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Evening star., 1948-04-29
Jury Selection Starts
After Judge 0verruIes
Trumbo Challenge

A jury was being selected this
afternoon to hear the contempt of :
Congress trial of Dalton Trumbo,
film writer, in District Court.
Justice David A. Pine overruled a
defense motion to have the panel
of prospective Jurors dismissed. The
defense sought to show that the
District Jury Commission does not
follow the qualifications set down
by law.
At least five prospective jurors
were dismissed Immediately after
the selection began when they said
they had read about the case in the
newspapers or heard about it on
the radio and feared they might be
influenced.
On the witness stand as the
trial opened today was Col. E.
Goring Bliss, secretary of the Dis
trict Jury Commission. He was
being questioned in connection with
a defense claim that the method of
choosing jury panels here Is unfair
to >Trumbo because Of alleged dis
elimination against ow-income
veniremen.
At one point in his testimony, Col.
Bliss got in a word for representa-
ton in the District.
Defense Attorney Ben Margolis
was asking the witness about a
QUESTIONABLE from a prospective
juryman who had written in answer
to a query as to whether he was
opposed to the American form of
Government, "Yes, am opposed to
taxation without representation"
Mr.. Margolis wanted to know
whether such an answer would ex-
clude a person from serving on a
jury.
But Col. Bliss replied if that were
the case, Pm afraid we'd have a
little trouble getting juries in the
District"
The trial was in recess yesterday
afternoon to permit the taking of a
deposition from another witness
who is too i'll to attend the court
room sessions-Chairman Thomas
of the House Committee on Un-
American Activities.
Trumbo is accused of having re-
fused, during hearing before this
committee in Hollywood last Oc-
tober, to answer questions as to
whether he was a member of the
Screen Writers Guild and the
Communist Party.
Justice Pine ordered the deposi-
ton after consulting the physician
who has Mr.. Thomas under treat
ment in Walter Reed Hospital as
to the possible effects of his being
questioned.
Evening star., 1948-04-29
Six Winners 10 Be SoIoisfs
With Band Of Bows Club

Five boys and one girl will be
the featured soloists at tomorrow
nights Constitution Hall concert
by the 55-piece concert band of the
Boys Club of Washington.
The six soloists, all appearing in
the hall for the first time, were the
winners Of the clubs recent Nation
al Capital Instrumental Contest.
Patricia Griffin. l6, who will be
the only girl on the stage, is a
pianist. Two other pianists are
Robert Hilker, Is. and Michael
Ponti, 10. Peter Van Allen, l6, will
play French horn, while Richard
Brewer, IL, and Danny Steinberg,
IA, will perform on violins.
Tickets for the concert, starting
at 90 cents, are available at the
symphony box Office, 1880 G street
NV, and the Boys Club, Seven
teenth street and Massachusetts,
avenue Sc. The concert starts at
$3.50 pm.
Part of the proceeds will benefit
the National Symptoms sustaining
fund.
Evening star., 1948-04-29
Reds Inspect All Traffic
In Reich Occupation Zone
BY the Assoeiofsd Press

BERLIN. April 2s.-Russian mill.
tary police in the hundreds today
made strict inspection OF all traffic
and transport in the Soviet occupa-
ton zone.
Some German observers believed
they were looking for deserters from
the Russian Army. This belief
seemed partly borne out by raids
the Soviet MPs made on railway
stations and some private homes.
In these they enlisted the aid OF
German police.
Authoritative reports published
here recently said thousands Of
Soviet soldiers are deserting with
their wives, preferring to live
illegally in Germany rather than
be repatriated to Russia.
The Neue Zeitung, Official Ger
man language newspaper of the
Allied Military Government, quoted
a Soviet commander then as saying
more than 10000 Soviet soldiers
have deserted -
Evening star., 1948-04-29
Breneman Radio Show
Replaced by Memorials
BY the Assoeiofsd Press

HOLLYWOOD, April 2s.-Memo-
rials to Tom Breneman, who died
yesterday, replaced the joviality o1
his Breakfast in Hollywood" radio
show today.
A spokesman for the American
Broadcasting Co. said there would
be tributes today, tomorrow and
Saturday while the network decides
whether the Breneman show will
be continued.
1t is possible that Jack McElroy
who often substituted for Mr.
Breneman, may carry on the pro-
gram which had an estimated TO-
100000 daily listeners to its gags
interviews, fun with ladies' zany
hats and orchids to the Oldest wom-
an present each day.
Mr.. Breneman, At, died of heart
disease at his Encino home early
yesterday as he was preparing to
leave for his Vine street restaurant
in Hollywood where the show was
transcribed day in advance.
The program which was to have
been broadcast yesterday will never
be heard, ABC announced.
Funeral arrangements were ex-
pected to be made today.
Evening star., 1948-04-29
Bross Company Grants
Sc Roise, Breoks Pottern
BY the Associated Press

BRADDOCK, Pa, April 29.-The
Acheson Manufacturing Co., granted
a scent hourly raise yesterday to
$50 members of a United Steel
Workers local. 1t was the first
firm to break with the no-raise
pattern adopted recently by the
United States Steel Corp.
James H. Thomas, director of the
Steelworkers' District Is, said the
brass fabricating firm operates un-
der the two-year no-strike clause
in effect throughout the basic steel
industry. George Acheson, jr,
company president, confirmed the
increase. but offered no further
comment.
The union said the raise, retro
active to April 26, provided for q
common labor rate Of $l.18 an hour.
highest in the Monongahela Valley.
area,
Evening star., 1948-04-29

halfway to Beisan, the same reports
continued, Hagana also occupied
Jisr al Majami police post and Teg-
gart police fortress, evacuated by
the British, near Gesher.
Official sources said yesterdays
casualties in Jaffa included 10 Jews
killed and 26 Arabs killed and 81
wounded.
Fifteen Jews and two Arabs were
reported slain in various Palestine
clashes since last night. Nearly
$500 persons, by unofficial count,
have died by violence in the Holy
Land in the last five months.
British Use Tanks.
The British Army said it used
tanks yesterday in Jaffa after a
heavy mortar attack on the Arab
city by the Jewish Irgun Zvai
Leumi.
The army said tanks, infantry
and gun carriers were deployed in
the area of the Jaffa railway work.
shops and law courts while Spitfires
with cannon attacked a building
used by Irgun forces in nearby Bat
Yam. An army source said Irgun
was forced back in Jaffa and British
troops still were in position today
in the area into which they moved.
Nevertheless, the Jews, striking
from all Jewish Tel Aviv, showed
determination to go ahead with
their attack on Jaffa, a predomi-
nantly Arab city.
Persons fleeing the troubled Holy
Land are streaming southwark
across the Egyptian border while
soldiers, guns and vehicles move
northward toward the frontier
Evening star., 1948-04-29

or more of these lines:
l. Intensified efforts to win both
Jewish and Arab support for the
American-sponsored truce plan.
Gen. Hilldring was in charge of
Palestine policy under Gen. Mar
shall for a brief period last fall and
is understood to have been partic-
ularly successful in dealing with
Zionist leaders.
2. Preparations for the possible
dispatch of American troops to Pal
eStine.
The United States already Is on
record with an offer to share in a
Palestine police force along with
other countries. provided a truce
is arranged. II troops are sent,
many of the problems involved
would be those Of a military gov
ernment nature, with which Gen.
Hilldring is familiar.
3. A restudy OF the whole Amer
ican position on Palestine in an
effort to discover whether there is
any untried approach which might
produce greater hope of a settle
ment.
Evening star., 1948-04-29
Stock Market Strike
Ends With Acceptance
OF Exchange's S Offer
BY the Assoeiofsd Press

NEW YORK, April 29.-Union
employees today ended their month
long. violence-punctuated strike
against the New York Stock Ex-
change by accepting pay raises Of
fered by the financial market.
During the strike, police and
pickets clashed several times. Once
pickets demonstrated by lying down
In the streets.
A spokesman for the Exchange
said 100 of the union-estimated $50
strikers would not be taken back.
He gave no explanation, but it
was recalled that Emil Schram,
Exchange president, said during ne
gotiations that the strike disclosed
that the operating force could be
reduced by 100.
Four Brokerage Houses Affected.
John Cole, vice president OF the
union-United Financial Employees
(AFL)-Said the union had accepted
the fact that jobs of 100 had been
eliminated, but was hoping that re-
organization of personnel and in
creased business would result in
absorption of that number.
Meanwhile, the strike continued
against four brokerage houses to
which the walkout spread. Union
officials said immediate efforts would
be made to settle those disputes with
E. F. Hutton & Co., A. M. Kidder &
Co., Bache & Co. and Shields & Co.
The union originally asked in
creases of SO for employees earning
less than $40 weekly and SIS for
those earning more. Later it scaled
this down to $6 and $40.
The stock exchange offer accepted
today provided So weekly for those
earning up to $40, 81 for those earn
ing between $50 and $74 and IS
weekly for those earning more than
$74.
Severance Pay Provided.
The exchange spokesman said the
return to work would be started
"as soon as possible" He thought
it probable that the strikers would
be permitted to have today off, to
return fresh tomorrow.
The agreement presided that
those whose jobs we're eliminated
would be put on a special "sev-
erance pay" for eight weeks and
then given one-week separation pay
for each year of service. The mini
mum separation pay is two weeks.
Stock exchange strikers were aid
ed in their picketing by members
of the Seafarers' International Un-
ion and Sailors Union of the Pa
cific (AFL).
The strike against the Stock Ex-
change and the New York Curb Ex-
change started March %. Later it
was extended to four brokerage
houses.
The curb exchange dispute was
settled about two weeks ago.
Mayor O'Dwyer appointed Will
liam J. Mccormack, president of the
Penn Stevedore Co., to investigate
the wage matter and report back to
him. That was the only remaining
issue in controversy.
The mayor requested the strikers
to return to work after receiving
letter from union leaders asking
him to intervene.
Evening star., 1948-04-29
Man Who Carried Away
Girl, 10, Sentenced
By the Associated pyesS

GUILDHALL, VT, April 2s.-Ken-
meth A. ingalls,, "a, a husky wood
chopper, originally accused of kid
mapping farmers pretty 16-year-old
daughter, was sentenced today to
serve from a year and a half to
three years in House of Correction.
The prosecution dropped the kid
naping charge and ingalls, pleaded
guilty to breach of the peace.
Dark-haired Charlotte O'Brien,
who ingalls, testified wanted to
marry him, was in school as he
calmly accepted the sentence.
ingalls, disappeared with the girl
from her home last March. He was
accused at first of seizing the girl at
gunpoint and holding her prisoner
for five days in a nearby summer
cottage.
Evening star., 1948-04-29
Reds Admit Stirring
Koreans to Disorders
BY the Associated Press

KOBE, japan, April "a United
States Army spokesman said to-
night that zutomo Horikawa, a
member of the Japanese Commu-
mist Party, had admitted Commu-
nists were behind last week ends
Korean disorders in Kobe and
Osaka.
Horikawa, the spokesman said,
was in the prefectural governors
office during discussions with
Koreans over Japanese restrictions
on Korean schools. The governor
was seized by the Koreans and held
ncommunicado.
Evening star., 1948-04-29
Palestine
Continued From First Page J

9 am. this morning. There is no
change in the positions"
An Amman dispatch said Wawzi
al Kaukji, commander of the Arab
volunteer army in Palestine, re-
ported to King Abdullah that Arab
field guns are shelling Jewish Tel
Aviv, starting fire and damaging
buildings.
U. N. Group Sends Appeal.
King Abdullah received from the
United Nations Security Councils
Truce Commission in Jerusalem an
appeal not to intervene in Palestine.
The King was told intervention
would be considered an act hostile
to the United Nations and menacing
to world peace.
Abdullah replied he would comply
only If the Jews could be persuaded
to cease attacking Arabs and at
tempting to set up a Jewish state in
Palestine.
Abdullah also received a reply
from the Jewish Agency for Pales-
tine to his recent proposal that Jews
accept citizenship in unified Pal
estine state. The agency said the
Jews will refuse citizenship in any
state in which the Arabs are in the
majority and that they are ready to
fight to the last man" against it.
The agency added, however, that
the Jews are willing to negotiate
with the Arabs on an equal basis
Five-Hour Battle.
Jewish reports to Jerusalem were
that Hagana routed Arabs in a
fve-hour battle in the Jordan VAL
ley today and took police station
near Samakah(hich the Arabs had
occupied. SmaEah is at the south
ern tip Of the Sea of Galilee.
Down the river valley almos
Evening star., 1948-04-29
Supreme Court Asked
To Rule Out Taft Acts
Political Spending Ban
BY the Associated Press

The CIO asked the Supreme Court
today to outlaw the Taft-Hartley
Acts ban on union political expend-
itures.
The union attorneys said this pro-
vision of the labor law creates a
danger that our entire electoral
process will fall prey to small, un-
democratic, wealthy groups"
The CIO attorneys asked the high
tribunal to affirm a decision by JUS
tice Ben Moore of West Virginia that
the ban is an unconstitutional in
vasion of the rights of free speech,
press and assembly.
The section Of the act involved
bars labor organizations from giving
or spending money in connection
with federal election.
Deliberate Test of Act.
The CIO and its president, Philip
Murray, were accused Of violating
the ban by indorsing a Democratic
candidate for Congress in a spe-
cial election in Baltimore last July.
They published the Endorsement in
the CIO News deliberately to test
the validity of the ban. Justice
Moore, sitting temporarily in Dis
trict Court here, dismissed the in
dictment against them.
The CIO attorneys told the Su-
preme Court in their briefs that
in the 1910 and 1914 national elec-
ton campaigns, powerful indi-
vidualS and their families, prom
inently identified employer inter-
ests, contributed huge amounts to
political campaigns.
Unless the members of labor
organizations are given the right
collectively to direct their political
strength against the strength of
these powerful individuals and fam
lily groups" they asserted, "the
democratic framework of our en-
tire society will be in danger" %
Government Position Given.
Jesse Climenko, a special assistant
to the Attorney General, opened
the Governments side Of the case
late yesterday. He said the Taft
Hartley Act does not keep indi-
vidual union members from setting
up their own political campaign
funds and using them as they wish.
He said Congress sought to elm
mate dangers to free elections "in-
herent in the massing Of wealth in
the hands Of entities" such as
unions.
Congress has sought to obviate
those dangers he explained, "by
an enforced neutrality on
the part of entities as such, leav-
in gthe individual members thereof
free to combine together voluntar-
lily to express their point OF view
in a manner which will make Ger
tain that their political activities
are wholly free from the pressure
which may be exerted by the en-
f{tioc
Evening star., 1948-04-29
Conway Quits Export Post;
Urges AboIishinq Office
Nv the Assee;otsd p,..,

BY the Asseeiotsd Press
Capt. Granville Conway resigned
yesterday as co-ordinator of Amer
lean export programs and suggested
that Office be abolished.
In a letter to President Truman
Capt. Conway said he feels the Eco
nomic Cooperation Administration
can take over most Of the work his
office has been doing.
One Of the duties of the office has
been to make the best possible use
of shipping in handling emergency
export programs.
Capt. Conway is a former member
of the Maritime Commission.
Evening star., 1948-04-29
Woman With IS Children
Is Catholic Mother Of '48

The National Catholic Conference
on Family Life today announced
selection of Mrs. Richard T. Nc
Sorley Of Philadelphia as Catholic
mother of 1949.
Mrs. McSorley has had Is chill
dren, IA of whom are living. Four
of her sons are priests, three of her
daughters nuns and another son
is studying for the priesthood.
She will be presented the medal
Of the Shrine of Christian Mother
hood on Mothers Day, May 9.
Evening star., 1948-04-29
Comedian Floods Subside
with Death Toll at ID
BY the Associofsd Press


WINNIPEG, Manitoba, April 90
Flood waters continued to subside
today in most sections of the prairie
provinces, with the death toll now
standing at IA.
The latest victim was 21a year
old Donald Smith, who drowned
when he tumbled into a water
filled excavation in Regina.
Grain farmers in Western Canada
were reported considering planting
from the air. The flooded land
may dry out too late this year to
permit a normal growing period
for crops after surface planting.
Evening star., 1948-04-29
British Build Desert Bose

CAIRO R).-Water has been
piped 73 miles from the mountains
to the Taru Desert in Kenya for q
new defense base. The pipenns was
slashed through mountain jungles.
And the pipe. had 10 ne buried to
foil elephant herds. When the base
Is ready, work and goods vii be
transferred from the Suez area. e.
Evening star., 1948-04-29

q 1 T e c I l o n o 1
American policy
on Palestine.
A State De-
p a r t m e mt an
nouncement that
G e n. Marshall
h a d appointed
Gen. Hilldring,
53-year-old re-
tired Army Of
fcer, as his spe-
c1al assistant was
regarded by au-
thorities t o d a y
as sig n / f ying
possible develop
Evening star., 1948-04-29
3Courses Mentioned
For Palestine Policy
Under Gen. HiIIdrinq
BY the Associofed Press

Maj. Gen. John H. Hiildring, a
trusted associate of Secretary of
State Marshall and an expert on
military occupation, is taking over
Evening star., 1948-04-16

within the limits Of the powers
which are now or may be later con-
fided In 1t:
(A) To work out and place in
operation, within the domain Of the
collective action of the interested
parties, the measures necessary to
assure the realization of the objec-
tive set forth in Article IL; to facili-
tate, encourage and coordinate the
individual action of the contracting
parties.
(B) To facilitate and supervise the
execution of this convention; to
take the proper measures to assure
this execution; to this end, to. pro-
vide for the establishment of the
organs of inspection and supervision
capable of assuring the best utiliza-
ton both of foreign aid and of ma
tional resources.
Co To furnish the Government of
the United States the appropriate
assistance and information relative
to the European Recovery Program
and to address recommendations
to it.
Cd On the demand of interested
parties, to lend its assistance to the
negotiation of international conven-
tions which may be necessary for
the best execution of the European
Recovery Program.
The organization may likewise as
sumo every other function which is
agreed upon.
Article IS.
In view Of achieving its objective
such as defined In Article II, the
organization is empowered:
(A) To take decisions which the
members will execute.
(B) To conclude agreements with
its members or with nonmember
countries, with the Government of
the United States and with interna-
tional organizations.
Co To make recommendations
to the Government of the United
States, to other governments and
to international organizations.
Article IA.
Unless the organization decided
otherwise for special cases, these
decisions are to be taken by mutual
agreement of all members. When
ever a member declares itself to be
not interested In any certain ques-
ton, its abstention shall not i'm
pede the decisions.
Article Is.
(A) A council composed Of all
Evening star., 1948-04-16
Text of Charter for ERP

bat the dangers of imitation, will
take such dispositions within its
power as, to establish or maintain
the stability of its money and the
equilibrium of it's finances, as well
as an appropriate rate of exchange,
and in general manner confidence
in its monetary system.
Article 8.
The contracting parties will util-
ize in the most complete and most
rational manner their available
manpower.
They shall endeavor to realize the
full employment of their national
manpower, and shall be able to call
upon the manpower available In the
territory of every other contracting
party.
In this case they shall take by
mutual accord the measures neces-
sary to facilitate the movement and
to assure the establishment of the
workers in conditions satisfactory
from the social and economic point
of view.
In general manner, they shall CO.
operate with a view to reducing
progressively the obstacles to the
free movement Of persons among
themselves.
Article 9.
The contracting parties will fur
nish to the organization all infor-
nation which it may request Of
them with view to facilitating the
accomplishments of its tasks.
II. ORGANIZATION.
Article 10.
The parties to this convention
shall be members of the organ
ization.
Article IL.
The objective of the organization
is the realization of a sound Euro
pean economy by way of the eco
nomic cooperation of the contract
ing parties. One Of the immediate
tasks of the organization is to assure
the success of the European Recov-
cry Program, in conformity with the
engagements included under Title l
of this convention.
Article IL.
The organization has the duty Of
carrying out the following functions
Evening star., 1948-04-16

the members Is the organ whence
all decisions shall come.
(B) The council will designate
each year among its members q
president and two vice presidents
Co The council is to be assisted
by an Executive Committee and by
a secretary general. It can create
any technical subsidiary committee
or organ necessary to the exercise
of the functions of the organiza-
ton. All these organs shall be re-
sponsible to the council.
Article is.
(A) The executive committee will
be composed Of seven members
designated each year by the council.
It will carry on its work in con-
formity with the instructions and
directives of the council and shall
report on this to it.
(B) The council shall designate
a president and vice president
each year among the members Of
the Executive Committee.
Co Every member Of the organi-
zation which is not represented on
the Executive Committee can par
ticipate in all the discussions and
decisions of this committee which
particularly affect the interests Of
the said member.
The members Of the organization
will be kept informed of the delib-
erations of the Executive Commit
tee by the communication at use
full times of its agenda and sum-
mary reports.
Article II.
(A) The secretary-general Is to
be assisted by a first and second
deputy secretary general.
OBJ The secretary general and
the deputy secretaries general are
to be named by the council. The
secretary general is under the au-
thority of the council.
(C) The secretary general is to
assist with a consultative voice in
sessions of the council, the Execu-
tive Committees and subsidiary
organs. He may send a deputy rep
resentative to such meetings. He Is
to prepare the sessions of the coun-
Gil and of the Executive Committee,
and Is to assure the execution of
their decisions in conformity with
their instructions and directives.
The functions of the secretary
Evening star., 1948-04-16
Hearing to Fix Order
or Snyder Sluyinqs Set

A hearing to determine the order
of death of Mr.. and Mrs. Ross H.
Snyder and their foster daughter,
Jane Ann, will be held at $50 am.
next Friday in Rockville instead Of
Wednesday, as originally scheduled.
The Snyders and their adopted
daughter were shot to death Mo-
vember Is, 1946, in their Darnes-
town home by their 15-year-old
adopted son, Robert, who Is serving
q life sentence in the Maryland
State penitentiary.
Testimony at the hearing before
Kenneth Lyddane, an equity exam
liner, will decide who shall receive
the $43, 600 Snyder estate.