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believe the Republicans ought to
make q reasonable effort to pass
some constructive legislation in the
special session.
But he is said to agree with many
of the COP members that the law
making process ought not to be
allowed to drag along all summer
1t is the New York Governor S
feeling, associates said. that in
calling Congress back Mr.. Truman
was laying the groundwork for a
campaign directed almost exclu-
sively at the lawmakers record
rather than at the Republican
nominees or what their platform
promises.
AS for the COP platform and the
special session, Gov. Dewey was
said to believe that it would mean
keeping Congress at work until
November to try to write many of
those pledges into law.
No Obligation to Platform.
On this score Representative
Brown, Republican, of Ohio said
he sees the returning lawmakers
under no "particular obligation to
either the Republican or Demo-
cratic platforms.
Mr.. Brown said the platforms are
a proper matter of debate during
the campaign.
THE people have the right to say
by their vote what they want and
then the next Congress can act on
it," the Ohioan said.
Senator Hatch, Democrat, of New
Mexico, a member of the Foreign
Relations Committee. said he thinks
it would be good idea to keep
Congress in session on standby
basis to act on any major crisis that
may develop in international af-
fairs.
There are signs that some Repub-
iicans want to pick up where Con-
gress left off when it quit just be-
fore the COP convention.
Senator Ferguson, Republican, of
Michigan, due back in Washington
next week, is expected to push for
Senate action on an anti-lynching
bill.
This would be sure to tie the
Senate up in Southern filibuster.
Truman's Challenge.
Mr.. Truman already has pointed
out, however, that there are enough
votes to choke Dixie debate on one
or more civil rights measures. He
has dared Republicans to pass some
of these bills-a challenge they seem
likely to accept because Of its effect
on the campaign.
If Republicans force passage OF
an anti-poll tax, anti-lynching OF
anti-job discrimination bill, rebelline
Southern Democrats seem likely to
direct most of their blame for this
against Mr.. Truman.
Labor joined in the discussion OF
the special session with Matthew
Vol, member of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor Executive Council,
calling for "a much more farsighted
and forward-looking Congress. He
assailed Congress for its passage of
the Taft Hartley labor law, its rec
ord on housing, lodging" of the
pressing question of skyrocketing
cost of living" and other issues of
particular interst to labor.
The Congress Of Industrial Or
CARNATIONS, through its CIO Eco
nomic Outlook, put this question
to small shareholders: will you
vote for Congressman who killed
OPA because you own one share
of stock in the XYz Corp, or will
you join " = in establishing dem
ocratic control of our economy?"
In booklet discussing issues and
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Tree Cuts Power Lines
To Silver Spring Homes

Several hundred Silver Spring
homes were without electricity near
" an hour this morning when q
tree felled by q building contractor
knocked down power lines In the
800 block of Dale drive,
Potomac Electric Power Co. Of
ficials said the lines were repaired
in about As minutes. The power
failure occurred shortly after 8 am.
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Virginia Letter Carriers
Elect Clinton Carter
By the Assoeioted Press

WINCHESTER, Va, July 10
Clinton Carter, Keokee. was elected
president of the Virginia Rural Let
ter Carrier Association at the closing
session of their annual convention
here Saturday.
The womens auxiliary reelected
Mrs. D. M. Inge, Brookneal, as their
president.
The meeting place for next years
convention was left to the executive
board to decide.
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Old Dominion Boys State
Gets Under Way at VPI
BY ths A.seeie.ed Press

BLACKSBURG, Va. July 19.-
The sixth annual Old Dominion
Boys State got under way at Vir-
rinia Polytechnic Institute last night
as a vesper service was conducted by
the Rev. Ellison Smythe of Blacks
burg.
Registration figures indicate there
Is record attendance of high school
juniors from all sections over Vir-
ginia.
The week-long political" activ-
tiles of the bipartisan Bows State
will start at aReeting of National
lists" and ''Federalists" today.
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dinner, races, swimming and a tug
of-War.
The money for St. Mary's Chapel
was raised by a special COMMITTEES
headed by Arthur J. May, one of the
camp directors. Previously, the
campers had used a recreation hall
as chapel.
Besides Mr.. May and Mr.. Mack
the other directors who attended
the ceremony were:
William j. Bray, James A. Cassidy
James v. Castiglia, DR.. Philip A
Caulfield, Maurice R. Colbert, Rob
ert w. Davis, John F. Donahue, S
Dolan Donohoe, Rutherford j
Dooley, Raymond A. Du -Four. Frank
Emmet, Hugh P. Flynn. Thomas A
Flynn. Levin P. Handy, DR.. Valen-
tine M. Hess, Herman A. Schulteis,
Francis j. Kane, Harry j. Kane, jr
William A. Kehoe, DR.. Joseph V.
Kennedy, ]. Harold Kilcoyne
Charles P. Maloney, M. Joseph
Matan, Alfred A. McGarraghy
Robert M. Meehan, Joseph C. Mon
aghan, DR.. Edward M. "O'Brien,
James Francis Reilly, John A. Reilly
and DR.. William j. Stanton.
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time. Two hours later the firing
had stopped.
Jewish forces were on the offensive
in various parts of Palestine before
the cease-fire. An Israeli official in
Tel Aviv said Jewish planes bombed
an airfield and other military install
lations in Damascus, Capital of
Syria, and Arab targets in Palestine.
Jewish vessels attacked enemy
installations and recorded hits in
Tyre harbor on the Lebanese coast.
Evening star., 1948-07-19
YugosIavsShr Tempest
In Hungary on Refusal
To Yield Man in KiIlinq
By the A.soeiatsd Press

BUDAPEST, Hungary, July 49,
A tempest, with political overtones,
brewed today over the fatal shoot
ing of former courier in the Yugo-
slav Legation and the refusal of
the Yugoslavs to surrender to Hun
garian police the man wanted for
questioning about the killing.
The victim was Milos Moic, 80, a
Hungarian subject of Yugoslav
origin who was reported to have
refused a request to return to Yugo-
slavia.
Wanted by the Hungarian police
for questioning was Zivkov Baorov,
press attache of the Yugoslav Le-
cation.
Boarov has been living at the
Legation and Yugoslav officials have
refused to surrender him, despite
three diplomatic requests from the
Hungarians.
Boarov His Last Visitor.
Moic was found, with four bullets
in his body the night of July 10 in
a student dormitory. He died about
an hour and a half later in a hos
pital. According to notes sent to
the Yugoslavs by Hungary, Boarov
was the last visitor to Moicss quar-
tiers and was seen leaving in an ex-
cited state"
A Hungarian note to the Yugoslav
legation July 13 asked that Boarov-
a close associate of Marshal Tito
during the war-be surrended to
Hungarian police for. questioning.
The Yugoslav reply accused the
Hungarians of blockading the Yugo-
slav legation with police and of fol-
lowing members of the legation. The
Yugoslavs called this behavior un-
precedented in the history of for
eign legations and especially un-
precedented in the case of country
with which Hungary has a pact of
friendship and mutual assistance.
Invited to Submit Questions.
In further diplomatic exchanges
Yugoslavia invited Hungary to sub
mit-through the Yugoslav Legation
written questions to be asked of
Boarov. The Hungarians declined
this invitation, demanding again
that Boarov be surrendered in per-
son. The latest note, dated July IT,
said Hungarian police have evidence
against Boarov which proves his
guilt.
Diplomatic sources pointed out
that all of the notes from Hungary
were signed by Minister of Trans
port Ernoe Geroe, acting foreign
minister. Geroe is considered to be
the strongest adherent of Russia in
Hungary. Observers considered this
significant, in view Of the current
differences between Marshal Tito
and the Cominform.
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Brunnun Will Address
Conservation Project
BY the Associated Press

FREDERICK, Md, July 19.-Sec-
retary of Agriculture Brannan will
make a short talk at the Maryland
Conservation Field Day August 1S
near Jefferson, Md.
High light is to be a conservation
face lifting" job on a 175-acre dairy
farm. Five hundred workmen are
to execute soil conservation pro-
gram which normally would require
four or five years to complete.
About $4,000 persons from Mary
land and neighboring States are ex-
pected to attend.
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AdeIinu Putti's Effects
Auctioned in London
BY the kssoeiofed Press

LONDON, July 19.-Personal ef-
fects of the great Victorian prima
donna, Adelina Patti. were sold at
auction today for $2,568.
Patti died in 1919. She willed
nearly all her property to Baron
Cederstrom. Her jewelry went to
friends. Ten years ago, Charles A.
Lindbergh bought her home on an
island off the French coast.
The % personal lots were sold to-
day for I. o. Chance, a director of
Christies auction rooms. A gift
from Car Alexander III Of Russia
brought the highest price, 1924. II
was a watch in a gold case with an
enamel plaque painted with a child
sprayed with flowers and decorated
with diamond charms.
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BIT Lands in Azores
After Canada Orders
Ills Return 10 u. ).
By the Assoeiotsd Press

SANTA MARIA, Azores, July l9
R.-A mysterious Flying Fortress
carrying Is Americans and presum-
ably headed for Palestine landed
here yesterday and was promptly de-
tanned by Portuguese authorities.
The airplane, ordered back to the
United States from Canada, had
filed a flight plan to Boston before
taking of from Halifax, Nova Scotia.
One of the Americans aboard has
no passport. Portuguese officials
said they detained the plane under
an international rule concerning un-
documented craft.
The fight from Halifax took about
II hours. The plane did not carry
full load of gas and had to make
the 1,500-mile fight at reduced
speed. One engine cowling was
missing. 1t carried no radio trans
mitter and only two parachutes.
The airplane was impounded in
Halifax a week ago by customs
officials after reports that the nine
men aboard when it landed there
were headed for Palestine to join
the Israeli air force. 1t was released
Thursday but mechanical dlf1cui-
ties prevented its return to West
chester County, N. Y.
The Royal Canadian Air Force
said Pilot Irwin r. SCHNEIDER OF
Miami, Fla, had given it fight
plan to Boston before his takeof1'
An American Coast Guard plane
had been scheduled to escort the
Bit back to the United States
but the Fortress took off unescorted
Saturday night and as soon as 1t
was in the air switched on all
lights,
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Gen. Hershey to Take
Oath as Druft Director

Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey will
be sworn in as director of the peace
time draft administration at 4::3O
pm. today, according to the Selec-
tive Service System.
Justice Bennett Champ Clark of
the Court of Appeals will administer
the oath in Gen. Hershey's Office
at Selectiye Service headquarters
1716 G street NV.
Gen. Hershey, Selective Service
director during the war and later
head of the Office of Selective Serv-
ice Records. was appointed Satur-
day by President Truman to direct
the new draft. He was given an
interim appointment and his nomi-
nation is expected to be sent to
the Senate next week.
Among the new items coming in
portable models are electric wash
ing machines, 20 inches high and
weighing % pounds.
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Farm Roped Off After 1000
Jam 1t Hunting Master Cells

| He called police, who roped on a
300-foot space near the farmhouse
and barred every one but farmers.
Mr.. Brown, q 6l-year-old retired
pharmacist, said he intends to
limit the use of the master cell" to
farmers so they can produce bumper
crops.
He explained that colloidal So
luton containing master cells" is
contained in a porous cement ma
trix. These matrices are placed in
wells or in the soil, he said. to pass
into the metabilism of poultry. ami
mails or plant life.
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Nv N. A..oe;o,.d Pr.ss

MIDDLEBORO, Mass. July 19.-
Police went to the rescue of Farmer
John Brown and his master cells"
yesterday.
Mr.. Brown recently claimed that
he discovered a master cell which
produced phenomenal crops and
proved effective in combating poul-
try and cattle diseases.
More than 1000 persons-many
seeking samples of the master
cell" in hopes it would relieve their
ailments-overranM Mr.. Browns farm
and endangered his crops.
Evening star., 1948-07-19
Congress
Continued From First Page.)

Ellender-W Wagner bill has passed the
Senate and is now lodged in the
House Rules Committee, which could
send 1t to the floor for immediate
action.
THE Presidents position on hous.
ing is that if passage of the bill i
delayed until the January session
the start of the housing program
will be delayed perhaps a year o.
more" Mr.. Ross said.
Meanwhile, Mr.. Ross that tele.
grams and letters reaching tn.
White House are still about 30 tc
T. favorable towards the President
views as expressed in his acceptance
speech.
He said that from 200 to 300 tel
egrams have been received and tha
kilograms and letters are still
coming.
Senator Mcclellan, Democrat. oi
Arkansas made it clear that South.
ern Democrats who didn't walk Out
of the Philadelphia convention
aren't going along docilely with thu
Presidents summer law-makins
program for civil rights measures
imitation control steps and hous.
ing and education aids.
The Arkansas Senator, wht
fought Mr.. Truman's nomination
but stayed in the party, told re-
porter that unless some interna-
tional developments require con-
gressional action, the recall of the
lawmakers may prove tragic"
Fears Uncontrolled Imitation.
IF the Presidents program, as
he outlined it to the Democratic
convention, is carried out" Senator
Mcclellan said, I'VE will have either
uncontrolled imitation because OF
the Government spending he pro-
poses or a police state.
IF there Is no internationa
emergency that requires action by
Congress, then the call for a spe-
cial session is tragic because it will
only serve to magnify the disunity
of our people at a critical time In
world affairs"
The Arkansas Senator said he
thinks the Presidents summonine
of Congress was conceived in poll
tics" and that the session is likely
to wind up in politics"
What direction the Republican
attack on Mr.. Truman will take re-
manned u1fclear.
No Sign of COP Decision.
Although some COP lawmakers
have taken the President to task fol
what they call political move
there was no sign that Gov. Thomas
E. Dewey, the Republican nominee
has reached any strategy agreement
with, congressional leaders.
A close friend said Gov. Dewey
stands ready to cooperate with
House Speaker Martin, Senator Taft
of Ohio and others in drafting a
COP plan of action. =,
Gov. Dewey may confer anew with
Senator Taft and Speaker Martin
before the session opens, but ap-
parently no arrangements have yet
been made for such a meeting.
The New York Governor was said
to have no plan to come to Wash
ington himself.
Herbert E. Brownell, his cam
paign manager, will open Offices here
this week. He probably will be
chief liaison man between the
nominee and Republican members
of Congress.
Dewey's Probable Attitude.
In addition, two New York Re-
publican lawmakers will be generally
regarded as speaking for the Dewey
views. They are Senator Ives anc
REPRESENTATIVE Leonard w, Hall.
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Union Approves Contract
By the Associoted Pres,

CUMBERLAND, July ls-Union
representatives at the Kelly Spring
field Tire Co. plant here said the
union yesterday unanimously ap-
proved proposed contract granting
the man 11-cent hourly pay in
crease,
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what was done about them. the
democratic National COMMITTEES
charged that Congress pigeon.
IhoIed" progress. Ei-
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West Virginia Form Sold

MARTINSBURG, w. Va, July 10
P).-Malcolm NJ Brown, fruit grow
er and distributor, has purchased
for approximately $4,000 the 570-
acre farm and orchard near Bardane
owned by Mrs. Robert Stewart OF
Baltimore.
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Dewex's Probable Attitude.

In addition, two New York Re-
publican lawmakers will be generally
regarded as speaking for the Dewey
views. They are Senator Ives and
Representative Leonard w. Hall.
Gov. Dewey himself is said to
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Enroll now! Finest troinins in
every phase Of Beouty Culture
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training of vtferons under G. !. Bill Of
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Evening star., 1948-04-18
Boootu Intelligence

Admiral Hillenkoetter, head OF tne Cen
tral Intelligence Agency, has cleared up
one question which has very important
bearing on General MarshalPs decision to
go ahead with the Bogota Conference de-
spite warnings that the Communists were
planning to make trouble.
Testifying before a. House committee,
Admiral Hillenkoetter stated without quail
fication that the assassination OF Colon
bias Liberal leader, Jorge Galtan, was
purely personal reprisal." This is I'M
portant because 1t refutes the contention
that the Bogota revolt, from the beginning,
was planned and executed by the Com
munists. And it tends to confirm the
belief that what actually happened was
this: The Communists had nothing to do
with the killing of Gaitan. But when the
slain leaders enraged followers began
rioting, the Communists were quick to take
advantage of the opportunity for trouble
making which the riot afforded them ana
they exploited 1t to the full extent OF
their ability.
If the murder of Gaitan had been a
first move in Communist plot and II our
intelligence service had failed to learn OF
it, then there would be reasonable ground
for criticism But no intelligence service
can be expected to know in advance OF
murder which some presumably deranged
individual is going to commit for purely
personal reasons.
1t follows from this that General Mar
shall could not have been expected TO
anticipate trouble of such a serious nature
in Bogota To be sure, he had received
ample intelligence to put him on notlce
that the Communists were cooking up
schemes to embarrass the Pan American
Conference and our delegates to it. But
it seems to The Star that the Secretary OF
State was entirely right in his decision to
20 ahead with the conference despite these
warnings.
For him to have done anything else
would have been to play directly into the
hands of the Communists. 1t may be
that the latter gained some short-range
tactical advantage by disrupting the con-
ference. But they would have gained
great deal more if, by merely threatening
trouble, they had been able to scare us
into staying away from Bogota.
We might as we'll face the fact now that
this sort of thing is standard Communist
strategy. 1t is hard to think of any place
in the world where meeting like that in
Bogota could be held without risk Of Com
munist harassment And if we are going
to throw up our hands and head for home
every time we are threatened with some
thing of this sort we ought to make up
our minds that we will never get to first
base in the diplomatic and political war
with Moscow 1t is reassuring to know
that General Marshall has no such inten-
ton
Evening star., 1948-04-18
Sordid Treason Chapter

Robert H. Best, former American news
paperman, was the only defense witness at
his trial in Boston on a charge of treason.
But he was also the chief Government wit
ness against himself. This anomaly re-
suited from the introduction by the prose-
cution of recordings of some of Best's most
inflammatory wartime broadcasts for the
Nazis.
With that damning evidence before the
Jury, it was scarcely necessary for the
Government to do more than comply with
the Constitutions requirement that testi-
mony of at least two witnesses to overt
reasonable acts by Best be submitted. To
play safe, the Department of Justice mar
shaled an array of such witnesses, most
of them associates of the defendant in his
radio activities in Berlin. The recordings
of the American voice that Knocked the
American war effort and praised our
enemies clinched the case for the Govern
ment, however. Reporters had little doubt
of his conviction after the jury heard the
playback of Best's wartime harangues.
Best is the last of eight Americans who
were indicted in 1943 on charges of giving
laid and comfort" to the Axis through
the medium of radio broadcasting. Only
three of this group faced the courts.
Douglas Chandler, former Baltimore news
paperman, was convicted in Boston and
sentenced to life imprisonment. Ezra
Pound, who broadcast for the Italians,
was adjudged of unsound mind and is in
Saint Elizabeths Hospital. The charge
against Miss Constance Drexel was dis
missed recently for insufficient evidence.
Indictments against Jane Anderson and
Edward Leo Delaney were dismissed last
year. Two defendants died before trial.
They were Wilhelm Kaltenbach and Max
KoischwitZ.
Another notorious group OF American
citizens to be convicted of treason as a
result of World War II activities included
eight men and women who aided the eight
Nazi -saboteurs who landed by submarine
in June, 1912. These we're the first treason
convictions in the Federal Courts in 145
years. John Brown was convicted in 1859
of treason against the Commonwealth OF
Virginia, not the United States.
The Best conviction adds a sordid
chapter to the history Of treason in the
United States Certainly, the role which
the former South Carolina correspondent
| plays in that chapter is far cry pm the
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mining shares In London except In ex-
change for other such shares.
These drastic regulations may plug that
particular leak In Britain's financial dixie.
But the flight of liquid capital to South
Africa will doubtless take other forms.
Experience has shown that nervous
money" is as resourceful as 1t is tinid.
And for us, it is instructive to note that
the American dollar has lost much OF its
allure. Dollars are deemed in Europe to
be too expensive. The fact that IN
Switzerland the "free" dollar is weak"
shows clearly that dollars are no longer
in prime demand.