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Evening star., 1950-04-21
Woodward Reported Selected Gaming News Service
As New Ambassador to Canada Blamed for Cana Wars
Stote Department Aide
Would Succeed Envoy
Killed in Air Crash
By Doris FIeeson

President Truman has selected
Stanley Woodward, Chief of Pro-
tocol in the State Department, as
Ambassador to Canada. Mr.. Wood
ward succeeds the late Laurence
Steinhardt, who was recently killed
in an airplane crash.
Complying with the usual for
malities. Canada has been asked
if the selection is agreeable and
her answer is of course expected
to be yes.
The appointment is strictly per-
sonal with the President. the For
eign Service was not consulted
nor given a shot at the post. This
situation has created a genuine
morale problem among the career
officials who have been bearing
the heat and burden of the day
in all parts Of the world. includ-
ing climates far from salubrious.
The Ottawa post is considered
extremely desirable. 1t is an En-
bassy and it is close to home, as
Evening star., 1950-04-21

President Truman's weekly news
conferences are being shifted from
the White House executive offices
to the fourth-f1oor conference
room of the State Department.
and the first session is scheduled
in the new quarters next Thurs
day-under stricter rules.
Instead of crowding around the
Presidents desk, reporters will be
seated. and those not known to
Mr.. Truman will identify them
selves and state their business
connection, when rising to ask
questions.
At present, questions are fred
helter- -skelter.
The President has had the
change under contemplation for
some time. According to Press
Evening star., 1950-04-21
New York Gunman
Called Third Man in
Warning Robbery
Police Name PeIkisson
In $4,000 HoIdup ot
Reputed Gamblers HON,

Identification of a third mar
wanted in the $24 900 robbery o.
Emmitt Warning, reputed Wash.
ington gambler, was announced
today by Detective Capt. Robert
". Murray.
Recognized in pictures shown te
persons in the Warning home
when it was robbed January 9
he was named as Arthur Pelkis-
son, 38. three-time convicted New
York gunman.
Pelkisson is wanted in New York
now for robbery and beating
Similar to that staged at the War
ring home in the 5000 block OF
Macomb street NV.
Two Arrested Earlier.
Police believe they now have
identified all three men who beat
and tied up Warnings brother-in-
law, William Cady, and also bound
his maid. Miss Louise Enos. II
was these two who pointed out
Pelkisson' picture.
Earlier this month, police an
nounced the arrest of Sidney
Stromberg. 80. a 230-pound husky
and Malcolm Epstein, Al, in Penn.
sylvania in connection with the
Evening star., 1950-04-21
Soviet Plans Seen Ready
To Invade West Europe
BY the Assecioted Press

ROME, April 21.-The Italian
news agency Arr, which special
ICES in Roman Catholic news, de-
clared today that Russia has
mapped plans for invading West
ern Europe.
The agency. quoting "conf1den-
tial reports from clandestine re-
sistance organizations in the
q. 8. 8. r." predicted that once
the Soviet invasion was under way
Marshall Tito of Yugoslavia
would turn about and side with
the Russians. Tito's Communist
regime has been on the Moscow
blacklist for nearly two years fol
demanding independence from
Kremlin dictates.
The invasion plan, said the
agency, called for forcing Anglo
American troops to retreat from
their Atlantic bases into Italy
"where they would meet man!
surprises" The reports, AR
aaid, indicate that 1850 may b.
the decisive year"
Evening star., 1950-04-21
Transfer Of 5000
In Survivors Bureau
To District Requested
Administration Asks
New Building, at Cost
Not Above $l1.5 Million
BY Harold B. ROGERS

Transfer of the Bureau of Old
Age and Survivors Insurance of
the Social Security Administra-
ton with its 5000 workers from
Baltimore to the Washington
Metropolitan Area. was strongly
urged by administration spokes-
men today before the House Pub
lie Works Committee. A plea
for new building for the agency
also was made.
The committee, headed by Rep
resentative Wilmington of Mis-
sissippi, asked for further infor-
nation on the suitability of a site
at Suitland, Md. and plans to
act on the legislation soon.
The bill under consideration
would authorize construction of a
building at a cost not exceeding
$11.5 million which would come
from the trust fund of the Bu-
reati of Old Age and Survivors In
surance. No new taxes would be
needed, the committee was told.
Reynolds and Mitchell Testify.
Testifying for the legislation
were w. E. Reynolds. commits
sioner of Public Buildings of
General Services Administration,
and w. L. Mitchell. deputy Com
missioner of the Social Security
Administration.
They explained that the quar-
ters in Baltimore are inadequate,
inefficient and costly. Situated on
the waterfront in an old ware
house, the Offices are subject to
noise. fumes and fire hazard. Mr..
Mitchell said that if fire there
should destroy the social security
records of more than IS million
persons it would cause a loss to
them and their families of mil
lions of dollars.
The project was considered in
the 80th Congress. The House
Public Works Committee approved
somewhat similar bill and sent
it to the House floor. But the
measure never became law.
Questions Are Favorable.
Committee members questions
indicated that they favored the
legislation. Representative Mack.
Republican, of Washington said
he had been a member of a special
subcommittee which had investi-
gated the Baltimore quarters. He
sharply criticized the facilities
(See TRANSFER. Page A-2J
Evening star., 1950-04-21
Czechs Storm Offices of US|S
In Last Chance to Get Books
Magazines and jazz Recordings Also in Big
Demand as DeodIine to Close Library Neqrs

USIS in Prague. told a reporter
in Berlin by telephone that the
rush on the library, on Pragues
downtown National street. forced
periodic locking of the doors to
keep the crowds orderly. He
said there had been no inter-
ference by the Czech police.
The people are literally fight
ing their way in now,' Mr..
Kolarek said. I'VE are serving
hundreds of people at a time. The
CZechs are eager to obtain the
books, magazines and pictures of
life in the United States which
we are Distributing"
Mr.. Kolarek, who has been Or
dered to leave the country, re-
ported that the United States and
British embassies have lost nine
of their Czech employees recently
due to designations because of po-
lice pressure or fear of reprissls.
Evening star., 1950-04-21
He Says 'Exorbitont'
Raises Would Follow
Removal of Curbs
By Joseph A. Fox

President. Truman today ap-
pealed anew to Congress to eX-
tend rent controls year beyond
June 80. declaring that removal
of the curbs on a national scale
at this time would precipitate a
wave of exhorbitant rent in
creases."
The President amplified that
removal of controls would mean
Text Of President 7rumon's Rent Control
Messoee. Page AS
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serious hardship for millions of
tenants who are caught in SELL
er's' market and cannot obtain
lower rents by shopping around -
The President added in this
connection that until the supply
of housing is near enough to de-
mand so that the forces of COM
petition will again operate effec-
lively to protect the tenant, rent
control should continue"
Appear Made by Mayors.
The President had asked for re-
newal of controls in January but
he has run up against opposition
in Congress.
His message today went up just
"a hours after Mayors and other
representatives from 10 cities over
the country appealed for continu-
ance of controls.
The President cited a Bureau of
Labor Statistics report covering ID
cities where controls were removed
last year.
He said that where rents were
free to rise. the number of units
having increases ranged from II
to IA per cent with so per cent OIL
more affected in such large cities
as Milwaukee. Dallas, Omaha anc
Knoxville.
Among units having increases
he continued, 1.-The average rise ir
rents ranged from IL per cent ir
Madison, Wis, where State law
limited the amounts of increase
: permitted, to Al per cent in Hous.
ton, Tex.
Poor Hit Hardest.
I'm eight Of the IA cities, the
!. average increase was over Is pei
cent" the President said. Tht
survey disclosed that low income
; groups were hit hardest. He added
that for units rented for less thar
$50 a month the proportion hav.
ing increases was greater thar
; among higher rent units.
. In seven cities, he pointed out
the average increase in thest
lower ranges was IS per cent Of
, higher.
The President declared that thu
| (See RENT CONTROL, Page A-4.'
Evening star., 1950-04-21
And Police Corruption
Los Angeles Chief Tells
Probers Killings Are Due
To Fight Over Control
By Miriom Gutenberg

The Los Angeles chief of police
today blamed gang warfare and
police corruption throughout the
country on the existence of Ma
tion-wide gambling news service.
Maj. Gen. William A. Worton,
Marine Corps, retired. told Sen
ate Commerce subcommittee that
the desire to control this service
has brought about many of the
gangster killings.
He was the first committee
witness to assert that the gam.
bling wire service also provide.
bail bona and attorneys fees al
we'll as police protection fol
gamblers.
The Senate group is holdins
hearings on a bill to bar the us.
of interstate communications IA
cilities to organized gamblers.
Running Young Men"
Gen. Worton said the Con-
tinental News Service of Cleve-
land supplies the information the
bookies throughout 'he country
must have.
This outfit called Continental
News-they're the people corrupt
ing police departments through
out the country. They're the ones
who are running our young men"
After he left the stand, Gen.
Wolfarth explained to reporters
that he did not mean Continental
News Service itself was responsible
for police corruption. but that the
service it provides is controlled in
each city by group of hoodlums.
"It's at the city level that the
police fix takes place" he de-
clared.
Says Service Aids Violations.
In his testimony, Gen. Worton
declared, that the gambling wire
service was bred in violence, Z"
performs no useful function and
the only excuse for its continued
existence. is to aid violations of
the law"
Capt. Lynn White, who was
identified as an intelligence officer
for the Los Angeles police, told
the subcommittee that Russell
Brophy, son-in-law of the slain
one time owner of Continental
News. pays a definite amount
weekly to Continental News for
the gambling wire and then takes
a fee from the local gamblers not
only to distribute the wire service
information but to provide bail
and attorneys service.
Senator Capehart, Republican.
of Indiana. promptly proposed
that Brophy be subpoenaed to
testify. Subcommittee Chairman
tSee GAMBLING. Page A-4)
Evening star., 1950-04-21
u. S. Tries to Avert Strike
OF Phone and Rail Workers
BY the Assceioted Press

BY the AsSceioted Press
The Government worked today
to stave off strikes threatening
in the rail and telephone indus
tries.
The walkouts. all due in the
next few days, could deal a Grip
pling blow to transport and COM
munications. They are set for
Wednesday morning.
Government efforts were being
made to win settlements to pre-
vent the strikes, but the time
left for peace-making was short
Squads of specialists were as
signed to the phone dispute by
the Federal Mediation and Concil-
iation Service. Francis A. Neill
jr.. chairman of the National
Mediation Board, indicated steps
also are being considered in the
rail strike threat.
The CIO Communications Work
ers of America said it is ready
to make more than 100000 tele-
(See STRIKE, Page A-3D
Evening star., 1950-04-21

for compensation in the loss of
10 crewmen of the United States
Navy Privateer which disappeared
the same day Russia says its
fighter planes intercepted an
American bomber over Latvia.
Russia warned that any unauth-
orized planes appearing over Rus
sian territory will be fired .on if
they do not meet demands to land.
Sweeping aside the American
protest that the plane involved
was an unarmed craft, the Soviet
Union accused the United States
of trying to cover up "the illegal
actions of certain of its subordi-
mates who disgraced themselves
by grossly violating the generally
recognized rules of international
law"
Note Handed to Kirk.
In a note handed to American
Ambassador Alan G. Kirk, For
eign Minister Andrei Y. Vishinsky
contended the American plane had
been attempting % photograph
Soviet defense installations"
The note said "the Soviet gov
ernment confirms it's resolute pro-
test (of April ID to the United
States Government against the
gross violation by an American
military aircraft, of the Soviet
frontier"
Mr.. Vishinsky insisted the plane
was not. as the United States
said. a Navy Privateer which dis
appeared April 8 on a flight from
Germany to Denmark, but a "B-29
Flying Fortress"
CA Flying Fortress is a Bit.
The BIO is a Superfortress. A
United States Sd Air Division
spokesman in London said the
plane could not have been
Superfortress, because the di-
vision was certain none of our
planes was in that area" at the
time. He said a pilot not too
well versed in aircraft recogni-
tion-'especially a jet Jockey
flying at great speed and firing
at long range may have
thought it was a B-29.")
U. S. Stand Held Refuted.
Russian investigation of the in
cident. the Soviet note said, turned
up facts which "completely re-
flute both the United States Gov
'ernment's statements to the effect
that the American aircraft did not
violate the frontier of the Soviet
Union and also that it was al.
legedly unarmed."
In the light of these facts" the
note said. "the aforementioned
United States Government state
ment cannot be regarded otherwise
than as an attempt to shirk the
responsibility for gross violation
of international law"
The note declared the American
(See PLANE. Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1950-04-21
Fort Benning Troops
Reviewed by Truman
BY the A,,oeietsd Pse,s

FORT BENNING, Ga, April 81.
President Truman arrived here
today by plane for a review Of
Army and Air Force troops in
action.
His personal plane. the "Inde-
pendence, arrived at Lawson Field
at 1902 am. The trip from Wash
ington required only two hours and
% minutes.
President Truman and several
members of his cabinet will review
ground forces and watch an in
fantry- artillery team attack al
this infantry fort.
Later today the party will fly 10
Elgin Field in Florida to witness
a live ammunition display Of mod.
ern Air Force firepower.
Evening star., 1950-04-21

States is Obliged to comply with
the Czech demand, the note added
that 1.-The Czechoslovak govern
ment must. however, expect that
IT'S action can not escape serious
consequences affecting the vari-
Gus aspects of the relations be-
tween the two governments"
1t said the United States was
compelled to review the scope OF
the activities of Czech establish
ments in the United States. and
as IAN immediate result" of the
review the Chicago consulate gen.
eral must close by May /.
The consulates normally handle
trade, business and travel matters.
Czechoslovakia also has consul
stes in New York City, Cleveland,
Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, The
latest available records list the
Chicago consul general as Lads
Law Hynko.
Action on Publications Weighed.
The New York consulate general
distributes several Czech publica-
tions. Action against their circu-
lation also has been under con-
sideration by the State Depart
ment because of the USIS shut
down.
The note was q 1,000-word
hard-hitting attack on the Czech
action. 1t charged that the Com
munist regime is "obliged to seek
excuses" for an attempt ito iso-
late the Czechoslovak people from
the outer world along the same
lines followed by other Commu-
nist-dominated countries of East
ern Europe.
1T is likewise obvious that the
Czechoslovak governments pro-
fessions in behalf of world peace
and mutual understanding be-
tween nations lack any meaning
and constitute, on the contrary
SSSOCIildUtC CdIlIPdlSH W IIl1o1SdS
the public of Czechoslovakia ane
other countries" it was charged.
In Chicago, K. Lanner of th'
Czech consulate, said that "Th
news is a surprise to me. W.
have had no word of this at all
! expect that. the State Depart
ment will notify our Washington
Embassy. and they will tell us
but as yet. nothing has com
through" Lanner said he was il
charge of the Chicago consulat
In the absence of DR.. j. Setinsky
acting consul general, now vaca
tioning in Mexico.
The note came on top of de
mand for an apology from Czecho
slovakia for improper" acts @
Czech secret police against a.
American Embassy employe,
An earlier note charged tn
police violated "the most funda
mental human rights" in tryin
to entrap Miss Katharine Kosmal
(see CONSULATE, Page A-4D
Evening star., 1950-04-21
Note to Prague
RetuIiutes for
USIS Closure
sy she Assee;oisd Press

The United States today ordered
Communist Czechoslovakia to shut
down its Consulate General in
Chicago not later than May l.
The action, announced in note
TO the Czech government. was in
direct retaliation of an order clos
ing the libraries Of the United
States Information Service in
Czechoslovakia and the American
Consulate General in the city OF
Bratislava.
The State Departments note
rejected as worthless the Czech
charges that the USIS was being
used as q cloak for spying &C
tiyities against the Communist
regime.
Agrees to Recall kolarek.
However. this government
agreed to carry out the closing
order and to recall Joseph c.
Kolarek, press attache at the
American embassy in the capital
Of Prague.
In stating that the United
Evening star., 1950-04-21
Shipping Strike Threat Further Rent Control
Ends With Settlement Asked by Truman 10
After 19-Hour Farley Avert Big Increases
40 Firms on Two Coosts
And AFL Pilots Agree
On Non-Woee Demands
BY the Associated Press

W 'iS TsSOS'S'eN i'SSb
NEW YORK, April 21.-Settle-
ment of a dispute threatening q
tieup of shipping on the East and
Gulf Coasts was announced to-
day.
The agreement came after le
hours of almost steady negotia-
tions between representatives of
40 shipping concerns and the AFL
Masters. Mates and Pilots AS
sociation.
The strike had threatened to
idle about 100000 seagoing and
waterfront workers, including
members of maritime unions that
had pledged support to the deck
officers.
The walkout had been set for
midnight tomorrow.
Announcement of the accord
came from Clyde M Mills, special
assistant to Cyrus Ching, chief OF
the Federal Mediation and Con-
ciliation Service. Details were not
given.
Federal peacemakers had been
in continuous conference
with the two sides since about {
pm. yesterday.
The deck officers union. which
includes some 1000 members or
the two coasts, four times previ-
ously have called off scheduled
Walkouts.
The principal issues in the dis.
pute were demands by the masters
mates and pilots for union hiring
hall for deck officers below chic.
mate and for union seniority.
Evening star., 1950-04-21

so many difficult and arduous
ambassadorial posts are not. The
Canadians are old friends who
are managing their own affairs
well. To many foreign service
(See WOODWARD. Page A-4)
Evening star., 1950-04-21
U.S.. Orders Czechs to Shut Down
CHICAGO Consulate Before May1;
Soviet Rejects U.S.. S.Note on Plane
Moscow Refuses
Even to Consider
Compensation
RlIIIFTlN
BULLETIN

The House today passed, by
a roll-call vote of $50 to 0, a
resolution to award posthu-
nous honors to the 10 flyers
who lost their lives aboard an
unarmed Navy plane in the
Baltic on April 8. The Senate
had passed the resolution last
Wednesday.
Evening star., 1950-04-21

New u. S. Drive to Combat Soviet Propo-
sondo Being Plonned. Poee AIS
close down by noon tomorrow
under utimatum from the Com
munist-dominated Czech govern
ment which accused the agency
of spreading anti-state propa-
ganda. These charges have been
denied.
Joseph C. Kolarek, head of the
Evening star., 1950-04-21
BY The Assoeioted Press

MOSCOW, April 81. Soviet
Russia today rejected every point
of the American protest over the
Baltic plane incident, insisted the
plane involved was a B-29 and &C
cused Washington of trying to
cover up illegal actions.
Russia said it could not even
consider the American demand
Evening star., 1950-04-21
BY the Associoted Press

BERLIN, April 81. - Czecho-
slovaks today literally stormed the
United States Information Serv-
ices library in Prague in a last
chance rush to obtain American
books, magazines and Jazz record
ings. the American Embassy in
Prague reported.
The library and all other US1S
operations in Czechoslovakia must
Evening star., 1950-04-21

Soviet Demonds Thot West Evocuote
Trieste. Poee A-8
Evening star., 1950-04-21
Late News
Bulletins
Crash Driver Ends Life

A former serviceman identi-
fed by Hannibal MO- police
as Eugene Sibley, jr., 81, of Z
Aspen street, Chevy Chase, shot
himself to death just after his
ear was involved in a collision
i'm Hannibal last night, the AS
sociated Press reported today.
He is the SON of Eugene Sibley
of the Civil Aeronautics Au-
thority.
Evening star., 1950-04-21
Excise Tax Cut Voted

The House Ways and Means
Committee today approved an
additional $3.50 million slash in
excise discriminating some
of the imposts completely and
halving others. This brought
the total cuts, so far as the
committee has covered the ex-
else list, to $335 million-al-
most twice as much as Presi-
dent Truman requested.
UNIV Rejects Plan
John L. Lewis United Mine
Workers today rejected Presi-
dent Truman's proposal for a
commission to study problems
of the sick" coal industry.
The union called for establish
ment of a national policy on
all fuels, including coal.
Evening star., 1950-04-21

Meseow Announces Trode Accord With
Chinese Reds. Page Alb
Lsnir Quoted in Soviet on Red Capitalism
peees. Poge A-S
Evening star., 1950-04-21

(See WARRING, Page A-2D
Evening star., 1950-04-21

(See GAMBLING, Page A-4)
Evening star., 1950-04-21

(See EDITORS, Page AID
Evening star., 1950-04-21

(See RENT CONTROL, Page "A.
Evening star., 1950-04-21

(see CONSULATE, Page A-4)
Evening star., 1950-04-21
Guide for Readers

An Associoted Press Newspaper
Evening star., 1950-04-21

Partly cloudy with high near SO today.
Clear tonight; low near 38 in city and 80
In suburbs. Tomorrow sunny and warmer.
Full report on Page A-2D
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1950-02-10
Mrs. Lewis Reports
A Pleasant Journey

Mrs. Kate Porter Lewis, who
recently went to Eugene Oregon,
to visit her son-in-law and
daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. c. F..
Larson, Jr-, has written Mrs.
Hugo Giduz that she had an en-
ioyable railway trip across the
continent and that she likes Eu-
gene and the country around it.
THE trip out was pleasant the
whole way she writes, with
friends taking me sightseeing in
Washington, D. G., Chicago, and
Portland. | ran across Mrs. Owe
Jensen in a Washington art gal
lery, and she and ! had reserva-
tions Or the same train to Chi
cago. When we got there the
Jensens took me to their beauti-
ful apartment overlooking Lake
Michigan, and later they showed
me the sights of the city.
Eugene is a pretty little city
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1950-02-10
Golf Contest Raisess SIC for Polio Fund

cake; (3O) John Hinson, IA #
5 ms, shaving lotion; (31) Joe
Jones, is #, can Of car wax.
The contest was directed by
Mrs. Page assisted by Mr.. Win
sor, DR.. lawson, and L. A. VIII
lians. In announcing the results,
Mrs. Page said:
I'VE are most grateful to all
members Of the Country Club
and other friends who partici-
pated and to all the merchants
who gave prizes and thus helped
to make the contest such q great
success for the March Of Dimes. =
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1950-02-10

in beautiful valley. Deb and
Chuck have a comfortable duplex
overlooking their own private
yard. We're all comfortable,
happy, and well. We take long
drives and walks and are max
ing the most of our freedom to
get out in the country.
The eTergreens here are
abundant. | particularly enjoy
the holly, usually solid red with
berries. There are also many
green vines and berry-laden
shrubs. The land is lush, and
| look forward to the time of
blossoming orchards and gar
dens."