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Evening star., 1949-09-10
Two Brothers Are Charged
With Forcing Man 10 Work
BY the Associoted Press

LITTLE ROCK. Ark, Sept. los
Two white brothers have been
arrested on charges of KIDNAPPING
a Negro farmer, beating him and
forcing him to work because he
couldn't repay a $26 loan.
The brothers, Frank and Ches-
ter Brown, both about 40, were
picked up by Federal agents yes
terday in a cotton field near their
Hermondale, Mo-, farm. They
were indicted by a Federal grand
jury in Little Rock Tuesday.
Federal District Attorney James
T::~Gooch said a Federal grand
jury charged the men with kid
naping and conspiracy to kidnap
Robert Lee Talley. 27-year-old
Osceola, Ark, plantation worker.
Conviction on the former charge
carries a possible death penalty.
The browns were arraigned in
Cape Girardeau. Mo-, yesterday
and freed on $4,000 bonds each.
They may be tried in Jonesboro,
Ark, in. November.
In Washington, Attorney Cen
|eral McGrath said the Justice De-
|partment is considering further
charge of peonage against the
Browns. That action would have
to be brought in Missouri.
Evening star., 1949-09-10
Cohen Asks Police 10 Help
Him Find Missing Friend
Nv the Assoeioted Press

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 10
Gambler Mickey Cohen has asked
police to help him find his CHIEF
lieutenant, Frank Niccoli. 80,
missing for a week.
Il should bite off my tongue
for saying it, but I think the fell
lows gone-dead," Cohen anx-
iously told reporters. Il think
he walked into a trap" He said
he knew of no one who would
want to eliminate Niccoli.
Police said Niccoli's expensive
car was found at Municipal Air
port where it was left September
q.
Cohen lost another lieutenant
when he and his henchmen were
ambushed while leaving night
spot last July 20. Cohen was
wounded, Niccoli escaped injury,
but Neddie Herbert received fatal
wounds from unknown assailants.
Police offered the idea that
Niccoli might have gone east,
boarding a plane under an as
sumed name, to raise funds. But
Mickey said: 1--WE talked to, Cleve-
land, New York and other places
but I can't find a thing about
Frank"
Niccoli is under a $50,000 bond
on criminal conspiracy charges.
Evening star., 1949-09-10
New Move Made 10 Free
Lonely Hearts Killers
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK. Sept. 10.-The
warden of Sing Sing Prison has
been directed to show cause why
he is OBTAINING Mrs. Martina julie
Beck and Raymond Martinez Fer
nandez, convicted Lonely Hearts"
killers.
A writ of certiorari to that effect
was granted yesterday in Supreme
Court in Queens by Justice James
T. Hallinan.
Mrs. Beck and Fernandez. who
are awaiting execution at Sing
Sing, had applied through counsel
for a writ of habeas corpus, but
this request was denied by the
court.
The certiorari writ must be
answered by Tuesday.
The two were convicted of the
murder last January 4 in Valley
Stream, N. Y, of Mrs. Janet Fay,
66, Albany widow, in a plot to
swindle lonely women through
phony romances.
Counsel Herbert E. Rosenberg,
applying for a writ, argued that
the Bronx Supreme Court where
they were tried lacked jurisdiction.
Evening star., 1949-09-10
Colombian Political Fights
Reported Fatal 10 Dozen
By the Associated Press

BOGOTA, Colombia, Sept. 10
Reports from partisan political
sources yesterday said dozen
or more persons have been killed
in fighting between Conservatives
and Liberals in rural sections OF
COLOMBIA since the gun fight in
the Chamber of Deputies here
Wednesday midnight.
The Conservative Party news
paper Ell Siglo said four Con-
servatives were slain in attacks
by Liberals at Barichara and Ga
Ian, in Santander Sur DEPART
ment.
1t also reported three policemen
were slain by Liberals at Maja-
gual, in Bolivar department, and
that 27 houses owned by Conserva-
tives were burned in those towns.
The Liberal Party's Ell TEMPO
said Conservatives were the ag-
gressors in the Barichara out
break and that eight persons were
killed. Ell TEMPO said one person
was killed by gunfire in Galan.
There were unconfirmed re-
ports that as many as 20 may have
been killed at Barichara, Ell
TEMPO said.
Evening star., 1949-09-10
Lyndon Johnson Primary
Nav Be Probed in Texas
BY the Assoeioted Press

ALICE, Tex, Sept. 10.-A pos
sibility appeared today that a spe-
cial grand jury which returned
an indictment in the Staying OF
w. H. Mason may dig Monday into
a contested Senate race.
The jurors returned murder
with malice" indictment yesterday
against former Deputy Sheriff
Sam Smithwick, go. in the July 20
shooting of Mr.. Mason-a crusad-
ing radio commentator.
Then. said the Corpus Christi
Caller Times. the jury started an
inquiry into the August %, 194S,
Democratic primary in Jim Wells
County.
It recessed-to convene again
Monday-after issuing several
subpoenas.
The August primary was the
Statewide race in which Senator
Lyndon johnson gained the party
nomination over former Gov. Coke
Stevenson by an 87-vote margin.
Mr.. Stevenson later charged
that 200 fraudulent" ballots had
been added to precinct 13 in Jim
Wells County after the polls
closed,
Evening star., 1949-09-10
Restaurant Beverage Group
Indorses Chest Campaign

The Restaurant Beverage As
sociation has Endorsed the 1850
fund campaign of the Community
Chest Federation.
Meeting last night at the Chick
en- Hut Restaurant. the association
heard Aaron Goldman, chairman
of business unit No. 2 of the
chest campaign. outline plans for
bringing the Red Feather Appeal
to all business firms and profess
sional Offices with fewer than Is
employees. There are more than
5000 such firms in the District,
Mr.. Goldman estimated.
Morris Engel, vice president of
the Restaurant Beverage ASSocia-
ton, was chosen chairman to
spearhead the recruitment of as
sociation members to work in the
fund campaign. Working with
Mr.. Engle will be 81 Wiener, Lew
Frank, Tom Conners. Norman
Bomze, Jimmy Lake, William Ka-
vakos and Benny Bortnick.
Evening star., 1949-09-10
u. n. Kashmir Commission
Urqes Nimifz Arbitration
BY The Assoeioted Press

NEW DELHI, Sept. 10.-The
United Nations Kashmir Commits
sion disclosed today that it has
proposed that Admiral Chester
Nimitz arbitrate the India-Pakis-
tan dispute over Kashmir.
Admiral Nimitz's decisions in
the matter would be binding, the
commission said. He already has
been named Kashmir plebiscite
administrator. His arbitration
would end when truce terms are
decided on.
The Kashmir Commission pro-
posed almost two weeks ago that
India and Pakistan agree to arbi-
tration of their Squabble over the
princely state which both want.
Fighting in the princely state a
neighbor of Soviet sia-stopped
last January but India and Pakis-
tan have been unable to agree on
terms for q plebiscite to decide
Kashmir's future. Most resi-
dents of Kasfmir are Moslens;
its Maharajah is q Hindu.
Evening star., 1949-09-10
Virginia Clio Council
Pledges Finish Fight
On Byrd Machine
BY the Associated Press

DANVILLE, Va, Sept. TO-
Senator Byrd, Democrat, of Vir-
ginia, was under repeated attacks
here yesterday as the Virginia CIO
Council pledged fight to the fin
ish against the Byrd machine. "
Delegates to the ninth annua,
convention pledged themselves to
continue the job of political ac-
tivity to the end that the
rule of the Byrd machine shall be
forever terminated.
In line with this resolution, the
assembly linked Senator Byrd to
the right to-Work" law, the pro-
posed poll tax amendment and
other legislation-pledging them
selves to combat all these meas
ures.
Without mentioning President
Truman's campaign promises, the
gathering called for enactment
of union objectives incorporated
in his plans. The delegates urged
improvements in the fields OF
housing. minimum wages ano
measures to strengthen the Labor
Department."
Called "Scare and Scab Law"
While the ultimate aim of the
convention is to devise means OF
fighting the Taft-Hartley law
major attention was turned to the
States right to work" law and
the Byrd organization.
The State law was described as
a right to scare and scab law
by Man Sussman. Richmond Off
cial of the Food and Tobacco
Workers Union.
| A resolution condemning the
law passed without dissenting
vote.
The same spirit prevailed when
a resolution was offered to put
the CIO on record as being op-
posed to proposed poll tax amend
ments to be decided upon in the
November election.
| Charles E. Webber, president OF
the State CIO Council, declared
that while the CIO had been seek
ing abolishment of the poll tax
This plan is far worse"
AFL Corporation Urged.
IF voted, this constitutional
change would make it impossible
ever to defeat the Byrd machine,
he asserted.
During the afternoon, Mr.. Web
Der submitted his report on CIO-
PAC activities in the State fol
the last year and then Offered
several recommendations for ex.
pansion of the political program.
Highlighting these was one that
the CIO-PAC director and execu-
tive board cooperate with such
other groups of the AFL anc
other labor unions.
Mr.. Webber and Lloyd P
Vaughan of Lynchburg were virtu'
ally assured reelection as presi.
dent and secretary-treasurer o.
the CIO council today.
Evening star., 1949-09-10
Hawaii Strike Negotiators
Fail 10 Make Progress
By the Associofed Press

NEW YORK, Sept. 10.-Talks in
the prolonged and costly Hawaiian
dock strike enter a weekend ses-
sion today, with negotiators IN a
not-very hopeful mood.
II wouldn't say we'd made any
progress" Cyrus S. Ching, United
States mediation chief, told news
men yesterday after an all-day
series of closed meetings.
Representatives of the Hawaiian
Employers Council were equally
gloomy, while Harry Bridges, head
of the CIO Longshoremen and
reimbursement Union, kept his
attitude to himself.
w. Russell Starr, chairman of
the employer committee, said he
had no particular feeling OF
progress"
Another one of the seven steve
doring company representatives,
John B. Guard. said hopes for set
ting the 133-day-old vtrike were
mot too encouraging"
Today marks the fourth day Of
talks since the negotiations moved
to New York in hopes that Mr..
Ching could help work out a set
tlement.
Evening star., 1949-09-10
Seizure of Railroad
Possible Under Law
By the Assoeioted Press

Government transportation ex-
perts said today the only means
by which the government can
force an end to a railroad strike
is to seize the railroad. There is
no indication that this is being
considered in the Missouri Pacific
strike.
A 1916 law enables the Presi-
dent, in wartime, to order the
Army to take over and operate
any transportation system, or part
of it. This is the law under which
the railroads were seized last year
to avert nationwide strike.
Officials said this law could be
invoked in the Missouri Pacific
strike, because the nation still is
technically at war. Once the
railroad was seized by the gov
eminent. the employees could be
stopped by court order from con-
tinuing a strike.
President Truman yesterday
created an emergency board to
investigate a labor dispute on the
Monongahela Connecting Rail
road. His action heads off a
strike which had been called for
today.
Evening star., 1949-09-10
New Reich Air Force
Reported in Red Zone
By the Associoted Press

BERLIN, Sept. 10.-A new Ger
man air force of fighters and
bomhers is being created in the
Soviet zone, reliable informants
said today.
Both British and American in
telligence officers would say only
there have been some reports
about that sort of thing" Neither
would discuss the nature OF re-
ports they had received.
An American source said that
if the reports were true. it would
be "only just another" Russian
viola ton of the Four-PoWer agree
ment at Potsdam for disarming
Germans.
"They are openly training Ger
mans in small arms artillery and
even tanks" he said. 1T is only
just another step to an air force.
One traveller from the Eastern
zone said German policemen with
wartime Lutwaffe (air force) ex-
perience, are being registered and
trained in both Russian-made
planes and captured German
Foucke-W and Messer-
schmidts.
Another informant with access
to information in the Soviet zone
said the Red air force has been
steadily increasing the number
of planes stationed at air fields
in Saxony and Thuringia. ap-
parently for training purposes.
Four new flights, he said, ar
rived this week at Altdamm, near
Gtaftin
Evening star., 1949-09-10
WushingtonArmy OfficerKi|Ied
By Grenade Explosion in Japan

had been in Tokyo since May,
1947. Col. Van Deusen was on ac-
tive duty with the Army here, as
signed to the Adjutant Generals
office.
1t. Van Deusen is survived by
his parents and brother, John
T. E. Van Deusen, a., a law
student at George Washington
University.
While at West Point. 1t. Van
Deusen was a member of the
academy swimming team, held
the record for the 150-yard
backstroke event and set new
records in 1945 and 1916.
He was a member of the Army
Athletic Association, Army and
Navy Country Club and the Army
and Navy Club of Washington.
He attended the infantry school
at Fort Benning, Ga. after grad
uation from West Point.
Evening star., 1949-09-10
New 100000 S|ander Suit
Filed Against Miss Bentley
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK, Sept. 10.-A sec
ond 100000 slander suit has been
filed by William w. Remington,
Commerce Department economist,
on the basis of charges made
against him by Elizabeth Bentley,
former Communist.
With the outcome Of the first
suit still pending, Mr.. Reming-
ton filed the new papers in Fed
eral Court yesterday. Both ac-
Itions stem from a television pro-
gram on which Miss Bentley
appeared.
The new suit names as de-
PENDANTS Lawrence E. Spivak
Martha Rountree and Press Pro-
ductions, Inc, owners and pro-
ducers of the television program
Meet the Press"
The earlier slander suit is
against Miss Bentley. the National
Broadcasting Co. and the General
Foods Corp, sponsors of the pro-
gram.
Miss Bentley in July, 1948, had
told a Senate subcommittee that
she was a prewar Communist spy
courier, and sometimes went to
Mr.. Remington to try to get con-
fidential Government information.
She called him Communist.
Mr.. Remington, who denied the
charges, was suspended from his
Government job for a time, but
later was reinstated after a 10y
atty review board cleared him of
the accusations.
Evening star., 1949-09-10
100000 Alienation Suit
Names Washington Widow

(Fron, Yesterdays Late EditionsD
A Washington widow of labor
relations expert today was named
defendant in a 100000 damage
suit which accuses her of alienat-
ing the affections of the husband
of a California woman. The suit
was filed in District Court here.
1t named Mrs. Grace A. Flentje,
2480 Sixteenth street NV, whose
husband, the late Ernest L. Flentje
was a writer, expert on labor mat
tiers and at one time executive
secretary of the National Associa-
ton of Master Plumbers.
Mrs. Diana r. Mcintyre of Hol-
lywood, Calf. accused Mrs.
Flentje of alternating the affec-
tions of James Mcintyre, Cali
fornia real estate man. She also
accused Mrs. Flentje of miscon-
duct.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mcintyre were
married in Arizona in December
1886, according to the suit. Mrs
Mcintyre is represented by Louis
Rothschild. Mrs. Flentje could
not be reached for comment.
Evening star., 1949-09-10
Killer
OfWife Is Reprieved

LONDON, Sept. 10.-A man
convicted both of trying to kill his
wife and of her murder was re-
prieved from the gallows today.
He is Leonard j. Thomas, 46,
a warehouseman. He had ap-
pealed to the courts in vain that
his two trials were illegal because
they involved the same criminal
act.
Thomas was to have died next
Thursday. He was found guilty
last spring of stabbing his 38-
year-old wife with intent to mur-
der and was sentenced to seven
years. She died after he began
serving his sentence. He was then
tried again, this time for murder
and condemned to hang.
Evening star., 1949-09-10
Germony's Beauty Queen
Emiqrotes to America

FRANKFURT, Germany, Sept
10.-Germany's beauty queen,
Inge Loewenstein, emigrated to
the United States today.
The 26-year-old brunette, who
won a Germany-wide beauty con-
test early this year. flew on a
plane of the Pan American Air
ways, the company for which she
has been working as a sales girl
in Stuttgart.
She said she hopes to become
an American citizen. On arrival
in New York she will go to the
home of q friend.
Evening star., 1949-09-10
Hungary
Continued From First Page)

Cominform provocations and hos
tile Soviet notes before the U. N.
1--WE see no necessity for doing
So" he said.
Kardelj was asked whether re-
cent developments in the cold war
with the Russian-dominated Com
inform would make any difference
in this country's action in inter-
national debate. He said it would
not.
With Kardelj went Milovan
Djilas, secretary of the Politburo; p"
Deputy Foreign Minister Ales
Bebler, veteran of international
parleys, and Information Direc-
tor Vladimir Dedijer.
They left here by train.
Evening star., 1949-09-10
6. 0.P.Kickoff Dinner
Lauds Johnson, Hits :
Machine in Virginia !

More than 1870 Northern Vir-
ginia Republicans last night hon-
ored Walter Johnson, G. o. P.
nominee for Governor. at kick
off" dinner for his November elec-
ton campaign in this area.
Mr.. johnson told the gathering
that Republicans in Virginia
should be encouraged by the vote
in the Democratic primary, which
he said was ST per cent opposed
to the candidate of that fright
full thing" the machine" of the
dominate political organization.
Seeks More Local Powers.
The COP platform, soon to be
released. will call for local control
of local offices. the candidate de-
clared. He attacked the power Of
the State Compensation Board TO-
set salaries of local officials. =
Last nights dinner was held at c
the Alexandrian Room, 1925
Prince street, and was sponsored
by the Fairfax County Republican
Committee. Tyrrell Krum, chair
man of the Fairfax committee,
was postmaster.
Northern Virginia Republican
candidates for the House of Dele
gates. who were presented, were
Richard Buckingham, Alexandria,;
II. Lee Potter, Arlington, and
Douglas Clark, Fairfax County
and Falls Church. Mrs. Joseph
R. harrington, president of the
National Federation of Women's
Clubs. also addressed the group.
Urges Aid of Young People.
Charles r. Richey, executive
secretary of the Young Republic
can National Federation, asked
that the young people of the party
be given "a big share Of the job"
of building bridge to victory,
over "the deception, the fraud and
the lack of American principle
that Mr.. Byrd has thrust upon the
people of Virginia"
He said the people Of the State
have been the victims of Senator :
Byrd's ruthless and irresponsible
political machine" Immediate
and affirmative steps must be TAX
en-, Mr.. Richey declared, to en-
courage young people to join the
G. o. P. "or else fold up shop as
party"
Evening star., 1949-09-10

influence the actions of my corps,
there can be no connection"
Gen. Feldman's friendship with
Mr.. Hunt also came under close
scrutiny from the committee. The
general told the committee he had
no idea Mr.. Hunt was operating
as "so-called five-percenter" and
if he had known it Hunt never
would have come to my Office"
Gen. Feldman was questioned
particularly about sending to Mr.
Hunt a revised copy of the Quar-
termaster Corps proposed clothile
and equipment purchase program
for 1948 with the request that Mr.
Hunt keep the information conf
Dental.
In reply, Gen. Feldman said the
information already had been pub
lished in appropriations bill hear
ings and in a textile trade paper
and the only reason he asked it to
be kept confidential was because
it was very tentative and subject
to change. Under a barrage of
questioning, he insisted the pro-
curement list was most harmless"
and would put any bidder at a
disadvantage if he had based his
bids on what was on the list.
Asked About DDT Deal.
He was also questioned about a
transaction in surplus DDT bombs
through which Mr.. Hunt saved a
client $320,000 by arranging for
the Quartermaster Corps to re-
claim the bombs from the War
Assets Administration. Gen. Field
man said the Army had been try
ing to get the bombs back for
months and if Mr.. Hunts client
had come directly to him. he could
have rid himself of the obligation
to buy the bombs without paying
Mr.. Hunt $4,000 fee for one days
work.
The committee also wanted to
know about a cablegram prepared
by Mr.. Hunt and sent by Gen.
Feldman to Gen. Macarthur S
headquarters to enable two of Mr..
Hunts clients to get into Japan.
Gen. Feldman argued that it was
proper for the two businessmen to
go to Japan because he wanted
to keep them interested in a
Quartermaster Corps program to
set up milk reconstruction plants
in the Far East.
Gen. Feldman testified he was
on the closest of terms" person.
ally with Mr.. Hunt, but that Mr..
Hunts clients never got con-
tract out of the Quartermaster
Corps.
He fatty told the committee he
was prepared to justify every ac-
ton that I have taken and every
decision I have made"
Evening star., 1949-09-10
Banker Session Hear
Byrd Warn Of Trend
To Regeneration
By the Associated Press

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va, Sept.
10.-Senator Byrd, Democrat of
Virginia, warned state bankers
last night that unless the trend
toward a more powerful central
government is halted, the United
States is headed for regimenta-
ton equal to that suffered by the
English"
In a speech before the Virginia
Bankers Conference at the Uni
versity of Virginia, the Senator
also said:
Private enterprise cannot sur
vive excessive RECOMMENDATION, ex-
cessive taxation and excessive
Government competition"
Those who wilfully or other
wise would destroy the American
enterprise system, he said, would
destroy the freedom of people
everywhere. "**'
Session Closes Today.
He was to have made an after
dinner address but in order to
accommodate a larger audience
he spoke in Cabell Hall. The
more than 200 bankers attending
the ninth study conference were
scheduled to close their sessions
at noon today.
He pointed out that he has
joined other Senators in intro
ducing a resolution providing for
single appropriation bill, to to-
tai all budget items in one act
and specify how much of each
item could be obligated in the
next year.
Then he predicted that the Fed
eral Government will run up a
deficit, under present procedures,
of $4,000 100000 during the fiscal
year ending July /, 1850, and
So ,O00,0O0,000 during the IL
months following.
Says 1870 Cut Could Be Absorbed.
Senator Byrd insisted on dras-
tic reduction in Federal expend-
itures as the only course open
without courting national disaster.
He expressed the opinion that.
with the exception of interest on
the public debt and several SIM
liar items, there is not a single
category of Federal expenditures
that could not absorb a 10 per
cent reduction without impair
ment of essential functions"
A reduction in Federal expend-
itures cannot be accomplished
without a will to do so and a
long plan, the Senator
stated.
He noted that the last budget
submitted by President Truman
contained some 40 spending pro-
posals, exclusive of military and
foreign commitments, but Ibid
not recommend the elimination
of a single one of the thousands
of functions, services and activi-
ties of the Federal Government" "