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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-08-12
Hoffman Declares British
Have BuckIed Down 10 Job
BY the A,seeiotsd Press

BOURNEMOUTH. England, Aug.
12.-Paul G. Hoffman, European
Recovery Progra administrator
beginning q tour Of Marshall Plan
countries. said on his arrival here
today England has really buckled
down and started to make q very
good job Of it,"
Asked about American critic
isms of the way Britain is SPEND
ing Marshall aid dollars, Mr..
Hoffman said:
"The American people have
demonstrated time and again that
they have nothing but friendlineSs
for their English cousins. But
among cousins there Is always
criticism. That is to be expected" "
Mr.. Hoffman arrived from
Dublin by plane with his wife and
two children. He plans to fly
to Paris tomorrow or Sunday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-08-12
Democrats Need Less HiIurity,
g. O.P. More, Rep. Cotton Says

OF the Republican "kick-on"
dinner, he said:
They we're certainly solemn
enough. In fact they had all the
buoyant enthusiasm and con-
fidence that Lebanon IN. H. High
School would have in kicking of
against Notre Dame
For the main speaker they re-
surrected Will Hays, chairman OF
the party in 1920. who droned on
about The Good Old Days
AT about 1920 we dried our
tears and went home"
Mr.. Cotton prefaced these re-
marks by observing: Our future
strength and safety depend much
on maintaining two political par
ties, both of them strong, agrees
sive and alert to dangers; and
neither of them drunk with Sue
cess or drugged by defeat"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-08-12
Retria| Of ChristoffeI
Due in District Court
Before End Of Year

Harold Christoffel of Milwaukee,
former United Automobile Work
ers' official, will be retired in Dis
trict Court here in November or
December on charges OF perjury
while under oath before a con-
gressional committee. John S.
Pratt, Special Assistant Attorney
General. SAID today. !.
Christoffel was convicted In
1948 and sentenced to two to six
years in prison on a charge OF
perjury, allegedly committed when
he told the House Labor Commit
tee he had never been a Com
munist.
The Supreme Court reversed the
conviction last June on grounds
that the prosecution failed to show
that q majority Of the committee
was present when Christoffel tes-
tilted in March, 1947.
Mr.. Pratt said a quorum of the
committee was present and this
fact will be emphasized at the new
trial. s,s..,5sa, ..4.lit.it,1..
Christoffel. former president of
Local .248, JAW. at the Allis
Chalmers: plant in Milwaukee, has
been at liberty under SIS, 900 bond.
Mr.. Pratt said he will appear in
District Court later today or Mon
day to recommend that the same
bond be continued pending COM
pletion of the new trial.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-08-12
Britain Will Resume
Arms Sale 10 Arabs
by the Assoeioted Press

LONDON, Aug. 12.-Britain an
nounced today she is, Fesuming the
sale Of arms to Arab countries.
The Foreign ONCE said all or
ders for arms by Arab nations
which were outstanding when the
United Nations embargo was i'm
posed in 1948 will now be carried
out.
A spokesman told a news con-
ference. however, this country
will give no credit facilities to
Arab states which want war equip
ment.
Egypt, Hashemite Jordan
CTrans-Jordan) and 1raq-three
countries with which Britain is
bound by treaty-are known to
be among those with orders out
standing. They want fighter
planes.
The U. N. embargo. imposed at
the start OF the Palestine war,
was lifted yesterday.
Britain has been discussing
overall Mideastern security and
strategic arrangements with the
United States and France In the
past few weeks. She called home
all her Mideastern ENJOYS last
month for talks on-among other
things - streamlining anti-Com-
munist defense plans In the re-
gion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-08-12
Inter-American Board
Rents Pink Palace

The Pink Palace" opposite the
Meridian Hill Hotel at $500 Six
tenth street NV has been
leased, with option to buy. by the
nter-American Defense Board, 1t
was learned today.
The four story mansion. con-
tanning one of the city's largest
private bathrooms, was built in
1905 for Mrs. Marshall Field, Wild
ow of the Chicago department
store magnate. Formerly the
property of the Order Of the East
ern Star. it is now owned by DR..
William B. Ingersoll, Washington
dentist, and has been leased by a
catering firm for private parties.
The house was once the Persian
Legation.
The Inter-American Defense
Board has leased the building for
an estimated $4,000 per year and
will move in about September Is.
A board spokesman said only
minor alterations will be needed.
The firm of James L. Dixon 81
Co. handled the transaction.
The board, which now uses
the American Institute of Archi-
tects, Building adjoining historic
Octagon House at 1741 New York
avenue NV, has been searching
for new quarters since last April.
The board is composed of high
ranking military officials Of the
81 American republics. It has a
staff of "a.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-08-12
No Wedding in Poducoh Now,
Smi|inq Barley Tells Reporters

mo, sir" the 71-year-old Vice
President responded, adding that
he had noticed in a morning paper
a report that he and Mrs. Hadley
were going to slope"
Chuckling, the Vice President
said that he. guessed they thought
he would have to ask his "pappy
and nanny" for permission to
get married, and that would be the
only reason for clipping.
Another reported asked If he
was returning to st. Louis after
the airport ceremony, and the Vice
President said that iw he did 1t
would be to conduct Mrs. Hadley
and her daughter back home.
The Vice President and Mrs.
Hadley. 37-year-old widow of an
attorney, met not so long age In
Washington and shortly afterward
the Vice President was her guest
In st. Louis.
A week ago the Vice President
and Mrs. Hadley were photo
graphed together at ball game in
st. Louis, and q news story from
that city yesterday reported their
Forthcoming trip to Paducah. !.
The Vice President talked 20 re-
porters after leaving q cabinet
meeting.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-08-12
Hoffman Urges Europeans
To Compete in U. 5. Market
BY, the Associated Press

DUBLIN, Aug. 12.-Paul G.
Hoffman said last night that II
Marshall Plan countries were
making concerted effort to sell
goods on the American market,
I believe the so-called dollar gap
could be closed quickly"
Assuming that Economic Co.
operation Administration alloca-
lions will end after 1852, the ad-
ministrator told reporters, Europe
will have to earn through ex-
ports about $500, 000, 000-or
three times more than it is now
earning" This means, he said
there will have to be a "real
effort" made by Europe to sell
goods to America.
Mr.. Hoffman said the New
York area was not the best mar
ket for goods now, as believed by
the average European manufac-
turer-but there is a very big
market to be tapped in the South
west"
Mr.. Hoffman arrived from the
United States yesterday for a 16-
day tour of the Marshall Plan
countries.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-08-12
24O Left Shoes
Stolen From Car
|OfSoIesmonHere

Police were searching today for
240 men without right feet.
In any event, it must have been
an unobservant thief who pilfered
$40 left shoes from the automobile
of a shoe salesman in parking
lot at 914 E street NV. Wednes-
day night.
Roly H. Stephenson, a repre-
sentative of the General Shoe Co.,
Nashville, Tenn, who is staying
at the Harrington Hotel, reported
the theft to police yesterday. He
said the shoes, in IL large sample
cases, we're worth 500 to him, but
would be valueless to any one else
for wearing purposes.
Unless. of course, Mr.. Stephen
son added, the thief finds the
salesman who has the $40 right
shoes-"and he could be in Cali
fornia, for all I know"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-08-12
u. 5. and II Nations
Al Geneva Sign ; New
|Pdcts on War Rules

GENEVA, Switzerland, Aug. IL.
The United States and II other
nations formally signed today
three revised Geneva Red Cross
conventions relating to the treat
ment Of prisoners Of war and of
wounded soldiers and sailors in
any future conflict.
A fourth agreement, which
would give civilians in an occu-
pied country the protection Of
recognized international law for
the first time in history, was
signed by II nations.
The United States did not sign
the civilian convention because
one of the agreements articles
outlaws the death penalty in any
occupied country which abolished
the death sentence prior to the
occupation.
8 Sign All 4 Conventions.
Nine nations signed all four
conventions. They are Austria,
Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Denmark,
Ecuador, Turkey, Uruguay and
Switzerland.
The United States was the only
major power to sign any of the
agreements. Britain, France and
the members of the Soviet bloc
may do so later. The conven-
lions will become binding only on
those nations which sign and sub
sequently ratify them.
The four agreements were
drawn up by Donation confer
ence here and were approved yes
terday, although many delegates
gave notice of reservations on the
texts as adopted. Not one delega-
ton cast q negative vote.
All four conventions were based
on drafts made at a Red Cross
conference in Stockholm last year.
Only the civilian convention is
entirely new. The other three are
revisions of rules of war which
were adopted at Geneva in 1929
and were in force throughout
World War II.
Hostages, Reprisals Banned.
When generally ratified, the
civilian convention will formally
outlaw occupation measures such
as those used by the Nazis. It
will ban the taking of hostages,
reprisals, torture. and mass de-
portations.
The conference chairman, Swiss
Foreign Minister Max Petitpierre,
told today's closing session that
it has become urgent for civilians
to have their own charter, like
the wounded and the prisoners of
war" He described modern total
war as blind and devouring."
Other provisions in the four
agreements recognize for the first
time prisoner of-war status for
partisans and grant captive mill
airy medical personnel freedom to
care for their captured COM
patriots. They also provide for
neutralized security zones near
the fighting fronts to shelter the
wounded and civilians.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-08-12
House Group Votes Rise
In Direct Federal Relief
BY the Associated Press

The House Ways and Means
Committee voted yesterday to put
UP to $3.50. ZOO, 900 more into direct
Federal relief each year and ex-
tend the program to needy per-
sons who are totally disabled for
life.
1t voted a new formula for shar-
ing with the States on a money
matching basis. It would mean
more Federal funds for most
States, but would help particularly
the low-income States.
The added sum voted by the
committee If approved by the
Senate and House-would bring
Federal direct assistance costs to
about 81 $50 .000, 900 annually.
This aid goes to needy aged. the
blind and to dependent children.
The program is entirely indie
pendent of the social security old
age and survivors insurance which
is financed by a payroll tax.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-08-12
Tavern License Suspended
5 DAYS for Sales 10 Minors

The Alcoholic Beverage Control
Board has suspended for five days,
beginning August %. the liquor
license of the Five Point Tavern,
1901 K street NE.
The suspension followed a hear
ing last Monday at which the
tavern was charged with selling
beer to two minor girls. It was
during this hearing before the
board that Margaret Lucas, 10,
testified she had signed a state
ment accusing the tavern of illegal
sales because she was afraid of
being mistreated at the Womans
Bureau.
She testified that a Woman's
Bureau had beaten her on a pre-
vious occasion when she was in
police custody.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-08-12
By the Associated Press

Representative Cotton, Repub-
lican, of New Hampshire thinks
the country would be better off If
the Democrats were "a little less
slap-happy" and the Republicans
"a little more alive" He said so
in a letter to his constituents.
To illustrate what he meant. he
described two Washington func-
lions he attended. One was the
party given by Representative
Boykin, Democrat. of Alabama
honoring House Speaker Rayburn.
The other was the Republican Ma
tional Committee dinner to start
the 1850 political campaign.
Mr.. Cotton said the party for
Mr.. Rayburn was a "sumptuous
affair."" but II couldn't help but
feel that a little less hilarity and
a little more dignity" were called
for --
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-08-12
Wrecking Firms Laborers
On Job as Strike Ends

Union laborers who struck
yesterday on projects of the Ace
Wrecking Co. and the General
Wrecking Co. were back on the
job today after Laborers' Local,
"a, A. F. of L., reached agreement
on new contracts providing 10
cents-an- hour increases and other
benefits.
The new contracts are similar
to those reached recently with the
Master Builders Association,
Henry Thomas president of the
local, said.
The contracts provide $1.45 an
hour In straight wages, time and
q half for overtime and double
pay for Saturday and Sunday
work.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-08-12
Congress in Brief
BY the Associated Press

Senate:
Leaders expect to- end dispute
over basing price legislation by
vote at 4 pm.
Senate investigations subcom-
mittee queries witnesses about sus-
pension of two Army generals in
inquiry into contract influence.
Judiciary Committee may vote
on Attorney General Clark for
Supreme Court at closed session.
Foreign Relations and Armed
Services Committees continue
work on European arms bill.
Senate and House conferees
seek agreement on foreign aid
appropriation.
House:
Considers miscellaneous bills.
Armed Services Committee ques-
tions Gen. Vandenberg in B-36
investigation.
Foreign Affairs Committee con-
tinues consideration of arms aid
bill.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-08-12
One of Two Seized
In Lottery Cose Held

Grand jury action is facing one
Of two men arrested in a North
east poolroom on charges Of
operating a lottery and possessing
numbers slips.
He is Charles T. Harrison, 81,
of the 500 block of fifth
street NE. United States Com
missioner Cyril s. Lawrence yes
terday set his bond at $1,000.
Charges against Leon Ables, 10.
of the $500 block of Bell place
NE, were dismissed. Both men
are colored. The poolroom is In
the $500 block Of Foote street NE
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-08-12
Library Fellows Defend Choice
Of Pounds Cuntos for Award

Criticism OF Ezra Pounds Selec-
ton for the Bollingen Prize in
Poetry was answered today by the
Fellows of the Library of Con-
gress in American Letters.
The reply was occasioned by
articles and editorials in the Sat-
urday Review of Literature criti-
cizing the selection of Pounds
"Pisan Cantos" for the 1913
award, at a time when the poet
was in St. Elizabeths Hospital and
under indictment for reasonable
broadcasts made in Italy during
the war.
One upshot of the controversy
was a demand by Representative
Javits, Republican. of New York,
for an investigation, to which
Representative Patterson, Repub-
lican, of Connecticut. gave i'm
petus by inserting some of the
controversial exchanges in the
Congressional Record.
The answer by the Fellows, who
comprised the Bollingen Prize
jury, was drafted by Poet Leonie
Adams, secretary of the group.
Assails Hillyer Articles.
1t tore into the magazine
articles of Poet Robert Hillyer,
who called Pounds verses "a
ruthless mockery of the Christian
war dead" and made these points:
l. No evidence has been pro-
duced to establish that there was
Fascist influence at work among
the Fellows. nor can such evidence
be produced by any one.
2. Insinuations that one of the
Fellows, T. S. Eliot, was a disciple
of Carl Jung, Swiss psychologist
and one-time alleged Nazi. have
been refuted by retraction and
other evidence.
Asserting that each member of
the jury voted independently in a
mail ballot. the Fellows said there
was adequate evidence that Mr..
Eliot never welded great in
fluence" in the award, as was in
Praise from Critics Cited.
In answer to statement that
half the committee were disciples
of Pound and Eliot and sympa-
thetic to a group which has a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-08-12
BramugIia's Resignation
Reported in Argentina
By the Associated Press

BUENOS AIRES, Aug. 12.-Ar-
gentina's foreign minister. DR..
Juan A. Bramuglia, is reported
by Foreign Office source to have
offered his resignation.
The source said, however, that
President Juan Peron had not ac-
copied the resignation, which re-
portedly was presented to the
president yesterday.
DR.. Bramuglia, who has been
foreign minister since 1916, at
times has been at odds with the
administration over internal poll
cies.
The Foreign Office source said
DR.. Bramuglia had resigned be-
cause of differences with Jeron-
imo Remorino, Argentine ambas-
sador to the United States, who
was recalled for conferences with
the Foreign Office.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-08-12
ice Warns Of Loss
In Freight Business
As Rate Is Boosted
By the Associated Press

Government authority for the
railroads to boost freight rates
again was coupled today with a
warning that further increases
may mean less business.
Authorizing a new 4 per cent
general rate advance, the Inter-
state Commerce Commission hint
ed broadly that it may be reluc-
tant to permit any later increase.
The ICC called attention to
shipper protests that the rail car
riers, by raising charges, may
price themselves out of the mar
ket." and said:
"It is now taken as automatic
that increased freight rates do
not necessarily or invariably re-
suit in increased. operating reve-
nues.
Less Revenue Seen.
1.-THE successive increases which
we have authorized since June 80,
1916, have brought us to the
point where all concerned concede
that we as well as the carriers
must consider seriously whether
further increases now may result
In less revenue and thus defeat
their own purpose"
However, the commission found
that the industry had shown a
need for more income. particularly
in view of. the 40-hour week
which is to be made effective for
some workers September /, and
granted the new advance. The
changes may be made on Is days
notice to the public.
The fresh per cent raise in
rates will add about $293. 900, 900
a year to rail freight billings. The
commission estimated in this con-
nection that the 40-hour week
will increase expenses some $780,
100000 annually.
With this action, freight rates
have been advanced about 81
per cent in the postwar period,
The overall increase in charges
amounts to some $4,000 100000 a
year.
The commission denied a mo-
ton by the Secretary of Agricul-
ture that it undertake an intensive
investigation into railroad eff
cheney before acting on the in
crease petition. The ICC said it did
not have the funds for such an
investigation. It also said it has
called upon the rail industry to
seek out economies which would
reduce operating expense and
minimize the need for further
rate revisions. This request was
repeated in yesterdays order.
Increase Made Permanent.
The ICC action grew out of the
rail petition of last October l for
a Is per cent rate advance, based
on mounting operating . costs.
about S per cent of this was per-
mitted to go into effect last Janu-
airy on a temporary basis, pending
a final action. This increase be-
came permanent in yesterdays
order, with another 4 per cent
added. .,...- r.
The railroads thus fell short by
about 4 per cent of getting what
they said they required to meet
higher costs, go forward with
postwar improvements and show
reft1rr, IN Investment
As Is customary, domestic water
carriers were authorized to make
upward rate adjustments in pro-
portion to the rail changes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-08-12
Group to Visit japan
On Study for Army

A delegation designated by the
Army to study a proposed program
under which foreign educators
would visit Japan is scheduled
to leave San Francisco tonight for
Tokyo.
The group includes: DR.. John
Dale Russell, representing the
Commission of Education; Edwin
G.. Beale. jr.. of the Library of
Congress; Miss Eileen Donovan,
State Department: DR.. Herman B.
Wells, Indiana University presi-
dent, and DR.. William P. 'Tolley,
SYRACUSE University chancellor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-08-12

genuine power complex, the Eel
lows said:
THAT half the group-that is
seven jurors are disciples OF
Pound and Eliot could not pos
sibly be sustained by examination
of their work or of general criti-
cal estimates of it,
Defending the Pound verse
against charges that the work
was so disorGered as to make the
award seem a hoax" the memo
randum cited number of critics
who lauded the poetry. On behalf
of the jury, it said:
mo sympathy for Fascism, no
condoning of anti-Semitism exists
among them. To assume that
they may or must have such
sympathies is to deny them the
capacity to perceive literary dis
tinction in work which expresses
and springs from attitudes and
opinions they do not share"
Defended on Literary Merit.
Defending the selection for it's
literary merits alone. the Fellows
said:
1T was thought that attention
should be called to the fact that
the jury was not recommending
the award to the Pisan CantoS
in disregard of its authors indict-
ment for treason, or what was
Objectionable to them or others
in its subject matter.
Their statement asserted this;
and finally it asserted the prin.
ciple which in their view over
rode the difficulties and dangers
of the award This was, that lit
erary criteria were the only cr1-
terra relevant to their task"
Ten of the IA jurors voted for
Pounds work, two for another Sc
lection, another did not vote and
the 18th died.
AS to objections to the choice on
aesthetic grounds. the Fellows
concluded:
But what would be representa-
tive of the wish of the American
people in a matter of this kim?
1T would not be to the interest
of such development If members
of a professional advisory commit
tee were to falsify their opinions
in order to escape censure, or to
make a more popular choice"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-08-12
Maj. HouehIond Named
To Guard Bureau Post

Maj. Arnold L. Houghland.
Shirlington, Va. has been ap-
pointed assistant executive officer
of the National Guard Bureau in
the Department of the Army, it
was announced today by Maj.
Gen. Kenneth F. Cramer, chief
of the bureau.
Maj. Houghland, formerly Of
Louisville, KY, had been on duty
in the bureau as chief OF the
enlisted personnel branch.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-08-12
Lindbergh Visits Camp
For Refuqes in Reich
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

HOF, Germany, Aug. IL. -
Charles A. Lindbergh visited q
refugee camp near Hof yesterday
the camp manager reported.
Mr.. Lindbergh arrived without
advance notice and talked with
several members Of the camp, the
manager said. Then he drove
away.
Elsewhere it was learned that
Mr.. Lindbergh is making a private
survey of European reconstruc-
ton. ..-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-08-12

war I rs All
Army private, entering the Navy
In 1928. He received his medical
training at the University OF Iowa.
Before reporting to his new COM
mand, Capt. Greaves had been
fleet medical officer, Pacific Fleet,
with headquarters at Pearl Har-
Dor. He has served at Bethesda
on several other occasions.
Capt. Greaves is a member OF
the American College of Physi-
clans and the American Medical
Association. He is married and
has two sons,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-08-12
Missing Reich Payroll
Found in Attic of PIX
BY the Associated Press

BREMERHAVEN, Germany,
Aug. 1.-THE German payroll of
80, 900 deutschemarks (about $24,-
0OO was missing yesterday when
the safe was opened at the main
Army post exchange.
The United States Provost
Marshal later reported all but
about 5000 marks $4,000 had
been found in the attic.