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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-03-04
ACCIDENT
Miscellaneous Shower

A miscellaneous shower was given
in honor Of Mr.. and Mrs. Perry Steid-
ing on Monday evening, February %,
at the home Of Mr.. and Mrs. Dane
Hamilton, Accident Sixty-one per-
sons were in attendance, and the re-
Gently married couple received a
number Of gifts. Rev Robert Johns
spoke briefly and refreshments were
served.
Those visiting Mr.. and Mrs. John
Herman and Mr.. and Mrs. Perry
Steiding last Sunday were Herbert
Hartman, Cove; Janet Glass, Mrs.
Lloyd Friend and daughter Myrtle,
Walter Hanft, all of Accident; Mr..
and Mrs. Erwin Herman and daugh-
ter Mary, Of Westernport
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-03-04

IMPORTANT-Whcn changing ad-
dress, send us old address as well as
new; send address label from last
copy; allow two weeks for first copy
to reach new address.
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SAINT MARK'S EVANGELICAL
LUTH ERAN CHURCH

Church school at $3.50. Classes for
all age groups. Mr.. Erwin Smith,
general superintendent.
Worship at 10:45 with sermon by
the pastor, Feeding the Multitude"
Those without a church home in our
community are welcome to worship
with us.
Monday, 1870, Pastors Study, Dis
cussion Group with the Pastor.
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With Our Men
In The Service

Rigorous winter training in
weather that dropped to 35 degrees
below zero is being carried out by
S/Sgt Lawrence f. Stahl, of Oak
land, who is in cold-weather maneu-
vers with the second infantry division
in Alaska. Sgt Stahl has become an
expert on survival in bivouac and
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-03-04
ST. PAUL's METHODIST CHURCH

$3.50 am, Church Sunday School, r.
Ray Jones, general superintendent, in
charge. Classes for all ages, from the
youngest to the oldest.
1913 a. M, Morning worship. Ser
mon subject, Turning Defeat Into
Victory" Anthem by the Senior choir
with the Junior choir also having a
part in the service.
$50 p. m, Youth Fellowship Meet
ingS.
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legislature If the Health Depart.
ment does not take care of the SAM.
tary situation on Deep Creek Lake
the people of Garrett County and the
State of Maryland should do some
thing about this Department.
r. +. MCINTYRE,
Member House Of Delegates
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-03-04

IdIIIIIg.
Mr.. and Mrs. Coy Allen, Morgan
town, spent the weekend at the home
of Mrs. Aliens parents, Mr. and Mrs.
A. W Fike, Of near Eglon.
Grant Loughry, Aurora, left Tues
day for Little Washington, Pa, were
he Will have employment with his
brother.
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combat in extreme snow and cold,
and the use of snowshoes and skis.
After the fve-day maneuver Stahl
and the other troops were scheduled
to be returned to Fort Lewis, Wash
ington by way Of Great Falls, Mon
tana, under supervision Of the
twelfth air force troop carrier group.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-03-04

Graham Weeks, seaman second
class, USN., son of Mrs. Bessie
F. Cuppett, of Mt. Lake Park, is now
serving aboard the aircraft carrier
USS Midway, operating in the Medi-
terranean.
Evening star., 1948-08-20
Mats Leading Red Sox,
a 10 0, in 5th Inning
BY q s,off Correspondent Of The S'or

BOSTON. Aug. 90 - The Mats
pounded Mel Parnell for three runs
in the first inning OF the first game
of their doubleheader with the Red
Sox here today. In the fifth inning
they had stretched their lead to
A to 0.
The Mats opened up with singles
by Eddie Yost and AL Kozar. Ed
Stewart walked. Kozar scored .Yost
and Stewart came in on a wide
throw by Pesky.
Washington tailed again in the
second inning on Boston error.
Eddie Yost walked and when Gil
Coan singled, Stan Spence fumbled
the ball and Yost scored
Jake Early. Washington catcher.
has returned to his Kings Mountain.
N. c., residence, due to the death
of his father. Early is expected to
miss the four-game Boston series.
Evening star., 1948-08-20
BY the Associated Press

BERLIN, Aug. 20.-Russian
military police and German po-
lice they control invaded the
American sector of blockaded
Berlin today on a black market
raid and seized five German po-
lice belonging to United States
sector forces.
An American military govern
pent official said the action clearly
violated American jurisdiction.
1t was the second Russian backed
raid near the city zonal borders
during the day.
Earlier Russian MPs and Com
unist-controlled German police
raided downtown Potsdamer Platz,
where the American, Russian and
British zones meet, and arrested
about 600 Germans without violence
This contrasted to an operation last
evening when Germans stoned the
Communist police, who responded
with gunfire which wounded four
civilians.
Ray AshWorth. American public
safety chief. said the Russians en-
tered the American zone in the
Evening star., 1948-08-20
forrestaI 10 Confer
With Chiefs Of Staff
BY the Associoted Press

Secretary of Defense Forrestal
will hold a conference with the
Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Naval
War College at Newport, r. l., be-
ginning late today and continuing
through Sunday.
The Defense Department said the
conference follows the pattern
established at Key West, Fla. March
lila Similar meetings are planned
at intervals of few months in the
future.
The purpose is to provide an op-
portunity for extended discussion OF
important policy questions in an in
formal atmosphere and at a dis
tance from the routine adminiStra-
tive pressures and Interruptions al
headquarters in Washington.
Mr.. Forrestal will give the service
chiefs a report on his talks with
Defense Minister Brooke Claxtor
and other Canadian Government
officials during his visit last weel
end to Ottawa.
Among other subjects to be talked
over are: A means of appraisinl
capabilities and performance O.
present and probable weapons; ane
the feasibility of their development
in terms of cost, time and othel
factors.
Various problems relating to stra.
aIe l..
sidered.
Evening star., 1948-08-20
Axis Sally Leaves Reich
For Treason Trial in j. :.
BY the Associoted Press

FRANKFURT, Germany, Aug. 20.
Axis Sally" left for the United
States today to face trial for trea-
son.
She is Mildred D. Gillars, former
ly of Portland, Me. During the war
she broadcast appeals to American
soldiers to stop fighting. She was
arrested soon after American troops
entered Germany, released briefly
and then jailed again.
"Goodby Frankfurt" she said
when boarding an Army transport
plane for Washington. She Wore a
flowing black fur cloak and black
slacks
Reporters asked what her feelings
were on going back to the United
States.
When in Germany, do as the
Germans do she said without
explanation.
She was accompanied on the C-54
Skymaster by WAC officer They
took seats side by side.
The other passengers were mostly
steel experts returning to Wash
ington after conducting an indus
| trial survey in GERMANY.
Evening star., 1948-08-20
Abuse Of Power
In Teacher Case
Laid 10 Lomakin
Note to Ponyushkin
Rejects All Charges
Made by Moscow
fTert Of United States note on
Page A-4.J
By Gornett D. Horner

The United States has de-
manded that Soviet Consul Gen
eral Jacob M. Lomakin in New
York leave the country fol
"abuse" of his position in the
runaway Russian school teacher
cases.
The demand was made in a note
delivered to Soviet Ambassador
Alexander S. Panyushkin here last
night and made public by the State
Department today.
Mr. Lomakin was accused in the
note of making statements "delib-
erately designed to mislead the
American public in regard to a Sc
rious charge involving the United
States Government
The note 'categorically' rejected
Soviet charges and insinuations'
which have been found to be al
complete variance with the facts
in the Kosenkina and Samarine
cases.
Formal Reply to Moscow.
This Was the formal reply to pro-
tests by Ambassador Panyushkir
and Soviet Foreign Minister Moloto'
in Moscow against alleged American
official "toleration' of ''crimina
acts in what they called the kid
naping of Mrs. Oksana Stepanovns
Kosenkina and Mr.. and Mrs Michae
Ivanovitch Samarine.
It is clear, the note asserted, tha
Evening star., 1948-08-20
Apartment Residents
Fail 10 Remember
Hiss or Chambers
Real Estote Firms Report
Confirms Lease at Time
Mentioned in Spy Inquiry
BY Robert K. WoIsh

1t was news to residents o1
1881 Twenty-eigh street NV
today that Alger Hiss occupied
apartment AZ there from July l
1884, to July %, 1885, according
to records obtained by The Star
! None of three present tenants OF
the building who lived there during
the last IS years remembered Mr.
Hiss, much less Whitaker Chambers
or George Crosley."
But real estate company's report
to the House Committee on Un-
American Activities, it was learned
disclosed that Mr.. Hiss had ar
apartment there at the time he
said he sublet the place to "Cros-
ley There is no record of a SUBJ
lease. Telephone directories of the
period also listed a number for him
at that address. There was no list
ing for Whitaker Chambers OF
George Crosley."
Mr.. Hiss, former State Depart.
ment official accused by Mr.. Cham.
bers OF having belonged to ar
elite Communist underground
group here before the war. tolc
committee members this week that
ne knew Mr.. Chambers as George
Crosley' and sublet his own apart.
ment to him for a short time in
the winter of 1934-5.
Denies All Charges.
He has denied all charges made
by Mr.. Chambers, an avowed forme,
Communist agent and now a senior
editor of Time Magazine.
Real estate agents for the firm
that owned the Woodley Manor
apartments at 1927, 1929 and 1881
Twenty-eighth street from 1885,
through 1887 have a record of 8
lease made out to Mr.. Hiss in 1884
The lease itself apparently was de.
stroyed, unless Mr.. Hiss retained a
copy, they said. The property has
changed hands three times since
1887.
There is no record or recollection
OF suitcase from Mr.. Hiss tc
George Crosley" or any one else
the former owners and the realtors
declared.
SubleaSes were forbidden in those
apartments. Nevertheless, it woulc
have been possible for tenants, tt
(See HISS APARTMENT, Pg. Alb
Evening star., 1948-08-20
Higher GreenbeIt Rents SOUGHT
With Removal of Income Limit

arguments in opposition to it, a
PHA spokesman said.
However. nc argument was ad-
vanced which would change the
analysis of the situation based on
the rent study. and the intention is
tn register with the rent control Of
flee a. new maximum rent for each
unit"
Rents for 1872 original" Greenbelt
units range from s23 to s65 month
for from one bedroom to three bed
room and basement units, with
adjustments" downward depending
on the family income and the size
OF the family. Lowest rent paid by
any family, it was said, was $23.
Utilities costs are not included in
the rent.
Rents for 1000 units of Lanham
Act war housing in the 3,37l-acre
development-which has a SWIM
ming pool, shopping center. 25-acre
(See GREENBELT. Page A-5D
Evening star., 1948-08-20
By Robert J. Lewis

The Public Housing Admins
tration will remove the $4,000
annual family-income limitation
on new-tenant admissions tc
Government owned Greenbelt
and will seek a rent increase de.
spite tenant opposition, it was
leafned today.
Removal of the income limlta.
ton for eligibility marks a majol
change of policy in administration
of the l,892-unit development bull
il years ago as a planned com.
munity."
In three -and-a- half hour closec
conference Yesterday with member.
CT the Greenbelt Town Council
PHA officials discussed the proposed
new rent schedule based on a recent
study.
The Greenbelt people didn't want
a rent increase and used variou.
Evening star., 1948-08-20
Reds Say McDermott
.Contradicted Facts in
Story Of Dreher Case
Alleged Admissions by
American Ambassador
Cited by Provda
By the Associated Press

MOSCOW, Aug. 2O.-Pravda
gave the lie today to a spokes-
man for the United States State
Department.
The paper, organ Of the Com
munist Party, said State Department
Press Officer Michael McDermott's s
version of the case of Naval 1t
Robert Dreher last Sunday was "in
complete contradiction of the facts.
Earlier that ~~y, Pravda had de-
clared that 1t. Dreher, an assistant
American naval attache, had been
seized receiving secret information
from a Soviet official and hustled
out of Russia by demand of the
Soviet government.
(Mr. McDermott, at a news
conference in Washington. after
the Dreher story was first pub
lished Sunday, said Russian au-
thorities had framed the espion-
age charge against the naval
Lieutenant. He said the evidence
had been planted by the Rus
slams after 1t. Dreher had ap-
piled for a visa to leave the
Soviet Union
asked about the Pravda
article today, Mr.. McDermott
reaffirmed in Washington his
previous account of the Dreher
case.
CT made my statement last
Sunday. I stand on that" he
told a reporterD
Smiths Remarks Cited.
In support of its new accusation
today, Pravda cited American Am
bassador Walter Bedell Smith
Pravda declared that Gen. Smith
in a talk with Deputy Foreign
Minister Andrei Y. Vishinsky about
the Dreher case, admitted that
Dreher at the moment he was ap-
pretended was "eceiving military
information
1t. Dreher, 30, who comes from
Oil City, Pa, left Moscow May /. His
tour of duty there began in Novem-
ber, 1947. He had been the naval
representative in Odessa for more
than a year before that.
Gen. Smith, Pravda said today
told Mr. Vishinsky:
In the future he would request
the State Department to send to
Moscow more intelligent and careful
persons able to keep their tongues
behind their teeth"
Admission Attributed to Smith.
Pravda brought Gen. Smith S
name into the case after Mr.. NC
Dermott's citation of the Ambassa-
doris remarks to Mr.. Vishinsky last
April 26, concerning the Dreher
case. The paper said Gen. Smith
admitted to Vishinsky that at the
moment he was apprehended Dreher
was receiving information of mill
tary character"
Pravda said Sunday that 1t
&C.. RENC~0yxy ~ =
Evening star., 1948-08-20
Gen. Vondenberg Yowns at Fuss
AS He Lands in Crippled BIZ
Emerges SIeepiIy as Rescue Workers
Stand By After Flight From Bermuda

Zuckert, Maj. Gen. w. F. Mckee,
assistant vice chief of staff, and Col.
Sorry Smith.
The slender Air Force chief of
staff stepped from the plane with
his characteristic nonchalant slouch.
What's it all about?" he said.
II hadn't heard of it. 1 was asleep
most of the time
Gen. Vandenberg had flown to
Europe few days ago with Air
Secretary Symington. Mr. Syming-
ton remained in Europe, Gen. Van
denberg returned for a meeting of
the general staff.
Col. Phillip H. Best. the pilot, said
the extreme left motor had begun
to leak oil about $50 miles out of
Bermuda and he had 'feathered
it" and made a routine report.
About a hundred miles off the
Virginia Capes radio contact was
made with planes which came out
to escort him. He said he told
them they were not needed and
they returned to their bases with
out being sighted.
Evening star., 1948-08-20
Man Is Killed in Leap
From Benning Bridge
Into Anacostia River
Letter in Cout Addressed
To Retired Postal Worker:
Police Drag for Body

A man tentatively identified
as Maurice Homiller, SO, a re-
tired post office employe, leaped
from the Benning Road Bridge
into the muddy Anacostia River
about 500 am. today.
Police Immediately began dragging
the stream for the body.
Tentative Identification was made
through letter found in coat the
man left on the bridge shortly be-
fore he climbed to the railing. II
was addressed to Maurice Homiller
261 Fourteenth place NE, from the
American Oil Co., 1900 Fourth street
S.W.
Mr.. Homiller. who retired August
81, 1912, after 40 years service with
the Postoffice Department. also had
worked part time for the Woodward
and Lothrop store as a checker in
the receiving room. The firms per-
sonnel Office said he had worked
there from November. 1943, to last
October.
Left Home for Walk.
At his nome his wife. Mrs. Lottie
Homiller. said her husband had not
worked for the last two years and
had been suffering from a nervous
disorder. She said he could not
stand idleness" and had been taking
early-morning walks.
This morning, she said, he left the
house about 7:15 am. for a walk
which usually took him over the
Benning road bridge.
The couple has one son, Norman
Homiller. who lives in Illinois, and
daughter, Mrs. Ida Waesche OF
Evening star., 1948-08-20
Truman Orders Clark
To Seek Injunction
AGAINST Dock Strike
Acts After Receiving
Report by Foct-Finders
On Threatened WuIkout
BY the Associated Press

President Truman today di-
rected Attorney General Clark
to seek an 80-day injunction to
forestall a threatened strike of
As 900 East Coast dock workers.
The President acted Immediately
after receiving a report from a
fact finding board telling of the
failure OF management and the
AFL's Longshoreman's union to
reach an agreement. A strike had
been set for midnight Saturday.
The President wrote the Attorney
General:
Il therefore direct you, pursuant
TO the provisions of Section 208 OF
the Labor Management Relations
Act, 1947, to petition in the name
of the United States any District
courts of the United States having
jurisdiction of the parties, to enjoin
such threatened strikes or lockouts
and for such other relief as may
in your judgment be necessary or
appropriate.
A major issue in the dispute in
wolves a Supreme Court decision
calling for payment of what the en-
ployers term overtime on overtime "
Summary Presented.
The board said that summary of
the facts presented indicated the
following:
81. The parties have met in COL
lective bargaining sessions and have
been unable to arrive at an agree
ment.
20. The major stumbling block tc
an agreement is the question oi
overtime on overtime.
"3. Because of the failure to ar
rive at an agreement, a cessation OF
work in this industry is imminent as
of midnight August 81, 1948"
Hearing Ended Wednesday.
/ The board completed a hearing
Wednesday in the dispute between
the AFL International Longshore-
mems Association and the New
York Shipping Associa ton, repre-
senting employers
| The $4,000 longst>oremen involved
in the dispute work in Atlantic ports
from Hampton Roads, Va, to Port
land, Me-
The present straight time rate for
day work is SITS an hour. The
overtime rate for night, holiday and
(See MARITIME, Page A-5D
Evening star., 1948-08-20

Bit with one motor conked
out arrived safely at National
Airport shortly after noon to-
day and Gen. Hoyt S. Vanden-
berg, Air Force Chief of Staff,
emerged sleepily, wanting to
know what all the excitement
was about.
An ambulance had been brought
out on the apron in front of the
Military Air Transport Service ter
minal and fire fighting equipment
stood by alongside the runway.
First reports, preceding the
planes arrival, had it that the gen.
erals plane had "lost" two engines
off the Virginia capes about 60 miles
from the coast. WestoVer Field,
Mass, sent out several planes
with rescue equipment.
Gen. Vandenberg, who had been
in Germany, was en- route here after
a stopover in Bermuda.
Others in the plane included AS
sistant Secretary of Air Eugene M
Evening star., 1948-08-20
Federal Court Orders Marshal
To Seize Burricuded Oak Hill

according to Sheriff S. P Alexander
of Loudoun County, greeted visitors
who lifted the gate of its hinges
Saturday, with SO caliber pistol in
his hand. Extra hinges, a chain
and paddock since have been added
to the gate. which is posted with
signs of warning.
The order was received today at
the Federal Court clerks Office in
Richmond. 1t was signed Wednes-
day by Judge Sterling Hutcheson
who is on vacation at his home at
Boydton, Va
The Richmond clerks office said
the order will be transmitted to
the clerks ONCE in Alexandria.
where the court also sits. and the
tSee OAK HILL, Page A-51
Evening star., 1948-08-20

these three Russian school teachers
decided of their own accord to re-
main in the United States instead
Of returning to Moscow.
Such Soviet citizens are entitled
to the protection of the applicable
laws of the United States" Mr..
Panyushkin was informed.
The note added sternly that this
Government cannot permit the
exercise within the United States of
the police power of any foreign
government
While demanding the recall of
Mr. Lomakin, the note hit also at
Ambassador Panyushkin's own ac-
tionS. Ii used the plural in charg-
ing that officials of the Soviet
Government have been guilty of
conduct which is highly improper. "
Presidential Press Secretary
Charles G.. Ross said the whole
thing was done under the Presi-
dents orders" and that Mr.. Truman
will sign the revocation of the Con-
sui Generals credentials shortly.
Later. he said the signing would be
delayed several days to give the
Consul General time to close out his
official duties.
Charge Declared Unsubstantiated.
In Mr.. Panyushkln's and Mr..
Molotovs protests, the American
note asserted, as we'll as in state
nents to the press by the Am
bassador" and by Mr.. Lomakin,
"charges of the most serious nature
were made against this Government
and Federal and State officials
which investigation shows are
clearly unsubstantiated."
The Soviet Embassy had mo COM
ment' today. To reporters ques-
Evening star., 1948-08-20
U.S.. DEMANDS RECALL OF SOVIET CONSUL
Red Police Invade u. S. Sector
OF Berlin and Seize 5 Germans
Group Belonging to American Zone Forces
Is Arrested During Roid on Black Market

borough of Kreuzberg, where city
street divides the sectors. A SIM
liar invasion occurred there last
week, which required intervention
by American military police.
MI. Ashworth said about 20 Rus
slams and so Soviet sector German
police corraled some 200 Germans on
black market charges and pulled
them over into Soviet territory to
arrest them. An alarm went out
for Western sector German police
four of whom drove up in a jeep
The Russians seized the four and
their vehicle.
When the borough police chief
drove up to protest, the Russians
called him over, ostensibly for dis
cussion. Then they seized him, too
Two of the five officers succeeded in
getting away from their captors
and hiding in a crowd of civilians
Three were reported still held
along with their jeep.
Russian tommy-gunners hotly
pursued Henry Borroughs, Asso-
ciated Press photographer when he
took pictures of raid operation at
Potsdamer Platz. Mr.. Burroughs
had aimed his camera at a truck
tSee BERLIN, Page A-5.)