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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-18
Former Chief Of Staff
Reported Slain Fleeing
From Yugos|avia
Gen. Jovonovic Sought
To Cross Border as Bour
Hunter, Red Paper Says
BY the Associated Press

BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Aug.
18-Borba, official organ of the
Yugoslav Communist Party, re-
ported tNday that Arso Jovano-
vic, former thief of the Yugo-
slav Army, had been shot and
killed in a predaWn attempt to
flee to Romania.
The report said Jovanovic and
three others attempted to get across
the border six days ago while pre-
tending to be on a wild boar hunt.
1t said border guards saw the group
huStling toward the border at about
2 am. August II and opened fire
when one of the fleeing group started
shooting after being ordered to halt
In self-defense," Borba said
the guards fired back. killing two
The other two tried to escape to the
Romanian border. One was caught
before crossing"
The paper said that from papers
found on the bodies it was estab-
lished that one of the dead was Col.
Gen. Arse Joyanovic, one of Premier
Marshal Tito's top-ranking military
men. The other was identified as
Svetolik Arabiac, state property
manager for the district of Vrsac,
rear the frontier.
The captured man was identified
by Borba as Maj. Gen. Brancko
Petricevic. The paper said Col.
Waldo Dapcevic probably managed
to escane"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-18
By Miriom Ottenbera

Alger Hiss Identification of
Whitaker Chambers as a man
he knew under another name
still leaves major points of con-
fict in the testimony of the two
men, and the House Committee
on Un-American Activities is
now questioning witnesses to de-
termine whose story stands up.
Chief Committee investigator
Robert E. STRIPPING said today.
The continued questioning of wit
nesses, it was explained, is in prep
aration for the committee session
next Wednesday, at which Mr..
Chambers and Mr. Hiss will face
each other al public hearing.
Describing in detail the face-to-
face meeting of the former State
Department official and the man
who had accused him of being a
leader in a prewar Communist I'M
derground, Mr.. STRIPPING said the
two men agreed on only one major
point-that they once shared an
apartment for a few days.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-18
Swiss Fire Sets Off
Stored Ammunition
By the Associated Press

ALTDORF, Switzerland, Aug. 10.
ALI 800 inhabitants were evacu-
ated from the village of Goeschenen
today while fire in a nearby noun
tain redoubt began exploding stored
ammunition.
Altdorf police, making this an
nouncement, said no casualties had
been reported, but telephone COM
municationS with the village, at the
north end of st. Gotthard Tunnel
were broken.
Rail traffic was halted on both
sides of the SWiss-Italian frontier
and was rerouted through the Sim,
plon Tunnel Villagers at first sour
ried for safety to air raid cellars
mountain gorges and the st. Colt
hard Tunnel itself, while troops
fought the fire.
BY noon the fire had not reached
the main ammunition chambers
Several employees in the ammuni-
, ton depot fed to safety. Minor
explosions were heard in the noun
tain across from the railway.
A large part of the village and 6
railway bridge are in immediate
danger. Crewmen and passenger.
from nearby trains ran into the
tunnel for protection. Electric pow.
er was shut off Immediately after
the fire started.
The cause of the fire was moi
determined.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-18
By the Associated Press

MACOMB, H.. Aug. IA mys-
FERROUS rash of fires that drove a
farm family from their house to
the garage, then destroyed the house
and a barn. continued to battle in
vestigators today.
One theory, under consideration
but far from conclusive, was that
a fly spray used on the Charles
Wiley Farm, IL miles south OF here.
might have caused the outbreak of
between 100 and 200 small fires in
the Wiley home.
A reporter for the Macomb Journal
obtained quantity of the spray.
poured it on the ground and touched
a match to it. He reported it was
highly inflammable."
The fires began breaking out about
10 days ago and were extinguished
by the Wiley family, aided by
neighbors. As they grew more fire.
quent, the family moved from the
house to the garage. The holse
was destroyed by fire Saturday
night and the barn burned down
Monday.
Mr.. Wiley was unable to deter
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-18
SIov Embassy Employees
Sign Attack Against Tito

PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, Aug. Is
tP,.-The Communist Party news
paper Rude Pravo published an open
letter today blasting Premier Mar
shall Tito and the Yugoslav Com
munist Party. 1t said the letter had
been signed by IL employees of the
Yugoslav Embassy. The Embassy
denied the signers were employed
there.
The Embassy said the signers were
minor officials of some Yugoslav
trade delegation in Czechoslovakia
and not one of them has diplomatic
status"
The embassy said that Eat the
moment no protest was planned
over the letter, which was addressed
to the Central Committee of the
Yugoslav Communist Party.
The letter blamed the Tito re-
gime for trying to split the United
Democratic front and reduce the
Yugoslav party from the path of
internationalism."
Publication of the letter was an
other indication of worsening Czech
Yugoslav relations. On August 2
the Czech interior ministry banned
tourist travel to Yugoslavia. Nc
Yugoslav newspaper has been on
sale in Prague since August l..
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-18
Ernest Simpson Marries;
Ex-Husband Of Duchess

LONDON, Aug. 1s.-Tne mar
riage of Ernest Aldrich Simpson,
former husband of the Duchess of
Windsor, to Mrs. Avril Joy Leveson
Cover, 80, sportswoman and So
cialite, was announced today.
An unobtrusiye, five-line item on
the society page of the London
Times said the marriage took place
on August II and Mr. and Mrs.
Simpson will be In residence at II
Upper Phillimore Gardens after
September TO-"
The staid Times made no other
mention OF the ceremony and 1t
was not until midafternoon that
other newspaper editors awoke to
the story and splashed 1t on front
pages.
The London Star said the mar
rage was Mr. Simpsons fourth and
the third for Mrs. Cover, whose last
husband was Brig. Hugh Nugent
Leveson Cover. company director
and member of cricket playing
family.
The Duchess of Winsof-the for
mer Wallis Warf1eld Simpson-was
Mr.. Simpsons second wife.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-18
Probers Mystified After Fires
Pop Out to Ruze House and Barn

mine what caused the fires. He
said he has no enemies. His in
surance on the buildings was well
below their replacement cost.
TIL fires first appeared to start
in the wallpaper. Scorched spots
appeared on the walls and later
these burst into fame. Thinking
the content Of the wallpaper was
causing the blazes, Mr.. Wiley and
his neighbors tore it of the walls.
But fires continued to break out
in the wood plaster laths. One
neighbor said he removed a window
curtain and laid it over the head
of a bed. While he was in the
house, he said, the curtain burst into
fame.
The mystery is being investigated
by John Burgard. deputy State fire
marshal, and Fred Wilson, chief of
the Macomb Fire Department.
Neither have been able to reach any
conclusions but chemical tests of the
building materials are being made.
Meanwhile, Mr.. Wiley and his
wife. both in their Cos, and their two
children are hoping the garage holds
out.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-18
BY the Associated Press

Stockholm, Aug. 18.-The
newspaper Dagens Nyheter today
identified the Swedish Kosenkina'
as Lydia Makarova and said the
l9-year-old girl who refuses to go
back to Russia is a musical prodigy.
The case is causing a sensation in
Sweden. 1t parallels the case of
Mrs. Oksana Stepanovna Kosen-
kina, Soviet teacher who leaped
from the third -story window of the
Soviet Consulate in New York last
week.
A Swedish Foreign Office spokes-
man said yesterday the Soviet En-
bassy here had asked repeatedly
that the girl be sent back to Russia.
He said the Foreign Office had re-
fused these requests and told the
Russian Embassy to leave the girl
alone"
Dagens Nyheter published an
interview with the girl, who said
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-18
Swedes Identify Gir|Who Defied
Soviet Recall as Musical Prodioy

she had fed to Sweden in 1914 after
her mother had died in Leningrad.
At the time she was Is and con-
sidred a musical prodigy, she said
She has continued her studies in
Sweden and will give her first piano
recital at Stockholm's Concert Hall
January 90, the account said.
Lydia dreams of going to Paris to
continue her studies. but she is
afraid to leave Sweden and the pro-
lection she has had here. the news
paper said. 1t quoted her:
Il have taken root in Sweden.
I have learned Swedish. I like it
here and I viii never return to the
old, country"
Lydia said the Soviet Ambassador
had sent word to her to visit him
at the Embassy two years ago. She
telephoned him and was told he had
a letter from her father. He re-
fused to send it to her. After that
(See STOCKHOLM, Page A-4)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-18
Labor Law Invoked
By Truman 10 Avert
Strike
Board to Study Dispute;
kMU Wins Agreement
With AZ Ship Firms
By the Associated Press

Americas world-ranging mari
time industry was involved
today in an ocean OF labor
management bitterness, legal
complexities and general con-
fusion.
The ships were still moving. but the
Government had to take extraor-
binary measures to keep them going.
President Truman, for the second
time in the shipping industry used
the national emergency provision of
the Taft Hartley Law last night to
stave off a strike of the AFL Inter-
national Longshoremen's Association.
This strike is set for Saturday
midnight. 1t would freeze all ship
ping between Portland, Me, and
Hampton Roads, Va.--including YES
sells bound for Europe with Marshall
Plan shipments. The central dispute
is over methods of paying for over
time work.
Inquiry Board Named.
Mr.. Truman named an inquiry
board composed of Saul Wallen OF
Boston, Joseph Miller of Washing
ton, and Julius Cass of New York.
He ordered it to report by Friday.
AS soon as he receives this report
he is empowered to seek a court
order that could proven. the strike
for about 80 days.
Meanwhile. another threatened
strike by $4,000 CLIO seamen was
averted when the National Mari
time Union reached a wage agree
ment with AZ Atlantic and Gulf
Coast shipping companies.
After an ll-hour bargaining ses-
sion in New York, the union and
the operators agreed to a SIS a
month pay raise for boatswains and
$3.50 increase for the other rat.
ings.
Hiring Halls to Be Retained.
The pact-subject to ratification
by the union membership-also pro-
vides for retention of hiring halls
until court ruling on the legality
of this system under the Taft-Hart-
ley Act. Hiring halls-in which the
Union picks men for jobs-had been
the main issue in dispute.
The NMU along with severa
other maritime unions. had been
Under a strike banning Federal
Court injunction, but this was due
to expire September 2 after which
See MARTINEZ Page AL
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-18
France Is Pessimistic
Over Moscow Farley

PARIS, Aug. 10 GP. Sources
close to the French Foreign Office
said today they are increasingly
pessimistic about the talks in Mos
COW between Russian leaders and
representatives of the West.
The informants said they could
predict no solution to present in
ternational tension. They added
that the talks are begged down over
details.
These sources hesitated even to
predict a new four-power foreign
ministers conference as one result
of the conference. This had been
widely forecast up to now.
The informants scoffed, at the
idea that Foreign Minister Molotov
had presented any new proposals,
expressing the belief that the meet
ings have degenerated INTO the
familiar pickering of previous Jour-
power conferences.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-18
Hurricane Plane Is Sent
To View West Indies Storm
By the Associated Press

MIAMI, Fla, Aug 18.-Discovery
of a possible tropical disturbance in
the West Indies caused the Navy to
send a hurricane hunting plane
into the area today for an investi-
cation.
The Weather Bureau emphasized
that it appeared to be only
weakness without an organized
center and added that it doesn't
amount to anything" at present.
The disturbance, first of the pres
ent storm season, is reported to be
near St. Lucia, about $50 miles
north of Trinidad and about 1900
miles southeast of Miami.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-18
Hiss AdmissionHe KnewEx-Red
Leaves Major Points of Conflict
Former Official and His Accuser Agree
Only Thot They Once Shared Apartment

Mr.. Hiss positively identified
Mr.. Chambers last night as a man
he knew under the name of George
Crosley, a free lance writer. Mr..
Chambers, self-confessed former
Communist Party functionary and
now a senior editor of Time maya
zine, denies he ever went under the
name of Crosby or was free lance
writer.
Mr. Stripping said that Mr.. Hiss
was asked during the face-to-face
meeting in a room of the Hotel
Commodore in New York if he could
name anyone who might recognize
Mr.. Chambers as Crosley. Mr.. Hiss,
according to Mr.. STRIPPING, said he
wasn't sure but suggested that tie
committee question three staff men,
bers of the Senate Munitions Inves-
tigating Committee, headed by Sem
ator Nye.
Mr.. Hiss told the committee that
Crosby came to his Office While
Mr.. Hiss was legal advisor to the
Nye Committee.
Mr.. Stripping would not reveal
who is being questioned in New
(See SPIES. Page A-5,)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-18
Sees Return
To Low Farm Prices
II Republicans Win
Opens Drive With Talk
At Illinois Fair; Warren
Will Reply Tomorrow
By the Associated Press

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, Aug. 18.-
Senator Barley, Democrat, of
Kentucky said today that farm
ers must choose in November
between a Democratic admins
tration with "40-cent cattle and
3O-cent hogs and a Republican
regime with lower farm prices.
The Democratic vice presidential
nominee spoke on the Democratic
Day" program of the Illinois State
Fair. 1t was his opening campaign
talk.
Gov. Earl Warren of California,
the Republican vice presidential
candidate, will have an opportunity
to answer Senator Barley from the
same platform tomorrow.
Recalls Republican Regime.
Senator Barley said that If farm
ers vote Republican they will take
chance of putting the economy
of this Nation, including agriculture,
back into the hands of those whose
short-sightedness brought you to the
brink of disaster a decade-and-a-
half ago"
Mentioning that cattle then sold
Tor from cents pound and hogs
for g. he added:
I'VE have the right to ask you
not to allow some temporary pre-
iudice or inconvenience under which
you may have suffered as a result
of total war to divert your attention
from the great advancement made
by American agriculture and the
whole American economy during
the IS years of Democratic admins
tration."
Says Truman Saved Co-ops.
Senator Barley credited Presi-
dent Truman with having halted
an effort by congressional Repub-
licans to destroy" farm co-opera-
tives.
He said the Republican leadership
had begun an investigation into
the question of cutting off tax
exemptions for co-operatives. But
he said a strong statement by
the President in favor of keeping
present tax exemptions caused the
Republicans to drop the matter.
The Kentucky Senator said Re-
publicans had tried in 1947 to curtail
the soil conservation program but
had been baked by protests from the
farmers.
1.-The Republican politicians tell us
we need a change" Senator Barley
said. THAT prompts the question
what sort of a change do we need?
ut is legitimate for me to ask
today whether you want to change
back from Accent cattle and 30-cent
hogs to 3 and Accent hogs and
cattle"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-18
.Tobin Backs Unions
On Closed Shop, Hits
Taft Act Provisions
New Labor Secretary
Holds Press Conference
To Explain Position

Secretary of Labor Tobin
championed the closed shop to-
day at a press conference in his
office.
The former Massachusetts, Gov
ernor said he had been asked to
explain a recent oral statement that
he was for repeal of the Taft-Hart-
ley Act.
The primary reason he gave in a
short statement which he read to
the press was that the act outlaws
the closed shop even for those en-
ployers who desire it."
"At the time the Taft-Hartley
Law was passed." the recently ap-
pointed Labor Secretary said, mil
lions of workers were getting along
amicably with employers under
closed shop agreements, arrived at
by mutual consent. Few strikes oc-
Cured in industries where the
closed shop was the tradition and
pattern.
Created Employment Stability.
The closed shop has been in ex-
istence In the United States for
more than century, and was relied
on by employers as well as employees
to create stable conditions of en-
ployment and to obtain and main
tain an adequate supply of quail
fled workers in skilled trades and
occupations. Under the Taft-Hart-
ley law, the closed shop is declared
illegal and cannot be contracted for
by those employers who desire it and
consider it mutually advantageous. y
The Secretary's statement went on
to point out the burden of the cleo
lions called for under the Taft
Hartley Act to legalize agreements
for a union shop. under the closed
shop the employer contracts with
the union to supply labor; under the
union shop the employer may hire
union or nonunion members, but
new employees must join the union
within a stated periodJ
His statement also protested the
Acts prohibition of unions publish
ing the record OF public officials.
Does Not Oppose All Clauses.
In answer to questions he said he
was not against everything in the
Taft Hartley law; that he doubted
that even the most radical union
leader took that position.
| The new cabinet officer showed
himself familiar with the high
points of labor legislation and the
recent history of its enforcement
He said he was for substitute fol
the Taft-Hartley Act that would
follow the lines of the Democratic
platform. AS for Communists, h,
said the Taft-Hartley Act prevents
unions from purging their owr
membership.
His answer to a question as tx
whether labor law should forcs
unions as well as employers to come
to the collective bargaining table
was to cite his handling of street
railway strike in Massachusetts ir
which he seized the railroad in the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-18
U. 5. Troops Practice
Defense Maneuvers
In BIockaded Berlin
Russians Also Reported
Engaged in Military
Games in German Zone
By the Associated Press

BERLIN, Aug. 18.-American
foot troops wound up all-night
defensive maneuvers early today
in the GruneWald Forest of
Soviet blockaded Berlin. Re-
ports from Hamburg said the
Russians are winding up summer
maneuverS of their own near the
zonal frontiers.
Helmeted troops with rifles, NOR
tars and machine guns simulated
delaying action against an enemy
that had captured GatoW airport
the British supply field for the
sealed-of western sectors.
Officers in charge of the opera
ton said British troops theoretically
took part in the maneuver, although
none were Fighting"
Earlier yesterday other American
troops joined French units in ma
neuvers along the Rhine River near
Heidelberg. 1t was the first time
since the wars end the two Allies
had engaged in joint war games.
American and French officers said
the show was successful and pre-
dicted other such efforts in the
future. Only 1900 troops took part
in the operation.
Supported by Pals.
The joint maneuver took place 20
miles from Heidelberg, where
French troops ferried men and tanks
across the Rhone under artillery
cover and attempted to establish
bridgehead in the American zone
village of Altussheim.
Patrols of the United States Con-
stabulary's I'd Squadron, commanded
by 1t. Col. Theodore T. King of
North Little Rock, Ark, counter
attacked. They were supported by
PAT fighters of. the United States
Air Forces 86th Fighter Group I'M
der 1t. Col. Michael Ingelido of New
Britain. Conn.
The GruneWald Forest maneuver
caused considerable excitement
among the Germans. Several called
the Associated Press bureau here
to ask what truckloads of helmeted
troops and armored cars were doing
in the woods. The forest runs
through the American and British
sectors of Berlin.
Several hundred men of the Sd
Battalion of the 18th Infantry Regi-
ment, commanded by 1t. Col. D. B
Miller of San Antonio, Tex, partici-
pated Berlin is deep in the Soviet
occupation zone, entirely surrounded
by it.
Russians Offer Coal.
Marshal VASTLY D. Sokolovsky,
Russian commander in Germany,
today offered Western Berliners co.
900 tons of coal as their first winter
installment."
The official Soviet news agency
said the coal would be available in
few days for those western resi-
dents who had registered for food
in the Russian sector.
The Russians proclaimed several
weeks ago that they would feed all
Berlin with grain imported from
the Soviet Union. Only small per
cent of Western Berliners went over
to the Russian sector to register for
food.
/ The Soviet news agency an
nouncement said Marshal Sokolov.
sky had acted after representatives
of the citys -four democratic par
ties had appealed to the Russians
! for coal.
| This apparently included those
splinters of the Social Democrat
Christian Democrat and Liberia
Democrat conservative parties
recognized in the Eastern sector
The announcement also said two
additional pounds of flour would be
See GERMAN. Page A-4,D
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-18
Late News
Bulletin
Mackenzie Golf Leader


BALTIMORE.-Roland Mac
Kenzie, 41-year-Old former
Washingtonian, was tied to-
day with Eddie Johnston,
Country Club of Maryland
golfer, at the halfway mark
i'm the National Amateur
golf championship qualifying
rounds being played over the
Five Farms course here. Both
shot 73s. Three Washing
tonians were tied at IS. They
were Bobby Brownell and Le-
roy Smith of Manor Club and
Maury Nee of Columbia C0un-
try Club.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-18
Greeks Luunch Assault
On Rebel Stronghold
By the Associated Press

ATHENS, Aug. ia general
staff spokesman said today the
Greek Army has launched a frontal
assault on the main Grammos
Mountain ridges, last major strong
hold of Communist Leader Markos
Vafiades.
The Foreign Ministry announced
it had sent a cable to Trygve Lie.
United Nations secretary general,
asking that Albania be required to
close her borders to fleeing guerrillas
and intern all inside her country.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-18
Allied Council in japan
Meets for n Seconds

TOKYO, Aug. l8.-The four
power Allied Council for Japan has
done 1t again. Nothing. that Is.
1t held its 66th meeting today,
heard American Chairman william
Sebald say no matters were UP for
discussion, and adjourned-ail In ~
seconds.