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Evening star., 1949-07-31

show disposition and opportunity.
The actions Of the defendant,
the judge said, were so indiscrete
that if he was not guilty of adul-
try, he had put himself in a po-
sition where neighbors would talk.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-06-20
Truman Advisers Gel
Program 10 Improve
Economy Of South

The National Planning Asso-
citation has recommended Federal
policies TO strengthen industry
and farming In the South as be-
ing in the best interests of the
entire Nation."s
The l54-page report was filed
with President Humans Council
Of Economic Advisers. The coun-
Gil paid the association t12, 900
for the study as q research
project.
As one of its Nationwide pro-
posals. the report suggests an in
crease In personal income tax ex-
Iemptions to bolster purchasing
power-a change having special
significance to the South" and a
careful watch less high business
taxes discourage industrial in
vestment.
It also recommended a farm
income support plan somewhat
similar to that of Secretary of
Agriculture Brannan's. NPA pro-
posed that Federal payments to
farmers be based on a normal
market price.
Reduced Costs Seen.
The authors, Economists CAL
win B. Hoover and B. U. Ratchforo
of Duke University. told q news
conference they believe their farm
proposal would be less costly
than the Brannan plan or the
present farm program" No def
mite price tag has been put on the
Brannan plan.
DR.. Edwin g. Nourse, chairman
Of the Council Of Economic Ad-
visers. predicted the study will be
Of substantial value to the coun-
Gil and to many others who are
concerned with economic develop
ments in the south as an impor-
tant segment of the national
economy"
Copies are being sent to the
Joint Economic Committee of
Congress, DR.. Nourse reported. DR..
Hoover and DR.. Ratchford were
aided in the project by members
Of NPA's Committee Of the South.
The committee includes leaders
In business. labor, agriculture.
government and the press. NPA
Is q nonprofit organization de-
voted to American planning.
Problem Is Outlined.
Essence of the South's economic
problem. it was stated. Is how to
raise per capita wealth and in
come. The South's low income
level stems. it said. from "a low
ratio of developed natural and
capital resources to population"
THE South must have r2o. e
industry and the kind of industry
in which the value Of output per
worker is higher" the report said.
1T means an agriculture Of
fewer uneconomically small farms
and of more medium-sized farms
employing fewer people with
larger output per capita and with
greater diversification in crops.
Fortunately these trends in
industry and agriculture already
exist. Through their operation
the per capita income in the
South has increased more rapidly
than for the country as q whole
during the last Is years"
AS one policy which might help
speed the catching up process.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-06-20
$50 Families Homeless
After Philippines Fire

By me AsseeieAse Press
MANILA. June 20.-Fire swept
the commercial district Of NJ
bate today. causing ce-sgc
mated at 81 1000 900. The
Cross reported about $50 fanilie.
homeless.
It was the third fire In three
months to virtually destroy the
business district Of an outlying
Philippine city. Masbate IL q
city of 5000 population $50 miles
southeast of Manila. The other
fires were at Cebu and Legaspi.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-06-20

the report suggested. that the
Government allct an "appro-
pirate" share Of defense industries
to the South and aid IN setting up
regional centers Of technical re-
search.
Evening star., 1949-08-17
Ideath. But he did not ask acquittal.

death. But he did not ask acquittal.
The prosecutor. getting down on
his knees and hitting himself on
the head with one hand, posed
yesterday as the Staying victim
Mrs. Janet Fay, 66-year-old Al
bany widow.
Edward Robinson, jr., assistant
prosecutor of Nassau County, gave
the dramatic demonstration in
attacking a defense claim that
Mrs. Beck-being left-handed-
could not have inflicted the ham,
mer wounds found on the right
side of Mrs. Fay'S head.
The prosecution charges Mrs.
Beck, 20, beat the widow on the
head and Fernandez, "a, strangled
her with scarf in the defendants
Valley Stream apartment last jan
uary 4.
The defense contends Mrs. Beck
was insane at the time of the
crime, and that Fernandez had
no partin it.
Evening star., 1949-08-17

were Buddhists.
IT wanted to help bring Chris
tianity to Japan" he said.
He worked his way up in the
Salvation Army in Japan until
he was named Territorial Com
mandAr a few years before the
japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
In 1910, all Salvation Army IA
cilities were taken over by the
government, which distrusted lin
ternational organizations"
Commissioner Uyemura was
held by the military police for a
week while they questioned him
about his "pro-British". opinions
He was released and spent the
early war years managing a for
Evening star., 1949-08-17
Inland Steel Urges
Wage Talks Reopen
On Individual Basis
BY The Asseeiofsd Press

NEW YORK, Aug. 1.-THE
Inland Steel Co. today asked a
presidential fact-finding board to
recommend that the company and
the CIO United Steelworkers
union resume bargaining in their
dispute on an individual basis.
Edward L. Ryerson, chairman
of the board of the Chicago COM
pany. said his concern had "the
fullest expectation" of reaching
agreement with the union but that
its negotiations had been broken
of by outside influences.
He implied that these were the
National officers of the union anx-
ious to throw the steel dispute into
q nationwide settlement pattern.
Pensions Offered.
Inland, the industry's eighth
largest producer. was the 10th
company to present its case before
the three-man board named by
President Truman to try to ward
off a Nationwide steel strike.
The board is scheduled to pre-
sent its recommendations, which
will not be binding, to the White
House August 80. Fifteen days
then will remain for bargaining
before the 60-day truce expires
September IA.
Economic Decline Cited.
The companies now are in the
fifth day of the eighth allotted to
them by the board. The Union.
which is seeking a 80 cents an
hour package including wage, pen
sion and insurance benefits. has
used four and one-half of its
eight days.
Mr.. Ryerson told the board lone
does not have to be ans official Of
q steel company to know that We
are now in the midst of postwar
period of economic readjustment
with declining market and SUI
plus supply of steel.
This is known by every man on
the street, and any one with aver
age intelligence also knows that
increased costs in time Of falling
demand can only result in put ing
more men on the streets with moth
ing to do"
Evening star., 1949-08-17
Japanese Salvation Arny Head,
Here on Tour, Halls Macarthur

mer Salvation Army Sanitarium.
Later. he resigned as manager
and spent most Of his time in
correspondence with other de-
posed Salvation Army officers.
Thus, when the war ended and
occupation officials permitted re-
establishment of the organization,
a nucleus of former leaders was
ready to take over.
Salvation Army activities in
Japan today are about a third
of what they were ten years ago"
the Commissioner said. 1T will
be another five years before things
are back TO normal"
Commissioner Uyemura is on
an inspection tour through the
United States. He will leave Fri
day for Hawaii,
Evening star., 1949-08-17
Lonely Hearts, Case
To Go 10 Jury Today
BY the Assoeiossd Press

NEW YORK, Aug. 1.-THE
fate of the alleged lonely hearts"
murderers-Martha Beck and her
lover, Raymond Fernandez-is
scheduled to be placed in a jury's
hands late today.
The prosecutor, who demanded
an electric chair verdict early in
the trial, will wind up his summa-
ton.
Then State Supreme Court
Justice Ferdinand Pecora will
charge the jury Of 10 men and
two women.
Defense counsel, making his
final plea yesterday, asked that
the defendants be spared from
Evening star., 1949-08-17
Strong Tremor Shakes
Amboto, Hard Hit Aug. 5
BY the A.soeiotsd Press

GUAYAQUu, Ecuador, Aug. .16.
"A strong tremor yesterday shook
Ambato. third industrial city of
Ecuador which was hard hit in the
earthquakes that struck August S.
The new tremor, felt also at
Riobamba. Guaranda and Laguna
in Central Ecuador, was recorded
at 3:15 pm. First reports said 1t
.tumbled many houses at. Ambato.
y Ports d the Dominican Repub-
lie were entered by 4,464 vessels
last year. the traffic load being
unusually heavy.
Evening star., 1949-08-17

macarthur. -
But on poS
litical subjects.
the 64-year-old
Japanese Sal
vation Ar my
leader was 81
lent.
Commissioner
Uyemura joined
the Salvation
Army AZ years
ago, a few years
after he was
baptized in the
Episcopal faith.
His naranfc
Evening star., 1949-08-17

Masuzo Uyemura. Commissioner
of the Salvation Army in Japan,
arrived in Washington yesterday.
full of praise for Gen. Douglas
Evening star., 1949-08-17

SAET LAKE CITY.-3-WEEK- OLD BABY WALKS-The 3-week
daughter of and Mrs La Ver Benson surprised her
by raising herself and taking several steps in her
bathnet about week The family physician said he had
seen the baby steps while
partially supported it, The baby born July o.
-AP Wirephoto.
Evening star., 1949-09-29

surface-mines in the State and
control the output.
In this undertaking, "the council
will be supreme, Gov. Tuck's
order said.
The Governor said the goal OF
the State in the present situation
was to safeguard both the health
and welfare of all the citizens Of
the State.
Our objective will not be. ac-
complished until we have produced
and obtained coal sufficient to
meet the needs of all our public
agencies and institutions and all
our individual citizens" he added.
/ Yesterdays order renewed the
same three-man agency Tuck
created in December, 1916, to cope
with a Short-lived coal crisis
caused by an earlier coal strike.
Evening star., 1949-09-29
Tuck Orders Virginia
Info Mining Business
AS Fuel Safeguard
BY the Assoeio,ed Press

RICHMOND. Va, Sept. 90
The State of Virginia moved
today to enter the coal-mining
business on its own as a safeguard
against fuel shortage looming as
a result of the United Mines
Workers mo day work week."
Gov. Tuck made the emergency
step yesterday. Thus he took
positive action-hinted at a week
ago when he promised that no
one in Virginia was going to be
cold this winter If he could help it.
William F. Minton. president of
District %. United Mine Workers,
at Norton. Va. today said mo-
when a reporter asked If he
thought the union miners would
return to work in Virginia mines
before contract is obtained.
Nom Union Mines Working.
Mr.. Minton said also he under
stood non-union mines in his dis
trict, which embraces most of the
Southwest Virginia coal field. are
working part time. He estimated
that from 40 to so rail cars of
coal a day are being mined in the
State.
He recalled Gov. Tuck's state
ment on September 10 that There
may be mollycoddling of these
labor leaders in Washington, but
there will be no mollycoddling in
Virginia" and said:
Il think Tuck is mollycoddling.
He is just kidding himself. He is
not fooling the public or any one
else"
Later Mr.. Minton said in a
statement that if the Governor
carries out his announced inten-
ton Ito put state employees into
the mines I will be glad to volun-
teer my services to help to aid and
assist them in the safety precau-
tions in the mining industry"
Will Work Beside Governor.
Minton said he was certain he
could get enough experienced
miners to help me to work in an
official capacity as foremen and
supervisors over the state employees
to see that they do their timber
ing properly in accordance witt
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the rules and regulations laid
down by the mining industry"
If the Governor" he added. "is
as interested in the health and
welfare of the people of Virginia
as he says he is and will come
down in Southwestern Virginia and
dig coal. I will go in side by side
with him"
Mr.. Minton made it clear that
neither he nor his union miners
would dig any coal but would
merely assist Ito keep Gov. Tuck's
state police and state personnel
from getting hurt digging coal
If Gov. Tuck himself comes
down into the mines. I personally
will go down with him to protect
him from falling shale."
At Bluefield, W. Va. George
Titler, president of UNIV District
20, which includes two Virginia
mines in its area, said Gov. Tuck S
order would be discussed at to-
days conference between union
representatives and operators.
Urgent Directive" Issued.
What the Governor did wa.
this:
i He ordered the three member
State Council of Defense back
into being and gave it the widest
possible powers to see that es-
sential coal needs are met In the
coming months.
He issued an urgent directive
ordering the council-sometimes
known as the Emergency Fuel
Commissioning produce and OBJ
tain control of every pound of coal
possible for the use and benefit of
State and local governments and
the citizens in general.
II necessary the council will buy,
loo ca np coj1o thu y,racarf cf,;n
Evening star., 1949-09-29
Atomic Officials Meet
With Senators Again;
Won't Discuss Talks

The Joint Congressional Atomic
Energy Committee held another
closed conference with Atomic
Energy Commission, officials today
but Chairman Mcmahon of the
congressional group gave no ink
ling of what had been discussed.
Leaving the session in the Capt.
tol with Chairman David E. Lilen-
thai of the Commission, Senator
Mcmahon told reporters:
There is no statement. We
continued our discussions and we'll
go on with them Monday"
A-Bomb Led to Meeting.
In response to a question, SEN
ator Mcmahon refused to say
whether new appropriations for
accelerated production of atomic
weapons was considered. If any,
thing Is decided on this, it will be
made public "at the proper time, :"
he said.
The joint committee initiated
the current series of talks with
Acc members and staff experts in
the light of the revelation that
Russia had produced an atomic
explosion. The general purpose,
Senator Mcmahon explained yes
terday, Is to re-examine this
Nations policy in atomic develop
ment and decide what, if any,
adjustments now should be made.
Before today's meeting, Senator
Hickenlooper, Republican, of Iowa
said that appropriations for the
atomic weapon program had al
lowed in advance for Russian de-
velopments. and it is too early
now to say whether more money
will be needed.
That is one question being dis
cussed. he added, in the current
talks.
Funds Total $4,000, ,OOO, 900.
Senator Hickenlooper, a men,
Der OF the JOINT committee, said,
however, that from the start the
program has been based on the
assumption that Russia one day
would produce atomic bombs.
Appropriations voted so far by
Congress total about $4,000
600. 900.
The Senator referred to Presi-
dent Truman's announcement last
Friday of an atomic explosion in
Russia. and said:
whether that development has
necessitated revamping the pro-
gram and providing more money.
1 don't know yet. want to
hear first from the Atomic Energy
Commission, the military and our
diplomats"
Evening star., 1949-09-29
Audie Rescues Bride

KANAB, Utah. Sept. 20 (P.-
Audie Murphy. once known as
"the nations most decorated SOL
dier." rescued his bride of a few
months, Wanda Hendrix. when a
flash flood swept down a creek
bed here yesterday. Murphy leaped
on his horse, grabbed Miss Hen
dirk. and rode up the canyon side
to safety. They were on a movie
location here.
Evening star., 1949-09-29
40 British MPs Propose
~
:sTrumon-StoIin Meetinq

LONDON, Sept. 20 (P.-Forty
members of Britain's Parliament
last night urged a meeting of
President Truman and Prime Min
lister Stain, aimed at ending the
race for production of atomic and
other weapons of mass destruc-
ton"
The members introduced a mo-
vtion in the House Of Commons
urging British Prime Minister
-Attlee to arrange such a.meeting
r The motion said Mr.. Attlee
should propose a conference o1
heads of states, Particularly the
United States of America and the
u. S. s. r., for resolving the exist.
ing deadlock and ending the rae.
for production of atomic and othel
weapons of mass destruction
The leader of the 40 is Capt
Raymond Blackburn, Laborite whit
was an observer at the American
test of the atom bomb at Bikini ir
the Pacific in 1916.
Renewed Previous Suits.
It was in the midst Of his short
spirited speech against the Ma.
tionalist government that Mr.
Vishinsky renewed previous hint
Evening star., 1949-09-29
Dutch Paper Reports Blost
sRozed Soviet Atomic City

AMSTERDAM, Sept. % (P).-
The Amsterdam newspaper De
eTijd reported yesterday that all
of Russia's atomic scientists and
all her atomic knowledge were
wiped out when a Soviet Atomic
City" blew up last spring.
The newspaper gave no source
for its information. It did not
name the city. Said its special
correspondent:
"The explosion created violence
suggesting an earthquake. Atmos-
-pheric changes resulting from it
at distances of hundreds of kilo-
1neters have been observed"
6 The correspondent said the blast
killed all Soviet scientists and
their assistants working in the
city and destroyed all Soviet
atomic knowledged garnered thus
far. He said it came just at the
point where it could be assumed
the Russians were capable of pro-
ducing atom bombs.
The correspondent said that was
the reason the Russians Showed
themselves suddenly very lenient
in the Berlin issue while Soviet
diplomats elsewhere took q more
,$eccommodating attitude"
Evening star., 1949-09-29
Hurewood
Continued From First Page.) }

"Amo Ergo Sum-" Latin for II
Love. Therefore I am"
The earl is president of the
London Opera Club and q working
music critic for q weekly magazine
Only II years ago Miss Steir
and her family were stateles.
refugees from the Nazis. Hel
father. Erwin, worked for a music
publishing house here after reach
ing the sanctuary of Britain
Hardwood himself was a prisoner
Of the Nazis during the war.
Among those who attended the
wedding were American fllm stal
Douglas Fairbanks and his wife
Another guest was the Marques
Of Milford Haven, cousin OF the
King and a great-great-grandson
Of Queen Victoria. Milford Haven
himself will become q bridegroom
in November. He is engaged to
Mrs. Romaine Simpson, an Amer
lcan olv0rcee from New York and
Washington.
Many Of Britain's bluebloods
were there. Among them were
the Earl and Countess Of Derby
The Duke and Duchess Of Devon
shire, the Earl and Countess OF
Desborough, the Earl and Countess
Of Scarborough and many others
Among the noted musicians
present were Conductors Sir NAL
colin Sargent. Bruno Walter and
Karl Rankl.S and the opera pro-
ducer, Peter Brook.
Ten Mayfair streets had been
blocked OF for the wedding and
500 police were on hand to han
die the crowds.
Evening star., 1949-09-29
Money
Continued From First Page,

toner had come in twice, flash.
ing new 500 bills.
Detectives traced Mr. Leroy to
a tourist home in the 100 block
-of D street NE. and asked him
to come to headquarters.
They said he also told them he
deposited $4,000 in a Washington
bank.
The man said he came to this
country from South Africa as a
child and was raised by an Ameri-
can family. He said he was now
returning home to see his family.
A woman cab driver. who re-
fused to give her name. told a re-
porter at headquarters that she
took Mr.. LIE Roy on a sightseeing
tour Saturday and that, after pay
Ing her the regular fare, he offered
her a 500 tip.
She said she refused to take
the bill because she thought it
was counterfeit.
Police, meanwhile, reported that
they had checked some Of the
giveaway bills and found them
genuine.
Not all of Mr.. LIE Roy's money
was given away as tips, it de-
veloped. Police said he went to
Laurel race track Monday and
lost $1,000 on horse. It was not
explained whether the $4,000
giveaway total included his loss at
the track.
Mrs. Fontella Lee, operator of
the tourist home where he has
been staying, told a reporter Mr..
LIE Roy checked in Saturday and
paid his bill in advance. She
quoted him later as saying he had
picked a tourist home instead Of
a large hotel in order ito avoid
publicity"
Mrs. Lee observed that Mr..
LIE Roy had not given away any
500 bills at her place.
And police didn't say whether
he has any money left.
Evening star., 1949-09-29
Coal
(Continued From First Page.)

Greek area, not far from Charles
ton.
Today's meeting between repre-
sentatives of the UNIV and the
Southern Coal Producers Associa-
tions was called for l pm. The
talks now are in their fifth month
The SCPA represents about one
sixth of the soft coal industry
John Owens. treas
urer of the UNIV, announced
after yesterdays meeting that one
major company was holding out
against payments to the welfare
and pension fund. He said it was
the Island Creek Coal Co., a West
Virginia firm.
Lewis Called by Mothers Illness.
The idle miners have adopted
the slogan mo pension fund-no
work"
Talks between the Northern op-
orators and the union are to be re-
sumed at White Sulphur Springs,
w. Va, today but Mr.. Lewis is
not expected to be present. The
union chieftain was reported to
have been called to Springfield
ILL.,, by the illness of his mother.
The unconfirmed fatality and
the wounding were reported in
Walker County, Ala, as the re-
suit Of an hour-long gun battle
between an outside group and op-
orators of the non-union mine
owned by the six Preskitt brothers
Sheriff G.. B. Baggett said hi.
Office received q report that one
was killed but that his deputies
couldn't find a body.
Hershell Davis, 81. was in Jasper
Hospital in serious condition with
jaw, chest and abdomen wounds
from shotgun pellets. according tt
the sheriff.
The Preskitt mine is located ir
an isolated rural area miles from
the nearest telephone. Gene
Preskitt, one Of the brothers serv.
ing as a lookout. said he fred his
shotgun as the group approached
He was Joined by others from the
mine and hundreds of shots were
exchanged.
8. o. Preskitt, eldest Of the
brother owners, said he had beer
warned to "close down or expec,
trouble" by union delegation.
An unidentified driver was in.
jured slightly as rowing picket.
stoned several trucks at a non.
union strip mine in Westmoreland
County, Pa. State police. arriving
after the disturbance, reported
several windshields of coal truck.
broken and tires slashed with
knives.
Robely l.. Smith, president Of
the Junedale company in Clear.
field County. Pa, said he may
shutdown operations at the com.
pany's non-union mine today II
trouble continues. Police reported
pickets threw stones at trucks
hauling coal from the mine.
Evening star., 1949-09-29
to the u. N. that the Soviet Union
has the atomic bomb.

He sarcastically said the United
States no longer has the monopoly
on the bomb. Various listeners
and linguists could not agree
whether Mr.. Vishinsky said this
was fortunate" or unfortunate
He spoke in Russian.
The fact that Mr.. Vishinsky
chose to raise the atomic spectre
at this time was seen by many
delegates to the U. N. as part OF
the Soviet plan to push its ideas
on atomic energy control in the
current Assembly.
Some delegates speculated that
Mr.. Vishinsky might have been
laying the groundwork for the
meeting today.
Mr.. Vishinsky told the U. N
in Paris last October l that lit Is
a mistake to think there is just
one state which has the monopoly
on the atomic bomb"