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Evening star., 1949-04-03
Cogswe|I Sees System
Completely Upset il
Rent Act Is Changed
Conferees Are Studying
Possibility Of Knocking
Out Criminal Section

Proposed changes in Washing
tons new rent control legislation
TO alter the method OF fixing rent
increases and abolish criminal
penalties. If adopted by Congress,
will completely upset" the present
control system here, District Rent
Control Administrator Robert r
Cogswell declared last night.
Senate and House conferees are
now studying the Districts new
rent control legislation TO make II
conform to the new national law
One proposal would set UP fair
net operation income" program
for landlords to supplant the Dis
tricts present rule OF considering
Landlords improvements to rent
ed property and increased costs.
The new national act provides for
a fair net income and lacks a
criminal section.
Rent increases have always been
granted here in meritorious cases,
Mr.. Cogswell asserted.
May Knock Out Section.
The conferees are studying the
possibility of knocking out the
criminal section and revamping
Section 4. which governs rent
increases for every citizen renting
in the city of Washington. Mr.
Cogswell said.
The administrator pointed out
that Washington's Law has stood
the test of the courts and that
landlords and tenants now know
where they stand under 1t. A
new law might have to run the
uncertain gamut OF court test.
The present penalty is $1,000 fine
or a year in jail. or both.
Section 4. is the very heart OF
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Evening star., 1949-04-03
Tito Blasts West and Red Bloc
For Lies Against YugosIovio
Denies He Has Held
Tulks With British
And Americans
RY the A.socioted Press

BELGRADE, Yegoslavia, April
2.-In defiant and independent
speech. Premier Marshal Tito has
accused both the Western cap
italistic" powers and Russian
dominated Socialist states of Lies
and slander" against Yugoslavia.
He spoke Thursday at Brioni
Islands, where he is vacationing
to group from Croatia, Slovenia,
Istria and the Slovene coastal
areas. The text was made public
here tonight.
Bluntly, Tito said:
The anti-Yugoslav propaganda
will not bother us, nor will it
make us digress from the road
which we are following"
He added he was laughing" at
the campaign against his govern
ment.
You have probably heard he
said. various lies on the terrible
Evening star., 1949-04-03
Eviction Regulations
For Whole U.S.. Set Up
Under New Rent Act
Woods Also Lifts Rute
Ceilings on 36, 500 Housing
Units in Four Stutes
U. S. COURT Bars Rent Suits
Under $4,000. Page A-26
BY the Assoeiatsd Press

BY the Assoeiotsd Press
The Federal Rent Administrator
set up new nationwide eviction
regulations. At the same time
he removed the rent ceilings from
sc, 500 dwelling units in four states.
These were the first in a series
of action slated by Housing Ex-
pediter Tighe E. Woods under the
new home rule" rent control
act which runs through June 80,
1850.
Mr.. Woods acted swiftly on
the eviction matter because such
controls were not given him in
the old law which placed this
power in the hands of local au-
thorities.
Warning on Undue Increases.
The new rules. which take pre-
cedent over local orders. set forth
the steps landlords must take to
qualify for the custer action. and
the safeguards to protect tenants
against unwarrented eviction.
In ordering controls removed
from 20 areas in Alabama. Indi-
ana, New Jersey and Texas. Mr.
Woods made it cellar he would
slap the ceilings back on If rents
should rise there unduly. He told
the local advisory boards to stay
on the job. ready TO enforce new
ceilings should the need arise. y
Mr.. Woods said more than 80
other areas would be taken off
the controlled list within a week
This action was contemplated
when the rent bill was before Con-
greSs. Under the old law, Mr.
Woods did not have power to
recontrol an area once ceilings
were removed.
The eviction regulations pro-
vide two different methods of
handling such cases: one is by
court action and the other is a
certificate plan requiring approval
by an area rent office.
Written Notice Required.
Under the first method, the
landlord must give written notice
to the tenant and the area rent
Office. stating the reasons for eyic-
ton and the date the renter is
required to move out.
The Federal rent chief gave
the following list of grounds for
eviction and the time granted to
vacate after receiving notice from
the landlord:
/. Nonpayment Of rent-not
less than three days.
2. Violation Of substantial OBJ
legation of tenancy" such as con-
ducting a business in part of the
premises contrary to the rental
contract-not less than 10 days.
8. Nuisance or illegal or i'm
moral use-not less than 10 days.
4. Refusing access TO landlord to
inspect premises or to show 1t
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Evening star., 1949-04-03
Graham, Senator 5 Days,
Stricken With Pneumonia
o. N. AssAsss.sS Press

DR.. Frank Graham. new Dem
ocrafic Senator from North Caro-
lima, has pneumonia, his admins
tratise assistant said yesterday.
John Mcconnell. tse Senator .
aide, reported that Dr. Graham
mas been taken 70 Emergency
Hospital here where doctors
aescribed his condition as good.
DR.. Graham has been confined
to his hotel quarters recsnly
because Of q cold. but he atteneed
Friday nights Eenats Session.
He was sworn in last Tuesday.
Evening star., 1949-04-03
II Pact Powers Complete Plans
For Signing Ceremony tomorrow;
Charges in Soviet Note Rejected
Foreign Ministers
Speed Machinery
To Unite Defense
MAJOR BILLS Still Await Con-
gress Action After 3 Months.
Page A-3
BY Gornett D. Horner

Twelve foreign ministers of the
non-Communist Western world,
rejecting as Misrepresentation"
Russian charges that the North
Atlantic treaty is aggressive, COM
pleted plans yesterday for signing
the security pact here tomorrow.
Decisions to speed organization
Of machinery for united defense
as soon as the treaty comes into
effect also were announced by
Secretary of State Acheson and
the foreign ministers of IL other
nations here to sign the historic
alliance.
The group joined in a public
statement answering Russia's off,
cial protests that the pact is
aggressively directed against the
Soviet Union and violates the
United Nations Charter.
The ministers declared the pact
sis not directed against any ma
ton or group of nations but only
against armed aggression"
This, as we'll as the completely
defensive" nature of the alliance
and its conformity with the U. NJ.
is made clear by the text of the
treaty, their statement insisted. 4
1t cited the text itself as "the
best answer to such misrepre-
sentations and allegation" as
contained in Moscow's complaint
broadcast Thursday night.
First Formal Session Held.
The statement was issued after
Mr.. Acheson and the II visiting
foreign ministers met for nearly
two hours in their first formal
session.
A separate communique an
nounced formal approval of the
text of the treaty to be signed
by the II men tomorrow after
noon. There was no change in
the text as published March 18.
The Foreign Ministers also
agreed that council representing
all the participating governments
should meet Immediately after the
treaty goes into effect to establish
q defense committee.
This committee would have the
task of recommending practical
measures to build up the armed
strength of the alliance members,
and of planning grand strategy
for united action in case of war.
Actual creation of these agen-
cies to implement the treaty must
await it's ratification by the United
States and at least six other ma
tions. In this country, a two
third vote by the Senate is re-
quired for ratification, and that
may not come for several weeks.
Prompt Submission Planned.
President Truman plans to SUBJ
nit the treaty, proposing to link
North American and Western
European defenSes in peacetime
alliance for the first time in his
tory. to the Senate promptly after
1t is signed tomorrow.
The President is expected to
emphasize that the prime purpose
of the pact is to preserve peace
in the major address at the signing
ceremony, to be held in the De-
partmental Auditorium. on Con-
stitution avenue between Twelfth
and Fourteenth streets NV.
While the ceremony itself will
not be open to the public. millions
1Continued on Page Al. Col. p
Evening star., 1949-04-03

the congress mandate commit
tee. The newspaper said he listed
Prime Minister Stain, ". M. Molo-
tov, G. M. Malenkov. L. P. Beria,
K. E. Voroshilov. A. I. Mikoyan,
A. A. Andreyev. L. M. Kaganovich,
N. S. Krushchev, N. M. Shvernik,
N. A. Bulganin and A. N. Kosygin.
(This dispatch did not men
ton a thirteenth man, Nikolai
A. Voznesensky. who was re-
placed last month as chairman
of the important state plan
ming commission and relieved
of his duties as deputy prime
minister. 1t was assumed at the
time the shift was announced
that Voznesensky had remained
as a member of the Politburo,
which actually makes policy
for the Soviet Union).
Shelepin said MFR. Stain was
Evening star., 1949-04-03
0usted Soviet PIannel
Also Out Of PoIitburo,
New LIST Indicates
Voznesensky Missing in
Names of Top Leaders
Included in Dispatch
BY the Associated Press

MOSCOW, April 2r-The elev-
enth Komsomol Communist
YOUTH congress greeted with
stormy applause" an announce
ment that the members and can
didate members of the Commu-
mist party's Politburo had been
elected delegates to the congress,
the newspaper Komsomol Pravda
said today.
= The announcement was made
by A. n, Shelepin chairman Of
Evening star., 1949-04-03
Clash on China
En|ivens Senate
Debate on ERP
KnowIond Charges
Lack of Consistent
Foreign Policy
Halls Gains Under
ECA, Warns Against Letdown.
Page AS.
By J. A. O'LeoY

Senator Knowland, Republican,
of California, charged the United
States with lack OF a consistent
foreign policy to check commu-
'nism in China as we'll as in Europe
as the Senate failed again yester-
day to complete action on the
SIS $50 900. 900 European Recovery
Program for the next IS months.
What started out as simple
amendment to continue avail
able an expiring $54.000,000 bal
ance of China aid funds, ended in
a sharp verbal exchange over
broad policy in the Orient in re-
cent years, with Senator Connally,
Democrat, of Texas. accusing Sen
ator Knowland of making a par
tisan political attack"
Earlier in the day, the Senate
was informed by Secretary of De-
fense johnson that. while Great
Britain shipped some jet airplane
engines to Russia after the war,
1t halted deliveries late in 1947
and now has a policy against such
shipments to the Soviet and the
satellites.
Score of Changes Pending.
Mr.. Johnson's letter was pro-
duced by Senator McCarran, Demo-
crat, of Nevada. chairman of q
joint House watchdog
committee on European aid. He
called the letter a complete re-
futation" of reports of such ship
ments recently.
Senator Hickenlooper, Republi-
can, of Iowa, disagreed that the
letter was a complete refutation
and said he wanted to reserve the
right to question later the attitude
of the British on the question prior
to January. 1948.
When Majority Leader Lucas OF
Illinois recessed the Senate shortly
after 5 pm. more than a score OF
amendments were still pending
and some observers thought II
might take two or three more days
to get a final Senate vote on the
ECA bill.
1t must still go through the
House later this week. but House
rules will enable leaders to gel
much speedier action there.
Cut Believed Unlikely.
| One prominent House Republi-
can said privately yesterday that
any effort to cut the authorization
there would fail. as it did in the
Senate Friday night.
The House and Senate com.
mittees handling the bill are ir
accord on the $4,280. .000, 900 OF
cash for the IL months commenc.
ing July l The House Foreign
Affairs Committee has reco-
mended $50,00o,0O0 less than the
1.15o, 100000 in the Senate bill
for the next three months ending
June 80. The House version also
omits Senate provision foi
$3.50. 900, 900 of additional contract
authority in the new fiscal year
Although the original ECA en-
abling act expires today, members
of Congress pointed out shipments
| of supplies to Europe would con-
tinue under contracts previously
made. The expiration of the old
law means, however. that no new
obligations can be incurred until
Congress sends the pending bill
to the President for signature.
The most difficult amendment
still facing the Senate this week
is the Brewster proposal, which
seeks to halt aid to the Neither
lands unless it complies with re-
quests of the United Nations Sc
curity Council to terminate hos
tilities in Indonesia. Members OF
Evening star., 1949-04-03

-AP PhOtO.
plots which are being made in
Brioni, that I have had talks here
with English and Americans.
These lies are mostly being
Continued on Page A, Col. A.
Evening star., 1949-04-03

Rudio Prosroms, Poee C-s
, Complete Index, Pose Az /.
Evening star., 1949-04-03

lSee SEGREGATION. PAGE A.
Evening star., 1949-04-03

CONTINUED on Page AS. Col.
Evening star., 1949-04-03

Continued on Page AS. Col. /.
Evening star., 1949-04-03

tSee MOSCOW. Page A-5o
Evening star., 1949-04-03
Weather Forecast

Mostly cloudy. highest in middle sos.
Light rain likely by tonight Tomorrow
cloudy with rain likely.
Evening star., 1949-04-03

{ See GAMBLING. PRRe 4
Evening star., 1949-04-03

In the face Of all that. Mr. Fay
radiated confidence last niehi
This ik no new procedure. Mr..
Fay declared. Judge Plne did 1t
10 years ago. The telephone com
pany pulled out 400 telephones
Evening star., 1949-04-03

Twelve foreign ministers of the
non-Communist Western world,
rejecting as Misrepresentation"
Russian charges that the North
Atlantic treaty is aggressive, COM
pleted plans yesterday for signing
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-08-10
Ruper Lloyd

concluded from page II
in Central America. The following
year hew as sent to Monrovia, Ii
IBERIA, as vice counselor where he
has served in various diplomatic
capacities until the recent ap-
pointment to Paris.
This is the first Negro to be ap-
pointed to the diplomatic service
in Paris, however, a few Negroes
have served in similar positions in
other European countries.
Secretary Lloyd is a native of
Manassas, Va. He graduated from
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-08-10

Williams college in 1880 and re-
ceived his MA in 1881 from How
ard. He has studied at the Uni
versity de Bordeaux and the Uni
~versite de Paris.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-08-10
No Retreat on -

concluded from page -
shall make every possible effort"
the Interior Dept. official prom
Used, ''to insure that the majority
of citizens anxious to make use of
our public recreation facilities may
do so without either mob interfer-
ence or surrender to vicious pref
udise."
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-08-10
CLASSIFIED ADS

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One. Of Kentucky's finest hotels.
so rooms, cafe. radio in each
room, bath. Always a Room.
2616 W. Madison st., Phone
Cypress 1926. Louisville, II, KY.
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FOR RENT-Room, and and wife,
must be sober. Flu 26O9. t50
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For RENT-Furnished room for
2 girls. Twin beds. Call ME
1898 after 3 p. m. t50I
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DIR. z. w. BAKER, spiritual adj
wiser and divine healer. Private
reading daily. If you want luck
and success see him the man of
God. Flu 1855. TAG
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FOR RENT-Room for couple or
men. 1887 w. LIST. HE 7713.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-08-10
FOR RENT - Rooms, day or
weekly rates. Skyline Hotel,
1850 Germantown st. Flu O4O1.

FOR RENT-Room, couple. 3242
Lakeview or call Tuesday, ME
3453. TAO
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-06-27
D. {. Policeman, Shot
By Wife After Quarrel,
To Be Quizzed Today

Silver Spring police planned to-
day to question a Washington po-
liceman whose wife is charged
with shooting him with his service
revolver after domestic Squabble
in their Silver Spring home early
yesterday.
The policeman. Pvt. James T.
Phillips. "a, of No. 8 Precinct.
is in Suburban Hospital with a
bullet wound in his right Shout
der. Hospital officials said the
bullet has not yet been removed
but reported his condition was
fairly good"
Police quoted Pvt. Phillips wife,
Shirley, 81, as saying she pulled
the trigger of her husbands serv-
ice revolver during an argument
after a beer party at their home
in the 600 block of st. Andrews
lane.
Says He Dared Her to Shoot.
Mrs. Phillips. who told police
her husband had dared her to
shoot him, was charged with as
sault with a dangerous weapon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-06-27
Man Indicted in Theft
OF $4,000 in Paintings
From Wenes Home

A man was indicted today on
charges of breaking into the town
house Of Sumner Welles. former
Undersecretary Of State. at 2l2l
Massachusetts, avenue NV. on
June 3 and stealing paintings
valued at $4,000.
The man accused is Rico D.
Tancous, %, of the 1900 block
of Sixteenth street NV. Police
reported all the paintings were
recovered in a room next to one
occupied by the defendant.
In another indictment, an 3d.
year-old man was named on
charges OF assault with a danger
Gus weapon and assault with in
tent to kill. Nick Bitsikas. 400
block OF Sixth street S.W.. Is &C
cused with intent to kill Mrs.
Aphrodite Pappaa. a widow, on
May ~ with q shotgun In the
Pappas bakery in the first block
Of E street S.W. in an argument
over money.
A shot he fired at Mrs. Pappas
missed her entirely. according to
police, but one pellet glanced off
the wall and struck Miss Frances
Pappas. The indictment also &C
cuses him of assault with a dan
gerous weapon on Miss Pappas
and Mrs. Pappas' son. Mike Pap
pas.
The indictments were among 81
returned by the grand jury before
District Court Judge Richmond B.
Keech.
Seven persons were indicted on
gambling charges, in connection
with the numbers racket. They
were:
Charles j. Lippey. A. Of the
1900 block Of Newton street NV:
Albert H. Frye. So. colored. Of the
1400 block Of Newton street NV:
George w. Carter. IS. colored,
1900 block Of Third street S.W.:
Samuel Brown. 48, Of the 500
block of Second street S.W.: Rob-
ert r. Spencer. 80. colored, 400
block Of Fairmont street NV:
Beatrice Hughston. SO, colored, for
whom no address is listed. and
Harry Well. Sc, United States Sol
dierS Home.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-06-27
Historical Play 10 Feature
SO Fort BeIvoir Soldiers

Sixty soldiers from Fort Bel
voir. Va, will take part in the
historical drama. Alexandria
Thy Sons" to be presented as part
Of the city's bicentennial celebra-
ton July IL through II.
Four OF the soldiers will have
speaking roles. They are Capt
H. r. Eddy. who will play Capt.
Hog. one of George Washington S
aides: 1t. o. c. Chesnovsky. who
will portray Capt. Jacob Van
Braam. a Dutchman in the serv-
Ice Of Gen. Washington. Corpl.
j. s. Macy and Pvt. Jacob Blum.
Other Fort Beivoir soldiers viii
represent recruits in Washington s
colonial militia. and French troops
who fought against Gen. Brad
docks forces.
The historical drama Is the ma
jor event OF Alexandfia's year
long celebration. The play viii
be staged in an outdoor tneatsr
being built on South Lee street
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-06-27
Pan Meeting
Opens in WASHINGTON

More than 500 persons attended
the ofiicial opening of the annual
Pan-Laconian national convention
today at the Hotel Statler.
The $500 delegates attending
are Americans Of Greek extraction
who trace their origin to the prov
ince of Laconia. The members OF
the Pan-Laconian Federation OF
the United States and Canada.
Inc. registered Saturday and took
q sightseeing tour Of Washington
yesterday.
Ambassador vassili @. Dendra-
mis- Of Greece welcomed the wis.,
tors and commended their pro-
gram for better Greek-American
relations.
The LAconians win work until
the close OF the convention We'd
nesday In setting UP . program to
combat the influence Of commu-
nism.
The meeting Is jointly sponsored
by the Laconian societies OF WASH
ington and Baltimore. Andrew
d. vo1eolas. Washington attorney.
il general chairman.
Highlights Of the first days pro-
gram Is the grand banquet to be
held at Z O'Clock tonight Ut the
hotel. Guests viii include Assist
ant Secretary Of State George e.
McGhee. the minister counsellor
Of the Greek Embassy and Nine.
Economou-Gouras and Archbishop
Athenagoras Cavadas Of the Greek
Orthodox Church.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-06-27

- ! IL b6Ak ~
She was released in $1,000 bond
for July hearing in Silver
Spring Police Court.
The shooting occurred while the
Phillips two children were asleep
upstairs. This, according to
police. is the story Mrs. Phillips
told:
AS Mrs. Phillips was bidding
guests good-by at about BIS am.
her husband ran from the house.
He became angry, she said. while
she was dancing earlier with one
of the guests.
After Mrs. Phillips went to a
recreation room where the party
had been held, she said, her hus-
band returned and began to beat
her head against the wall. After
threatening her with knife the
policeman procured his gun and
dared her to shoot. Mrs. Phillips
told police.
Police quoted Mrs. Phillips as
saying she angrily pulled the
trigger because her husband "on
many occasions" had pulled the
same routine"
Mrs. Phillips said there was an
empty click when she pulled the
trigger. She pulled it again and
the weapon discharged. she said.
Her husband slumped to the floor
and Mrs. Phillips called Ralph
Koontz, owner of the st. Andrews
lane residence. who also lives
there. He notified police.
Detectives said the service re-
volver apparently contained only
two cartridges. one of which had
been fired.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-06-27

Capt. Zott had been studying
at Columbia University for .
masters degree in industrial en-
cheering. He had just been as
signed to Republic Aircraft for
summer work in connection with
his studies.
A graduate Of the West Point
class Of 1914, Capt. Zott served as
a B-29 pilot in the Pacific for a
months during the wars hopping
up operations. At West Point he
was business manager Of the
academy annual. The Howitzer.
Capt. Zott attended Powell Jun
Tor High School and was gradu-
ated from Central High School
and Willard Preparatory School
here.
His mother. Mrs. John II. Zott.
lives at 3726 Connecticut avenue
NV. Other survivors are q broth
er. Mai. John n. Zott, jr., now In
Saudi. Arabia. and . sister. Mrs.
Robert c. Campbell Of Washins-
ton.
Funeral services tentative have
been set for Wednesday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-06-27
Mrs. Finch to Retire;
80 Years in u. S. Service

Mrs. Margaret M. H. Finch. en-
ploye of the National Archives.
will retire Thursday after more
than 80 years Government service.
Mrs. Finch began her Govern
ment service in the War Depart
ment and then worked in the
Bureau Of Pensions in the Interior
Department and transferred with
the section when it was made q
part Of the Archives in l940. She
is now In charge Of the veterans
records search room.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-06-27
B 'rith ShoIom Honors
Dr.. Philip H. Edwards

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j.. June
27.-Dr. Phillip H. Edwards Of
Baltimore was chosen the out
standing man of Maryland" last
night by Maryland delegates to
the annual convention of the in
dependent Order of Birth Sholom.
Retired principal of Baltimore
City college and former direc-
tor of the Middle Atlantic region
of the National Conference Of
Christians and Jews. Mr.. Edwards
was selected for his efforts In pro-
noting inter-faith understanding.