Democrats will be one
party or two in November.
The 1914 platform declared that
racial and religious minorities have
the right to live, develop and vote
equally with all citizens and share
the rights that are guaranteed by
our Constitution" Thus it stopped
short of direct stand for some civil
rights measures President Truman
has asked.
The tentative platform draft,
drawn by a seven-man subcommit-
tee and yet to be approved by the
108-member full platform commit
tee and by the convention, was held
in secrecy.
Believed to Point to Gains.
But one source said this language
was presented by the seven-member
platform writing group for the race
plank:
The Democratic Party and the
Democratic administration are
solely responsible for the great gains
in recent years made in the contin-
uing effort to reduce and eliminate
unfair and illegal discrimination
based on race, or creed or color.
I'VE have implemented our often
expressed belief that racial and re-
ligious minorities have the right to
live, develop and vote equally with
all citizens, and to share the rights
guaranteed by the Constitution.
I'VE again call on Congress to
exert its full authority to the limits
of those constitutional powers to
protect those rights"
Southerners' Fight Reported Lost.
Southerners were said to have lost
their fight in the preliminary draft
ing group for States rights plank.
Previously Democratic Chairman
NcGrath said the administration
might be willing to go along on such
a plank if it did not "nullify" the
civil rights proposal.
Chauncey Sparks. former Alabama
Governor and member of the seven
member drafting group, told re-
porter:
Efforts are being made now to get
the extremists on both sides to agree,
without floor fight. If we can't get
such an agreement we might have
to make some revisions.'
Evening star., 1948-07-12
Quick Council Session
Is Asked by u. 5. on
bernadotte S Report
Palestine Mediator Due
At Lake Success Today;
Criticized by Jews
NEW YORK (P. - Count
Folke Bernadotte, U. N. media
tor for Palestine, arrived by
plane from Europe today and
was met by Trygve Lie, U. N.
secretary general.
bulletin
By the Assoeioted Press

LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y. July H.
The United States formally re-
quested today an immediate
meeting of the United Nations
Security Council as soon as Count
Folke Bernadotte, the mediator
for Palestine, arrives.
Count Bernadotte. under fire
from both the Jews and the Rus
slams, is flying here from Europe
and is expected to arrive today.
While Count Bernadotte was en-
route to Lake Success from his
Middle East headquarters on
Rhodes, a spokesman for the Is
raeli government accused the U. N
mediator of apologizing for Arab
aggression and prejudicing Pales-
tine negotiations.
At the same time the Communist
Party organ Pravda stepped up the
Soviet campaign against Count Ber-
nadotte with Moscow publication OF
charges that he did everything
possible to infiame still more the
enmity between Arabs and Jews and
to prepare the soil for further in
trigues of the imperialist powers di-
rected toward the latter's seizure
of control over Palestine"
First Open Attack.
The Moscow Literary Gazette
added charge that Count Berna-
dotte was an agent of Wall Street
and working for the occupation OF
Palestine by American armies. Both
newspaper articles fit In with recent
attacks on Count Bernadotte in the
council by Soviet Deputy Foreign
Minister Andrei A. Gromyko.
The Jewish attack on Count
Bernadotte, issued by the spokes-
man in the form of a special state
ment to newsmen, marked the first
1See q. N PAGE A-6.)
Evening star., 1948-07-12
By NewboId Noyes, Jr.

PHILADELPHIA, July 12.-The
Democratic National Convention
was brought to order at 1913
pm. today by Mayor David l..
Lawrence of Pittsburgh, national
committeeman from Pennsyl-
vania and co-chairman of the
Pennsylvania Philadelphia Com
mittee for the Democratic Ma
tional Convention.
The delegates applauded re-
servedly as Mr.. Lawrence said:
I'VE want you to enjoy yourselves
we know you will have good
time" He went to forecast a Dem
ocratic victory in November.
The formal convention call" was
delivered at pm. by Mrs. Dorothy
NJ Vredenburgh of Alabama, sec.
retary of the National Committee.
cool and handsome in a turquoise
dress with an enormous orchid on
her shoulder.
Evening star., 1948-07-12
Convention Is GoveIed to Order;
Lawrence Draws Mild Applause
Preconvention Activities Are Marked
By Atmosphere of Wake; Crowds Small

AS the delegates milled noisley in
the aisles, despite pleas from Sem
ator McGrath of Rhode Island,
chairman of the National Commit
tee. Republican Mayor Bernard
Samuel of Philadelphia cast. a
benevolent eye on the proceedings
in his address of welcome despite
the fact that he drew some boos
from the gallery.
"If the downtrodden people of the
dominated countries abroad could
be here and see for themselves the
American way of selecting public
servants" he said, their ideas of
our form of Government would
ascend to new and very high levels"
Leslie Biffle, convention sergeant
alarms, began banging his gavel at
1907 pm. After minutes of
humping, he called on the dele
gates to take their seats and clear
the aisles. One minute later, Mr..
Lawrence judged the situation we'll
Evening star., 1948-07-12
Go to Philadelphia for News,
White House Tells Reporters

Mr.. Ross said that reporters will
be advised of Mr.. Truman's &C
ceptance plans in due course"
In event he goes to Philadelphia
for an acceptance speech, Mrs. Tru-
man and daughter, Margaret, would
accompany him, Mr.. Ross said.
They probably would come to WASH
ington from the family home in
independence, Mo-, to make the
trip to the convention, he explained.
Whether the President would
speak extemporaneously or from a
prepared manuscript if he addresses
the convention has not been decided.
Mr.. Ross said no speech has been
drafted.
Asked by reporters about stories
quoting sources close to the Presi-
dent" concerning the reported tele-
phone call to Mr.. Douglas, Mr..
Ross said, there are sources close
to the President not now in Wash
ington."
Mr.. Ross said that Mr.. Truman
Is in daily telephone contact with
Senator McGrath. Democratic ma
tional chairman, his personal rep
resentative at the convention.