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Evening star., 1948-10-19
Legion Devotes Today
Preparation for
Eight-Hour Parade
sy the Assoe,otsd Pres,

MIAMI, Fla, Oct. 19.-The Amer
lean Legion goes on parade today.
The entire day was set aside for
preparing and staging the gigantic
eight-hour extravaganza, starting at
4 pm. 1t will high light the seth
annual national convention, which
opened yesterday and continues
through Thursday.
Oficials estimate 100000 persons
will see the parade during its 4-mile
march through downtown Miami
and along palm-lined Biscayne
boulevard.
Warren and Stassen to Speak.
President Truman, who addressed
the Legion yesterday and urged a
firm peace stand, few on to Raleigh
N. c., while scores Of lesser notables
remained in Miami or headed this
way.
Gov. Earl Warren of California
arrived here by plane from Sac
ramento early today. The Repuo-
lican vice presidential nominee will
address the convention tomorrow
He said he came only as delegate
from California.
Harold Stassen, former Governor
Of Minnesota and a COP spokes-
man, also arrives today and is
scheduled to speak tomorrow.
Thurmond Gives Talk.
]. Strom Thurmond. presidential
candidate of the States Rights
Democrats, gave a brief, unsched-
uled speech.
The convention also heard talks
by Navy Secretary John J. Sullivan
National Auxiliary President Mrs
Lee w. Hutton of Excelsior, Mimi,
and Mabel Studebaker, head of the
National. Education Association.
After all-day eliminations, River
side IN. j. Post 146 emerged as
winner of the drum and bugle corps
contest last night in the Orange
Bowl. More than 5000 persons
saw the new champions unseat de-
Tending champion Hackensack IN
j. Post IS and win $3.50 cash.
Banners for seven candidates for
national commander of the Legion
were prominent in the convention
ball. yesterday. but five Of, them
banded together behind James
Green of Omaha in an effort to
stop Perry Brown of Beaumont
Tex, the early leader.
The coalition includes Ben c. Hill
lizard. Denver; Robert Colf1esh, Des
Moines; James F. Daniel, jr., Green
vile, S. c.; Bascom Jones, Nash
vile, Tenn, and Mr.. Green.
They said they decided to support
Mr.. Green. 80, a World War II vet.
eran, because two-thirds of the
Legion's 100000 members are vet
Grams of that war.
Evening star., 1948-10-19
Z Convicted Burglars
Tell Of $4,000 Offer
To Kill Reuther
BY the Associotsd Press

DETROIT. Oct. l9.-Two con.
victed burglars testified today that
Carl Bolton. &c.. offered $4,000 tt
have Walter P. Reuther, president
of the CIO United Auto Workers
assassinated.
The two witnesses also said thai
Kenneth Bannon, head of the
unions Ford department, /. was
scheduled to be killed later.
John Miller, 45, one OF the wit
nesses at Bottoms examination on q
charge Of assault with intent tc
commit murder, said the $l5,00C
offer was made to him by Bolton
four days before Mr.. Reuther was
shot last April 40 in his home.
Assured of Good Job.
Miller also testified that, as part
Of the proposition, he was assured
of good job with the big auto
union.
His testimony was backed up ir
part by 43-year-old John Pantella
who with Miller Is awaiting SEN
tence in Pontiac, Mich, on q bur.
glary conviction.
! Miller, in cross examination, do.
scribed himself as D former auto
worker who had been In prison most
of the time since he was II years
old, He served three terms, all fol
burglary. He did not say whether
he had ever been q member OF the
UAW-CIO.
Former Union OfIiciai.
Pantella said that he was at one
time a member of the Ford Local
900, UAW-CIO. Bolton Is q former
vice president Of the same local
Bannon was at one time its presi-
dent. 49,. 80
Mr.. Reuther, testifying as the first
witness today, said there was nc
enmity between himself and Bolton
so far as he knew.
Mr.. Reuther testified that he knew
of Bolton when the latter was con-
nected with the UAW-CIO rs a vics
president of one Of its Detroit locals
but that they were not persona
acquaintance. ~
In the rest Of his testimony hi
told how he was standing near tha
kitchen window Of his Detroit home
when a shotgun blast from outside
nearly tore off his right arm. II
was still in a cast today as he tool
the witness stand,
Evening star., 1948-10-19
Hunt Widens for Teacher
Missing Week In Texas
BY the Assoeiofsd Press

GALVESTON, Tex, Oct. 19.-
Search for Jane Stevens, 81, teacher
Of handicapped children, reached
nationwide proportions today, a
week after she disappeared while
supposedly en- route to her class.
Detective 1t. w. ]. Burns said
descriptions of the missing woman
had been furnished police author
tiles throughout the country.
A sister, Mrs. G. M. Barnes, said
q check of relatives in nearby Dick
inson and in Houston showed Miss
Stevens had not been there.
The teacher had complained re-
Gently of feeling overworked, Mrs.
Barnes told authorities. She was
last seen a week ago when she
drove of in her automobile after
taking her brother -in-law, G. M.
Barnes, to his Office In Galveston.
A search OF her room in the
Barnes home in Dickinson disclosed
she had returned to her home after
leaving Mr.. Barnes, and packed a
suitcase.
Miss Stevens, comely brunette,
has been emrNpyed by the Galveston
hool system for II years.
Evening star., 1948-10-19
BY the Associotsd Press

Wayne Coy, chairman of the Fed
eral Communications Commission,
said today the only skill" required
Of listeners to the stop the Music"
radio program Is the ability to
read" the answers published by
some newspaper columnist.
"You don't even have to be able
to write" Coy commented, noting
that the answers are given over the
telephone.
Mr.. Coy voiced his opinions dur
ing hearing called by the FEC to
take testimony on proposed rules to
bar from the air certain give-away
programs which the commission re-
CARDS as lotteries.
Bruce Bromley, attorney for the
American Broadcasting Co., said the
Sunday night stop the Music" pro-
gram "is not designed to be fake
by publishing the answers in ad-
vance"
II don't know what we are going
to do about this fellow Winchell,"
he volunteered.
Columnist Walter Winchell in the
past has sometimes given the cor
rect names of the melodies inyolvad
In the stop the Music" program, as
have other persons.
On this program, prizes-some-
times exceeding $4,000 in merchan-
Evening star., 1948-10-19

Council which IS sponsoring the
deans talks in Canada.
DR.. Johnson will speak in public
meetings at Toronto November Z,
at Ottawa November 8 and in VIM
nipeg November "a.
In the two weeks between Ottawa
and Winnipeg speeches a series of
speaking engagements Is scheduled
in the United States.
DR.. Johnson, who was refused an
American visa to make a speaking
tour sponsored by the American-So-
Wet Council Of Friendship. has been
granted visa for mis- coming visit.
DR.. Endicott said there was
possibility that DR.. johnson might
not Be allowed to enter the United
States, despite the visa granted by
the State Department.
Evening star., 1948-10-19
Truman
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Mexico which provided that no area
purchased with the money should
be slave territory. q
That, the President said, was IAN
attempt to use foreign policy as a
lever in the settlement of a domestic
question" The lesson learned there,
Mr.. Truman continued, has its re-
Election in the bipartisan foreign
policy pursued in this country today.
Mr.. Truman, who came to the
White House when President Roose-
welt died, recalled the tragic circum-
stances of Andrew Johnson's acces-
sion to the presidency, and while in
sisting that johnson needs no de-
fender, lit Is q simple statement of
fact to point out that in 1855 no
man alive could have succeeded
Abraham Lincoln without being
subject to unfavorable comparisons. -
Calls Johnson's Stand Courageous.
johnson, he continued, had to
stand up against the passions of the
Reconstruction Era, and "his cou-
|rageous stand has made 1t easier for
every President who has had to cope
with postwar hysteria since his day.
Concluding, the President said
that "the strength of the Republic
lies in the fact that so many mil
lions recognize as did those early
presidents that they must serve
their country before they serve
themselves"
That principle should be recalled
on Election Day, the President ad-
monished, because "the wisdom Of
your decision" then, is the sole
guarantee for preservation of the
Republic. Men and women who
exercise their franchise in the spirit
of these three great men will not
be blinded by passion and preju-
dice" the President said. They
will not be deceived by smooth fiat
terry or by smoother propaganda. :"
Evening star., 1948-10-19
Bizone and Low Countries
Sign Rhine Navigation Pact
by tho Asseeiafsd Press


GENEVA, Switzerland, Oct. le.-
The Economic Commission for Eu-
rope announced today an agree
'ment has been signed between the
British-American bizone of Ger
many and the Netherlands and Bel
GUM concerning Rhine navigation.
Under the agreement, signed after
long negotiations. German barges
are Permitted use of the navigable
waterways Of Belgium and Holland,
and in return, Dutch and Belgian
barges can use bizone waterways.
The commission said this repre-.
sented long step toward complete
freedom, of navigation on the Rhine
River"
The agreement includes not only
the Rhine, but the canals of Bel
GUM and Holland and the British
American occupation zone.
Evening star., 1948-10-19
BY Horriet Griffhhs
Sfor Sfoff Correspondent.

SAN ANTONIO, Tex, Oct. 1s.-
The Air, Force began training Its
own women members for the first
time today at Lakeland Air Force
Base here.
And if the directors of the newly
formed WAF (Women in the Air
Force) have their way, the women
will not lose their femininity by
virtue of military service.
The ,WAF, unlike the Womens
Army Corps, will be an integral
part Of the service, and will receive
almost the same training as the
men.
Brig. Gen. charlesFF. Born, COM
manding the Air Force indoctrina-
ton division with headquarters at
Lakeland, believes in similar train
ing for both sexes.
He also believes. however, that
women should preserve their femi-
ninity.
Nothing looks worse than, girls
in coveralls with their feet propped
up on a desk" he told reporters
viewing the start of WAF training
The girls at Lakeland will wear
skirts and keep their feet on the
floor.
Col Geraldine P. May, director of
the WAFs in Washington and here
for the opening Of the WAFs' first
l1-week basic training course, agrees
with him.
While the present stock of olive
drab underclothing will be utilized
now, the WAFs of the future will be
issued dainty white jersey under
things.
Girdles are not an item of issue
since the Air Force has found "re-
search has determined that women
like to buy their own"
100 in First Class.
There are 100 girl trainees in the
first WAF class. The original WAF
quota will be 1000 enlisted women
800 officers and 40 warrant officers
After July. 1850. the quota will be
Evening star., 1948-10-19
Budget
Continued From First Page. }

Women Voters, Mrs. Saul Weissr
Washington Housing Association
the American Automobile Associa-
ton, Washington I. Cleveland.
Also, Building Owners and Man.
ayers Association, Charles J. Bauer;
Washington Chest X-Ray Survey,
William E. Leahy, chairman, Execu-
tive Committee; Southeast Wash
ington Citizens Association, Frank
Scrivener or William A. Maio; The
Washingtonians, Miss Eta l. Tag
CERT; Manor Park Citizens Associa-
tioh, Ernest H. Pullman.
Other Groups Scheduled.
Also, D. C. tuberculosis Associa-
ton. DR.. James j. Feffer; Terrell
Junior High Parent-Teacher Asso-
citation, Robert Brooks; Progressive
Party Of the District OF Columbia,
Mrs. Gertrude Evans: Mid-City
Citizens Association, Miss Edith L.
Grosvenor, vice president; Capitol
Hill Lions Club, Michel Lane.
Also, Hine Parent-Teacher Asso-
citation, Mrs. Samuel j. Hogan, sr. !;
Friendship Citizens Association,
Mrs. David r. Anderson, jr.; Bur-
roughs Citizens Association, Rob-
ert N. Burrows; American Univer-
sity Park Citizens Association, F. S
Sanford, and the Jewish Social
Service Agency, Mrs. Lawrence
Koenigsberger.
Evening star., 1948-10-19
Warmer Weather Due
As Frost Nips Area
With 34-Degree Low

Near-freezing weather nipped
ut late crops and early risers
today, but the Weather Bureau
forecast a gradual warming up
with Indian summer days still
ahead.
oficially, the mercury dropped to
"a degrees at the National Airport
weather observation station at $40
am, making 1t the coolest October
10 since the same reading eight years
ago. But on this date in 1880, the
low point was 80 degrees.
The heaviest frost of the season,
attaining killing qualities at some
points, coated the ground In nearby
Maryland and Virginia.
Fortunately, the frost, if anything,
was bit later than usual, and the
damage to crops was no more than
the farmer or gardener anticipates
at this season. ."
Front Royal Has 26.
Below freezing temperatures were
reported by Weather Bureau and
amateur observers at some area
points. Official readings included
20 at Ashton, Md: 26 at Front Royal.
Va; 80 at Rockville and Frederick,
Nd, and Is at Martinsburg, w. Va.
Observers reported 26 at Hunting
ton Terrace, Md; 2S Mt Rrookside
Manor, Md; 30 at District Heights,
Md; % at Bancroft, Va, and 50 at
Clarendon, Va.
One thermometer at Greenbelt,
Md, not guaranteed for accuracy,
disclosed q chilly "A and another at
Suitland, Nd, read 26. Police at
Fairfax, Va, reported 36, while those
at Falls Church, Va, announced o
26.
Temperatures to Rise.
Rising temperatures, reaching
about 90 today, and falling to about
10 again tonight, were predicted by
the Weather Bureau. Tomorrow
should be fair with temperatures
climbing into the low SOS.
The cool snap stretched across
most of the country, dipping to be-
low freezing from the Plains States
to New England and even into the
South. Chattanooga, Tenn. reported
27, and Nashville had 2s. 1t dropped
to % at Portland, Me.
At Shenandoah National Park,
Va, highway plows had cleaned OF
Al inches Of snow which fell yes
terday.
Evening star., 1948-10-19
Oil Strike Settlement
In West Reported Near
BY the Associofed Press

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 19.-Paul
Scharrenberg, director of the State
Department of Industrial Relations,
says state conciliators have been
meeting separately with oil COM
panies and strikers and IAN early
settlement" of the West Coast oil
strike is possible.
Joint bargaining meetings are
being arranged, he announced. He
specified no date.
CIO refinery workers struck at
six major companies last September
4 in dispute over wage increases.
The union asked 81 cents more an
hour; the employers offered 12h.
The base wage is $l.68.
Evening star., 1948-10-19
Overzeuious Doc.

CENTRALIA, Ill. (P.-On rainy
school day little Barbara Ann Knipp
couldn't find her rubber overshoes
when she started to leave school for
home. She sloshed home and found
them there. Her pet terrier dog had
slipped into the school. picked out
her mistress rubbers from among
those of other pupils and toted them
home.
Evening star., 1948-10-19
Brouchitsch
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Previously they had been held in a
prisoner -of-war dispersal center.
British Foreign Secretary Bevin
recently announced in the House of
Commons that American investi-
gators had turned up evidence es-
tablishing a prima facie case against
the four German military leaders.
The British had intended to begin
the trial in Hamburg next January.
Promoted in 1898.
Won Brauchitsch became COM
mander IN chief of the German
Army as result of sensational
cabinet shakeup by Hitler in 1898.
The shakeup had eliminated in the
designations of Field Marshal Gen.
Werner Won Blomberg, then min
lister of war, and Col. Gen. Baron
Werner Won Fritsch, who later died
on the Polish front.
Won Brauchitsch remained COM
mander of the German army until
1t begged down in the Russian
SHOWS before Moscow. Hitler fired
AA41u DCScillDcI ~, 1871.
He testified as a defense witness
for the German high command at
the Nuremberg war crimes trials
that Hitler did not usually allow his
top officers to resign, but that an
exception was made In his case be-
cause Hitler needed a scapegoat for
the huge German losses on the Rus
sian front.
Won Brauchitsch, a prototype of
the old Prussian solder, had a pow-
erful influence in Hitler's cabinet
decisions just befre Germany in
vaded Poland and started World
War II.
Guided Reich in War Years.
With Reichsmarshal Hermann
Goering and Grand Admiral Erich
Raeder, Won Brauchitsch was the
third member of a triumvirate which
guided Germany in the first years
of the war.
Before the war Won Brauchitsch's
troops had marched into Austria
and Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland
with Prussian precisions which re-
fected their leaders military capa-
bilities. Recognizing these and
other contributions, Hitler showered
decorations on Won Brauschitsch.
After Won Brauchitsch's forces
swiftly overran Poland, the COM
mander devoted himself to organ
izing Nazi forces along the Siegfried
Line in the West and reshuff1ing the
troops in the East for new moves.
He also earned credit in Germany
for the part he played In the mill
tary consolidation OF the Rome
Berlin Axis.
Military Career.
Born in Berlin, October 4, 1881,
Won Brauchitsch received his mill
tary education at the Military
Academy and was promoted heu-
tenant of the crack Guard-G Grena-
diers' Regiment In 1900. In his po-
sition as first lieutenant, he was
transferred to the general staff and
appointed captain on December 10,
1918.
During World War I he served
as member Of the German general
staff and was promoted major in
July, 1918. After the war he joined
the newly created Reicf1swehr.
He married Frau Charlotte Schmidt
on September %, 1888, when the
Czech crisis was at its height.
Evening star., 1948-10-19

o streets N.W)-Inclose stairWays;
install new fire alarm system.
Chamberlain-Trash vault outside
building; exit signs and lights on
second and third floors, in cafeteria
and in basement.
Banneker Must Change Doors.
Phelps-New fire alarm system;
exit signs for cafeteria, basement,
first floor stairs and second floor;
install fire-resistive door from base
ment corridor to storage room.
Banneker-Change direction of
swing of doors to outside.
Browne-Terminate stairways in
fire-resistive compartment in base
ment.
Deal-Exit signs for stairways.
Eliot-New fire alarm system; ter
inmate stairs to basement in fire.
resistive compartment; all fire-re-
sistive doors and partitions for all
stairways.
Francis-New fire alarms; inclose
open stairs.
Garnet-Patterson-Add an exit
from grils' gym on second floor;
install exit lights for boys and
girls gyms.
Gordon-New alarm system.
Kramer Needs Stage Signs.
Hine-New alarm system; fire.
resistive doors for storage rooms;
ncloSe all stairs,
Kramer-Exit signs for stage.
Langlsy--New fire satarm system;
exit signs In cafeteria and stair
ways; ffre-resistive doors for print
shop; fire-resistive partition to cut
of boys dressing room from exit
leading from. stage -. II
Macfariand-New hre alarm sys-
tenn.
Paul-New fire alarm; exit lights
for stairways. :
Shaw-Inclose open stairways; in
stall new fire alarm system.
Stuart-Provide exits on east
side of auditorium; exit signs; new
fire alarm system.
Taft-Fire alarm striking station
in kitchen.
Adams-New fire alarm system.
Barnard-Make all q classroom
doors leading into fire stairways both
fire-resistive and self-closing.
Birney-New fire alarm system.
A. Bowen-Inclose stairs; install
exit signs.
s. j. Bowen-Exit signs.
Brightwo0d-Alter Doors.
Brightwood-Make fire resistive
and self-closing all doors leading to
fire stairways.
Brookland-New fire alarm.
Bruce-New fire alarm; provide
egress from the center stairway di-
rectly to outside.
Buchanan-Inclose open stairways
in three-story section; exit signs;
install flre-resistive doors to con-
meet with corridors on second and
third floors.
Bundy-Exit signs on second and
third floors.
Burrville-Provide q second exit
from the boiler room.
Burroughs-New fire alarm sys-
tenn; provide exit doors on stage.
Carver-New fire alarm system;
inclose all stairs.
Congress Heights ~. Inclose all
stairs.
Wood Coal Bin Out.
Davis-Replace wooden coal bin
with masonry.
Dennison-Make boiler room a fire
resistive compartment.
Eaton-New alarm system.
Garfield-New alarm systenn
Garrison - New alarm system;
erect fire-resistive partition and
doors for stairways leading to base
ment.
Grant-Fire alarm system.
Grimke-Exit signs for basement
and all stairs.
Harrison-EXit signs.
Hearst-New alarm system.
Janney-Fire-resistive doors for
classroons opening into staiYwell.
Kingsman-Fire-resistive doors for
classrooms opening into stairwell.
Langdon-NeW fire alarm system.
Lovejoy-Fire-resistive door lead
ing to basement.
Raymond - Fire-reSistive doors
Evening star., 1948-10-19
Red Dean May Visit U. 5.
On Canadian Speaking Tour
BY the Asseeiotsd Press

sy NE ASsoeiofsd Press
: TORONTO, Oct. l9.-The Very
Rev. Hewlett johnson, "red dean"
Of Canterbury, will arrive in Ottawa
November 2 for series OF speaking
engagements in Canada and the
United States.
The announcement was made yes
terday by DR.. ]. G. Endicott, men,
ber Of the Provisional Committee of
the newly formed Toronto Peace
Evening star., 1948-10-19
Citizens Meeting Put OFF

The meeting of the Shepherd
Park Citizens Association sched-
uled to be held last night in the
Shepherd Park School, Fourteenth
street and Kalmia road NV, was
postponed until next month.
Evening star., 1948-10-19

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made easy by renting a room.
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by advertising in The Star.
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to 8 pm
Evening star., 1948-10-19

The South African government
has purchased its first helicopter.
Evening star., 1948-05-04
Mr.. Wallace a Fellow Traveller

To the Editor of The Star:
l also was glad to see that you treated the
Wallace interview with impartiality as every
one deserves square deal. However the in
terview convinced me more than ever that most
of the Democratic and Republican candidates
are head and shoulders above Henry Wallace.
1 was not born with silver spoon in my
mouth, / am not Wall Street capitalist, +"
nor am I an advocate of race, creed or class
hatred. but do believe Mr.. Wallaces way is
not the American way. You cannot pass laws
to make one race respect another's rights;
by patience and understanding. however. you
can attain the goal of better relationship and
conditions.
Henry Wallace and his kind only agitate the
minorities and put salt in their wounds to
gain support His repeated harangues about
the wall Street capitalists" and the "militar-
ists," only serve to brand Wallace a fellow
traveller" and not a true and understanding
liberal. (MRsl ANNE c. WILSON.