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Evening star., 1948-04-07
Senate Unanimously Confirms
Hoffman as Aid Administrator
He Voices Hope Skeleton Organization
At ,ost Will Be Set Up Within Week

week. BY that time, and possibly
by tomorrow. a deputy administra-
tor and rowing ambassador will be
named, Mr.. Hoffman said.
Lewis w. Douglas, Ambassador to
Great Britain, has been mentioned
as a likely choice for the ambassa-
dorship. The post involves making
arrangements with the 16 Western
European nations to benefit by the
huge self-help program,
. Mr.. Hoffman said he has no idea
who will be chosen. He has dis
cussel two or three men as possible
deputy administrators, but he did
not name them.
He has no plans to visit Europe
any time soon, Mr.. Hoffman said,
because there will be a great deal
of work to do here.
Vandenberg Praises Choice.
Before the Senate committee met
today, Chairman Vandenberg, a
friend of Mr.. Hoffman, left no doubt
where he stands.
Il think it is a sound and able
choice" he said. I'm discussing this
vital appointment with many citi-
zens during the last three months,
Hoffman's name has been suggested
more often than any other, and al
ways favorably."
Mr.. Hoffman said the administra-
tor for economic co-operation-the
title he will bear-should have wide
Sec EOREICN Am pooo A-o0
Evening star., 1948-04-07
BY the Assoeiofed Press

The Senate confirmed Paul G.
Hoffman to direct the European
Recovery Program today. The
action came only a few hours
after the nomination was re-
ceived and just four days after
enactment of the $5,300,000, 900
plan to help Western Europe
back on its feet.
The action was unanimous and by
voice vote. That required suspension
of the Senate rules, Nominations
ordinarily must await action for a
day. President Truman signed Mr..
Hoffmans nomination while watch
ing the Army Day parade yesterday
The Senate acted within 35
minutes after its Foreign Relations
Committee approved Mr.. Hoffman,
13 to 0.
Mr.. Hoffman, president of the
Studebaker Corp, met with commit
tee members for about an hour and
a half behind closed doors before
the vote was taken.
Emerging from the meeting, the
56-year-old automobile manafac-
turer, who is Republican, told re-
porters:
"They asked me lot of questions
and tried to answer them"
Mr.. Hoffman said he hopes to
have at least the skeleton of the
new organization set up within a
Evening star., 1948-04-07
Former GAO Aide Killed
By Train in Gaithersburq

George Ninas, 10, Gaithersburg,
Md, a former assistant to the gen.
eral counsel of the General Ac-
counting ONCE, was killed instantly
today when he stepped into the
path of a speeding train in front
of the Baltimore g. Ohio Railroad
Station at Gaithersburg.
j. H. Orme, station, agent, said
Mr.. Ninas apparently stepped in
front of the train from behind a
boxcar. The train was the Wash
en- route to Pittsburgh
from Washington. Mr.. Orme said
Mr.. Ninas' body was dragged about
rs yards by the locomotive.
Montgomery County police said
Mr.. Ninas had been in i'll health
and lived with his wife at the
home of Jack Watson.
According to GAO officials, Mr..
Ninas retired from Government
service in January, 1943, afte.
working at the agency since 1880.
Besides his widow, he is survived
by a son, George Ninas, jr., 100
Allan road, Yorktown Village,
Bethesda.
Evening star., 1948-04-07
Reds Charge British Transport
Caused Collision Over Berlin
English Deny Regulations Were Violated;
Soviet Extends Control to Parcel Post

airliner and a Soviet fighter
plane over Berlin Monday.
The British rejected the charge
as "palpably untrue"
At the same time, the Russians
indicated they would not bulge
from their basic position in the Ber-
lin crisis. This was underscored by
these developments:
l. The Russians boycotted two
more committees of the Kom-
mandatura, four-power governing
body in Berlin. They snubbed the
Fuel Committee and the Committee
on Building and Housing.
2. An American licensed German
newspaper, Der TagesspiegeL said
the Russians had extended their
traffic restrictions to parcel post be-
Evening star., 1948-04-07
Striking Cairo Nurses
Are Subdued byPoIice
By the As,oeio,ed Press

CAIRO, Egypt. April 1.-Two
thousand Cairo police, using ma
chine guns and tear gas, subdued
striking male nurses entrenched on
the roof of Egypt's largest hospital
today.
Advancing under a shower of
stones hurled by the strikers, the
police seized 200 of them, including
Is who were wounded by machine
gun bullets.
Ten police machine gunners fired
at least 1000 rounds to cover the
policemen's advance into the Kasr
el Eini Hospital grounds. The
strikers had locked the big iron
gates of the grounds at noon and
had kept the police at bay for
almost two hours.
Smoke poured from the hospital
building from fires in the labora-
tories which police said were started
by the strikers. There were several
hundred patients in the hospital at
the time of the outburst.
The 200 male nurses have been
demanding higher pay. They seized
control Of the hospital this morning.
Evening star., 1948-04-07
Stassen's Sweep in Wisconsin
Hands Dewey Major Setback
Virtually Eliminates Macarthur
New Yorker Fails
To Win Delegate,
General Gets 7
By Gould Lincoln

The victory of former Gov.
Harold E. Stassen of Minnesota
in yesterdays Wisconsin primary
virtually eliminates Gen. Doug
las Macarthur from the race for
the Republican presidential NOM
ination and puts check on the
drive of Gov. Thomas E. Dewey
of New York toward such a NOM
ination.
Late returns promised Mr.. Stas-
sen at least 20 of Wisconsin's q
delegates to the Republican Ma
tional Convention.
Gen. Macarthur continued to lead
in contests for Z delegates. Gov.
Dewey was running behind ali along
7 the line and faced a almost certain
shut out similar to that OF the late
Wendell Willkie in 1914.
Representative Miller, of Nebraska,
Macarthur leader in that State,
gave added color to the idea that
Evening star., 1948-04-07
Initiation Control Need
Increasing, Truman
Told by Advisers
Tax Cut, Defense Spending
Cited BY Dr.. Nourse in
New Economic Report
By Joseph. A. Fox

President Truman's top eco
nomic advisers warned today
that the need for anti-infiation
controls is greater now than it
was three months ago.
After the Council Of Economic
Advisers had called at the White
House to present its quarterly
resume of economic conditions
throughout the country, DR.. Edwin
G. Nourse, the chairman, answered
with an emphatic "yes" when asked
If the need for standby wage and
price controls advocated by Presi-
dent Truman last fall had grown
since the council submitted its last
report early in January.
DR.. Nourse said that this point
was made in the report, which will
be submitted to the cabinet for
AlNdS.
He said that new factors enter
ing into the picture were the S4,-
300 900, 900 tax cut and the pros
pective heavy expenditures for de-
fense purposes.
Crop Conditions Better.
The economic advisers also gave
the President the first copy OF
Economic Indicators" a document
it is intended to issue monthly on
economic trends.
DR.. Nourse said that "we're too
poor" to make general distribution
Of the data unless Congress author
ICES it, but that the mater would
have limited circulation in the Gov
ernment.
The economic chief said crop
conditions are better, but that he
looked for 10 per cent drop in
meat supply by fall. A favorable
factor in this latter situation, he
said, was the consumer resistance
to high meat prices.
Chairman Wolcott of the House
Banking Committee served advance
notice earlier today that it would be
futile for the White House to ask
now for revived curbs on the domes-
tic economy.
No Curbs Needed, Wolcott Says.
Some members of Congress have
been predicting that the council
will recommend once more the en-
actment of standby powers to re-
impose wage-price controls and ra-
tioning-both to consumers and to
industry.
But Mr.. Wolcott SAID f1atly he car
see no immediate need for planning
any such course.
I'm fact" he told reporters. "we
are living in false economy where
prices in some fields are high de-
spite a plentiful supply. Many
prices are unnaturally high.
Some prices apparently are stay.
ing up merely on the expectation oi
the effect military spending anc
foreign aid may have on the econ
omy."
Evening star., 1948-04-07
(see FINLAND, Page A-51
Divorce Defendant Kills
Wife, Lawyer, Wounds Sell
Rx The Assaeinted Prs.,

FAIRMONT, w. Va, April IA
Fairmont man, defendant in a
divorce suit, shot and killed his wife
and her attorney here today, and
then turned his pistol on himself.
He is not expected to live.
Coroner D. E. Kidd said Ernie Lee
Yost. IS, fatally shot his wife, Nellie
Marie Yost, during a conference in
the Office of Attorney Tucker Mo-
roose, and then killed Mr.. Moroose
when he attempted to interfere.
Yost then sat down in an Office
chair. lighted a cigarette, then shot
himself in the head, the coroner
said. He was taken to Fairmont
State Hospital
There were no witnesses to the
shooting. Mr.. Moroose's secretary,
Mrs. Joe Corley, was in the outer
office when it occurred and immedi-
ateiy ran to nearby ofiice to give
the alarm.
Evening star., 1948-04-07
Italian Reds Reported
Losing Ground; New
Campaign Move Seen
Spectacular Propaganda
Action Is Expected in
Effort to Switch Votes
By the Associofed Press

ROME, April Uniformed
American observers said today
the Communists are losing
ground in the campaign for
Italy's fateful April 18 parlia-
mentary elections.
They expect some spectacular last
minute propaganda move by the
Communists.
"Our big anti Communist drive in
Italy began three weeks ago. It was
well timed and the proposal to re-
turn Trieste to Italy came at just
the right moment to shift votes.
Things are going against the Com
munists now. They must have
something to help. 1t Is hard to
change the votes in the last three
weeks Of the campaign. It will have
to be something big"
There was some speculation that
Russia might agree to Trieste's re-
turn If the Western Allies would re-
turn African colonies to Italy.
Another guess is that Russia may
try to convince Italy that the
United States is planning war
against Russia which would involve
Italy.
Labor Split Threatened.
The Marshall Plan threatened to
split the munist-dominated
Italian General Labor Confederation
wide open.
Already many of its 5000. 600
members feel the choice in the April
18 parliamentary elections has be-
come the Marshall Plan-synonym
for America-against Russia.
Last night a minority group OF
the confederation, many OF whose
members are not Communists or
pro- Communist Socialists, asked the
Executive Committee to reconsider
its opposition to the Marshall Plan.
1t also protested a strike call for
next Monday by the considerations
Executive Committee.
The minority action was regarded
by some as pointing UP long
threatened split in the confedera-
tons ranks. The group protested
an Executive Committee manifesto
which declared the killing of Sc
Sicilian labor leaders in the past
two years was the work of the Malta
BLACK Hand, whose network "ex-
tends through large spheres of state
authority"
Strike to Last One Hour.
The nationwide general strike
was threatened after Sicilian labor
leader was killed by nachinegun
bullets. The Executive Committee
of the labor group told the govern
ment that unless Placido Rizzuto,
missing Sicilian Communist. Is
found, the strike will be called. 1t
originally had been set for Thurs
day, but was postponed
Under the new plan the Monday
strike will be for one hour, from 10
to IL am.
Evening star., 1948-04-07
Traffic Dispute
Provides Tulsa
With New Mayor
By the Assoeiotsd Press

TULSA, Okla, April Tulsa will
have a new Democratic Mayor on
May largely because of a reckless
driving dispute at police headquar-
ters two months ago.
Roy Lundy, 10, retired lumberman,
lost the argument when one of his
drivers was arrested and police re-
fused Mr.. Lundy's personal check
for S100 bond. A few days later the
pioneer lumberman filed for Mayor.
Yesterday he defeated Republican
Mayor Lee Price, 17,755 votes to
1872, in one of the city's bitterest
elections. All but two Republicans
were swept from other offices.
Main issue of the campaign was
. $50, ,000, 900 cross-town expressway
Mr.. Lundy promised to kill plans
for it 80 minutes after taking office.
Evening star., 1948-04-07
Finland S Parliament
10 Ratify
Soviet Pact Quickly
independence Guarantee
And Russian Concessions
Are Hailed by Firms
BY the Assoeiated Press

HELSINKI, Finland, April T.
Helsinki political sources today
predicted swift ratification of
the new Soviet Finnish mutual
aid treaty.
They expressed the opinion Par
Lament might give its approval by
the end of next week. The new
treaty was signed last night in Mos
COW.
President Juho K. Paasikivi is ex-
pected to put all his personal pres
tige behind drive for smooth con-
clusion of the pact, which most
Firms regard as a good deal: They
got concessions from the Russians
and they kept their political inde-
pendence.
In Moscow, the Finnish delegates
who negotiated the treaty during
the last two weeks, prepared for
their final official duties and for a
round of toasts and speeches at a
gala dinner given by Prime Minis
ter Stain tonight.
Mr.. Stain personally proposed
the treaty in a letter to Mr.. Paasi-
kivi on February %.
Independence Guaranteed.
A majority of Parliament is need
ed for ratification. There are zoe
members, divided as follows: 81
Popular Democrats Communists
and pro-Moscow Social Democrats)
48 Social Democrats, 48 Agrarians
20 Conservatives, Is Swedish Party
and 9 Liberals. The first three
parties comprise the government
bloc.
Russian ratification of the treaty
Is a foregone conclusion.
The opening clause of the new
treaty spells out Finiand's terri
torial independence If either coun-
try becomes the object of aggression
It says that if either is attack
ed by Germany or another state
allied with her, Finland will fight
But it specifies that Finnish forces
will stay within Finland's territorial
Evening star., 1948-04-07
By james Y. Newton

John L. Lewis, and his United
Mine Workers today asked Dis
trict Court to dissolve and va
cate" it's restraining order which
directed the union to end forth
with the Nation wide soft coal
strike, now in it's oath day.
Justice T. Alan Goldsborough, who
fined Mr.. Lewis and the UNIV for
contempt in December, 1916, re-
ceived the petition and set Monday
for hearing on the plea.
Justice Goldsborough's Office said
his action automatically holds up
the effect of the temporary restrain
ing order issued Saturday by Justice
Matthew Mcclure against the "a
day-old strike.
The Justice Department had been
planning to ask contempt citation
against Mr.. Lewis and the UNIV
for ignoring the order. The ques-
ton whether the department would
proceed. in view of Justice Colds
borough's action, was not immedi-
ately answered.
Mr.. Lewis lawyers had asked for
a hearing Friday, but Justice Colds
borough put it off until 10 am.
Monday.
On that day, Justice Goldsborough
also Is scheduled to hear the Gov
ernment's request for preliminary
injunction to replace the restrain
ing order, which expires Tuesday.
Attorneys for Mr.. Lewis and the
union filed the motion at IL am.
The petition stated that the
Mcclure order abridged the consti-
tutional rights of the 400, 900 miners
to work or not work as they pleased
and hence would impose involuntary
servitude on them.
Meeting Set for Today.
In the petition the UNIV stated.
violation of the miners right
to stop work and freedom from
involuntary servitude is explicit
| in the courts (Justice Nc.
Guire's) direction that the union
shall order the miners to return to
their employment. Since the court
may not legally commit the union
members employed in the bitumi-
nous coal fields to involuntary servi-
tude it may not legally effectuate
such result through its mandatory
order that defendants accom-
plish such status for the unions
members"
Justice McGuire's order also di-
rected the soft coal operators to
bargain with Mr.. Lewis on the dis
pute over a miners pension which
caused the mine shutdown March
Is.
A negotiating session between the
disputants was still set for 2:30 to-
day, although neither Mr.. Lewis OF
the operators had complied with the
conditions that each set up for such
conference.
After filing today's petition, Mr..
Lewis wrote the operators letter
saying the UNIV would be repre-
sented, but describing the session
Evening star., 1948-04-07
Bigger Air Force
Voted, 80, by
Full Committee
Program Could Stort
With Appropriation,
Sponsors Declare
By J. A. o'Leory

The move to expand the Air
Force from SIS to 70 group
strength received another boost
today when the House Armed
Services Committee voted, % to
0, for the proposal.
Action came on approval of a
resolution adopted unanimously yes
terday by a member sub
committee.
Chairman Andrews Of the full
committee said copies of the reso-
luton will be sent to President
Truman, Secretary of Defense For
restal and House Speaker Martin.
Sponsors say the 70-group pro-
gram could be started without new
basic legislation if the Budget Bu-
reau would submit to the House
Appropriations Committee an addi-
tional request for $2,388, ,0OO,0 900 for
the next IL months. That would
raise the total air force budget for
next year to SIS, ,442 900, 900.
Forrestal Questioned.
While the House committee was
acting, Secretary Forrestal and the
top-ranking Air Force officers were
in closed session with the Senate
Armed Services Committee, which is
seeking more information on the
manpower needs of the whole mill
tary establishment before acting on
revival of the draft and establish
ment of universal military training
Mr.. Forrestal told the Senate
committee last week he was not
ready at this time to recommend the
70 group air strength program, but
was not foreclosing the possibility
he might later request that or some
alternative air expansion program.
In his letter to the committee
Mr.. Forrestal contended that ex-
pansion of the Air Force should be
accompanied by a balanced enlarg-
ment OF other parts of the national
defense organization and that the
ultimate cost Of going up to 10 air
groups would be $4,000, ,000, 900
more than last years military
budget.
Whether this session of Congress
will follow through on the 70 an
group program may be decided with
in the next two weeks, when the
House Appropriations Committee
brings out the national defense
money bill.
Supplementary Units Needed.
The House Armed Services Com
mittee, in its resolution today
agreed with Mr.. Forrestal that the
term 40 group" air strength refers
only to combat groups and would
have to be supplemented by q Ma
tional Guard groups and "a Air
Reserve groups.
Mr.. Andrews told newsmen the
House committee will begin hear
ingS Monday on proposed revival
Of the draft. He pointed out his
committee already has approved a
separate universal military training
bill
House leaders, however, have left
it sidetracked in the Rules Com
mittee, which must give the green
light before it can come up on the
floor. The Senate Armed Services
Committee is working on a COM
bined draft and UNIT bill.
Meanwhile, the Joint Congress.
sional Air Policy Board made public
Evening star., 1948-04-07

Gen. MacArthur'S failure to sweep
Wisconsin would bring about his
withdrawal. Mr.. Miller told re-
porters:
Macarthur may see fit, in view
of this slap in the face, to withdraw
Hoyt Blames Light Vote.
Lansing Hoyt, who heads the ma
tional Macarthur Clubs, issued a
statement in Milwaukee blaming the
generals showing on a light vote.
Mr.. Hoyt, who seemed likely to be
elected as a Macarthur delegate,
also said that the general would
have won If he had made personal
appearance in the State.
Stassen candidates for delegate
st large STAYED off, with rally, a
challenge of two Macarthur candi-
dates with 2,619 of the States 3,l38
precincts reported, the lowest man
on the Stassen slate of seven
widened his vote margin over the
top man on Gen. MacArthur's slate
to 1862.
The tabulation, which included
800 of 579 precincts in Milwaukee
County, where Gen. MacArthur's
delegates ran well, gave the top
Stassen at-large delegate, Walter j.
Kohler, jr.. 192,007 votes.
The low Stassen candidate, George
Greeley, had 168962 votes. This
compared with 10000 chalked up
by Fred R. Zimmerman, leading
Macarthur candidate.
In the contest for the 20 district
delegates-two in each congress
sional district-Mr. Stassen is lead
ing in 13 and Gen. Macarthur in Z.
With no. Dewey delegate victory
in sight, the Wiconsin primary is a
severe blow to the prestige of the
New York Governor, who has been
rated the leading candidate for the
Republican presidential nomination.
If the Stassen lead persists and
Gen. Macarthur fails to win a ma
jority of Wisconsins q delegates to
the Republican National Conven-
ton, the Macarthur presidential
Evening star., 1948-04-07
Stossen Tells Voters
He's Sorry He Had to
Oppose Macarthur
BY the Assoeioted Press

MINNEAPOLIS, April T.
Harold E. Stassen today
Thanked the Wisconsin voters
and expressed regret that he
had to compete with Gen. Mac
Arthur in his "home" State.
Il am humbly thankful to
the people of Wisconsin for
their exceptional VOTE" Mr..
Stassen said. 1T will be my
constant effort to see to it that
they never have cause to regret
this early and valuable sup
port.
II sincerely regret that the
action Of a group of citizens in
entering the name of a great
general, Douglas Macarthur, in
the primary made it necessary
for me to be in position of
rivalry on the ballot, as I have
a very high personal regard for
this distinguished leader of our
armed forces"
Evening star., 1948-04-07
|Conferees Knock Out
$4,000 10 Complete
New D. {. Master Plan
Special Census Shows
20% Of Families Here
Earn $3.50 or Less

The Districts redevelopment
program was dealt a blow today
when House and Senate con-
ferees on the Independent Off,
ces bill knocked out an item of
$4,000 for the completion Of a
Capitals master plan" on which
it must be based.
But. as this action was being
taken, another prerequisite of the
program was completed when the
Census Bureau made report or
the income of District families. II
shows that 20 per cent of families
here have an income of $3.50 a yea,
or less.
The Redevelopment Act of 1916
laying the groundwork for slun
clearance here, called for the prep
aration Of the master plan. In ad-
dition, it limited public housing tc
families whose income falls within
the lowest 20 per cent of the act
It created the District Land Re-
development Agency which is tc
carry out the program under a $20,-
600, 900 developing fund not yet ap-
propriated.
The Census Bureau began the
income study in February at the re-
quest of the District Commissioners
who lacked the facilities to do the
job themselves.
Senate Had Restored Fund.
The $4,000 item for the master
plan was eliminated when the House
and Senate conferees met today
The House, in it's actions on the
supply bill, had denied requested
funds for the National Capital Park
and Planning Commission for both
the master plan and beginning o1
construction work. The Senate re-
stored the fund for planning, but
It's managers were defeated today ir
the conference with the House.
The conferees, however, are rec.
ommending congressional approval
Of Senate item of $159, 900 for the
commission for park land purchase
in nearby Maryland. They also
added to the bill $1,000, 900 to com.
plete the Public Roads Administra.
ton research laboratory in nearby
Virginia,
D. C. Average $3,S25.
The report on the family income.
was released today by J. c. Capt
director of the Census Bureau.
Mr.. Capt gave the figure to Maj
Gen. Ulysses S. Grant III, chairman
of the National Capital Park anc
Planning Commission.
The Census Bureaus figures, baset
on the incomes reported for tn,
calendar year 1947, showed that tht
average family income was $3,825
Only 4 per cent of District familie,
received $4,000 year or more, tn,
study showed.
Mr.. Capt said the figures did no
cover the incomes of persons living
alone He warned that they wer,
not exact. since the survey was con.
Quoted with "sampling" technique