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Evening star., 1949-04-14
Gold Sought by Porents to Stop
Girls Cancer Useless, Acc Soys

4 New York and London theater
owner who requested radioactive
gold from the Atomic Energy
Commission 10 treat his dauah-
ter's brain cancer has been ad-
vised the substance has no known
value for the ailment. . commis-
sion spokesman said today.
The request came from Jack
Davis. who last October received q
radioactive phosphate TO treat the
girl. 24-year-old Iris Davis.
Unfortunately. that has not
proved fruitful. Mr.. Davis told the
Associated Press In London. She
is sinking fast.
The Dayises. who live In New
York, were visiting relatives last
July tn England when the girl
was stricken. The girl Is grad
uate Of Barnard College. colum-
bin University.
A commission spokesman said
the Isotopes Division at Oak Ridge,
Tenn. had refused ths father /
Evening star., 1949-04-14

Clark Grifith, head OF the Ma
tionals ball club. lined up Presi-
dent Truman for his customary
opening game pitching chores
when he made his annual visit to
the White House today.
Mr.. Truman. who functions
equally well with right and left
arms. would not say which he
would use to throw out the first
ball when the Mats play Philadel-
phia here Monday.
Mr.. Griffith. who was accom-
panied by his grandson. Clark
Calvin Grifith II. said he looked
for a tough race in the American
League this year, explaining that
! the top teams haven't added any
Evening star., 1949-04-14
District Rent Control
Bill Before Truman
After Senate Passage
Compromise Measure
Extending Curbs Until
June, 1850. Voted 40-23

The signature OF President Tru.
man was all that was needed today
to extend District rent control. witt
no major change from the pres
ent law. to June 80, 1850. His ap-
proyai was expected.
A compromise settlement Of Is
sues over the city rent control sys-
tenn. already accepted by the
House. was passed by the Senate
last night by . roll call vote OF
40 TO %.
Final legislative action came
after q brief clash Of views on the
Senate floor between Chairman
McGrath OF the Senate Distric,
Committee and Senator Mccar.
thy. Republican. of Wisconsin.
Senator Mccarthy raised agair
the argument that to leave out q
requirement for "fsfr net oper.
ating income" forsfandlords woult
give tenants here q better breal
than Congress had voted for theil
constituents back home. Chair.
man McGrath countered with ths
statement that the District Law
from the beginning. had permit.
ted adjustments In rents on q
showing Of increased operating
expenses.
Four Republicans Joined with
36 Democrats In upholding thu
conference agreement advocates
by Chairman McGrath. The op.
Evening star., 1949-04-14
Truman Wants Congress
To Continue Credit Curbs
BY the Associated Press

President Truman said today he
wants Congress to continue the
Governments power to control
time-payment buying.
The question was raised at Mr.
Truman's news conference by q
reporter who noted that so-called
Regulation w" expires June 80
That is the regulation governing
tnstallment buying.
Some CongreSsmen and bust
nessmen have been urging an END
to the controls. They argue that
dropping them would mean q
shot-in-the-arm to tagging sales
of many controlled items.
The Federal Reserve Board
which administers the controls
eased them a month ago, cutting
the amount buyers must pay
down on refrigerators. radios and
other products. The board alst
allowed more time to pay of the
balance.
Mr.. Truman's remarks in
dicated he does not believe th'
danger of further imitation i
ended. But most businessmen
seem to believe the odds now ar,
strongly against 1t.
Evening star., 1949-04-14

request and advised him tha,
radioactive gold has no known an,
plication In the treatment OF 9lio-
hlast0mA--the form of brain
tumcr from which Iris Is suffer
Ing.
He also has been advised. the
commission sid. that under an
arrangement with Britain, such
requests should be made through
the Medical Research Council Ia
England.
He also pointed out that radio
active gold hax q short ''ifaif life. $
which means IL begins 70 lose 10
effectiveness within . very short
time.
Last fall the Dssts family placed
advertisements in London. New
York and Paris newspapers plead
Ing for advice on how 10 save their
daughters Life. A New York mar
offered 10 have his brain trans
planted into IRIS SKULL bot doc
tors ruled out such ! move.
Evening star., 1949-04-14
7rumun Gets His Season Pass,
Aorees to I oss Out First Ball

strength, but the weaker ones
have. His own club. he continued
would be better than last year
and you can't tell" where they'll
finish In the pennant race.
Mr.. Grifith. as Is customary,
left gold season passes for the
President and Mrs. Truman. The
former was in q holder. while
Mrs. Truman's was In q fitted
alligator handbag.
Clark Calvin II. who insisted he
was seven and . half years old
when his grandfather said seven
was photographed with the Pres
ident and Mr.. Grifnth. President
Truman gave the ycungster q
miniature donkey as 4 mementc
Of the occasion. 4
Evening star., 1949-04-14

raises are retroactive to the ex-
piration of the old contracts, last
February 7 in the case of the
pressmen and last December !
for the stereotypers.
Pressmen will get another 81 a
week beginning next November /
Stereotypers will get an additional
81 so effective on that date. The
previous scale for preSsmen was
$7910 for days and $82.85 for
nights. The scale for stereotypers
was 1880 for days and $50 for
nights. When the strike started
pressmen were asking an SO raise
and stereotypers 50. The Wash
ington Publishers Association an
nounced at the time they had
offered $6 to both groups.
The vacation agreement pro-
vides that employees with five or
more years of service on Wash
ington newspapers will have three
weeks of vacation.
The work week for pressmen
was cut from 371a to 1914 hours.
The stereotypers will work 6l2 in
fSaa STRIKE pape A-51
Evening star., 1949-04-14
Truman Stands Firm
On Choice Of Wal|grer
For Resources Post
Reiterotes He Hos No
Intention Of Quitting on
Nomination of Friend
By Joseph A. Fox

President Truman intends to
stand by the nomination Of his old
friend. Mon c. Wallgren. to be
chairman OF the National Sc
curity Resources Board. despite
the action of the Senate Armed
Services Committee which has
virtually killed the appointment.
The President made this clear
at his news conference today
when asked If he had thought
about sending up another nomi-
nation to the Senate II Mr.. Wall
gren should step aside.
Asserting that he did not know
what Is In the mind Of Mr.. Wall
gren. q former Senator who was
defeated last fall for reelection
as Governor of Washington. the
President said he had no inten-
ton quitting on the appointment.
He has previously told the same
thing to news conferences.
The Senate Armed Services
Committee tabled the nomination
by a 7-6 vote. and the only way
1t could now get before the Senate
for consideration would either be
by a reversal on the part Of the
committee or a majority vote in
the Senate discharging the COM
mittee from further consideration
Of the nomination.
Indications on Capitol Hill are
that neither course viii be taken
by the legislators.
The President also brushed
aside the customary news confer
ence questions about the rumored
designations of Secretary OF the
Army Royal and Secretary Of the
Navy Sullivan. He said both men
had given him resignations. rs
had virtually every other ofiicial
In the Government.
Evening star., 1949-04-14

Safe and $500 Cash Stolen
Al Browne Junior Hiqh

Some cias xtso apparently ka<w
that tfsis xss bank deposit dxy for
the Browne Junior Higia School.
casfse6 IN last night.
The school safe. containing essr
seoo-- Including funds for The
s<nIor class psss~&ss rolled 0sat
OF 4 rcon adjoining Principal
william .. sssraons ofYes. do@n
tiae tegvMes ard ssay. police ssss
notified today
The safe eonsasrrd ssook fards.
cafeteria receipts. pesnonnss rec
nfds and stamps. hts. ksanson sad.
The seasona. as T~enty fourth
street and Bennlng read NE. 10
for coauEe6 staaaenta.
Evening star., 1949-04-14
A summary of occurring during the three
day period of the strike appears
on Page A4.
19 Top Nazi Officials
Given Terms Ranqinq
From 4 10 Is Years
Weizsoecker Sentenced
To J Years; SIS General
Gets Heaviest Penalty
by the Associoted Press

NUREMBERG. Germany, April
14.-Nineteen high Nazi officials,
convicted in the final American
war crimes trial, drew prison SEM
tences today ranging from four to
IS years.
Each will receive a reduction of
sentence equal to the time he has
spent in jail-about four years.
They promptly appealed to have
the verdicts and sentences set
aside on grounds the American
tribunal which tried them lacked
jurisdiction.
Gottlob Berger, SIS elite Guard
lieutenant general who was con-
victed of crimes including partici-
patton in mass murder and atroc-
tiles, drew sentences aggregating
rs years, the heaviest imposed on
any of the 10. All had been found
guilty of helping in various ways
the Nazi horror program of ag-
gression, plunder, brutality and
murder.
Years for Weizsaecker.
The best known of the 10, Baron
Ernst Won Weizsaecker, was SEN
fenced to seven years. He is. q
former envoy to the Vatican and
former state secretary of the Ger
man Foreign Ministry.
He was convicted in the last Of
the long series of war crimes trials
by American courts. Charges on
which he was sentenced were
helping Hitler plot aggressive war
against Czechoslovakia and par
ticipating in the campaign Of
atrocities against the Jews.
Two of the 81 defendants were
acquitted by the court which last
night finished a three-day reading
of its 833-page opinion. One OF
the three American judges dis
sented from most of the convic-
tionS.
Judge Leon w. Powers of Denni-
son, Iowa. complained in his dis
sent that the prosecution had
failed to prove the defendants
were personally to blame for the
NaZi crimes.
The other two judges ruled that
officials who signed criminal or
ders were just as responsible as
the men who committed the actual
murders and brutalities. The
judges of the majority were VIII
liam C. Christianson of Red Wing,
Mimi, and Robert T. Mcguire OF
Portland. Greg.
The defendants, all high min
Evening star., 1949-04-14
House Passes Bill to OK
Planning for Sesqui

A bill 10 authorize the National
Capital Sesquicentenniai Commits
sion to proceed with plans for
next years celebration here was
approved In the House today by
unanimous consent The measure
nov goes TO the Senate.
The bill does not provide any
funds for the program Of the
commission. A 81 500 900 item for
this purpose was turned down re-
Gently by the House Appropria-
tions Committee, but further ef-
forts to obtain approval are ex-
pected.
Evening star., 1949-04-14
Chinese Nationalist
Army Indicates Break
With Marking Regime
Troops Continue Activity
Although Political Chiefs
Surrender Is Hinted
BY the Associated Press

NANKING, April 14.-Govern-
'ment forces today recaptured
Kaochiao. so miles east of Nam
king, amid some indications that
the government had lost the civil
war and surrendered to the Com
munists.
At the same time, the govern
ment apparently had lost the
Yangtze river island of Taiyang-
chow, 10 miles southwest Of Nan.
king. to the Reds.
The China puzzle was complex
But this seemed apparent te
trained observers Nationalist
China was breaking up into separ-
ate military and political parts.
The Communist radio in Pei
ping announced formal peace
talks had started after IL days o1
preliminary work. In effect. that
seemed to mean to observers here
that the government negotiators
had agreed to the eight point.
laid down by tn Reds. They
amount to virtual surrender.
But that is political, and the
politicians negotiating do not
represent all of Nationalist China
which roughly means the ares
south of the Yangtze.
South China-below Shangha
still belongs to re.
tired President Chang Kai-shek
even though he has publicly dis.
claimed any interest in the whole
thing.
The Nanking governments sec.
tor-at least that part considered
loyal to Acting President L
Tsung- -jen-seems to be the rich
Yangtze Valley. But even her.
there is a question of divided au.
thority and loyalty.
The Eastern section of the
Yangtze Valley-in which Kao-
chiao and Taiyangchow lie.
under the military control o
Gen. Tang En-po, whose loyalt,
to Chang has never been ques-
toned.
The western part of the Yangtzs
valley may belong to Lis Nankini
government through the militar,
commander at Hangkow, an ole
friend.
The far western part of Chins
could go to the Moslem Ma broth.
ers.
That leaves the Communist.
actually in possession of Nortl
China and Manchuria. which L
about q per cent of the countr,
geographically and composed o,
some 200, 900 900 people.
Evening star., 1949-04-14
Judge Bars Fay
From Removing
Maryland Phone
Prosecutor Loses First
Test on Move 10 Cut
Service to 324 Users

nasiFtrt Ca8Tt judge DAVID \
Pine today granted a motion
barring tie Chesapeake 4 Potomac
Telephone Co, from rrnaess snr
phone service from a Maryland
telephone subscriber wao has
admitted mos, Of his money GENES
from play1ag TIE races
The decision came liz the aTst
coaI; test oi United States Aslor-
ney George Morris FayS campaign n
10 remove telephones on grounds
Of competent evidence The
phones are heing used 10 violate
District gambling ia~S
judge Pine declared there was
evidence the subscriber nghtlne
telephone removal consorta with
gamblers and has used his teie-
phone to call known gamblers.
But. the lurist emphasized. Mr..
Pays once presented no evidence
the telephone In Maryland ~as
ever used 10 call TIE District or
TO receive a call from the District.
Decision May Affect Others,
Removal Of more than SEQ tels-
phones had been requested by Mr..
Fay, The judges decision threw
open the whole question Of whether
Maryland telephones or Maryland
men arrested in March IS raids
come under Mr, Fays jurisdiction.
The telephone in question today
is listed In the nams ol Nathan
Miller Of +a21 La Sale road, Avon
dale. Md. who identliied himself
in court as a used-car dealer with
principal income from betting on
the races.
Mr.. Miller vas the firsi OF saA
telephone subscribers 10 sue for
retention OF telephone service after
Mi. Fay's request to the telephone
company. In all the requests Mr..
Fay referred 10 District gambling
violations, Many of the suhscrib.
ers, like Mr. Miller. live in Mary.
land.
Unable To Find Evidence.
IN announcing ffem the bench
mat ne would sisn a temporary
injunction against The tslephonA
company and Mr., Fay AS koon a.
tse lawyers prepare the necessary
papers. Judge Pine said;
! Il can find no evidence from
which can come 10 the conel,,.
SION that this phone In Maryland
Is being used To aid and abet ths
violation OF gambling lava In the
District OF Columbia"
Judge Pine pointed out that
the proceeding sas not a trial;
that Mr.. Miller was not being ac-
7 eused OF violating District ar
Maryland gambling lava or In.
come tax violation. He com.
mented that the penalty for yio-
iation OF such laws, II suil, wers
established, Is not removal OF a
/ Flepnufle
Judge Pine commented there
was evidence that the Dlh,Tint
home OF Mr.. Millers parents was
raided last year and that Mr..
Miller had resortsd TO his con-
siitutionai rights to avoid answer
ing questions, He said, however,
that Mr., Miller had y right 10 DO
so.
! Before the Judge handed down
his ruling. Assistant United States
Attorney Ross oDonoehae argued
that Mr.. Fay was not properly in
the case st all, that II was up 70
tssce GAMBLING, Page A-S1
Evening star., 1949-04-14
BY the Assoeiotsd Press


The House today approved a
$500. .000, 900 compromise bill to
continue the European Recovery
Program.
Now the Senate has to act be-
fore the bill goes to the White
House for President Truman's sig
nature-in Just about the form the
administration wanted 1t.
The House accepted the COM
promise version by voice vote.
1t was whipped into shape yester-
day oy a conference committee
which ironed out differences be-
tween the House and Senate ver-
sions of how to extend the Mar
shall Plan another Is months.
Senate economy advocates talked
OF another stab at cutting the
total authorization. but leaders
there, as on the other side of the
Capitol. predicted speedy passage
of the bill as 1t stands. The House
takes up the measure first.
An appropriation bill must be
passed later to provide actual cash
for the program.
Taft Still Seeks 10 Per Cent Cut.
Senator Taft. Republican. of
Ohio declared he is hopeful the
Appropriations Committees will
cut 10 per cent of the cash total.
He led an unsuccessful fight to
trim that amount of the author
iZation bill.
Senator Bridges said the Appro-
priations Committees should be
able to make q cut without i'm
pairing or interfering with the
momentum of the program"
Senators Gordon and Ferguson
agreed the Economic Cooperation
Administration must prove Eu-
rope needs the amount of money
authorized by the compromise bill.
Their comments came after Eco
nomic Cooperation Administrator
Paul Hoffman said he would wei
come" any savings IT, it could be
done without injuring the recovery
program.
The final bill % approves
81 $50, ,000. 900 to be used by ECA
by June 80; and ca approves
spending $4,280 .o00. 900 in the
year starting July /.
Exact Amounts Requested.
These were the exact amounts
asked by President Truman and
ECA to be spent over the coming
Is months. But the Senate House
group turned down the Presidents
request to authorize ECA to spend
$150. 100000 in long-range con-
tracts beyond 1850.
Instead, the members agreed on
a $l50.o00.000 fund to guarantee
American businessmen abroad
that any profits they make in
foreign currencies will be convert
ed to dollars.
The ECA either had spent or
aiiocated almost all its first-year
funds on April 2. So the con-
ference agreed to House pro-
posal that the Reconstruction FL
nance Corp. turn over 81 .000. .000,-
600 to the foreign aid agency until
| the Appropriations committees
can act.
Members Of both appropriations
groups and the House and Senate
Foreign committees were Mr..
Hoffman's guests last night at q
social dinner" Members reported
afterward that there was no talk
of possible cuts In EcA funds
just an up-to-date report on
Frances progress under the re-
coyery program.
Evening star., 1949-04-14
Burmese Bomb Rebels

RANGOON. Burma. April IL
Up. -- Burmese bombcrs blasted
rebel pockets around Moulmein on
the southwest coast. II was an
faounced today.
Evening star., 1949-04-14
Fisherman browns
When Boat Capsizes
Near Chain Bridge
Companion Rescued;
Victim Is Identified
As Jock Mannheim

A man identified as John Mann
helm. -. OF 1856 Macarthur boule-
ward NV. a former employe OF q
Georgetown hardware store. ap-
parently was drowned in the po-
tomac River today when his boat
overturned while fishing with q
companion about 100 yards below
Chain Bridge.
His companion. Robert Honaker
80. OF 46I3 North Twenty third
street. Arlington. vas pulled from
the swift water by other fisher
men who went To his rescue In
another boat, Mr.. Honaker was
near exhaustion when help came
Harbor police were searching 70,
the body at q point indicated b,
witnesses. Mrs. Mannheim. M
employe OF the Interior Depart.
ment. was notified OF the accideni
and aided the search.
Mr.. Mannheim and Mr.. Hon.
aker rented 4 nat-bottomed boa.
at Fletcher's Boathouse thI.
morning and rowed to the fishine
area.
Fisherman Describes Accident
Shortly before the accident. the
two men were seen by John Sipes,
10. and his son-in-l law. Robert
Hunter. 81. OF Cabin John, Md,
who were fishing nearby from a
small motorboat.
Mr.. Sipes said he heard a shout
and saw one man swimming In
the swift current. The row boat
and the second man had disap-
peared. he said. He sent the mo-
torboat to the swimmers aid and
the two men pulled Mr.. Honakef
from the water.
The latter managed TO gasp
out, Mr.. Sipes said. that his COM
pailion had sunk. The men
searched the water. but could find
only q hat and coat floating ON
the surface. They hurried TO
Fietcher's Boathouse and tele-
phoned for police.
Veteran Of Two Wars.
Mr.. Mannheim, a veteran OF
the First World War who also
served in the Army In World War
II. and hts wife had lived at the
Macarthur boulevard address for
several years. They had no chill
dren.
II was Mr.. sipes' second rescue
within the last week. Last Friday
night he pulled his daughter. Mrs
Gloria Hunter. from a blazing
automobile trailer In the rear OF
his home at Cabin John and cx-
tinguished her burning ciothirs
by rolling her In the grass. fe
said.
Evening star., 1949-04-14
Bricks Showered
In Streets, Many
Buildings Cracked
Pictures on Page A-3.J
BY the Assoeictsd Press

SEATTLE, April 1.-THE Pa
cific Northwest today counted
eight deaths and damage which
may reach $10,000,000, in the
wake of its worst recorded earth
quake.
Gov. Arthur B. Langlie of
Washington gave purely tenta-
tive" damage figure for yester-
days violent shock. He said the
final count may range between
$4,000, 900 and $10.000.000.
This was based on reports to
the Governor from the Red
Cross, the State Patrol and other
agencies.
The earthquake, at 11:55 am.
(Pacific standard time) yesterday,
caused scores of injuries.
Chimneys Are Toppled.
Bricks showered of cornices and
building facings; chimneys top
pied from residences and indus
trial plants: plate glass cracked
and shattred; roads sagged and
split, moving automobiles swayed
and many parked machines were
battered and dented by falling
masonry.
Two small, unoccupied houses
on Fox Island, near Tacoma,
Wash, were dumped into Puget
Sound.
Cities from Vancouver and Vic
toria, B. c., in the north, south
ward to Oregon towns in the
Salem area felt the quiverings OF
the quake. Scientists rated 1t OF
No. 8 intensity. No. IL is regarded
as a total destruction quake.
The Red Cross and State and
Federal agencies stood by today,
ready to plunge in with aid. A
Red Cross official said today not
a single person had applied in the
Seattle area for aid for injuries.
but that Red Cross funds would
be forthcoming to rebuild homes
damaged by the quake, on a basis
of individual need.
Hotels Evacuated.
John Calkins, Red Cross field
director, augmented his head
quarters at Olympia. where the
need for housing was underscored
by the evacuation of hotels and
motels.
Gov. Langlie at Olympia, the
State capital. said:
Every one is going to have to
pitch in and do what he can"
Olympia was especially hard
hit. The old capital building and
the insurance building were the
most severely damaged. and were
ordered closed. Six other State
buildings were shaken and
cracked, but inspectors said they
still were sound.
Two of the quake dead were in
Olympia. Falling chimney bricks
killed Percival Bison, a veneer
plant steamfitter. Mrs. C. w.
West died of a heart attack when
the quake shook her hotel.
Others killed were:
Jack Roller, 18, Castle Rock,
Wash, struck by falling masonry.
In Longview, Wash.
Marvin Klegman. IL. Tacoma,
crushed by falling brick in the
collapse of a Tacoma school.
Mark Kuveric. about 10, Gen.
tralia, crushed under the collaps-
ing store front.
Additional victims Of fatal
heart attacks were Alfred Welan-
der, so, of Seattle; Abraham He'd
strom, Seattle, and Konrad
Sorenson, II. Cosmopolis.
School Buildings Damaged.
Gov. Langlie's assistants re-
ported on the condition of several
State buildings throughout the
quake area. Two dormitory build
ings at the Boys Training School
at Chehalis, Wash, were DAM
aged, and boys were moved into
three new dormitories nearing
completion. Cwo boys were hurt.
Seventeen men in the Old Sol
- al NE re-. d
Evening star., 1949-04-14
House Approves
Conference Bill
On Foreign Aid
Quick Senote Action
Is Expected to Send
Measure to Trumon
BULLETIN

The $3.50. 100000 European
recovery bill for the next is
months was sent to President
Truman for signature this after
noon. The Senate completed
action by approving the confer
ence agreement within an hour
after the House had adopted 1t.
Evening star., 1949-04-14

(See QUAKE. Page A-3o
Evening star., 1949-04-14
Guide tor Readers

A. Assrxauss. errss Nsx~ssssr.
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(Continued on Page AS. CO
Evening star., 1949-04-14

(See BOSTON COLLEGE. A-3.)
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tSee STRIKE, Page A-5)
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tSee RENT CONTROL. Pe. /