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Evening star., 1949-09-03
Senate Session
Sets q Record
For Brevity

The Senate set a record for
brevity today with an official ses-
sion lasting less than a minute.
This broke the House record OF
a two-minute session yesterday.
With only three other Senators
on the floor. Senator Hayden.
Democrat, of Arizona, called the
Senate in session at noon. Omit
ting the usual opening prayer.
he ordered read a letter naming
him temporary presiding officer,
and then adjourned.
Other members present were
Majority Leader Lucas, Senator
Miller, Democrat. of Idaho. and
Taft, Republican, Of Ohio.
The brief session was held TO
meet constitutional requirements
during a weeks recess from work
being taken by the Senate.
Evening star., 1949-09-03
so Planes to Take Part
In Three-Doy Air Races i.

CLEVELAND, Sept. 3 (R.-Car-
rier-based jet pilots in the At
lantic and flyers in California
watched the starters flag today
for a signal to dash for Cleveland
and the goth National Air Races
Speed planes at Cleveland Air
port were set to take-off. too. or
the first day Of the three-ddy
event and the. Weather Bureau
promised good weather all around
Altogether, around 60 planes will
participate in the races, with
speeds ranging up to TOO miles pei
hour.
Navy Jets were due to finish q
dash from the carrier Midway
steaming of the coast 500 miles
east of Cleveland-about the same
time the Bendix flyers and Army
jets reached Cleveland from Cali
fornia. Air National Guard Jets
will compete in loW-level swoop
from Indianapolis tomorrow.
The first closed-course race.
scheduled at 1880 am, brought
into competition half a dozen
midget planes in the first heat Of
a three-day marathon for the
Goodyear Trophy and a share in
$4,000 prize money. Four heats
were scheduled for the Is little
speedsters.
The. big closed-course event Of
the day was the $500 Sohio
Trophy race. The field Is made
up of 10 of the 10 qualifiers in the
unlimited class. The other nine
qualif1ers will fly tomorrow In the
Zimmerman Trophy race.
The Soho field includes the
odd-number planes ranked by
qualifying speed; the Zimmerman
includes the even numbered
planes. Race officials used that
method to provide a balance in
competition in each race. Some of
those who qualified will not fly,
however.
One-day feature of the program
is mock offensive by Marine Re-
serves against defense position
in front of the stands.
The three-day show reaches its
climax in the Thompson Trophy
Race on Monday. 1t will be run
in two divisions, one for propeller
planes with speeds around 400
miles an hour, and one for Air
Force jet fighters. with speeds
round 600 miles an hour.
The jets hit that pace in unof-
dcial timing yesterday, but are un-
derstood to have done much better
around q similar course laid out
on the desert at Muroc Air Base.
The propeller planes will fly Is
laps of the 15-mils course. The
Jets will fly 10 laps. They made
only a few turns of the course yes
terday for familiarization.
Evening star., 1949-09-03
Jet Plane on Secret Test
ExpIodes, Killing Pilot

BUFFALO, N. Y, Sept. 3 R.-
A Jet plane on a secret test fight
dug q crater 10 feet deep as 1t
crashed and exploded in plowed
field near here yesterday after
noon.
The pilot, Left w. Larsen. 81,
Of nearby Elma. was killed. The
accident happened in suburban
Amherst about Is minutes after
he took of from the Niagara Falls
Airport.
One witness said the plane,
identified as a Lockheed F-80
Shooting Star, zoomed over tree
tops at a terrific speed. then "just
dipped right into the ground
and blew up"
Wreckage was strewn over a
500-yard area.
Mr.. Larsen had planned to
leave his job with the Cornell
Aeronautical Laboratory, Inc,
next week to resume studies at
Princeton University. He was q
graduate Of Deadwood IS. Dak.)
High School and attended South
Dakota School Of Mines.
Evening star., 1949-09-03
ACTRESS Seeks Divorce
From jackie Cooper
BY the Associated Press

LOS ANGELES. Sept. 3.-Ac-
tress June Horne wants q divorce
from Jackie Cooper. az, one-time
juvenile player, claiming he has
caused her anguish, pain, humili-
alton and embarrassment"
The 30-year-old actress. in her
suit filed yesterday, said she has
Conducted herself with kindness
and affection" but MIR. Cooper has
treated her cruelty.
Evening star., 1949-09-03
Seven Killed in C-H Crash
Near ANCHORAGE. Alaska

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Sept. 3
P.-An Alaska Air Depot CAT
plane crashed into Cook Inlet
near Fire Island yesterday, kill
ing all seven crew members.
Today an Army crashboat was
at the scene, about IA miles south
and west of here, trying to find
the bodies. 80. ~. ~n u.
A 10th Rescue Squadron float
plane earlier sat down near the
wreckage and the pilot brought
back some portions Of the plane,
from which identification was
made. The plane had been on
q routine training flight and had
been in the air only As minutes
when it crashed.
Crewmen Of a C-s2 troop car
rier plane reported seeing the
CAT appear suddenly out of a
cloud, go into a fiat spin and
plunge into the inlet. They said
they thought they saw two OBJ
jects fall from the doomed plane
and said they might have been
bodies"
Names of the CAT crew men,
bers were withheld at Elmendorf
Air Force Base pending recovery
Of bodies and notification Of kin.
Communications with the Army
crashboat were handicapped be-
cause the vessel had no radio.
Evening star., 1949-09-03
Tito Reported Doubling
Attack, but Is PREPARED

PARIS, Sept. 3 R.-Tito
doesn't expect a Russian attack
ON Yugoslavia. but he is prepared
for it if it comes, says Prof. Kirt-
ley Mather of Harvard University.
Prof. Mather, who lunched with
the Yugoslav marshal at his sum-
mer home last week. told a Paris
news conference last night:
"Tito intends to pursue his pol
icy which he believes is best for
Yugoslavia.
"He does not expect a Soviet
attack, but is prepared for it If
1t comes"
Prof. Mather said when he asked
Tito If his discussions In 1914 with
Prime Minister Stain had been
harmonious. the marshal an
swered:
"They were not"
Bars Western Interference.
Prof. Mather said Tito told him
he was anxious for good economic
relations with the West "but not
at the price of Western interfer-
ence in the internal affairs Of his
country"
Prof. Mather added:
Stain thinks Tito ought to be
subservient and Tito thinks not.
But more fundamental than their
personal differences is their cleav-
age over Tito's conception Of the
decentralized state.
In Yugoslavia there is as
much decentralization as possible
with six republics, each having a
good deal of autonomy.
That to me-" he went on,
means there are some elements
Of democracy in the Tito concept.
That is not to say it Is a true
democracy in my concept Of the
idea.
"At the same time Tito does
not believe In the monolithic
state as Stain apparently does -
Evening star., 1949-09-03
Skinner
Continued From First PageD

time is due to the early retirement
of Admiral PoWnall.
Familiar with conditions in
Guam and experienced in security
matters, Mr.. Skinner is regarded
by both Navy and Interior off,
cials as we'll qualified to direct
the affairs of the small island Ter
ritory. He served at sea in COM
mand of ships with the Coast
Guard during the war.
Born in Palo Alto. Calf, April
8, 1918, the son of Macy H. Skim
ner and Mrs. Marian Junkins
Skinner, he attended Wesleyan
University in Connecticut and was
graduated from the University OF
California in 1884. He married
Jeanne Rowe in 1943 and they
have two children.
After service with the United
Press and the Wall Street Journal
in Washington for six years, Mr..
Skinner entered the Government
service in 1896. He served with
the information Offices in the La
Dor Department and the Maritime
Commission. In the war he par
ticipated in one of the first actions
against the enemy-the seizure OF
S. S. Busko and capture of the
German weather station in Green
land, September IL, l941.
Mr.. Skinner commanded the Sea
Cloud, on weather observations in
the North Atlantic and also the
U. S. S. Hoquiam. being released
by the Coast Guard with the rank
of lieutenant commander.
He went with the Maritime
Commission as chief of the Sales
and Charter Section in l945 and
then to Interior as information
chief April 20. 1946. He also served
as security officer, member OF the
Loyalty Board and member OF the
Board of Directors of the Virgin
Islands Corp. He is member OF
the National Press Club and for
three years served as sailing chair
man for the Presidents Cup Re-
patta in WASHINGTON.
Evening star., 1949-09-03
Skeleton Keys Added
To Evidence Against
Two Lorton Fugitives

Two skeleton keys for picking
locks were added today to the evi-
dence against pair of Lorton
Reformatory prisoners whose es-
cape attempt was shocked by
Washington police Thursday.
The two keys had been filed
from hacksaw blades. investi-
gators said. They added that
one was found in the ignition
lock of a stolen automobile in
which the two tried to escape and
the other on the person of Edward
M. Shane, 26.
Shane and Robert Waldron. 10,
had seized a reformatory truck
which they abandoned, police
said, before stealing an automo-
bile belonging to G. L. Sinclair in
Fairfax County, Va.
Caught After Chase.
They were caught after a TO-
hour chase around the
Tidal Basin Thursday night dur
ing which Washington police fired
six Shots. Waldron was serving
one to four years for automobile
theft and Shane one to eight
years for robbery.
Supt. Edward J. Welch Of Lor-
ton Reformatory said today that
charges Of transporting stolen
automobile across a State line
would be presented by FBI in
vestigators to the October term
of the Federal grand jury in the
Eastern District of Virginia.
The two also were charged with
escape.
Worked in Machine Shop.
Mr.. WEIGH said Shane and
Waldron had been working in the
machine shop at the reformatory
and they apparently shaped the
keys from lengths of hard steel
during their work hours in train
ing as mechanics.
The two men had begun serving
their sentences early this year.
All policemen who figured in
the chase and capture of the pair
were praised yesterday by Police
Supt. Robert J. Barrett, who said
special commendation was merited
by the two who actually made the
arrest. They are Pvt. Wallace X.
Valentine and Joseph O'Connell.
Evening star., 1949-09-03

declaring the Yugoslav working
people will find in themselves
sufilcient strength to sweep away
the Fascist -Gestapo regime OF
Tito and Rankovic cit. Gen.
Rankovic, a Deputy
Premier) and basing themselves
on international forces Of the
working class step onto the path
of real building in socialism"
Izvestia contended the Soviet
Union played the decisive role in
the defeat of Japan and that
are blocking q aJapanese
peace treaty.
Evening star., 1949-09-03
Robson
Continued From First Page)


for the Law and Order Commit
tee," asked Judge Clancy for an
order directing Westchester Coun-
ty officials and the veterans to
show cause why they should not
be forbidden a parade permit.
The veterans say they're going
to demonstrate right smack in
front Of the concert grounds, and
that might cause violence" Mr..
Rothenburg told the court.
Judge Clancy said the argument
was entirely irrevelant since his
court had no jurisdiction. And
he added:
II assume everybody obeys the
law and I don't know why you
think the veterans are going to
disobey it. You want your rights
preserved, but no one else's. I
think this is a cheeky application" D."
Called Matter for State.
The judge then asked Mr.. Roth
enburg to show how the court had
power to intervene. Mr.. Rothen-
burg said it was obvious the vet
Grams were going to cause violence
II don't know where you get the
notion that I can interfere with
State officials" Judge Clancy re-
piled. This matter is for the
State officials to decide"
Veterans units that paraded in
protest against last weeks concert
have announced they will parade
tomorrow afternoon past the site
OF the new program-at the for
mer Hollow Brook Country Club,
4 miles north of PeekskiH.
They rejected a suggestion by
District Attorney George Fanelli
that they parade in Peekskill in-
stead of at the concert site.
Gov. Dewey said: "The rights
of free speech and Of assembly
are guaranteed to all, regardless
of political beliefs"
Rights Must Be Respected.
These rights" he added, must
be respected, however hateful the
views of some of those who abuse
them"
There was no indication how
many State police would be mobi-
lized in the area.
In addition to State police,
Westchester County police will be
on hand to guard against another
riot.
The veteran groups, after voting
down Mr.. Fanelli's suggestion. IN
vited ex-Servicemen from other
States to join them in parading
past the gates of the concert
grounds.
Believe $4,000 Will March.
They predicted $4,000 will join
in the parade as a protest against
communism.
Robson, identified with numer-
GUS leftist movements, has been
the object of several such demon
strationS.
His supporters predicted $4,000
persons will attend the concert.
A spokesman for the veteran
groups said the parade would start
at noon and last until we get
tired"
The concert is scheduled for
9 nm.
Evening star., 1949-09-03
u. 5. .,BIames Russia
For Treaty Deadlock,
But Will Try Again

The United States today was
ready for another try at agree
ment on a peace treaty for Austria
after accusing Russia of going
back on her word and initiating
her demands in latest negotia-
tions.
Discussions by deputies Of the
Big -Four Foreign Ministers, seek
ing to write a treaty based on
principles agreed on by the For
eign Ministers, have reached a
stalemate in London.
Blame Put on Russia.
A statement putting blame for
the deadlock Squarely on Russia
was issued by the State Depart
ment last night. The department
said that on important issues in
disagreement Soviet demands for
economic advantages" at Austria's
expense exceeded principles agreed
on by the Big -Four Foreign Min
listers.
In the controversy over German
assets in Austria, the statement
said. the Russians are trying to
keep war booty which they had
previously agreed to relinquish,
as we'll as the greater share Of
Austria's oil refining capacity and
oil exploration areas. Of which
they were to have received only
some 60 per cent - -"
No Reduction in Claims.
The statement said the Russians
had pretended to make conces-
sions in the treaty talks, but these
involved no reductfon- in, their
excessive claims, %but werv.at the
expense of the Yugoslavs. This
was in consequence of Russia
dropping Yugoslavia's claims at
the Paris foreigfh ministers *heet-
ing. the department added.
Although the three Western
powers proposed that the confer
ence resume in New York after q
three-week recess. the~ State De-
partment said that Soviet Dele
gate George Zarubin would agree
only to. refer this proposal to
Moscow.
The deputies have been meeting
for weeks in London. September
/ was the deadline for an agree
ment. failing which the treaty is
sue should be referred back to the
foraioY y,oiy,icforc
Evening star., 1949-09-03
Texas College Student
Stays Secretary, 70,
Who Tilted Him
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

DALLAS, Tex, Sept. 3.-A dis
appointed college boy suitor
walked into a downtown Office
building here yesterday and killed
a pretty Dallas secretary after she
told him she was to marry another
man.
Murder charges were to be filed
today against Keith Petersen. 81,
Of Dallas. Junior journalism stu
dent at Southern Methodist Uni
versity, for the pistol Staying Of
Carolyn Schofeld, 20.
Petersen surrendered to officers
shortly after the attractive secre-
tary was killed by six pistol shots
in the Office of Henry Rogatz,
petroleum engineer, about 4:25
pm.
Met at YMCA Dance.
Young Petersen smoked in
Vulnerable cigarettes. but appeared
calm as he talked to officers. He
wore smart blue single-breasted
suit, pink pastel shirt and gay
red and gray tie.
He met Miss Schofield at a
YMCA dance on October 80, 1912.
We've been going together of
and on ever SINCE" he said. I'VE
were engaged, but I guess you
would not call it formally en-
gagged"
Recently, Miss Schofeld would
not give him a date, although he
telephoned many times. Yester-
day afternoon he called her at the
Office twice.
Bought New Pistol
The first time. she said she did
not want to see him any more.
On the second call. Petersen
asked if he could see her OCCASION
ally. She said she thought it was
best that they break of altogether.
"I came to town and went toi
a hardware store and bought a
new pistol for $56," he told officers.
"I also bought a box Of so cart
ridges"
With the pistol in his pocket
and the box under his arm he went
to the girls Office in the South
land Life Building.
Asked if he intended to kill Miss
Schofield. he said, mo"
For an hour and half he tried
to persuade her to 60 with him
again. She said she was going to
marry another man.
Loaded Weapon.
"I got up and went out finally,
Petersen said. II went to the rest
room and loaded the pistol and
went back to talk with her some
more"
This time, Petersen said, he
pointed the pistol at Miss Scho-
field and told her to go into an
inner Office.
II told her not to scream. Then
she grabbed for the gun and
tried to hit her over the head
with it but I missed. Then I
started to shoot. The first shot
hit her and she looked surprised"
Petersen said.
Petersen told officers that he
fred five more shots, one of which
missed, as she lay on the floor.
II called my mother at homet
and told her had just sbets Care--|
lyn," Petersen said. Then he
called his father, Lewis F. Peter
sen, an Official of the Dallas Power
& Light Co., whose 'ofhce "vast
nearby. -
Officers said young Petersen
was waiting for them when they
Evening star., 1949-09-03
Tito Regime Sewers
! Chief Commercial
links With Russia
By the Associated Press

BELGRADE. Yugoslavia, Sept.
3.-Yugoslavia yesterday severed
two of the chief commercial ties
binding her to Russia.
The government announced,
through its official news agency
Tan jug that joint Yugoslav-Rus-
sian civil aviation and Danube
River shipping companies had
been dissolved ION the proposal
Of" Yugoslavia.
This latest move in the cold war
between the two Communist coun-
tries came amid reports that Rus
sia and her Cominform allies had
set up an anti-Tito underground
in Yugoslavia.
Action Foreshadowed.
The move dissolving the jointly
owned firms was foreshadoWed
three weeks ago when Transport
Minister Bozidar Maslaric de-
nounced Russian participation as
exploitation of Yugoslav labor and
resources.
Putting Yuspa (the aviation
company out Of business will cut
Yugoslavia of from her former
Cominform friends. The airlines
routes had run from Belgrade to
the capitals Of Eastern Europe.
It will also prevent Soviet citi-
zens from entering this country
as employees Of the airline.
Liquidation Of the joint Yugo-
slav-Soviet shipping concern on
the Danube is a blow to Russian
plans for domination Of that river
which seemed secure last year.
Russia, Yugoslavia, Hungary,
Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria and Ro-
mania adopted q new convention
for control of the Danube last
August 18. over the protests of
the United States, Great Britain
and France.
The agreement threw out the
post World War I agreement call
ing for international control and
gave all authority over the river
to the countries through which 1t
ran.
At that time Russia apparently
presumed that, through control of
those countries, she would control
the Danube. The 2,000-mile- long
river Is the chief artery Of COM
merce In the Balkans where rail-
roads and good highways are un-
common.
Now the $50 miles within Yugo-
slavia's borders will be controlled
only by Marshal Tito. There are
other areas Of the river where
Yugoslavia holds one bank Of
the river.
Evening star., 1949-09-03
Provdo Predicts Downfall
OF Tito Regime Is Near
BY the Associotsd Press

MOSCOW. Sept. 3.-The Soviet
press continued today its attacks
on the Yugoslav regime OF
Premier Marshal Tito. Pravda,
Communis Party organ, predicted
Tito's government would be swept
from power and said its political
and economic downfall was near
It carried an article by Rudolf
Slansky. general secretary OF the
Czechoslovak Communist Party
Evening star., 1949-09-03
School Bus Approved

The Public Utilities Commission
has authorized the Capitol Grey-
hound Lines to run a bus trans
porting children between Lanham
Hills, Md, and the Holy Name
School, West Virginia avenue and
Neal street NE. "
Evening star., 1949-09-03
Congress in Brief
By the Assoeioted Press

Senate:
Meets at noon under an agree
ment that no business will be
taken up.
No committee meetings sched-
uled. ...
House:
In recess.
Evening star., 1949-09-03
Planes
Continued From First Page.)

marshy field. Visibility was re-
ported good.
The plane was en- route from
Lowry Airbase in Denver to the
Naval Air Station at Alameda,
Calf, on San Francisco Bay. 1t
crashed about 80 miles from its
destination.
The Air Force said the plane
was understood to have come
from Greenville.
Two and a half hours after the
crash the wreckage was still burn
ing. The body found nearby was
badly charred.
Evening star., 1949-09-03

The estimated number OF daily
workers and visitors at Rockefeller
Center, New York City. Is Isl. .ooe
Evening star., 1949-09-03

District Of Columbia - Increas-
ing cloudiness with highest near
80 degrees today, followed by
cloudy with occasional showers
tonight and possibly late this
afternoon. Lowest tonight about
66 degrees. Tomorrow mostly
cloudy with occasional showers
likely.
Maryland - Increasing cloudi-
ness followed by occasional
showers tonight and tomorrow
Not as cool tonight. Highest to-
morrow from rs to 81 degrees.
Virginia - Mostly cloudy with
occasional showers tonight and
tomorrow. Not quite as cool In
the interior tonight. Highest to-
morrow around 80 degrees in the
east and middle 70's in the west
Wind velocity, 3 miles per hour;
direction, east-northeast.
Evening star., 1949-09-03

High and Low for Yesterday.
High, 70, at 2:15 pm.
Low, 56, at $3.50 am.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest, 81, on August IL.
Lowest, 81, on January 80.
Tide Tables.
Evening star., 1949-09-03
U. s., Britain, France
Reported Split Over
Reich Merchant Navy
BY the Assoeiated Press

LONDON, Sept. 3.-Diplomatic
officials said today the United
States is in disagreement with
Britain and France over the size
and shape of a future West Ger
man merchant navy.
The officials explained that
British and French experts have
rejected a series of American sug-
gestions for reconstructing such a
West German mercantile fleet.
The British and French objec-
tions were broadly on the grounds
that the American proposals
would help re-establish German
seapower, the informants added.
Fleet Being Designed.
The differences arose IN Lon
don conference of six American,
six French and 10 British experts
which began July 18.
The experts were asked by their
governments to complete within
three months plans Of design,
construction and propulsion for
a German merchant fleet which
would insure vessels that could
not be converted for war purposes.
The experts adjourned two
weeks ago to consult their gov
eminent about the deadlock. They
intend to resume their talks next
week. If they fail to agree again.
the whole problem may be turned
back to their foreign ministers
Evening star., 1949-09-03
Air Races

Continued From First Page.)
of reaching Cleveland in less than
four hours.
Evening star., 1949-09-03

Differences Are Listed.
The informants cited these diff
ferences between the American
and tt1e British and French points
Of view:
1. The United States suggested
German shipyards be authorized
to build about SO ships exceeding
the 1900 gross registered tonnage.
12-knot limits set by the three
Western governments last April.
Britain and France disagreed.
They were not prepared to allow
the Germans to build more than
one dozen such ships.
2. The United States suggested
that the 12-knot speed limit set for
Germany's permitted merchant
ships be applied to the ships when
fully loaded. Britain and France
said no. The speed limit, they
said, ought to be applied to empty
ships.
3. The United States proposed
certain classes of German craft be
allowed to install anti-aircraft
armament If necessary. Britain
and France objected.
Evening star., 1949-09-03
d. c. Pollen Count.

District Medical Society rag
weed pollen count for "a hours
ended 8 am, September 3. 210
grains per cubic yard of air.
River Report.
From U. s. Engineers)
Potomac River clear at Harpers Ferry
and at Great Falls; Shenandoah clear
at HarperS Ferry.