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Evening star., 1949-11-04

two years Of technical training to
the Central curriculum above the
high school level and making it a
city wide junior college type of
institution.
Evening star., 1949-11-04

Edward T. Dunlap. president Of
the Central alumni, said he
thought the plan was the best
yet" submitted for the solution Of
Cardozos troubles.
Evening star., 1949-09-13
FIogpoIe Sitter
Defies Rain to \
Aid Boys Club

Fred Nalley, jr., who isn't the
only man who ever got up in the
air over finances, maintained his
fiagpole sitting through pelting
rain today trying to bring in $685.
900 for the Trinidad Boys Club.
He climbed atop the 40-foot
platform Saturday night after
normal fund raising efforts
brought in only $3.50 in nine days.
In the first rs hours another $3.50
came in, but proceeds thinned to
a trickle in the last 24-only $26.
Today, for protection from the
rain, Mr.. Nalley, the club director.
had a canvas roof and canvas
sidewalks. Other modern incon-
veniences include temperatures in
the COS at highland Mr.. Nalley
has no stove. He has a radio,
books, magazines and three good
meals a day.
At 8 pm. tomorrow Billy Gee.
retired District fireman, and Mrs.
Gee, will. present a show at the
clubhouse, 1119 Wylie street NE.
The show is free but the club Will
welcome donations.
Evening star., 1949-09-13

invitation to the debtor countries
to develop, through the fund, a
workable revaluation. Secretary
Snyder, in commenting on pound
devaluation last week. said it is a
problem for the fund to handle.
The report dealt briefly with
proposals for increasing the price
of gold-a subject due to be raised
in a pending resolution from South
Africa. While an increase would
aid the gold-producing nations.
it said, other effects might be less
beneficial:
THE predictable effect of such
a measure on the United States
would merely be increased ex-
ports in exchange for further ad-
ditions to its gold supply which
is already about two-thirds of the
world reserves. -.
"A rise in the dollar price of
gold could have no positive effect
in correcting the maldistribution
of gold, unless and until the pres
ent payment difficulties have
been met"
The bank and fund meeting will
last through Friday.
Evening star., 1949-09-13
Heuss Says Germans Want
To Join Europe's Community

BAD GODEsBERG, Germany
Sept. 13 (P). Theodore Heuss,
West Germanys new President
told Western Allied representa-
tives today. 1T is the sincere wish
of the German people to merge
into a great European commun-
ity"
Mr., Heuss made the remark at
a reception he gave for the Amer
ican, British and French high
commissioners and 200 officials of
the federal republic.
Invitations to congratulate the
new 65-year-old President were
extended to the top political
church. industrial, press and labor
leaders of the land. The top for
eign diplomats in Germany also
were present.
The American, British and
French high commissioners were
the first to be received by the
white-haired President.
French High Commissioner An
dire Francois Poncet extended
congratulations on behalf of him
self, John j. McCloy and British
Gen. Sir Brian Robertson.
Mr.. Francois Poncet told Mr..
Heuss Germany's efforts and its
hopes are, "Incarnated in you. IN
a man freely chosen in accord
ance with" the free procedures OF
democracy and who, because OF
this, derives, with the necessary
prestige, the uncontestable rights
to represent his people"
Evening star., 1949-09-13
Spy Proer Accuses
Polish Slip Line Of
Anti-U. S.Activities
BY the As,cioted Press


The chairman of a Senate sub
committee inestigating Com
munist spies accused the Polish
owned Gdynia AMERICA Line today
of activities cotrary to the in
terest of the Urted States"
The line owS the passenger
ship Batory on 'hich Communist
Leader Gerhard Eisler fled this
country last sprag.
Officials of tn line, owned by
the Soviet dominated Polish gov
ernment, were qestioned by the
committee behin closed doors.
Senator O'Cono, Democrat. of
Maryland, actins chairman, said
their testimony probably will be
made public late
To Be Quizzd on Escape.
In a statement Senator O'Con-
or said the witesses would be
questioned about Eislers escape
and about the se of Gydnia-
America Line shis "for activities
contrary to the interest of the
United States. inluding their il
legal transportatin of espionage
and propaganda sents."
Eisler, frequeny described in
congressional heaings as the top
Communist agent in the United
States, jumped all last spring
and escaped as a sowaway on the
Batory.
He had been covicted of pass
port fraud and cotempt Of Con-
gress. Efforts to extradite him
from England. whee he was taken
off the Batory, faild. He last was
reported in the Sviet sector of
Germany.
Senator O'Conor told reporters
the committee watts to investi-
gate officials of theship line for
more details about Islers escape.
But he added that ,as only one
case the committee US interested
in.
Witnesses Lied.
He listed the wiaesses sub
poenaed for the commtee's morn
ing and afternoon sesSns as:
Anthony Trzecieski, .ermer pur-
chasing agent of the he; Stani-
slaw c. Sztam. landhg agent;
Czeslaw Grzelak. vicespresident,
and Roman M. Kutyloski, presi-
dent.
The subcommittee i checking
on Communist activitis in con-
nection with a bill b, Senator
McCarran, Democrat, Q, Nevada,
to strengthen the Govtnment's
powers to keep subversie aliens
out of this country and } throw
out any already here. !
Recently it has folloHd the
practice of questioning wnesses
in secret and making thei testi-
mony public later-in Who'll or in
part.
Evening star., 1949-09-13

those four lines, the three coun-
tries agreed on six other points be-
ginning with promotion of over
seas investment as means of put
ting more dollars to work, through
the World Bank, the United
States Export Import Bank and
private capital.
Their second long-range agree
ment was that a creditor nation
such as the United States should
not have high tariffs" The
American Government promised
to seek further tariff cuts in order
to build up foreign imports by
negotiating new reciprocal trade
agreements.
Third, it was decided that the
drain of war debts on Britains
current production should be
subject of continuing study among
the three powers. The British
ended the war with debts of
$13,500, ,000,0 and have recently
been exporting goods to pay off
those debts without. of course, get
ting any current return.
The fourth and fifth points of
agreement for long-range assist
ance to the British concerned ef-
forts by all three governments to
improve Britain's dollar earnings
from the production. refining and
distribution Of petroleum and from
shipping. It was not explained in
the communique what effect the
moves in these two fields might
have on the American industries.
However. in the case Of shipping,
it is known that the State Depart
ment opposes provisions in Ameri-
can law which specify that goods
bought with Government funds,
as in the case of the European
Recovery Program. should be
hauled at least in part by Ameri-
can ships. The State Departments
argument is that the dollars spent
on shipping, like the dollars spent
on the goods themselves. should
where possible, benefit foreign
shipping.
The sixth and last of the long
range points was general agree
mept Of the three powers to keep
in close touch with each other on
problems arising out of Britain's
economic troubles and to review
constantly the steps that were
agreed on here.
Some officials of all three coun-
tries considered this consultation
agreement one of the surest means
of keeping British recovery on the
track from now on. 1t also could
provide a degree of coordination
among the three nations in the
economic field comparable to that
coordination which they have
already achieved in diplomacy and
military strategy.
Evening star., 1949-09-13
Girl, 2, Injured in Foil
From Bedroom Window

The 2-year-old daughter Of an
Interior Department tree sur
geon was injured today when she
fell from a second floor bedroom
to a porch IA feet below.
The child, Mildred Jones, was
playing with her 4-year-old BROTH
er, Robert H. Jones, jr., when
one of them apparently pushed
against a window screen. police
said. The family lives at $50 E
street NE.
Mrs. Jones took the child to
Sibley Hospital, where she was
admitted for treatment Of head
injuries. Hospital officials said
the girls condition was appar-
emily not serious.
Evening star., 1949-09-13
Monetary
Continued From First Page.)

clared, Cannot afford to forge
any suitable instrument, including
any necessary exchange adjust
ment, that could expand their
dollar exports"
And, in an apparent reference
to the prolonged efforts of Britain
and some other countries to bal
ance trade accounts by "auster-
ity" programs and import restric-
tions. the report warned:
"1t may be preferable for a
country to change an unsuitable
exchange rate through the ma
chinery of fund consultation
rather than to subject its economy
to the risks of serious deflation
and unemployment or to impose
restrictions that keep imports so
low as to endanger its well-being
and efficiency"
The report struck this note Of
urgency: THE task of increasing
dollar exports cannot be delayed
in the hope that it can be quickly
completed by some extraordinary
effort at the eleventh hour"
World Bank Also Reports.
In similar report to its gov
ernors, the World Bank empha-
sized its own inability to provide
the answer to all or even a major
part of the worlds financial ills"
through its lending powers.
1T is beyond both the purpose
and the power Of the bank, for
example, to cure the dollar short
age" said the report presented
by Mr.. Black.
The bank now has the resources
to help finance "all the sound
productive projects in its member
countries that will be ready for
financing in the next few years
that can appropriately be financed
through repayable foreign loans
and that cannot attract private
capital" Mr.. Black declared.
Mr.. Black emphasized the part
which the bank may play in build
ing up the worlds underdeveloped
areas. as urged in the famed
Point -Four" of President Tru-
mans inaugural address.
But he said that foreign de-
velopment financing should pre-.
ferably be derived mainly from
private sources" And he criti.
cized proposals for fuzzy" long.
term, low-interest loans which, hi
declared. actually are interna.
tional subsidies of "a disguised
grant to the borrower"
In presenting the report, Mr.
Evening star., 1949-09-13
Hungarians Reported
Demanding Death for
Rajk in Treason Trial
BY the Assoeiaied Press

BUDAPEST, Hungary, Sept. 13.
The Communist press said to-
day that Hungarian workers are
demanding the death penalty for
Laszlo Rajk and seven other al
legged conspirators who 60 on trial
for treason this week.
The newspaper SZabad Nep said
factory workers are calling the
defendants "gangsters, rotten
traitors, Infamous guttersnipes
and dirty assassins" and demand
ing ito the gallows with them"
Rajk, 40. former Communist
Foreign Minister, and his Code
PENDANTS 60 on trial Friday ac-
cused of working with Yugoslav
Premier Marshal Tito and
American imperialists" for the
overthrow of Hungary's Red
regime and the assassination of
its leaders.
Public Hearing Hinted.
Commenting on the long indict-
ment against the eight men,
Szabad Nep said the propaganda
organs" Of the Western nations
should not start criticizing Hun
gary. 1t hinted that Rajk and
his co-defendants would be tried
at a public hearing.
The paper sought to involve
Tito in the alleged plot, asserting
that he became "a traitor long
before the well-known decision Of
the Cominform Ito expel him
from the Soviet-dominated group
in the spring of 1948)."
1t said Rajk and Alexander
Rankovic. Yugoslav Interior Min
lister, were already plotting in the
autumn Of 1947 and that Tito
ordered his military mission to
Budapest to cooperate with the
American and English missions
against the Soviet Union in 1945."
Churchill Is Blamed.
The paper said the alleged plot
of setting up a Balkan federation
working under orders from Bel
grade came from Britain's Winston
Churchill and Allen Dulles,
brother Of Senator Dulles, Re-
publican, of New York.
Evening star., 1949-09-13
Republicans Opposing
Trade Program Ba|k
Al Stand on Tariff Cut
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

Republican critics of the recip-
rocal trade program baked to-
day at q statement Of Govern
ment policy, laid down in the
British crisis talks. of seeking
further cuts in American tariffs.
The Senate is entering its sec
ond week of debate on the ad-
ministration bill to extend the
Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act
until June IL, 1851. Under this
act, the President can make tariff
cutting agreements with other ma
tons who agree, in turn, to re-
duce their duties on American
goods.
Touching directly on the issue
was the announcement yesterday
that the United States had re-
affirmed its policy of trying to
negotiate further trade agree
ments through which additional
cuts In United States tariff rates
could be made. It amounted to
a hint that Britain might expect
duties on some Of her own goods
to be lowered.
One of 10 Points in Accord.
It was one Of the 10 points Of
agreement set down as top Ameri-
can, British and Canadian finan-
cial experts brought to a close
their talks on Britain's dollar
crisis.
Senator Malone, Republican.
Of Nevada, an out-and-out foe of
reciprocal trade. told reporters the
British came to this country to
seek free access to American mar
kets and they got what they
came after"
Senate Minority Leader Wherry
said the tariff announcement in
dicated to him that some agree
ments- already have been nego-
tiated which the administration
doesn't want to tell Congress
about.
He said, This flies right in the
face of peril points"
The Democrat-Republican bat
tie over reciprocal trade centers
around a peril-point amendment
offered by Senator Millikin, Re-
publican, of Colorado.
Provisions of Amendment.
The amendment would require
the President to report to Con-
gress whenever, in a trade agree
ment, he authorized tariff below
the rate which the Federal Tariff
Commission considers safe for
American business.
A vote on the Millikin amend
ment may come tomorrow. But
more likely Thursday. Final
action on the bill could come this
week. In an effort to speed &C
ton, the Senate will hold night
sessions, with the first slated
tonight.
There is little doubt that the
Senate will approve the two-year
reciprocal trade extension. as the
House has done, but the outcome
Of the peril point fight still was
regarded as uncertain.
Senator Millikin has said he has
q fighting chance to win, while
majority Leader Lucas has pre-
,dicted an administration victory.
Evening star., 1949-09-13
cAA Attorneys Claim
Plane in Which s.
Died Was Overloaded
BY the Assoeiofsd Press

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, Sept.
13.-Attorneys for the Civil Aero
nautics Administration contend
that an American plane which
crashed into the sea near here
June 7. killing So persons, was
overloaded deliberately.
One of the first witnesses at a
hearing into the tragedy said yes
terday that the plane. operated by
Strato-Freight, Inc. was over
loaded by 2,473 pounds. The wit
ness was Walter Beroset Of Miami,
Fla, Civil Aeronautics Board in
Spector.
Firms Planes Grounded.
All Strato- Freight planes have
been grounded since the tragedy.
The company maintains head
quarters at Bradley Field, near
Windsor Locks, Conn.
Charges have been filed against
the company and pilot, Capt. Lee
H. Wakefield Of Stamford, Conn.,,
who is conducting his own de-
fense.
Mr.. Beroset and Jack Stewart,
also a CAB inspector, testified
regarding their investigation after
the crash into the planes regis
tered weight and that of the pass
engers and crew members aboard.
Leland l.. Trainor Of Hartford,
Conn. a mechanic for Strato-
Freight. identified docum e n t s
offered by Mr.. Stewart to show the
planes registered empty weight
lof 31.178 pounds.
Tickets Offered As Evidence.
CAA attorneys contend the
plane, when it took off from San
Juan for Miami and Newark, N. j..
was overloaded above it's cargo
capacity of 10000 pounds. They
entered as evidence Is tickets they
said showed weights as given by
passengers were four to Is pounds
higher than on the manifest. They
called 10 of the survivors to con-
firm the weights each had given.
The airliner. a converted Army
CAT, took off with 81 persons
aboard. This included six crew
members and rs Puerto Rican
passengers, including 10 children.
Only % persons were rescued.
Evening star., 1949-09-13
a Allies Reach First Accord
On Berlin in More Than Year

BERLIN. Sept. IL P). - The
four Allied powers occupying Ber-
lin reached their first agreement
in more than a year yesterday.
Under orders from the Paris
foreign ministers conference to
normalize life in the battered war
capital, American. British. French
and Russian sector commandants
agreed:
/. To accept letters bearing each
others stamps.
2. To bring German technicians
from both East and West Berlin
together to iron out wrinkles in
the city's gas. light, telephone and
other public utilities.
Col. william r. Babcock, deputy
Evening star., 1949-09-13
Police Kill IS GuerriIlos
Neuk South Korean Port.
BY the Assoeioted Press

SEOUL, Sept. 13.- Police re-
ported today they killed is per-
sons yesterday in a raid against
a band of 100 guerrillas operating
near Yosu, South Korean port.
A number of flags of the Com
munist Peoples government OF
Northern Korea were taken from
the slain guerrillas, police said.
Evening star., 1949-09-13
British
Continued From First Page)

British chancellor OF the ex-
chequer. Secretaries Snyder and
Acheson. Finance Minister Abbott
of Canada, Mr.. Bevin and Lester
B. Pearson, Canada's Minister for
External Affairs.
Sir Stafford told a news confer
ence that the program. coming on
top Of Britain's rs per cent cut
back in dollar spending, ends the
threat of further dangerous drains
on Britain's dollar and gold re-
serves. 1t was the dwindlipg OF
those reserves, due to Britain's S
spending dollars SO much faster
than it earned them, which consti-
tuted the immediate dollar crisis.
Over the long pull. however, the
British problem was defined by
the three-power conferees as be-
ing one of balancing trade by
raising Britain's dollar earnings
to a level at which it can afford
to buy things it needs without di-
rect American financial help. All
three nations agreed that the
Marshall Plan of aid will end on
schedule in 1852.
4 Points Of Immediate Aid.
Sir Stafford said that four OF
the six points will be Of relatively
immediate benefltto Britain in its
efforts to earn more dollars while
conserving the supply it has.
These four points are:
1. Canada will increase its re-
serve stocks of tin and rubber and
the United States will review its
stockpiling program with a view
to stepping up its tin and rubber
purchases. Meanwhile, by cutting
requirements for use of synthetic
rubber, the American Government
will widen American markets for
natural rubber. These steps
should get more dollars into Brit
ish hands fairly fast.
2. The United States agreed that
Britain should have more freedom
in deciding how 1t will spend its
Marshall Plan dollars. They will
be used in part at least for pur-
chases of Canadian wheat, which
has been barred by the ECA since
the first of the year because Amer
ican wheat is a surplus commodity.
The concession on this point re-
mains to be amplif1ed and ECA
Director Paul Hoffman said a
statement explaining it probably
would be issued today.
8. Both the United States and
Canada promised to do what they
could to facilitate the movement
of British goods through customs
The communique also brought out
that the American Government il
planning to ask Congress for basic
changes in customs requirements
4. The United States and Can.
ada agreed that Britain may have
to discriminate against theil
goods in order to build up its non.
dollar imports from Western Eu'
ropean countries. While they die
not make blanket concessions OF
this point-which would have beer
impossible for the United State!
without congressional action
they did declare their willingness
to review British import regula'
tions which may be imposed to re-
duce the flow Of goods from thi'
side of the Atlantic.
In addition, to action aloni
Evening star., 1949-09-13

American commandant. told re-
porters after the meeting:
1T was a cordial four-hour ses-
sion. Every one seemed'to honestly
try to reach agreement to return
Berlin to normal.
1--WE still, however, haven't
reached the point where much is
accomplished of a concrete nature.
We still don't know what the other
fellow has in mind"
Yesterdays meeting was the first
four power session to be attended
by Maj. Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor,
new American commandant in
Berlin.
Evening star., 1949-09-13
Is in DIP Family

Australia awaits arrival Of the
largest family ever to immigrate
to Queensland-the 16 members
Of the family Of Mr.. and Mrs. A.
Hawthorn, from England.
Evening star., 1949-04-20
38 Veterans Recover
$4,000 in Housing
.0vereharges Here

Recovery for 38 veterans OF
total of $4,000 in overcharges b.
builders in the Silver Spring and
Arlington County areas in the last
few days was announced today BY
1.-THE Washington regional unit oi
the National Housing Expediter's
office.
Refunds by builders were volun.
tary and represent cash settlement
Of overcharges or amounts deemed
due owing to failure to meet
specifications Of houses built under
the Veterans Emergency Housing
Program.
The Washington office cover,
the District. Maryland and Vir-
ginia.
Refunds since the Housing Ex-
Ipediter's Office started its large
scale investigation of veterans
complaints have totaled SOS. 1854 10
E. c. Magnusson. chief of the
Washington office, said. OF this
about 20 per cent represented re-
funds to District veterans. The
rest was paid in Maryland and
Virginia.
Up to now. the Housing Ex-
pediter's Office says investigations
show that $1.297 .883.42 is owed to
veterans as a result of failure to
meet specifications or in over
charges In the District Maryland
Virginia area.
About 90 per cent is involved In
District cases. 80 per cent In Vir-
ginia cases and so per cent In
Maryland cases.
Evening star., 1949-04-20
5peeders in Falls Church
To Face Heavier Penalties

Motorists speeding through Falls
Church from now on face more
rigid enforcement of traffic laws
and heavier penalties If found
guilty. city officials have decided
Trial Justice william T. Finley
yesterday fined one youth S25 and
costs and another Sis and costs
for speeding and declared that he
is not convinced that his past
policy Of lenient penalties has been
q success. Nine drivers forfeited
collateral Judge Finley said
Mayor Albert NJ. Orme has urged
strict enforcement of speed laws
within the city
Police Chief z. II. Howe said he
had requested the city to purchase
a motorcycle because Of the diff
Guilty of oyertaking speeders with
patrol cars. Chief Howe also re-
ported that hereafter a record viii
be kept Of the names OF all drivers
stopped and warned about speed
ing
Evening star., 1949-04-20
| |Middies Excel
| In Scholarship,
| Admiral Says
by the Assoeioisd Press

ANNAPOLIS, April 2o.-The
Naval Academy believes its mid
shipmen are smarter than college
students.
The Academy superintendent
Rear Admiral James L. Holloway
jr.. said yesterday a college equiv
alent test administered to midship-
men and students Of leading col
leges in 1946 showed that, class for
class, the midshipmen were far in
advance"
Admiral Holloway made his re-
marks to the Board Of Visitors
currently making its annual spring
inspection Of the naval service
school.
Furthermore. he added. "ident-
ical aptitude tests taken by the
entering plebes" and by 5000
selected applicants for naval re-
serve officer training at colleges
place our plebes not only on par
with. but slightly above the college
entering group"