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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-08-11
Civic Federation Halls
Krug's Racial Stand

The Federation of Civic Asso-
Citations last night praised Interior
Secretary Krug's stand against
racial segregation in recreation
here, declaring a guarantee OF
full citizenship rights for all Is
the greatest national stride toward
Righteousness since the foundation
Of the Government"
The federation. which represents
% Negro civic groups here. said 1t
was profoundly grateful that the
Federal Government has ceased to
be neutral in matters Of citizen
ship in Washington, q world
capital"
In addition to passing a resolu-
ton backing Mr.. Krug, the meet
ing hailed the invitation to DR.
Joseph D. Lohman, Chicago race
relations expert. to study segrega-
ton problems here. The fedora
ton also backed its president
Ernest r. Harper. in protesting
criticism of DR.. Lehman. Ar
Harper took exception to state
ments by John H. Connaughton
and Clifford H. Newell. leaders OF
the recently formed Citizens
Interracial Committee, saying the
committee was better qualified fol-
racial mediation here than DR.
Lehman. Mr.. Harper is . com.
| mittee member.
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By WolIoce {. Cloyton

Alfred Ashton, Washington's
Soap Box Derby champion. left
today for Akron. Ohio. where he
will compete Sunday in the ALI
American Soap Box Derby.
The 13-year-old Kramer Jun
ior High School student left Ma
tional Airport at 1890 am
aboard a Capital airliner. His
mother, Mrs. Alfred L. Ashton
accompanied him.
His father, a Government
Printing Office employe, left last
night to drive to Akron with AL
|fred's brother and sisters. Arnold
%; Sue, 10, and Wipifred. 49,
Won Vacation '"Hunch."
Mr.. Ashton played a .lunch'
and requested his vacation dur
ing the All-American Derby pc
riod long before his son captured
the Washington championship
last July 9.
Alfred's trip today will not be
his first visit to Akron. He and
his family attended the national
final last year Ito see what it was
like"
The youth, who defeated Bobby
Rogers, u, of 5512 Huntington
parkway. Bethesda, for the Wash.
tington title. was a picture of OPP.
timism as he boarded the plane
He was sure his record time a
the Washington race-31.1 sec
onds over the nearly 1000 foo
course-will be faster when HI
races on the speedier Akron track
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Race Relations Expert
ToAppeor on WMAL-V

DR.. Joseph D. Lehman. Chicago
race relations specialist invited
here by the Interior Department
to discuss segregation problems
will discuss his experiences in this
field with Edward j. Kelly. special
assistant to Irving c. Root. super
intendent of National Capital
Parks, on a television program at
7:30 pm. tomorrow over Station
WMAL-TV.
DR.. Lehman was asked to come
to Washington to talk to park
police in handling race relations
problems. -,
Moderator of the program VIII
be ABC Commentator Richard
Rendell.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-08-11
Wreekage Of U. S. Fighter
Reported Found in Canada
By tn. Associated Press

wH1TEHoRsE, Yukon Terri
tory, Aug. 11.-Searchers last
night reported sighting the wreck
age of q United States Air Force
F-51 fighter plane which crashed
in mountainous country about IS
miles northwest Of here earlier
yesterday.
The burned wreckage Of the
fighter plane was
spotted by a Royal Canadian Air
Force Dakota search plane. Para
chute rescue crews were dropped
In a clearing near the wreckage.
No signs Of life were reported.
The pilots name has not been
disclosed.
The aircraft was one Of seven
United States fighters en- route
from Fairbanks, Alaska. to White
horse.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-08-11
Krug Scored in House
For Order Banning
Segregation in Pools

Secretary OF the Interior Krug
was sharply criticized on the floor
of the House yesterday for his
order banning segregation in
public swimming pools here.
Representative Williams. Demo-
crat, of Mississippi charged the
Secretary had issued the order
which he knew would cause
trouble" AS a result the Ana
costa pool was closed after there
had been clashes between white
and colored swimmers, he said,
so that now both white and color
ed children are denied the right to
swim there in a hot Washington
summer.
Mr.. Williams objected to Mr..
Krug's enlistment of DR.. Joseph
Lehman, Chicago sociologist. as a
consultant on racial problems
here. He recalled DR.. Lehman S
part in preparing a report on
segregation in Washington issued
last year. Mr.. Williams called
the report IAN attempt to smear
the decent and thinking citizens.
both white and Negro, Of the Dis
trict.
Does Mr.. Krug think $50 day
of the peoples money paid to
left-wing social ,reformer from
Chicago will change human ma
ture?" Mr.. Williams asked. =
A fellow Mississippi Democrat.
Representative Rankin. interrupted
to say he believed "a check OF the
records of the House Committee on
Un-American Activities" would
show that DR.. Lehman lis affiliated
with Communist-front organize
tons"
Representative Smith, Democrat,
of Virginia wanted to know how
a man qualified to be AN expert
on racial relations"
Representative Hoffman. Re-
publican, of Michigan. replied
|Dr. Lehman, merely had quail
fled to stick his nose in other peo-
pies business"
Mr.. Hoffman asked Mr.. Will
liams If he thought home rule
legislation: If enacted. would en-
able the residents Of the District
to work out their own solutions
to racial problems.
Not the home rule bills as they
are presented to us now-def1nite-
ly not" Mr.. Williams said.
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meaning of freedom, and that
conversely it is among peoples who
have abandoned hope of indi-
Evidual betterment that the least
resistance will be offered to those
perverted forces which would de-
stroy the ideals to which the two
nations are dedicated.
THE President of the Philip
pines has expressed the deter
mination of his country to pursue
with vigor the courses Of action
which offer the greatest interests;
the President of the United States
has reiterated the desire and in
tention of the United States to
render all feasible assistance. The
United States will continue to
watch sympatheticaIly the efforts
Of the peoples 81 Asia to forge
stronger ties Of economic Cooper
alton and collaboration, to hasten
the progress of self-government,
and to preserve their freedom"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-08-11
Police Gust 2 Aides
Of Garry Davis From
Styosbourq BuiIdinq
1y the kssoeiotsd Press

sTRASBOURG, France.
Aug. 11.-Police escorted two
members Of Garry Davis
World Government Move
ment from a bombed-out
building In Strasbourg's Ca
thedral Square today.
The two were Miss Ruth
Allanbrook of Wakefield.
Mass, and an Alsatian men,
Der, M. Koune. They had
started a combination sit
down and hunger strike to
protest the lack of interest by
the Council of Europe in their
own program.
Police said they were en-
dangering public safety by
attracting a crowd within a
ruined structure which might
collapse.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-08-11
death Toll Rises 10 Is
In Indiana Bus Fire;
Crash Cause Sought
By the Associated Press

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. Aug. IL.
"A 30-year-old Army sergeant
died today of burns suffered IN
yesterdays Greyhound bus crash
in which IS other persons met
flaming death.
He was Sergt. Dale Altman OF
Kokomo whose wife and two chill
dren died in the burning bus. He
had been the only one OF the Is
survivors who was seriously in
jured.
Sergt. Altman and his family
were returning to Camp Campbell.
KY, after visits with relatives In
Kokomo and Laporte, Ind.
Cause of Crash Hunted.
Three crews of investigators
studied charred fragments of the
bus today to learn why 1t struck
a bridge abutment near here and
burst into flames.
At an emergency morgue IN the
National Guard Armory, weary
officials and dazed relatives tried
to identify the last of the bodies
of the victims.
Five remained unidentified to-
day.
Investigators for the Interstate
Commerce Commission, Indiana
State police and Greyhound Lines
were going through the wreckage
at the Greyhound garage in In
dianapolis.
They would say little, but State
Police Supt. Arthur M. Thurston
said a preliminary examination
had disclosed mo evidence OF
mechanical failure"
Earlier, Driver Wayne Cranmer.
Is, Indianapolis, had said:
1T seemed like the steering gear
went out. Either that or we had
a tire blowout. I don't know what
happened"
Coroner Robert T. Lyons subse-
quently clamped down on any
further statements. whereabouts
of Cranmer, who left the hospital
after treatment for minor in
juries, was not disclosed today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-08-11

His car already has been
shipped out, and Alfred said he is
sure it will be ready to CO."
Trial Run Tomorrow.
He will have an opportunity to
make a trial run in the car to-
morrow.
During his Akron stay, Alfred
will live at "Derbytown" with the
nearly 160 other Derby contest
ants from cities all over North
America. "Derbytown" is a spe-
cial camp set up by Chevrolet.
national co-sponsor of the race.
A full program of entertainment
and recreation has been planned
for the city champions during
their stay.
The final heat of the Sunday
race will be broadcast locally from
4::30 to 4:45 pm. on station
IWTOP.
The event will be televised for
the first time this year. The
thrilling finish of the race can be
seen on The Stars television sta
ton. WMAL-TV, from AIS to
IS pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-08-11
Swiss Import by Water

GYDNIA, Poland P.-Poland
is sending goods to landlocked
Switzerland by water. The Min
istry of Shipping announced an
agreement with a Dutch concern
operating between Dutch and
Polish ports which Is to carry
Swiss-bound cargoes. The Dutch
vessels will take goods from Polish
ports to Amsterdam. There car
goes are to be transshipped by
transfer to vessels operating on
the Rhine River.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-08-11
James 10 Hang Tonight
For Staying Girl: IL;
Knowles Also 10 Die
By the Associated Press

BALTIMORE, Aug. 1.-THE
.gallows trap is scheduled to be
sprung a few minutes after mid
night tonight under Eugene H
James, janitor who knitted II.
year-old Marsha Brill to death.
Also to be hanged at the Mary.
land Penitentiary tonight is
John Thomas Knowles, 26. who
stabbed his girl friend Is times
in Druid Hill Park last summer In
front of scores of spectators.
The Maryland court Of appeals
upheld death sentences Of both
men, who are colored. and Gov
Lane signed their execution war.
rants last month.
James emerged from behind a
bush In July, 1913 and waylaid
the Brill girl as she was bicycling
with friends near the Pimlico race
track. He stabbed her with a but
cher knife.
Nine days before Marsha was
killed, 11-year-old Carol Bardwell
was slain under almost identical
circumstances in Washington's
Rock Greek Park. She, too. had
been taking a bicycle ride. James
was indicted in Washington fol
that killing also.
Crime News Issue Raised.
James confessed the Brill STAY
ing. His attorneys contended il
was because of psychological tor.
ture" at the hands of police that
he told of the knitting.
The prosecution said it was be-
cause of a subconscious hatred OF
young girls that the janitor WELD
ed his butcher knife.
In sentencing James, Judge Her
man M. Moser said he could not
imagine a more horrible, out
rageous offense."
The case figured In court bat
ties over a Baltimore supreme
bench rule restricting publication
Of local crime news.
Under the rule-904-four ra-
dio stations and a radio news
editor were convicted Of contempt
of court for their broadcasts about
the James case.
The rule forbade. publication OF
statements made by an accused
or Of his past criminal record.
Convictions Reversed.
The stations had broadcast
either the fact that he had con.
fessed or details of James
previous criminal record.
The court of appeals. by a 81
decision this spring. reversed the
convictions and threw out key
sections Of Rule 904 on ground.
they conflicted with constitutions
guarantees Of press freedom ane
freedom of speech.
| Afterwards. Attorney Genera
Hall Hammond announced h.
would ask the Supreme Court o.
the United States to review TIT
opinion.
Knowles, a merchant seaman
stabbed Ruby Davis, %, to deatl
last summer. His attorneys con
tended it was a crime Of passion
and that there was no premedita
ton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-08-11
Honduras improves Leaf

Honduras, using chemical fer
tilizers for the first time on its
tobacco crop, reports yields nearly
20 per cent greater and TOBACCO
value 10 per cent higher because
Of its improved quality.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-08-11
|Spaak Unanimously
Elected TO Top Job
In European Council
sv HE A,,oeio,sd Pres.

uy me ASSoefdtod Ffest
sTRASBOURG, France, Aug.
Ill.-Paul-Henri spaak. Belgian
Socialist leader, was unanimously
elected today as first president OF
the European Consultative Assem-
bly,.
He resigned yesterday as Bel
GUMS acting premier and foreign
minister so he could take over the
top job in the newly-created
Council Of Europe.
Winston Churchill, Britain's
wartime prime minister. nomi-
mated Mr.. Spaak for the assembly
presidency. The 101 delegates
from a dozen countries quickly
Endorsed the selection without OPP
position.
Succeeded by Eyskens.
Delegates in private negotiations
yesterday gave their support to
Mr.. Spaak, one OF Europe's out
standing political figures and first
president of the United Nations
General Assembly. Actual voting
was delayed until today to give
him time to deal with govern
|ment shakeup in Brussels in which
he resigned his premiership.
The Socialist leader had been
serving as acting premier since
Belgian elections more than six
weeks ago in which his Socialist
Party lost ground. He was sue
ceeded as premier by Castor
Eyskens.,a Christian Socialist.
spaak Not Present.
The assembly is the deliberative
body of the Council Of Europe
which opened its first sessions
here this week. The guiding body
|of the council is the Ministerial
Committee, composed of the
foreign ministers Of the IL men,
Der { naticfx -BritatsI France,
Belgium, Holland, luxembourg,
Italy, Denmark. Norway, Sweden,
Ireland, Greece and Turkey.
Mr.. Spaak himself had not re-
turned from Brussels when he
was elected. Frances Edouard
Herriot continued to serve as act
ing chairman until Mr.. Spaak's
arrival, expected later today.
The new Belgian government
notified the assembly that Paul
van iceland had been appointed
foreign minister and would sue
coed Mr.. Spaak on the Ministerial
Committee.
Four vice presidents were elect
ed. They were:
Britain's Lord Layton, chairman
of the boards Of directors Of cor
porations owning the News Chron-
icle and the Star; Francois de
Mention of France: Stefano Jacini
of Italy, and Ole Bjoern Kraft OF
Denmark.
Two others who were nominated
former Prime Minister canon
de Valera of Ireland and William
Whitley, chief Labor government
whip in Britain's House Of Com
mons-trailed in the balloting. Mr..
Churchill opposed Mr.. Whiteley's
nomination, contending that men,
bers of governments or cabinets
should not hold official positions
in the assembly.
This, Mr.. Churchill said, Is a
Serious issue of principle :"
Mr.. Whiteley's defeat was re-
garded as a setback for the British
Laborites and their Socialist sup
porters from other countries rep
resented in the assembly and a
victory for Mr.. Churchill's Euro
pean Movement. which favors a
federated Europe. All four vice.
presidents are members Of the
European Movement.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-08-11


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Denfed Chief Naval ope Senator Ea
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The Island of Cyprus an
nounced that the United States
will have a radio station there.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-08-11

High and Low FOR Yesterdsy.
Hieh. 95, at 4:21 pm.
Low, IS, at 6:42 am.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest, %, on July 20.
Lowest 81. on January 80.
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Tide Tables.
The Sun and Moon.

Rises Sets
Sun. today 6:24 1:59
Sun, tomorrow - 6:25 1:5S
Moon, today 49, 12:11 am. 400 pm
Automobile lights must be turned on
one-haH hour after sunset
treeipit4 ton
Monthly precipitation in incl.es In the
~.-;tai IcuTrapt porpth m 6ataN
Evening star., 1949-10-09

two-thirds of the growers voting
in a referendum.
The department already has
slapped acreage allotments on
next years wheat crop trying to
cut production. Only those who
plant within their allotted acre
age will be eligible for price sup
port aid.
Quotas may be proclaimed on
corn for the first time since Con-
gress enacted control legislation
in the 30s. A crop report to be
issued Tuesday will show whether
the supply is big enough to war
rant quotas. Previous estimates
indicated it would be.
Rice May Be Included.
Farmers already have voted for
quotas in 1850 on most types Of
tobacco. These were in effect
this year. Peanuts. another
Southern crop, was grown under
controls this year. and there Is
nothing in the picture to indicate
they will not be continued.
A record rice crop this year,
coupled with shrinking overseas
markets. poses the possibility
Evening star., 1949-10-09
Rising Farm Surplus ..
May Bring Broadest
Crop Curbs in History
BY the Associated Press

Harvest-time crop reports due
next week may 60 far in driving
the Government toward the
broadest farm production control
action ever taken.
Mounting agricultural surpluses
in which the Government may
have invested upwards of $4,500,-
100000 by 1850 harvest-are
causing officials to search for ways
of pinching back production OPEN
ed wide by war and postwar. de-
mands.
AS market prospects look now.
it appears the Agriculture Depart
ment will seek to curb output of
such crops as cotton, wheat, corn,
tobacco, peanuts, flaxseed, pota-
toes. rice, oats, and possibly soy
beans.
Furthermore, there may be some
reduction in Govrnment financial
incentives to produce hogs, eggs
and poultry and such dairy pro-
ducts as butter and cheese.
May Reaffirm Excessive Supply.
A cotton production estimate to
be issued by the department to-
morrow is expected to sreaffirm
earlier forecasts of an excessive
supply. If so, the department
probably will issue an order be-
fore the end Of the week pro-
claiming rigid marketing quotas
on the 1850 crop. Quotas would
have to be approved by at least
Evening star., 1949-10-09
Sabre Dance Composer
Completes New Work
BY the Associated Press

MOSCOW, Oct. 8.-The news
paper Soviet Art announced today
that Aram Khachaturian, who
composed Sabre Dance" has
completed a new work called "Ths
Battle of Stalingrad."
1t also announced that v, Mura-
deli. another Soviet composer, il
completing a symphonic poem en-
titled "The Taking Of Berlin"
Both Khachaturian and Mura-
deli were criticized severely a year
ago in a decree of the Communist
Party's central committee directed
against Journalism in Soviet music.
Evening star., 1949-10-09
Free Diabetes Tests
Offered as Detection
Week Begins Here

Diabetes Detection Week will
start here and throughout the
country tomorrow with a pro-
gram of voluntary free tests to
detect the disease in people who
do not know they have it.
The Potomac Electric Power Co.
is among several companies that
have agreed to cooperate in the
campaign here. District Diabetes
Association officials announced
yesterday.
Several drug store concerns
have indicated willingness to pro-
vide collecting stations for speci-
mems that would be tested at the
District Health Department. labo-
ratory, they said. More than so
businesses have been approached
thus far and the list of those
cooperating will be announced
later. I
The procedure is simple and
convenient and results of the
tests are disclosed only to the
individuals directly concerned.
the association explained. It con-
sists of a 30-second analysis of
urine sent to collecting stations
or laboratories. Specimens that
show sugar will be given second
tests to corroborate the findings.
The person then will be notified
and advised to obtain treatment.
!. National Diabetes Association
officials estimate that throughout
the country there are at least
100000 unsuspecting diabetes.
The Nationwide detection cam
paign during the week beginning |
tomorrow hopes to locate most of
them. It will be the first mass
screening of its kind, but surveys
have been made recently at
Brookline and oxford, Mass, and
Jacksonville, Fla.
What we want to impress on
people and business concerns" a |
District association official said.
ID GIldt GlllS tco1lilS ulVo1fCo uo
personal Inconvenience or cost.
But it can pay off in a big way
by detecting diabetes if it exists
and checking it so that early
treatment can begin. That, in
turn, can cut down loss Of time
from jobs. lessen possible suffer-
ing later on, and avoid heavy ex-
pense for delayed treatment"
The association has been con-
ferring with school officials here
on the possibility OF extending the
detection program to children. No
decision has been made as yet be-
cause it involves special problems,
a Spokesman said.
Evening star., 1949-10-09

that acreage allotments, with
their tie-in with price supports.
may be extended to this product
next year. Growers planted more
rice this year than the Govern
ment recommended.
The most effective control
measure-marketing quotas-may
be used only on the so-called
basic crops-cotton, wheat, corn,
peanuts, rice and tobacco.
Efforts to curb production of
commodities other than the So
called basic ones will be limited
largely to price supports. That
is, price guarantees will be low
cred where possible. to reduce the
incentive to continue high-level
production.
Evening star., 1949-10-09
$50,000 Sign Shop Fire
Delays California Trains
By fhs Assoeiotsd Press

OAKLAND. Calf, Oct. ga
fireman was injured early today
when a three-alarm fire whipped
by heavy winds raced through
and destroyed a city block OF
carpentry shops and paint studios.
The buildings were occupied by
Foster & Kleiser, signboard COM
pany. Fire Chief James H. Burke
estimated damage at $4,000.
A 30-foot wall collapsed, mar
rowly missing four horsemen.
Bernard Walsh, a fireman. was
with a punctured foot.
Exploding gasoline tanks tossed
Evening star., 1949-10-09

bursts Of flame and sparks over
two nearby homes. Five adults
and four children fed from one.
Two baby sitters and three chill
dren fled from the other.
Flames visible over all the San
Francisco Bay area shot above the
sign company buildings at the
edge of downtown Oakland. They
interrupted train service across
the bay bridge. They broke out
two minutes before midnight and
were controlled an hour and a
half later.
Evening star., 1949-10-09
Silver Spring Chorus
Elects Allen R. CouIe

Allen r. Coale, Forest Glen Park,
has been elected president of the
Silver Spring Mems Chorus. Other
officers are:
Stephen Mason, vice president;
Lloyd Macurdy, secretary; John B.
Nutter, treasurer, and Nicholas
Hutchinson, librarian.