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Bundits
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verged on an apartment building.
They found Grant asleep and Ward
hiding in closet.
They noticed the back door Of the
apartment was open. Grant ex-
planned later he had left it that way
so he could escape if police came
in the front door. Grant didn't
hear the police coming but Ward
did and dashed for the closet.
Police said Ward was wearing Mr..
Selby's watch when arrested. They
said they also found a .38 caliber old
style Colt pistol and Mr.. Selby's
Elks ring in the closet when Ward
tried to hide.
Blame "Sneaky Pete" Wine.
Ward and Grant blamed their
troubles, police said, on the powerful
effects of "sneaky pete" wine. AS
they consumed the wine, they said,
the idea for a night of crime grew.
After they abandoned the car,
police said they were told, Ward,
Grant and the unidentified third
man returned to the apartment and
drank some more wine. Then they
divided the loot. Ward said he took
$40 and gave Grant and the third
man $50 each.
Grant said he "just blew" his
share. When captured, he had $13
Left, Ward, however, said he went
on clothes-buying expedition.
Police recovered a new $50 topcoat
from the apartment.
One of the identifying details
Evening star., 1948-02-20
5Oth Anniversary Marked
By Academy Of Sciences

The 5oth anniversary Of the
founding Of the Washington Acad-
emy of Sciences was observed at a
smoker at the Cosmos Club last
night.
-Four of the founding members
were present, Drs. Charles L. Mar
latt. Nelson H. Darton, T. w. STAN
ton and A. K. Fisher. Others still
living are Drs. Orator F. Cook,
Whitman Cross, David G. Fairchild,
Leland o. Howard, Theodore S.
Palmer, George r. Putnam, Walter
T. Swingle, Bailey Willis and Al
bert F: Woods.
Present also were 13 past presi-
dents, Drs. Lyman j. Briggs, T.
Wayland Vaughan, Robert F.
Griggs, L. B. Tuckerman, Oscar E.
Meinser, Paul E. Howe, E. c. Crit
tenden, Austin H. Clark, H. L. Cur
tbs, L. w. Parr. Clement L. Garner
John E. Graf, Hugh L. Dryden, and
Waldo L. Schmitt.
The founding members and past
presidents were introduced by DR..
Frederick Rossini of the Bureau of
STANDARDS. this years president.
Evening star., 1948-02-20
Prices
Continued From First Page.)

recent slump. All commodity mar
kets appear to be resisting any
further sharp declines. A mood OF
caution seemingly has developed
following the violent plunges that
carried them downward in the early
days of the break, beginning Feb
rua1y 4.
Commodity market prices were ir-
regular today as trading began.
Wheat prices were a cent to 234
cents bushel lower. Hogs were
slightly higher, cattle prices dropped
a little. Cotton was lower. The
Stock Exchange continued its un-
even tendencies.
Resistance Curbs Food.
Customer resistance despite lower
food prices is curbing business in
many retail stores. Prices in Wash
ington this week end show little
change from last week.
The break in the wholesale butter
market in New York yesterdays
drop of 31z to Az cents a pound
appeared to have halted the upward
movement in retail butter which had
begun earlier this week. The Chi
cago butter market fell as much as
51a cents pound.
In estimating the cause and eff
feet of the steel price increase, some
quarters suggested the markups an
ticipated demands for higher wages
from the United Steel
Workers, CIO. Others cited higher
costs.
Says Outcome Is Plain.
The Wall Street Journal, in re-
porting the steel price rises In to-
days issue, said anybody who
wants to know whether prices are
headed up or down had better keep
one eye on steel"
The financial paper pointed out
that the increases were achieved
in a manner likely to receive a
of public attention though
the eventual outcome will be plain
enough to industrial users of STEEL"
The Journal pointed to the recent
drop in commodity prices and said
Evening star., 1948-02-20
tprics index since 1t was started In

price index since It was started In
1882.
/ Three Billion Bushels Needed.
Agriculture department grain ex-
perts said they doubted the drop of
about so cents, bushel in wheat
prices since mid-January would
greatly influence the acreage to be
seeded to spring wheat. They said
the present price is high enough to
cover production costs and a profit.
The departments corn goal is
90, 10000 acres. Last years crop
totaled only 86,000, 900 acres because
Of spring floods.
A bumper crop OF 100000 900
bushels or more is needed to pro-
vide enough feed to encourage
farmers to produce more meat
animals. Livestock production is on
the downgrade now largely because
of scarce feed.
The department also reported that
373, ,026, 900 bushels, or 9,649, 900 long
tons, of grain and grain products
were exported to shortage areas
during the first seven months of the
crop year ending June 80.
Evening star., 1948-02-20
Housing Association Asks
Restoration OF D. {. Funds

The Senate Appropriations Com
mittee has been urged by the Board
Of Directors Of the Washington
Housing Association TO reinstats
$3,4o0,0o for administration and
land purchase by the District Land
Redevelopment Agency and s6l, 500
for the National Capital Park and
Planning Commission to survey
slum areas. The board adopted the
resolution yesterday at its regular
monthly meeting at its offices, 1901
N street NV.
The Planning Commissions funds
would be used to print the master
plan of the city and for detailed
study of blighted areas here.
The House Appropriations Com
mittee struck out both these items
January 80 from the Independent
Offices Appropriation bill, which the
House passed February 4. No at
tempt was made on the House floor
to reinstate these items, which had
been recommended by President
Truman in his budget message.
The board also indorsed the re-
quest of the National Capital Hous-
ing Authority to Congress for funds
ia build $500 low-rent dwelling
units here as step toward meeting
the current housing shortage. The
board declared action on this re-
quest is urgently needed in view OF
the impending vacating of 1000 low
rent war housing units which must
be either torn down or sold by July
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not built, Mr.. Hefiin said, and con-
tended that more than 100000
worth of deposits were not returned
Besides the motion contending
Irregularities on the part of a juror
defense counsel also seeks a new
trial for Williams on the contention
his conviction was contrary to law
and evidence.
1t was indicated today that at
least a dozen witnesses will be called
in to testify in connection with the
motion for a new trial contending
Irregularities on the part Of juror.
Should the motions for new trial
finally be overruled, Williams then
would be scheduled to come up for
sentence.
Evening star., 1948-02-20

which led to Grant, police said. was
his swollen and fast-blinking eye-a
detail noticed by all three victims.
In their account to police, there
was one thing the prisoners wanted
to make clear. When they stopped
in front of Wight's Pharmacy at
Sixty-third street and Eastern ave-
nue. NE, Wardl said, they had no
intention of holding up the place.
They just wanted to buy the ad-
hesive tape with which to bind Mr..
Selby. The kidnapped man had told
police about that brief stop at q
Northeast drugstore.
Detectives on the raid, in addi-
ton to Sergts. Bonaccorsy and Hunt,
were Sergts. Otto P. Fuss and James
Roche of the robbery squad and
Plainclothesmen F. E. Davis and T.
E. Hughes of the second precinct.
Evening star., 1948-02-20
Czech
(Continued From First Page.)

they are part Of Communist plot
to keep. the country in a .pre-elec-
ton turmoil.
Switch Voted Last Night.
The Social Democrats switch,
voted last night, provides coalition
bloc of 81 per cent in Parliament
against 38 per cent for the Com
munists. Previously the Commu-
nists mad counted on Social Demo-
cratic support for So per cent
margin.
When the switch became known
last night anti-Communist papers
revised their front pages for vio-
lent attacks on the Communists.
The Socialist organ, Svobodne
Slovo, assailed what it called Com
munist plans to control the national
security police force.
Lidova Demokracie, the Catholic
Peoples Party paper, said 1--WE must
not have Fascist state. We cannot
have an anarchy of Communists. "
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Truman
Continued From First Page.)

he is getting along in the new
role.
The President will make a speech
shortly after landing He is eX-
pected to touch on Puerto Rico's
aspirations for a greater measure
of freedom. He is on record as
favoring referendum to permit
the people to decide how they want
to go.
There will he a reception and
dinner for the presidential party
at The Governors house tomorrow
evening. Mr.. Truman then will
board the yacht Williamsburg for
the Virgin Island-Cuba visit.
Leaving San Juan at am. Sum
day, the Williamsburg will land
the President in Charlotte Amalie
Harbor, st. Thomas, rs miles east
ward, at am. Gov. William H.
Hastie, former dean of Howard Law
School here, will be on hand to well
come the President and escort him
to the official residence for a recep-
ton and lunch. That night, Gov.
Hastie and other Virgin Island
officials will be the Presidents din
ner guests on the Williamsburg.
From st. Thomas, the President
will proceed to the island of ST.
Croix, 38 miles SOUTH making that
jump between 4 and $50 am. Mon
day. He will spend nearly eight
hours in st. Croix, departing at II
am. for Guantanamo, $50 miles
westward, trip requiring about 46
hours. He is due at the Cuban base
Wednesday morning. After an in
spection and lunch at. the Officers
Club, he will board the Sacred Cow
once more at 2:30 pm. for the 470-
mile water jump to Boca Chica Air
port, near Key West, where arrival
Is scheduled at 4:50 pm.
There the President is hopeful of
getting some sun and rest.
Mr.. Truman's visit to the West
indian islands will be the first
President has made in nearly a
decade. The late President Roose-
velt was in the region in 1888 and
1899, while former President Hoov-
ers visit was in the spring of 1881.
At that time the Virgin Islands
big rum industry had been hit by
prohibition, and Mr.. Hoover stirred
a storm by commenting that in the
purchase of the Virgins from Dem
mark I'VE acquired an effective
poorhouse comprising 80 per oent of
the population
Secretary of Interior Krug, who
has jurisdiction over the islands,
will tour Puerto Rico and the Vir-
gin Islands with President Truman.
Secretary of Agriculture Anderson
had intended to be in the party,
but could not make 1t.
Maj. Gen.. Harry, H. Vaughan,
Army aide, who Is representing the
President at the Inauguration Of
President Romulo Betancourt OF
Venezuela, will join the party later.
Newsmen with the President used
Evening star., 1948-02-20

Press quoted informed sources II
Nanklng as predicting a campaign
for substantial American militar!
aid to the hard-pressed Nationals
forces in their fight against Chinese
Communists soon would be startee
both in China and Washington.
The plea will be that Chang Kat
sheks Nationalist armies are toe
weak to cope with growing Com
munist strength, the Marking dis
patches stated.
Representative Judd, former
medical missionary in China, said
China should get from this country
at least the degree Of military sup
port the United States Is giving
Greece in its battle against Com
munist guerrillas.
Mr.. Judd added that he would like
to see Congress lump aid to China
in the prospective bill to authorize
a recovery plan for Europe.
The Senate Foreign Relations
Committee already has approved
measure authorizing a European
program costing $500, 100000 the
first year. But it omitted anything
for China, since no formal request
for Chinese aid had been filed by
the administration.
Meanwhile, it developed France Is
telling the United States that hel
dollar supply is running out ano
she needs $150000,000 from this
country in hurry-even before the
Marshall Plan can go in effect
Similar, but not quite so urgent
pleas are coming from Italy, the
Netherlands and Austria.
Government officials told of these
developments as a high congress
sional leader said the whole foreign
aid situation threatens to become
"a three-ring circus" unless the
Senate and House get together.
Evening star., 1948-02-20
Foreign Aid
Continued From First Page.)

the sale. of surplus property and
foreign government and philan-
thropic expenditures in China; and
finally, to be called upon if neces-
sary, China's reserves of gold and
foreign exchange which were esti-
mated as totaling the equivalent
of S274000,000 as of January l."
Without using any names. Secre-
tary Marshall criticized the military
leadership of the Nationalist forces
in the civil war against Communism.
He said
THE conduct by the government
of the civil war now in progress,
particularly in view of the geo.
graphic disadvantages-exposed and
lengthy communications and the in
herent difficulties in dealing with
guerrilla warfare-demands a high
order of aggressive leadership in all
major echelons of command, which
is lacking"
Judd Would Send Arms.
Meanwhile, Representative Judd,
Republican. of Minnesota came out
in favor of sending munitions to
China as well as food and clothing,
President Truman made no mention
Of military assistance in his Wednes-
day message, requesting $4,000, 900
for China !
At the lame time, the Associated
Evening star., 1948-02-20

"a chartered plane. They will
make the sea trip aboard the air.
plane tender Greenwich Bay, which
sometimes accompanies the Will
liamsburg.
For the first time on trip Of this
sort, the Negro press is represented.
p. Bernard Young, jr., is covering
the assignment for the Norfolk, Va,
Journal and Guide; Llewellyn A.
Coles of Columbus. Ohio, for the
Negro Newspaper Publishers Asso-
citation, and Lemuel Graves, Pitts
burgh Courier. The All-America
News Reel, a colored organization,
also will be represented.
Evening star., 1948-02-20

that "in the family cost Of Twins
these contrary commodity price
movements may cancel out, or may
swamp the other. Cheaper fiapjacks
may be served-from a more costly
new stove. Cheaper cotton goods
may be yours-to toss into a more
expensive new washing machine
Youngsters may be chewing cheaper
candy-in the back seat Of a more
costly new auto"
Carnegie Illinois Steel Corp, oper.
ating subsidiary of United States
Steel, said forging grades of blooms
billets and slabs were raised from
$55 per gross ton to $54 per net
ton. That was q roundabout way
of saying the price had increased
$4.89 a net ton. Rolling grades OF
steel also were advanced.
Finish Steel Goes Up.
Among the makers who announced
higher prices for finished products
was Alegheny-Ludlum Steel Corp.
which raised hot and cold rolled
carbon strip by $40 ton and silicon
sheets and strip by SIS to $25 ton,
depending upon grade. The ad-
vance, the company said, was to
meet increased cost of raw materials.
Superior Steel Corp. increased
the price Of hot and cold rolled strip
steel made from carbon steel billets,
but did not disclose the amount.
Other recent price advances af-
fected pipe and structural steel.
The magazine Iron Age figured
pipe consumers will pay another
$43, ,000, 900 annually as the result Of
an average increase of around 81
in the price of pipe. The oil, gas
and water industries will be among
those affected.
Higher extra charges on struc-
tural steel shapes, the Iron Age esti-
mated, would cost structural fabri-
Gators about $4,000, 900 extra a year.
Calls Steel Prices "Too Low"
Charles M. White, president of
Republic Steel said in Cleveland
today that steel prices still are too
low.
Price increases, he said. "are at
tempting to compensate for past
wage increases" rather than antici-
pated future wage demands.
Mr.. White made his views known
in a letter to the editor Of Iron Age.
He took issue with the publications
contention that price increases in
steel were anticipating a new wage
demand by the CIO- United Steel
workers.
1T might be more accurate to
say" Mr.. White wrote, that recent
price increases are attempting to
compensate for past wage increases
which were foisted upon the public
behind a smoke screen set up by
phony economists and former De-
partment of Commerce New Dealers.
Sees No Cut in Costs.
With respect to the price Of steel,
Mr.. White said:
mot only have I not advocated
lower steel prices but, quite to the
contrary, I have publicly declared
and still do firmly believe that steel
prices are not high enough to assure
the industry of firm, financial ex-
perjence in the months and years
TO come-unless some material re-
duction in our present costs comes
about.
This certainly is not foreseeable
1T the present time"
1t was difficult to make an exact
of retail price changes.
The figures varied between cities
and even between stores in the same
;ity.
Analysts. however, agreed that
meats, butter and -four were well |
below the January peaks. ,3s
The Bureau of Labor Statistics,
reported the recent mar
,et slump brought "one of the
breaks" in its wholesale
Evening star., 1948-02-20
Potential Recruits to Join
Guard in Arms Drill

Several potential National Guard
recruits will be guests of Battery
A. 260th AAA Gun Battalion, Dis
trict National Guard, for small
arms practice Sunday at Ft. Meade,
Md.
They will leave at 9 am. from the
Armory with about so officers and
enlisted men Of the battalion and
will travel to Ft. Meade by jeep
and truck. The group will be un-
der the command Of Capt. A. L.
Greene.
Evening star., 1948-02-20
Williams
Continued From First Pag,

been announced, however, that he
wanted to pay his debts.
Accused of Taking Deposits.
Mr.. Heflin charged during the
trial that Williams accepted deposits
of $500 to $1,000 from 1873 veterans
on homes in three of the Williams
housing developments in Prince
Georges County, Md. The homes
Evening star., 1948-02-20
An Appeal to Congress
From 300, 900 American Farm Families

We are farners-the producers Of soybenns and cotton
taking this Of asking you do something
& belere TO be right and fair.
asking you repeal the Federal antimargnrine ncs
CLASS LEGISLATION
The legislation legislation 1t unfair and is
singles for special taxation product which Is made
entirely the 415eo of all fat used in
margarine S so,bean oil and 47.49o is cotonseed OIL
Margarine produc, singled and taxed
for the benef, of competitive product-buter
farmers
MAReARINE-A HEALTHFUL AMERICAN FOOD
legislation first passed the
public health
prevent fraudulent sale of margarine butter
nutritious productas wholesome and nutritious butte" Further
Drug Laws the labelling
all food products including margarine
THERE is NO RIGHT 70 COLOR
Some enemies margarine color They
that prevent being coored yellow
How, then, they explain the fact that most
artifcally coored yellow without penalty! Moreover
coored shades of yellow meet tastes
particular
pound eoored margarine.
behed The used in making naturally
yellow. This color has to be taken
have,h a the be
avoid the heavy federal Its
pettor can--and does-use artificial color freely.
the only food product which lays claim particular color
peemptive right yellow, lard have the
the right coIors used
before and other synthetic competitors along?
Buffers color argument doesn max sense.
AMED1RAA Gown
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DAIRY FARMER HOODWINKED

DAIRY FARMER HOODWINKED
We have no quarrel dairy OF dnmen
feel repeal of the laws
will hurt the dairy industry.
daryman price
result, years, production dein.
ing steadily.
daman, Nash, writing the Western Dairy
Journal for January,
antiquaed price dairy indus
with the fringe top in the automobile
industry We get results by podding along with
butter, which price sabiizer sinking ship if
there one"
THE GROWING SOYBEAN INDUSTRY
informed about and the 100000
farms in Ii states which produce it,
of the
.bean industry, particularly in the Middle West
Approximately
crop valued only 40 million dollars Last amounted
700 million dollars. The principal oybean Ohio Io"o
and Missouri In Illinois, the so,bean
crop worth than all the states dairy products
ANTI-MARGARINE LAWS INFLATIoNARY
the the repeal
the american people margarine
antimargarine They increase the Of
take time and trouble in coong
In 194 estimated that housewives wasted about
100000 pounds margarine stuck the sides of the
mixing bowl.
There single valid for the continuance OF this ea
repeal animargarine laws pending in
early measures
opportunity the
If this opportunity gpen and if the is understood,
confident that these la,cs ,cil be repealed.
M ASSOCIATION
'UNc1L OF AMERICA
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AMERICAN SoYBEAN ASSo(
NATIONAL COTTON COUNCIL OF
Evening star., 1948-07-18

i Pittsburgh; Pfc. George !. Budish
| Milwaukee, Wis: Pfc. Jerry Z. Herr.
man. Faulkton. s. OAK.
Pfc. Ralph Kerstein, Sag Harbor
N. r.; Pfc. Joseph d. Lindgren,
Hamburg, N. j.: Pfc. Harvey =. Mil
Ter, Bath, Pa: Pfc. Edward g. Ssuer,
indianapolis, Ind: Pfc. william B.
Singleton, Brilliant, Ohio; Pfc. Rich.
ard Z. Whitley, Norfolk. Va; Pvt.
Eugene H. Cariin, Winchester, Mass: {:
Pvt. Francis d. Gaarn, jr., Bronx,
N. Y; Pvt. Ralph L. Gromley, Gypsy,
Pa; Sergt. Frank =. Graham, Mar
lin, Tex; Pvt. Clair A. Rudy, State
College, Pa; Pfc. Robert q. Horne,
Exeter, N. H, and Pfc. william ].
Mcdonnell. Jersey City, N. j.
Color bearers who viii carry and
guard the colors during the long
procession Monday fro mthe Capi.
tol to Arlington Amphitheater are:
Sergt. Elmer B. Branderburg, l0l
Uhler terrace, Alexandra, Va. who
will carry the national colors; Sergt.
Joseph T. Nelson. New Bern, N. c..
bearer of Gen. Pershing's personal
flag: Pfc. walter Barnett, Briar
Hill, Pa, and Joseph I. Croyle.
Karns City. Pa. guards for the
national colors.
Members Of the firing party for
the committal services, all from the
3rd Infantry Regiment at Fort
Myer, are:
Sergt. Floyd L. Mc0ee. Corp.
Eugene d. Dunn; Corpl. Winfrey
Prater and Pics. Alfred r. Allen,
James r. Connor, Robert r. Barnes,
Alfred B. Bliss and Pasquale varal.
l..
Evening star., 1948-07-18
C.IO
Continued From First PageJ

guide" said. "The people-who
had stayed away from the polls In
1946 were the losers" <
The-CIO promised to revise its
guide" II Congress acts on "the
unfinished business" at the forth
coming session called by President
Truman. $
The labor organization cautioned
that its guide" should not be re
guarded rs q BLACK list" or purge
list" but as an aid to voters to de-
eide for themselves II Legislators
deserve another term in ONCE"
The guide" was published as part
of the "CIO News" the organisa-
tion's newspaper. A Federal grand
jury returned criminal indictments
against Mr.. Murray and the CIO
earlier this year for publishing cam
paign material in the News" be-
cause of q Taft-Hartley Act proW-
sion barring labor groups from max.
ing political expenditures"
However, the Supreme Court re.
Gently upheld dismissal CT the in
dictments. 1t held that labor or
ganizations have the right to print
political views In their publications.
Evening star., 1948-07-18
Sales Drop but Prices Hold
Firm on Furniture Man
~ the Associated Press


CHICAGO, July 17.-Attendance
and sales nosedived from wartime
highs but prices held firm at the
summer furniture market.
Oficials said buyer attendance at
the annual mid summer show,
which closed today, was estimated at
1880. That is the lowest since
1945. The show drew 2l,00 buyers
last summer.
Many manufacturers expressed
disappointment. They said sales
were below expectations. Some ex-
pected supplemental orders later on
would increase the total.
Generally, buyers were cautious.
The show developed into buyers
market and many representatives
of retail Arms went home without
spending their full quotas.
One manufacturer said demand
would raise sharply in the fall. He
said many retailers are holding Oh
now to clean up their inventories.