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Evening star., 1948-09-11
Hundreds of Birds in Flight Hit
Empire State Building and Die

He said the autumn southwark
migration OF warblers, thrushers and
other songbirds has begun, and that
it is possible a large flock hit the
building.
The songbirds fly in close-packed,
large hocks at night, he said, and
are sometimes attracted by bright
lights high in the air.
Mr.. Crandall said migratory hocks
have been known to crash into light
houses, after being attracted by a
flashing beacon. He said the lighted
windows in the upper stories OF the
Empire State may have attracted
the birds.
The Empire State Building seemed
to be the center of the area in which
they dropped. Some came to rest,
disabled, on ledges and abutments
of the building. Their chirping was
heard above the early morning
traffic. Police said a large number
also futtered down in adjacent
Thirty fourth street.
Small crowds Of curious spectators
gathered in the early morning hours,
some Of them examining the birds
that fell to the sidewalks or in the
streets.
Evening star., 1948-09-11
Berlin Crisis Reported Going
7oU. N. if Plea to Stain Fails
Western Power Ambassadors in Moscow
Said to Be Seeking immediate Conference

4, to meet in Paris September Is and
the General Assembly session opens
there six days later.
The Western powers presumably
would pick the Assembly since Rus
sia could block a Security Council
inquiry by exercising her veto-if
she wished. There is no veto in
the Assembly.
Chief issues in the Berlin dis
pute are reported to be Russia S
demand for the veto in decisions
affecting Berlin's currency and the
Soviet blockade of Berlin. The
Western powers have held out for
majority rule on the currency ques-
ton.
Instructions to the three Western
ENJOYS in Moscow were sent two
days ago by American Ambassador
Lewis w. Douglas, French Ambas-
Isador Rene Massigli and Sir William
Strang, chief of the German Sec
ton of the British Foreign Office.
The action was taken, the source
reported. only after consultation
with top-ranking Allied officials, in
cluding Foreign Secretary Bevin
and Secretary of State Marshall.
The talk with Mr.. Stain, if it
materializes, would be the third in
which he participated. Diplomatic
officials here still nurse hopes, even
though they are slight. that Foreign
Coorator1y MnlOt0U NOV aOrpp over
(See DIPLOMATIC, Page A-3D
Evening star., 1948-09-11
Dewey 10 Follow
Truman 10 Three
Western Cities
BrowneII Outlines
Speaking Schedule
For Tour This Month
By J. A. o'Leoy
Stor Sioff Correspondent

NEW YORK, Sept. 11.-Gov.
Dewey's Western itinerary, an
nounced today, shows he will
follow President Truman into
the strategic cities of Denver,
Los Angeles and San Francisco
as we'll as into Iowa.
Herbert Brownell, jr., manager
for the Dewey Warren ticket, made
public the details of the Repub-
lican presidential nominees speak
ing tour.
1t had been announced earlier
that Gov. Dewey would open his
campaign in DeS Moines, Iowa, on
Monday, September 20, just two
days after the President speaks at
Dexter, Iowa, short distance away.
The new itinerary puts Gov.
Dewey in Denver September 81 and
President Truman will have spoken
there the day before.
Then their paths separate for a
day or two. with the President 60
Evening star., 1948-09-11
By the Assoeiofsd Press

NEW YORK, Sept. 11.-Hundreds
of songbirds winging South in dark
ness apparently crashed into the
Empire State Building early today
and plunged dead in the street
around the worlds tallest structure
After dawn, workers still were col
lecting the bodies of the brightly
plumaged birds. They included
thrushes and warblers. Many landed
on auto tops and smashed against
windshields.
The incident was duplicated In
Philadelphia, where hundreds Of
small, birds fell dead to the streets
during the night after striking tall
buildings. Ornithologists agreed the
birds. principally warblers, met
death while making their seasonal
migration. They theorized that
weather conditions confused the
birds and drove them down from
safe attitudes.
Lee s. Crandall, general curator
at the Bronx Zoo, also said the birds
may have crashed into the Empire
State Building during . migratory
flight.
Evening star., 1948-09-11
More Contracts Won
By Truck Drivers in
New York Deadlock
Employers Front Cracks
As 285 Operators Accept
Unions Latest Terms
By the Associated Press

NEW YORK, Sept. 11-Striking
AFL truck drivers today con-
tinued their inroads against a
once solid employer front, sign
ing additional operators to their
modified wage demands.
The agreements, reached individ-
ually with the trucking concerns,
further loosened the 11-day tieup
which had threatened the Metropol-
itan Areas supply channels.
John E. Strong, the striking locals
president, said today that 2S5 oper-
ators, employing 2,278 of the unions
9,400 struck members, had signed
contracts accepting the scaled down
terms.
Agree to 17h cent Increase.
More than 100 firms agreed to
terms yesterday, some within an
nour after the strikers decided to
lower their wage increase demands
from IS cents to 171a cents an hour.
The companies signed up under
the new contract are among some
1872 trucking concerns with which
the union, Local 807 of the AFL
International Brotherhood of Team
sters, had contracts before the
strike began.
Although union officials seemed
confident that many of the other
firms would soon agree to the terms,
spokesman for the major truck
employer associations didn't agree
To Stand Pat On Is Cents.
Joseph Adelizzi, chairman of the
Employers Labor Committee, saio
the truck owners will refuse to
bulge beyond their offer of a IS
cent hourly pay increase.
This was turned down by members
Of Local 807 on September l, and
approximately 10000 of them walked
off their jobs.
The strikers then demanded q
25-cent hourly wage boost, plus an
employer-financed welfare plan.
The now scaled-down demands
adopted at a mass meeting of strik-
ers yesterday, call for insurance
accident and sick benefits, special
pay differentials, in addition to the
171a-cent hourly increase.
Previous pay rates ranged from
$500 for helpers to $71.40 fol-
trailer truck drivers. The range OF
pay rates is for 40-hour week.
John E. Strong, president of Loca.
8G7, the city's largest, said the new
offer would enable the local ito get
as many men as possible back tc
work as fast as possible
He predicted 1000 of the drivers
and helpers will be back on their
jobs Monday.
Evening star., 1948-09-11
By the Associated Press

LONDON, Sept. 11.-Western
power diplomatic sources re-
ported today that the United
States, Britain and France will
ask the United Nations to in
vestigate the Berlin crisis If a
new direct bid to Russia for a
settlement fails.
The source said Western power
ENJOYS in Moscow had been in
structed to request an immediate
new meeting with Prime Minister
Stain to reach settlement.
Whether the request actually had
been submitted was as yet not
known here.
Moscow dispatches said the
three Western power ENJOYS were
reported exchanging important
messages with their home cap
itals on the next step in the four
power talks. However, there was
said to be little chance of such
a meeting over this week end)
If the new appeal to Mr.. Stain
fails and the Western powers
resort to the United Nations ma
chinery, the step could be taken
either through the Security Council
or the General Assembly.
The Security Council is scheduled
Evening star., 1948-09-11
Miners Wife Says Her Daughter
Will Wed Hitchcock Scion

her OF her betrothal when she re-
turned home on a visit last week
end.
Mrs. Turk, who married Steve
Turk, 60-year-old miner last year,
said she understood her daughter
had flown from New York to Florida
today. She said no wedding date
had been set but expected the mar
riage to take place in about three
weeks.
Mr.. Hitchcock was divorced in
1884 from the former Mary Atwell
and later married model, Mary
Grammer
The Rev. John Loya. pastor OF
st. Mary,s Greek Catholic Church,
said Stephana had visited him to
obtain special dispensation to marry
Mr.. Hitchcock. Results Of her talk
with the priest were not disclosed.
Mrs. Turk said ner daughter had
invited her to attend the wedding
but the little coal miners wife de-
clined. She said she thought it was
too far to travel at her age.
Evening star., 1948-09-11
Boeing Strike Called Off;
JurisdictionaI Clash Beqin!
BY the Assoeioted Press

SEATTLE, Sept. 1.-THE Aero
nautical Mechanics Union, indie
pendent, called off its 140-day-old
strike against the Boeing Airplane
Co. last night, but complications
hit return-to-work plans.
These were the complications:
l. The union appeared headed
into full-scale jurisdictional bat
tie with the AFL Teamsters' Union
2. The company placed a ban
on rehiring of "a small number OF
subversives.
3. Boeing said it will try to re-
employ the rest of the strikers as
rapidly as possible, but indicated
that expansion of assembly opera
tions will have to await stepped-up
production the. shops. The union
voted to return to work Monday.
The company has been hiring all
workers who would pass through
the picket lines and has claimed
more than 5000 production workers
were on the job. About 14,800 went
out on strike April 22.
The strike was called in support
of demands for an hourly wage
increase of 80 cents an hour. Wage
scales at the time ranged from 81
to $1.80. Retention of seniority
provisions also was "a basic issue
Evening star., 1948-09-11
Police Rookie Slain
In Alexandria; Several
SUSPECTS Questioned
PotroImon, on Force Only
Three Weeks, Surprises
Prowler at Restaurant

A rookie Alexandria policeman
was shot and killed early today
by an unknown prowler encoun-
tered in a routine check of an
Alexandria restaurant. Several
suspects are being held.
The dead man, Pvt. Robert B.
Harris, %, had been member OF
the police department for less than
three weeks.
A bullet from a nigh-powered
pistol pierced his groin and severed
a major artery. The shooting oc-
Cured at the rear of the Howard
johnson Restaurant, North Wash
ington and Montgomery streets.
Mr.. Harris was pronounced dead a
few minutes after being taken to
Alexandria Hospital.
Inspector Russell Hawes and 1t.
George II. ,Everly said the murderer
Evening star., 1948-09-11
]. 5. Turns Over Millions
In Assets 10 South Korea
Nv the Assoeiofed Press

SEOUL, Sept. 1.-THE United
States turned over property and
redits worth hundreds of millions
If dollars to the new republic OF
.-outh Korea today.
The first financial agreement be-
tween the two countries was
reached after three weeks of nego-
tiation. 1t was signed by American
Ambassador John j. Muccio and
representatives of the republic. Mr.
Muccio said IL departments of tho
military government will be taken
over at noon Monday by the Ko-
reans.
About $250,0o0, 900 worth of reha.
bilitation supplies was written off as
a gift to the new republic and dis.
tributed in South Korea as one part
Of the agreement.
Evening star., 1948-09-11
Dewey Urges Ending
OF Conflicts Between
u. S. and States

BY Stoff Correspondent OF The Sfor
NEW YORK, Sept. 11.-Gov,
Dewey today called the elm
ination of wasteful conflicts be-
tween the Federal and State
governments one of the i'm
portant tasks the next admin
istration should undertake.
He listed possible changes in
overlapping Federal and State
taxes, and improved methods of
administering social security
programs as illustrations Of
what he has in mind.
The Republican nominee
made the statement after con-
ferring with Gov. Bradford OF
Massachusetts on Federal-State
relationships. He explained
that Gov..Bradford has worked
with him on these questions in
the Governors Conference.
Gov. Dewey said the co-ordi-
mating of Federal and State
programs might be one of the
tasks assigned to Gov. Warren
II the Dewey Warren ticket
wins.
Evening star., 1948-09-11

escaped in the darkness before a
fellow policeman could rush to Mr..
Harris aid from across a side street.
BloodhOunds Put on Trail.
Every policeman in Alexandria
was called out in a search for the
killer. Bloodhounds from the Dis
trict Department of Corrections at
Lorton were put on the trail. An
alert was broadcast to police IN
neighboring counties and States.
Police said they had taken "a
number" of men into custody fol
question in connection with the
Staying. One man, Is, was arrested
after an eight-block chase on foot
in taxicabs and private automobiles
The police said, however, there was
nothing to link him with the crime
The police said the man. a colored
janitor, suddenly emerged from
clump of bushes in the vicinity OF
the restaurant, where Is members
of the department were searching
for the slayer's pistol or other clues.
Automobiles Commandeered.
They said their attention was fiyst
attracted when a passerby cried out
an alarm that a man was fleeing
from the scene. The police pursued
In patrol cars and Communicated
7See MURDER. Page A-3)
Evening star., 1948-09-11
Vandenberg Pledges
A United America
On Foreign Policy
Issues Statement After
Talk With Dewey and
John Foster Dulles
BY q Stoff Correspondent Of The Stor

NEW YORK, Sept. 1.-THE
world was on notice today from
the Republican high command
that America will continue to
stand united against aggres-
sion" in these critical times, de-
spite an impending presidential
campaign.
The statement came from Chair
man Vandenberg of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee as he
emerged last night from an hour
long conference here with Gov.
Dewey, the Republican standard
bearer, and John Foster Dulles. Mr..
Dulles is an American delegate to
the United Nations organization as
we'll as one of Mr.. Dewey's chief ad-
visers on foreign affairs.
The statement obviously was in
tended to serve notice on Moscow
that no matter how much Demo-
Gratis and Republicans may differ
over the question in the next seven
weeks, they will stand together on
the Berlin crisis.
Won't Weaken Foreign Policy.
Even before these two leading
Republican spokesmen on foreign
policy-Senator Vandenberg and Mr..
Dulles-met with Gov. Dewey here
last night it had been made clear
nv reliable sources in Albany that
Gov. Dewey would no nothing in his
campaign for the presidency to
weaken basic American foreign pol
icy in Europe.
When Gov. Dewey came to New
York yesterday morning from Albany
to register as a voter in the Novem-
Der election, there was no advance
intimation that an important foreign
policy conference also was scheduled
to take place. But Senator Van
denoerg was already en- route to
New York by plane, and at pm.
last night he and Mr.. Dulles entered
Gov. Dewey's rooms in the Roose-
welt Hotel.
After they had been closeted to-
gether for an hour, Senator Van
denberg came out with the follow
ing prepared statement:
1T have flown to New York for
a final conference with Gov. Dewey
and John Foster Dulles before Mr.
Dulles leaves for his critical re-
sponsibilities in the General As
selnbly of the United Nations at
Paris. We have canvassed the
foreign policy problems which con-
front our country including the Sit
uation in Berlin.
United to Protect Rights.
Regardless of political differences
at home we are serving notice on
the world that America is united
to protect American rights every
where and through flrmness in the
right to seek peace with justice for
ourselves and the other peace-living
peoples of the world.
1T is of the greatest Importance
that other nations which do not
understand our political system
should not be misled by our political
campaign at home. We shall be in
internal controversy regarding many
phases of foreign policy. But we
shall not be in controversy over the
basic fact that America is united
against aggression and against the
foes of freedom.
It am happy to say that Gov.
Co UANJT0ENpEpC Dooo Ao1
Evening star., 1948-09-11
Guom Expects Typhoon
Within Next "a Hours
Nv the Assaeiafsd Pres,

GUAM, Sept. la typhoon with
winds up to As miles an hour in its
center threatened Guam today.
American Navy personnel here
were battened down, expecting high
winds some time within the next
ia hours.
The typhoon was placed at 10
degrees north latitude and 154 de-
grees west longitude. It was NOV
ing westward at 10 knots.
Evening star., 1948-09-11

ing on to Salt Lake City on Septem-
ber 81, while Gov. Dewey turns
south to Albuquerque. N. Mex, for
speech on September %.
Dewey Going to Arizona.
BY September % the President
will be delivering major address
in San Francisco. Gov. Dewey.
meanwhile, will move to Arizona to
speak at Phoenix. September %.
On September % Mr.. Truman will
speak in Los Angeles. and again the
two main contenders for the White
House meet, as Gov. Dewey's cam
paign train pulls into Los Angeles
September "a.
Gov. Dewey then moves up the
coast to San Francisco, where he
will speak on September 25, just
three days after the President.
After resting on Sunday, Septem-
ber 26, Gov. Dewey will proceed
north for speeches at Portland,
Greg, at noon Monday, September
81, followed by talks at Takoma,
Wash, in the afternoon and Seattle
that evening. Details of the return
trips of both remain to be an
nounced.
May Enter West Virginia.
Political observers here were bet
ting today that Gov. Dewey will in.
clude West Virginia in one of his
later campaign trips even though
Senator Revercomb, Republican, Of
that State did not see eye to eye
with the New Yorker on the need
for liberalizing the displaced persons
law at the special session Of Con-
gress.
Walter S. Hallanan, West Vir-
ginia's veteran member of the Re-
publican National Committee, came
here yesterday to urge Gov. Dewey
to speak in that border State, and
presumably to iron out any differ
ence that may still exist between
the Republican nominee and Sena-
tor Revercomb, who is engaged in
"a hot fight for reelection this year.
Mr.. Hallanan told reporters he
received no promise of a Dewey
visit, because the Governors move
ments after he returns from the
West have not been settled.
The West Virginian bore down
heavy on the Importance of re-
Evening star., 1948-09-11
Final Snapshot Winners
In Pictorial Magazine

The pictures awarded the
four final prizes of $25 each in
The Stars Amateur Snapshot
Contest will be reproduced to-
morrow in the Pictorial Maga-
zine.
With successful entries in
contests conducted by other
American and Canadian news
papers, they will compete for
cash prizes totaling $4,000 in
the National Snapshot Awards
to be held next month in Ex-
plorers' Hall. National Geo.
graphic Society.
Evening star., 1948-09-11
BY the Asseeioted Press

WINDBER; Pa, Sept. IA stout
and jolly little coal miners wife
today announced the betrothal OF
her daughter, Stephana Saja. 23. to
Francis Hitchcock, wealthy polo
player and brother of the late
Tommy Hitchcock, famed polo star.
Mrs. Mary Saja Turk. So, whose
first husband died few years age
of miners asthma, looked up as she
did her household chores in this
small mining community just 10
miles southeast of Johnstown and
said, "I don't think 'Stefie' was
happy in Windber. I don't think
she'll ever return"
She said her daughter, who went
to New York to become a secretary
of a Wall Street brokerage firm i'm
mediately after her graduation from
Windber High School in 1913, told
Evening star., 1948-09-11
Poris Truck Drivers
Strike Against Papers
Nv the Assoeioted Pres,

PARIS, Sept. 11.--A strike OF de-
livery truck drivers today threat
ened To disrupt distribution of Paris
morning newspapers.
The Paris Publishers Association
issued statement saying the strike
was called against the companies
which handle deliveries. The state
ment said the drivers demand the
payment of the bonus of $500 francs
(sS.33) ordered by the government
while the delivery companies con-
tend a larger bonus already had
been paid the drivers In advance OF
the government order.
Evening star., 1948-09-11
Financial Plan
Offered byNew
French Premier
QueuiIIe Confirmed, ,
35l to 1856; Seeks
Centrist Cabinet
By the Associated Press

PARIS, Sept. H. Premier
Henri Queuille today offered
France a program of budget re-
ductions and increased taxes in
an attempt to get the nation
back on its financial feet.
Backed by a National Assembly
vote of 351 to 1876, confirming him
as premier, Mr.. Queuille sought to
form new Centrist government.
He offered the nation a financial
policy along the same general lines
as his two predecessors, Andre Marie
and Robert Schuman. The same
policies caused the downfall of the
two governments.
Election to Be Considered.
To adherents of Gen. Charles De
Gaulle, the premier rendered a
vague promise to consider the gen.
eral elections which they are de-
manding. He said the question OF
elections will be taken up with the
Assembly after the country's finan-
cial difficulties are solved.
/ This apparently was not enough
to win the support OF the De Gaul-
lists, but they refrained from voting
against Mr.. Queuille, most of them
registering abstentions.
Demands for elections were voiced
again yesterday by Gen. De Gaulle
as he started a political tour of
Southeastern France and Corsica.
He is scheduled to make almost 100
speeches in eight days. In an ad-
dress at Ayignon, he said:
''I am ready to assure the destiny
of the country. I am sure of the
countrys choice when it is given a.
chance to express itself"
Economies Planned.
To bring order out of the nations
financial plight, Mr.. Queuille said
he planned economies in both the
civilian and military establishments
of the government, revision OF sub
sides, reorganization of national
ized enterprises and raising of an
additional 80,0O0,000,000 francs of
new revenue to balance the budget.
Mr.. Queuille, a Radical Socialist
Conservative, said he would start
forming his government today. He
is expected to take the important
Finance Ministry himself, in addi-
ton to the premiership.
MIR. Schuman, a Popular Repub-
Iican, Is expected to retain the For
eign Ministry he held in the Marie
government and in his own short
lived cabinet.
The cabinet will be a combination
of Radical Socialists, Socialists and
Popular Republicans, with possibly
some independents. Communists,
extreme right-wing deputies and
followers of Gen. De Gaulle will be
excluded.
Evening star., 1948-09-11
House Probers ChecL
New Twists in Leaks
OF Atomic Secrets
Committee May DeIay
Its Public Hearing
Slated for Wednesday
By Miriom Otfenberq

The House Committee on I'm
American Activities will decide
within the next "a hours whether
it has enough evidence to start
public hearings into atomic
espionage on schedule next We'd
nesday or postpone them again,
it was indicated today.
While the committee took a
weekend recess, its investigators
were instructed to work on what
one committee member described as
new twists" in the committees in
vestigation of "leaks" of this Ma
tion's atomic secrets.
The results of the investigators
work will determine whether the
committee will be ready to open its
doors to the public wednesday
The public hearings already have
been postponed once.
More Witnesses Called.
1--WE are checking testimony in
connection with this new spy case,
Chairman Thomas told reporters
I'VE still are aiming at Wednesday
but there is a possibility OF a weeks
postponement.
We've had to call in additional
witnesses to verify testimony. A
lot depends on whether we will have
to call in more of them"
Another committee member saio
testimony taken by the committee
in closed session this week has pro.
duced new twists which require
Thorough checking.
One of the closed session wit
nesses was 1t. Gen. Leslie r. Groves
wartime head of the atomic bomb
project, The retired Army officer
after testifying yesterday, limited tc
reporters that there may have beer
some breaks in the wall of atomic
secrecy. He said it was obvious that
not every one of the 100000 en-
ployes on the atomic project had the
utmost integrity"
g.. Scientist Questioned.
Mr.. Thomas said another witness
yesterday, whose identity he refused
to disclose, was brought In to ex-
anime certain documents the COM
mittee has obtained.
These documents" he said, "were
in connection with the atomic bomb
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