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Evening star., 1949-07-20
Mundf Calls for Names 'Co||usive Coalition
0fGen. Vaughan 800 Scored as Farm Bill
Five Perrenters Here Fight Opens in House
Wants Trumon's Aide
To Produce or Admit
'ToIkine Through Hat

Senator Mundt. Republican. of
South Dakota said today he will
urge a Senate investigating sub
committee to call on Maj. Gen.
Harry H. Vaughan to name the
300 five percenters the White
House military aide says are op-
Grating in Washington.
Senator Mundt is a member of
the subcommittee investigating
the activities of merchants of in
fiuence in business deals involving
the Army and other Government
agencies.
The Mundt announcement CO.
incided with an Associated Press
report from an unnamed White
House official saying President
Truman has told Secretary of De-
fense johnson and Secretary of
the Army Gray to proceed with
their Investigations of the So
called five percenters" regardless
of whom it might embarrass.
Vaughan Clarification Urged.
The name of 1--WE percenters"
has been applied recently to per-
sons who help businessmen in
deals with the Government. Some
Of these persons are reported to
have claimed influence in high
places. They are said to ask a
commission Of 5 per cent for their
work in deals with the Govern
ment.
Senator Mundt charged that
Gen. Vaughans statement regard
ing the widespread activities of
the five percenters had magni-
fled the situation in the public
mind.
When the Presidents aide said
there are 800 five percenters
operating here" the Senator COM
mented, 'he owes it to the public
to come clean and name the 300
or to admit that he was talking
through his hat"
Hearing Due in 2 Weeks.
The Investigations subcommit-
tee, headed by Senator Hoey,
Democrat, of North. Carolina,
plans to start public hearings in
Evening star., 1949-07-20

has harassed playground officials
here for months.
Harry S. Wender. chairman Of
the board. said the boards action
in changing it's bylaws and elimi-
mating the segregation provisions
in accord with the ideas of the
Interior Department. had finally
arrived at solution of an aggra-
vated problem.
1T was a real crisis affecting
the boards very existence" he said.
Il hope the board will continue to
be unanimous on future problems"
Dispute over use of the SWIM
ming pools brought to a head the
long discussed project of the
Recreation Board to take over the
facilities operated under the In
terror Department. The Anacostia
(See RECREATION Page A-6D
Evening star., 1949-07-20
Kenney in London for ECA

LONDON. July 20 (R.-John
Kenney. former Undersecretary of
the Navy. arrived by plane today
from Paris to take up his new
post as Marshall Plan chief in
Britain. He becomes Minister in
charge Of the Economic Co-opera-
ton Administration in the United
Kingdom, replacing Thomas K.
Finletter, who left for home last
month.
Evening star., 1949-07-20

cago, Mr.. Truman told reporters
he hadfa good time with his fel.
low Shriners yesterday at the or
ganization's diamond jubilee COM
vention.
Despite crowded schedule
which kept him from getting
much sleep during his 17-hour
stay in Chicago. Mr.. Truman was
up and about 6 o'clock this morn
ing and took a short walk with
Secret Service men along Lake
Michigan before leaving for Wash
ington.
Outlines Peace Efforts.
The high light of his visit in
Chicago in the carnival atmo-
sphere of the Jubilee Convention
was his major address at Soldier
Field soon after his arrival yes
terday afternoon. About $4,000
persons paid for their admission
to the field to hear the President
outline the Governments efforts
for world peace and declare his
faith in the ability of democra-
cies to withstand the Communist
drive. AS for Communism, the
President declared:
1T may have temporary tri-
umphs. but in the long run 1t
must either destroy itself or
abandon its attempt to forcs
other nations into it's pattern"
From Soldier Field the Presi-
dent went to the Stevens Hotel
for late afternoon gatherings with
the Shriners and Illinois Demo-
cratic leaders.
Leadership Necessary.
He topped off the day with an
other speech on the world situa-
ton at a Shrine dinner at the
Stevens. where 1000 guests heard
him characterize - without nam
ing-RusSia as IAN ally whose
habit it has been since 1917 to
make agreements for the purpose
OF breaking them"-and then con-
cluded:
Now 1t Is absolutely necessary
that we assume the leadership
among the democracies Of this
world so that there will be enough
force in this world to maintain
the peace.
That is all we are trying to do" /
Unusual interest attached to the
Soldier Field speech because Of
&C. TD TINEAN De- 40
Evening star., 1949-07-20
Atom Session 7 7odoy Centers
Interest on Release of Secrets
Truman Sounds Out Idea Of opposing
Law Against Sharing Bomb 'Know-How'

yesterday by Chairman Mcmahon
of the Joint Committee as a Sc
quel to the Blair House meeting
last Thursday night.
Sen. Mcmahon partially lifted
the secrecy veil on that meeting
by saying that the is State De-
parement. military. congressional
and atomic leaders had at that
session discussed with President
Truman British Canadian rela-
tions in the atomic field.
But neither Senator Mcmahon
nor other Congress members who
took part in the discussion would
disclose the details.
And none would elaborate on
the bare announcement that to-
days meeting would be a discus
sion about the problems which
lie ahead in our relations with
the United Kingdom and Canada
in this (atomic) field"
The joint committee threShed
over the problem for an hour and
a half yesterday, following which
Senator Mcmahon told reporters
only that the committee dis
cuSsed our international relation
ships and policy with regard to
atomic energy"
Meanwhile. the administration
was reported to have sounded out
lawmakers on the question of
sharing atomic secrets with Britain
by executive (presidentiaD agree
ment.
Such a course would (a bypass
Evening star., 1949-07-20
Truman Returns
After Attacking
Reds in Speech
Optimistic on Peace,
He Tells Shriners
In Chicago Talk
Bx Joseph A. Fox

President Truman returned to
Washington at 1917 am. today
from the Shriners' Convention in
Chicago where he expressed in a
major speech his conviction that
communism will fail in its drive
for world domination and that
there will be no war between So
Wet Russia and the western de-
mocracies.
AS the Presidents plane. the In
dependence. landed at the Ma
tional Airport after a flight of Z
hours and 3 minutes from Chi
Evening star., 1949-07-20
Condor Cites His Case
In Backing Safeguards
For All Under Inquiry
Tells Hearing Lueos Plan
Will Give Right Of Reply
To Committee Charges
By Chris Mothisen

DR.. Edward U. Condor drew on
his own experiences with the
House Committee on Un-Ameri-
can Activities as he testified today
in support of resolution intended
to safeguard the interests of per-
sons whose regulations are placed
in issue by congressional COM
mlttees.
DR.. Condor, director of the Ma
tional Bureau Of Standards, ap-
peared before a Senate Rules sub
committee considering a proposal
Of Senator Lucas. Democrat Of
1ll..1ois, which would assure such
persons the right to present their
cases and to cross-examine wit
nesses who have testified against
them.
The resolution does not guar
antee that an individual will not
suffer attacks which he may con-
slider, or which actually may be.
unjust and cruel" DR.. Condor
pointed out. "but it does guaran-
tee that he will not be attacked
surreptitiously and that he will
have the chance to be heard"
Was Not Injured Personally.
He recalled that while his 10y
atty had been questioned during
1947 and l948 by the House COM
mittee, a subpoena ordering him
to appear at q hearing and a tele-
gram postponing the hearing
were the only direct communica-
tions between the committee and
myself in the whole affair. No
other hearing date was ever set. "
The House committee called DR..
Condor one of the weakest links
in the Nations atomic security.
He had been cleared by the
Atomic Energy Commission for
access to such data. however. and
also was approved after an FBI
report in the loyalty check of Fed
eral employees.
In the long run, DR.. Condor told
the Senate subcommittee. he does
not believe he has been injured or
caused undue suffering through
the attacks made against him.
Calls Affair Waste of Time"
The only claim I would make is
that this whole affair was a colos-
sal waste of time" he commented.
Il don't like to waste time.
I don't like to see the taxpayers
money wasted ."
Not only in my own case, but in
those of others. the procedures of
the House Committee on Un-
American Activities have caused
considerable trouble and the waste
of important time" he continued
Il believe that the Lucas resolu-
ton would 60 a long way toward
making such extravagances i'm
possible and therefore strongly
urge its adoption.
Generally speaking. think we
Evening star., 1949-07-20
West Germun Red Chiei
Released by British
BY the Assoeioted Press

FRANKFURT, Germany, July
20.-West Germany's Communist
chief, Max Reimann. was released
from jail in Dusseldorf today by
British authorities.
Reimann has been serving
three month jail sentence for
threatening West German politi-
cal leaders who co-operated with
the Allies.
His release will permit him to
take part in the August IA elec-
tions to name the new West Ger
man government. The Commu-
nists have campaigned for his re-
lease on the ground that his SEN
tence barred him from the elec-
ton.
Evening star., 1949-07-20
Hollywood Gambler,
Three Others Shot
On Sunset Strip
Bodyeuord Assigned by
Stote Among.Those Hit
By SIues From Car
BY the Asseeiotsd Press

LOS ANGELES. July 90
Gangsters' bullets early today cut
down Mickey Cohen. IS, gambling
car, and three other persons
including a State = appointed
bodyguard for the dapper hood
lum-as the party left a smart
Sunset Strip cafe.
None of the party was killed
but all were in 4 serious condi-
tion. including Harry Cooper. 80.
the special bodyguard assigned
to Cohen by the California At
torney General.
The other victims were Miss
Dee David. 26. blond. and Ed
ward (Neddie) Herbert, IS, a
Cohen henchman. Herbert escaped
II gangland bullets only a month
ago as he was entering his apart
ment.
Key Figure in Vice Inquiry.
Cohen is key figure in the
sizzling gtand jury inquiry into
police vice tieups which already
has resulted in a wholesale shake
up of the Los Angeles Police De-
partment.
Only. yesterday Attorney Gen.
eral Fred Howser disclosed that
he had assigned Mr.. Cooper to
guard Cohen. presumably because
Cohen had expressed fear that
Eastern gangsters were in town
to assassinate him.
Barney Ruditsky, co-owner Of
Sherry's Restaurant. where the
shooting took place. said every
body was leaving the place when
the shotgun charges rang out.
The time was approximately 4
am
"It sounded like firecrackers and
everybody hit the walk. There
were about Is or 80 people on the
street at the time.
Cooper yelled I'm hit"
Tive Shotguns Found.
! Mr.. Ruditsky. q former New
York City detective, said the shots
came from across the street in
the vicinity of the Bing Crosby
Building which serves as Offices
| for the various enterprises OF the
crooner.
Sheriff's deputies later found
two shotguns across the street.
Cohen told H. Leo Stanley, dis
trict attorneys investigator, that
he didn't know what the shoot
ing was all about
Miss Florabel Muir. widely
known newspaper columnist. was
among those on the sidewalk. A
(See HOLLYWOOD, Page A-6J
Evening star., 1949-07-20
Snyder's Plane Forced
To Lond at Cyprus
By the Associated Press

CAIRO, Egypt. July 20.-An
airport official here said a plane
carrying Secretary of the Treas
ury Snyder has been forced to
land at Nicosia, Cyprus. today
because of engine trouble. Mr..
Snyder is en- route from Ankara,
Turkey, to Cairo.
A plane is being sent from here
to bring Mr.. Snyder and his party
to Cairo. where he is scheduled
to have two days for talks with
government officials before re-
turning to the United States.
Evening star., 1949-07-20
Soboth Leeds Battle for
Bronnon Plan; Z Trumon
StoIworts Join Opposition
By the Associated Press

The administration opened its
House battle for a trial run Bran
nan farm subsidy program today
by calling on Democrats not to
"be led astray by the collusive
combination Of Republican-con-
trolled farm organizations and
Dixiecrats."
The House convened two hours
earlier than usual to open the
bitter farm battle.
It saw some of President Tru-
mans best friends on Capitol Hill
joining a Democratic-R Republican
coalition bent on beating his farm
bill.
Representative Gore. Democrat,
of Tennessee, usually an admins
tration stalwart, but now leading
the opposition. drew the battle
line with a substitute bill that
proposes to kill the Brannan plan
trial run. He proposes to con-
tinue the present farm program
into 1850.
SABBATH Assails "Mongrel Bill"
Representative SABBATH. Demo-
crat. OF Illinois led off for the
administration with the talk of q
"collusive combination. He called
the substitute this mongrel Gore
bill"
The Illinois member. chairman
Of the House Rules Committee.
declared the administration bill
would relieve "the consumer of
unconscionably high food prices"
while protecting farmers income.
Mr.. SABBATH previously had told
newsmen the administration bill,
authored by Representative Pace.
Democrat of Georgia. Goes too
far" and he thought the present
farm law should be continued. But
his aides said today he apparently
misunderstood the questions of
reporters when he made that
statement.
His opening statement defend
ed. the subsidy principle of the
Brannan plan and he assailed the
Aiken law passed by the Repub-
lican-controlled 80th Congress.
This law, set to became effective
Evening star., 1949-07-20
5 Romunions Executed
As Underground Chiefs
BY the Associated Press

BUCHAREST, Romania, July
20.-Five Romanians convicted as
underground leaders were execut-.
led July 16, it was officially an
nounced today.
The men had been sentenced to
be shot by a military tribunal
June rs. Their appeals were dis
missed several hours before the
executions.
The five, and six others, had
been found guilty of leading q
terrorist movement in the Banat
province. near the Yugoslav
border.
Evening star., 1949-07-20
Pope Will Broadcast
To World Sunday
BY the Associated Press


VATICAN CITY, July 20.-Pope
Plus II will broadcast to the world
Sunday at 1880 am. (EST), it
was announced today.
The address, over the Vatican
radio, will be made during an
audience in which his holiness
will receive the members of the
Congress of Women's Catholic
Action.
Approximately 1900 Catholic
women are expected to attend the
audience. including 1000 dele
gates to the congress from all
parts of the world.
Evening star., 1949-07-20
BuIeor Foreign Minister
Elected to Premiership
By the Associated Press

ROME, July 20.-The Sofia
radio said Foreign Minister Vassil
Kolarov was elected premier OF
Bulgaria today. He succeeds
Georgi Dimitrov, who died July
2 at a sanatorium near Moscow.
The broadcast, monitored by the
Italian news agency Astra. said
Kolarov was unanimously elected
to the post by the Bulgarian Ma
tional Assembly.
Kolarov had served as acting
premier since Dimitrov was
granted leave from the premier
ship in April to. obtain medical
threatment in the Soviet Union.
Evening star., 1949-07-20
Kinq Dances at Party

LONDON, July 20 P.-King
George vi danced with Queen
Elizabeth until the small hours
today at debutante party in
Mayfair. It was his first real
night out since he was stricken
with a leg ailment last November.
The party was for the debut Of
the Queens twin 17-year-old
nieces, Mary and Patricia Bowes-
Lyon.
Evening star., 1949-07-20
Colombo Bus Crash Kills ID

BOGOTA, Colombia, July 20
P.-The newspaper Ell Tempo
said "A persons were killed yester-
day and is others were injured
when a bus plunged down an en-
bankment. The accident occurred
on the highway between Yacuan-
quer and Consaca.
Evening star., 1949-07-20
Home Rule Hearings
Cut by Quorum Call;
Resume Friday
Only ; Witnesses Heord
By House Subcommittee
As Score of Others Wait
By Don S. Worreu

Only three witnesses on the
Distric+ home rule bill-two for
and one against-were heard
today by the Judiciary Subcom-
mittee of the House District Com
mittee when the hearing was cut
short as committee members were
summoned to the House floor.
AS a result Of the curtailed
session, another hearing was
scheduled for 10 am. Friday by
Representative Harris. Democrat,
of Arkansas chairman of the sub
committee.
A score of spokesnnen for vari-
Gus District groups were waiting
to be heard when the quorum call
summoned the committee mem
bers to the floor shortly after
today'S session had convened.
CIO Leader For Home Rule.
Speaking for home rule were
Morton Liftin. treasurer Of the
District Industrial Union Council
CIO. and Vincent J. Browne
member of the executive board of
the District chapter Of the Ma
tional Association for Advance
ment of Colored People.
Opposition came from Jack Dol
ton of the Amalgamated Casualty
Insurance Co.. who said he has
talked to hundreds OF people and
has yet to find any one interested
in or in favor of the Kefauver
BILL"
Mr.. Liftin told the subcommit-
tee that the solemn pledges" for
local suffrage that both major po-
litical parties wrote into their
platforms last year made it un-
necessary to argue at length that
Washington should have home
rule.
Cites Big Population.
He brought out that the popu-
lation of the District exceeds that
of 13 of the States and added, I'VE
Know of no sound argument to
justify depriving community OF
almost a million people of the
fundamental democratic right and
privilege of selecting their local
officials"
Mr.. Liftin argued also that 1t
was a positive discrimination
against the rest Of the country
for Congress to devote so much
Of its time on strictly municipal
affairs of the District.
Congress Is even remiss in its
duties" he continued. IF it con-
tinues to fiddle with municipal
affairs while there are burning
questions of national and inter-
national import which demand its
full attention"
Mr.. Browne said the Executive
Board of the Association for the
Advancement of Colored People
had voted unanimously in sup
port of the principles of the Ke-
| fauver bill.
Urges Official Poll.
He said unofficial plebiscites
held in Washington in recent
years showed that District resi-
dents want home rule. But If
the subcommittee has doubts as
to this. Mr.. Brown said, he would
urge Congress to conduct an Of
Evening star., 1949-07-20
(See FARM, Page A-6D
Czech Diplomat Flees
To Reich With Family
BY the Associated Press

PARIS, July 20. -, Jaromir
Smutny, Czech diplomat, has fed
Communist ruled Czechoslovakia
and now is in Frankfurt. Ger
many, the Free Czech Council
here announced today.
Mr.. Smutny, SO, got out with his
family. He was chief of chancel-
lery to the late President Eduard
Benes. and he had service with
Czech Legations in Paris, War
saw and lstanbul.
Evening star., 1949-07-20
6bodies Found,
MoreS Sought in
Seattle Crash
Is Hurt as Charter
Plane FoIIs, Burns in
Housing Development,
Pictures on Page A-3.)
BY the Assoeioted Press

transport with 80 persons aboard
crashed into five houses last night
in take off from Seattle's Boeing
Field.
The coroner's office reported
many hours later that six bodies
had been found in the wreckage of
the twin-engined C-46 and the
debris of the wrecked homes. The
search was continuing.
MiraculouSly, most-if not all
Of the persons aboard the Chi
cago bound, non schedule plane
escaped with their lives. Most of
the victims were believed to have
perished in the houses.
The coroner's Office said two of
the six bodies had been tentatively
identified. The names were not
released Immediately. Coroner's
officers said none of the dead had
been identified as having been
aboard the plane.
Failure of Engines Blamed.
Amos E. Heacock. president of
the operating company. Air
Transport Associates, Inc, said he
did not think any of those
aboard were killed. He was pas
senger on the plane. His wife
Dorothy was stewardess.
A failure of one of the engines
was blamed for the tragedy. The
plane. unable to gain sufficient
altitude quickly. hit power lines
above the Georgetown district in
Seattle's South End. Then 1t
plummeted into the houses below,
carrying death and destruction
with it.
Cutting of power lines threw the
area into darkness. broken by the
sputtering and flashing of the
dangerously dangling livewires.
The Cas- was a two-engine, So
passenger transport of a type used
widely during the war for troop
ana cargo carriers.
Seventeen of the planes % pas
sengers and four crew members
were hospitalized with injuries.
Eight others were treated and re-
leased. Three were unhurt and
four were unaccounted for.
Seven residents of the damaged
homes also were injured, and four
fremen were taken to hospitals
when a gasoline tank exploded
about three hours after the crash.
Motor Begins Sputtering.
The plane crashed seconds after
it took off for Chicago.
Mr.. Heacock said both engines
checked out without a sputter"
at the end of the runway.
But soon after we got into the
air one motor began sputtering
and the pilot evidently thought it
best to continue" Mr.. Heacock
said. "A few seconds later, he
pulled back on the throttle. ap-
parently intending to land.
Then he perceived almost i'm
mediately that he could not land
and pulled throttle again, contin-
uing to climb with a sputtering
engine"
Another witness said the right
motor of the plane sputtered, then
cut out. The plane failed in it's
climb and began clipping the tops
of utility poles.
Power Lines Clipped.
Power lines and telephone wires
were clipped, plunging the area
into darkness and disrupting COM
munications.
Its wide wings cutting swaths
through frame houses, the plane
ripped through five Georgetown
homes. 1t buried its nose in one
structure.
About two minutes later it ex-
ploded.
During that short interval pas
sengers jumped or were thrown
from the tail Of the plane which
had been sheared off in the crash.
Mr.. Heacock said he personally
checked all seats of the plane and