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Evening star., 1948-09-01
Greek Army Captures
Heights in Vitsi Sector
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

ATHENS, Sept. 1.-Greek troops,
slogging through hail and rain, have
captured more heights in the Vitsi
sector, communique said today.
The report said SO Communists
were killed, as opposed to seven
Loyalists. in fighting for the last
part of Greece still held by Markos
Vafiades.
The guerrilla radio declared last
night the army had such heavy
casualties in the Grammos and
SmolikaS Mountains campaign that
it cannot mount another large-scale
offensive this year.
The rebel communique, relayed to
London by the Yugoslav news agency
Tanjug. said the Politburo OF the
Greek Communist Central Commit
tee had reached this conclusion. 1t
declared the government lost more
than 10000 men. or 80 per cent of
its forces, in the mountain fighting.
The broadcast said the strategic
plan Of the "Anglo-Ameriean lead
ership and monarcho-f fascist head
quarters in essence did not succeed
Evening star., 1948-09-01
Priority-Free Surplus
Worth 400 Millions
Offered 10 All Corners
By the Associcfed Pyess

The War Assets Administration
today modified its priority system
and prepared to offer about S400,-
100000 Of war surplus goods ito all
comers."
Until now, purchasing preference
was granted to Federal agencies, vet
Grams, State and local governments
and nonprcfit hospitals and schools.
Priorities will be retained on
about 81 900, ,000, 900 worth of surplus
war plants and other real property,
WAA Administrator Jesse Larson
announced.
Services Needs Still Top.
Mr.. Larson stressed, however, that
the need of the armed services will
remain paramount" The Army,
Navy and Air Force may continue
to recapture goods they have de-
clared surplus and to buy other
goods, he said.
A WAA spokesman said the goods
now being offered priority free in
clude some cars and trucks, ma
chinery, electronic and radio equip
ment, few boats, very limited sup
plies of clothing and variety OF
other items Of varying age and con-
dition.
Under the priority protection, Mr..
Larson's statement said, veterans
bought equipment and supplies
worth more than $1000,000,000 to
set up small businesses or farms.
Clark Ruling Sought.
Schools acquired about $500 O00,-
900 worth of buildings, furniture,
laboratory and dormitory facilities,
he said. Much of this went at dis
counts of 40 to s5 per cent, under
WAA's system of cutting prices
where public benefits are involved
Mr.. Larson said he has asked At
torney General Clark to decide
whether it is still possible to con-
tinue public benefit" discounts to
public health institutions and
schools. Outright donations of sur
plus, in authorized cases, will be
continued, he said.
WAA's disposals to date amount
to about $4,000, 100000, of which
S14,OOO,O0O,O was sold or leased
and the rest donated. transferred or
scrapped Sales and leases have re-
covered $4,000, 100000 for the Treas
ury, or a return of about % cents
on each dollar of wartime cost.
Evening star., 1948-09-01
Newport News Man Found
Dead in Hotel Here

The body of a man identified as
Percival w. Britt of Newport News
Va, was found in his room at the
Harrington Hotel today.
r. v. Bryce. hotel manager. said
the discovery was made this morning
by Daisy johnson, maid who wen,
into the room when her knock was
not answered.
Described as about IS years old
Mr.. Britt was partly dressed anc
sitting in a chair. There we're indi-
cations he died of natural causes
He had registered at the hote
August 26, Mr.. Bryce said. The body
was taken to the morgue where ar
autopsy was to be performed to de.
termine the cause of death.
Evening star., 1948-09-01
Tax Cashier Cornelius
Case Goes 10 Grand Jury

The case of Robert A. Cornelius
former cashier in the office of thu
District collector of taxes, who re.
portedly disappeared for a day with
$50 of city money, was presented
to a grand jury yesterday.
1t was indicated the jury will
make a report on the case Monday
Cornelius was ordered dismissed
by Commissioner Guy Mason. The
cashier repaid the money but gave
no explanation.
Evening star., 1948-09-01
Man Killed When Struck
.By Truck Near Laurel

An unidentified man, about so, was
killed early today when struck by a
trailer truck as he was walking along
the Baltimore boulevard about 2
miles south of Laurel.
Maryland State police said the
man was walking on the right of the
road toward Washington when he
was hit by the truck travelling in the
same direction. His body was taken
to the Walters funeral home, Laurel.
Police quoted the driver, Benjamin
T. Linton, As, Chester, Pa, as saying
he did not see the man until he
was right on him" Linton was
charged with manslaughter and re-
leased under $1,000 bond pending a
hearing Friday in Laure. Police
Court.
Evening star., 1948-09-01
Macarthur Says laps
Are Morally Armed 10
Rebel TotaIitarianism
BY The Assoeiotsd Press

TOKYO. Sept. 1.-Gen. Mac
Arthur said today that Japan is
equipped with the moral weapons
Ito repel the totalitarian advance y
In a statement on the eve Of the
third anniversary of the formal sign
ing of Japan's surrender, the su-
preme Allied commander described
the occupied nation as IAN asset
upon which the free world may con-
fidently count"
Recalling the bright day of the
surrender signing aboard the Bat
tleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay Sep
tember 2, 1945, Gen. Macarthur said
the victorious powers-"with a sin
gleness of purpose"-met to insure
peace and erect upon Japanese soil
a baStion to the democratic concept. "
That bastion, he added, ''is now
in the advanced stage of erection,
but the singleness Of purpose among
the nations there represented no
longer exists ."
Called Oasis in Troubled World.
Fear grips the peoples of many
lands as the specter of war yet
hovers over the EARTH" he stated.
Gen. Macarthur linked Japan with
the South Korean Republic and the
republic OF the Philippines in "a
triangular buttress" for democracy
In Asia.
He said there need be no fear
concerning the future pattern of
japanese life"
And. today, those practical weap-
ons needed to. repeal the totalitarian
advance-liberty. dignity and oppor-
tunity-now safely rest in every
Japanese hand, and the nation has
thereby become an asset upon which
the free world may confidently count
1T stands as an oasis of relative
calm in a Troublesome and Turbu-
lent universe"
Sees Meeting of East, West.
The general said experience of the
past three years in Japan had dis
proved the argument that there
could be no cultural meeting be.
tween the East and the West.
! Instead, he continued, this ex-
perience shows there exists nc
dissimilarity whatsoever in the hopes
and aspirations and ultimate human
objectiVes' of all peoples.
! 1T emphasized again the immuta
BILE truism that sound ideas cannot
be stopped" he said.
TIE japanese people have done
their part, and, in the existing
circumstances, done it we'll. This
despite the austerity of life in the
wake of the tragedy of war ano
disaster and the theological clash
which impinges upon all mankind
Evening star., 1948-09-01

funeral OF MS
b e st Low d
brother.
H op e ! e S S ! Y
crippled for %
years, James was
dependent al
ways on others
for aid and COM
fort. The one
who took the
tenderest care of
him " a S his
young brother
Philip, "a.
A very deep
attachment de-
veloped between
Evening star., 1948-09-01
Comments Will. Be Asked
On Bay Bridge Changes
By the AssociCted Press

BALTIMORE, Sept. 1.-The Army
Engineers will ask for written COM
ments or objections to design
changes in the projected Chesa-
peake Bay bridge.
Col. w. w. Wanamaker, district
engineer, said today that no public
hearings will be held. Instead, a
public notice asking for comments
will be issued in the immediate
future, he explained.
He said the time limit for receiv-
ing written comments will be very
short because of the familiarity Of
all concerned with the project"
Evening star., 1948-09-01

increase per capita dues payments
to the national union from the
present 30-cent rate to 40 cents.
If approved by the Executive
Council this probably will mean
an increase in AFGE regular dues.
The present 50-cents-a- month rate
probably will be increased to go or
10 cents.
Delegates here are worried over
Ages low financial reserve. After
convention and other expense items
are paid for the unions reserve
funds won't amount to more than
a few thousand dollars, union off,
cial confided.
PAY SUPPORTING convention
last night was addressed by Senator
Myers. Democrat. of Pennsylvania
who declared that the recent $3.50
pay raise was insufficient and long
overdue"
Senator Myers defended the abil-
ity and achievements of Federal en-
ployes, declaring that critics of Gov
ernment employers ARE never
specific" in their criticisms.
Il am very proud of the Govern
ment service, just as you all are,
Senator Myers declared. ut strikes
me that, by and large-sure there
are some exceptions, but by ano
large-the devotion to service Of the
career worker is something to be
praised rather than condemned.
Il just do not like these blanket
accusations and eondemnations Of
Federal employees, because they art
not justified. They are libelous anc
slanderous and unfair, dirty mis-.
representations"
(Be sure to listen at 3.15 pm.
every Sunday oUer WMAL, The
Star station, for Joseph Young's
Federal Spotlight broadcast. tea-
turing additional ne,US and pieUs
OF Government affairs and per-
SOndIitieS
Evening star., 1948-09-01

there Is a def
mite possibility
that, if Mr.,
Burns is elected,
t h e ir loca ! s
would Sc c e d e
from the AFGE
to form another
in d e p e n d e n t
Federal workers
outfit, or will
move over to the
al National
F. e d e r a ton of
F e d e raj E m =
ployes.
Spokesman for
thu nrnl1n ic II
Evening star., 1948-09-01

B. Bannon, AFGE vice president
elect, from Atlanta, Ga.
A supporter of James Y. Yaden,
Civil Service Commission Official and
longtime AFGE power, who is also
running for the presidency. Mr..
Bannon charged that the Burns
administration had been a failure.
Mr.. Burns resigned several months
ago, after a dispute with his Execu-
tive Council, and Is now seeking to
regain his job.
THE union has lost ground badly
during the last two years, and it's
because of Mr.. Burns lack of ability
as an administrator" Mr.. Bannon
declared. If the union is to get on
its feet again, we need new leader
Mr.. Burns supporters retorted
that the threat to leave the union
is IAN idle one" The Burns faction
contends that Mr.. Burns, 'if he is
free OF reactionary Executive
Council" he can give the union pro-
gressive trade union leadership.
| CONFLICTING CLAIMS-Both
the Burns and Yaden factions
claimed enough votes for victory in
the balloting, which will start to-
morrow and wind up the AFGE
biennial convention.
Another dark-horse candidate
entering the race is Joseph Dunn, a
Treasury Department employe from
Kentucky Reports still persisted
today that Mr.. Yaden will withdraw
and swing his support to one of the
dark-horse candidates. Mr.. Yaden
however, denied the report. ,
PAY-A resolution calling for
cost-of-living pay increases for
Government employees was being
drafted today by the convention S
Resolutions Committee.
Mrs. Bernice B. Heffner, the
unions secretary-treasurer, declared
that Government employees are still
getting the worst of it in the con-
slant battle to maintain a decent
standard of living"
although Federal workers won a
$3.50 pay boost recently, the amount
wasn't nearly enough to combat
today's inf1ationary prices" she said
The convention also is expected
to approve resolution calling for
liberalization of the Civil Service
Retirement Act, with a lower re-
tirement age, probably 55.
DUES INCREASE-The Resolu-
tions Committee approved and sent
TO the Executive Council a plan to
Evening star., 1948-09-01
Weather Report

District of District-Sunny and
dry with high about rs. Clear and
cool again tonight, with low about
81. Tomorrow sunny with high
about 80.
Maryland and Virginia-Clear
and cool again tonight. Tomorrow
sunny with moderate temperature.
Wind velocity, miles per hour;
direction. north.
District Medical Society ragweed
pollen count for "a hours ending 9
am. September l-240 grains per
cubic yard of air.
River ReDort.
fFrom United States Ensineers)
Potomac River muddy at HarperS Ferry
and cloudy. at Great Falls; Shenandoah
cloudy at HarperS Ferry
Evening star., 1948-09-01
The Federal Spotlight
Number ofAFGE Units Threaten
Bolt If Convention Elects Burns
The Federal Spotlight
BY Joseph Young

Sept IA number Of locals of American
Federation of Government Employees today threatened
the union ared the bitter fight
presidency.
delegates opposing the election of Burns
Evening star., 1948-09-01
BY the Associated Press

DETROIT, Sept. L. ] a m
O'Brien, Al, cripple most of his
life, was determined to go to the
Evening star., 1948-09-01

warned Inat tTlelr I0ugeS may WlCH-
draw from the union If Mr.. Burns
is elected.
These anti-Burns delegates said
Evening star., 1948-09-01

H1kh ana Low TOT ttsttfdAy,
High 80, at 80 pm.
Low, 90, at 1859 pm.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest. %. on August %.
Lowest. 5. on January 26.
Evening star., 1948-09-01

Cyprus. experimenting with silk
worms, will rear "a different races
at Galata.
, 1948-06-12
CERTIFICATE.
Civic Association.

Civic Association.
Miss Burnett holds a num-
Der Of citations, one from New
York citys's public School No.
157, in which the principal
Miss Sadie Basset, writes in
part that Miss Burnet is pains
taking and conscientious" and
has undertaken voluntarily
certain administrative duties
Of great value to the school,.
Also, that she has lectured in
"In-Service" courses to tea
cheers and, children who have
been for the other teachers
recalcitrant and disorderly,
become good school citizens
when Miss Burnet takes them
under her wing"
, 1948-06-12
/. RADIO STATION.

ming the station. BY selling
radio sets at cost the expects
to make an estimated income
of $21,370. Class A time would
be sold for $40 an hour, with
a half-minute spot during the
same hours for fifty cents. Mr..
Greer has also asked permis-
sion to rebroadcast CHS shows
by transcription.
Rules of the FEC requires
that stations have power of at
least $50 watts, with 100 watt
minimum in unusual circum-
stances.
, 1948-06-12
Arab Jews Charge Each
With Kiolatiou

Both the Arabs and Jews
have charged each other with
violation of the truce agree
ments. Count Bernadotte, who
had been expecting these ac-
cusations, launched investiga-
lions in each case immediate
~.
Members of the group to-
act as observers are optimistic
over the results, thus far, de-
spite the statement of the
Arabs that they will never
agree to the setting up of a
Jewish state in Palestine.
, 1948-06-12
TOTEM CABLES.

Germ at emergency mass meet
ing held here last night i'm
mediate need for supplement-
al appropriations 100000 to
prevent collapse Of essential
public services in islands. I
am instructed to wire request
that you permit Subj Commit
tee our Supervisory Board to
meet with your committee on
Appropriations before adjourn
ment of Congress and conven-
ton of Republican Party.
Please reply Suite 3O1-217
West 125th Street, New York"
, 1948-06-12
NEW YORK
s0TH ANNIVERSARY

Today the people Of New
York are celebrating the Col
den anniversary of that great
metropolis. More than forty
thousand people will march in
parades, with over 500 vehi-
cles and led by 100 bands.
, 1948-06-12
NTRA

Regarding Municipal def
cts the President and the Bur
eau of the Budget have sent
a request for $4,000 appro-
priation including deficits to
maintain services.
The Governor said that
there is some hope but it has
not yet been reported out by
the Senate Committee.
, 1948-06-12
NOTICE

TO ALL OF
DIRECT URREN WITHIN
THE cHRISTIANSTED
TOWN AND SUBURBS
You are hereby advised that
on Monday June 18th. 1913
there will be a disruption in
the service between the hours
Of $500 Am. to loo Pm. on
said day.
ST. Croix Power Authority
Reuben A. Neazer, Chairman
Evening star., 1948-01-13
$4,000 Injury Award
To Woman Against
Falls Church Upheld

The Virginia Supreme Court of
Appeals yesterday approved $l2,
600 personal injury award to Mrs.
Thomas E. Myers of Falls Church,
against the town of Falls Church.
The court sustained a motion OF
Mrs. Myers counsel to dismiss a
writ of error which had been granted
the town, thereby compelling the
town to pay the award fixed by a
Fairfax County jury, the Associated
Press reported.
Mrs. Myers sued for $4,000 dam
ages attributed to a fall in Septem-
Der, 1945. She blamed the accident
on a hole in the Annandale road.
Made Budget Provision.
Falls Church contended the State
was accountable for conditions OF
the pavement at the point OF the
accident.
Town authorities had made a
budgetary provision for the $4,000
award in event the Supreme Court
verdict favored Mrs. Myers. but an
official said such claims might bank
rupt small towns and cause some
to give up their charters.
The States high court failed to
hand down an opinion in the ap-
peal of Lottie E. Taylor from judg-
ment of the Circuit Court of Fair
fax County, as test case to deter
mine if Virginia's disorderly con-
duct statute can be used to enforce
racial segregation in buses.
$4,000 Injury Award.
The court held that prospective
buyers of real estate in Virginia
should not be compelled to go
through with their purchases if a
City Council rezones property and
thus prevents the use of the realty
for the would-be buyers original
purposes.
Roanoke Decree Upheld
! The decision, upheld decree OF
| the Roanoke law and Chancery
Court in the case of Pearl c. Clay
VS.. w. p. Landreth and G. M. Ty-
singer. ..-.
The high court action also in
cluded
John r. Henderson III VS.. Doris
Lushbaugh Henderson, from the
Circuit Court of Loudoun County,
reversed In part and remanded.
Evening star., 1948-01-13
B|adensburg Fireman
Burned in Rescue

A Prince Georges County volunteer
fireman suffered burns and was over
come by smoke while rescuing man
in a house fire yesterday afternoon
at Glenarden, Md.
The injured fireman is Wilmer
Tippett, "a, of Ardmore, Md. a
member of the Bladensburg Fire
Department for more than 10 years.
He was burned while assisting T. W.
Elkinridge, colored occupant OF the
house, from the blazing one-story
frame and brick bungalow.
Mr.. Elkinridge, who is police chief
of the Glenarden community, was
attempting to retrieve personal pos
sessions from the house when he
became overcome from smoke. Mr.
Tippett found him collapsed on the
kitchen floor, firemen reported.
The fireman was taken to the
Prince Georges General Hospital
Cheverly, where he was treated fol
minor burns on his face and then
released. The man he rescued die
not require disqualification, flremer
said.
Six volunteer fire departments
Bladensburg, Cottage City, West
Lanham Hills, Glenn Dale, Hyatts.
vile and Capitol Heights-respondee
to the blaze, which started when an
oil stove exploded in the kitchen.
Firemen estimated damage al
$1,000.
Evening star., 1948-01-13
Two Hurt Near ChantiIIy
As Car Leaves Road

Two men were injured last night
when their car went out of control
and crashed into a culvert on Route
so near Chantilly, Va.
The Herndon Rescue Squad
brought William Foster, So, of the
1000 block of Bank street NV. and
George L. Howe, 48, of Fulton, Md,
to Emergency Hospital. Mr.. Foster
suffered broken leg and face cuts.
Fairfax police said he was driving
the car.
Mr.. Howe suffered head and leg
injuries.
Fairfax police said Mr.. Foster
told them he lost control of his
car as he attempted to pass a
tractor
Evening star., 1948-01-13
CAPITAL Transit Fare
Fiqht Before P. ). {.
Enters Final Stage
By a Staff Correspondent Of The stor


BALTIMORE, Jan. 13.- Public
hearings in the Capital Transit Co. S
fare increase case entered their final
stage today before the Maryland
Public Service Commission.
The commission planned to re-
ceive testimony from Prince Georges
County residents who contend they
would be saddled with 80 per cent
of the increases asked, and from
other groups objecting to the rate
revisions.
The Public Service Commission
already has taken under advisement
related Capital Transit petition
seeking authority for abandonment
of the Branchville-Beltsville trolley
service. In hearings concluded
Thursday, the utility reported II
loses $4,000 annually on the trolley
line but the estimate was ques-
toned by protesting patrons.
The transit company moved fol
higher fares on Montgomery ano
Prince Georges County vehicles by
filing a new tariff schedule in No
vember. Under the law, the rates
would have become effective in 81
days unless the Public Service Com
mission blocked them.
To accomplish this, the PSC
stayed the new tariff pending it,
own investigation and a decision ir
the case. The staying order runs
until April II.
Prince Georges organization:
sought unsuccessfully last week tt
have the proceedings dismissed
The transit company and the PSC
pointed out that to drop the matter
now would have the effect of legal.
lzing the proposed higher fares
since the original 30-day period ha!
nasSnd
Evening star., 1948-01-13
North Highlands Group
Elects Officers Tonight

Officers OF the North Highland
Citizens Association, will be elected
at a meeting tonight in the First
Nazarene Church, Arlington.
The groups Nominating Commit.
tee has presented the following
candidates: Hugh Miller. jr.. for
president; Darcy Harvey, for vice
president; Cy Briggs. for secretary.
and Mrs. Sam Kirnble, for treasurer.
Other nominations may be MADE
from the floor. .---. --
Evening star., 1948-01-13
Prince Georges Board
Studies 6 Applications
For Liquor Licenses

Six applications for licenses to sell
alcoholic beverages, including one
previously denied, will be consid-
cred by the Prince Georges County
Board of Liquor License Commis-
sioners at 10 am. Thursday in the
county courthouse, Upper Marlboro.
The board, which will be meeting
for the first time in two months,
also will consider four applications
for transfer of license ownership.
The application coming up for
the second time, by virtue OF a
county regulations permitting re-
jected applicants to re-apply after
a six-month waiting period, is that
of Carmine S. Bellino, Frank M.
Hines and Helen McGarvey Saul
for a license to sell beer and light
wine at the Fat Boy. Jr., Restau-
rant, 1906 Southern avenue, Brad
bury Heights.
The petition for similar license
was turned down by the county
board last May %, following oppo-
sition from residents of the area.
The refusal was later upheld by
the Maryland State Bureau of Lii
censes after an appeal.
Other new permits are sought by
the following:
w. M. Richardson, beer, wine and
liquor, off sale, for the Old Toll
House, Marlboro pike, Mellwood;
Ralph and Margaret D'Amica, beer
and light wine, on sale. for Dee's
Restaurant. Three Naples, Balti-
more boulevard, Beltsville; Paul S
Swami, beer, wine and liquor, on
sale, for Swann's, 8706 Livingston
road, Chapel Hills; Jacob I. Sha-
piro, beer, wine and liquor, off sale
for Shadyside Liquors, IL Southern
avenue, Capitol Heights; Alton C.
Nicholson, beer, wine and liquor, of
sale, for r. g. N. Liquors, Ritchie
road, Ritchie, and Joseph H. Bom-
stein, beer, wine and liquor, off sale
for Maryland Delicatessen, Inc, 3703
Bladensburg road, Colmar Manor.
The following transfers are re-
QueSted:
Maurice and David Bomstein
from David Bomstein. beer, or
sale, at Maryland Park Market, 502
Sixty-f1fth street, Maryland Park;
Fred j. and Jessie M. Schneider and
r. r. Miliner, from r. r. Miliner
beer, on sale. at Curfew, Inc, Balti-
more boulevard, Muirkirk; Bernard
M. Underwood, jr., from Charles A
Straining, beer, wine and liquor. on
safe, at Railroad Inn, Washington
avenue, Bowie. and Nathan P. and
Helen Cohan and Kenneth j
Veatch, from Hugh J. Crawley, beer
wine and liquor, on sale, from
Reds" Cohan's Bar and Steak
house, Inc, Rhode Island avenue
Brentwood.