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Evening star., 1949-02-12
By the Axsoeioted Press

PARIS. Feb. 12.-Betty Bjurs-
troem. 26, Miss Sweden of 1948."
was shot and seriously wounded
late last night after what police
described as "a quarrel with her
husband"
Police said three bullets entered
the blond girls body. one piercing
her liver and two more lodging in
her spine.
She was taken to a hospital in
a coma, but regained conscious
ness about noon.
Police this morning arrested a
man they identified as her hus-
band, Renato Senise. A. Follow
ing French custom no charges
were placed against him immedi-
ately.
A police captain said Senise told
him after his arrest that his wife
came to his room last night de-
Evening star., 1949-02-12
Pope Plus Charges Conspiracy
Aqdinst Lord in Red Nations
Pontiff Orders Special Masses April
To Expiote Crimes Of Gods Enemies

on April 3 ''to expiate the crime of
the enemies of God"
He added that the enemies of
God are spreading evil almost all
over the word like a virulent dis
ease. ="
Cardinal Mindszenty was sem
fenced to life Imprisonment Tues
day by a court in Communist
dominated Hungary on charges
of treason, espionage and black
market money dealings.
The Sacred Consistorial Con-
gregation formally decreed on De-
cember % the accommodation
of all those involved in the arrest
of the cardinal two days earlier.
Today's declaration widens the
accommodation to include all
those connected with the trial and
sentencing of the Hungarian pri-
mate. An communicated per-
son is denied the sacraments of
the church and the society of
Catholics.
Excommunication "latae SEN
tentiae," especially reserved to the
Apostolic See. is one of the
church's gravest forms of pen
alties.
In addition "infamiae juris"-
1Coe POPE pace A-3D
Evening star., 1949-02-12
Skier Describes
SnowsIide Which
EnguIfed Party
detailed Weather Story on
Page A-2J
BY the Associated Press

RENO. New, Feb. 1--we were
standing near the top Of the
mountain when all of a sudden
the snow just started to move,
grabbed the three of us and swept
us down the mountain"
Norman Olsen, University OF
Nevada skier, thus described the
snowslide which late yesterday en-
quilted him. Jerry Wetzel, "a. Uni
versity ski instructor, and Glenn
Menu.
Mr.. Wetzel's leg was broken and
he lay five hours in deep snow and
in subzero weather before rescu-
ers carried him a mile on a to-
boggan to an ambulance.
Mr.. Olsen and Mr.. Menu escaped
unhurt.
Evening star., 1949-02-12

declared Mr.. Chaplin persona
non grata"-that is. no longer
acceptable as the American en-
voy-it was learned.
There was no immediate reac-
ton at the State Department,
which yesterday ordered expulsion
of John G. Florian, First Secretary
of the Hungarian Legation here,
in retaliation for Hungary's earlier
election of two members of Mr..
Chapin's staff in Budapest, Robin
Steussy and Stephen Koczak.
Chaplin Denies Charges.
Mr.. Chaplin has described as
nonsense and pure fantasy" the
charges raised against him in
Budapest.
The court which convicted
Cardinal Mindszenty asserted that
the United States. through Minis
ter Chaplin, had misled the Cardi-
nal-"made him hope that the
United States of America would
start a war and that this war
would help him attain his aims" "
The court held that one Of the
Cardinals aims was to restore the
Hapsburg rule in Hungary.
In announcing a life imprison-
ment sentence for Cardinal Minds
zenty Tuesday. Judge Vilmos Oh
thys declared that United States
Minister Chaplin had great role"
In building up the activities of
Mind%enty.
After the Mindszenty verdict
Mr.. Chaplin told correspondents
in Budapest that "the implica-
tions concerning me in the court
presidents final remarks, as well
as the allegations during the pro-
ceedings implying improper con-
facts on my part are nonsense and
pure fantasy"
Headed Foreign Service.
Mr.. Chaplin, 40, veteran Ca
reer diplomat, is we'll known in
Washington, where he served as
director of the Office of the For
eign Service and later director
general of the Foreign Service for
two years before he was named
Minister to Hungary in April, 1947.
A native of Erie, Pa, he grad
uated from the Naval Academy at
Annapolis in 1919 and served as a
naval officer until he entered the
foreign service in 1925. He served
in many service posts in various
parts of the world, including an
assignment as counselor of the
American Embassy in Paris for a
time Immediately after its opening
following the liberation of Paris in
World War II,
Evening star., 1949-02-12
Canadian Chief, Here employment Claims
To See Truman, Hints Up, Wholesale Prices
OF New Deal on Bases Decline During Week
Index Hits Level Of l947
As President, Cabinet
Discuss Commodities

Government and industrial
economists wound up another
week of chart watching today and
saw claims for unemployment in
surance continuing to mount
while wholesale prices dropped ap-
proximately to the level of Sep
tember, 1947.
Price trends occupied President
Truman and his Cabinet at their
meeting yesterday. Secretary of
Agriculture Brannan reported on
the commodity market situation.
Cabinet members said after the
session, but they would not give
details.
The demand for jobless pay
rose last week for the tenth Sue
cessive seven-day period, Robert
C. Goodwin, director of the Bu-
reau of Employment Security, re-
ported yesterday. A total of
/ TOT ,351 persons received weekly
benefits averaging about $21 each,
Mr.. Goodwin said. and another
348,225 filed new claims for pay
mentS.
Price Index Down.
MIR. Goodwin said. however,
that while the total of persons
getting payments reached a new
high since the rise began in mid
October, the increased appeared
to have leveled off in the last two
weeks.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics
wholesale price index made public
yesterday showed the level 25 per
cent lower than in the comparable
week of 1948, and % per cent be-
low four weeks ago.
The index declined IL per cent
(see ECONOMIC, Page A-3)
Evening star., 1949-02-12
New Labor Bill
May Offered
ByMorse, Ives
Measure Would Omit
Injunction Powers,
Use Emergency Board
BY the Assoeiofed Press

Two Republican Senators said
today they probably will offer a
new labor bill with no provision
for injunctions against national
emergency" strikes.
Senators Morse of Oregon and
Ives of New York said they are
hopeful that Senator Taft Of
Ohio will go along with them on
the measure.
While the Morse-Ives bill would
junk the Taft-Hartley law section
which let's the Government get
80-day injunctions to halt critical
strikes, it would preserve several
other provisions.
Senator Morse is member Of
the Senate Labor Committee
which is studying the administra-
tons labor bill. Senator Ives, q
former member, is generally re-
garded as labor relations expert.
Based on Earlier Measure.
The administration bill would
repeal the 1aft-Hartley law and
restore the original Wagner Act
with some changes. Like the
measure Senators Morse and Ives
are drafting, it does not provide
for court orders to stop strikes
which endanger national health
or safety.
But the similarity ends there,
mainly because the Morse-Ives
document contains some of the
ideas that went into the Taft
Hartley law.
The new bill is based chiefly on
one which the Senate Labor Com
mittee approved, II to 2, in 1947.
Additional restrictions on unions
later were written into that meas
ure over the opposition of Sena-
tors Morse and Ives, and in some
cases Senator Taft. It eventually
became the Taft-Hartley law.
However, the 80-day injunction
provision was in the 1947 commit
tee bill and all three Senators
voted for it in committee.
Morse Regrets Compromise.
Morse says it was a compromise
on his part which he now regrets.
Senator Ives says he is willing to
abandon the Injunction because
Cd "it hasn't solved the problem"
and ca it has caused all kinds Of
trouble as o result Of the auto
matte and bitter opposition Of
labor"
The Morse Ives alternative for
handling national emergency
cases is being patterned after the
Railway Labor Act. In that re-
spect it is similar to the adminis-
tration bill, which provides for a
3O-day cooling off period while a
President = appointed emergency
board investigates and tries to
settle disputes.
The Taft Hartley law also pro-
vides for such boards, but they
are not permitted to make settle
ment recommendations. Under
both the Morse-Ives plan and
the administration bill, the boards
could make recommendations.
Public hearings on the admin
istration measure will be resumed
Monday by the Senate Labor
Committee. They will run through
February %.
Evening star., 1949-02-12
Arlington Clears Way
For 1,500-Unit HOTEL;
zoning Laws Eased
County Boord Approves
10000, 900 Project for
Site Near Nevius Tract

Approval of a proposed $20,000.-
900 apartment hotel of 1900 units
on Lee boulevard was voted today
by the Arlington County Board.
The project is planned for a 16-
acre site opposite the projected
Veterans Administration hospital
on the Nevius tract and would
overlook the Lincoln Memorial and
Mall area in Washington.
The boards action did not in
volve change in zoning classifi-
cation of the tract which already
is mostly commercial. The board
amended its ordinance to permit
construction of buildings of the
height and area proposed.
The board acted at the request
of the O'Driscoll Construction Co.
of New York and Washington.
The amendment was recon-
mended by a 5 to 2 vote of the
County Planning Commission with
the minority filing a two-page ex-
planation of it's objections.
C. of C. Approves Project.
Approval was given by the Board
of Directors of the Arlington
Chamber of Commerce.
Attorney Lawrence w. Douglas
and George Stone, representing
the O'Driscoll firm, asked for
action today so the proposal could
be submitted to the Federal HouS-
ing Authority for approval. Mr.,
Douglas and Mr.. Stone told the
board that the law under which
the apartment could be approved
by FHA will expire March 81 and
said the plans must be submitted
to FEIA within the next week OF
two if approval is to be obtained
Mr.. Stone said preliminary
plans, subject to FILA approval
call for three or four History
buildings with penthouses. He
estimated cost of the project at
$40, 900, 900.
Transient Quarters Planned.
Approximately go per cent OF
the units would be of the one
room efficiency" type. Mr.. Stone
said, while the remainder would
be two-and-a-half room apart
ments. The one-room units would
be designed for transients while
the larger quarters would be for
permanent guests.
Name of the development
would be Arlington Towers. 1t
would include a tWo-Story under
1See HOTEL, Page A-2)
Evening star., 1949-02-12
By Robert J. Lewis

Tenants of the 157-unit Valley
Vista Apartments at Belmont road
and Ashmead place NV. are sign
ing a petition agreeing to rent in
creases If their landlord will agree
not to sell the building for resale
on a cooperative basis. it was
learned today.
Some tenants who have signed
are willing to pay IS per cent
increase, while others are agree
able to 10 per cent boosts. or fiat
S. increases.
David B. Karrick. president of
the Fidelity Storage Co. and CO.
owner of the apartment building
overlooking Rock Creek Park, east
Evening star., 1949-02-12
Eisenhower Takes
Over Defense Plans
On Temporary Basis
General to Help Solve
Problems os Head of
Joint Chiefs of Stoff
By John A. Giles

Gen. Eisenhower took formal
charge of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
today to help answer some grave
questions of future military policy.
The White House announced
late yesterday that the former
Army chief of Staff and wartime
supreme Allied commander in Eu-
rope would serve as temporary
chairman of the group. which in
cludes the chiefs of staff to the
President and of the Army, Navy
and Air Force.
The announcement emphasized
that the appointment would be of
relatively short duration" and
that the move did not mean
the international situation had
worsened. The general already
had obtained leave from the presi-
dency of Columbia University for
seven or eight weeks to advise
Defense Secretary Forrestal.
To Be Top Military Adviser.
The White House said the gen
eral would be the principal mil
itary adviser and consultant" tc
President Truman and MI. For
restal.
Admiral William D. Leahy, who
as chief of staff to the President
serves as the Chief Executives
principal military adviser" is i'll
Gen. Eisenhower will outrani
the other members of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff and may oe ex.
pected to end some of the feudine
and pickering that has been vari-
ously described as petty Jealousy
and healthy competition.
Will Aid in Solving Questions.
He will have an important parl
in deciding such vital defense
questions as these:
/. Should defense planning be
concentrated in the Atlantic-E
ropean area, leaving Pacific de-
fenses in a secondary spot? Tokyo
dispatches have reported this
week that the United States soon
Evening star., 1949-02-12
Carolina Man Found Dead
In Brothers Home Here

William Johnston III. 81, of
Wrightsville Beach, N. c., was
found dead of a pistol shot in the
head in the bathroom of his
brothers home here early today.
The brother, 1t. Comdr. Robert
v. Johnston, 1880 r street NV
said William had been staying
with him since last Thursday after
returning from Yale University
Hospital where he had been re-
ceiving treatment for asthma.
Police quoted him as saying the
brother had suffered from asthma
for 80 years.
The death weapon was .22-
caliber target pistol. found beside
the body when Comdr. Johnston
returned home about 2 o'clock
this morning, police said.
Evening star., 1949-02-12
Paraguay Votes April II

ASUNCION, Paraguay, Feb. IL
R.-Gen. Raimundo Rolon, Para
guay's provisional president, an
nounced today elections will be
held April II to choose a new
president. Gen. Rolon heads the
junta which overthrew the gov
ernment of President j. Matalicio
Conza1cz t--..luary 80.
Evening star., 1949-02-12
Chang Associate Found
Dead in Bed at Canton
By the Associated Press

CANTON, China, Feb. 12.-Tai
Chuan- -hsien, a political intimate
of Chaing Kai-shek and veteran
Kuomintang Party leader, was
found dead in bed today.
The official Chinese Central
News Agency said Tai died Of an
overdose of sleeping tablets. The
agency said he was respondent
over political developments in
China"
He was on the Chinese Com
munist list of war criminals"
Tai, SO, was the second close
associate of Chang to die under
similar circumstances. The first
was Chen Pu-lei. an adviser. who
died last November.
Evening star., 1949-02-12
Valley Vista Tenants Favor Rise
In Rents to Avert Coop Sale
Spokesman for Apartment Owners Admits
Plan to Sell Is Under Consideration

of Taft Bridge. told The Star he
has been considering" sale of the
building.
Mr.. Karrick made this state
ment after a tenant reported that
the petition was being circulated
which expressed willingness of
signers to agree to a IS per cent
increase in rents over the Janu-
airy, 1941. level on condition that
the owners did not sell.
Mrs. Lillian Korsmo. the resi-
dent manager. said she had OBJ
tanned signatures to the petition
without the knowledge of Mr..
Karrick. She referred inquiries to
Henry Davis at the Fidelity Stor-
(See VALLEY VISTA. Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1949-02-12
Reich Smuggling Ring
Broken, AMG Claims
Nv the Associofed Press

BY The Associated PTeSS
FRANKFURT, Germany, Feb.
12.-The American Military Gov
ernment reported today it has
broken up an international ring
that smuggled possibly $1,000,000
in food packages into the German
black market through forged i'm
port licenses.
The food was shipped into Ger
many from neighboring European
countries in the guise of relief sup
plies. A military government
spokesman said a German forger
and several" displaced persons
had been arrested.
Evening star., 1949-02-12
Soviet Bars Tito
In Aid Plan Until
He Ends Hostility
YugosIovio Rebuffed
In Comploint Over
Exclusion From Bloc
BY the Associofed Press

LONDON, Feb. 12.-Russia told
Yugoslavia today she is out in
the cold on the Communist-model
Marshall Plan until she changes
her hostile attitude.
The Soviet position was stated
in a note broadcast by the official
news agency Tass in reply to a
Yugoslav protest at being left out
of the Economic Council of Mutual
Aid.
This latest rebuff to Marshal
Tito was broadcast as two other
developments were reported which
might concern Yugoslavia.
A Warsaw dispatch said the
Cominform was believed to be
meeting in Czechoslavkia.
A Yugoslav move before the
Big Four deputy foreign ministers
here was believed to indicate she
was getting ready to seek a COM
promise on a settlement OF her
claims against Austria.
At Odds Since June.
Russia and Yugoslavia have
been at ODDS since last June when
Marshal Tito's Communist Party
was thrown out of the nine nation
Cominform on the grounds that
he was too nationalistic and not
true MarxiSt.
The feud was intensified when
Russia, and some of her East Eu-
ropean satellites drastically cut
down on Yugoslav trade. Then
YugoSlavia was left out OF a con-
ference in Moscow last month
when Russia, Bulgaria, Hungary
Poland. Romania and Czecho-
slovakia organized ECMA as an
answer to the Marshall Plan.
ECE1A's announced purpose is to
foster economic cooperation and
counter alleged economic discrim-
nation by Western nations.
The Soviet note. as broadcast
by Tass and recorded here by the
Soviet monitor. said Yugoslavia
protested on February that this
was an act of discrimination and
contradicted her treaty OF mutual
aid with Russia and the other
East European countries.
Yugoslavia in particular stressed
the principle of equality among
the members that was adopted
by ECMA, and said that she could
participate on that basis.
Marshal Tito has declared the
split with Russia was due to his
insistence on the principle OF
equality among little and big
Communist states.
Reply Delivered in Belgrade.
The Soviet reply, delivered in
Belgrade yesterday, said the Yugo-
slav government need not have
been surprised at being left out
since the government itself "ex-
cluded any possibility of Yugo-
slavias participation in the Mos
com conference by taking up 8
hostile position toward the U. S
S. r. and countries of the people s
democracies.
The reply said there was no dis
elimination against Yugoslavls
and that Yugoslavia's hostile po-
sition" was complete contradic-
ton of the Soviet -Yugoslav treaty
of friendship and mutual aid.
AS for the principle of equality
in ECMA, said the Soviet note
that was nothing new; it has al
ways formed the foundation OF
the policy of the U. S. S. r.
Any attempt to represent 1t az
-1Cao vTICOSI .AVTA Page ABB
Evening star., 1949-02-12
Churchill P|anstoV Visit
Washington inspiring;
Will Speak al N. IT.
Trumon Also Scheduled
To ToIk in Cambridge
After Ex-Prime Minister

Winston Churchill, Great Brit
aims wartime Prime Minister,
plans to visit Washington this
spring, he announced in London
today.
He and President Truman are
scheduled to speak on successive
days before a scholastic gathering
at the Massachusetts, Institute of
Technology in Cambridge Mr..
Churchill on March 81 and Mr..
Truman on April /.
They will have opportunity for
a personal reunion there as we'll
as a meeting in Washington.
Mr.. Churchill announced he will
sail on the Queen Elizabeth March
18 for the United States. He will
attend dinner to be given in New
York on March 25 by Henry Luce,
publisher, as we'll as the NIT
gathering.
Baruch Will Be Host.
No detailed plans for the visit
to Washington were announced.
Aside from the New York and
NIT engagements. said the an
nouncement issued through the
Conservative Party, Mr.. Churchill S
visit to this country "is of pri-
vate character and he is not
making other formal engage
ments."
The former Prime Minister'S
host during his stay in America
will be Bernard M. Baruch.
NIT Meeting Uncertain.
The White House disclosed late
yesterday the day-apart speaking
engagements of the President and
Mr.. Churchill before a mid-cen-
tury covocation at NIT on the
social implications of scientific
progress.
Whether the two actually will
meet there is not known yet, the
White House said. An NIT spokes-
man in Cambridge said the in
stitute had no assurance Mr..
Churchill would remain there to
see Mr.. Truman. but presumed he
would.
The President will go back to
Massachusetts, on April 26 to re-
,ceive an honorary degree and
make a speech at Boston College,
the White House said.
Evening star., 1949-02-12

(See CANADIAN, Page A-3D
Evening star., 1949-02-12

1See YUGOSLAVIA. Page ABB
Evening star., 1949-02-12

(See POPE, Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1949-02-12

(See HOTEL, Page A-2D
Evening star., 1949-02-12

(See EISENHOWER, Page A-3
Evening star., 1949-02-12
Guide for Readers

An Associated Press Newspaper
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-10-14
AnnovnceCoge
League Teams

Kennewick's amateur basket
ball leagues will start play Dec.
1, Dick Saunders, OF the Recre.
alton Commission, ammo nced
today. Saunders said there would
be two siX-team leagues the
Kennewick city league and the
"B" league.
He added that a TriCity girls
casaba league composed of two
teams from each of the three
cities is also being formed.
Saunders listed these teams on
the city league: Bricks Super
Service, Ideal Cleaners, Ray-d.
Ant Cleaners, NYPS and Keolk-
er'sr Mems Shop. There is one
team spot open in this league.
In the B league Pollyanna
Cafe and Ace Meats have already
indicated they would sponsor
teams. There are two teams with.
out sponsors, Saunders said, and
there are two league team posi-
tons open.
| Anyone desiring to play or to
sponsor a team can contact
Saunders by telephoning Ken
| newick 1921,
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-10-14
Hover: News
By MRS. HARMON WILCOX

Benefit club will meet Wed.
nesday, Oct. 10, at the home OF
Mrs. Carl Evans. Margaret Gill
more will give the lesson on Re-
pairing small electrical equip
ment.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clell Asby of
Colville were over night guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Evans Sun.
day. ss4fn
Pink and Green held an all
day meeting at the home OF Mrs.
J. r. Ayers, Thursday.
Mrs. j. R. Ayers attended the
Kennewick WomenIs club meet.
ing Monday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Smith OF
Walla Walla visited Saturday
and Sunday at the home of Mrs
Smiths brother and wife, MIR.
and Mrs. Orval Butterfield. They
also called at the Harmon Will.
cox home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gus Miller and
daughter of Kennewick visited
Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. Des.
mond Judd.
Guy Nelson and daughter Del
phia drove to Grandview Satur.
day.
Mrs. George Taylor of Finley
spent Sunday with Mrs. Bill
Num- and Mrs. Eva Arnold.
Frank Wright of Port Orch.
ards, visited in Hover with old
friends this week. ..-.
This vicinity was the scene
of many hunters Sunday, the
opening day of the fall season.
We don't mind hunters down
here just so it's the birds they
shoot at.