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Evening star., 1948-11-17
BY me Assoeioted Press

NEW YORK, Nov. 17.-Ca-
madam longshoremen who had
said they would not handle ships
diverted to Halifax from strike
bound American ports worked at
full strength today.
For two days. Halifax longshore-
men, who had been handling ships
diverted en- route to New York,
have been conducting a showdown
in sympathy with striking Amer
ican stevedores.
Meanwhile William j. Margolis,
assistant to the director of the Fed
eral Mediation and Condliatlon
Service, few here in an effort tc
settle the costly 8-day strike.
J. ]. Campbell. president OF the
Halifax Longshoremen's Association
AFL, said a study of the unions
contract had convinced union Off
cials they had no right to refuse
to work diverted ships.
Earlier. Mr. Campbell had made
a distinction between diverted"
vessels and those which sailed direct
to Halifax, insisting his men would
handle only the latter.
Mr.. Campbell said at Halifax "our
executive Office has made full study
of our position in the light Of
charges made by our employers that
Evening star., 1948-11-17
Street Excavation Investigated
After ? Boys Die in Cove-in
Efforts to Revive
PIoymotes, 10 and L,
Fail at Hospital
(Other Pictures on Page BIZ

District officials began an in
vestigation today into street con-
ditions figuring in a cave-in that
snuffed out the lives of two boys
last night.
The bows, John Whalen. IL. of
1882 M street Sc, and Francis
Xavier O'Donnell, 10, of 1922 M
street Sc, were buried when cave
they had dug in a sandy embank-
ment collapsed.
The tragedy occurred on Thirty
third place near M street Sc, which
runs two blocks from M street to
Anacostia road. Neighbors SAID
they had regarded the semi
abandoned" street as dangerous be-
cause of excavations along each side.
Officials Assigned to Case.
Commissioner John Russell Young
asked Assistant Corporation Coun-
sci Milton D. Norman to represent
the District during the investigation
at the scene.
Emmett j. Motley, claims inspec-
tor for the Corporation Counsel's
Office, also assigned to the case,
said Highway Department engineers
would survey the scene today to
determine if it was District property.
The road embankments were made
as part of project. since aban-
doned, to extend Thirty-third place
beyond M street. The boys had dug
into clay-like soil in one of the
banks, about 80 feet high, but
sandy soil covering the cave had
given away.
S. R. Harrison, deputy director OF
(See CAVE-IN, Page A-4)
Evening star., 1948-11-17
Storm Moves Northeast
After Sweeping Five States
By the Associated Press

CHICAGO. Nov. Ia wind-and-
rain storm which swept over five
Midwestern States yesterday, caus-
ing some property damage. moved
northeastward across the Great
Lakes region today.
Rain fell today from the Middle
Atlantic States southwark to Geor-
gia Heavy rains were reported in
some parts of the Lakes region
during the night, with gusts of
more than 10 miles per hour. Some
light snow fell in Michigan.
The storm struck yesterday over
parts of Iowa, Indiana. Illinois,
Wisconsin and Missouri. Two duck
hunters from Dubuque, Iowa. seen
in a boat on the Mississippi River,
were missing after the storm.
There was light rain or snow in
parts of Idaho, Montana, Nevada
and Utah, but elsewhere across the
country the Weather Bureau said
fair weather prevails.
Evening star., 1948-11-17
.SenatorsLineUp
Behind Truman
New Deal Bills
Lucas, KiIgore and
Murray Set to Fight
For His Program
By J. A. OLeory

Several Democratic Senators
offered prompt encouragement
to President Truman today on
his announcement that he in
tends to urge passage of the ex-
panded New Deal program for
which he campaigned.
Senators Lucas of Illinois, Murray
of Montana and Kilgore of West
Virginia indicated they will be in
the front lines battling for the
President when the time comes.
The big question mark on Capitol
Hill, however. continues to be in
what order will the Democratic
leaders tackle the major issues in
the Truman program, such as civil
rights. Taft-Hartley repeal, price
control and broader social security
coverage.
Priority in Doubt.
Although Mr.. Truman told his
press conference IN Key West yes
terday that he will press for en-
actment of the civil rights program
in his State-o -of-the- Union message,
which goes to Congress a few days
after it convenes, political observers
here do not believe this necessarily
means that will be the first order
of business.
Since this is the beginning of al
new Congress, the entire Trumari
program will have to be parceled OFT
to a dozen or more committees for
hearings. How quickly each com.
mittee finishes its assigned task
will have more to do with the order
of preference in floor debate.
Another factor Democratic Lead
ers will have to consider is what ef-
feet an early showdown on civil
rights would have on the desire
shared by most of them to restore
party harmony south of the Mason
and Dixon line.
Discussing the Democratic pro-
gram as a whole, Senator Lucas,
who is scheduled to become Senate
majority leader when Senator Bark
ley of Kentucky takes over as Vice
said that so far as he Is
concerned the Democrats are going
to accomplish as much as possible
toward carrying out the Philadel-
phia platform"
Senator Murray said his party
must carry out the program the
campaign was won on
Says Truman Has Mandate:
Senator Kilgore observed that the
certainly has q popular
mandate" to back his proposals this
time.
Senator Kilgore said it is his
opinion that there must be outright
repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act.
Meanwhile the few Republicans
available here for comment are
sticking to a wait and see" atti-
tude. Senator Milliken of Colorado.
chairman of the Republican Senate
Conference, said he does not be-
lieve any one can forecast yet what
role the Republicans will play until
the Presidents program is laid be-
fore Congress in specific form.
Evening star., 1948-11-17
Berlin Issue Must Be Left In U.N.
As Threat to Peace Allies Insist
In Reply to Appeal by Lie> Evatt
Canadian Longshoremen Agree
To Work on Diverted Vessels
Effects of Dock Strike Grow on East Coast
Despite Lifting of Ban on Ships at Halifax

our (previous) action in refusing to
handle diverted ships was actually
illegal.
I'VE have eXhaustively studied the
terms of our agreement and must
agree with our employers or else risk
the consequences of hurting our
record of never having violated an
agreement.
Our agreement makes no pro-
vision for Interpretation of what is
or isn't a diverted ship. In fact, no
sucn word as diverted apepars in our
contract. We are legally bound to
handle all ships which pass
Cherbucto Head tat the entrance to
Halifax Harborl.
Ana that's just what we're going
to do"
Estimates of losses in the strike
ran into many millions with no
settlement in sight.
In contrast to the stalemate here,
negotiators reported progress in ef-
forts to settle the Pacific Coast
waterfront tie-up in effect since
September 2.
Effects of the East Coast strike on
industry and trade were being felt
in many cities. Thousands OF rail-
road and tugboat and trucking work
ers were laid off temporarily because
of the shipping tie-up. Many en-
(See MARITIME, Page A-6D
Evening star., 1948-11-17
Austin, Sick, Will F|yFonesfa| and Truman
Here for Cheekup al Will Lunch Tomorrow;
Walter Reed Hospital Rayburn Due Tonight
U. N. Working Stoff Cut
As Gen. Marshall Also
Prepares to Return
BY the Assoeioted Press

PARIS, Nov. 17.-Warren r.
Austin, American delegate to
the United Nations, will leave by
plane tomorrow night for Wash
ington to have a physical exam
ination at Walter Reed Hospital,
an American delegation source
said today.
The former Senator from Ver-
mont was II last Friday.
Mr.. Austin entered the American
hospital here November for obser-
vation. He was suffering cold
and complications His office said
doctors later decided to send him
to Walter Reed Hospital to deter
mine whether it would be wise for
him to undergo a minor operation
The nature of the operation was
not disclosed.
Mrs. Austin; his secretary. Miss
Josephine v. Thompson, and his
long time personal assistant, Will
liam Mills, will fly with the dele
gate in q United States Air Force
plane.
May Resume Work in January.
Mr.. Austin's staff said it was
hoped he would be able to resume
his duties as chief of the American
mission to the United Nations at
Lake Success. N. Y. in January.
Mr.. Austin's departure and the
scheduled return of Secretary Of
State Marshall to washington for
conferences Monday with President
Truman will take the two TOP Amer
lean U. N. delegates from Paris.
Their departure will leave three
first string delegates here for the
Americans plus five alternates and
a full staff of advisers. Each ma
ton may have five delegates and
five alternates at the Assembly
The delegation list published by
the U. N. gives this order of the
remaining three top delegates:
John Foster Dulles, Republican
Party foreign affairs adviser and top
Republican on the bipartisan dele
cation.
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt.
DR.. Philip C. Jessup, American
deputy on the Security Council.
Truman to Designate Chief.
The Americans said the question
Of who would head the delegation
would be decided in consultation
with President Truman.
Gen. Marshal, Mr.. Austin and DR..
Jessup are the only Americans who
bv Act of Congress can sit on the
Security Council. This will leave
DR.. Jessup to carry on the Berlin
and Palestine talks in the Security
Council, in addition to speaking
for the Americans on Palestine in
the 58-nation Assembly Political
Committee.
Pressure Of work here will pre-
vent Gen. Marshall from accepting
in person an honorary degree from
London University tomorrow. 1t
will be conferred on him in ab-
sentia, an American spokesman said
Evening star., 1948-11-17
UPWA Official Loses
Her $4,000 U. 5. Job
On Loyalty Grounds
Dorothy Bailey Appeals
To Federal Bourd After
Civil Service Action

Dorothy Bailey, a member
of the International Executive
Board of the CIO United Public
Workers of America, has been
suspended from her job in the
United States Employment Ser
vice on loyalty grounds, 1t was
disclosed today.
Miss Bailey has appealed the sus-
pension to the Federal Loyalty
Board. Officials said the hearing
on her case would be held as soon
as possible.
The USES suspended Miss Bailey,
an $8,000-a-year training officer,
after the Civil Service Commission S
fourth regional loyalty board ruled
her ineligible for future Federal
employment.
Miss Bailey has been active in
UPWA for a number of years and
is a past president Of its Local No.
10 here.
The Federal Loyalty Review Board
is a final court of appeals in all
loyalty cases. II it rules in favor
of Miss Bailey, she will be returned
to her job.
A contrary ruling would make her
suspension permanent.
Miss Bailey is being represented
by the law firm of Thurmond
Arnold, Paul Porter and Abe Fortas
Milton Freeman, one of the asso-
ciate attorneys in the firm, declared :
The fourth regional boards decision
lis a shocking miscarriage of JUS
tice. We are sure that its decision
will be reversed by the full Federal
Loyalty Board"
Miss Bailey is not Communist
and never has been," Mr.. Freeman
declared.
Evening star., 1948-11-17
McGrath Called by Tobey
As Textron Probe Witness
By the Associated Press

CONCORD, N. H., Nov. 17.-Sen-
ator Tobey, Republican, OF New
Hampshire, said today he has called
Senator McGrath, Democratic ma
tional chairman, as a witness Mon
day in an investigation Of the
SIPS, 5,00O, 900 Textron Corp.
Senator McGrath, a Rhode Island
Senator, was listed by Royal Little,
Textron president, as one of three
trustees of the Rhode Island Chari-
ties trust. Mr.. Little testified at
an October hearing in Boston that
the Rhode Island fund grew from
$500 ana some stock" to $4,500, 900.
Mr.. Little added that Senator
McGrath was also at one time the
director of a former Textron sub
sidiary.
The Rhode Island Charities trust
was one of several which Senator
Tobey said his Senate subcommit-
tee would investigate from top to
bottom"
CIO union leaders charged that
Mr.. Little used charitable trusts
for financial manipulation"
Evening star., 1948-11-17
CarGougeProsecution Realtors From District
Left Up 10 District and Won't Ask for Lifting
u. 5. as Hearing Ends OF Rent Control Here
Tax Returns and Violation
Of Title Transfer Lows
May Be Investigated

Whether any prosecutions will
follow the House subcommittee's
of gouging of new
car buyers here was left for de-
cision by Federal and District
authorities today.
AS two days of inquiry were con-
cluded by the House Public Works
Subcommittee on Questionable
Trade Practices, Chairman Macy
announced the full transcript Of
testimony would be sent to appro-
pirate Federal and District au-
thorities.
This was believed to mean it
would go to Attorney General Clark
for possible reference to United
States Attorney George Morris Fay,
to George j. Schoeneman, commits
sioner of internal revenue. and to
District Corporation Counsel Ver-
non E. West.
Among questions raised during the
exposure of transactions were those
of income tax returns on the So
called Tip" payments for new-car
purchases and whether District gov
ernment auto title regulations had
been evaded.
Keneipp to Ask Inquiry.
On the latter score, George E.
Keneipp, District traffic director, re-
vealed yesterday he would ask police
to inquire into the application OF
the Districts title regulations to the
transactions disclosed to the House
In addition questions were raised
as to whether charge of conspiracy
to submit false information to the
House investigators might be war
ranted. There was no indication
on Capitol Hill that any move would
be pressed there on perjury charges
against any subcommittee witnesses.
Representative Macy of New York,
subcommittee head, predi-ed there
would be a great depression" in the
tips or bonuses customers would
have to pay for new cars in the
future.
Summing up thousands of words
of complaints and explanations
given during the two days inquiry
of charges that car buyers here had
been gouged in the past seven
months by perhaps $4,000 Mr..
CONTINUED on Page l. Col. -
Evening star., 1948-11-17
] Die, 10 Saved as Storm
Wrecks West Coast Tugs
BY the Associated Press

SEATTLE, Nov. ia coastal
storm was gradually subsiding to-
day after causing seven deaths and
wrecking three vessels.
Three men were lost when the
tug st. Clair smashed onto rocks
near Port San Juan, B. c. Five
others reached shore in a lifeboat.
Two more men were lost when the
tug Ruby Eight sank in Puget
Sound.
Another man died of a heart at
tack as the Coast Guard was at
tempting to rescue him and 10
others from their sinking tug Nep-
tune off the Columbia River mouth.
The 10 men were saved by the
Coast Guard in a hazardous rubber
boat rescue but the heart attack
victim died after falling into the
sea.
The seventh victim was a woman
lost overheard from the ferry Prin-
cess Victoria between Vancouver and
Victoria, B. C.
Two vessels, a lightship which
lost its anchor and a freighter with
16 aboard which broke loose from
a towing tug, were still occupying
the attention Of the Coast Guard
today.
Evening star., 1948-11-17
A Washington
Best Seller

"The Campaign of '4s in Star
Cartoons" a collection in mar
rative form of the selected
campaign and election car
toons of Clifford K. Bergman,
James T. Bergman and Gibson
Crockett, has been going like
hot cakes from the business
counter of The Star lobby at
Eleventh and Pennsylvania
avenue.
The first printing is almost
exhausted. But a second
printing is on the presses now
and additional copies will be
available by Friday.
This book of rs cartoons is
proving an entertaining re-
minder of incidents In the past
campaign and the biggest elec-
ton upset Of recent years.
Evening star., 1948-11-17
Chest Must Raise 81 1,476,044
In Three Days to Meet Goal

Community Chest workers will
have to raise $1,476,044 between
now and Friday to put the 1949
campaign over the top before its
scheduled closing date.
If they do not, General Chairman
Chauncey c. Parker has promised
the drive will be extended through
the Thanksgiving week end.
The campaign is attempting to
raise $4,566, 100 to support 104 Red
Feather agencies and the USO in
the Washington area. At the report
meeting yesterday, the drive had
reached 67.6 per cent of its goal.
Volunteers from the two business
units and the Government Unit,
who attended the meeting in the
Hotel Washington, turned in 1913
new gifts, totaling $Ss,S36.
The Government Unit remained
Evening star., 1948-11-17

try east of Sucbow. 200 miles north
west of the capital.
2. Gen. Huang Po-tao's 7th Army
Group, which was isolated east of
Suchow, lost more than half of its
full strength of four armies. It
survived repeated attacks and still
is in the field. Its ability to take
and give punishment heartened
other government units.
3. The Executive Yuan ordered
martial law extended to Tsingtao,
site of the American naval base in
the western Pacific. The order goes
now to President Chang Kai-shek
for execution. The action followed
the application of martial law to
Nanking, Shanghai and Suchow.
a. Gen. Pal Chung-hsis four ma
tional armies from Hankow ap-
proved the Pukow-Suchow railroad
from the West after a forced march
of 180 miles.
Trenches Dug at HankOw.
The effectiveness of Gen. Pats
troops in bolstering Suchow's de-
fenses was undetermined since at
least two Red columns paralleled
them across the countryside.
Hankow reports said thousands
of workers there were digging
trenches outside the city as ad-
ditional defenses to Communist
raids.
Qualified observers here hold the
opinion that the Reds were regroup-
ing for another assault instead of
being on the run.
Most Chinese expressed doubt
that the Suchow victory" was as
sweeping as pictured by the news
papers and government. But it ap-
peared that Gen. Chiang's troops
at least held their own in the first
phases of the great Suchow battle.
in which more than 100000 men
assertedly were committed.
Worried Chinese we're told by the
Chinese Central News Agency that
the Communists had suffered on the
Suchow front "the most disastrous
defeate ever received from the
hands of government troops"
The official agency reported
Evening star., 1948-11-17
China Says Reds
Lost 10000 in
Suchow Defeat
Martial Law Ordered
Extended to Tsinetoo,
American Naval Bose
By the Associoted Press

NANKING. Nov. 1.-THE gov
ernment claimed today that
10000 casualties were inflicted
on Reds routed east of SuchoW
gateway to Nanking.
The official and pro-government
reports buoyed the capital. But
skeptics. mindful of other govern
ment claims at Tsinan, Chinhsien
and Mukden just before they fell
to the Reds, waited for more in
formation.
These points. however, appeared
true on the basis of information
here:
l. The Chinese Air Force blunted
Red attacks across the open coun-
Evening star., 1948-11-17

we'll in front of the other groups in
the drive, having reached nearly 80
per cent of its $1,524,557 quota
Business Unit has reached 81 per
cent of a goal of $1,7S5,27l, while
Business Unit 2 has only 36.6 per
cent of 1884 800.
Assistant Secretary of Interior c.
Girard Davidson, who reported for
the Government Unit, told the
meeting there are 10000 Govern
ment employees who have not yet
made contributions. He said he be-
ieves that, in most cases, they had
not been approached properly and
that further effort with this group
would put the Government drive
over the top.
More money has been raised by
the Government Unit 50 far than
(see CHEST, Page A-40
Evening star., 1948-11-17
(See CHINA, Page A
-Four Hitch Hikers Beat, Rob
Priest Giving Them a Lift
By the Associated Press

PIKESVILLE, Nd, Nov. 17.-Four
young hitchhikers accepted a ride
from Catholic priest last night,
and then beat him, ripped off his
collar, took his money and drove
off in his car.
Baltimore County police said the
priest, Father Joseph w. Hopkins
was struck on the. head from behind
and suffered cuts about the face and
head in the struggle that ensued
He accompanied police in search for
his assailants, who he said appeared
16 years old or less.
After the robbery Father Hopkins
walked about half mile to a house
Police said his clothing was torn and
bloodstained.
Evening star., 1948-11-17
Washington Boord PIons
To Ask Congress for
'Across-the- -Bourd' Roise
Rv Rohert I ewie
By Robert J. Lewis
Stex Sail Tarraanandant

NEW YORK, Nov. 1.-THE
Washington delegation to the
convention of the National As
sociation of Real Estate Boards
will not request the convention
to go on record in favor of abo-
lition of rent control in the Dis
trict of Columbia, it was learned
today.
Washington is the only city in
the country which has a separate
rent control administration.
Washington delegates indicated,
however, that while they wouldn t
make a point of seeking complete
removal of rent controls, it was a
certainty the Washington board soon
would seek the same rent control
relief afforded previously to the rest
OF the country
Will Ask Increases.
AS explained today, the board
probably will ask Congress, specifi-
cally, for a general "across-the-
board rent boost in the District of
Columbia and for decontrol of homes
rented for the first time.
Delegates said that when Con-
gress permitted IS per cent increases
in the rest of the country If tenants
agreed to sign voluntary" leases,
Washington landlords received no
such opportunity. Likewise, said
delegates here, national decontrol
of homes rented for the first time
was not permitted in the District.
Were going to have to take up
this problem at meeting OF the
board soon" a delegation spokesman
said. Owners are certainly entitled
to a fiat increase in the District.
As for rent control elimination, the
District is in a somewhat different
position than the rest of the coun-
try and we plan to make no fight
along this line for the present" :"
Meanwhile, convention sessions
heard that the hotel business is ex-
pected to continue OF boom through
out next year, that building costs
probably will stay high" for a year
or more, and that mo drastic de-
cline in prices of residential prop
erty is in the ofnng.
Allen c. George, New York. said
lsee REALTORS, Page A-6)