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The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1950-01-18

Those who chose Tuesday
morning to plead guilty, to
charges of driving while under
the influence of intoxicating Ii
uuor before Chief Justice of the
Municipal Court, found it no diff
ferent than Monday morning in
the same court.
In the Monday session. Judge
Paul Sherer showed no mercy for
those who came before him on
the offence and started out with
handing the "red flag" designat-
ing the "no driving for life" pen
atty to John Wilkey, Of 2611
Oneida ave., along with a fine of
$500 and cost including a six
months sentence which the Court
allowed the defendant to go to his.
work in the day time but must
"retire" to the "City Hotel" at
at nights during the term.
According tothe records, Will
kie had his license suspended by
Judge Sherer on March goth, but
he was found driving again over
the weekend.
Lawerance Frazier Of % Haw-
thorn st, will find himself with
out the privilege of driving his
car for a period Of ten years,
and paying a fine Of 500, but
''ducking" the suspended Sent
ence Of six moths in the work
imposed by the Court Monday.
Junior Stafford, Of 2549 10th
Evening star., 1950-03-10
Man, s.; Woman, S3,
Badly Hurt in Traffic

Two elderly persons were in
tured seriously In traffic accidents
here In the last "a hours, police
reported today.
Herman v. Levy, IS, a tailor, Of
1714 Hobart street NV, was
struck by an automobile as he
stepped of streetcar loading
platform at Georgia avenue and
Irving street NV, police said.
Driver Of the car was Peter Har-
rison, 80, colored, of 1853 Girard
street NV.
Mrs. Norman j. Fitzhugh, 80
q widow. Of 4010 Pennsylvania
avenue Sc, was struck by a
streetcar as she crossed the tracks
on Pennsylvania avenue at Eighth
street Sc. The streetcar was oper-
ated by Willis w. Cope. 81, of 519s
Fulton street NV.
Mr.. Levy is in serious condition
ut Casualty Hospital with scalr
cuts. q fractured pelvis and sev.
eral fractured ribs, police reported
Mrs. Fitzhugh was admitted te
Providence Hospital for scalp cut.
and possible head injuries.
Neither driver was charged b,
police.
Evening star., 1950-03-10

the charges against Gubitchev
and was based on the testimony
of pseudo witnesses-agents of
the American intelligence service
who were publicly exposed at the
trial.
Nevertheless the court SEN
fenced Gubitchev to Is years i'm
prisonment. However, in connec-
ton with the collapse of the ac-
cusations groundlessly brought
against Gubitchev the court Of
fered that he should leave for the
U. S. S. r. within two weeks"
The only mention Tass made of
Judith Coplon. convicted with
him was:
The American citizen, Coplon,
was arraigned for trial together
with Gubitchev and was SEN
fenced to is years imprisonment %
Evening star., 1950-03-10
GIN Peacetime Record
For Employment Set
BY the Associoted Press

DETROIT, Mar. 10. - General
Motors Corp. today reported pay
rolls and employment were at
record peacetime levels last year
In a statement issued in advance
of the corporations annual report
GIN said 1949 payrolls totaled
81 ,440, 800. .450. This compared with
81 .283 1865 900 in 1948 and the
previous high of $1,380,032, ,467 in
wartime 1914.
The average number of salaried
and hourly-rated employees on the
payrolls last year was 401 1926
This compared with 380,329 for
1948. But was less than the fig
ures for the war years of 1943 and
1914.
OF the total payroll $500, ,996 ,607
was paid last year to 161 SIT en-
ployes in Michigan.
General Motors reported an av-
erage of 286.525 hourly rated en-
ployes In GIN plants in the United
States last year with payrolls
totaling $1,019,293,641. In 1948
there were 269,056 hourly rated
workers and 1896, TIT ,099 in pay
rolls.
Average weekly earnings for GIN
hourly rate employees in the United
States amounted to $6S.41 last
year, compared with $64.10 in
1948.
Evening star., 1950-03-10
Tip on Fuchs Spying
In 1916 Is Denied

A Canadian news weekly re-
ported today that DR.. Klaus Fuchs,
convicted spy, was suspected by
Canada in 1946 of spying and that
this information was passed on to
the United States and Great
Britain.
The Canadian Embassy, how
ever. recalled that the Canadian
government had officially denied
a similar report more than a
month ago.
That story has been kicking
around for some time" the EN-
bassy official said, in commenting
on a news story in the Ensign,
an unofficial Catholic news maga-
zine published in Montreal.
He said the report had been
checked with his government at
Ottawa and that it had been denied
as early as February 3 that Fuchs
name ever came up in the spy
Investigations Of the Canadian
Royal Commission on Espionage.
Fuchs was sentenced to IA years
in jail by a London judge February
% after confessing to giving atomic
secrets to Russia.
Evening star., 1950-03-10
ANPA Urges Acheson
To Protest British Plan
To Bar u. ). Comics
BY the Assoeiated Press

NEW YORK, Mar. 1O.-The
American Newspapers Publishers
Association has urged the State
Department to protest the British
Board of Trades proposed ban
on the importation into Britain
of comic supplements of news
papers.
The Board of Trade has pro-
posed to amend the general license
providing free import of newspa-
pers to exclude separate or de-
tachable sections or supplements
comprised wholly or mainly of
strip cartoons"
CranSton Williams, general
of ANPA, in a letter to
Secretary of State Acheson, said:
THE ANPA believes that this
action by the British Board of
Trade in prohibiting the import
into Great Britain of American
newspapers with comic sections is
one which should be protest I'd.
Granted that comics do not
represent news, still they do de-
pict phases of American life
which would lead to greater un-
derstanding between nations and
peoples and it is the hope of
the American Newspaper Pub
fishers Association that the De-
partment of State can see its way
clear to discussing this matter
with the proper authorities of
Great Britain in an effort to
bring about withdrawal of the
present ban against such comics"
Evening star., 1950-03-10
Gas Supplies in Paris
Cut Sharply by Wa|kout
BY fhs Associated Press

PARIS, Mar. 10.-The coffee
wouldn't boil and the toast stayed
white in many a Paris home this
morning.
On the second day of Frances
utilities strike gas supplies again
were so low cooking was impossible
In some sections. Electricity, how
ever, was maintained at almost
normal level.
A government spokesman said
draft orders, used effectively since
Wednesday midnight to keep key
electricity personnel at work, had
been served also on gas workers.
The latter had not received the
orders previously, the spokesman
said, because their unions had
promised to maintain pressure at
a level sufficiently high for do
mestic needs.
Intermittent power cuts were
reported in several cities outside
Paris, but the curtailments were
not of great duration.
Evening star., 1950-03-10

House supporters of a constitu-
tional amendment to change the
system of counting electoral votes
were considering today ways of
getting the measure to the floor
for debate in spite of yesterdays
pigeon-holing action by the Rules
Committee.
Representative Gossett, Demo-
crat, of Texas pointed out it could
be brought up under a suspension
of the rules. He indicated he
thought Speaker Rayburn would
recognize him for this purpose at
an appropriate time.
Mr.. Gossett is co-sponsor of the
amendment with Senator Lodge,
Republican, of Massachusetts,.
Senator Lodge and two other
Senators trudged from their side
of the Capitol yesterday to plead
with the rules group to send the
proposal to the floor for a vote.
But the committee voted 7 to 4
against this.
Truman Sees SABBATH.
Originally MI. Gossett said he
would not attempt to bypass the
committee if it ruled adversely to
the amendment. Major legisla-
ton usually comes to the floor
after that group has fixed the
conditions of debate, but there are
various other ways to call up bill.
President Truman talked with
Chairman SABBATH of the commit
tee yesterday. Later, Mr.. Tru-
man said at news conference
Mr.. SABBATH had told him he
Evening star., 1950-03-10
Electoral Amendment Bockers
Seek Committee Clearance

would try to get vote on the
measure.
Apparently Mr.. SABBATH didn't
mean vote in the House but
merely one in the Rules Commit
tee. He voted with three other
Northern Democrats and three
Republicans against clearing it
for debate. Three Southern Dem
ocrats and one Republican voted
for clearance.
At present the electoral votes
of each State are cast in a block
in the electoral college. The
amendment would abolish the
electors, but retain the States
electoral votes. They would not
be counted in blocks, but would
be tailed in proportion to the
popular vote cast for each presi-
dental candidate in each State.
The opposition centered among
Representatives of large States.
They insisted Southern States
would be given a disproportionate
influence.
In explaining this, they pointed
out virtually all electoral votes of
a Southern State could be ex-
pected to go to the Democratic
candidate. In closely fought
Northern States, however, they
said, the leading candidate might
end up with margin of only one
electoral vote.
Proponents View.
Proponents of the change in
sisted there was no sense in the
key position States with large
blocks OF electoral votes now hold.
The new system, they said, would
minimize the chance of victory
by a candidate who got the most
electoral votes by winning big
patches by close margins in large
States, while getting fewer popu-
lar votes across the Nation than
an opponent.
Senators Kefauver of Tennes-
see and Humphrey of Minnesota
Democrats, in addition to Sen
ator Lodge, appeared. before the
Rules Committee yesterday in
favor of the measure.
The amendment has been ap-
proved by the Senate by the nee
essary two-thirds vote. To become
eHectlve it would have to win q
tWo-thirds margin in the House
and then be approved by the leg
lslatures of three -fourths of the
States.
Evening star., 1950-03-10
Closer Cooperation
Over Budget Urged on
Truman and Congress

Closer CO. operation between
Congress and President Truman
on budget matters was suggested
today by John E. Burton, New
York State budget director.
A morning session speaker at
the annual conference of the
American Society for Public
Administration, Mr.. Burton ex-
planned that in his State the
budget Office serves not only the
Governor and executive depart
ments but the Legislature.
II think more efforts should be
made in Washington to try it,"
Mr.. Burton told the 300 delegates
at the Hotel Statler as they began
a three-day meeting.
More Control Given President
Elmer Stats, assistant Budget
Bureau director, said the trend
is toward placing more control
and responsibility in the chief
executive.
Mr.. Stats said the problem of
closer cooperation between the
President and Congress on budg-
cts needs more study. but he en-
phasized the relationship is already
close.
He told the convention of sug-
gestions to have the staff of Con-.
gressional appropriations commit
tees participate in the bureaus
hearings on department estimates.
Hearings Are Year Round.
But this raises the practical
problem Of how it can be done
realistically. he said. He pointed
out these hearings go on the year
around.
There should be more RESPONSE
bility in department heads, he
declared, and the bureaus job is
to supply assistance in setting up
proper personnel systems, ac-
counting and other features.
Prof. Joseph P. Harris. of the
University of California. told the
conference it is gratifying that
important Hoover Commission
budget recommendations have al
ready been made effective. A
simplified form of presenting the
departments appropriations to
Congress has been attained with
out the need of a survey, he said.
Evening star., 1950-03-10
Brussels Bank Accused
Of Aiding Leopold Bombed
By the Associated Press

BY the Assoeiuted Press
BRUSSELS, Belgium, Mar. TO-
An explosion last night blew out
several windows of Brussels
bank charged by opponents of
exiled King Leopold IL with sup
porting financially the pro-
Leopoldist campaign.
Belgians will vote Sunday on
whether they want Leopold, in
exile since World War II, to re-
turn to the throne. The King has
been much criticized for his early
surrender to the invading Nazis.
His brother, Prince Charles, is
serving as regent.
The explosion blew out a few
windows in the bank and several
in private houses across the street.
The Belgian government ap-
pealed to all parties to refrain
from demonstrations prior to the
referendum.
The campaign SO far has been
mostly poster war. Pro and anti
Leopolidists are holding night rail-
lies and there are indications the
campaign is getting hotter. All
police leaves have been Cancelled
until after the balloting.
Evening star., 1950-03-10
China Red Proposal
By Lie Is Hit by Koo
BY the Associated Press

DR.. Wellington Koo. Chinese
ambassador, said last night that
the proposal by Trygve Lie, secre-
tary general of the United Nations
relating to the claim of the Chi
nese Communists for representa-
ton is surprising and question
able course of action"
DR.. Koo, who represents the Ma
tionalists government now based
on Formosa, said in a statement:
IF such suggestion should be
approved by the bulk of the men,
ber states. it would have the effect
of putting premium on force and
violence in national politics and
upon international aggression for
imperialistic expansion"
DR.. Koo said the Nationalist
government is still recognized by
the vast majority of the member
countries in the U. N. as the gov
ernment of China.
Evening star., 1950-03-10
Mercy Killing
Continued From First Page. J

practicing during trial, were lifted
with acquittal.
The handsome young doctor and
his wife, who sped off to an un-
disclosed place last night after the
jury returned it's verdict, planned
to return home today to the people
who swear by him.
The jury deliberated a little
more than an hour before freeing
Dr.. Sander.
Pushes Through Crowd.
With his pretty, smiling wife
on his arm, "Herm", as his in
Inmates call him, pushed his way
through cheering crowd outside
the county court in Manchester
IL miles from here, shortly before
5 pm.
They stepped into an automo-
bile and were whisked into brief
seclusion. Pursuing cars soon
were outdistanced. but the word
got around late last night the
Sanders will be home today.
Louis E. .Wyman. 71-year-old
defense counsel, after embracing
Evening star., 1950-03-10
Police
Continued From First Page.)

tConClnued from First Page)
Capt. Richitt testified that's the
day he was called by Maj. Barrett
to be told the subcommittee was
dissatisfied with the. lack of gam
bling arrests in his precinct. Maj.
Barrett insisted he made the call
on February /.
Maj. Barrett has said any one
who had any connection with the
case would be questioned. 1t is
known that at least three third
precinct policemen have been
ordered to police headquarters
for questioning.
Questioned for Hours.
The policemen don't know who
is going to be questioned next.
They have heard, however, that
some of the questioning has kept
fellow policemen answering for as
long as eight hours. And they've
also, heard that these policemen
are not accompanied by attorneys.
What with the questioning going
on within the fifth floor Offices
and the rumors flying around the
rest of the building, this is the
picture at police headquarters to-
day:
Policemen are using pay tele-
phones rather than the ones in
their own offices. Nickels are
jangling into telephone booths in
all the corridors.
Some of them have frankly
told reporters they would rather
not be seen talking to them, even
about the weather. They explain
they don't want to be called to
the majors office to repeat their
conversation.
Officers Refuse to Talk.
High-ranking officers who have
been conversing freely with re-
porters about routine police busi-
ness now refuse to talk about any,
thing.
When the rumor that some in
spectors were going to be denoted
reached the ears of reporters, one
OF them walked into ranking
officials Office to ask an academic
question: Could Maj. Barrett de-
mote an inspector without ap-
proval from the Commissioners? j?
The official got up and walked out
OF his Office without answering the
question. as
On one score the policemen Of
high and low degree. are in COM
plete agreement: If they are dis
satisfied about the way things
have been going. they are going
to keep their dissatisfaction to
themselves.
Evening star., 1950-03-10
Bridge
Continued From First Page J

District Jail and the District Arm
ory, and predicted there would
be considerable conflicts in traffic
movements when events were
staged at the Armory and nearby
areas.
Mr.. Nolen also protested that
the Commissioners, in adopting
the East Capitol street bridge
plan, had failed to consult in ad-
vance with planning officials. He
protested also that because of
some late changes in the plans of
District officials he wasn't quite
sure just what the District plan
was as of today.
Apparently this had reference to
the contention of planning officials.
that the District had planned to
run a road through a portion of
the National Arboretum as a con-
nection between the projected
Washington Baltimore Freeway
and East Capitol street.
Greater Cost Cited.
Gen. Young gave assurances
yesterday that the Arboretum
would not be divided by such a
road.
Mr.. Nolen also said the East
Capitol street, bridge would have
to be much longer and would be
more costly than the plans of his
commission to build on the line of
Massachusetts, avenue. He ar
gued further that bridges also
would be necessary at M street
and on the line of Fort Drive to
serve traffic from areas east of
the, Anacostia and destined for
points in the northern portion of
the District. These relatively
short length spans, he said. will
be needed to permit traffic to
avoid the congestion in the down.
town area.
The planning commission posi-
ton also was supported by A. E.
Demaray, associate director of
the National Park Service and
vice chairman of the planning
body. He said there had been
some misunderstanding of reso-
lutions adopted by the commits
sion in January, one of which
fatty disapproved of the plan for
the East Capitol street span. He
brought out that the two actions
taken together constituted a pro-
posal for a re-study Of the Ana
costa Bridge needs.
The hearing will be resumed
at 10 am. Tuesday.
Evening star., 1950-03-10
Russians Walk Out
For 18th Time al
u. n. Over China
BY the Associated Press

LAKE SUCCESS, Mar. 10
Russia walked out of a Big Five
meeting in the United Nations to-
day. It was the 18th Soviet walk
out-strike since January 10. The
Russians are protesting the pres
ence of Nationalist Chinese in
U. N. bodies.
Secretary-General Trygve Lie
told his weekly news conference
he could not comment "at this
time" on editorial attacks in New
York morning papers on his sug-
gestions for a solution that might
bring Russia back to U. N. meet
ings.
Mr.. Lie had suggested in a pri-
vate memorandum to influential
nations that China should be rep
resented here by the government
actually ruling the 100000, 900
Chinese people.
Lie Proposal Assailed.
The Communist regime at Pei
ping controls the China mainland
and the Nationalists rule the few
millions on Formosa, Hainan and
other islands. Nationalist China s
delegation bitterly attacked Mr..
Lies suggestion two days ago,
contending it pre-judged Chang
Kai-shek's case. for continued
membership in the U. N. Mr.. Lie
had no comment on the Ma
tionalist contention.
The new Soviet walkout fol-
lowed the now familiar pattern.
Russia's v. I. Kobushko asked a
program committee of the Eco
nomic and Social Council to expel
P. Y. Tsao. Nationalist Chinese
delegate. Other members of the
committee are the United States,
Britain. and France.
Louis K. Hyde, American dele
gate, and Tsao voted against the
Russian motion, and only Ko-
bushko supported it. Britain's r.
LedWard and Frances jacques
Devinat abstained. The program
committee was called to discuss a
poStponement of the meeting of
the commission on narcotics.
Evening star., 1950-03-10
Gubitehev Case Collapsed,
Soviet Readers Are Told

LONDON. Mar. 10 (P.-Rus-
sian readers are being told that
Valentin A. Gubitchev is being
sent home because of the "col-
lapse of the accusations ground
lessly brought against" the Soviet
official.
They may be a little mystified,
however, since the report sent to
them by the New York cor
respondent for the Soviet news
agency Tass did not mention the
espionage charges on which the
former Soviet member OF the
United Nations staff was con-
victed yesterday.
Tass Reporters Story.
This is the story the Tass re-
porter sent home:
"a court investigation which
continued intermittently since
last autumn up to now proved
the complete groundlessness of
Evening star., 1950-03-10
DR.. Sander Suggests
Comeromon Patient
Give Up Smoking
BY the Associoted Press

GAMBIA, N. H., Mar. 10
A news photographer was DR..
Hermann N. Sanders first
patient" since his acquittal.
While flashing pictures of
DR.. Sander and his family to-
day. Photographer Peter Car
rol of the Associated Press Bu-
reau in Boston, suffering from
laryngitis, asked the doctor
what to do about it.
"You might give up smok-
ing" replied the doctor with
q smile.
Evening star., 1950-03-10
Truman Housing Bill,
Radically Cut, Starts
On Rocky Senate Path
sy the Assoeioted Press

A bill to carry out President
Truman's request for a middle
income cooperative housing pro-
gram started down a rocky path
in the Senate today.
Already sharply reduced in size
by committee action, the proposed
program faces more trouble from
Senators who want even more
drastic revisions in the legisla-
tion.
Originally. the administration
called for 50 billion in Govern
ment-backed loans to housing CO.
operatives made up of families
whose income ranges from $2,400
to S4.700 a year.
u. g. Guarantees Dropped.
In q compromise move in the
Senate Banking Committee, the
loan figure was cut to 81 billion
and a plan for direct Government
guarantees of the loans was
dropped.
The committee wrote into the
bill a financing plan under which
the loans would be insured by a
national mortgage corporation for
housing co-operatives. The cor
poration would raise money to
make the loans by the sale of
debentures, or securities.
The revised measure was ap-
proved by a 9-to-4 committee vote
after proposed substitute plan
for encouraging cooperative hous-
ing, offered by Senators Tobey,
Republican. of New Hampshire
and Ives, Republican. of New
York, was defeated, 7 to 6.
Substitute Advanced.
The two Republican Senators
advanced their proposed substi-
tute again yesterday after the
housing legislation was called up
for action in the Senate.
Under their plan. special in
centives are provided to spur pri-
vate lending to co-operatives un-
der the present Federal Housing
Administration loan insurance
program.
In addition to slicing the CO.
operative housing program in
half. the committee also made
sharp cuts in other housing pro-
grams covered by the legisla-
ton.
Repair Program Reduced.
1t chopped 81 billion off the
$2.750. 100000 originally proposed
for additional FHA insurance of
home loans by banks and other
private lending institutions.
A 80 per cent reduction was
made In the FILA loan insurance
program for home repair and
modernization. The bill, as sent
to the Senate floor, provides for
an additional $3.50 million of in
surance for this purpose.
Also cut in half was q program
providing $500 million for direct
Government loans to veterans
unable to obtain money from
banks.