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federation 10 Discuss
Increase in Rate for
Wafer Connections

Higher rates for water and sewer
connections in Montgomery and
Prince Georges Counties, approved
by the Washington Suburban SAM
tary Commission, will be discussed
January II by the Montgomery
County Civic Federation, Rhees
Burkett, president, said yesterday.
A report Is expected then, by the
federation's Committee on Santa
ton and Public Health.
The increases will be discussed
today at q joint meeting Of the
Washington Suburban Master
Plumbers Association and builders
and real estate men. The session
is scheduled at 4 pm. in the
Kensington Fire Department build
ing, Lincoln avenue and Old Bla-
densburg road.
The Montgomery legislative dele
cation Is expected to consider the
increases at . conference at $3.50
pm. tomorrow In the Office Of Chair
man Anders r. Lofstrand, jr, Rock
Vile.
Mr.. Burkett said the civic fedora
tion's Executive and Advisory Com
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is $123,O0o 900, as against high of
$485 ,O0O, 900 in 1945-46.

is $123, ,000, 900. as against high of
$485 ,0OO, 900 in 1945-46.
During the last four years WAA
and its predecessor agencies ham
died approximately $40, 900, 900 900
in surplus property of all kinds.
That was on the basis of original
cost to the Government It has dis
posed of all except $1,000, ,000, 900, of
which more than $4,000, 5000 is in
land or buildings unusually diff
ficult to sell.
At one time WAA sold surplus
goods at the rate of $1,000, 900 900
a month. 1t now is disposing Of
materials at a monthly rate of less
than 140,0O0,000.
Receipts Decline.
The money reserved by the Gov
ernment in November for materials
purchased for $4,000, 900 during
the war, was only $22,160,000. That
return rate of approximately 16 per
cent was substantially below the 30
to 35 per cent return obtained about
year ago.
Most of the holdings WAA will
try to sell during the next six
months are in the extremely hard
to-sell" category. and much of it
will have to go as scrap or junk.
Mr.. Larson said WAA still has
comparatively large lots of such
assorted items as clothing and ma
chine tools, but is practically sold
out on hardware. Photographic
equipment and electronics He added
that the nature of remaining sur
pluses and the greater expense OF
selling them adds immeasurably to
the disposal task between now and
July.
Some Items Withdrawn.
The current inventory also in
cludes at least $1,000, 100000 in air
craft parts, much of 1t in need Of
repair. In recent months the armed
services have taken back large guam
titles of materials they previously
had declared surplus to WAA. These
from surplus were for
the most part direct result of "in-
conditions" WAA rep
resentative said.
In agreeing to stop further
declarations of surplus March l.
the Army was assured that it could
continue after then to withdraw
whatever surplus property it previ-
ously declared.
The Army also repeatedly was
assured that, in event of a transfer
Of WAA functions to FWA or some
other agency, the Army would not
assume any disposal responsibilities
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Builders Association. said the meet
ing In Kensington was expected to-
draft = resolution demanding that
the sanitary commission reduce its
new water and sewer connection
rates.
He added the matter also will be
discussed at a meeting tentatively
set for tomorrow between the COM
mission and representatives Of
county builders and plumbers.
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Drama Critic Mantle
In Critical Condition
ly the Asseeiotsd Press

by me AssoeioTeo PrcSs
NEW YORK, Jan. 3-.Burns
Mantle. "a, drama critic emeritus
of the New York Daily News and
author of many books on the thea
ter, is in critical condition at Mary
Immaculate Hospital, authorities
disclosed tonight.
Mr.. Mantle entered the hospital
this morning. Nature of his ILLNESS
WAS not stated.
Evening star., 1948-02-28
Britain and France Call
Marshall Plan Session
BY the Associated Press

PARIS, Feb. 28.-Britain and
France today invited the Marshall
Plan nations to meet March Is to
create a permanent organization.
Invitations to the IA other nations
proposed that they meet in Paris.
The countries last fall drew up a
preliminary draft of what they con-
sidered their needs in American aid.
Proposals to carry out the program,
or parts if it, are before Congress.
The invitations were sent after a
joint British inquiry mission
had sounded out officials in Italy,
Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, Lux
embourg and Scandinavian coun-
tries.
All capitals were favorable to the
proposal for a permanent organiza-
ton to assist the American admin
istration in delivering Marshall
Plan aid.
Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin
and Foreign Minister Georges BIZ
dault will head the British and
French delegations. It is expected
the Foreign Ministers of most of
the other nations will also attend.
The conference will have at least
j two formal plenary sessions, before
splitting into closed working COM
mittee sessions where the actual
task of adopting the permanent
organization will be done.
Evening star., 1948-02-28
Youth Shot in StoIen-Cur Chase;
Driver Held for Jury, Girl Freed

A 16-year-old youth was shot
by a policeman early today after
a wild chase of a stolen automo-
bile through Southeast Wash
ington.
The youth, Jack N. Beach, jr., of
the 400 block of G street Sc, was
grazed in the left temple. His con-
dition is not serious, Gallinger Hos
pital reported.
While he was speeding through
the Southeast section with a police
car in hot pursuit, his father
thought he was safely home in bed
Young Beach was a passenger in
the stolen car. His companions,
according to police, we're William E
Ness, 10, of the 100 block of. !
street Sc. and Betty Jean Rempfer
18, of the 500 block of Eleventh
street Sc Police said both ad-
mitted they had juvenile records.
The policeman who fired the
glancing shot was Pvt. Glenn M
Griffin Of the fifth precinct.
Pvt. Griffin testified in Municipa,
Court today that the stolen car hii
80 miles an hour at one point.
Ness, listed as the driver of the
stolen car, was held for the grand
jury under $4,000 bond on a joy.
riding charge. He admitted his
guilt before Municipal Court Judge
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President Sees Radar
Work Aboard Sub
By Joseph A. Fox
Stor Sfoff Correspondent

KEY WEST, Fla, Feb, 28.-Presio
dent Truman today got closeup OF
the Navy's peacetime experimental
ton with submarines when he
boarded the Requin-named for a
French man-eating shark-and was
instructed in her workings by the
skipper, Comdr. George L. Street OF
Richmond. Va, Congressional Medal
of Honor man.
The Requin is one of dozen or
so of the Nays undersea school
fleet" here equipped for picket radar
duty. and in wartime would be used
for a sea patrol to detect the ap-
proach of enemy aircraft.
While the President was aboard,
the subs radar screen picked up a
cruising CAT which gave the Pres
ident an idea of what the craft Is
designed to do in war.
When the President was leaving
the dock where the Requin is tied
up, he stopped to exchange greet
ings with a group of Navy wives
and children.
The President is going to hold a
news conference Monday. 1t will
be the first time since he has beer
coming to Key West that one Of
these sessions has been arranged.
For the rest of the day, the
President plans TO get in some more
swimming at the Fort Taylor beach,
which has been his vacation hang
out. He also will do some work after
another courier plane arrives from
Washington with mail.
The President got batch OF mail
to work on late yesterday. He signed
legislation extending rent controls
Until April / and retaining certain
wartime powers Of the Maritime
Commission.
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Former Czech Justice Minister
Found BodIyHurt Outside Home
Prague Police Say
Note Indicated
Suicide Attempt
BY the Associated Press

PRAGUE, Feb. 28.-A former
Minister of Justice, DR.. Prokop
Drtina, was found severely in
jured in front of his Prague villa
today, police announced.
They said a letter was found which
indicated DR.. Drtina had tried to Kill
himself by jumping from a window
He is in a hospital with head injuries
but will live if further complications
do not set in, the official announce
ment said.
DR.. Drtina was one of three cab.
met ministers who were intended
victims of intercepted bombs last
September He is a close friend o1
President Eduard Benes.
Mr.. Drtina blamed Communists
for the bomb plot against himself
and his two colleagues and hao
several members of the party ar
rested at Olomouc in an investiga-
ton of the incident. He was one o1
the cabinet ministers whose resig-
nations preceded the Communist
coup this week.
BY request the United States In
formation Service removed from its
windows a copy of the three-powel
denunciation of events in Czecho-
slovakia.
The foreign Office made the re-
quest. A large crowd had gathered
outside the Information Services
offices on one of the main streets off
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Mercury 10 Climb 70 7os
Today, Forecaster Says

Blustery winds and a warm sun
shine with the temperature reach
ing the lower 70s-were predicted for
the District today. At l pm. the
mercury had risen to 68.
Tonight will be windy, partly
cloudy and much colder, with the
temperature dropping to the upper
30s, the Weather Bureau said.
Tomorrow will be about the same
but the temperature will be more
nearly normal for this time of the
year, in the upper 40s.
Although today has a chance OF
being the warmest February % since
1908, when 73 degrees was recorded
it has little chance of breaking the
all-time record for February, which
was "a, in 1880. Yesterdays high
was So degrees at 2:27 pm. and
the low was 43 at 3:02 am. today.
Evening star., 1948-02-28
70OGreekC Communist,
Jailed in Athens as
Troops Press Drive
Those Found Guilty Of
Helping Guerrillus
= Will Face Prosecution
BY the Assoeioted Press

ATHENS, Feb. 28.-About 700
Communists and members of
the Communist organization
"Self-defense" we're arrested to-
day in Athens.
The government said those found
guilty of helping the guerrillas or
being dangerous to public security
will be committed for trial by a
military tribunal or referred to the
Security Committee for decision
on their punishment.
The arrests were in line with a
recent decision to clear cities and
towns of dangerous elements, it was
said.
Offensive Is Pressed.
Greek troops were reported press
ing an offensive in Delvinaki near
the Albanian border. Dispatches
said seven villages in the area were
retaken from Communicated guer-
rillaS.
A high Greek government source
was asked about reports from other
sources that extensive military prep
arations have been taking place in
Albania, some of them under direc-
ton of two Soviet colonies. He said
they were true.
These reports said Notifications
were being erected along the coast
south from Valona with nti-aircraft
installations at Apni Sarante Mill
tary installations have been built
along the roads on the seacoasts
and heights near the Greek border,
the reports said, and the fortified
Island of Saseno off Valona has
been strengthened under direction
of the Soviet colonel. The inform
ants said % Albanian volunteer
battalions have been organized for
an international brigade.
Guerrillas Active.
Meanwhile press reports told OF
strong guerrilla activity in various
parts of Greece.
Some $50 rebels attacked Vordona,
eight miles northwest of Sparta
yesterday, dispatches said. Another
5OO-man force was reported engaged
in a battle with national forces in
South Central Greece east of Agrin-
ion.
Thirteen persons convicted of
Staying during the 1914 revolution
and of aiding guerrillas were put to
death today at Athens.
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George D. Nelson, but not guilty
plea was entered automatically.
He pleaded guilty to reckless
driving and driving without a Dis
trict permit. Judge Nelson SEN
fenced him to spend 80 days in Jail
for reckless driving and to pay 5000
or serve so days for diving without
a permit.
His girl companion was freed after
Assistant United States Attorney
Frank Reifsnyder dropped joy
riding charge placed against her by
police. The prosecutor said there
was insufficient evidence that she
knew the car was stolen.
The chase began on Eleventh
street S E. when Pvt. Griffin and his
scout car partner, Pvt. John c. Will
son, spotted a speeding car going
north.
They dropped in behind it, Pvt
Griffin said, and promptly recog-
nized it as a 1910 Chevrolet sedan
reported by Raymond E. Barnes oi
GIT Silver Spring avenue, Silver
Spring, Md, as stolen earlier in the
night.
The car started ducking in and
out Of alleys, zigzagging up narrow
streets and tearing around sharp
! 1see CHASE, Page AID
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Clipper Bound for Calcutta
Cracks Up; None Hurt
BY the Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 28.-A
veteran pilot, sensing something
amiss with his landing gear, halted
the takeoff of his Pan American
Airways Clipper last night and the
four -engined aircraft cracked up
and caught fire on the runway.
None of the "a passengers on the
plane bound for Honolulu and CAL
cutta was injured. They were taken
to a hotel to await another flight.
The fire, breaking out in the in
board right engine from static
sparks caused by a wing dragging
along the concrete runway, was
quickly extinguished.
c. v. George, pilot of the crippled
plane, said he noticed his landing
gear was not reacting properly on
the takeoff. He cut the engines be-
fore the craft was airborne and
skidded to a stop,
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Hams EisIer Settles Taxes;
Leaves for Rome Monday
By the Assoeio,ed Press

NEW YORK, Feb. 2s.-Hanns
Eisler Hollywood composer charged
with being an alien Communist, will
fly to Rome Monday after an in
come tax compromise" with the
Federal Government, his attorney
disclosed today. ,'
The German born Eisler was
granted the flight permit after the
Government attached music royal
ties due him from the American
Society of Composers, Authors and
Publishers, according to the attor-
ney, Mrs. Carol King.
Eisler and his wife Louise will
travel on a Czechoslovakian pass
port obtained months ago." Mrs
King declared.
The lawyer said the Government
claimed Eisler owed it $1,000 as q
result of allegedly incorrect deduc-
tions on tax returns back to 1945
But officials agreed to reduce the
sum by $500. she said, adding that
Eisler had arranged to pay $12s
every three months from the
ROYALTIES.
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Congress Faces Task
0LivingUpt 10 Budget
Cut Of 4 Billion
Departmental Supply Bills
Are Likely to Pass Tough
Economy Ceiling Problem

Both branches Of Congress are
on record today in favor of hold
ing Government expenses for
the next fiscal year to $37 ,200,-
100000. Now all lawmakers have
to do is live up to it as the de-
partmental supply bills come
along.
The House late yesterday voted,
314 to 36, for such a ceiling, which
the Senate already had adopted.
The budget President Truman
presented in January asked for $39,-
zoo, 100000 for all Government pur-
poses. The ceiling adopted yester-
day calls for cuts totaling $780,
100000 from the January figure. But
unforeseen requirements always make
it necessary for the Executive to
add to his original budget. This
means the Republican leaders on
Capitol Hill may have to save four
or five billions to stay within their
ceiling.
Ceiling is Not Binding.
The ceiling resolution is required
by the Congressional Reorganization
Act of 1916, but is not binding. The
theory behind it is that Congress
will be more economical If 1t SETS a
goal for saving early each year.
The budget resolution also recon-
mends that at least $2,600, 0,000, 600 be
paid on the national debt during the
coming year. The national debt
stood at $254, ,682, ,154,34 in the latest
Treasury report and some members
of Congress think more of the antici-
pated surplus should be applied to
debt retirement.
Room Left for Tax Cut.
Republican leaders have left room
for their promised income tax re-
duction, however, and the Senate
Finance Committee will begin hear
ings Monday on the House-ap-
proved $6,500,000,000 tax cutting
program.
The Treasury plans to pay off in
March more than a billion dollars
of national debt.
Much of this cash, the Treasury
said yesterday, will 60 to the Fed
eral Reserve System. This will be
withheld from the money stream as
part of the joint Treasury Federal
Reserve effort against imitation,
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CONGRESS Asked for Billion
For Highways in 195O-51
BY the Assoeiofed Press

Congress was asked today to
pledge $1,000, 600 900 for state high
way construction in 1850 and 1851.
Federal Works Administrator
Fleming said such assurance is nee
essary now to permit State legisla-
lures to plan their share of the costs.
In a statement prepared for a
Senate subcommittee on roads. Gen.
Fleming said also that funds already
authorized will be spent or "obli-
gated" before the next Congress
could take action.
He said a proposed $500, ,oo0, 900
authorization for road-buildhg in
fiscal 1949 may well be omitted in
view of the delay in pushing the con-
struction program authorized In
1914"
Evening star., 1948-02-28
Closed Hearing Held
On Cafeteria Strike
By Hoffman Group
'Rumor' of White House
Pressure to Force GSl
To Bargain Is Probed

A closed hearing on the dead
locked strike of the cafeteria
workers union against Govern
ment Services, Inc. was being
held today by Representative
Hoffman, Republican, of Michi-
gan. -,...
Mr.. Hoffman said he called the
session to investigate "rumors'
that President Truman's admins.
tration was bringing pressure tt
bear to force GSI to bargain witt
Local All, United Cafeteria Work.
ers, CLIO. Mr.. Hoffman is chairman
of House Education and Labol
Subcommittee.
Deliberate Move Rumored.
He also said he was interested ir
learning the truth of rumors thai
the administration was "deliber.
ately" -endeavoring to bypass ths
Taft Hartley Act.
The hearing was still in progress
at noon, with Mr.. Hoffman calling
Government officials and unior
leaders in one by one.
The long corridor outside of thu
hearing room was spotted witt
groups of the strikers who were
picketing the session. Some o1
them said they wanted to be heard
too.
Admitted in Groups of Five.
The strikers were admitted to the
corridor in groups of five, at stag.
gered points down the hall, in con.
formance with a House rule. They
were delayed for time before Capi.
tol police admitted them to tht
building.
The strike by employees of a
cafeterias in Government build
ings has been under way for eight
weeks and is still in the deadlock
stage, according to George E
Strong, mediator.
When he announced his inten.
tion of holding the session, Mr.
Hoffman also challenged the au-
thority of Secretary of Labor
Schwellenbach, Federal Works Ad-
ministrator Philip B. Fleming OF
Mr.. Strong to act as mediator OF
conciliator under the Hartley
Act Mr.. Strong, an attorney, ha.
been trying to settle the strike since
he was appointed to the job by Gen
Fleming.
Witnesses Listed.
Mr.. Hoffman said that GSI ap.
parently refuses to bargain with
the union because it has hired new
employees since the strike began ane
because there has not been an elec.
ton under the Taft Hartley Act
designating bargaining agents fol
the workers.
Witnesses scheduled to appear
today, in addition to GSI and unior
officials, include Mr.. Strong, Johr
w. Gibson, Assistant Secretary oi
Labor; G. S. Davitt, administrative
assistant. Navy Department, ano
Gen. Fleming.
Evening star., 1948-02-28
Nazi Defense Lawyer!
Appeal 10 Truman for
Fairness in Trials
Doubts About Justice of
Nuremberg Prosecutions
Cited by Attorneys
! BY the Assoeioied Press

NUREMBERG, Germany, Feb.
Fisherman attorneys Appealed
today to President Truman to
insure fair trials for Germans
facing American war crimes
courts here.
The recent statement by a high
American judge confirms doubts
prevalent among the defense about
the administration of justice before
the United States military tribunal
in Nuremberg" the attorneys said.
Judge Charles Wennerstrum OF
Iowa recently charged in an inter-
view with the Chicago Tribune that
the American prosecution has
failed to maintain an objectivity
aloof from vindictiveness."
Judge Wennertsrum presided over
a court which convicted eight Ger
man generals of war crimes. He
said defense counsel had access only
to documentary evidence which the
prosecution considered material to
the case"
Speak for Farben Lawyers.
Brig. Gen. Telford Taylor, chief
of the war crimes prosecution, called
Judge Wennerstrum's charges to
tally unfounded."
The German attorneys who signed
the appeal to the President are Otto
Kranzbuehler, Konrad Boettcher
and Hans Laternser. They spoke for
lawyers defending the % directors
Of the I. G. Farbenindustrie Chemi-
cal Trust, IL Krupp munitions di-
rectors and 13 generals in war
crimes trials. They told the Presi-
dent:
"All efforts to safeguard fair pro-
feelings hitherto foundered through
regulations issued by the American
military authorities. Spokesman for
the defense attorneys in the current
industrialist and military trials at
Nuremberg appeal urgently to you
for support and remedy"
The military governments legal
division in Berlin said the appeal was
routed to the Department of the
Army in Washington, where it
should arrive tonight or tomorrow.
Since the publication of the Wen
nerstrum interview in the Chicago
(See NUREMBERG, Page Az
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Danes to Lift Film Ban

COPENHAGEN, Feb. % R.-
Denmark will lift her restrictions
against American motion picture
companies, probably Monday, the
Ministry of Trade announced today.
During the next 10 months 81 Amer
ican films will be permitted to enter
Denmark and American companies
will be allowed to take up to 0.000
kroner $3.50, ,O00) out Of the country.
Evening star., 1948-02-28
Southern Democrats Map
Further Fight on Truman
By the A,socioted Press

br me AtsoetuIeo Ftest
Southern Democrats mapped fur
ther offensives today against Presi-
dent Truman and his civil rights
program.
These developments pointed to in
tensifled intra-party strife:
/. The Mississippi Democratic Ex-
ecutive Committee called a special
meeting Monday to consider head
quarters site for the True White
Jeffersonian" Democratic movement.
Representatives of eight Southern
States banded in this drive already
have contributed $61,500 toward
$l00,O00 war chest.
2. The Southern Governors con-
ference was summoned to meet in
Washington March 13 to hear a
special committees report on the
civil rights fight. Democratic Ma
tional Committee Chairman Nc
Grath refused to yield to the COM
mittee's request last Monday that
Truman withdraw his pro-
posals.
StaIwarts on Committee.
The Governors will meet the day
after Senator McGrath confers with
a newly appointed executive COM
mittee of the Democratic National
Committee.
Democratic rebels in Congress,
meanwhile, prepared to renew their
fight next week against enactment
of anti-lynching and anti-poll tax
legislation. Both of these are part
of President Truman's civil rights
plan.
Approved by, a Senate Rules Sub
committee yesterday, the anti-pon
tax bill was scheduled for prompt
clearance by the full committee
early next week. Republicans re-
jected demand by Senator Stennis,
Democrat, of Mississippi for public
hearing in the seven Southern States
Evening star., 1948-02-28
Patriarch Nicodem Dies;
Headed Moscow Mission
BY the Assoeioied Press

BUCHAREST, Feb. 28.-Patriarch
Nicodem of the Romanian Greek
orthodox church died last night. He
was 81.
In October, 1916, the patriarch
headed six-man ecclesiastical del
egation to Moscow to establish clos
er relations between his church and
the Russian orthodox church.
Evening star., 1948-02-28
Traffic Deaths Over U.S..
Drop Is Pct. in January
BY the A..oeioted Pres,

CHICAGO, Feb. 28.-The Nations
traffic deaths dropped 13 per cent
in January compared with the same
month last year.
The January toll was 2,130, COM
pared with 2,450 in January, 1947.
The National Safety Council, in
reporting the figures, said North
Dakota provided a high light" of
its report by going through the en-
tire month without traffic death.
The council said this was the
only time in its history that a State
has had a death-free month, ex-
cept for the war years when travel
and gasoline were restricted.