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Evening star., 1948-06-04
Man Is Struck by Taxi
while Dodging Razor;
Others in Accidents

A man who preferred to chance
Washington traffic rather than face
what he told police was q swinging
razor lost the gamble, police accident
reports showed today.
He was Sylvester Walker, 36, col
ored, l004 M street NV, who was
struck by a taxi at Eleventh and L
streets NV, last night when he
backed Oh a streetcar platform. He
suffered minor bruises, refused treat
ment and told police he backed away
when a man on the platform threat
ened him with razor. Driver of
the taxi was listed by police as Oliver
j.. Joy, 38, colored, 400 block Of
B street Sc.
Mr.. Walker was among 13 per-
sons appearing on accident reports,
including a policeman, four chill
dren and seven persons who were
shaken up in streetcar collision.
The policeman was Pvt. William
Finnin, 38, of 731 Madison street
NV, struck by taxi as he stood
at the curb at Delaware avenue and
D street NV. last night. Finnin,
who suffered a bruised right hip
and head injuries, was taken to
Casualty Hospital. The driver, list
ed as Tony J. Azzarello. 43. of the
1900 block Of Crittenden street
NE, was charged with making an
improper turn.
Others injured and the circum-
stances, according to police, were:
| Alfred Trusdall, IA, of 701 Shep-
herd street NV, leg bruises and
face cuts. The boy was riding in a
wagon pulled by another youth who
lost control of 1t. It rolled across
the street in the 4100 block of New
Hampshire avenue NV. and was
struck by car driven by DR.. STAN
ley P. Porten, Al, of 300 Hamilton
street NV.
Dorothy Gregory, IA, colored, 1893
Fourth street NV, struck by taxi
at Third and K streets NV. The
driver failed to stop. She was taken
to Freedmen's Hospital with cuts
and bruises.
Gilbert Hoffman, 8, of 512 Sixty
second place NE, who suffered cuts
Evening star., 1948-06-04
Taft Law Machinery
Is Invoked by Truman
In Maritime Dispute
By the Associated Press

The national emergency"
provision Of the Taft-Hartley
Act got a new workout today as
President Truman invoked it in
the maritime dispute.
This makes five times Mr. Tru-
man has used this special machin-
cry in an effort to end manage
ment-labor deadlock. He invoked 1t
previously in these industries
Atomic energy, coal, meat and tele-
phones.
The President took the first step
Of the emergency procedure in the
maritime case yesterday when he
appointed f1ve-man board Of in
quiry headed by Harry Shulman Of
the Yale Law School.
Other members are Andrew Jack
son, New York attorney; Arthur P.
Allen, University of California In
stitute of Industrial relations; Jesse
Freidin, New York attorney, and
George Cheney, San Diego labor re-
lations consultant.
Dispute Involves Six Unions.
This board will report on the is
sues in the dispute, which involves
six unions of seamen and longshore-
men whose contracts expire June Is.
After the boards report is made the
Government can seek an 80-day
court order to delay any strikes or
lockouts
The unions are threatening to
strike June IS unless they get a
higher wage contract, plus the right
to use hiring halls to supply sailors
and stevedores to shipowners. The
hiring hall issue is the main obstacle
to an agreement. The ship owners
contend it is a form of closed shop
outlawed by the Taft-Hartley Act.
Despite the presidential action,
union radio operators on East and
Gulf Coast ships have voted to strike
on or after June Is, the CIO Ameri-
can Radio Association announced
last night in New York.
In San Francisco, another union
involved in the dispute said it also
was going ahead with plans to walk
out when the contract expires. 1t
was the CIO International Long
shoremen's and Warehousemen's
Union.
Harry Bridges. ILWU president,
was scheduled to attend general
union meeting in New York today to
draft mutual assistance plans.
Standard Oil Issues Settled.
James J. Spillane, regional direc-
tor of the Federal Mediation and
Cancellation Service said yesterday
an agreement had been reached in
a contract dispute between the
Standard Oil Co., Of Indiana and
the CIO National Maritime Union.
A Standard Oil spokesman said
the company knew nothing about
the agreement and that at present
1t had no comment.
Meantime, showdown ap-
preached in the dispute involving
Evening star., 1948-06-04

the atomic laboratory at Oak Ridge,
Tenn.
An 80-day injunction issued
March 19 will be dissolved next
Monday or shortly afterward. The
workers are legally free to strike
after that.
The Federal Mediation Service
making a last ditch effort to break
the deadlock, has arranged bar
gaining session Monday morning at
Oak Ridge between the opposing
parties, Carbide & Carbon Chemi-
Gals Corp. and the AFL Atomic
Trades and Labor Council.
The Atomic Energy Commission
yesterday rejected an AFL demand
that the commission step in and
compel Carbide & Carbon to settle
the dispute through an arbitration
board. The Government owns the
laboratory but Carbide & Carbon
operates it.
Evening star., 1948-06-04
{. & 0. Passenger Agent
Beaten, Robbed at Office

A District passenger agent for the
Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, work.
ing late at his office last night, was
beaten and robbed by thieves, police
reported today.
Clarence E. Bowen, as, Of 1922
Rittenhouse street NV, told police
he returned to his Office in the 800
block of Fifteenth street NV, about
1890 o'clock last night, and left the
front door of the building unlocked.
A few minutes later, he was sur
prised by two men, who threw him
to the floor and beat him about the
face, Mr.. Bowen said. They escaped
through the front door, taking with
them a handful Of railroad passes,
the keys to the Office and Mr.
Bowen's billfold, containing $50, he
said.
Mr.. Bowen was taken to Emer-
gency Hospital where he refused
treatment for bruised jaw, police
reported.
Evening star., 1948-06-04

and bruises when struck in the 1900
block of Riggs street NV. by a car
operated by George Shepherd, jr.,
%, colored, 1925 Riggs street NV.
Mary Hall, 2, of 46l4 Fifteenth
street NV, struck by a car driven
by Ralph J. Taylor, 80, of 3347 Baker
street NE. as she ran across the
street near her home. She suffered
head bruises.
When streetcar operated by Will
liam M. Lindsey. %, of 4001 Thir-
teenth street NV, was rammed
from the rear by another operated
by James w. Wynkoop, 20, of 1435
Fairmont street NV, seven pas
sengers in Mr.. Lindsey's car were
badly shaken. None was injured,
police reports said. The accident
occurred at Fourteenth and Oak
streets NV.
Evening star., 1948-06-04
Hairless 10 Seek Nomination
For Governor Of Arizona
by the Associated Press


Representative Hairless of Arizona
today announced his candidacy fol
the Democratic nomination fo1
Governor of Arizona.
He said he had been considering
the step for some time in response
to many requests, but had delayed
an announcement out of respect tc
the late Gov. Sidney P. Osborn.
Gov. Osborn, whom Mr.. Hairless
described as "a close personal
friend" died last week.
Mr.. Hairless, AZ, was elected tc
Congress in 1912 and is serving his
third term. He is a resident OF
Phoenix, a graduate of the State
University and a lawyer.
Evening star., 1948-06-04

G. O. P. SOLOIST Virginia
MacWatters, Philadelphia col
oratura soprano, has been Sc
lected as soloist to sing "The
Star Spangled Banner" at
the opening of the Republican
National Convention in Phila-
delphia June 81. She has
sung with the New York Opera
Company and at London's
Covent Garden. The conven-
ton will mark her first ap-
pearance before a major audi
ence in her native city.
-AP Wirephoto.
Evening star., 1948-06-04


dren
Edr Calf holding Robert
erandJa ON
the nsinob obtann education -APW
Evening star., 1948-06-04

Australia reports that sheep
shearers are "a rapidly vanishing
race"
Evening star., 1948-06-04
RESORTS.
MARYLAND.
BEAUTIFUL PASADENA

BEAUTIFUL PASADENA INN
The ideal vacation spot. All land anc
water sports Excellent fishing. Nearby .anc
reasonable. Restricted clientele, Booklet.
FRED HARPER. Royal Oak, Md.
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J..
EnIenN Michigan and Pacific Aves.
6OIoON Atlantic City. Nr. Boardwalk
3 blocks to Station. $500 day up. Run.
ming water. Priv baths, free parking. Fret
bathing from hotel. Phi. 10000.
Evening star., 1948-01-20

that normally speaks for itself any
where left Of center.
The Democrats have nominated
Adlai Stevenson, a liberal lawyer
with international experience, for
Governor and Prof. Paul Douglas,
a University of Chicago economist
who helped shape the New Deal,
for Senator.
Both Have War Record.
Both were early in the ranks
against Hitler. Mr.. Stevenson spent
three years as personal assistant to
the late Secretary Of the Navy
Frank Knox, Joined the Army Air
Forces in Europe in 1914. He was
q major architect of U. N, a dele
gate to its first assembly. Prof.
Douglas enlisted at so as Marine
private, rose through the ranks to
Lieutenant Colonel, was twice
wounded, the last time severely on
Okinawa.
The Roosevelt administration
would have danced in the streets at
such a prospect in pivotal Illinois
with rebuff to Col. Mccormick for
lagniappe. Pre-Wallace opinion
had rather generally assigned the
State to the Democrats who last
Evening star., 1948-01-20
On, the Other Hand
Danger Seen in Presidents Tendency
To Put Soldiers in Civil Jobs

was that the big airlines had sue
ceeded in pushing him aside in favor
of man directly representative Of
their own interests. This never was
proved, since no such man was
named by the President. The ex-
PLANTATION made In the Presidents
behalf was simply that MIR. Lands
was not a satisfactory administra-
tor; that there was too much wrang-
ling within the organization; 1t was
causing the President too much
grief.
This explanation was supported
by the announcement that an Army
man, Maj. Gen. Kuter, was to be
made chairman. The President has
taken that way out of other situa-
tions that gave him trouble. He has
relied on the prestige of the Army to
override all other considerations.
As in other instances, he picked
an oflcer Of well-deserved reputa-
ton. This does not necessarily
mean, Of course, that he picked q
man capable Of mastering trouble
some civil problems.
So determined was the President
to make use once again Of the mill
tary magic that he asked Congress
to authorize Gen. Kuter's retention
of his Air Force pay, $4,000 q year,
while occupying the $4,000 job.
When the Senate Armed Services
Committee, obeying an instinct
sounder than the Presidents, said,
mo" the President still persisted
and asked for reconsideration.
No Security by the Sword"
1t is to be hoped that this initial
rebuke, coming from . committee
heretofore no more inclined than
the President to recognize the pro-
gressive militarization Of the coun-
try, may cause the President to call
a halt on his own tendency. It may,
II he will read in connection with
1t, an article in the current Harper's
Magazine. The author, Hanson w.
Baldwin, best known Of American
military analysts and o lifelong
friend Of the armed services, warns
against our present obsession with
military power. He concludes with
this paragraph:
For there is nothing so hopeless,
all past history tells US, as the
attempt to achieve absolute security
by the sword. # we attempt
1t, we shall have sold our birthright
of freedom; liberty will have been
sacrificed for q mirage. There is
strength in moderation, strength
above all in the basic American
concept that military power Is and
must remain subordinate to civilian
authority"
\ Copyright. 1s4s, Globe syndicate)
Evening star., 1948-01-20
Four Former Leaders
Plan Fight in Exile
AGAINST Cominiorm

Four former leaders OF Euro
pean countries met the press yes
terday in the Willard Hotel ant
explained their intention to carry
on a leadership in exile here In
opposition to the Cominform.
4 They were G. M. Dimitrow OF
Bulgaria, Vladko Mack, leader OF
the Croatian Peasant Party and
former Vice Premier Of Yugoslavia
Ferenc Macy, former Premier o1
Hungary, and Stanislaw Miko-
lajczyk, former Premier of the Po-
lish government in exile and until
recently deputy Premier In War
saw. With them was DR.. Milan
Gavrilovic of the Serbian Agrarian
Union. a former Yugoslav Secretary
Of State.
Mr.. Dimitrow and Mr.. Mikola-
jczyk spoke English; the others
used translators.
Continues Agrarian Union.
The meeting with the press, Mr.
Dimitrow explained, was the
first since MIR. Mikolajczyk joined
the International Peasant Union,
formed six months ago and main
tanning headquarters at 300 Con-
necticut avenue NV, the Cathedral
Mansions.
The union is q continuation, he
said, Of the Agrarian Union, the
organization Of the peasant parties
Of the Eastern Europe formed in
1920, which had been a force In
League Of Nations councils.
1T is high time" Mr.. Dimitrow
said in q statement" that the DEM
ocratic powers take the necessary
steps to correct the adverse conse-
quences Of the present situation"
To Meet Monthly.
Asked what steps were meant, he
said that was up to the democratic
powers.
MIR. Dimitrow said the four former
premiers, along with Mr.. Gavrilovic
and Grigore N. Buzesti of the Ro-
manian National Peasant Party,
who was not present yesterday, will
meet once q month as the central
committee Of the International
Peasant Union to plan continuing
opposition to Soviet aggression.
I'VE are not In a hurry" he said.
1T will take time"
Evening star., 1948-01-20
Test of allace Liberal
Illinois Politics Shows How Third Party
Operates to Benefit Conservatives

wear produced a blue ribbon Mayor
in Chicago, Martin H. Kennedy.
However the Illinois Wallace
forces now say they will put full
slate in the field. It Is not yet
settled that they can. They are
awaiting a judicial decision; If they
lose it they must take the more
difficult and uncertain petition
route. But they win probably make
1t.
Democrats candidly admit o Wal
lace slate may well offset the Green
Brooks drop in prestige on which
they had counted. They say Gov
Green has fallen to low estate via
poor appointments, the Centralia
mine disaster and refusal to share
with tax-poor cities State surplus
collected from consumers with sales
taxes. According to Democrats
Senator Brooks gets in peoples hai1
less because he is in Washington
but they had felt sure Prof. Doug
las could undercut him with vet
Grams who have been his major sup
port.
Spotlights Russian Issue.
The fact that spotlights the Rus
sian issue Is that while Mr.. Steven
son has really been an architect OF
United States foreign policy. which
Prof. Douglas has not, the Wallace
people are bitterest against Prof
Douglas, hint they may even lay
off Mr.. Stevenson in the end.
The reason for this anomaly, &C.
cording to MIR. Stevenson himself, is
that Prof. Douglas has taken the
Marshall Plan directly to the people,
all over the State, in plain language
they can understand. Prof. Doug
las has been especially effective, he
said, with labor groups on which Mr.
Wallace depends. OF course, as
Senator, Douglas could also vote on
foreign policy which Mr.. Stevenson
as Governor couldn't.
The Illinois situation was put
souarely to Mr.. Wallace last week
end. He acknowledged that Prof.
Douglas was one of his Oldest friends
but added: "I find my Oldest friends
disagreeing with me and I shall dis
agree with them"
Evening star., 1948-01-20
This Changing World
'Einstein Report on u. S. Military Trend
Called Result of Inaccurate Research

he was q second lieutenant and be-
came a prominent stock broker in
New York. Like so many others, he
joined the citizens army-the Ma
tional Guard-and became a war
time general only after Pearl Har-
Dor, like Secretary Of the Army
Royal, who is a lawyer and poll
tician by profession.
It Is true that the conduct Of our
foreign policy is In the hands Of a
professional soldier, Gen. George G.
Marshall. But exactly because Gen.
Marshall is military man, and
realizes our military weakness bet
ter than a lawyer or politician would.
he leans backward to avoid an
armed conflict.
Moreover, Gen. Marshall Is self
conscious Of the fact that he is
the first professional soldier to be-
come Secretary Of State at time
when force appears to be the only
argument which our opponents
behind the Iron Curtain recognize.
Very few American soldiers are
militaristS in the German or Japa-
nese meaning Of the word and there
Is no doubt that either Gen. Mar
shall, Gen. Eisenhower, Gen. Omar
Bradley, 1t. Gen. Albert G. Wede-
meyer or others in top positions are
opposed to another conflict.
Our foreign policy runs on three
cylinders. The reason is lack Of
foresight among our wartime policy
trainers and not among the brass
hats" who had no voice in matters
of policy during the war. The re-
suit of a misconceived appeasement
policy has now come home to roost.
Alarm Due to Gossip.
The alarm felt by the educators
that professional soldiers like Ad-
miral william D. Leahy and Gen.
Lucius D. Clay are In key positions
in the White House and Germany
is due more to gossip than fact.
The job of chief Of staff to the
President was created by President
Roosevelt in the summer Of 1912
and since the war has not yet been
liquidated, President Truman feels
that he must retain some one in the
post.
It is certain that no civilian could
fill that position, which has nothing
to do with diplomacy. International
affairs come into the scope Of activi-
ties of the Presidents chief Of staff
only insofar as they deal with mill
tary matters and implementation Of
whatever policies are laid down by
the State Department and the
President himself.
So long as the present setup exists
in Germany and Japan and until
the State Department takes over,
it is necessary to have military men
like Gen. Macarthur and Gen.
Clay at the head Of the occupation
in both countries.
To read any sinister influence
into these matters is stretching the
subject far beyond its proper pro-
portions. Most Of our generals and
admirals who have stayed in service
since the war would rather knock
off and 60 fishing like Admiral
NimitZ and Admiral Halsey.
Evening star., 1948-01-20

gree of influ- Constantine Brown.
ence" over all walks Of life in the
United States.
Two days earlier Pravda, the So
Wet government newspaper, which
knows so much about the United
States, published a scathing edito-
rial about the rule Of America by
"monopolies and brass hats"
While there is no connection be-
tween the honest-but somewhat
misleading-"Einstein report" and
the Pravda editorial, the coincidence
is remarkable In that 1t represents
a trend Of thought.
Particularly characteristic" the
Moscow newspaper said, lis the fact
that the weight of the brass hats
in the American Government has
grown enormously. AS Wallace
stated a few days ago, more than
ITO Army and Navy men are now
holding high civilian posts"
Comrade Yuri zhukov-author of
the editorial-went on to enumer-
ate the powerful detachment Of
Wall Street emissaries and specu-
lators" holding the highest posts In
the American Government.
Part Of Pravda's Job.
OF course, Pravda's job is to con-
vince the world that the American
people are held in some kind Of
serfdom by American big business,
which has placed its stooges in i'm
portant positions in order to stifie
the liberalism expressed by Henry
Wallace, William z. Foster and
others.
The report Of the American edu-
Gators is different, however. Its sig
natories are all responsible men
whose good intentions cannot be
doubted.
It is surprising that men trained
in research should make the mis-
take of confusing accuracies with
inaccuracies. For instance, the re-
port says Assistant Secretary OF
State John E. Peurifoy is West
Point graduate. Mr.. Peurifoy re-
signed from the Military Academy
because of illness two years before
graduation and never returned to
the armed forces.
Brig. Gen. Charles e. Salzman,
who also is an assistant secretary OF
State, resigned his commission when
Evening star., 1948-01-20

AID SSSiAAA4ASW 0VoFC AAAASSAV4SOs
What goes on behind the scenes
can only be guessed. What has
happened in the public view, how
ever, is clear enough.
The President, for reasons he has
not made public, decided not to re-
appoint James M. Lands to the
Craftsmanship Of the Civil Aero
nautics Board. Mr.. Lands had re-
signed as dean Of the Harvard Law
School, a well-paying post that car
ried prestige in the legal profession
equal to almost any judgeship, to
take on this hard and financially
unrewarding task. Similar difficult
jobs-the Federal Trade Commis-
sion, Securities and Exhange Com
mission, ONCE Of Civilian Defense
had given him q liking for public
service, as well as a reputation for
competence. He thought the Presi-
dent was well pleased with the man
ner In which he was handling the
CAB.
*'' Not an Easy Job.
The CAB job is not an easy one
It involves, among other things, the
regulation of giant young and in
corrigible industry, operated by dar-
ing and resourceful pioneers impa-
tient of control and disposed to be
ruthless in the use Of their strong
financial and political connections
The CAB has to set the pattern Of
the Governments relationship to
this industry. AS in other fields II
has become a question Of whether
the board shall regulate the industry
or the industry regulate the board
A tough chairman Is called fol
and Dean Lands was tough.
The word that got around, fol-
lowing the dismissal Of Mr.. Lands
Evening star., 1948-01-20

Another civil suit involving the
same apartment Is set for next Mon
day, when MIR. Talbot's lawyer. John
w. jackson, is due to argue motion
seeking return Of his clients cloth
ing, attached from the Cortland
place rooms last month, pending
settlement of Mrs. Millhouand's
claim that her son-in-law owes her
$40 in six months back rent.
In his motion. MIR. Talbot seeks
court permission to post s27o cash
bond in lieu of the attached clothing.
and also contends Mrs. Millholland
Is entitled to only three months
back rent under District law.
Elmer e. Cummins Is counsel Tor
the plaintiff,
Evening star., 1948-01-20

THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. C. A-o
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Evening star., 1948-01-20

anaIQenla 10 I'D
eral opinion. It
also demon
strates how very
thoroughly the
Russian issue is
the test of the
Wallace liberal.
Next fall Gov
ernor Green and
Senator Brooks
are running for
reelection. Col
onel Mccormick
of the Chicago
Tribune spon-
sored both-a
oS~on ~, G foY,ao
Evening star., 1948-01-20
Mother -in-Law Wiihdraws
Eviction Suit Against Talbot

The eviction suit against John
Alden Talbot, jr., society figure here
and In Palm Beach, Fla, was dis
missed yesterday in Municipal Court,
when his mother -in-law, Mrs. Alice
Millholland. declined to press her
case.
Withdrawal Of the suit to get Mr..
Talbot out Of his apartment at 2715
Cortland place NV. was made be-
fore Judge Thomas D. Quinn in
landlord and tenant branch Of the
court.
Evening star., 1948-01-20

OF bad thinking
on the Presi-
dents part. It
may reveal that
t h e n1ilitari-
zation OF this
democratic re-
pu b lie Is n o t
6 ding to be
c h e C k e d, II he
has his way; that
instead it Is like
ly to be accele-'
ra t e d, because
the President Is
accepting it as
the easy way out
Of too many Of
Evening star., 1948-01-20

American people
that America
cannot remain
democratic II the
present trends
toward military
control Of our
institutions con-
tinue."
Besides attack
ing universal
military train
ing, they decried
he fact that
milit ary men
lately acquired
a dangerous de-
Evening star., 1948-01-20
By Doris FIeeson

CHICAGO, Jan. 20.-Illinois poll
tics strikingly illustrates how the
Wallace third party tends to oper-
ate for the benefit Of forces long
Evening star., 1948-01-20
By Constantine Brosvn

Last Sunday Professor Albert Elm
stein and 20 other educators, clergy
men, authors and former cabinet
officers issued q warning to the
Evening star., 1948-01-20
Bv LoweU MeIIeff

The persistence of the President
in the matter of Mai. Gen. Laurence
s. Kuter may be a cause for real
concern. It may be symptomatic
Evening star., 1948-01-20

The Maine coast Is 80 notched
with bays and inlets that It has q
tidal line 2,400 miles long IN coast
line Of $50 miles.