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Evening star., 1948-02-09
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bill hearing from $3.50 to 8
o'clock tonight.
Evening star., 1948-02-09
BULLETIN

BUSINESSMEN SEE PEAK reached
and perhaps passed. Page Alt
Evening star., 1948-02-09

FUEL OIL CUTS for non-essential
users dependent on new supplies.
Page B-1
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(See INDIAN, Page A-6J
Evening star., 1948-02-09

Late New York Markets, Paqe All.
Evening star., 1948-12-05
Explosives Truck Blast
Kills Two Men in Texas
BY the Associofed Press

THROCKMORTON, Tex, Dec. 4
"A truck hauling explosives was
blown to bits 4 miles south of here
today, killing the driver and
another man.
Still another truck driver was in
jured in the blast:
The truck ran into a ditch and
disintegrated with a great. rumbling
roar that was plainly heard Is miles
away. The shock ratified windows
in this city, 65 miles northeast of
Abilene.
The driver of the explosive truck
was blown to pieces. Marion Gibson,
manager of the Du Pont plant at
Stanton, Tex, said the driver was
Roger Towery, an employe of the
company. He said the truck was
en- route from Stanton to Bartles-
vile, Okla.
Willis Buchanan, Throckmorton
rancher, who was driving nearby in
his pickup truck also was killed. A
big trailer truck, also in the vicinity,
was thrown off the highway. Its
driver. Jack King of Wichita Falls,
Tex, suffered a badly mangled arm.
The w. H. Bird home, 200 yards
away, was badly damaged. Electric
service in Throckmorton was
knocked out for few minutes.
Evening star., 1948-12-05
Plane Crashes
| After 2-Hour Hon
| Without q Pilot
BY the Assoeiofed Press

PTTMAN. N. j., Dec. "A pilot
less plane flew for two hours across
New Jersey tonight travelling As
miles before it crashed into a
cornfield near this South Jersey
town.
Mrs. Florence c. Hesarik, a house
wife of nearby Sewell, telephoned
State police at 6:45 pm. that she
had heard plane crash.
Police hurried to the scene. They
found two puzzled-looking men
searching the wreckage of the de-
molished 65-horsepower two-seater
There's nobody here" one said
"And there isn't any blood"
That's right" replied a police Of.
ficer. 1--WE had a report about thi.
plane"
The report had come at 4:45 wher
the small red and yellow plane tool
off from Pennington airport, neal
Princeton and headed south toware
Philadelphia, about 10 miles from
Pitman.
1t had q two-and-one-h half hou
supply of gas and few without lights
All airports were alerted and safet!
measures were taken at fields In tn.
area.
Charles Peyton, deputy inspector
for the State Department of Avi
alton, said the plane roared ava.
from a ground crew man who spur
the propeller on the small plan'
without knowing that the engine
accelerator had been left wide open
Evening star., 1948-12-05
Autopsy Shows Merchant Died
Of Skull Fracture, Not Illness

Homicide squad detectives today
were investigating the strange case
of merchant believed to have died
of natural causes until an autopsy
disclosed yesterday afternoon that
he had suffered a severe fracture
in the upper part of the skull.
The coroner's jury will be sworn
in tomorrow in the case of Charles
Scheer, 48, of 1413 Saratoga ave-
nue. NE, owner of mems clothing
store at HOO North. Capitol street,
where he was found in semicon-
scious condition last Monday night.
Mr.. Scheer died in George Wash
ington University Hospital early
yesterday. Coroner, A. Magruder
Macdonald said the autopsy dis
closed a skull fracture which scarce
ly could have resulted from a fall
to the floor. Death was due to a
broken skull and lacerations of the
brain, the coroner reported.
Dectives said Mr.. Scheer, who
had been under treatment for q
stomach ailment for the last Is
Evening star., 1948-12-05
100 CIerics Must Tell Court
Why Weddings Weren't Listed

Turley, Mount Gilead Baptist
Church, 1925 Thirteenth street
NV; John ]. Queally, Church of
the TRANSPORTATION, 141S Gallatin
street NV; Harry v. Porter, BIT c
street S.W.; Smallwood E. Williams,
1928 Montello avenue NE, and Ed
ward H. Pruden, 1929 Ordway street
NV. pastor of the First Baptist
Church, Sixteenth and o streets
NV, which President Truman at
tends.
Last May more than 200 clergy
men were named in similar COM
plants by the clerk of District Court
which keeps the marriage records
here. The clerk complained that
a sizeable portion Of Washington
clergy were not filing reports within
10 days, as the law provides, on
marriages they performed.
Many ministers of all denomina-
(See CLERGY, Page A-4J
Evening star., 1948-12-05
Deputies Vote Confidence
lin De Casper Cabinet
By the Associated Press

ROME, Dec. 4-Italy's Chamber
of Deputies voted confidence IN
Premier Alcide de Gasperi's govern
ment tonight by a 162-vote majority.
Of the 44S deputies present, only
14O voted in favor of a Socialist and
Communist sponsored no-confdence
motion on foreign policy. Three
hundred and two voted against it
and six abstained.
The vote followed week-long
debate on foreign policy.
Mr.. De Gasperi wound up the
debate with an hour-long speech in
which he dealt with Italy's No. 1
question-the return of her prewar
colonies.
Turning to the Communist
benches, the premier said:
Italy, while keeping clear from
hostility toward the East, will seek
friendship from North and South
America, first of all from the United
States, to which we owe so much Of
our economic recovery. and with the
Latin American countries
Evening star., 1948-12-05
Federation Picks K. w. DonneIIy
To Get Evening Star Trophy
Credentials Choirmon
Selected for Work to
Exclude Subversives

Ralph w. Donpelly, 35-year-
old insurance man and a COM
parative newcomer among the
city's civic leaders, last night was
chosen by the Federation of
Citizens Associations to receive
this years award of The Evening
Star Trophy for outstanding
public service.
Mr.. Donnelly won the award by
a 39-37 vote over a three-member
Federation committee which COM
peted with him for the annual
prize. The vote then was recorded
officially as unanimous.
The young civic leader was cited
for his work as chairman of the
Federations Membership and Gre
dential's Committee in drafting a
constitutional amendment designed
to exclude from Federation member
ship any delegates belnoging to
subversive organizations.
His selection for the honor was q
special victory for Mr.. Donnelly
because twice in little more than a
Evening star., 1948-12-05
Wrecking u. S. School System
Is Red Aim, New Report Says
Communists See Teachers os Easy Converts
Third Thomas Committee Booklet Charges

Communists want to wreck the
school system of the United States
as a step towards overthrow of the
Government here, the House Com
mittee on Un-American Activities
charged last night.
The committee attacked the REQ
conspiracy" in a 19-page booklet
third of a series on Communist in
fuence on religion, education, labor
and government.
High lights of the report describ-
ing inroads of Communists into
the school system are statements
that:
l. Teacher groups are "the easiest
touch of all professional classes"
2. Girls and womens schools anc
colleges contain some of the most
loyal disciples of Russia" because
teachers there ARE often frustrated
females"
3. Learned men are being at.
tracted to communism because ol
Illustration. greed. love of power ol
misplaced idealism.
f. If Communists took ovel
schools, real education would stop
Only training would be allowed"
5. I'VE teach children how tt
think They teach children what tt
think"
| 6. In too many textbooks success.
Evening star., 1948-12-05
u. s. C-54 AirIift Plane
Crashes, Killing Three
By the Assoeioted Press

BERLIN, Sunday, Dec. 5.-United
States Air Force headquarters an
nounced today an American C-54
airlift plane crashed at Fassberg in
the British zone of Germany, kill
ing all three crewmen.
The four engine Skymaster
crashed two miles from the airfield
at Fassberg shortly after taking of
The cause of the crash was not
Immediately established. An inves-
tigation has been ordered, Air Force
headquarters said.
The names of the victims were
withheld pending notification of
next of kin.
The accident brought to Is the
number OF Americans killed in the
giant British American airlift op-
Grafton which is supplying the west
ern sector of Russian-blockaded
Berlin.
The toll Of British lives stands at
six.
Evening star., 1948-12-05

Of the United States is played down
Soviet Russia played up.
7. Several Communist schools
many of which have gone out Of
business, are listed.
8. A group of 800 American Com
munists, trained in the Lenin School
at Moscow, serve as high officers OF
a secret army now being drilled here
to overthrow the Government.
9. Communism gained recruits
through the campaign of Henry
Wallace for President.
Text of Report.
A partial text of the report fol-
lows:
This is to tell you what the master
minds of communism have planned
for your child in the name Of "edu-
cation"
They mean to take him from the
nursery, put him in uniform with
the hammer and sickle flag in one
hand and gun in the other, and
send him out to conquer the world
If they have their way, he will be
guided from the kindergarten
straight through to college so that
he will have anything except a mind
of his own.
He will be trained but not edu-
Gated. He will be taught to solve
Continued on Page AT Column
Evening star., 1948-12-05

years, became i'll in his store. They
said a friend of Mr.. Scheer's, Johr
Griffin. 81, of the first block oi
New York avenue NV, was with
him at the time.
Mr.. Grifiin telephoned to Mr.
Scheer's wife, Edith, who sum-
moned her husbands nephew, DR.
Manuel Laudman, of 437 Seventh
street NV. and hurried to the store
Meanwhile, an ambulance had
been summoned.
Police said DR.. Laudman decided
to drive Mr.. Scheer to the hospital
in his automobile. They added
there was no evidence of robbery,
and Mr.. Scheer complained only
of being i'll and did not mention
a head injury.
Queried by telephone, Mrs. Scheer
would not state an opinion, but a
man who identified himself as Mr..
Scheer's brother said he believed
the dead man had been murdered.
He would not elaborate.
Evening star., 1948-12-05

police said the rear end of a fur
niture store collapsed, plate glass
windows were broken, and slate slid
off roof.
Prisoners Turned Into Yard.
Other cities in the general area
Twenty-Five Palms and Indio,
among them, reported severe shocks
and much CONSERVATION. In Indio,
the police desk sergeant released his
prisoners into the jailyard. a liquor
store reported heavy damage as
stocks tumbled to the floor and mer-
chandise bounced off shelves In
markets. A bank vault was sprung
in Twenty-Five Palms. Pavements
showed cracks.
Seismologists reported the quake
about equal in severity to one in
April, 1947. which also centered
in a remote desert area northeast
of here. Only the isolated nature
Of the country. said the experts,
prevented serious damage and pos
sible loss of life.
The tremor was felt in a band
extending from Santa Barbara and
Fresno on the north to San Diego
and Ell Centro on the south, and
east to the Colorado River.
Windows Are Broken.
There were reports of plaster
cracks, broken dishes and stopped
clocks in Los Angeles. In Arlington
windows were broken and a paint
store messed UP when stock fell to
the floor. Windows were broken
in the building of the Ontario Daily
Report. A telephone operator
tainted in Los Angeles and a shopper
tainted in a Riverside department
store. Brief power line failure
occurred in Victorville.
In quake-conscious Long Beach,
where Southern California's last
quake of disaster status occurred
Evening star., 1948-12-05
BY John N. Hiehtower
Asseeiotsd Press StoH Writer

Nine. Chang Kai-shek is here
appealing for the United States
to rescue China from Commu-
nism- with a program which
would cost an estimated $3,G00,-
100000 over the next three years
This presentation of China's pro-
cram comes from top Chinese Off
cials who would not permit direct
quotation. American informants
say it is the basis on which the
Chinese have suggested negotiation
of an aid program
The program covers four points
1t has been presented by Chinese
Ambassador wellington Koo to
President Truman as we'll as used
by Nine. Chang for her appeals
here.
Nine. Chang has conferred twice
now with Secretary of State Mar
shall and will call on President and
Mrs. Truman early this week. Per-
sons familiar with her approach to
her mission of obtaining American
aid report that she is stressing %
the need for greater understanding
here of China's plight, (2) the
Chinese belief that it is not yet too
late to save the situation, and (3)
the contention that the Chinese
government of her husband, Gen
eralissimo Chang Kai-shek, is
fighting not only for itself, but for
the United States and all other
anti Communist nations.
4-Point Program Outlined.
While Nine. Chang is represented
as not primarily concerned with
details of how the United States can
aid China, her purpose is to obtain,
if possible, American action along
the four lines of the Chinese pro-
posed program. This program calls
for:
l. An immediate declaration of
American support for Chang Kai-
shek's anti Communist war. The
Chinese contend this would REIN
spire their forces by providing as
surance of American backing with
the implicit promise of greater
American. aid.
2. A tremendous speed-up in the
delivery of military supplies before
action by Congress on any new pro-
gram. State Department reports
that the SIPS, 100000 of the pres
ent military aid program is now al
most used up except for about $10,-
100000. Top Chinese offiials here
say that, while it is true this money
has been committed for buying sup
plies, it is also true that only about
s25, 100000 of supplies actually have
been. delivered to China under the
current program.
3. Sending to China a military
leader of great prominence to run
(See MADAME CHANG. Page A-8D
Evening star., 1948-12-05
(See BERLIN, Page ABB

More than 100 Washington clergy
men will be called into Municipal
Court starting this week, nine of
them on Tuesday, to explain re-
ports they have failed to file notices
OF 140 marriages they performed
between last March and September.
Summonses for the first nine were
issued by the corporation counsel's
office, according to Prosecutor Clark
King. They require the clergymen
to appear for a preliminary hearing
to determine the facts in each case.
Mr.. King said the following would
be called to court Tuesday:
The Revs. Andrew R. Bird, Church
OF the Pilgrims, Twenty-second and
P streets NV; E. L. Harrison, Shi-
loh Baptist Church, 1928 irving
street NE; Charles w. Wood. st.
Pauls Episcopal Church, Rock Greek
Church road NV; James H. Miers,
Fourth Presbyterian Church, 2715
Thirteenth street NV; William l..
Evening star., 1948-12-05
Truman Blasts ReporI
Mighty Mo- Will
Join Inactive Fleet
Ship to Stoy in Service,
He Stresses at Silver
Service Presentation
By Joseph A. Fox
Sfor Stoff Correspondent

NORFOLK, Va, December A.
The 45,OO0-ton Missouri, last of
the big battleships to stay on
active duty, will continue to
occupy that role-perhaps as
long as the White House tenancy
remains unchanged.
Any idea that tA Mighty Mo-"
scene of the Japanese surrender,
would join her sisters, the Iowa and
New Jersey and lesser craft, in the
"mothball fleet was dissipated ef-
fectually today by President Truman
"a Missourian-who stood on the
historic surrender deck" of the
Missouri and told reporters:
"Some smart aleck who poses
as a spokesman for the Navy has
stated that the Missouri is to be
put out of commission. The Mis-
souri, is not to be put out of COM
mission. I want to make that as
emphatic as possible. I am speak
ing as President of the United
States"
Asked If he could be quoted di-
rectly-a departure from custom
Mr.. Truman responded: eyes, you
can make 1t as strong as you want
to-"
The President did not identify his
target, but his statement obviously
was prompted by story in Wash
ington morning paper yesterday that
the Missouri was due for retirement.
The Presidents denunciation OF
the Missouri story added an unex-
pected touch of color to the event,
which brought Mr.. Truman to Nor
folk-the presentation of a $4,000,
281-piece silver service to the battle
ship by the State of Missouri.
Everything had gone strictly &C
cording to protocol. Gov. Phil M.
Donnelly, of Missouri. made the
presentation: Capt. James H. Thach,
jr.,. accepted the gift for the Mis-
souri,, and the President honored the
amenities with a little speech in
which he paid tribute to Gov. Don
nelly's efforts to have the State
make the gift, and expressed regrets
that he himself had never been
Governor of Missouri.
Then Mr.. Truman walked over
where reporters were standing, and
said he wanted to make a state
ment that he had overlooked in his
speech to the Missouri's company.
He did.
Secretary of the Navy Sullivan,
who was at his elbow, fastened to
assure the President that he and
Admiral Louis E. Denfeld, chief of
naval operations, already had issued
a statement denying the decommis-
sioning report, but he added he had
not seen 1t in print yet.
After the presentation ceremony,
which Mr.. Truman climaxed by in
(See TRUMAN, Page A-3D
Evening star., 1948-12-05
Rolling Quake
Hits Wide Area
California
Shock Is Felt From
Suntu Burburu South
To San Diego
BY the Assoeiofed Press

LOS ANGELES, Dec. A roll
ing quake, centering in isolated
hills 100 miles east of here and
covering a wide area of Southern
California, damaged windows
and sent hundreds of persons
rushing into the streets today.
There were no reports of death
or serious injuries.
In the San Bernardino Mountains
north Of Banning, the quake, timed
at 4.43 pm, caused landslides and
broke chunks of pavement on a
road leading to the Morongo Indian
reservation.
In the winter resort town of Palm
Springs. about 20 miles to the south,
Evening star., 1948-12-05
Five Men Surrender
In Ambush Staying
OF Georgia Negro
Stote Investigator Says
All Are Detained Under
Suspicion Of Murder
By the Associated Press

LYONS, Ga, Dec. 4.-Five men
surrendered to county officers to-
day and were held under sus-
picion of murder in the Novem-
ber 20 ambush Staying of Robert
Mallard, colored.
All denied any connection with
the killing, which Mr.. Mallards
widow, Amy James Mallard, blamed
on a band of robed but unmasked
white men.
They were detained without war
rants. T. Ross Sharp, attorney for
two of the men. said all five ap-
peared voluntarily at the Lyons
County courthouse today. They ap-
peared at the Office of Toombs Coun-
ty Sheriff R. E. Gray, he said
after ''rumors had been circulated
that Mallard's widow had named
some of them as the killers"
Sheriff Refuses Confirmation.
Capt. Delmar Jones of the Georgia
Bureau of Investigation, reported
they were being held under sus-
picion of murder" Sheriff Gray
refused to confirm the OBI report
declaring, 1--WE are still investi-
eating.
Asked if Mr.. Mallard's widow
would be brought to Lyons to swear
out warrants, Sheriff Gray said
Eyes, probably Monday"
The rumors were circulated after
an Ohio business man produced a
statement from Mr.. Mallard's widow
naming two men as the killers. This
statement was forwarded to Su-
perior Court Judge Robert H
Humphrey by Gov. Herman Tai
madge. The judge then called a
special session Of the Toombs
(See AMBUSH Page A-40
Evening star., 1948-12-05
Irish Tie Trojons,
74-I4, in Last 30
Seconds of Game

Notre Danes mighty Irish
all but fell off the pedestal in
Los Angeles yesterday.
The South Benders ran into
a red hot Trojan eleven from
the University of Southern
California and were fortunate
to escape with a 14-14 tie-a
deadlock gained in the last 80
seconds of play. The stale
mate ended Notre Danes win
ming streak at 81 consecutive
games, but extended its string
of games without defeat to %
In a row.
The earthquake hit the huge
Memorial Coliseum as the
crowd filed out.
"Details of the game in sports
sectionD
Evening star., 1948-12-05
Berlin Voting Today
Regarded as Test in
East-West StruqqIe
Communists Boyeotting
Election, Turnout Will
Indicate Sentiment
EUROPE MAKING Gains Under
ERP, Committee Says. Page Az
BY the Assoeioted Press


ERP, Committee Says. Page A.
BY the Associated Press
BERLIN, Dec. 4.-Nearly 2,000,-
900 Germans, blockaded 10C
miles. behind the iron curtain
were urged tonight to vote for
freedom and against commu-
nism"in tomorrow's city elec-
tion.
What ordinarily would be a local
contest between rival political parties
has been magnifled by the East
West struggle into a giant st""v
in the wind indicating which
queror the Germans prefer.
Communists are boycotting the
election and are not on the ballot
The result, therefore, will be judged
or the relative size of the vote and
the at-home element.
If more than 80 per cent of the
eligible voters come out, the Western
power will hail it as vindication
of their fight to stay and prevent
the Sovietization of Berlin.
Weather Favorable.
If voting is relatively light, the
Communists will claim German en-
dorsement Of their efforts to drive
out the Western powers.
Clear weather favored q heavy
vote, and also the airlift which flew
in 4.754 tons of food and fuel today
Anyone who stays at home to-
morrow is giving vote for com.
munism against freedom" declared
Ferdinand Friedensburg, deputy
mayor of the legally elected govern.
ment which rules two-thirds of the
divided city.
The Americans and British pune.
tured a last-minute scare campaign
of Communist rumors that the
Western powers are getting ready
to abandon the city in January OF
February. The campaign was cal
culated to make timid Germans fear
to show their colors tomorrow.
Clay Assures People.
"The United States will not be
forced out of Berlin" said Gen
Lucius D. Clay, American military
governor
The British are not going out
by their own will or by any other
means" said British Foreign Of
flee spokesman in London.
Backed by these assurances that
the Western Allies are not going to
desert them, West Berlin's anti
Communists wound up the stormy
campaign with fighting words.
The three parties on the ballot
Social Democrats, Christian Demo-
Gratis Conservatives and Liberal
Democrats Rightists), buried their
differences in a three-party rally
against Communism at the Titania
Palast theater tonight. Communist
rowdies who tried to break up a
series of rallies this week did not
put in an appearance.
The Communists will never
smash our will, even if they resort
to the use of those cannons which
Evening star., 1948-12-05
.2,045 War Dead Due
In New York Tomorrow
BY the Assoeiofed Press

NEW YORK, Dec. 4.-The Army
transport It. James E. Robinson will
arrive here Monday with the bodies
of 2,045 American war dead.
Shipside memorial services will be
held at the Brooklyn Army Base
where the vessel will dock. The re-
turning dead include service per-
sonnel originally buried in military
cemeteries in England, Wales and
France.