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Evening star., 1949-12-15
Kee or Lee, Police Get Fee;
Jail Mixup Leads Back to Jail

It wasn't until the other sleeper
woke up that the police woke up
to the fact that Lee was still In
the cell and that Kee was tenn
porarily unavailable.
When the matter was straight
ened out in court today, Judge
Scott commented on KEGS con-
summate nerve" and hazarded the
opinion that the defendant must
have some background" Police
records showed that Kee had
served two years for grand lar
ceny, as well as sentences Cor
house breaking and attempted
robbery.
Lee is unhappy about the Incl
dent because when Kee was ar
rested yesterday he had only 80
cents in his pocket.
Kee, 36, colored, of the 400
block of M street NV, was not
happy because Judge Arnold Scott
held him for grand jury action In
$2.500 bond on . charge OF forg-
cry.
Evening star., 1949-12-15
Atom Shipment Inquiry
DELAYED Until January
By the Associated Press

The House Committee on IN
American Activities decided to-
day to wait until after Congress
meets In January to renew its
inquiry into the wartime ship
ment of atomic materials to Rus
sia. The hearings had been
scheduled to resume next Monday
Chairman Wood announced the
postponement. He said a definite
date for the sessions will be fixed
later.
At the request Of Republican
members, the committee plans to
recall two Of its chief witnesses
They are former Air Corps Maj
George Racey Jordan and 1t. Gen
Leslie Groves. head Of the Army's
wartime atom bomb project.
The Republican members were
out Of town at the time Of the
earlier hearings. They have hint
ed they thought Democratic men,
berS were trying TO WnlteWaSn
New Deal officials named in the
inquiry.
Mr.. Jordan. q wartime lend
lease inspector. testified shipments
of atom materials to the Soviet
had been made under pressure
from the late Harry Hopkins, then
a close advisor to President
Roosevelt. Later Radio Com
menator Fulton Lewis, jr.. said
former Vice President Henry Wal
lace was the man who put on the
pressure.
Gen. Groves told the commit
tee that neither Mr.. Hopkins nor
Mr.. Wallace has used any pres
sure on him.
Evening star., 1949-12-15

Washington drivers whose per-
mits have been suspended as
result of a personal injury acci-
dent must pass a complete re-ex-
animation to regain the license
the Commissioners ruled today.
The measure was adopted fo1
Ia six-month experimental period
beginning January /. Whether II
continues after that will depend
on how successful it is.
The regulation will not apply
in cases of accidents happening
before January /.
The move was recommended by
the Commissioners Traffic Ad'
visory Committee, along the gen
eral lines Of a proposal by Traffic
Director George E. Keneipp.
Evening star., 1949-12-15
Ward Says Reds Denied Wife
Dental Treatment in Detention

American Consul General An
gus Ward reported, to the State
Department today that Chinese
Communist authorities In Mukden
refused to let his wife be treated
by dentists for a BADLY broken
tooth while he and his staff were
held virtual prisoners for more
than a year.
This and other details Of harsh
treatment by the Communist au-
thorities were contained in q
2,000-word summary Of his Muk-
den experiences radioed to the
department by Mr.. Ward from the
Evening star., 1949-12-15
Britain Reported Pressing U.S..
To Join Big Aid Plan for East
Aim of Program Declared to Be to Exclude
Reds From Southern Asia and Egypt

ploratory stage. No full-scale
formal British plan has beer
handed yet to the United States
or Canada.
The British idea has beer
talked over, however. Apparently
it counters an American proposal
for settling the sterling balance
debts.
The United States suggested
during the Washington talks that
Britain slow repayments of the
debts and scale them down, the
source said. This would enable
Britain to divert more exports tt
dollar countries and so help close
the dollar gap. At the same time
it would open countries like India
Pakistan. Egypt and Iraq-all Sc
cure and traditional British mar
kets-to American goods.
The British frankly disliked
such a prospect.
These talks are being held by
the three-power working party
set up after the September meet
ing of American. British and
(See ASIATIC AID. Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1949-12-15
Low 10 Quit Beaverbrook
To Join Laborife Herald
By the Associated Press

LONDON, Dec. 15.-Lord Bea'
verbrook's London Evening Stand
ard announced today its famee
cartoonist, David Low, has re-
signed to join the staff Of the pro.
Labor London Daily Herald.
Mr.. Low, So, has frequently
taken the Labor Party viewpoint
in his widely syndicated cartoons
although the Evening Standard /.
Conservative. He said he had re.
signed for purely personal rea.
sons" and would join the Daily
Herald late next spring.
The Evening Standard said Mr.
Low had enjoyed, the widest pos
sible freedom" in drawing his
cartoons. His views as expressed
in his cartoons were frequently al
variance with those which the
Standard espoused editorially anc
he occasionally lampooned Lore
Beaverbrook himself.
Mr.. Lows cartoons will continue
to appear in the Standard three
times weekly until he leaves the
PAPER.
Evening star., 1949-12-15
Plane Crash Toll Rise!
To 5 as Injured Man
Dies at Boiling Base
George c. Harrison, A.
Is Latest Victim; 18 Others
Believed Out of Dancer

The death toll in the crash Of
an airliner Monday night near
National Airport rose to five today
as another victim died at Boiling
Air Force Base Hospital. The
other 18 injured in the crash,
which killed four instantly, are
believed out of danger.
The fifth victim was George c.
Harrison, AZ. of 1921 North Six
teenth street NJ, Arlington. a pur-
chasing agent for the Bureau OF
Federal Supply. He had under
gone numerous blood transfusions
for internal injuries and severe
lacerations.
Mr.. Harrison's wife, mother and
three daughters were at his bed
side. It was the first death In
the special "crash" ward set up
at the hospital after Boiling per-
sonnel rescued the survivors from
the river.
All except seven of the sur
vivors have been sent to other
hospitals.
Wreckage Towed to Shore.
The wreckage of the airliner
was towed on a barge to the Navy
Gin Factory today for examina-
ton by Federal experts prelimi-
nary to a public inquiry into the
crash.
The twisted remains Of the
plane were taken from the Po-
tomac shadows near National
Airport in five parts. Wing sec
tions had been torn from the
fuselage and both engines
wrenched from their mountings,
it was said.
The positions of wheels and
flaps at the time of impact may
have an important bearing on the
outcome of the hearing to be
called by the Civil Aeronautics
Board in the next 10 days.
Tail Wind May Have Bearing.
Experts were going over the
wreckage today. AS far as coulo
be learned, the pilot and co-pilot
who died at their posts, had tolc
the control tower they were land
ing on the main north-south run
way on the instrument landing
system from the south.
The airmen had been informed
Evening star., 1949-12-15
Ben-Gurion Sees Israel
AIiqned Against World

JERUSALEM, Dec. Is R.-1s-
rael's defiance Of United Nations
plans to internationalize Jerusa-
lem has aligned the young Hebrew
state against the whole world
Israeli Premier David Ben-Gurion
said last night.
The Premier moved his ministry
to the Jewish occupied section OF
Jerusalem last night. 1t was the
last of seven government depart
ments to be transferred from Tel
Aviv in a tactic in which Mr.. Ben
Gurion so far has avoided out
right proclamation of the Holy
City as Israel's political capital.
Only the Ministries of Foreign
Affairs and Defense remained in
Tel Aviv, to avoid any issue il
some foreign ambassadors should
refuse to move to Jerusalem.
Accepting the freedom OF the
city from Jerusalem's Mayor Dan
iel Auster, Mr.. Ben-Gurion last
night said his nation had "entereo
upon the greatest political strug-
gle in the history of our people"
Rely on Historic Justice.
"It has only just begun" he de-
clared. "Who knows how it will
Evening star., 1949-12-15
Rent Control Extension
After June Predicted
By Key Lawmaker
Representative O'Horu
Cites Need for Action and
Sees Congress Approval
BY the Associated Press

A key lawmaker predicted today
that President Truman will ask,
and Congress will approve. a con-
tinuation of rent controls beyond
the June 30, 1850, expiration date.
The spokesman was Representa-
tive O'Hara, Democrat, Of Illinois
a member of the House Banking
Committee who is close to the
administration.
1.-The final answer that rent
controls must be continued" he
told newsmen, was givtn by the
reimposition Of rent ceilings at
Harrodsburg, KY, where even a
landlord and a banker asked that
controls be restored after there
had been exorbitant rent increases
running from 10 to 800 per
cent"
Mr.. O'Hara said "the situation
in Chicago and other large cities
would be terrible if controls were
dropped"
May Affect Cities Only.
He made a fiat prediction that
Congress will continue the rent
law, although some other law
makers close to the White House
have voiced doubt that Congress
will permit any Federal rent con-
trols after June 80.
# there is q continuation, the
laws effect may be confined in
new legislation to rent ceilings
only for large cities.
Under the revised rent law en-
acted earlier this year, a legisla-
ture may decontrol whole State
Evening star., 1949-12-15
Typewriter Produced
Again in Hiss Trial
Al Defense Request
Three Witnesses Testify
On Machine Once Owned
By Former Official
By NewboId Noyes, Jr.
Ga ct~kl

NEW YORK, Dec. 15.-A bat
tered, old Woodstock typewriter
which once belonged to Alger Hiss
made its appearance today in the
Federal courtroom where the for
mer State Department official is
being tried for a second time or
perjury charges. From now on
it will be a center of attention
in the case.
The Government contends thai
Mrs. Priscilla Hiss used this ma.
chine to type copies and para.
phrases of secret State Department
documents, which her husband
allegedly gave to Whitaker
Chambers in 1887 and 1888.
The Woodstock was impounded
by the Government after Mr.. Hiss
first trial, which ended with q
hung jury last July 8. But it was
produced today at the request Of
Mr.. Hiss lawyers.
For they have told the jury
they intend to show that 1t was
not the Kisses who typed the
secret material on it, but that Mr..
Chambers, an admitted ex-Com-
munist agent, may have traced
the machine after the Kisses gave
it away in 1898, and done the
typing himself.
Defense Traces Machine.
Once again, the defense began
tracing the adventures OF the
ancient instrument. from the day
Mrs. Hiss gave it to the family
of her colored maid through its
rediscovery by defense lawyers
early this year.
They began at the end. Ira
Jockey. colored. Of 722 Kennil-
worth avenue NE, Washington
night watchman who former
ly was in "the trucking business,
identified the Woodstock as one
he received from a Mrs. Vernon
Marlowe in 1945, in partial pay.
ment for hauling job.
The typewriter, Mr.. Lockey said
remained in his family until Ed.
ward C. Mclean caught up with
it last April and bought it from
him for SIS. Mr.. Mclean is ONT
of Mr.. Hiss attorneys.
"No one evera used it," Mr.
Lockey said, speaking of the year!
when the machine was in the pos.
Evening star., 1949-12-15

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funeral preparations the search
at the Swift & Co. packing plant
continued for three persons still
missing.
Nine Of some 80 other persons
injured remained in critical con-
dition at hospitals.
Leaking gas which had ham
pered search operations was
stopped last night.
1000 Persons in Building.
Workmen who labored through
out the night under foodlights
used blow torches to cut away
twisted girders.
The searchers were able to dis
card their gas masks after am
monia fumes from the plants
shattered refrigeration system
were cut off at their source.
The blast rocked the building
shortly before the noon hour yes
terday. There were about 1000
persons in the building.
The front end of the building
was hit hardest. The first and
second floors which housed the
office staff and company restau-
rant got the brunt of the blast.
Windows were shattered. Part
of the second floor ceiling caved
in. A reinforced concrete loading
dock at the southwest corner OF
the building fell into the base
ment. Several bodies were re-
covered there.
There was an almost warlike
atmosphere today as trucks and
bulldozers moved ahead on the
slow job of removing the debris
A veteran of the European front
Evening star., 1949-12-15

Lakeland Victory, an American
ship taking the party out o1
China.
Mr.. Ward said Chinese Com
munist soldiers put a Gordon
around the American consulate
compound on November 20, 1948
isolating the staff and their de-
pendents there until they finally
were permitted to leave last De-
cember Z. IL
From November 20 last year un-
til June 6 this year, the Ameri.
can group was permitted INC
communication Of any type with
the outside world" Mr.. Ward said
Evening star., 1949-12-15
j. n. Trust Unit
Called toAct on
Jerusalem Rule
IsroeI's Transfer of
Government to City
CompIieotes Issue
BY The Assoeiotsd Press

LAKE SUCCESS, Dec. 15.-The
o. N. Trusteeship Council was
called into closed session today
to consider what it should try to
do about Matchmaking Jerusalem.
Israel's shift of government Of
fees from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem
came as a new complicating fac
tor. 1t was completed yesterday
in defiance of a U. N. Assembly
order last Friday that Jerusalem
be placed under supreme inter-
national rule.
The 12-nation Trusteeship
Council has what many delegates
say publicly and many others
concede privately is hopeless
task-to draft U. N. statute for
the city's rule and to name a gov
ernor to carry it out over the de-
fiance of both Israel and Jordan.
Israels quick conversion OF
Jerusalem into its operative cap
ital hands the Council another
accomplished fact that compli-
Gates any Observation-Disclosures
scheme, which has both Vatican
and Kremlin support behind 1t.
Council Meets Saturday.
The 11-nation Security Council
scheduled a Saturday meeting to
try to settle the long-standlng
dispute between India and PAX
istan over possession OF Jammu
and Kashmir.
The council has held 81 ses-
sions on the question and has had
a commission at work trying to
arrange for a vote by the popula-
ton. The commission. in a long
report early this week. confessed
that it can't solve the problem
of ownership of a territory 84,47l
square miles large, with a popu-
lation of more than 100000.
1t suggested that arbitration
powers be vested in one man
perhaps, although the report did
not say so, Admiral Chester
Nimitz, who had been selected to
supervise the population vote. Ad-
miral Nimitz has never been able
to arrange vote because Pakis-
tan and India refused to accept
all the terms of the commissions
arbitration. They quit actual war
last January /. under a cease-f1re.
Evening star., 1949-12-15
Truman Denies Report
That Burke Was Taken
From Admiral LIST
Names for Promotion Now
On His Desk, He Says;
Not Yet Ready to Act
Nv the Assoeioted Press

KEY WEST, Fla, Dec. 15.-
President Truman fatty denied to-
day that there has been any re-
vision of a Navy list of captains
recommended for promotion to
admiral.
He told a vacation news confer
ence that no name has been
knocked off or added to it. He said
the list of men recommended for
promotion is on his desk and that
he was not yet ready for action
on it.
Disputing a published report (by
the New York Herald Tribune)
that the list was a revised one
the President said sharply there
has been but one list.
The story said the original
list was revised to eliminate the
name of Capt. Arleigh A. Burke
a Pacific veteran and director OF
Operation %" which devised
strategy of some high Navy off,
cials against phases of the uni
fcation program.
Evening star., 1949-12-15

ell-thought-
ou defense
program is a
pressing need
for the United
States at this
time, and that
b a ! a nee is
necessary in
the ar m e d
forces.
Don't miss
Gen. Arnold'S
important Sc
rieS of arti-
Evening star., 1949-12-15
Grounded Drivers Must Take
|New Tests to Regain Permits
Ruling on Suspensions After Accidents
Will Be Tried Out for Six Months

Mr.. Keneipp suggested the plan
as an alternative to his earlier
proposal that the District re-
examine all drivers 65 years OF
age or older.
AT present, driving privileges are
restored automatically after a sus-
pension period. In cases where
driving permits are revoked, mo-
torists usually are permitted to
take new examination after
three years.
In many cases. the drivers have
attended the Police DEPARTMENT.
Traffic School in the meantime.
Under the new system, driver
who forfeits collateral on or i!
convicted Of a charge resulting
Evening star., 1949-12-15
Bulletin
Freshmen Ask Injunction

Washington Local No. l Of
the International Printing
Pressmen's Union today asked
District Court for an injunc-
ton to restrain the interna.
tional from revoking its char
ter and from attempting to
take over its records and funds.
Earlier Story on Page A-5.)
Evening star., 1949-12-15
Truman Reveals
Excise Leviies
May Be Ended
But Additional Taxes
On Higher Incomes,
Business Are Hinted
By Joseph A. Fox
BY q Stor Stoff Correspondent

KEY WEST, Fla, Dec. Is
President Truman said today that
Treasury experts and the House
Ways and Means Committee are
studying the possibilities OF do
ing away with the wartime excise
taxes.
These are the levies on such
things as cosmetics, transporta-
tion and theater tickets, which
range up to 20 per cent. Repeal
was advocated a few days ago by
Secretary of Commerce Sawyer,
who said it would be a spur to
business.
The President declined to say
whether he will ask Congress for
new taxes, but pointed out it all
ways has been his aim to bal
ance the budget.
The Presidents statement was
made at "quickie" press confer
ence he conducted after making
an unexpected appearance at
press headquarters on the base.
A large part Of the press group
attended the session in pajamas.
Must Wait for Messages.
The President told about the
tax study in the course of a COL
loquy on Government finances in
which he said that his aim in the
next fiscal year would be a bal
anced budget. This he said, is the
aim he has constantly pursued in
the White House.
From that, observers concluded
that he would ask for an increase
in taxes next year-probably on
upper bracket incomes and cor
porations-but the President told
questioners that they would have
to wait for his State of the Union
and budget messages for an an
sWer.
The President last year asked
Congress to do away with the
3 per cent tax on freight hauling.
but no action was taken. fiscal
leaders saying that to touch one
excise levy would throw the door
open to a general overhauling Of
the tax structure, q task that
could not then be undertaken.
Won't Give Budget Figure.
The President also told ques-
TONERS to wait for his forthcom.
ing messages to Congress when
asked II he would say within what
limits the next budget would fall.
The whole subject of finances
was touched of by a request for
comment on Labor Secretary
Tobin's recent statement that
pensions of 500 monthly should
be provided for all over IS. The
President said he had not seen
the statement.
The President blamed the un-
balanced budget on the tax cut
passed by the 80th Congress over
his veto.
Silent on New FHA Rules.
Mr.. Truman said that new
housing legislation was being con-
sidered, but that no decision had
been reached on the form it would
take.
He declined to go into the issue
raised by the new Federal Hous-
ing Administration rules to curb
segregation in new projects.
The President said he had
reached no decision about the re-
appointment Of j. Copeland Gray
whose term on the National Labor
Relations Board has expired.
The President also said that
nothing had been done about NAM
ing successors to DR.. Edwin G..
Nourse, as chairman of the Coun-
Gil of Economic Advisers, or David
E. Lilienthal, chairman of tho
Atomic Energy Commission.
Evening star., 1949-12-15
II Die in Home Fires
In Texas and Ohio
BY the Associoted Press

ROTAN, Tex, Dec. 15.-Twelve
or thirteen people burned to death
today in a four-room rental house
on a farm eight miles northeast
Of here.
All were Latin n-American tran
sient farm workers, employed on
the c. A. Douthit farm.
Two families made up the vic
tins. The last name of one family
was Perez. Names of the victims
we're otherwise not available.
1t was believed four adults-the
two sets of parents-and eight
or nine children perished. The
house was said to have been heated
by a woodworking stove made
from an empty gasoline barrel.
Blackened ruins Of the four
room frame house were found at
9 am. Rotan is in West Texas
about so miles northwest Of Abb
lene.
TOLEDO, Ohio, Dec. Is P.-
Five persons died early today in a
fire which nearly destroyed their
home.
The dead: Benjamin Bennett,
Sc; his wife. the Rev. Mary Ben
nett, So, minister for the Spir-
itualist Church; their daughter,
Laura, rs. and Dana Hutchinson,
|3, ward of the county welfare
board, who was being boarded at
the Bennett home. Arthur Hayes,
a roomer, died later in Toledo
hospital.
Coroner Paul Holly said the
blaze was caused by an over
heated coal furnace.
Evening star., 1949-12-15
5tee|PriceBoost
Plan Appalling,
.C|0 Aide Says
O'Mohoney Declares
FoirIess Proposal
Must Be Investigated
BY the Assoeiofed Press

A C1O spokesman said today
the labor organization is Simply
appalled, by the rumors Of pend
ing steel price increases"
Everett Kassalow. executive sec
retary of the CIO Full Employ
ment Committee. made the state
ment in testimony prepared for
hearings of the Senate House
Economic Committee. He was
called before a subcommittee
which is studying ways to attract
investment capital to small busi-
nesses.
Senator O'Mahoney. Democrat
of Wyoming, chairman of the
Economic Committee. said a steel
price increase would be "out OF
line" and would call for a con-
gressional inquiry.
The increase which they re-
ferred to was forecast by Ben
jamin Fairless. president OF the
United States Steel Corp, in Chi
'cago yesterday.
Freight Rates, Pensions Blamed
Mr.. Fairless told a news con-
ference that his company is going
to increase some prices and de-
crease others in a revision to be
announced tomorrow.
Mr.. Fairless blamed the recent
freight rate boost and the pension
plan won by Philip Murray's CIO
Steelworkers for the increased cost
which he said necessitated the
price rise.
Senator O'Mahoney, whose COM
mittee probably would undertake
any investigation. told a reporter
that Il don't see how we can avoid
it."
The profit records of the steel
industry indicate absolutely that
an increase in the price of steel
at this time would be absolutely
out of line" he added.
Profits Down 80 Survey Shows.
ut utterly overlooks the public
interest, because the steel indus
try produces a basic commodity
which affects the prices of every
other commodity"
A compilation by the Associated
Press showed that the profits OF
81 leading steel companies in the
third quarter of this year. the last
reported, were $108, $685. ,219. which
was 9 per cent below the $780,
150,302 earned by the same COM
panies in the third quarter of 1948,
The third quarter earnings were
II per cent below the $123, ,409, 9,210
figure for the second quarter Of
this year.
While steel company dollar
profits have been at record or
near-record levels, along with pay
rolls, taxes and other costs. The
ratio of profits to sales has not
changed much in recent years.
United States Steel, the coun-
try's largest producer, had net
income of s129,627,845 in 1948,
which was approximately 5 per
cent Of its gross sales and revenue
of $2,473,142. .8o2. In 1899, the last
real peacetime year for steel, this
company earned $41,119,934 on
sales of 1904, Isl 1877, or approxi-
mately AZ per cent.
CIO Stresses Profits.
In his testimony Mr.. Kassalow
argued:
Here is a situation where lead
ing steel corporations made almost
unbelievable profits in their last
full quarter before the strike. ano
are now operating at even higher
levels of capacity.
"Yet, on the pretext that ma
terial costs are up, they are get.
ting ready to blk the public
again.
eve earnestly request the joint
committee to look into this scan.
dalous situation. After all, it j!
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Evening star., 1949-12-15

Gen. q. b. Arnold. cleS now run
ming every Tuesday and Friday
in THE STAR-News Authority
for the Nations Capital. Phone
Sterling 5000 for home de-
livery.