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Evening star., 1949-07-18
Twins in Twin Cribs
Climb Out Window
And Fall 80 Feet
By the Associated Press

LONDON. July 18.-The
18-month- old Mansfield. twins,
Linda and Leonard. fell out
of their third-story bedroom
window together today.
They climbed over the tops
of their twin cribs. The spirit
of twin adventure carried
them to a double window.
They opened it and both
plummeted to the pavement,
80 feet below.
Linda was sleeping peace
fully at a hospital later, but
doctors feared Leonard might
have a slight brain concus-
sion.
Evening star., 1949-07-18
Atomic Group Calls Off
Secret Session Report
By the Assoeioted Press

The Senate House Atomic Com
mittee report today called off
meeting at which members were
due to get report on the hush
hush atomic conference at Blair
House.
There was no immediate ex-
planation for the cancellation of
the session, which had been set
for 1890 am. Committee aides
said a statement probably would
be issued later.
The meeting was primarily for
the purpose of examining security
evidence in the charges of in
credible mismanagement" which
Senator Hickenlooper. Republican,
of Iowa has made against the
Atomic Energy Commission. But
Chairman Mcmahon told report
ers he probably would give the
committee a fill-in on what took
place at the mystery conference.
President Truman called the
meeting last Thursday night.
High military, atomic. diplomatic
and congressional leaders at
,ended.
LONDON, July 18 (P).-Ths
British Foreign Office reluctantly
Omitted today it is in touch with
he United States lover general
tonic subjects"
A spokesman refused to say any
more than that when reporters
,elted him with questions about
,he state of British-American re-
ations on atomic affairs.
He refused to confirm or deny
hat Britain has made any direct
" indirect request for access to
.tomic secrets.
Evening star., 1949-07-18
Truman Seeks
Power Revise
Defense Now
Says Legislation Is
Best Method, but
Speed Is Necessary
By joseph A. Fox

President Truman today asked
Congress to approve reorganiza-
ton plan for the National Mill
tary Establishment which would
remove the onerous restrictions
and limitations imposed on the
Secretary of Defense by the Ma
tional Security Act"
This does not mean creation
of one-man rule or dictatorship"
the President said in message.
Legislation to accomplish the
purpose which the President now
seeks to make effective under his
general reorganization powers.
has passed the Senate, but has
been tied up in the House Armed
Services Committee where Chair
man Vinson, has charged that it
would set up the Defense Secre-
tary as dictator.
Truman Seeks Prompt Action.
The President made clear that
he believes that more appropri-
ate reorganization can be &C
complished by legislation"
But he said he was sending
along this alternative proposal
first, to emphasize the Importance
I attach to this matter and to
take action by all means at my
command to secure prompt action.
Second, to provide a sure means
whereby all the members of Con-
gress will be able to vote on the
question of improving our National
Defense organization in the event
that adequate legislation is no6
developed through the usual legis-
lative processes"
Under the Reorganization Act.
the Presidents plan would become
law if it lays before Congress for
so days without a rejection by
either House.
Proposal Is Explained.
Explaining his own plan which
would convert the National Mill
tary Establishment into the De-
partment of Defense, the President
said:
The Secretary of Defense, as the
head of the Department of De-
fense, will exercise authority, di-
rection and control over the de-
partment. Subject thereto. ths
departments of the Army. Navy
and Air Force will continue to be
4 administrators executive de-
partments by their respective Sec
retaries. The plan does not
change or authorize the Secretary
of Defense to change the statu-
tory assignment of combatant
functions, roles and admissions
to the Army. the Navy and the
Air Force.
The plan provides for the Of
flee of Deputy Secretary of De-
fense in place of the present
position of Undersecretary and
also provides the Secretary of De-
fense with three assistant Secre-
taries of defense. 1t will provide
for a chairman of the joint chiefs
of staff. 1t will provide for a per-
sonnel policy board, on the same
organizational basis as the NUM-
tions board and the research and
development board.
1T will remove the onerous re-
strictions and limitations imposed
on the Secretary of Defense by
the National Security Act which
are Inappropriate to his status as
head of the Department of De-
fense. 1t will make the Secretary
of Defense the sole representative
of the Department of Defense on
the National Security Council"
The President said the impor-
tant results to flow from his pros
(See UNIFICATION. Page A-6.)
Evening star., 1949-07-18
.Quakers' Report Asks
u. !. 10 Give A-Bombs
To U. n, End Output
Resumption Of Normal
Export to Red Nations
Also Recommended
By the Assooioted Press

PHILADELPHIA. July l8.-Ihe
American Friends Service Com
miJtee urged today that this coun-
try take the lead in promoting
world disarmament by putting it's
stock of atomic weapons under
United Nations seal and halt its
concentration of fashionable ma
terial.
| In 'state of the world" re-
port. the Quaker organization
winner of the Nobel peace prize in
1947-also recommended a re-
sumption of normal exports 10
Russia and her satellites as a step
toward solution of the East West
conflict.
The report, based on a six
month study of global conflict.
was drafted by Is persons who
conferred regularly with special
lists on Russian-American rela-
lions. Volumes of history and
theory also were studied while
experts of all nations were ques-
toned.
The core of the cold war. the
report stated, is economic. and
economic warfare is a two-edged
sword"
No Economic Peril Seen.
The report listed as crippling
moves the United States embargo
on trade with Russia and the
Soviet refusal to participate in
the Marshall Plan. But it added
those moves do not have ANY
substantial bearing on the retard-
ing of a country's relative war po-
tential."
The committee said the report
is tentative and is released for
discussion and constructive crit
icism.
It stated that there is no sub
stantial evidence that economic
recovery and further industriali-
zation in the Eastern European
countries would result in any in
creased threat to the security of
the United States or Western
Europe
"On the contrary, recovery and
industralization are in fact. at
least as likely to lead to these
countries being able, in the long
run, to take a more independent
position and play a more mitigat-
ing role in the East-West con-
flict."
Other Recommendations.
The committee also recon-
mended:
A new effort to settle the Ger
man problem in which "the Ger
mans themselves, under four
power supervision. would take the
initiative in preparing a constitu-
ton and Government for the
whole of Germany"
United States policy should
have as its objective the political
and economic unif1cation and the
naturalization of Germany. For
the United States and the Soviet
Union to continue the competition
for Germany will almost certainly
lead to disaster"
The United States should reaf-
firm its faith in the United Ma
tions and support moves to
strengthen the mediation and con-
ciliation functions of the United
Nations"
The committee said there is a
widespread world desire for peace
and concluded:
THE. evidence does not justify
the conclusion that either the
United States or the Soviet Union
intends, at the present time in the
unforseeable future. to promote its
foreign policy by military aggres-
sion."
Evening star., 1949-07-18
-Four Fast New Jets
Shown by Russia in
Display Of Air Might
StoIin Watches Review
Of Speedy New Planes
At Moscow Field
By Eddy Gilmore
Pres, FOREIGN Correspondent

A,soeio.ed Pres, Foreign Correspondent,
MOSCOW. July 18.-Russia
celebrated Aviation Day yesterday
by showing off four new planes
officially described as "superspeeo
jet aircraft
Foreign observers. high Soviet
leaders and the general public
watched hundreds of fighters and
bombers streak across the sky in
an impressive display of Soviet
air might.
One foreign air attache said the
new jets seemed extraordinarily
fast"
Among the watchers were Amer
lean Ambassador Alan G. Kirk
and other diplomats. with their
military, naval and air attaches.
Rear Admiral Leslie Stevens,
United States naval and air at
tache, said it was "a very inter-
esting show. Especially note
worthy was the fact that it was
restricted completely to modern
aircraft. There were absolutely
no obsolescent- types.
LAS usual. the formation and
acrobatic flying was magnificent.
Such performance comes only
after great practice" Admiral
Stevens has seen two previous
Aviation Day displays here.
Stain Watches Display.
Prime Minister Stain, who ap-
peared in good health and spirits,
watched from the clubhouse
veranda at Tushino Airfield
throughout the two-hour show.
His son, 1t. Gen. VASTLY Stain,
commanded the military section
of the demonstration.
The new jets, three single
engine and one two-engine type
whizzed past the reviewing stand
at extremely low levels. The
weather was excellent, with a
bright blue sky studded by cream
puff clouds into which the planes
frequently disappeared while
stunting.
The Russians demonstrated 8
tailless glider which did loops
tulns and spirals as a crowd Of
almost 100000 admiring Mus.
covites watched from the field.
The audience also saw three ia.
miliar types of jet fighters. va
kovlev, Mikoyan and Lavochkin
breeze over the field singly and ii
formations of three. five and nine
"Warmongers" Warned.
Marshal Konstantin A. Ver-
shinin. command in chief ef the
Soviet Air Forces, said in an
Aviation Day article in Pravda
that no single weapon can win a
war.
He said "Anglo-American war
mongers" assume wrongly that
the Russians ard their allies will
be intimated by the so-called
atomic or 'pushbutton' warfare.
These ideas emanate from the
completely distorted view that the
outcome of a war can be settled
by one kind of weapon alone.
History has proved the opposite
more than once"
Marshal Vershinin said Ameri-
can and British aviation leaders
exaggerated the Importance of
air power because the two ma
tions do not have reliable re-
serves of manpower" for infantry
and other services.
The Soviet leader also claimed
Russia had won the air war
against Germany for her World
War allies. He declared the So
Wet Air Force had destroyed u.s.
900 of 10000 aircraft he said
Germans produced in the last
years of the war.
Evening star., 1949-07-18
Czech Priests
Spurn Order 10
Desert beran
Defy Red Government,
Declare Loyalty to
Church Authorities
By the Associoted Press

PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, July
l8. - Czechoslovakia's Roman
Catholic priests have spurned or
ders from the Communist govern
ment to desert Archbishop Josef
Beran and the Vatican in the
church. state war.
At masses throughout the
country yesterday. they read
defiant resolution declaring their
continuing loyalty to church au-
thorities and willingness to bear
with them whatever consequences
they may face"
Rallying to the support of the
embattled hierarchy, the priests
accused the government of viola
ting constitutional guarantees of
religious freedom, condemned the
government sponsored Catholic
Action as schismatic, and asserted
that clerics' signatures indorsing it
had been obtained by fraud.
Views of Big Majority.
Priests who read the resolution
in Catholic churches said it rep
resented the views of a big ma
jority of the clergy.
They declared they were speak
ing from their own consciences
and "our responsibility before our
nation"
1--WE are certain all conscien-
tious and faithful Catholics agree
with us. and they would so testify
if they were given the opportun-
ity of free speech" the resolution
said.
Churchmen said the resolution
was~read in most Prague Catholic
churches including St. Vitus',
Archbishop Berans cathedral.
Cathedral officials said the
proclamation was read there at
the am. mass, although sched-
uled services later in the day were
Cancelled without explanation
and churchgoers turned away.
Tension Mounting In Fight.
The declaration was made as
tension mounted over the govern
ment's campaign to control the
church. On Friday, Justice Min
lister Alexei Cepicka called Arch
bishop Beran a traitor. Cepicka
disclosed a law was being drafted
to require government approval
Of all appointments to church
posts and to take over church
Cepicka. Catholic born son in |
law of President Klement Gott-
wald, had denounced the Vati-
can as "the greatest enemy of
our state"
Evening star., 1949-07-18
Steel Hearings
To0pen Ju|y28
In New York
Fuct-Finders See No
Difficulty in Getting
Report to President

President Truman's fact finding
board in the steel labor dispute
will open hearings in New York
July %, it was announced after
a preliminary session at the White
House today.
The plans of the three fact
finders, who will make recommen-
dations in the dispute between the
steel industry and the CIO steeI
workers, were announced by Car
roll R. Daugherty. professor ol
business economics at Northwest
ern University, the chairman
after he and his associates had
met with John R. Steelman. as
sistant to the President.
Mr.. Daugherty said it is antici-
pated that both sides will be
brought together in New York on
the afternoon of July 26 to dis
cuss procedural matters.
Mr.. Daugherty said the meet
ings will be public except for
such special circumstances as
might arise in connection with our
work
Site Convenient to All.
The site of the hearings in New
York will be chosen later. The
location. according to the Chair
man, was selected because it is
convenient for everybody con-
cerned and offers facilities that
will be important to the board S
deliberations.
Mr.. Daugherty said no difficulty
was anticipated in getting the re-
port to the President ready within
the 45-day period allotted under
the Presidents 60-day truce plan.
The other members of the board
are Samuel I. Rosenman OF New
York, former White House coun-
sci, and David L. Cole, lawyer
and labor mediator of Paterson.
N. J.
AS the board members met, the
White House made public a letter
from Judge Rosenman explaining
that he was taking the assign
ment with the understanding that
his connection with a steel COM
pany was recognized fully by the
President. 8,
Rosenman Asks Publicity.
He asked that "due publicity be
given to the matter. He said the
New York firm Of which be IS a
member has for several years been
counsel for the Rotary Electrical
Steel Co. of Detroit and one of his
associates is a member OF the
board of that company. which has
contract with the CIO United
Steel Workers.
Judge Rosenman said that when
Cyrus Ching. director of the Fed
eral Mediation Service. asked him
to become a member of the steel
panel, he told him OF this business
connection and Mr.. Ching stated
that sin his opinion these facts
do not in any way constitute
disqualification"
II am informed that these facts
have been brought to your atten-
ton and that you still desire that
serve on the board Judge
Rosenman wrote Mr.. Truman.
Accordingly. I shall be glad to
render whatever service 1 can in
this very important industrial
controversy.
After the White House meeting
today the fact flinders moved over
to Mr.. Chings Office
Have No Subpoena Power.
The board was named Friday
night.
While the fact finders can make
recommendations. they do not
have power of subpoena, and will
have to depend upon the good will
&C.. c<TrTr no-o A cA
Evening star., 1949-07-18
More Troops at Hong Kong

HONG KONG, July Is tP).-
Britain's Hong Kong garrison
today was strengthened by $500
reinforcements landed by the
troopships Dunera and Empire
Trooper. The garrison eventually
will have 10000 troops.
Evening star., 1949-07-18

(See IMPLICATION, Page AS.
Evening star., 1949-07-18

(See CZECH, Page A-6D
Evening star., 1949-07-18

(See BYRD, Page A-6D
Evening star., 1949-07-18
6 uide for Rea d ers

An Associated Press Newspope
Evening star., 1949-09-16
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you take your ioeket off! Jewel neckIine, rows OF
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Evening star., 1949-09-16

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Evening star., 1949-10-09

Ruhr iron and steel, various
manufactured goods, machine
tools, chemical products. rubber,
textiles and optical goods.
The Soviet zone will pay with
mine pit props, timber, farm
products, mineral oils, chemicals
and brown coal.
No money will change hands
under the agreement, which calls
for the movement of 800, ,000, 900
West marks worth of products in
each direction by June 80, 1850.
Symbol of Soviet Squeeze.
Gen. Kotikov, white haired
commandant of the Soviet sector.
is virtually the symbol of Russian
squeeze tactics against the West.
In days when the four-poWer
commandants were meeting in
Berlin, he set some kind Of re-
cord one afternoon by saying mo"
to IA various proposals of the
Americans, British and French.
The East German Communists,
having set up the government in
a swift session in East Berlin yes
terday, embarked on a busy week
end of conferences to prepare the
formalities of inducing Wilhelm
PECK as president and Otto
Grotewohl as chancellor for 90
100000 Soviet zone Germans
Wednesday.
Evening star., 1949-10-09
Trade
Deal Negotiated by.
Rival German Zones
By the Associated Press

FRANKFURT, Germany. Oct
8.-Eastern and Western Germans
signed today a 600,000,000 Wes1
mark ($138,o00.O0O trade dea
cutting across the political lines
drawn by their rival governments
Bookkeepers will handle the
problems created by the fact
Eastern and Western Germany
have different currencies. The
West mark, cut recently from 81
to % cents, Is highly regarded
The East mark is worth about a
sixth of the West mark.
The barter agreement was
signed by representatives of Ger.
man economic bodies created be-
fore the establishment of the
Western and Eastern German re-
publics. the former governed by
Conservatives and the latter by
Communists.
Kotikov Recall Expected.
Western Allied sources said they
expected the Russians to recall
their mo" man, Maj. Gen. Alex
ander Kotikov, and abolish his
command in Berlin now that Ger
man Communists have set up the
East zone regime.
1t was reported the move may
be announced when the Russians
formally recognize the new satel-
lite government Tuesday. With
drawal of occupation troops from
East Berlin is expected within IA
days.
The British and American zones
will ship East $4,000 tons of
Evening star., 1949-10-09
Jewish Center Schedules
Dance MARKING Succoth

A party dance in honor of the
Jewish holiday of Succoth, the
Feast of Tabernacles, will be held
at $50 pm. Tuesday at the Jew
ish Community Center, Sixteenth
and @ streets NV.
The event is under joint spon-
sorship of the Washington Armed
Services Committee of the Ma
tional Jewish Welfare Board and
the Young Adult Club of the jew
ish Community Center.
Hungry Horse news., 1949-12-09
Coleman Dykes Starts Clearing Contract
HUNGRY HORSE NEWS PHOTO

Clearing operations by Coleman
H. Dykes, Knoxville, Tenn, start
ed this week in the Hungry Horse
reservoir area.
Dykes, October 18, was awarded
a S508,950 contract to clear l,070
acres. He now has tractor and
crew clearing near the mouth of
Hungry Horse creek.
Seaboard Surety Co. this week
virtually completed their 1885
acre S408,3 800 clearing contract
started in May, 1s47 by R and S
Construction Co.
Wilson, Grove and Trisdale
have ceased operations for the
winter on their S1,733,880 con-
tract to clear 1910 acres. They are
95 per cent completed.
To be opened December 20 are
bids for clearing the remaining A.
sos acres in the reservoir area.
g Wilson, Grove and Trisdale en-
ployment averaged $50 during the
summer and Seaboard, 100.
Hungry Horse news., 1949-12-09
Falls Farm Couple
Want Son Released
From Chinese Reds

A Columbia Falls farmer and
his wife, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles M
Smith, want just one thing, for
Christmas-their son, William c.
Smith, a Navy chief electrician,
released from communist China.
Smith, 81. has been held a vir-
tual prisoner for IA months. In
Long Beach, Calf. is his wife,
Ruby, two sons, Michael, 212 and
Patrick, II months.
Chief Petty Officer Smith hasn't
been heard from since he and a
marine sergeant, Elmer c. Bender
of Ohio, made a routine flight in
North China, October 10, 1948.
At their farm home 10 miles
southwest on Columbia Falls route
1B, the Smiths eagerly listen to
the radio and read newspapers.
They wonder when Angus Ward,
the American consul was released
and still no word from their son.
Ray of hope this week was the
KGEZ broadcast of a Washington
dispatch reporting the two service
men as being held in northern
Korea.
The former Flat~as,l Columbia
Falls farm boy held in China is
a 1885 graduate of Whitefish high
school, who has been in the Navy
since 1896.
Mike Mansfield is helping.
Hungry Horse news., 1949-12-09
Smokey in Chicago
GSM On Vacations

In Chicago reviewing the ma
terial supply situation for build
ing Hungry Horse dam is c. w.
Smokey" Wood, GSM's general
superintendent. Mrs. Wood left for
Seattle, Tuesday.
The GSM permanent staff have
started to take month to six week
long vacations with many of them
going to the Pacific coast. Dur
ing the summer and fall months
the men worked seven days week
GSM employment has dropped
from its summer peak of 925 to 700
November l and now 225. Activity
at the damsite is limited to wind
ing UP excavation at the power
house site, and the two shafts
which viii become concrete keys
under the big dam itself. Shaft
excavation will continue most of
the winter.
Back to work day next spring at
the damsite has been tentatively
set for March 1.
Peak employment for the whole
project this past summer was 1000
in August. Next summer the figure
is expected to be $500.
Hungry Horse news., 1949-12-09
Gene KeIIeher Still Missinq

Christmas this year will likely
not be a joyous day for two Col
umbia Falls grandmothers, Mrs.
Lydia Comeau and Mrs. Katheryn
Kelleher, now in Blackfoot.
For December 23rd is the 10Th
birthday anniversary of Gene
Kelleher, son of the former, Bea
Comeau, now Mrs. Macomber.
Last April 6, Gene was happy
young sailor at a U. S. Navy air
station in Hawaii. He was looking
forward to 80 days leave at home
with his mother, and perhaps a
side trip to Columbia Falls and
the Comeau home on Lake Nc
Donald where he often spent his
summers.
Gene asked a buddy to go on
a picture taking hike. His buddy
begged off," The last seen of
Gene he was talking over the
telephone.
Mrs. Macomber went to Homo
lulu. She contacted Navy and po-
lice authorities, placed advertise
ments over the radio and in news
papers.
There were false leads such as
being instructed to answer the
telephone at such and such a time
if you want word of Gene.
But she did not find Gene. He
is listed by the Navy as missing"
There has been no definite proof
since April that he is dead or
alive
A November 25 local in the
Hungry Horse News was too op-
tomistic. 1t was wrong. We know
of no better Christmas than two
grandmothers and a mother learn
ing that Gene is safe.
Hungry Horse news., 1949-12-09
To Ask Contractors
For S1.50 Hour Wage

Representatives of Montana S
Laborers met in Helena November
26 and requested wage negoti-
alton meeting with the Associated
General Contractors of Montana.
The present contract with the
ACC expires April 80, 1850. 1t
is likely that the unions will press
for a common wage scale of $3.50
an hour, the same as being paid
by GSM since November l at
Hungry Horse and by the Canyon
Ferry prime contractors.