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Evening star., 1948-04-07
Three Boys, Elected
Junior City Heads, 10
Meet Commissioners

Three District Junior Commits
sioners" viii meet the senior Com
missioners-John Russell Young and
associates at 10 am. tomorrow in
Commissioner Guy Masons' Office.
They will then be greeted by Fire
Chief Clement Murphy and Supt. Of
Police Robert j. Barrett and will be
taken on tour of the two depart
ments.
With a platform Of home rule,
more Boys Clubs and stoplight at
Seventeenth street and Massachu-
sets avenue Sc, the three junior
high school students yesterday were
elected District Junior Commis-
sioners" in the third annual mock
election of the Boys Club of Wash
ington. Balloting took place in the
Eastern Branch Club, located at the
intersection where the stoplight is
advocated.
They are Robert Colbert, IA, Of
3425 East Capitol street: Edward
Blank, IA, of 436 Sixteenth street
Sc, and Eddie Smallwood, Is, of
1886 Fourteenth street NV.
Young Smallwood, who was re-
Gently nominated Middle Atlantic
Junior Citizenship winner, tomorrow
will be given a wrist watch at a
luncheon of the Junior Board Of
Commerce in the Burlington Hotel.
Also in line with the observance
of Boys Club Week, Kenneth New
man, II, of 1888 Twenty-fourth
street NV, a member Of the
Georgetown Branch, presented a
gavel in. behalf of the two local
clubs to w. Frank Gatewood, pres
ident of the Advertising Club of
Washington The gavel was pre-
sented at meeting of the club in
the Annapolis Hotel.
A pie eating contest with use of
the hands barred, preceded the
junior commissioner elections yes
terday. Winners in the midget,
junior and senior classes, respective
ly, were: Martin Vermillion, 10, of
500 Eames place NE; Bradley VIM
berley, II, of 1890 D street NE, and
Raymond Schmidt, II, of 254 Fiji
teenth street Sc.
Evening star., 1948-04-07
Cardinal Gibbons SiIverwore
Stolen From Archbishop S Home

Msgr. Nelligan listed the missing
articles as water pitcher, an old
fashioned water boiler, q soup tureen
with cover, dozen ice cream spoons
and dozen soup spoons. He said
the value was undetermined.
The burglary was discovered about
Z am. The Rev. George Z. Hopkins
returning from celebrating mass,
noticed a screen missing from a
basement window. He notified Msgr.
Nelligan, who discovered that desks
had been opened and searched.
Police found q board under a
window which Is 10 feet from the
ground, and concluded the burglars
climbed the board and entered the
window.
Archbishop Keough was in Wash
ington last night to attend series
of meetings.
Evening star., 1948-04-07

ments and agencies dealing with
aviation.
2. Establish an Office of Civil
Aviation in the Commerce Depart
ment.
8. Create an independent director
of air safety.
4. Establish a domestic air parcel
post system and permit movement
of first-class mail by air when the
Postmaster General finds it ex-
peditious"
S. Regulate contract and charter
air operations (only regularly sched-
uled air operations are now so con-
trolled).
6. Make the Maritime Commission
responsible for development of
lighter-than-air rigid airships.'
T. Revise immigration laws to aid
air travel.
Evening star., 1948-04-07
Death Sentences Of Mother
And Two Sons Commuied
~ The Assoeio.ed Press

AMERICUS. Ga, April Death
sentences imposed on q 4o-year-
old colored woman and her two
teen-age sons for the Staying of q
white sharecropper have been COM
muted to life Imprisonment.
Judge William M. Harper Of
Southwestern Superior. Court ruled
yesterday that Rosa Lee Ingram and
her sons were convicted on circum-
Stantial evidence and that under
Georgia law he thus was permitted
to set aside the death penalty.
National attention was attracted
to the case by the youth of the two
boys Wallace, is, and Sammis
Lee, IA.
Counsel for the Ingrams said last
night it had not been decided
whether to appeal to the Georgia
Supreme Court The Ingrams would
become eligible for parole after
serving seven years.
Evening star., 1948-04-07
D. {. Legion Presents Flag
To Truman in Campaiqn

The District Department of the
American Legion has launched its
ely Your Flag" campaign with
presentation of an American flag
to President Truman.
During the drive until July 4,
each of the Legion's SO posts in
Washington will urge businessmen
and private individuals to display
flags on all patriotic occasions.
Evening star., 1948-04-07
Defense
Continued From First Page.)

10 bills aimed at the dual goal of
making the United States stronger
In the air, both for military and
peace time purposes.
Calls for 5-Year Program.
One of the chief recommendations
of this board calls for a succession
of five-year programs of aircraft
design and procurement, to replace
the present system of year-to-year
contracts and purchases. The board
believes that by improving peace
time aviation facilities, the country
would be in better position to
expand military plane production in
time of emergency. ....
For the improvement of civilian
aviation, the 19 bills of the Congress
sional Policy Board, headed by
Senator Brewster, Republican, of
Maine, would:
l. Establish an air co-ordinating
committee representing Govern
Evening star., 1948-04-07
Freight Wreck al PaoIi
Blocks Pennsy Main Line
BY the As;oeia'sd Press

PAOLI, Pa, April Five freight
cars were derailed today at Paoli
station, blocking all four main-line
tracks of the Pennsylvania Rail
road. No one was injured.
Six Of the roads crack eastbound
trains were rerouted on a high
speed freight line to Trenton, N. j.
Evening star., 1948-04-07
ly the Asseeiated Rrsss

HONOLULU, April T. Milton
Reynolds today gave his jinxed ex-
ploration plane to his pilot, Bill
Odom, with no strings attached,
and added:
I'm like a small boy with air
rifles. ] get into mischief"
The Chicago millionaire thus
summed up his recent escapade in
China. He fed Shanghai without
a passport after a fouled-up project
to seek the worlds highest noun
tain. Behind he left irate Chinese
and American scientists who were
to have participated In the aerial
expedition.
I've got a lot of ideas of things
to do with planes" remarked Mr..
Reynolds as he rode back to the
city from the Honolulu airport. But
Evening star., 1948-04-07

Argentina expects to start Ii
minor hydroelectric projects within
six months.
Evening star., 1948-04-07
Regulations Quoted

The Russian commission asserted
that under Control Council regula-
tions no allied plane is permitted
to approach closer than 2 miles to
the airport of another nation or
Evening star., 1948-08-30
Electrical Union Probe
Starts Here THURSDAY
BY the Assoeioted Press

NEW YORK, Aug. 30.-Represent-
ative Kersten, Republican, of Wis
consin, said today that the House
Labor Subcommittee probing reports
of communism in trades unions
would begin an investigation of the
CIO United Electrical. Radio & Ma
chine Workers of America in Wash
ington Thursday.
Mr.. Kersten, chairman of the sub
committee, said the investigation
would begin at II am.
He said the first two witnesses
would be James B. Carey, CIO
secretary-treasurer and former
union president, and Albert j. Fitz-
gerald. U. E. President.
They were Subpoenaed in Wash
ington today, he said.
Mr.. Kersten described Mr.. Carey
as IAN anti Communist, in my view"
and Mr.. Fitzgerald as having "a
reputation that appears to be not
that Of an anti-Communist.'
Mr.. Fitzgerald is national CO.
chairman of the Progressive Party
supporting Henry A. Wallace's
presidential candidacy.
In making his announcement in
his hotel room Mr.. Kersten said !:
Many influential leaders, within
and without labor circles, have
claimed for some time that the Z. E.
Is the very core of Communist in
filtration in our labor unions"
A spokesman at the unions ma
tional headquarters said the U. E.
had no immediate comment.
Evening star., 1948-08-30
Egg and Tomato Borroge Strikes
at Burlington, N. C..
Disorders on Southern Tour Provide Ammunition
Needed by Progressive Porty's Compoeners

The tension, as he swings on
through North Carolina by automo-
bile today, Is higher than one might
suppose in reading the box score of
the fracas in the Durham armory.
This was the score: One Wallace
supporter cut up a little bit-one
anti-Wallace demonstrator knocked
out-one shortlived but spirited free
for all slugging match in which
about some 80 pro-Wallacers tri-
umphed over some 20 -Wallacers
one string of fire crackers ex-
ploded by hecklers in the rear of the
hall-a lot of boos and catcalls from
a few people and few cheers from
lot of people.
Balanced up that way, it doesn't
seem like the show it was. But Mr..
Wallace had a rather dull and aca-
demic speech prepared for formal
delivery. And instead of reading to
his followers about the $4,000, 900 900
he says his Progressive Party wants
to give the South, he wa, put In a
position where he could stand be-
fore a generally well-behaved crowd
and shout it at heckling minority:
Il will never be intimidated." It was
big help to him.
His advisers knew it. Clark Fore
man of Washington and Atlanta,
chairman of the Southern Confer
(see WALLACE, Page A-5)
Evening star., 1948-08-30
Negro Ex-Army Captain
Renounces U.S.. Citizenship
BY the Assoeiofed Press

PARIS, Aug. 30.-The American
Embassy said today that Arthur w.
Taylor of Pittsburgh, wartime cap
tain in a Negro United States Army
unit, has renounced his American
citizenship.
Officials were unable to give any
further information on the case
except that the former officer, a
Negro, took the oath of renunciation
10 days ago in the Embassy. He is
believed to have gone to Belgium,
where he had been living.
1t was learned from other quar-
ters that Mr.. Taylor, discharged
from the Army in America and back
in Europe on a passport, recently
sought to enlist in the Army. In
such cases the recruiting officer
must send for the applicants serv-
ice records in Washington.
While waiting for this data to
arrive, Mr.. Taylor determined to re-
enter the Army on a basis of nom
segregation or renounce citizenship,
it was learned.
Evening star., 1948-08-30
ISchuman 10 ATTEMPT
New French Cabinet
JAS Ramadier Fails
AurioI Also Is Believed
Willing to Give Marie New
Chance if Necessary
By the Associated Press

PARIS, Aug. 30.-Robert Schu-
man, out of office as French
Premier for 80 days, said today
he would try to form a new
cabinet.
AS he left President Vincent
Auriol's palace shortly after mid
night, Mr.. Schuman explained that
he had adopted the same attitude
as M. Ramadier. I am going to
examine the situation FIRST"
Mr.. Ramadier, Mr.. Schumans
predecessor as premier, spent all
yesterday checking over his chances
to form a new cabinet. He ad-
mitted at midnight he had been
unable to tconv1nce either himself
or French political leaders he was
the man of the hour.
Marie NAV Get Chance.
France has been without a gov
eminent since early Saturday when
Premier Andre Marie resigned as a
result of Socialist disagreement
with wage and price moves planned
by his finance minister, Pau
Reynaud.
Mr.. Marie, a Radical Socialist
Conservative, had been premier
one month. Before him Mr.
Schuman, a Popular Republican
Cmode1 ate), held the job eight
months. Mr.. Ramadier, a Socialist
who preceded Mr.. Schuman, held
office 10 months although he re-
shuff1ed his cabinet once
Political observers believed Mr..
Auriol was going back over the three
(See FRANCE, Page A-5D
Evening star., 1948-08-30
Another Hot Day, With Relief
I onight, i omorrow Forecast
Heat Blamed for 10 Deoths; Midwest Hot
Wave May Arrive Here Wednesday

Black clouds rolled into the area
about S pm. yesterday, bringing a
brief burst of wind and lightning
accompanied by hail and rain in
some localities.
Gales up to 81 miles an hour broke
branches, felled a few trees and
blew down numerous electric wires,
causing power failures in some
Southeastern Washington and adja-
cent Maryland communities.
This inconvenience and damage
was tempered by the thermometers
sudden nosedive. The mercury
tumbled from 96 degrees at 4:45 pm.
to 70 degrees at SGT pm. At 1:08
pm. it had stood at 81 degrees,
the fourth straight day of 95 plus
heat.
Indications are that the region
will be little affected by the hurri-
(See WEATHER, Page A-3)
Evening star., 1948-08-30
Mans Second Attempt to Leap
From Calvert Bridqe Is Fatal

A 61-year-old man, who a week
ago was prevented by a Young vet
eran from leaping from the Calvert
Street Bridge. was dead today after
a plunge from the same bridge.
The body OF the man, identified
as Costa B. Chippas, 1913 Massa-
chusetts avenue NV, was found
last night on Rock Greek parkway
under the bridge by q motorist,
Raymond s. Putnam, 1855 Carlton
avenue NE.
Deputy Coroner Richard Rosen-
berg said he would issue a certIfi-
cate of suicide today. Detective
Sergt. Harold Huffman OF the Homi-
eide Squad, who investigated the
Evening star., 1948-08-30

Cooled off briefly by a thun-
derstorm, Washington faced 93-
degree heat today, but the
Weather Bureau looked for a
respite tonight and tomorrow.
The leading edge of a cool mass
from Canada was expected to arrive
this evening, bringing at least par
tial relief from temperatures which
caused at least 10 deaths and
was indirectly responsible for many
more over the week end. Possible
thunderstorms were predicted for
tonight with low of 68.
But the bureau tinged the news
of cooler weather with a sad note
More hot air, now in the Midwest,
is likely to follow the cool touch,
pushing temperatures back up
Wednesday. Tomorrow's high may
not climb above the mid-80's.
Evening star., 1948-08-30
Western Diplomats
Confer at KremIin:
Communique Delayed
By the Associated Press

MOS cow, Aug. 80. - The
three Western ENJOYS conferred
at the Kremlin for about two
hours today. American Ambas-
sador Walter Beden Smith an
nounced further conferences
will be held.
Asked If there would be a
communique tonight on the re-
suits of the East-West discus
sions, Gen. Smith replied:
mo, not tonight"
The Westerners conferred
with Soviet Foreign Minister
Molotov. The British, French
and American representatives
met later at the United States
Embassy.
Today's Kremlin talks were
the ninth in a series of meet
ings since July 80. Strict Of
fetal secrecy has been main
tanned from all four capitals.
Evening star., 1948-08-30
Is Firemen Need Treatment
After Film Center Blaze
BY fhe Associosed Press

NEW YORK, Aug. 3o.-Thirteen
| firemen were treated for inhalation
Of nitro-cellulose fumes early to-
day following a smoky fire in q
stack Of motion picture films on the
eighth floor of the Film Center
Building, $50 Ninth avenue.
The fire set of the automatic
sprinkler system in an eighth-f1
room of the building at am. and
registered an alarm at fire head
quarters.
Firemen entered the eighth floor
by elevator, and encountered thick,
acrid smoke.
The fire, centered in several reels
of film which had been left outside
a film vault, threw of such heavy
smoke when water was turned on
1t that the firemen were forced to
retreat to the seventh floor.
A fire department rescue squad
was called and its members, wear
ing masks, extinguished the fire
within an hour. Damage was
chiefly confined to the reels Of
film, owned by RKo theaters.
Evening star., 1948-08-30
Human Chain Brinqs
Airline Crash Bodies
Out Of Rocky Ravine
36 Killed When Plane
Believed Hit by Lightning
Crashes in Wisconsin
ey the Associofed Press

WINONA, Mimi, Aug. 30.-A
human chain of 100 men sta
toned on a precipitous and
rocky slope today started bring
ing out the mangled bodies OF
rs persons from the crash site
of a Northwest Airlines plane
The bodies of 10 others were
carried out last night.
The SO persons died as the Chi
cago- Minneapolis bound airliner
raked by a severe storm, crashed
late yesterday into heavily wooded
Mississippi River bluff in Wisconsin
near here.
The bulk of the wreckage settled
$50 feet down a 500-foot precipitous
slope, made slippery by heavy rains
last night.
Pieces of wreckage that we're lifted
in order to remove the bodies were
carefully inspected and logged by
civil aeronautics Board and Civil
Aeronautics Administration officials
who are trying to determine If any
structural defects might have
brought about the crash during the
storm.
Body Found 1,0O0 Feet Away.
The nearest road approach to the
wreckage is about a quarter of a
mile away. The bodies were being
carried through rough, wooded
country to a farm trail bordering
growing crops, then over a town.
ship lane to a county road.
The body of one man, unidenti-
fed, was found early today 1,o0O
feet from the main part of the
wreckage. The body was strapped
with a safety belt In a seat. Au-
thorities said they believed other
bodies were similarly catapulted into
the heavily wooded area.
The crash occurred at the height
of severe electrical and rain storm
Coroner Herbert F. Stohr OF
Alma, Wis, said 10 bodies were
removed to Alma before recovery
1See CRASH Page A-3)
Evening star., 1948-08-30
u. ). Means Adequate
Now 10 Gust DisIoYa|,
Truman Tells AFGE
All Federal Officials
Have Responsibility to
Weed Out, He Says
By Joseph YOUNG
Stor Stoff Correspondent
PHI ,ADEJ ,PHIA Auc

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 30
President Truman declared to-
day that adequate means now
exist to rid the Government of
disloyal and inefficient employees.
In a message to the opening ses-
sion of the biennial convention OF
the AFL American Federation OF
Government Employees, Mr. Truman
gave that answer to congressional
critics Of the Government loyalty
program.
He said, however, that all Federal
officials and supervisors have a
major responsibility" to weed out
disloyal and inefficient Government
workers.
Mr.. Truman declared: by and
large, believe the business of the
Government is being carried on by
capable, conscientious, loyal person.
nell"
Sees Laxlty by Few.
He added: Undoubtedly, in an
organization as large as the Federal
Government, there are some inter
ested In doing as little as they can
1t may also be true that there are a
few whose beliefs, and sometimes
actions, are opposed to our form OF
government"
The current loyalty program has
the necessary machinery to rid the
Government of any subversives, the
President said. He added that "the
Government is now we'll along in the
process of identifying and remov-
ing employees with subversive be-
liefs."
Calling for the fullest co-opera-
ton in the loyalty program and
also in the drive to rid the Govern
ment of incompetents, the President
declared: Il deem it a major re-
sponsibility of every administrator
and supervisory employe in the Fed
eral service to assist to the fullest
extent in wedding out those who fall
within these groups
Turning to labor arrangement re-
lations in the Government, Mr..
Truman said, Il believe we can
all take pride in the accomplish
ments during the last decade"
Mr.. Truman praised the AFGE
and other Federal employe groups
for helping to attain "a forward
looking policy that has promoted
efficiency and raised the morale of
employees throughout the service"
Our ultimate goal, and one to
which commend your attention, is
to make the Federal Government an
Evening star., 1948-08-30

earlier attempt, Identified the body,
On that occasion Joseph de Lozier
%, OF 1902 Nolte avenue Silver
Spring. spotted Chippas on the
bridge as he rode by on a nus.
Stopping the bus, he ran back and
pulled him down as he was crouched
atop the railing.
Mr.. Chippas had been unemployed
for the last month and had been
respondent oyer his health, ac-
cording to acquaintanees at his
rooming house. Previously he had
been employed ss waiter at the
Ambassador Hotel, it was said. A
brother was reported to be in Miami
Fla.
Evening star., 1948-08-30
Late News
Bulletin
COACHING Pay Bon Asked

Coaching Pay Ban Asked
The Board of Education's
Personnel Committee recom-
mended today that the board
state specifically that coaching
athletic teams is an integral
part of the duties of physical
education teachers. Some
teachers here have demanded
extra pay for coaching assign
ments after school hours.
Failure to assume coaching
assignments without more pay
would make such teachers 'li-
able for punishment" under
the recommendation, accord
ing to C. Melvin Sharpe, chair
man of the committee.
Evening star., 1948-08-30
S1,916 Stolen From Safe
In Hot Shoppe Office

Someone who knew the combina-
ton opened the safe In the Hot
Shoppe at 51o3 Georgia avenue NV.
between 2 and 5 an. today and
removed $1.916.50. police were told
today.
The theft was reported by Herbert
Lloyd, 80, night manager.
Police ordered a lookout for q
former employe with southern ac-
cent who is known TO favor airplane
flights. Besides watching the air.
port, police also are checking Union
Station and busline terminals.
Evening star., 1948-08-30
Reds Act 10 Bar
TaxFundsFronl
Berlin Council
Pressure Intensified
On Anti-Communist
City Government
By the Assoeiofed Press

BERLIN, Aug. 30.-The Rus
slams moved to cut finances of
the anti-Communist Berlin city
government today.
Intensifying their pressure against
the administration was an order
from the Soviet commandant in
Berlin that henceforth all residents
OF the Soviet sector will pay taxes
only in the sector where they live.
He further ordered that these tax
funds should be used only for the
benefit of the Russian sector.
The order, which will withhold
some revenues from the city, ap-
peared designed to split the city's
finance department. Previous Com
maneuvers have forced divi-
sion OF the police, food and labor
Evening star., 1948-08-30

The Army today asked for
10000 draftees for induction
some time during November.
No request for men was made
by the Navy or Air Force.
The 25-year-sld men of the
District and the country as a
whole set the pace today by
taking the first step in regis
tering for the Nations second
|peacetime draft.
A misunderstanding resulted in
the turning away of some Is would
be registrants at a police precinct
station at the am. opening hour,
and some early confusion developed
when registration desks had not
been set up at the main center in
the District Building.
But District Selective Service di-
rectors declared these bugs" were
quickly overcome, without undue de-
lay or inconvenience.
Men born in 1922, but after August
80 OF that year, began lining up
early at the 204 registration centers
in public buildings and private COM
panies for a series of "R-days" that
will 60 through September 18 for
men 18 through Is.
There was no rush, however. Reg
istrars reported that the 4x6-inch
registration cards were being filled
out on an average of 10 minutes for
each man. Draft officials had esti-
mated about Is minutes would be
required.
Police Tangle Strengthened.
An apparent misinterpretation of
procedure planned for police precinct
stations as well as fire stations re-
suited in the turning away of men
who went to precinct station at
am. to register. They were in
formed by Capt. Anthony Richitt
that the police stations could regis
ter only their own men, transients
and emergency cases."
District Selective Service Director
William E. Leahy and Deputy Direc-
tor Frank D. Norton announced i'm
mediately that any one could be
registered at precinct stations and
fire houses. Fire department Of
ficials said they had interpreted the
procedure in this way and had
registered several nonf1remen during
the first hour.
When registrars arrived at the
District Building shortly before
8 am. they found no tables set up
for them in the first floor corridor.
They also found 25-year -old men
waiting to register. 4
BY $50 building employees had set
up 13 tables, 10 for registration of
veterans and three for nonveterans.
Veteran Is First Listed.
The first registrant was signed up
on a window sill. He was William
Ashley Fry, Is. of 438 Newton place
NV. an accountant. He told the
registrar, Mrs. William H. Rippard,
that he was single but had served
IS months during the war in the
China, Burma and India theaters.
He will be 26 in November.
The first nonveteran to register
(See DRAFT, Page A-4D
Evening star., 1948-08-30

GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador, Aug. 80.
(R.-Colon Eloy Alfara, Ecuador's
representative to the Pan American
Union, resigned yesterday The rea-
son was not stated, but Ecuador is
changing presidents tomorrow. Gallo
Plaza Lasso will succeed Carlos Ju-
lilo Arosema. Mr.. Alfara formerly
was Ecuadorean Ambassador to the
United States.