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Evening star., 1949-10-23
Marine Reservisfs Want
cotes With Joint Chiefs

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. % R.-
Marine reservists today asked
that the Marine Corps comman-
dant be made q member of the
Joint Chiefs Of Staff on all mat
tiers affecting amphibious opera
tions.
A resolution adopted unani-
mously at the closing meeting Of
the Marine Corps Reserve officers
Association here urged all local
units to support legislation to- that
end. .....
Another resolution approved
bills now before Congress setting
the minimum strength Of the Ma
rine Corps at 6 per cent of the
combined strength of the Navy,
Army and Air Force.
A third expressed the Associa-
tons gratitude and compli-
ments" to Federal Judge Harold
Medina, Government attorneys
and the jurors at the recent trial
of II top Communists In New
York.
Gen. Clifton B. Gates, Marine
Corps commandant, presented a
bronze plaque in memory Of Maj.
Samuel Nicholas, first comman-
dant Of the Marines. to Harold
Stassen, president Of the. Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania. Maj.
Nicholas was appointed comman-
dant when the Marine Corps was
founded here 174 years ago.
Evening star., 1949-10-23
Woman Found Dead In Car
Parked in Market LOT

A woman identified as Mrs.
Elizabeth r. Fisher, II, Of 2ll8
Thirty-seventh street NV. was
pronounced dead after being
found slumped over the wheel Of
her automobile IN q parking lot
in the rear of the Giant Food
Store at 2148 Wisconsin avenue
yesterday.
A friend of the dead woman,
Mrs. Margaret r. Houser. Of 2444
Tunlaw road NV. said that she
and Mrs. Fisher had been out
shopping together at the time.
Mrs. Fisher said she found her
friend unconscious when she re-
turned from the store.
An Emergency Hospital doctor
pronounced Mrs. Fisher dead at
$3.50 pm. from natural causes.
Evening star., 1949-10-23
Baby Suffocates in Car
On Way for Visit Here
BY the Associated Press

HIGHLAND. N. Y, Oct. 22-A
19-month-old baby suffocated
while asleep with her parents in
their automobile along a highway
early today.
The child was Roberta L. Barrey,
daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
L. Barrey Of Albany.
State police said the child's
father told them the family was
en- route from Albany to Wash
ington. D. c., to visit Mrs. Bar
rey's mother.
Police quoted Mr.. Barrey as
saying he felt drowsy while driv-
ing north of here and pulled his
car off the highway for a nap.
Mrs. Barrey and the child were in
the rear seat.
Mr.. Barrey said he awoke about
two hours later and discovered the
child had stopped breathing.
Jesse McEugh, Ulster County
coroner, said death was due to,
suffocation.
Evening star., 1949-10-23
1915 Murooned Plant Bosses
| HOPE for Rescue omorrow

local failed to agree with manage
ment on another plan for these
tasks.
A committee Of Is businessmen
and clergymen and the Clarion
Chamber of Commerce appealed
to the union to free the stranded
supervisors.
r. r. Moffit, Chamber of Com
merce secretary. pleaded to the
union that homes are being
broken up because of this"
The supervisors aren't COM
planning about the food. They
have two refrigerated boxcars full
Of groceries and a chef to prepare
them.
But the hours are long. They
work an 8 am. to 8 pm. shift.
And they would, they empha-
size, like to see their families
again.
Evening star., 1949-10-23
Wherry BIomes Truman
For Welfare in Services

LENOIR, N. c., Oct. "a R.-
Senator Wherry, Republican, Of
Nebraska, said last night "Presi-
dent Truman is responsible for
the continuing warfare among the
armed services"
He called on Mr.. Truman to set
up 4 commission Of outstanding
citizens-including Gen. EiSen-
hover. Gen. Macarthur and
former President Herbert Hoover
ITO see that there is a unified
plan Of action. This plan !.
should spell out the mission Of
every arm Of our defense"
Sen. Wherry told a meeting Of
North Carolina Young Republi-
cans here that Mr.. Truman, with
q stroke of his pen =. could order
peace among the admirals and
generals, removing those who re-
fuse to work In . team"
Evening star., 1949-10-23
Negro Lawyer Reptile,
To Gov. Ta|madge's S
Blast al School Suit
~ the Assoeiotsd Press

ATLANTA. Oct. ga Negro
attorney today talked back sharp
ly to Georgia's Gov. Herman Tai
madge, about q lawsuit.
The suit, scheduled for a hear
ing in Federal court November 10.
demands that Negro children in
Irwin County be granted equal
educational facilities.
In a radio talk this morning,
Gov. Talmadge said that the suit
aimed a fatal blow at the South
ern way Of life.
The governor declared that all
the resources at his command
would be directed toward defeat
ing the suit.
Sees Attempt to End Segregation.
He said that the complaint of
the eighteen Negro parents was
nothing less than an attempt ito
end segregation in our schools"
And II this is successful. Gov.
Talmadge continued, the next
step would be to end segregation
in public places and, finally,
Negroes would seek social
equality"
A. T. Walden. widely known
Negro attorney and a party to the
suit, retorted in a statement: Il
do not try lawsuits in the public
press"
Then he added. "it is most un-
fortunate for all Georgians that
their Chief Executive evidently
intends to fertilize anew the soil
which has borne so much more
bitter fruit than can be made
palatable by a generation Of toll
erance and goodwill"
Asked for Injunction.
The suit was entered in Federal
Court August 9 and asked that the
parents be granted an injunction
against further discrimination.
As in the case in King George
County. Virginia. the attorneys,
Mr.. Walden and Thurgood Mar
shall of New York, invoked the
14th - equal rights - amendment
to the Constitution.
Both Mr.. Walden and Mr.. Mar
shall are representatives of the
National Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People.
Talmadge estimated that to
eQualize all schools, white and
Negro, in Georgia would be beyond
the States means. The cost has
been estimated previously at
around 100000, 900.
In the King George. case, the
compliments were successful, and
in the end the county was forced
to float a $l50.000 bond issue to
equalize school facilities.
Evening star., 1949-10-23

fined $500, placed on five years
probation, and ordered to leave
the State.
His mother, Mrs. Allen T..
Sturges Of New York, was in
court when he pleaded guilty. Los
Angeles records, showed convic-
tions also on five counts Of forg-
ing his first wife's name to checks
totaling $3.50. The sentence was
concurrent with the grand theft
conviction.
The three notes were found in
Sturges' left-hand coat pocket by
the detectives. The notes were
printed in pencil.
The first note read:
Dear Marion:
II want to thank you for your
help. You are the best friend any
man could want - II I had known
you longer, I would have loved
[you-but, you are too good q
woman (sic) for q person like
"Just say a prayer for me once
In while.
Allen"
The second note:
my last will and testament:
ITO my mother. I will every
thing, insurance, etc.
MY body must be cremated.
"A. T.. Sturges, October %, 1949.
Mother, I love YOU"
The third note:
my name: Allen Thomas
Sturges, II.
Born: 1923. Midland Park,
N. j.
known by all newspapers in
New York.
Mother: Mrs. A. T. Sturges.
Lawyer: Mr.. E. Olson, 81 or IS
Broadway, N. Y. C.
"Single-married Donny Scott,
Lynchburg. Va. niece Of ex-Sena-
tor Carter Glass. Marriage an
nuled."
Married in Arlington, Va.
Donny Scott was identified att
Lynchburg. Va, as a daughter of
DR.. David P. Scott. prominent
Lynchburg physician. She married
Sturges at Arlington, Va, during
the war. The marriage was an
nulled. Sources at Lynchburg said
she was not a niece of Carter
Glass.
In New York, Sturges' attorney
Elmer M. Olson. said the youths
mother was i'll and he refused to-
disclose her whereabouts. He said
he had contacted her after he
received reports Of the shooting
MIR. Olson said he had been re-
quested to keep all information
on young Sturges' affairs conf
Dental.
Sturges was lieutenant in the
Marine air arm during World War
II and was decorated with the
distinguished Flying Cross and the
Purple Heart for combat opera
tlonS in the South Pacific,
Evening star., 1949-10-23
BY the Assoeiossd Press

CLARION, Pa, Oct. 22.-The
3l5 marooned supervisors at the
Clarion works of Carnegie-n-
linois Steel Corp. are hoping for
rescue tomorrow night. The
men have been inside the huge
plant since the steel strike began
October /.
They haven't left the plant be-
cause they haven't been sure CO.
United Steelworker pickets would
let them back in.
But tomorrow night Steelwork-
er Local 1857 will vote whether
to allow them to re-enter If they
once leave.
Joseph Vitori, president Of the
local, said the ''lock-in" started
when the supervisors began do
ing maintenance work after the
Evening star., 1949-10-23
Service Fight
Continued From First Page.)

NO1Iel1Qco rfUIu c1TSG Fage.J
be fired, but that no wholesale
purge is in sight.
Next Meeting Tuesday.
Don't say this will be q re-
prisal." the official was quoted
as saying. "It won't be. It will
be an effort to get somebody on
the team who will work with the
team"
But Navy officials insisted that
the differences made public at the
hearing were heretofore secret
differences Of long standing with
in the Joint Chiefs. The only
change in the situation. they said,
was that the attitudes of Gen.
Bradley and Admiral Denfeld had
become public.
The next session Of the Joint
Chiefs is scheduled for Tuesday
and If both Gen. Bradley and
Admiral Denfeld attend 1t will be
their first meeting since their
appearances before the House
committee.
Word went to all officers from
the Navy Department yesterday
that there should be no further
public discussion of the unifica-
ton controversy.
It was learned that aides of
Admiral Denfeld prepared for him
a detailed refutation Of Gen.
Bradley's testimony but that. the
admiral refrained from issuing it.
Raw Deal for Many Charged
Admiral Denfeld was said to be
prepared and desirous of going be-
fore the committee again with "a
point by point, documented refuta-
ton of the things attributed to
him" in testimony by Gen. Brad
ley and Mr.. johnson. i
In his appearance before the
committee, Admiral Denfeld
emphasized that he is for unifica-
ton. But he and other top ad-
mirals complained that unifca-
tion hasn't worked out. that the
Navy is getting raw deal from
policies putting over-emphasis on
the Air Force and long-range stra-
tegic bombing, and that the Navy
is denied a full partnership in the
policy making.
Secretary johnson and the ci-
william chiefs of the Army and Air
Force assured the committee that
Admiral Denfeld is wrong and
Gen. Bradley accused Admiral
Denfeld Of violating security by
disclosing opinions Of members Of
the Joint Chiefs.
The Pentagon eflicial inter-
Evening star., 1949-10-23
Groy Calls on Services
To Bury All Differences

MIAMI BEACH. Fla. Oct. %
(R.-Army Secretary Gordon
Gray tonight called on the armed
services to bury their differences
and support Secretary Of Defense
johnson in a unified military
establishment.
Speaking over radio network
and later to the 54th annual en-
campment Of the Jewish War
Veterans, Mr.. Gray declared he
believed that unification Of the
armed forces "is the only prac-
ticable and sound approach"
There has been much recent
talk of curtailment and involun-
tary sacrifice" Mr.. Gray said.
II think I can say without
reservation that the Army has
given up to the cause of unifica-
ton more than any of its part
nerS, -
Evening star., 1949-10-23

viewed by the Associated Press
said the hearings made it pretty
clear that Denfeld and Bradley
can't work together effectively in
the future after all that has been
said. I know the President won't
let Bradley down."
What particularly, ranked Navy
circles were the generals refer
ences to Fancy Dams, aspiring
martyrs. and a brief dismissal of
Admiral Denfeld's war record,
which naval officers and some
newspaper writers took as q
sighting reference.
If Admiral Denfeld is replaced
as operations chief it appeared
uncertain who might succeed him
unless the administration dips
into the junior admiral ranks.
Admiral Richard L. Conolly.
commander of Naval Forces in the
Eastern Atlantic and Mediter-
ranean, and Admiral w. H. P.
Blandy, Atlantic Fleet commander.
were mentioned as possibilities.
Both testified before the commit
tee but their testimony was COM
paratively mild.
Sherman's Name Mentioned.
Another name cropping up the
speculation was Vice Admiral For
rest p. Sherman, commander OF
the 9Th Task Fleet in the Medi-
terranean. It was Admiral Sher-
man, along with 1t. Gen. Lauris
Norstad, Air Force deputy chief
Of staff for operations, who
worked out the compromise unfit
cation act in 1946 after the Army
Navy fight which Mr.. Truman
finally had to halt.
Should Admiral Denfeld be
forced to retire, 1t was felt likely
that Admiral Arthur w. Radford,
Pacific Fleet commander and
master-mind behind the Nays
presentations before the commit
tee, and Vice Admiral John D.
Price, vice chief of naval opera
tions, also would step aside.
Secretary johnson has assured
the committee there will be. no
reprisals. And Chairman Vinson
announced at the start that the
committee intended to protect
Navy witnesses from retaliation.
But Mr.. johnson also made it
clear that he didn't intend to put
up with people who strongly differ
on unif1cation. And Gen. Mark
Clark, comm ander of Army
Ground Forces, proposed oppo-
nents of it be "ruthlessly elimi-
mated"
Evening star., 1949-10-23
Scandinavian Society
To Hear Carl Johnson

Carl w. johnson, national pres
ident Of the Swedish Vasa, will be
guest speaker at a meeting of the
Baltic Scandinavian Society of
Washington at 8:15 pm. Thurs
day at the Central YWCA, Seven
teenth and K streets NV.
A business session and election
Of officers will follow the talk.
Evening star., 1949-10-23
Insurance Firm Set Up
BY Chinese Communists

SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. %. R-
The Chinese Communists an
nounced today they had estab-
lished the Chinese Peoples In
surance Co." to handle life, fire
and transportation insurance.
They said it later would extend
coverage to agriculture and other
industries.
Evening star., 1949-10-23
New Yorker Found
Shot Through Head
lin Texas Girls Home
BY the Assoeiotsd Press


HOUSTON, Tex, Oct. 22.-Allen
Thomas Sturges, 26. son Of a So
Lcially prominent New York and
New Jersey family, was found in
a bedroom today shot through the
head.
Doctors considered his chance
of survival slight. Homicide De-
tectiyes J. D. Irwin and Frank L.
Murray said he tried to commit
suicide.
Sturges was found about pm.
in the second floor bedroom Of a
house at 122 Sharp place here.
The detectives said he sent a bull
let through his head about two
hours earlier.
In his pocket were three notes.
One, expressing endearments and
regrets. was to Miss Marion Ytur-
ria, Is, Braniff Airlines employe
here. Another gave instructions
for his burial. The third named
his mother as Mrs. A. T. Sturges of
New York and cited his birth and
background.
Sturges was rushed to st.
Joseph's Hospital here for an
emergency operation.
Houston detectives said they
had definitely identified Sturges
as the man they sought here last
night at the swank Shamrock
Hotel at the request of the
Brownsville sheriff's Office. They
said Brownsville officers wanted
him on two felony charges.
Wanted on Check Charge.
At Brownsville, Sheriff Boynton
Fleming said one warrant charged
an Allen Sturges with removing a
mortgaged automobile from the
county without consent of the
mortgage holder. He said the
other was a charge of check
swindling in connection with a
check for $50 given a Browns
vile supermarket. Sheriff Fleming
said the automobile was a 1949
Buick, obtained from the Valley
Buick Co., with $500 check on
New York bank as a down pay
ment.
Houston police said 1949
Buick was found at the Shamrock
yesterday but the man they
sought. registered as "Dr. Ste
vens," was missing.
Miss Yturria, whose family owns
big ranch near Laredo, told po-
lice Sturges had driven new
Buick on several occasions when
she had dates with him Thursday
and yesterday.
Identified by Description.
Houston officers said members
OF the Shamrock Hotel staff iden-
titled Sturges from their descrip-
ton as the man who had signed
the register as DR.. Stevens on
Thursday, and left abruptly with
out paying a heavy bill.
Ofdcers said Sturges apparently
broke into the Sharp Place house
this morning. Miss Yturria had
been living there for some time
with friends.
They said that when Miss Ytur-
ria and two other young women,
Miss Bette Howard, %. and Miss
Jean Lloyd. %. approached the
house at about 5 p. m. today they
noticed screen had been cut and
a French porch window had beer
broken.
Called Police.
Miss Lloyd told police she went
upstairs while the others re-
manned below. She said she saw
a man slumped in q chair In a
back bedroom. She had not met
Sturges and did not recognize him.
The three girls rushed from the
house and called police.
The homicide detectives who
answered their call said q 81
caliber nickel-plated revolver lay
close to the chair.
Court records in Los Angeles
showed Allen r. Sturges robbed
Actor Bruce Cabot's home of ST.
500 in jewelry March 13, 1945. He
was arrested March 81, pleaded
guilty June II the same wear. was
Evening star., 1949-10-23
Conservotionist to Speak

William Vogt. chief"of the Con-
servation section of the Pan
American Union. will discuss con-
servation and land use in q talk
eQtitled, The United States Is
Not the World" at 4 pm. tomor-
row IN the Jefferson Memorial
auditorium Of the Agriculture
Department,
Evening star., 1949-10-23
Decision Of Congress
Will Be Accepted by
Navy, BIandy Says

The Navy will stand by the de-
cision Of Congress in the row with
other branches of the service and
the Defense Department, Admiral
William H. p. Blandy, commander
in chief of the Atlantic Fleet, said
last night.
: Admiral Blandy appeared as q
guest on the NBC television pro-
gram. Meet the. Press, answering
the questions Of panel composed
of NBC Commentator Robert Nc
Cormick: Lawrence Spivak, editor
of American Mercury magazine;
. Lloyd Norman Of the Chicago
Tribune, and Warren Francis, cor
respondent for the Los Angeles
Times.
Admiral Blandy told the panel
he is well satisfied by recent hear
ings before the House Armed
Services Committee.
II think 1t is an element of
strength in this country that such
hearings can be held" he said.
Was Leading Witness.
Asked what would happen if the
result of the hearings should go
against the cause of the naval wit
nesses, Admiral Blandy answered:
.'Of course, the Navy will abide by
that decision"
The officer, who appeared as
q leading witness for the Navy
during the House committee hear
ings. refused to answer several
questions which he described as
controversial. He said flatly
, that the Navy "of course is in
favor of unification Of the armed
services" But he declined to COM
ment on the effect Of the hearings
on the unification process.
Similarly, Admiral Blandy
would not discuss rumors that a
shuttle Of the high Navy Com
mand is contemplated by the De-
tense Department. Asked If he
would accept an offer to take over
as Chief Of Naval Operations, he
replied: ANY officer would"
Unlike some other critics of the
Air Force, Admiral Blandy told
the panel he does not feel that the
Air Forces giant B-36 bomber has
been over-rated as a strategic
weapon.
Role Seen Vital.
The role Of the Navy in the next
war. he admitted, may not be one
Of fighting other ships. But the
Navy's primary mission - the con-
troll of the sea - will be as vital
as ever. He reminded the news
men that troops overseas must be
supplied at the rate of $4,000, goo
tons a month for a force of ST.
100000 men. The Navy would also
be charged with the job Of sup
plying our allies overseas. and
with the importation OF materials
vital to our wartime industry.
AS for the battleship, Admiral
Blandy limited at o new role for
the Nays heavyweight in the
next war. ~
The old battleship might have
her face lifted and be used as
a launcher for guided missiles, I"
he said.
Admiral Blandy, who headed
the atom bomb tests at Bikini,
said it is not the Nays intention
to belittle the bomb as a weapon
Of destruction. However, he re-
peated his belief that an atom
bomb blast would be ineffective
unless it is dropped with accuracy
on specific targets.
Admiral Blandy was asked
about a reported personal feud
between himself and Army Chief
OF Staff Gen. Omar Bradley. It
had been reported that the two
officers refused to greet each other
during an upward ride in a Capt..
tol elevator during the hearings.
IF Emily Post says that you
have to shake hands at the top
as well as at the bottom" replied
Evening star., 1949-10-23
Variety of Strikes.

The survey showed there are
current strikes of workers in a
dozen other industries, but they
involve only about $4,000 persons.
These include lumber, meat
packing, railroads, warehousemen,
building trades. sugar plants, rub
ber, soft drinks. cotton mills,
poultry. hosiery and oil fields.
Biggest variety Of strikes is in
California where 34,505 are out
in i've disputes. They include
25,450 engineers and building
trades workers, 1000 sugar plant
workers made idle by the Hawaii
an dock strike and 5000 ware
housemen.
Pennsylvania has been hardest
hit by the coal-steel strikes. About
$4,000 have been laid of as the
indirect result Of the coal-steel
walkouts, which made another
100000 miners and steelworkers
idle in that State. Pennsylvania
listed a total of 100000 idle from
all causes.
The survey showed that $1,000
have been laid off on coal carry
ing railroads, $1,000 in steel fab
ricating plants. and 5000 in other
lines Of work.
Based on Compensation Claims.
The Survey. based on unemploy-
ment compensation claims, State
labor department estimates and
industry reports, indicated 3.818.-
900 persons are idle. These sin-
clude. 5000 striking steelwork-
ers. 100000 striking miners, $4,000
striking aluminium workers, and
1922 900 others. Included In the
jobless total are $4,000 in allied
industries made idle by the coal
steel-aluminum strikes. Here is
a breakdown by States:
Evening star., 1949-10-23
Chino
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(C0ntlnued From First PaRe.)
west from Canton within about $50
miles of Kweilin. ..
A Nationalist military spokes-
man IN Chungking placed Chen
about 220 miles from Kweilin,
however.
Evening star., 1949-10-23
nehru at Niagara Falls
En- Route 10 Ottawa
BY the k.seeiaisd Press

NIAGARA FALLS, Ont, Oct.
22.-Prime Minister Jawaharal
Nehru Of India arrived here to-
night and told newsmen he was
"very glad to be in Canada and
very much impressed by its parks"
The Indian leader flew to Buf-
falo from New York City in an Air
Force Constellation. He crossed
the; Peace Bridge from Buffalo
to Fort Erie. Ont.
Tomorrow Mr.. Nehru may take
q trip on the sightseeing steamer
Maid Of the Mist before motoring
to Toronto, then flying to Ottawa
for conferences with Dominion
officials.
With Mr.. Nehru are his sister,
Mrs. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, In
dia's ambassador to the United
States, and his daughter, Mrs.
Indira Gandhi.
Evening star., 1949-10-23

MOSCOW, Oct. a.. R-The So
Wet navy newspaper Red Fleet
said today that Indian Prime Min
lister Jawaharlal Nehru is Amer
ica's new candidate for leader Of
reactionaries In Asia, following
Chang Kai-shek's failure"
Evening star., 1949-10-23
Unemployment
CONTINUED From First Page.)

record for idleness due to strikes
The peak was reached in late
January, 1916 when 100000 were
put out of work by strikes, includ-
ing 100000 steelworkers, 250,000
meat handlers. 100000 electrical
workers and 10000 in a st. Louis
trucking strike.
Unlike the wave Of walkouts
in several big industries in the
immediate postwar period. only
the coal-steel strikes are major
threats to the Nations economy
at this time.
Evening star., 1949-10-23

sJobless (excludinR miners and steel
rikers). tCoal-steel layons in allied IN
IStries fOther strikes
Evening star., 1949-10-23

Nj. {. W. Moteer. formerly with The
Wosh. Gas Light Co., personally super.
vi,ss and guarantees svsr instaIIation.
Reg. D. G., Nd, Va.