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Evening star., 1948-04-19

Chairman Dirksen OF the House
District Committee today recon-
mended that all exemptions be elm
mated from the proposed D. c. sales
tax now being considered as a
means to have city revenues meet
city expenses.
Sales tax proposals heretofore
have called for exempting medical
supplies and food sold in markets,
but not in restaurants.
The tax, as proposed, would be
2 per cent on retail purchases.
Mr.. Dirksen, in proposing that
there be no exemptions. Is support
ing the contention of Chairman
Horan of the House Subcommittee
in charge of the District budget,
who is concluding hearings on the
record and unbalanced 1949 spend
ing program.
Mr.. Dirksen said he did not like a
sales tax, but that 1t could not be
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Hog Prices Drop Sharply
On Heavy Runs 10 Market
By the Associated Press

KANSAS CITY, April 19-The
biggest hog run in almost two years
jammed the Kansas City stockyards
today.
Receipts were estimated at 1900.
The last day that number was ex-
ceeded was July 2, 1916, when the
run totaled 9,793. The previous
high this year was 1888 on April 5.
Buyers saw in the heavy receipts
a start on unloading the backlog of
hogs which had been held on the
theory the packing house strike was
near an end.
Prices opened 81 to $3.50 lower,
with top of s2o.50, the minimum
since October Is, 1916, when OPA
price ceilings went off.
CHICAGO. April 10 LP.-Based
on the largest fresh receipts since
January, hog prices today sagged 81
to SIPS. There were 81 900 hogs on
sale and 500 shipped direct to
packers. Most good and choice
butcher hogs sold between $3.50
and s21.5o.
RALEIGH, N. c., April 10 (P).-
Prices dropped from IS cents to
$1.25 per hundred pounds on North
Carolina cash hog buying stations
today. Top prices were 1850 tc
80.
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Thousands Swarm Into Stadium
To See Mats, Yonks in Opener
Truman to Deliver Pitch at O'Clock;
BIeucher Seuts Sold Out for First Time

48th American League baseball
season opened.
Fans has lost none of their old
zest for the pageantry of Wash
ington's opening day. Long lines
of ticket-seekers waited at bleacher
entrances for the gates to open.
Five minutes after the first gate
swung back at II o'clock, approxi-
mately 1000 fans basked in the sun
for the four -hour wait until game
time. 1t was announced that for
the first time the bleachers were
completely sold out before the game.
At the main entrance on Florida
avenue, more fans took up block
long vigil as early as l o'clock for
the sale of standing room tickets,
which will be available at 2:30. half
an hour before President Truman
delivers the traditional first pitch.
Joe Kuhel, freshman manager OF
the Mats, confirmed in the dressing
5eI-~ - A Cr5p noUo Al
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ice Grants Carriers
Average Freight Rate
Increase Of 5 Pct.
Labor Costs and Strikes
BIomed for Higher Rates,
TotoIine 300 Millions
BY the Associated Press

The Interstate Commerce
Commission today granted an
other temporary freight rate in
crease averaging about 5 per
cent.
The increases, totaling more than
$500 100000 a year, will apply to
both railroads and domestic water
carriers. They may be made ef-
fective on 10 days notice to the
public.
The increases range from 10 pei
cent in the East to per cent else
where, with no change in the Fal
West.
The commission said higher rates
were required because of the freight
business which has been lost be-
cause of work stoppages, in the coal
mining and other major industries
and by severe winter conditions In
the early months of this year.
The ICC noted that the railroads
themselves ARE now facing either
the possibility of a work stoppage
under . strike vote already taken
or an increase In their labor costs
The railroads last summer askec
for a long term 80 per cent advance
in freight rates. Since this plan
has been under study, the 1CC has
authorized temporary advances Of
20 per cent, now further increased
by about S per cent.
The new increase lifts rates 1r
the East by 10 per cent, within the
south by S per cent. and within
zone of Western territory by
per cent. one l covers an ares
Immediately west OF Chicago com
prising Iowa, Northern Missouri
Southeastern Minnesota and mos
of Wisconsin.
The commission said that rate
on freight moving in the West ant
South and the West and East vii
take per cent increase.
Commissioners Miller and Mitch
ell concurred in the new increases
but both said the ICC should hav'
disposed of the petition for perma'
nent raise instead of taking fur
ther temporary action.
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for Pledges
Against Segregated
Army Service Drawn
Signatures of Negroes
And Whites Sought,
House Group Is Told
By Robert K. Walsh

A Nation wide campaign will
be launched to have Negroes and
white men sign cards pleGging
refusal to obey any draft or uni
versal military training law that
allows racial discrimination, the
House Armed Services Commit
tee was told today.
Grant Reynolds, New York State
commissioner of correction and ma
tional chairman of the Committee
Against Jimcrow in Military Service
and Training, announced also that
buttons with the inscription Don't
Join a Jimcrow Army will be sold
in front of the White House and the
Capitol.
His testimony advocating civil
disobedience" drive against segrega-
ton in the armed forces was in line
with statements he and A. Phillips
Randolph, president Of the Sleeping
sCar Porters Union. AFL, made two
weeks ago to the Senate Armed
Services Committee. They asserted
that they would advise Negroes not
to serve in the armed services if
Congress passed draft or UNIT leg
islation without a ban on racial
segregation.
Says He Wouldn't Serve.
Mr.. Reynolds. who Is colored, tes-
titled today as the House committee
began its second week of open hear
ings on limited draft bill designed
to help increase the regular armed
strength from 1.377.000 to almost
100000 men, with provision for a
70-group Air Force.
Mr.. Reynolds, in reply to sharp
questions by committee members,
declared he was ''unalterably op-
posed to communism and Soviet
Russia's policies He said, however,
that he personally Nbuld refuse to
register or serve in the armed serv-
ices unless racial segregation is pro-
hibited.
"A policeman could come and get
TX T O.
Evening star., 1948-04-19
Late News
Bulletin
u. S. Protests to Nicaragua

The State Department an
nounced today that the United
States had made the strong
est" informal protest to Mic
aragua against the presence Of
Nicaraguan troops in Costa
Rica. The troops were reported
to have been aiding govern
ment forces.
Earlier Story on Page A-3.)
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Mrs. Roosevelt Quits Brussels

BRUSSELS. April 10 P.-Mrs.
Eleanor Roosevelt left Brussels
this morning by automobile for
the Netherlands. She is to be a
guest of the Dutch royal family.
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BULLETIN

BOSTON (P).-The Boston
Red Sox and the Philadelphia
Athletics opened the major
league baseball season today
in a Patriots Day double
header and the Athletics won,
5 to 4, in II innings despite
three Boston home runs by
Stan Spence, Vern Stephens
and Bobby Doerr. The teams
are playing again this after
noon.
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By Froncis {. Stonn

Sunny skies and near-perfeet
weather conditions greeted the
Washington Mats and the World
Champion New York Yankees at
Griffith Stadium today as the
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(See DRAFT, Page A-6)
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(See DEFENSE, Page A-5D
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Weather Forecast

Sunny today with highest near TO- Fair and
warmer tonight. lowest about SIS. Tomorrow
cloudy, windy and warmer Full report on
Page A-20
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(See COAL, Page A-4)
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(See BASEBALL, Page A }
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(See ITALY, Page A-4.
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Guide for Readers

An Associoted Press Newspaper
Evening star., 1948-02-01

played at the Russian Embassy on
May IS, 1891. for the Russian com.
poser, Peter Ilyich Tchaikowsky, who
was guest of honor.
Visited Europe Again.
On a second European trip he
studied in Brussels under the famed
Eugene Ysaye, Flemish violinist.
Mr.. Rakemann returned to Wash
ington in 1893 and began taking an
active part in the musical life of the
Capital that continued until his final
illness. In 1902 he assisted Reginald
de Koven, American composer, in
organizing the short-lived Washing
ton Symphony Orchestra.
He was violinists of the Richard
Wagner Society, the washington
Musical Club and organized the
Rakemann String Quartet.
Played Under Sousa.
During the first decade OF the
century he played under the baton
of John Philip Sousa on several con-
cert tours. One of the concerts was
a command performance" of the
orchestra at the White House for
President Theodore Roosevelt.
Many Washingtonians and pupils
sent here to school took violin les
sons from Mr.. Rakemann. During
his career he taught at the Univer-
sity of Virginia, Catholic University,
Gunston Hall, Washington college
of Music, and Martha Washington
Seminary.
He was a Mason, member of the
American Federation of Musicians
(AFL) and the Music Teachers AS
sociation.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs
Sophie Eleanore Brook Rakemann
and two sons, Frederick B. Rake
mann of New York and Herman C.
Rakemann, jr., of the Biltmore street
address.
Evening star., 1948-02-01
Final Rites Tomorrow
For Ii. Calvin Meyers

Funeral services for I'd 1t. Calvin
B. Meyers, 80, who was killed at
St. Lo, France, on July 26, 1874
will be held at 2 pm. tomorrow at
the Lee Funeral Home, Fourth
street and Massachusetts, avenue
NE. with burial in Congressional
Cemetery.
A native of Washington, 1t.
Meyers was the son of the late
Frederick w. Meyers and Mrs. Bes-
sic Meyers, who is his only survivor.
He lived at 927 Eleventh street NE.
After graduation from Mckinley
High School, 1t. Meyers became
a dancing instructor at the studio
of his uncle, Leroy Thayer, at 1914
Connecticut avenue NV. He was
manager of the studio for 10 years
before he entered the Army shortly
after Pearl Harbor.
1t. Meyers was serving with an
armored unit when he was killed.
Evening star., 1948-02-01

County after they were turned down
by life insurance company as bad
risks" and wanted to invest their
money, the family stated.
Helped Found Bank.
They subdivided the land before
World War I and Friendship
Heights was begun.
Several years later, the brothers
helped establish the potomac Saw
ings Bank, which became the
Georgetown branch OF the Hamil-
ton National Bank In 1893.
Mr.. Ofutt became president Of
the Potomac bank in 1928 after the
death of his brother.
Mason 90 Years.
He had been q member of Poto-
mac Lodge Of the Masons for more
than so years and at the time Of
his death was Junior warden Of St.
Johns Church.
Until his last illness, he frequently
played golf at the Manor Country
Club.
Surviving are two daughters, Mrs.
Lucy Mourning of the Wootton ave-
nue. address, and Mrs. Harold
Walker Breining, 1924 Crestwood
drive NV. and one grandson.
There are approximately 71,o00,-
600 life insurance policies in the
! United States.
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died Thursday Mr.. Rakemann.
at his home, 1928 Biltmore street
NV. after a long illness.
He was born in Washington. His
father, Joseph Rakemann, was a
we'll known Washington artist who
did fresco painting at the Capito
and in several Catholic churches.
AS a boy, Herman Rakemann was
member of the Georgetown Anna.
teur Orchestra and later its con.
ductor. At l8 he went to Europe
to study under Joachim, Hungarian
violinist and composer. at the Roya
Scnool of Music in Berlin.
He returned to Washington anc
was member of an orchestra which
Evening star., 1948-02-01
Saturday Morning Glasses

Dunbarton College of Holy Cross
yesterday annuonced the inaugu-
ration of a new policy Of holding
classes on Saturday morning fol
part-time students who are en-
ployed during the week. These
classes will be in addition to eve
ming classes also held for part-time
students. The second semester of all
classes at the school will begin to-
morrow.
Evening star., 1948-02-01

Fnillp . y u . d
and who later
| play ye d seven
s e a onS with
| the National
Symphony or
chestra, W e r e
| h e d yesterday
a t he S. H.
! H / n e s Funeral
H o m e, 20 0 l
r O urt e e n t h
S t r e e t N w .
Burial was in
Rock Gre e K
Cemetery.
Mr.. Rakemann
Evening star., 1948-02-01
Mexican Womon, 112.
Dies at Dodge City
By the Associated Press

DODGE CITY, Kas., Jan. 81
Mrs. Antonio Perez Garnica died
here yesterday in her 113th year.
A son and members of the Mexi-
can community, including the Rev
Hernandez, pastor of our Lady Of
Guadalupe Catholic church, believe
there is no question OF Mrs. Gar
! nica's age.
Her birth in old Mexico is said
to have been June 18, 1885. She hac
been a resident here since 1916.
When diets are deficient in vita
min B-1, the use of some foodstuf1s
by the body is interrupted.
Evening star., 1948-02-01

WILL De nelQ at
10 am. tomor-
row at st. Johns
e p | 8 C o p a !
Church, 3244 o
street NV, with
burial in Oak
Hill Cemetery.
Mr.. Ofutt died
Friday a t h l S
home, 200 Woot-
t on We n u e,
F r l e n d S n / p
Heights, a f t e r
an illness of sew
eral weeks. He
r e tire d from
business in 1898.
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Funeral Services Held
For H. T.. Rakemann,
|VioIinist With Sousa

Funeral services for Herman c.
Rakemann. SO, washington violin
list who was a soloist with the Ma
rine Band orchestra under John
Evening star., 1948-02-01
H. W. 0ffuH, IS, Dies;
Banker, Developer Of
Friendship Heights

Funeral services for Henry Woot-
ton Ofutt, IS, retired banker and
real estate man, who started the de-
velopment of Friendship Heights,
Evening star., 1948-02-01

Mr.. Offutt and his brother, the
late George w. Offutt, bought 3
farm in their native Montgomery
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There are approximately 71,o00,-
900 life insurance policies in the
United States.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-01-07
ALASKA COASTAL HAS
 B PASSENGERS TUES.

Alaska Coastal Airlines carried B passengers yesterday, stopping at Sitka, Pelican, Angoon, Hood Bay, Ketchikan, Wrangell and Peters burg.
 Passengers from Juneau to Sitka were: F. Clayton, Ed Kreuse, Dr. H. Pope, Mrs. H. Pope, w J. Robertson, Dave Mielke, Earnie Whitehead, Ralph Mize. Rae Bern ard. Lucille Clyde and R. Brust.
 Sitka to Juneau: Dave McCaf- ferty. E. Whitehead, Ed Gushing, M w Borson. Agnes Forges, Don Forbes, Jean Forbes. Cyril Zuboff Elizabeth John, and Max Rogers.
 Pelican to Juneau: w. c. Mo Caddon, Mrs w. c. McCaddon.
 Juneau to Angoon: R. Peratro- vich, Russell Wright.
 Angoon to Juneau: Mrs. J. Nell son.
 Juneau to Hood Bay: D Kesul, r. AnnunSOn.
 Hood Bay to Juneau: w. Sim.
 Juneau to Ketchikan: Jess Nor rison, Glenn Huff, J. Bowen, Su- san Hall.
 Ketchikan to Wrangell Mrs. Margaret Talcott.
 Petersburg to Ketchikan: Karl Aho
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-01-07
INTELLIGENCE
 SERVICE IS SET
 Up BY UN NOW
Information to Be Siphon- ed from Major Capi-
 faIs of World

LAKE SUCCESS, Jan. '. - R - Secretarv-G General Trygve Lie has laid confidential pipelines to siphon information from m my of the worlds capitals. including thre 2 cities in the Russian sphere. it was learned today.
 Material is fed into the lines from a network of United Nations in formation eenters established and still being set up around the globe The l2th office in the striig-the one at MoscoW-will be in operation by the end of this month.
 United Nations offices already are functioning in Warsaw, Prague London, Paris. Washington, Sharg- hai, Rio de Janeiro, Mexico City, Copenhagen, New Delhi and Gen eva Another will he opened in the Middle East it may be Jerusalem and still others in three cities to be celected in Latin America, Asia and Africa.
 Publicly. the offices are reSponsi- ble for dissemination and collection of U. N. intelligence by pareelling out documents and pamphlets. arr ranging for speakers and reporting reaction back to Lake Success. These reaction reports cover newspaper and radio treatment of U. N. news and are distributed here weekly in an opinion survey.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-01-07
". j. CIRCLE MEETS ON
 FRIDAY AFTERNOON

The World SeryIce Circle of the Northern Light Presbyterian church will meet in the Church Parlors, Friday, January 9, at ? p. m., with Mrs. Gunnar Blomgren and Mrs Josephine Boyd as hostess es.
 The program consists of the showing of the film Radiant Rockies" by the Forest Service, and Mrs. Ernest Gruening will sing a solo.
 Mesdames Burras Smith and Edwin Sutton will give mission- ary review The devotions will be led by Mrs George Schmidt.
 Members are reminded to take their clothing donations for over sea families
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-01-07
DISGUISED
 JEWS HURL
 OUT BOMBS
Jaffa, Cafe of Old Walled Jerusalem, Scene of
 Latest Attack

JERUSALEM, Jan 7.AP--Jews disguised as Palestine policemen rolled bomb into the Jaffa Gate of the old walled city of Jerusalem from a crudely armored motor car today and killed ten Arabs. An Arab policeman and a Jew were killed by a second bomb tossed from the car in flight. Soldiers sub sequently killed one of the attackers as he fled after abandoning the car.
 A witness said the ear, armed with machineguns drew up to the Jaffa Gate firing into the crowd and moving slowly
 Then, as we thought they were turning away he said, the bomb rolled into the street and the ex- plosion followed
 Some shooting followed immedi- ately and a column of smoke several hundred feet high arose from the area of the wall, from which Arabs have been besieging 1900 Jews. Pri- vate sources said an Arab crowd was the target
 The attacK car sped away through the crowded Arab quarter to the corner of Mamillah Road and St. Julian's Way, where another bomb was hurled, killing an Arab police man and a Jew and injurying a British constable
 The occupants soon abandoned the car and fled by foot through an ancient Moslem cemetery
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-01-07
OREGON FL 00D
 RAGING
Thousands of Persons Are Evacuated in Upper Val-
 ley of Willamette

EUGENE, Ore Jan. 7.-lR-- The flood crest of a rain-swollen Villa mette River swirled northward to- day from this stricken upper val ley area, leaving thousands of persons evacuated from thelr homes in the care of relief agen- cies
 One child was drowned, in a rain-swollen ditch.
 Along a hundred mile stretch ot the rich farmlands in the middle and lower valley, where tributaries have already burst their banks, communities braced for greater inundation Of lowlands, highways and more evacuations.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-01-07
FIGHT ON
 TAX CUTS
 PROMISED
By OLIVER DE WOLF

WASHINGTON, Jan. I. -- lf - Republican cries of political" and "unsound" today greeted reports that President Truman might propose tax relief for low income groups only if the revenue loss were balanced by higher levels on business profits.
 A close associate of MT. Truman disclosed earlier this week that the Chief Executive was weighing such a suggestion from some of his ad- yisers.
 Without waiting to hear whether the President would include this idea in his State of the Union mes sage today. influential COP mem bers of both House and Senate left no doubt that they are all set to fight 1t.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-01-07
The " dshington Merry Go Round
By DREW PEARSON

BOLOGNA, Italy,-(By Wireless When I left the United States I promised various editors in cities which had contributed to the Friendship Train that I would give them careful report on the dis tribution of the food and whether the people of France and Italy fully realized that it came from the American people. So far. I can conscientiously say that the overall reaction has been excel lent and the food is being distri- buted efficiently.
 However, there was one develop ment in Paris which indicates the difficulty of getting American aid identified for what it is-Ameri- can. It was agreed by American church and relief groups in France that after the first Friendship Train ran to Marseilles at least one American would ride on each of lilC AAiiS SdpoCA<Clll T Trains to other French cities, in order to stage appropriate cere- monies with the local mayors and the French press explaining how the food had been collected and how it truly came from the Ameri- can people.
 Godfrey Parsons. editor of the Paris edition of the New York Herald Tribune, did fine job of this on the first train and Henry Cassidy of the National Broadcast ing Company together with Harry Hill. president of the American Club in Paris, agreed to get either an American neWsman or an Amer ican businessman to accompany each train. The American relief agencies also agreed to send a man on ahead to each town, in order to organize appropriate re- captions and to give the story of the Friendship Train to local news papers. In addition, relief agen- cies agreed to print a booklet with
 tContinued on Page FoiIr)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-01-07
SIX SAILORS ARE ARRAIGNED HERE
 THIS AFTERNOON
Hancock, EyIar, Rotovilh, PIi1que Also Listen 10
 Charges Awaiting Them

Ten men were arraigned before Judge George w. Folta in U. s. District Court this afternoon. One arraignment was postponed and another case was postponed.
 Six former crew members of the M. s. Coastal Rambler were ar raigned on charge of receiving stolen goods from interstate com merce They were present with one of their attorneys, who agreed to tentatively enter their pleadings Friday at 2 p. m.-s
 The sailors are: Raymond Court, Jack w. Switzler, Bjarni L. Ola son. Gordon M. Leake. San Fran cisco Raynold c. Koskela, Devils Lake. North Dakota; and Hiram John, Para, Hawaii Switzler post ed his bond of $3,500 today. The others are in the Federal Jail in leu of bond
 Loren f. Hancock was arraigned Jtl Slldi 5t pl olioOliiiS HID tA- wife, Kristen, with intent to kill. wound or main. He was repre- sented by Attorney Henry Roden and will plead at 10 a. m. Friday.
 William J. Eylar. was arraigneG on two counts He is charged with assault with intent to commit rape and with contributing to the delinquency of minor He was represented by M. E. Monagle and will enter plea at 10 a. m. Fri day.
 Mitchell Rocovich, represented by Attorney Norman C. Banfield, was also arraigned He is facing two counts oi grand larceny He will enter his plea on Monday at l0 Q. m.
 Andrew J. Plicque, of Ketchikan, appeared in court without an att torney to waive indictment by the mt to prosecution on an informa- ton submitted by District Attorney P. J. Gilmore. Jr He was arraign- ed on nine counts of forgery and one count of embezzlement He is accused of issuing five forged checks in the amount of S55351 and of embedding funds from the Ketchikan Transportation Co. He was arrested i'll San Francisco by the FBI and returned here for trial Plicque will enter his plea to the charges at 2sp. m. Thursday.
 The arraignment of Harry Keller alias w s. Mcknight was post poned until 10 a. m. Monday He is being brought here from Ketcki- kan and is not expected to arrive until Saturday He is facing a charge of violating the Mann Act.
 A grand larceny charge against Charles Welcome. of Sitka, was dismissed on the motion of District Attorney Gilmore, who said there was insufficient evidence for prose cution.