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Evening star., 1948-11-19
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3rd AND SHEPHERD
Mice Northwest section-:Row brick With
b bedrns. porch. oil h.-w;h.; built-in
sg :s.-s Cali Mr. fWell' ME- '40o or
o'' '''' "R" ST. NE.
22oo block-pesirable det. brick home With
5 bedrms.. oil h.-wh; beautiful ios. Can
SILVER SPRING
500 block PershinE dr.-Immaeulate S-
Sedrm.. 2-bath home with With. many many extra San
screened d porch. Gall Mr.. Philip Jolles'
NE. 5400 or II. 1881.
SILVER SPRING
5000 block Flower ave.-Det. center hall
brick; iss liy; r%' din rm bstusifqliy S.drm.
and bath; finished attic. provides your
fourth bedrm. or study: bsmt. has been
site bar. billiard RI: and stone frsplaeses;
lot Cali Mr.. Weiss. AK. $3.50 or ME. $500.
LEO M. BERNSTEIN & co.
l41b K st. NV Realtors. NE. 6400.
Evening star., 1948-11-19

NEAR U. s. NAVAL LAB.
acres, including some orchard land.
stream: 7-rrn., 2-bath frame home, IN
picturesque. setting; oil heat; tool house.
ture included II desired immediate pos.
session; suitable for antique or chicken
A. IL. SEIDENSPINNER, Realtor
Riverdale, Nd. WA: l0l0.
25 NEW HOMES
For veterans. $500 down, $3.50 per month.
Near new elementary school. Gatnoiio:
center; 22 min. by bus to downtown d. CO
CLIFF PERCY, REALTOR
A7oo baltimore ave-, Hyattsvills, Nd. WA
5000, WA. 6641. UN. 0312: 20
(Oontinued On Next Psgs3
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WOODRTDGE,

New brick bungalow. 5 rooms tiled bath,
$4,000. Also nearby Md. new brick
bungalow, 81 300; will 90 GI with $1,000
cash and $66 per mo-; rooms, tiled bath
full bsmt.. fireplace, expansion attic. Cali
Ravenscroft, DU. 6641, with VIM. H
BOAzE, 3408 18th st. ne. MI. S24l
Evening star., 1948-11-19

1NUx3xt 1C061x4NN w W.
Attractive white brick home. g. bedrooms
IL baths, screened living porch. gas &C
heat, attached garage; lovely wooded lot
Owner transferred; Priced to sell. ,oaI Gai
BOSS & PHELPS, INC.
1h17 NJ w -20
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NEAR CATHEDRAL

A deishtful 4-bedroom, .2-bath house, To-
Gated on q quiet side street; the living
room, large and beautifully proportioned
opens onto a pleasant screened porch. din
ing room with fireplace has an entrance entrance
into the garden, q modern sunny kitcnen
units, maids room and bath on 3rd floor.
DOROTHY G. WOOD, exclusive agent
1881 P st. NV. DE. 7l15. MISS Mc-
Mahop nIJ OO1R -2U
Evening star., 1948-11-19
VETERAN SAVES S14,45O

In s,: 20 yrs; so can you y; i you Day this M
NV rm din. rm., kit, 3 daylight, bedrms.;
stairway to sttie full Dsmti, gas ln heat !gs
Price, S14 $50. Phone HU: 634e:
Evening star., 1948-08-22
By the Assoeioied Press

0Uncle Sam needs to improve the
supervision of his more than O.
600, 900 employees, according to man
who should know
He is Arthur S. Flemming, leaving
August 80 after nine years on the
Civil Service Commission.
Mr. FlemIning, the Republican
member of the three-man commits
sion, is the new president of Ohio
Wesleyan University. The 43-year-
old Wesleyan alumnus starts on this
Job September L. Government
leaders will honor him at sendon
dinner tomorrow night.
Mr.. Flemming has very definite
opinions on what can be done to i'm
prove Government service.
The nub of the matter, he told a
reporter, is the Is to 20 per cent
of the total 2,oS6 ,22o employees tat
last count who supervise the work
Of others. There are some good
supervisors in Government now. Mr..
Flemming says. but far too few.
He says the Government must
improve the quality of these super
visors so they can ID better i'm
press the people who work under
them with importance of the work.
er's role in the overall business OF
Government, and ca be able to set
Evening star., 1948-08-22
Brooklyn Weddings
Rushed by Draft
By the Assoeiated Press

NEW YORK, Aug. 2l.-Yesterday
the President announced that mar
ried men wouldn't be drafted. Today
the Brooklyn marriage license
bureau had to call in the police to
stem the tide.
In the busiest halliday in menu
ory, Brooklyn marriage clerks turned
out 400 licenses-about four times
the number on a similar Saturday
last year.
And that didn't count approxi-
mately so prospective brides and
bridegrooms who, turned away In
Brooklyn, went to the Manhattan
bureau for their licenses.
Sure Tine getting married TO
beat the draft" admitted one youth.
I'm not yellow, but / don't want
to serve in any peacetime army"
The police begged the couples in
Brooklyn to try bureaus In other
boroughs. where for some reason
there had been no rush. Most OF
the couples paid no attention.
So the emergency police squad
closed the bureaus doors an hour
early. Most of those shut out dashed
for the nearest subway to Manhat-
tan-to beat the noon closing hour.
The average age of the would-be
bridegrooms was %.
Evening star., 1948-08-22
Romoniun Press Attoche Quits:
Seeks u. S. Haven for Family
Prefers Freedom, He soys; Reports Nephew
Of Premier Has Left New York Post

Alfons Vogel disclosed last
night that he has resigned as
press attache of the Romanian
legation and will seek haven fol
himself and his family in this
country as political refugees.
Mr.. Vogel, former Bucharest
newspaperman, also said he had
been informed that Remus Lula
the Romanian government CON-
mercial attache in New York, also
has resigned. Mr.. Lula, he said, is
the nephew of Premier Petru
Groza OF Romania.
Mr.. Vogel said he gave personal
matters" as the reason for his
resignation. Mrs. Vogel put it more
simply.
we are not Communists" she
said.
A Romanian Embassy attache
said last night that Mr.. Vogel was
discharged from his duties about
month ago.
He said the former press attache
had once expressed very strong
partisanship for the Social Demo-
cratic Party which had united with
the Communist movement in Ro-
mania.
1t was only after he was injured
in an automobile accident near
Philadelphia five weeks ago that
Mr.. Vogel appeared to change his
political views, the embassy spokes-
man said. adding that the shock
might have influenced his views.
Asked if Mr. Vogel might have
suffered head injury" the spokes-
Evening star., 1948-08-22
Message Is Delivered to
Foreign Minister Sforzo
By Governors Aide
By the Associuted Press

ROME, Aug. 21.-Gov. Thomas
E. Dewey paid tribute to Pre-
mier Alcide de Gasperi's states
manship in a message delivered
today and said Mr.. de Gasperi
deserves "the encouragement of
every freedom-loving person"
The fine results which the
italian people have been accom-
plishing under your inspired lead
ership," Gov. Dewey said, have
won the admiration of every real
American.
"A nation fighting to regain its
stability and to reinstate its eco
nomic and social resources on a
higher plane requires something
more than government degrees and
laws. 1t requires a will to survive
and dogged determination to win
through, and an uncountable vol
ume of toll and hardship and sac
rifice.'
The message. presented by Ed
tSee DEWEY, Page abb
Evening star., 1948-08-22
American Who Could Not Get
U. S. Visa Sent Abroad by u. N,

The newspaper said "just why
the United States failed to grant
passport was never made public. =
The woman, the newspaper said
served with the Once of War In
formation in 1914 and worked for
the CIO Political Action Committee
in the same year.
She is German born natural
lied American citizen, the news
paper said.
The Herald Tribune said her de-
parture was the first time an
American U. N. employe has left
the country without U. S. pass
port, with one exception.
In the other case, the newspaper
said, the Government arranged %
issue passport abroad to Carey
Seward, of the U. N. department
Of conference and general services,
who was dispatched to Palestine on
only two hours notice.
Evening star., 1948-08-22

man said one of the former at
tache's eyes was hurt in the acci-
dent.
ut was recalled that after Michael
Ivanovich Samarin. Russian school,
teacher, denounced Communism
Russian officials stated that he had
suffered head wound in the war
This was refuted by physicians who
examined him for the House Com
mittee on Un-American Activities }
Mr.. Vogel also spoke of the acci-
dent. He said he had been noticing
the differences between the two
countries for some time. Then, early
in July, the accident occurred. He
said it was natural to think about
things while he lay in the hospital.
He had been out of the hospital only
few days when he mailed his
resignation.
The embassy spokesman referred
to this as dismissal but was not
clear on details He said the en-
bassy regarded the affair as an old
story, so old that Mr.. Vogels name
Gid not appear IN the August issue
OF the Diplomatic List.
The Vogels left Washington i'm
mediately after mailing the resigna-
tion on July II and returned only on
Friday. Mr.. Vogel said he had not
been in communication with the
legation, and had not informed them
of his destination when he left
town for IAN American vacation
Il did not contact any official of
the American Government and no
American officiai contacted me be-
1 See VOGEL. Page A-11)
Evening star., 1948-08-22
$50 Soldiers Battle Fire
In South Dakota BadIands
By the Assoeiated Press

RAPID CITY. S. Oak, Aug. 21.-
A fire was racing through a rich
grazing area in the heart of the
Badlands tonight. About $50 men
from the Air Force base near here
left to battle the flames.
Capt. Thomas Siegler. base public
relations officer, said pilots reported
to him the fire was burning on an
8 to 10-aile front and by pm
had travelled or miles.
The fire was about so miles south
east OF here. near Scenic. S. Oak,
which is separated from the burning
area by the White River.
The grazing area. Capt. Sieglel
said. on August Is was taken over
by the Air Force as an air-to-grouno
gunnery range. He said there were
several unoccupied ranch houses
in the region, but he thought all
the cattle had been moved out.
Evening star., 1948-08-22
FIemmine, Leaving US. Service,
Asks Closer Watch on Workers

up a standard for these people tt
guide them, on what constitutes
good days work"
The Government has been short
sighted in not attracting top-fight
people. he says, urging that the
present $4,000 annual salary cell
ing of top executives be boosted to
SIS. 900.
There are good many spots In
Government which compare in ef-
ficiency very favorably with the best
in private industry. Mr.. F1emmlne
said, but there also are spots which
are quite inefhcient' because OF
poor administration and supervision.
For example:
There are too many css 81 two
or more employees doing j J0h that
could be done by one.
There are some lazy and fnefn-
cient employees who feel secure in
their permanent civil service status
Life tenure Is not guaranteed, he
said, an employe can be fired TO.
cause.
There are cases of politics. some
times personal. maneuvering ap-
pointments and promotions.
We could. with the right kind Of
administration and management in
every department. get along with
fewer people than are now EN-
ployed, he said.
Evening star., 1948-08-22
BY the Assoeioted Press

NEW YORK. Aug. 2l.-The New
York Herald Tribune said today
that an American woman who works
fol the United Nations left for duty
in Europe after three months ef-
fort failed to get her an American
passport.
The Herald Tribune said the wo-
man was Ursula WaSserman, an
information officer for the trustee
ship department of the U. N. She
was with dozen staff members
going to meetings of the U. N. in
Geneva and Paris.
The U. N. employees left aboard
the Queen Elizabeth today.
The newspaper said Miss Wasser-
man carried a U. N.-iSsued laiSsez
passer document. which member
nations of the world organization
are bound to recognize as valid
travel documents" according to a
1916 agreement.
Evening star., 1948-08-22
Axis Sally Put in District Jail
To Await Treason Chorqe Trial
u. S.-Born Woman
Flown From Europe;
Hearing Set Aug. 81

Axis Sally" a 47-year-old
American woman who the Gov
eminent says used to broadcast
on Hiter's radio to GIs that
hundreds of thousands of
American lives are being sacri-
feed for F. D. R., Churchill and
their Jewish cohorts" arrived
in Washington yesterday from
Germany to face a charge of
treason.
Two hours after she stepped
from C-54 luxury plane at Boiling
Air Force Base. she was in District
Jail, held without bond on a charge
for which the maximum penalty is
death.
The woman is Mildred Elizabeth
Gillars, born in Portland Maine
She is. the third American returned
from Germany to face treason
charges. The other two. Douglas
Chandler and Robert Best, both
were found guilty and given life i'm
prisonment.
A fourth American, the poet Ezra
Pound, was returned from Italy or
the same charge but was declared
mentally unable to face the Legal
proceedings. He is now at St. Eliza
beths Hospital. Another, an Amer
lean of japanese descent, soon will
be returned from Japan where she
was reported to have made Tokyo
! Continued on Page A-1O. Column A.
Evening star., 1948-08-22
Mexico City Workers
Protest High Prices
BY the Assoeioied Pres,

MEXICO CITY, Aug. 2l.-Thou-
sands of workers marching 10
abreast protested today against high
living costs. The parade through
Mexico City's business district ex-
tended for 10 blocks to the consti-
tutional plaza in front of the ma
tional palace.
The Federation of Employers
tCPRM said the demonstration was
Communist-inspired. Rogelio Flores
Zaraeoza, a member of the railroad
unions executive committee, re-
piled:
The demonstration is not Com
munist. 1t is made up of Mexicans
protesting against hunger"
The march was touched off by
price increases which have occurred
since the government devalued the
peso July 81. The demonstrators
carried placards demanding tina,
"those who have starved the people
must leave the government and the
country
Participating were members OF
the oil, railroad, mining and textile
unions. plus a few organized drug
store clerks and some housewives
from the poor sections of the capt.
tai. Some Communist youth groups
also took part.
Business houses were closed while
the parade was in progress.
Evening star., 1948-08-22
Five Injured os Quoke
Rocks Southern Italy
By the Assoeio,ed Pres.

ROME, Aug. 21.-An earthquake
rocked Southern Italy today. Dis
patches said five persons were in
jured and more than 500 houses
damaged.
! The shock was felt particularly in
Foggia. Ortanova and Bari.
A seismographic observatory at
Taranto said other shocks could be
expected In Southern Italy as re-
suit of "resettlement of deep geo.
logical strata"
Evening star., 1948-08-22
Big Guam Fire Ravaging
Navy Gasoline Tank Farm
BY the A.seeioted Press

GUAM Sunday, Aug. 22.-Fire
visible for miles ragged through the
United States Navy aviation and
mobile gasoline tank farm five miles
from Apra Harbor today following
IN early morning explosion.
Fire trucks were summoned from
the whole island and hundreds
of service men were battling the
blaze.
Flames and smoke lowered 1000
feet In the air over the oily Inferno
Evening star., 1948-08-22
Allies Coordination Dewey Pays Tribute
0fViewsSeen Causing To De Casper for
Delay in Mo|otov Talk Leadership Of Italy
Next Moscow Conference
Is Believed Unlikely
Before Tomorrow
By the Associated Press

MOSCOW, Aug. 81. - There
was no four-poWer meeting in
the Kremlin tonight, and prob
ably there will not be one now
before Monday.
A source in the American embassy
dismissed reports that sharp di-
vision had arisen between France
on the one hand and the United
States and Britain on the other
over the question of Ruhr control
The whole series of negotiations
here have dealt with East-W West diff
ferences over Berlin and Germany
and possibly all of Europe.
1t seemed probable, however. that
the question of co-ordinating the
views of the three Western powers
among themselves had held up a
new meeting with Soviet Foreign
Minister Molotov
American Ambassador Walter Be-
dell Smith. Frank Roberts, British
special envoy. and French Ambas-
sador Yves Chataigneau met to-
gether again late in the afternoon
1t was regarded as likely that the
three Western diplomats now have
ironed out their differences and are
ready to confer again with the Rus
slams. If that did happen tonight.
it occurred too late to ask for an
appointment with Mr. Molotov. The
last four-power meeting was held
last Monday
In Paris, French sources predicted
the Moscow talks would END
tomorrow with last meeting Of
the Western diplomats with Prime
Minister Stain.
They denied reports of discord
between the American, British and
French ENJOYS. Speculation to that
effect was heard in London. The
French cid say, however, that the
latest report of Mr.. Chataigneau-
now under study-dealt with talks
(See MOSCOW, Page A-53
Evening star., 1948-08-22
State Department Will
Deport Russian if Its
Wishes Are Defied
By the Assoeiuted Pre<s .

NEW YORK, Aug. 21.-Soviet
Consul General Jacob Lomakin
expelled by the State Depart,
ment over the Russian refugee
teacher case, has booked pas
sage for Europe-but his right
hand man limited today he may
not leave.
Passage for the discredited consul
and his family has been booked
on the liner Stockholm, sailing next
Saturday for Goteborg, Sweden. z
But vice consul zot l. Chepurn-
yah-replying to newsman's ques-
tion-said today:
'Oh, I think he's going to stay"
Wouldn't Elaborate.
Reporters had asked him who
might replace Mr.. Lomakin in New
York.
Mr.. Chepurnykh would not elab.
crate on his statement.
If Mr.. Lomakin tries to buck
American orders to leave the
United States he will be deported
anyway, Official sources at the
State Department said last night
cts a hypothetical case as it
stands" an official said in Wash
ington. ''Lomakin hasn't said
he won't leave. The State De-
paltment will withhold official
! comment until he does.
but if he decides to try to
stay, he'll be deported, ,>anyway.
It's not up to him to decide
! No word came directly from MI
Lomakin about the sailing.
/ Brushes Past Reporters.
/ He left the consulate at 4:30 pm
today. brushing past reporters t
get into limousine.
He said only that he was going t
a Park avenue address, where sev
eral Russian United Nations dele
gates live.
An attache, who said he was sec
retary to the consulate, said Nj
Lomakin's reservations were mad
about two months ago." long be
fore the school teacher case begar
TT was a routine return tn
attache said.
! A spokesman for the Swedish
American line, operator of tn
Stockholm, said Mr.. Lomakin
passage was booked in Europe, add
ing that there was no way of tellin
here whether it was made recentl
or some time ago.
Teacher Off Critical List.
. Meanwhile, Mrs. Oksana Kasen
kina, the 52-year-old refugee teach
er who is the pawn in the diplo
matte dispute. was removed toda
from the critical list at Roosevelt
Hospital.
She had been described as in
critical condition ever since he
three-story leap from the Russial
consulate nine days ago.
Today, one hospital bulletin sai
she was constantly improving
A later one said condition stil
improving" 1t added that no fur
ther bulletins would be issued afte
today unless radical change take
place"
Tonight the teacher, propped u
=. in bed. was told the news of Nj
Lomakin's expulsion.
Good. good" she was quoted a
|
(See LOMAKIN, page A-6.)
Evening star., 1948-08-22
u. S. Flying CooImen'
Speed Up Operations
To Relieve Shortage
By the Assoeioied Press

ERLIN, Aug. q. - The
United States Air, Forces Fly
ing Coalmen" went into con-
centrated action today to try
to overcome blockaded Western
Berlin's coal shortage.
The first American flights of
C-54's carrying only coal started
from the RAF base OF FaSsburg
In the British zone to Berlin.
The distance is only half the
Frankfurt-Berlin run and will
enable the Western powers to
pour coal into BerliA at a far
faster clip.
The 9Th Squadron from Kelly
Field, San Antonio. Tex. car
ried 1877 tons of coal in l3 flights
duying six hours up to noon.
Two other squadrons will join
the 9th soon.
Evening star., 1948-08-22
j. ). Authorities
In Berlin Fear
Clash With Reds
Soviet to Keep Troops
Mossed as Long as
American MPs Stoy
By the Assoeioted Press

BERLIN, Aug. Russian
soldiers beat and stabbed Ger
man police in the American
sector of Berlin today and
American authorities expressed
fear of a clash between occupa-
ton forces.
The Americans were seeking di-
rect discussions with the Russians
to arrange a truce between rival
German police forces in the Soviet
and Western sectors.
Failing a settlement, an Ameri-
can spokesman said, Something
might happen that will involve more
than the Germans"
Although attempts to reach high
Russian officials were unsuccessful,
two Russian officers told the Ameri-
car deputy provost marshal in a
street conference they would keep
armed Soviet troops concentrated
In Central Berlin as long as the
United States keeps military police
there.
3 German Policemen Seized.
Today, two American sector Ger
man policemen were attacked and
carried off by the Russians. An Of
fetal police announcement said the
two men were accosted by "numer-
Gus" Russian soldiers who demanded
that they come along into the So
Wet sector.
When they resisted one was
stabbed and the other knocked down
with a rifle butt.
The incident occurred near the
Anhalter railroad station in down.
town Berlin, near the border be-
tween the American and Soviet sec
tors. Earlier. two other German
Evening star., 1948-08-22

--l-ice were kidnapped in the British
,ctor. Five Western sector police
ere kidnapped Yesterday. OF nine
',ducted in two days, three have
"aped.
The Soviet licensed German news
ency tADNp tonight denied the
plainclotheS detectives picked
by the Russians near the An
ter station were stabbed or
lbbed.
Soviet Version Of Arrests.
The Russian version said two
erman civilians. Joseph Voelkel
I'd Guenther Richter, were ar
2sted Saturday forenoon on Pots
Gamer Platz. Voelkel and Richter
had pistols and cameras. Only after
their arrest, they confessed they
were members of the uniformed
police in the American sector
Voelkel and Richter were brought
to the responsible bureau of the
Soviet military police"
The story made no mention OF
the statement Dy western sector
Police Chief Johannes Stumm that
the men were seized and attacked
in the American sector.
At least 20 western sector police
have been seized since the police
department was split by Russian
refusal to accept dismissal of Mos
cow-trained Paul Markgraf as
police chief. The dismissal was or
dered by the anti-Communist city
government.
American officials telephoned
Russian headquarters. seeking to
arrange discussions to head off fur
ther violence which might lead to
clash between occupation forces.
They were told the two top Russian
Continued on Page Al, Column g.
Evening star., 1948-08-22
Getting in Step

Thousands of young Ameri-
cans once again are con-
cerned with the problems at
tendant on military service as
the peacetime draft and new
enlistments become effective.
Mai. Thomas M. Mai. who
has been writing the VeterA
ans Guide for The Sunday
Star, has revamped his col
umn to cover the interests of
these new service men. It
will appear Mondays. We'd
nesdays and Fridays under
the name of Draftee and Vet
eran Guide. The first coll
umn will be In The Evening
Star tomorrow.