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I ON TODAY'S EDITORIAL PAGE Warnings for Wolcott: Editorial. Sfrange Way to Teach Morality: Editorial. Hanson Baldwin's "The Price of Book Review. FINAL Vol. 100.

No. 223. (70th Year). ST. LOUIS, THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1948 60 PAGES PRICE 5 CENTS Cwm ISPATCH uriTTQi? T1TCC fo too inn nnn TAFT DESCRIBES PRES DEN IMS, LEWIS MAKES NO I I ARGUMENT II! AJLS KJJLJ YJJLUJkJ pO, 70j Wy 111 FOR AIR AND 70-GROUP FORCE DESPITE TRUMAN OBJECTION Dead I (' SUMS PLAN ON SLUMS IN DEBATE ON HOUSING BILL DEEENSE; RULING II I if ft MEMBERS BACK UP SYMINGTON IN HIS DEMAND FOR EXPANSION AsociitM Ptms Photo.

MANUEL A. ROXAS J31 ,400 HOLDUP: 'Mad Dog' McBride and! 'Snake Martin Held in! Robbery of Bussmann Manufacturing Co. (Pictures on Page 3-A.) Lawrence (Mad Dog) McBride, old-time hoodlum and convicted robber, and Frank L. (Snake) Martin, also a former convict, were identified today in the payroll holdup at the Euss-mann Manufacturing Co. March 5.

Four women employes of the Bussmann firm identified the pair at Lucas Avenue Police Station, where they were held following their arrest earlier today. A third robber, who police say is known, is beTng sought. Names of the identifying wit nesses were withheld by Cant. Thomas Dirrane. Two of the women were positive in the identifications, Capt.

Dirrane said. Other witnesses, who reported seeing the three robbers enter and leave the Bussmann plant, at 253fiW University street, will view the prisoners. The robbers wore blue jeans and had bandana handker chiefs over their faces in the hold up, which apparently was timed to take place a few minutes after an armored truck delivered the plant payroll from a bank. Occupations of Fair. McBride, 48 years old, arrested at his home, 1422 North Nineteenth street He said he is a steamfitter, but has not worked since January, when he was em ployed on construction of the new Ford plant in St.

Louis county. Martin, 50 years old, runs a saloon at 1627 Cass avenue and lives above the tavern. Police records show he served a term in federal prison on a narcotics charge. Both prisoners denied knowledge of the holdup, and police reported that talking to them so far "is a waste of breath." McBride was tried and acquitted of the murder of Todd V. Phelps in the $7600 Overland State Bank robbery of Jan.

18, 1929. James McGauley, a St. Louis county bartender, received a life sentence in the murder. McBride served a term in the Missouri Penitentiary for robbery, and another in Cali fornia for participation in the holdup of Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood. The Bussmann robbers threatened employes in the company offices, broke wires leading to the switchboard and carried the payroll away in gunny sacks.

They fled in a stolen Ford automobile and were believed to have transferred to a gray Buick machine after abandoning the Ford. Several former members of the old Egan gang were picked up for questioning after the holdup, and released. TRUMAN PICKS PENNSYLVANIA ATTORNEY FOR FPC POSITION Nominates Thomas C. Buchanan for Post Previously Offered Burton Behling. WASHINGTON, April 15 (UP) Thomas C.

Buchanan, Beaver (Pa.) attorney, was nominated to the Federal Power Commission by President Truman today. Truman also nominated Har rington Wimberiy for reappointment to a five-year term on the commission. Buchanan was nominated to a vacancy to which Burton Behling was previously nominated. Truman, however, withdrew Reh-ling's nomination recently because of opposition. Buchanan, a Democrat, is a former member of the Pennsylvania Public Service Commission.

EX-CONVICTS ARE 0 ED IN STRICKEN AFTER ANTI-RED SPEECH First Chief of Islands Republic Succumbs at! Clark Field, Where He Collapsed Quirino to Succeed Him. MANILA, April 16 (Friday) (AP) President Manuel Roxas Acuna died last night at the United States Clark Field air base, where he became ill shortly after making a world broadcast against Communist aggression. He was 56 years old. Elpidio Quirino, 57, Vice President and Foreign Secretary, will become President. The death of the President, long an intermittent sufferer of a heart ailment, was announced early today at Malacanan palace, the Ti.L aP; 10:10 o'clock last night at the quarters of Maj.

Gen. E. I Eubank at Clark Field, where he had been taken when he collapsed. Gen. Eubank commands the United States Thirteenth Air Force.

Earlier, the palace had announced that Roxas had suffered merely from fatigue and was in no danger. He just had completed his address in the Colin Kelly theater when he became ill. Republic's First President. Roxas, the third and last President of the Philippines commonwealth, also became the first of the new republic. Taking the oath when the Philippine republic was born July 4, 1946, he guided its first steps along the paths of independence.

As he was sworn in, Roxas raised the red, white and blue emblem with sun and three stars to replace the Stars and Stripes. Full sovereignty meant realization of the national aspirations of the 19,000,000 inhabitants of the 7083 tropical islands. A dependency of the United States from the end of the Spanish-American War, the Philippines gained Independence under a congressional act after the 10-year interim period as a commonwealth. Close Ties With U. S.

Roxas charted a course of close association with the United State. He vigorously supported a controversial constitutional amendment granting equal economic rights to Americans and the electorate upheld him in a national plebiscite early in 1947. In the plebiscite campaign he narrowly escaped death when a hand grenade was hurled onto a platform where he had just concluded a speech. In winning the presidencv of the Philippine commonwealth in the spring of 1946, Roxas defeated the incumbent, Sergio Osraena, by a majority in excess of 200,000 votes. That marked a climax to a political career that began at 29 when he was elected governor or tne province of CaDiz where he was born Jan.

1, 1892. Koxas had had a part in the Philippine Government since 1922. He was speaker of the insular House of Representatives for 11 years. On the beginning of the Philippine commonwealth. President Manuel Quezon appointed Roxas Secretary of Finance.

Just before the outbreak of the Pacific war in 1941, he was elected a Senator. Served With MacArthur. A reserve major in the Philippine army, he was called to active duty soon after Pearl Harbor and was appointed an aide to Gen. Douglas MacArthur with the rank of lieutenant colonel. He moved to Bataan with MacArthur and Quezon when Manila was declared an open city.

When Gen. Jonathan M. Wain-wright surrendered his forces on Corregidor, Roxas, then a brigadier general, was in Mindanao. He continued fight the Japanese as a guerrilla. for a time, but finally surrendered.

The Japanese sought to use him in the puppet government, but he avoided a showdown for some time by playing sick. Eventually he accepted a post as food administrator. Later there were charges that he had been a collaborationist. MacArthur set these charges at rest by saying that Roxas acted as his contact man in the Philippines during the Japanese occupation. Roxas's wife was the former Trinidad de Leon, daughter of a wealthy landowner.

They had two children. TWO DAIRIES HIKE BUTTER 2C St. Louis Dairy Co. and Pevely Dairy Co. will increase the retail price of their butter 2 cents, effective tomorrow, officials announced today.

The new price will be 93 cents a pound. $500 and papers which tended to substantiate Dougherty's story. Dougherty said he paid $12,800 for a home, $2200 for a new car, $3500 for furniture, $1200 for a truck, and $1500 to remodel a house. Deputies said they found I.O.U.s for $4500 for loans Dougherty made to various persons. Mrs.

Dougherty and the children told the sheriff that Dougherty came into the house one day carrying two chairs and exclaiming, "I've found a pot of gold." They said he tore off the covering of one of the chairs, exposing bundles of currency wrapped in IS DUE MONDAY Government Calls UMW Leader's Contention That No Strike Was Called an 'Affront to Common WASHINGTON, April 15 (AP) United States District Judge T. Alan Goldsborough heard final arguments in John L. Lewis's contempt trial today. He put off any decision until Monday. Assistant Attorney General II.

Graham Morison argued for the Government that Lewis and the United Mine Workers were clearly in contempt of court for continuing the coal mine work stoppage for a week after a court order was issued for it to end. One-Sentence Argument. Attorneys for Lewis made only a one-sentence argument: "The Government has failed to prove its case." That came from Welly K. Hopkins, chief of the eight-man battery of counsel Lewis-has. Goldsborough told Hopkins he thought the union should make a detailed argument.

The Judge said he had no power to require and no desire to insist on it, but thought "it would ba helpful to the court and the public interest." Hopkins respectfully declined. Judge Goldsborough then adjourned court until Monday. Now the only thing left in the contempt case is the judge's ruling and the punishment if the ruling is for conviction. When court was adjourned, Hopkins and Lewis went into a whispered conference. Then the union chief and his lawyers filed silently from the room.

Hits Lewis's Contention. In his argument, Morison hit. hard at Lewis's contention that no coal strike ever was called. He asserted that contention was an "affront to common sense." Throughout the controversy, Lewis has publicly taken thestnnd that the walkout was a "voluntary cessation'' of work. "The Government," Morison said, "has submitted in evidence a note sent out by the union and signed by John L.

Lewis as president of the union on Feb. 2, 1918. In that letter, which was nd-dressed to all signatories of the national bituminous coal wage agreement of 1947. the defendant Lewis, as president of the union, stated that, by virtue of the unresolved pension dispute, the United Mine Workers of America reserved the right at will to take any independent action necessary to the enforcement of the contract. "Following the February letter the defendant Lewis, as president of the union, on March 12, 1948, wrote the officers and members of all of its locals and reviewed the history of the pension dispute.

Of extreme significance is the fact that this letter sttaed that the operators had 'dishonored the contract ana defaulted under its provisions." Cites Telegrams. Morison said the court should consider this letter in the light of telegrams which Lewis sent out last Monday, announcing settlement of the pension dispute. One of these messages said: "Pensions granted, the agreement is now honored." "Brief as the message was," Morton asserted, "its clear purport was to inform the members of the union that the once dishonored contract was now being honored and the strike was terminated." Morison said Lewis has been president of the union since 1919 and "he well knew the result" of the March 12 letter. "A man should be held responsible for the consequence of his action," Morison said. "It would be an affront to common sense to assert that this w-as not a strike by the defendant union.

Points to Wide Walkout, "It is taxing credulity to the breaking point to suggest that these men, so widely separated, would walk out by the hundreds of thousands in a welter of individual decisions." The whole thing, Morison said, is clear cut for all practical effect Lewis called a strike and then for a full week ignored a court order to end it. He added: "And I'm sure that's the feeling of every citizen of this country." "Beyond cavil or discussion," Morison said, "the testimony points directly to the fact that these defendants did not comply with the order of this court and that they, and each of them, are guilty of criminal and civil contempt beyond a reasonable doubt." If Judge Goldsborough finds Lewis and the union in contempt, he can impose almost any penalty in fines or imprisonment. He is the judge who ruled Lewis was in contempt in 1946 for disregarding a court's stop-strike order. That time he fined Lewis $10,000 and the union $3,500,000. The Supreme Court cut the union's fine to $700,000, but let Lewis's stand.

At the time of that sentencing Judge Goldsborough said he frankly leaned toward a jail sentence for Lewis but was bowing to Government fears that such a move might cast Lewis in a martyr's role. That first inclination led to wide speculation that if the judge finds Lewis guilty again he might choose to follow his original leaning with either an actual or a suspended jail sentence. A suspended sentence would keep Lewis in the shadow of pris- Continued on Page 17, Column 3. ACCUSES U.S. RUSSIA AS SPY ROBERT MAGIDOFF in a "clerical, non-confidential, routine" job for about 11 months in 1943 and 1944.

Department records showed she was born in Newberry, June 29, 1915. A spokesman said the department understood she was married to a Russian musician. (In New York, Magidoff's mother said she had last heard from him two weeks ago in a letter from Moscow. "Nothing since Continued on Page 5, Column 1. AIM.

FEEF EXPENSES URGED Reco mmendation by Commission Witness Is 'Opening Attack on Rate Rise Plea. By RICHARD G. BAUMHOFF A Staff Correspondent of the post-Dispatch. JEFFERSON CITY, April 15 A recommendation that the annual license fee collected by American Telephone Telegraph Co. from Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.

be eliminated from the subsidiary's operating expenses was made today at the telephone rate hearing here before the State Public Service Commission. The recommendation, made by Home L. Thorp, chief accountant for the commission and first witness in opposition to the application of Southwestern Bell Telephone for annual rate increases in Missouri of $3,250,000, was the opening gun in an attack against the application. Thorp said the annual license fee of one and one-half per cent of gross revenues, which amounted to $703,068 in 1947, should be eliminated as an item of operating expense because the cost of the service rendered by the parent company could not be determined. Formula on Cost of Service.

ThoVp pointed out not even witnesses could determine the value of the service rendered. The cost of the services rendered are allocated to each of the operating companies on a formula devised by A.T.&T., it was revealed in depositions taken last fall in New York. Taking up, Item by item, the services as described in an exhibit introduced in the depositions, Thorp declared only that portion of each service that could be traced directly to Southwestern Bell ought to be allowed. Most of the expense of maintaining the Bell Laboratories, he said, ought to be charged to Western Electric. The advertising, he said, ought to be put on a contributory basis, as is the radio Telephone Hour, instead of charged as part of the license fee.

If the commission should ac cept Thorp's recommendation, it would have the effect of adding $703,068 to the company's operating income and thus offset about Continued on Page 6, Column 1. to Use His New Four More Years newly completed south portico balcony. Truman said that he did not order the balcony for his own use, but to improve the White House's appearance. He said it follows the design Thomas Jefferson had in mind for the White House. A reporter recalled that the Fine Arts Commission (a Washington advisory body on development of the city) had criticized the project.

Truman said they got scared when a public controversy got started and the people began throwing bricks at them. As for himself, he said he did not scare as, easily. A reporter asked whether that statement could be interpreted politically. The President replied that the reporters could use their own judgment. He said he anticipated using the porch during the next four years if he had the time to do so.

He nald he put in a. pretty full day and did not know when he could find time, but, he I'll be there to use it. i DROPPING II .1 PHON EX-SECRETARY REPORTER IN American Woma n's Charges Against Robert Magidoff of NBC Printed in Izvestia. MOSCOW, April 15 (AP) Robert Magidoff, Moscow correspondent for the National Broadcasting was denounced as a spy for the United States today by his former secretary, a native of Michigan. In a long letter published in the Soviet Oovernment newspaper Izvestia, the secretary, Cecilia Nelson, accused Magidoff of using his position here to collect information for an American espionage service.

She said Magidoff, also correspondent here for the British Exchange Telegraph Agency and recently for the McGraw-Hill Publishing has been sending intelligence reports in United States diplomatic pouches. Reported Told to Leave. (The Soviet Foreign Affairs press department has ordered Magidoff to leave Russia within two or three days, the United Press said. (In Washington, the State Department said Magidoff's former secretary was employed at the United States Embassy in Moscow EATING HABITS HERE TO BE STUDIED BY U.S. THIS SPRING 6S-City Survey to Determine Whether Diets Have Changed Since 1942.

The eating habits of St. Louis-nns will ho studied this spring by the United States Department of Agriculture, which wants to determine whether diets of city families have changed in the last six yea rs. 1 tou.scwivp will be suited to keep record of their food consumption, listing not only what their families eat and how much, but factors influencing choice of foods. Similar surveys will be conducted in Springfield. and in 66 other cities, with 22 to 80 families in each city being checked to provide a representative cross-section.

The information gathered will be used for developing programs to improve consumers' diets and for estimating potential use of food produced by farmers, it was explained by Dr. Hazel K. Stieb-ling, head of the bureau of human nutrition and home economics. Supplementing this data will be information gathered in San Francisco. Birmingham, Buffalo and Minneapolis-St.

Paul on seasonal differences in food consumption. STOCK MARKET ADVANCES TO NEW HIGH SINCE OCTOBER Gains of Few Cents to Around Aircrafts, Steels, Oils, Rails Especially Buoyant. NEW YORK, April 15 (AP) The stock market advanced to a new high on the average since last October today. Trading was active and individual gains of a few cents to around $2 a share were numerous near the close. Sales were 1.650.000 shares, compared with 1,030,000 yesterday.

New indications at Washington that the Government was intent upon huge spending for armament purposes was said by brokers to be among other factors influencing large-scale purchase of stocks. Especially buoyant were aircrafts, steels, oils and some rails. DENMARK HEARS WAR RUMOR One Province In Near Panic; Telephone Lines Jammed. COPENHAGEN, April 15 (AP) Rumors that war had broken out between the United States and Russia caused near panic today in Jutland, in northern Denmark. Newspaper telephone lines were jammed.

The origin of the rumors could not be determined. Truman Expects Balcony for WASHINGTON, April 15 (AP) President Truman said today that he confidently expects to spend four more years in the White House. In a breezy press conference, the President also told reporters that he had conferred this week with New York's Ed Flynn, Democratic National Committeeman, and Paul FItzpatrick, New York state party chairman. He told reporters the two party leaders went away happy. "Was the picture rosy or gray?" a reporter asked.

Truman said the picture was all right. A reporter remarked that none of the reporters who regularly cover the White House had seen Flynn or Fitzpatrick come or go from the grounds. Truman chuckled. He said he didn't intend for them to he seen. The remark about spending four years more in the White House came during a discussion of the SYMINGTON GETS AN INFERENTIAL REBUKE ON HIS Truman, However, Declines to Say Air Chief Will Be 'Spanked Re-serving Answer on That for Later Time.

ry EDWARD A. HARRIS A Washington Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch. WASHINGTON, April 15 In an inferential rebuke to Air Force Secretary Stuart Symington, President Truman told his press conference today, with a show o( strong 'feeling, that he stands squarely behind Defense Secretary Forrestal's insistence on a 55-group combat air organization. The Forrestal program, the President pointed out, is the Administration program and is designed lo provide a balanced military establishment so that ground and service forces will be in proper proportion to the air arm. Symington Testimony.

Symington had testified before a congressional committee earlier in the week that the 70-combat force is essential to national security. He added that he would rather see the authorization increased to that figure than see Congress adopt universal military training. rne House currently is debating legislation calling for an enlarged and accelerated aircraft building program. A reporter wanted to know whether the chief executive intended to "spunk" Symington, St. LouUfin who only recently wis named head of the air branch.

Truman replied without humor that he would answer that question some other time. Asked whether he could explain position, the President fcnld shortly that he did not account for it, meaning, apparently, that it was not necessary for him to try to explain it. He reiterated that he is supporting to the limit the defense program outlined by Forrestal. On Unification Program. When a correspondent suggested that differences between Symington and Forrestal might indicate that the armed services unification is not working satisfactorily, Truman responded that unification eventually would work smoothly.

The program will have to be implemented, he went on, and the services will have to get accustomed to it. During a brief renewed discussion of the apparent feud between Forrestal and Symington over air combat strength, the President said he had stated as clearly as he could that the Administration's program was the one outlined by Forrestal. "And not by M.r. Symington?" a New York reporter persisted. Somewhat tartly, the President cut back that he had said Forrestal, and warned the reporter against trying to put words in his mouth.

Symington had no direct com ment on Truman's remarks. But, in answer to a reporter's question, his public relations office said this: "The Secretary has no plans to resign." The Bogota Uprising. Questioned about the Bogota uprising in Colombia that temporarily disrupted the inter-American conference, the President declared that it surprised him as much as anyone else, and that he was, of course, sorry that it happened. He repeated that he had had no warning that the riot was coming. The United States, he contin ued, had received information that there might be picketing or mass demonstrations at the conference, but there was no indication that anyone was going to be shot or that the trouble would be so flagrant.

His remarks corroborated the words of other Government officials acknowledging that the Central Intelligence Agency had no advance information of an explosive situation that might erupt into a revolt. A congressional inquiry already has been launched to find out how much was known by United States intelligence agencies prior to the outbreak, and whether the CIA fell down on the job. A reporter asked at this point if the President considered the revolt as a warning to the Americas of the Communist danger in this hemisphere. He replied merely that Secretary of State Marshall, who is attending the Bogota conference, had commented on that point and had done so very well. News reports from South America indicated today that a new crisis is looming in Colombia over the refusal of the widow of Liberal leader Jorge Eliecer Gaitan to permit his body to be buried until President Mariano Perez resigns.

SHE LIKES PIGS, NOT PERFUME London Clerk Quits Job, Goes Back to Farm. LONDON, April 15 (AP) Paula Perks prefers pigs to perfume. After five years of work on a farm during the war she came to town and got a. job in a London perfume shop. Today she quit to go back to the pigs.

The odor of perfume, she said, "got me down." fill! STAND Tells Senate That Blight-ed Area in This City Would Be Eligible for Federal Funds Under T-E-W Measure. By JOSEF1I HANLON A Washington Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch. WASHINGTON, April 15 Plans ef St. Louis for rehabilitating its midtown blighted area were mentioned by Senator Taft Ohio, today when the Senate returned to consideration of the long-deferred Taft-Ellcndcr-Wag-Ufr housing bill. He was discussing that pection rf the bill which would provide of federal funds in capital grants to municipalities for slum clearance, plus loan authorizations of $1,010,000,000.

Cites Deterioration. "I saw in St. Louis last month an area such as would be eligible for this assistance," Taft said. "There a large number of blocks have deteriorated to such extent that they have become slums. "The City of St.

Louis has an elaborate plan for tearing down the slums and rebuilding. Some of the area would be devoted to boulevards, some would be available for public housing, and some for ether housing. "What happens under this section (of the bill) is that the city buys that land and clears it. The Federal Government pays two-thirds of the loss which the city would suffer in making the land available for a new use. "St.

Louis is the only large city I know of that is practically ready to go ahead with this program, and they ire very much interested. In general, all the older cities have the same problem, and they, too. are interested, as are private builders. They approve because they say this is the only way to get rid of slums." Mayor's Telegram In Record. At this point Senator Donnell Rep).

Missouri, had Inserted in the record a copy of a telegram he received last week from Mayor A. P. Kaufmann of St. Louis, urging him to support the bill and arguing that its passage is necessary to aid St. Louis in the slum clearance program.

Donnell. however, has told the Post-Dispatch he has not made up his mind how he will vote on the matter. The jockeying for favored parliamentary position between opponents and proponents of public housing was resumed this afternoon when the Senate met, with the public housing opponents succeeding ultimately in retaining the favored place they won late yesterday. The Senate rejected as unconstitutional a proposal that in effect would have cut some income taxes to encourage construction of homes to rent. Rejected by Voice Vote.

The proposal was offered as a Senate Banking Committee amendment to the bill. It was rejected by voice vote. Chairman Millikin Colorado, of the Senate Finance Committee called the amendment unconstitutional. He said all tax bills must start in the House. It would have allowed bigger depreciation allowance for income tax purposes on rental housing built after last March 15.

It proposed a depreciation rate of 10 per cent a year for five years following construction. The present rate generally is 2 per cent. Taft, co-author of the housing hill and Republican leader on domestic matters, seemed for a time to have outmaneuvered Senator McCarthy Wisconsin, leader of the public housing opposition, but the final ruling, by Senator Ives New York, who was presiding, left 16 amendments offered by McCarthy as the pending business. Surprisingly, one of McCarthy's 16 amendments was a public hous- Continued on Page 6, Column 3. Warmer Tonight THE TEMPERATURES m.

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Syca- Official forecast for St. Louis and vicinity: Partly cloudy to cloudy tonight and tomorrow; warmer tonight, with lowest tempera-tare tomorrow morning near 60 and highest In afternoon in low 70s. Missouri: Partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow; warmer tonight in east and touth portions, and continued warm tomorrow; lowest tonight in 60s. and highest tomorrow near Not 50 DANGEROUS Dan Mc Glynn POST-DISPATCH WEATHERBIRO 0. Illinois: Partly cloudy and warmer tonight and tomorrow.

Sunset, sunrise (tomorrow), 5:24. Stage of the Mississippi at St. Louis, 21.1 feet; a fall of 0.8; the Missouri at St. Charles, 19.3 feet, a fall of 0.9. jpp3 tit S.

fiuieau.) They Add $822,000,000 to Defense Sum After President Stands on 55-Group Plan Ballot on Full Amount 343 to 3. WASHINGTON, April 15 (UP) The House voted $3,198,100,000 for air power today, providing for an immediate start in building a 70-group air force. Its action was taken over objections of President Truman who had asked only for funds to strengthen the present 55-group air force and for naval The measure was approved by roll call vote of 343 to 3. Opposing the bill were Representatives Leo Isacson and Vito Marcantonio (A.L.P.), New York, and Representative Adam Clayton Powell New York. House members chose to aceept advice of Air Secretary W.

Stuart Symington. Symington, a St. Louisan, broke Administration ranks to testify repeatedly that a 70-group force was the minimum required for security. The- House threw its enthusi astic support to Symington, vot ing 115 to 0 to add $822,000,000 ta an appropriation bill for the Air Force and naval aviation. Extra Sum to Air Fore.

All the extra sum goes to tha Air Force. Appropriations Com mittee Chairman John Taber New York, said it was tha mount required to buy the first planes in a 70-group program. Once this question was settled, the House put its formal approval on the full appropriation. Originally the bill carried $2,376,100,000. It carries $3,198,100,000 as amended.

The sum Includes both cash and contract authorization, the latter good through June 30, 1950. Tha Air Force gets the lion's share $2,295.100,000 $608,100,000 in cash. and the rest in contract authority. The Navy gets $903,000,000 $315,000,000 in cash. Truman originally asked for all but the $822,000,000.

Before approving the bill, the House rejected, 103 to 14, an amendment by Rep. Powell which would have made it unlawful for the Government to let any of tha aircraft contracts to firms that practice racial discrimination. Truman at a press conference several hours before the House voted strongly supported the proposal of Defense Secretary James Forrestal, who asked Congress merely to strengthen the present 55-group air force. Tabef Amendment. Taber himself offered the 70-group amendment.

What little opposition there was centered around a complaint by Rep. Albert Gore Tennessee, that the extra sum should be bigger. Gore proposed that it be raised to $922,000,000. That is figure originally set by Air Force officials as the amount needed for the first year's purchase in a 70-group air force program. The Gore amendment lost by a standing vote of 40 to 74.

The House then voted on the Taber amendment Several members remained in their seats, but none rose to vote against it. Supporters of the bigger air force predicted that quick Senate approval would follow the House action. Representative Carl Vinson Continued on Page 7, Column 2. TRUMAN DENIES HAYING ANY PLAN FOR EISENHOWER TO CONSULT WITH STALIN By a Washington Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch. WASHINGTON, April 15.

PRESIDENT TRUMAN declared today he had no intention of designating Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower as special emissary to consult with Marshal Stalin in Moscow in an attempt to iron out the major problems between the two great powers. Informed at his press conference that a national magazine had said he had the proposal under consideration, the President said at first, well, that was something he didn't know about Then he added flatly that he did not intend to do it, and that Eisenhower was going to 'be president of Columbia University. The same magazine, he was told, had written that he might chuck the presidential race at the last minute and nominate Eisenhower for the presidency.

Truman retorted acidly that the magazine seemed to know a lot of things he didn't know about mostly not factual. Asked about Eisenhower's friendship with George E. Allen, who is close to Truman, the President said he had heard they were vacationing together and playing golf. They doubtless like each other's company, he obssrved, and as a matter of fact he liked such company. Buys Second-Hand Chair for $5.75, Finds $31,000 in Cash in Cushion MILWAUKEE, April 15 (AP) A Milwaukee man was quoted by Sheriff George Hanley today as saying he found $31,000 in a second-hand chair he bought for $5.75.

Hanley identified the man as Edward Dougherty who said he is being held in jail on a morals charge. The sheriff said the man told him he found the money in currency in the cushion of the chair about 15 months ago. His wife confirmed the statement. Dougherty has six children ranging from three to 16 years. Hanley said one of four safety boxes Dougherty rented yielded.