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ID 11 0. 1VU Every Ereaia ruM 171 Ctwdltotol Jii. Mtt Price Fonr Ce3 Wilmington, Delaware, Wednesday, August 11, 1948 28 Pages rvi Ijvj Evening IF ffl) AnrjT)rirrr J5j lyJnU UVJ vrJLlVLl Ll 13 Ls LLU Ln la Is Major PlaHtf oirm Planks Vets9 Jobs and HMski Seen Choice Convention Adequate Pay For Teachers Key Witness Links Russian Embassy To Wartime Spies Buck and Boggs Given Unanimouis Caucus Support; i i Republican Convention Expected To Miss Bentley Says of State G. O. P.

C. Douglass Buck For U. S. Senator -Ite Name C. V.

Townsend for Post Of Lieutenant-Governor; B. F. Johnson Seen Choice for State Auditor By Staff Correspondent DOVER, Aug. 11 (Special). As a result of caucuses held thli morning by delegates attending the Republican State Convention here today, nomination by the party is practically assured to: Hyland P.

George of Dover, for Governor; C. V. Townsend, of Ocean View, for lieutenant-governor; C. Douglass Buck for U. S.

Senate; J. Caleb Boggs for U. S. Representative; Benjamin F. Johnson of Dover, for State Treasurer; Ford Warrington of Laurel, for State Auditor.

The first five nominees are virtually assured of nomination without contest. The Kent County caucus endorsed William W. Shaw of Harrington for state auditor but the nomination is expected to go to Warrington who has the support of the Sussex delegation. $2,000 in 1945; Testifies Supreme Soviet Council Awarded Her Medal; Former MG Officer Denies Espionage By Associated Press WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.

The Russian embassy today was drawn directly into congressional hearings of alleged Communist wartime spying. Elizabeth T. Bentley, who says she is a former Red spy, returned to the witness chair of the House un-American activities committee and testified that Anatol Gromov, first secretary of the embassy, paid her $2,000 in October, 1945. She also said he told her the Soviet Supreme Council had awarded her a medal. Her story of the money and the medal had been disclosed by committee members earlier, but she pointed for the first time to the embassy as the source.

Miss Bentley, who says she gave her story to the FBI in August, 1945, also told the committee: "The FBI has told me that in checking all of the evidence I have given them they never have found any major discrepancy." State Police Grill Tivo Men In Alleged Assault on Girl Victim of Attack on Ocean Highway Near Indian River Inlet Treated at Lewes Hospital; Guardsmen Hold Suspects for Troopers "State police at Georgetown, directed by Maj. Herbert Barnes, eommanding- dfficerrre 'today grilling two 'men- arrested following anJ Secretary Paid Her The committee put Miss Bentley back on the stand after hearing: Henry H. Collins, a former military government officer, deny that he was ever a spy for a foreign country, but refuse to say whether he is or has been a Communist. Before Jie took: the stands man Thomas (R-NJ) announced that- a special subcommittee will go to New York tomorrow to take testimony in closed session from Michael Ivanovitch Samarin, former Russian school teacher. Other members said there are plans also to send a subcommittee perhaps of one man to Canada to get a statement from Igor Gou-zenko, the former Russian clerk who was responsible for breaking the Canadian atom bomb spy case.

It was disclosed, too, that the committee contemplates a recess of the hearings here. Representative McDowell (R-Pa) said the committee will be in recess "all next week" at least. Collins, who is now executive director of the American-Russian institute in New York, held various government, jobs before the war. He came before the committee with a prepared statement which said: 'T never have engaged in espionage for, nor been an agent of, a foreign power. I do not believe in the overthrow of the government (See COMMUNISTS Page 4) G.

O. P. to Push Spy Hearings Plans to Continue Probe Possibly Into November; Pepper Charges 'Smear' WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 laid plans today to keep their investigation of Communists UV government going through September, and Senator Pepper (D-Fla) charged it all is part of a "smear campaign. Senator McClellan (D-Ark) said he has been notified to return to Washington Sept.

13 for resumed hearings by a committee headed by Senator Ferguson (R-Mich). Told of this. Pepper said the timing smacks of politics a conclusion with which McClellan didn't agree. "This makes it obvious that the Republican pattern is to make this a smear campaign," Pepper declared. "The whole design is to discredit the late President Roosevelt, the Democratic Party and President Truman.

"But I have seen. a lot of these smear campaigns react. don (See PROBE Page 4) Among Aims Delaware Republicans' Outline Calls for Higher Unemployment Grants, Study of Aid to the Aged (Text of Republican platform On page 5) DOVER, Aug. 11 (Special). A 15-plank platform, which first of all endorsed the platform adopted by the Republican National Convention, and then went on to cover major issues in the state, was presented to the G.

O. P. state convention here today. Among the major plans were: Veterans preference in appointment to all state positions; A pledge for Republican "cooperation in a program which will insure adequate housing at a reasonable cost to the veteran; "Adequate" salaries for teachers to attract and keep efficient and experienced public school staffs; An increase in the present maximum benefits permitted under unemployment compensation laws of the state, in view of the lowered purchasing power of the dollar; A study for determining the advisability of creating a state department of public welfare, which would group together "certain categories of public assistance now being administered by different boards and commissions:" A review of old age assistance and aid to dependent children, to determine how much present grants should be increased; A recommendation that the state's single fund system be changed insofar as the State Highway Department is concerned, divorcing highway revenues from the single fund and making them available for the financing of the highway program; And, support for the right of labor to organize for the purpose of establishing equality of bargaining power between employer and employe, but expressing opposition to "bitter intramural struggles for power within organized labor unions (See PLATFORM Page 5) U. S.

Again Hit By Soviet Bloc American Plan for Free Danube Navigation Lost By Seven-to-Three Vote BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Aug. 11 JP). The Communist bloc of Eastern Europe voted down, seven to three, today a second American effort- to guarantee free navigation on the Danube. The conference then accepted a Russian proposal for the first article of the new Danube shipping conference convention. The vote was seven to one.

Prance voted against The United States and Britain abstained. It was the second time in two days the Communist states beat down attempts to obtain guarantees of free navigation without discrimination on Europe's vital watarway, and showed their ability to push through a Danube pact barring the Western Powers from any say on control of the river. Yesterday the Soviet draft for a preamble setting forth the general objectives of the conference was (See DANUBE Pace 4) Ships Bypass Nanking To Halt Free Rides SHANGHAI, Aug. 11 JP). Nanking, China's capital city, will be bypassed by private ships plying the Yangtze River in the future.

Owners said the reason was simple: Too many government officials, who refuse to pay, board the craft there. First Phases of Experimental The first phases of the DuPont Company's $30,000,000 expansion program planned for the experimental station near Henry Clay are daily visible to Wilmington residents who travel into the northwest edges of the city. Perhaps most noticeable of all is the "new county road' as it is called, eventually to be turned over to the state and given the Newbridge Road name of its predecessor. The new road, wide and smooth, follows the Brandywine ln a curving stretch through woodlands which will border the planned ex rt J. Caleb Boggs For U.

S. Representative on the Ocean Highway, two miles 1 o'clock this morning. troopers after having been held by Guard, encamped at Bethany Beach, pending arrival of the police. The girl, subject of the alleged attack, was examined and treated at the Beebe Hospital, early this morning and released. State police at Georgetown said that no information is available.

Presumably the examination of the two men, both white, is being continued. A girl companion, who is said to have fled from the two men, hailed guardsmen on their way from Re-hoboth to Camp Duncan, Bethany Beach, early this morning, and the guardsmen then seized the two alleged attackers. Corp. Albert A. Clementoni, Pfc.

William I. Hartnett, and Tech5 Agostino A. DiGirolamo, all of Battery New Castle, 736th Gun Battalion, were the guardsmen. The guardsmen said they were returning from Rehoboth in a car. Two miles north of Indian River Inlet they were hailed by the girl, standing by the road and frantically waving.

The girl was hysterical, but man- (See ATTACK CASE Page 4) Guard Opposes Status Change Proposal to Have Army Take Over State Units Seen Facing Hard Fight WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 (JP). A drastic revision of the nation's traditional military policy was urged today to permit the Army to annex the National Guard. This politically explosive recommendation by a special Defense De partment advisory committee would double the Army's current strength of about 600,000. It would, in effect, serve as a short-term manpower substitute for universal military training.

Opposition to the annexation proposal followed quickly after release of the report. "We of the National Guard will fight to the last ditch," Charles H. Grahl said last night. Grahl, the adjutant general for Xo "We will fight the plan through Congress. I think there are enough former governors in Congress to defeat it.

I am confident all the (See GUARD Page 4) Shanghai Population Tops 6 Million Mark SHANGHAI, Aug. 11 VP). The population of Shanghai today was placed above the 6,000.000 mark by the police census bureau. A great influx of war refugees xrom me ixorxn nas sweued the total which was 4574,000 in 1940. The new figure mitx th rrifnmu citv in the first four rtf th nrU topped by New York, London and jraru.

Hackett Warns Against Peril Of Communism Public Safety Director A TT rj In Convention Keynote (Text of Speech on Page 5) By Staff Correspondent DOVER, Aug. 11. The growth of a Communist fungus in American institutions, permitted by an un checked tolerance, has led to "a breeding bed of hostile and dangerous radicals intent upon the destruction of the American way of life," Robert G. Hackett charged today in his keynote address to the Republican State Convention here. Mr.

Hackett, a director of the Department of Public Safetv in Wilmington and well-known business and civic leader, warned that the "regimentation of production, professional practices and personal UDerxy inreatens America. "It is time that we limit our tolerance to those that are worthy and well qualified, and who in time of peril are willing- to live and die for the freedom which grants that spirit of tolerance." Mr. Hackett said. He warned, too, against the "quick ened theories of social reforms' prevalent today, among which ho said is the "very much sought seda tive called 'security'. Too few Americans, the kevnoter said, thoroughly understand that the prescribed "security" brings with it loss of freedom, regimentation, and a government planned economy.

jr. iacKeit asserted that the greatest desired security is free- (See KEYNOTE Page 5) British Use Headhunters To Track Red Guerrillas SINGAPORE. Aug. 11 Britain is firing Dyaks. the head-hunters of the Borneo Jungles, to Malaya to help track down Comma.

nlst insurgents in their jungle hideouts. An official announcement said 4a Dyaks already have arrived at Kuala Lumpur from Sarawak, British Crown Colony in Borneo, ant that others are coming. The Dyaks are probably the mmt feared jungle warriors in the Eaat. Once headhunting was a universal practice among them. The official announcement aabt the Dyaks would be used as guides for British forces huntinr intn.

gents. In Today's Paper Hyland P. George For Governor Food Price Cut Seen in Record Crop Estimate Peak Farm Production To End Shortages By. Next Spring, Experts. Assert WASHINGTON, Aug.

11 (JP). Farmers are well on their way today toward a cure for high prices for their own "products. Aided by very favorable weather, they 'are headed for a crop harvest which is expected not "only to break all production records, but to end food shortages and, in time, bring lower prices in the corner stores. An Agriculture Department re port yesterday forecast this year's grain production as the largest ever by a wide margin. No longer is there a gram shortage.

In fact there will be a surplus if latest estimates are borne out. This bountiful prospect already has led to a sharp decline in grain prices from the post-war peak of last January. Officials said a similar decline in prices of meats, dairy and poultry products will follow as soon as farmers can convert the grains into these finished food items. The effects- of this conversion should begin to be felt, they said, no later than next spring. The Department report included the forecast of an amazing corn crop of 3,506,000,000 bushels.

This tops the 1946 record by 257,000,000 bushels and last year's very poor one by 1,106,000,000. The boost in feed supplies will not be limited to corn. Near record (See CROPS Page 4) 2 More Checked As Polio Suspects Two additional patients have been placed under observation for polio at the Doris Memorial Unit of the Wilmington General Hospital, and one patient under observation yesterday has been found free of the disease and has been transferred from the unit, it was reported today by the Wilmington Board of Health. There are now four patients under observation. The number of patients receiving treatment for poliomyelitis remains at 29.

Of this number 19 have paralysis, six have the non-paralytic type, and four are suffering from the bulbar type. Fourteen of those being treated are from Wilmington, 11 are from rural New Castle County, two from Kent County, and two from Sussex County. One case remains in a critical condition. Another patient, reported critical last week, was listed as "fair" yesterday, and "good" today. Larger Quarters construction of a three-story furni ture sales store and office building on the property.

The building will be of brick structure 80 feet by 150 feet, and will be constructed of brick. The B. Ritter furniture store is now at 601 Lincoln Street. The postmaster disclosed that the new station on Lancaster Avenue will have 4,324 square feet, double the 2,100 square feet area of the present station at Fourth and Union Streets. Postoffice Department offi cials in Washington have approved the location of the new station and (See SUB STATION Page 19) The name of Mrs.

Lillian Isaacs 1 Martin of Ellendale, which had been mentioned by party leaders earlier for the same post, was not mentioned at any of the pre -convention caucuses. John Isaacs of Ellendale will be nominated for Governor by the Sussex delegation, but it was under stood he will withdraw before the voting begins and urge unanimous endorsement of Mr. George. Support for George Mr. George received the support of the Wilmington, rural New Castle County, and Kent County delegates, which also supported the renoml nation of Buck and Boggs.

The rural New Castle and Wil mington delegations made no recom mendations for the posts of state auditor and state treasurer, two other major posts on the November ticket. The Kent County group backed Mr. Shaw for the state auditorship, and voted for the renomination of Mr. Johnson as state treasurer. None of these caucuses took any action on the lieutenant-governor candidacy.

New Castle County Arthur G. Logan of New Castle presided as chairman of rural New Castle and Mrs. John Banta of Brandywine Hundred was vice- chairman, while Mrs. Jesse Loven, of Delaware City, who is vice-chair man of the New Castle County com mittee, was secretary. The New Castle County delegates also approved the following for membership on convention committees: Credentials, C.

Wardon Gass, of Mill Creek Hundred; Francis D. Buck, of New Castle Hundred and William E. Lester, Red Lion Hun dred. Resolutions: George A. Pedrick, New Castle; William G.

Singer, White Clay Creek Hundred; Mrs. Heckert of Brandywine Hundred; rules, Guy B. Entriken, Brandywine Hundred; Miss Emily Clark, Chris tiana Hundred and Weldon Waples, Pencader Hundred; and permanent (See G. O. P-Pae 5) Zoo Costs Up, Public Now Can Feed Sea Lions PHILADELPHIA, Aug.

11 (JP). The sea lions at the Philadelphia Zoo eat a. lot of fish so Zoo Director Roger Conant has decided "we're going to let the public pay part of the bill." Conant said that the zoo's pre1 vious policy of prohibiting the public from feeding the sea lions has been reversed. Butterftsh, at five cents each, sold by the zoo, will eliminate the feeding costs, if the public responds," Conant said. In connection with the new idea.

Conant invited two major league baseball players to toss the sea lions their first on-the-public fish. Eddie Joost and Sam Chapman of the Philadelphia Athletics did the honors. $30,000,000 Station Visible perimental station to be built on part of the present DuPont Country Club. The old which inclined steeply upward from the Brandywine Bridge to the country club, to wind through the golf course outward to its intersection with Rockland Road, had to be replaced to permit other change planned, The next most noticeable progress to be noted is that of construction on the new DuPont Country Club, being built on the norm side of Rockland Road about half a mile (See DUPONT rSOJSCT It) Berlin Shuttle May Continue er Winter Symington Says Air Force Is Prepared to Keep Up Supply -Bearing Task BERLIN, Aug. 11 (JP).

U. S. Air Secretary W. Stuart Symington said confidently today the air lift supplying blockaded western Berlin could operate on a big scale through the winter if necessary. He arrived here from Wiesbaden with Gen.

Hoyt Vandenberg, Air Force chief-of-staff, and Curtis LeMay, commander of U. S. Air Force in Germany. They were to talk tonight with Gen. Lucius D.

Clay, U. S. military governor. Western Allied officials charged the Russians, through a distribution system, are killing the free exchange of information by squeezing western licensed publications from their zone of Germany. The Russians, for their part, said they had enough food in Berlin to feed al lthe city for 40 days.

Evidence grew, however, of increasing food shortages in the surrounding Soviet zone. Berlin has been blockaded by land since June. A fleet of coal trains has been marshaled close to the Soviet zonal (See BERLIN Page 4) Nimitz Sees Long Era Of Peace for World SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 11 (JP).

Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz says he's "just optimistic enough" to believe the United States is "on the theshhold of a long period of peace provided we keep militarily strong." He told a banquet meeting of 350 Naval Reserve officers last night: "If we remain strong and we are on the way to becoming strong now I believe we can stay out of war until the United Nations begins to function as it was intended to function. "I'm not a pollyanna, but I dont believe we are going, to have a war with the Soviet Union. British, Free State Talks May Lead to Irish Unity LONDON, Aug. 11 (INS).

Conferences between ranking British and Irish officials were viewed today as the possible forerunner of new steps toward merger of the Free State and Ulster. The meetings have included such top-drawer policy makers as Prime Minister Attlee and Sir Stafford Cripps. chancellor of the exchequer. Both Eire's Prime Minister John Costeilo and Minister of Justice Sean Maceoin have recently called for new efforts to link their state with the area now in the United Kingdom. 700 More Japs Facing War Crimes Trials YOKOHAMA, Aug.

11 S. Bghth Army military commissions baTe trved 71 Japanese war crimes upet In two-and-a-half years but they UU have about 700 more go. Allied Legal Section said to Aav 630 have been convicted, and alleged assault and rape on a girl north of the Indian River Inlet, at The two men were arrested by members Of the Delaware National Rain Hampers Guard Drills Light Fall at Noon Sends Some 198th Units Inside To See' Training Films By Staff Correspondent CAMP S. B. T.

DUNCAN, Bethany Beach, Aug. 11 Bad weather and some difficulty with the cable as sembly of a target tow plane forced cancellation of some outdoor training drills for men of the Delaware National Guard, and substitution of training films in the camp recreation hall this afternoon. Jtain, which began about noon, was rather light and is only partial ly responsible for the switch from outdoor to indoor training. Switch Only Partial As a matter of fact the switch is only partial because batteries of the 736th Gun Battalion returned to the beach while batteries of the 945th Automatic Weapons Bat talion went to the recration hall fo. training films.

Maj. Paul I. Donnelly, plans and training officer of the 198th A. A. A.

A. Group said that he thought the weather might improve and that if it did and if the cable assembly difficulties are straightened out all the batteries will return to the beach for continuation of outdoor drill later today. Slight Modification "The morning drills, on the handling and firing of the major weapons of (See CAMP DUNCAN Page 4) Jap Women in Battle Royal Over Peace Rite TOKYO. Axis. 11 JP).

-A fight over the peace celebration commemorating the Aug. 15 surrender anniversary is terrific. Some 30 Japanese women ciuns pot tosether to observe the anni versary. They all agreed the motif should be peace. Then the fight started.

Every club wanted to put up some one for chairman. The flht mav be ver in time for the peace celebration provided the clubwomen get together on one of the three leading candidates still in the squabble. French Proposal Seeks To Restrict Crime News PARIS, Aug. 11 VP)- A bill was filed with the national assembly today that would require French newspapers to limit all crime stories to 20 lines. These could never appear on the front page, and, would bear only the headline "diverse facts un der the measure sponsored by M.

R. P. Deputy Jean-Marie Louvei. The bill, wkich few legislators thought had. any chance of passage, would loan crime nhotoflTanhs en- Tirely.

Union Street Postal Station Will Move to Transfer of the Fourth and Union Streets Station of the Wilmington Postoffice to a new location at 1813-15 Lancaster Avenue. between Lincoln and Scott Streets, in larger quarters to accommodate the growing demands for postal service in the western, southwestern, and northwestern areas of the city and suburbs was announced today. Postmaster James J. Cahill said the office will be moved about Oct. 1.

The owner of the property at Fourth and Union Streets, Joseph Bitter and his wife, Mrs. Bertha Ritter, plan to start in the fan the Amuw mtuU i Answers QvestleiM Classified 14-tt-23-CT CesaJee 23 CwlberUen est Caasraet it Death Netiee Ettiteriasi Fteaaetal X3 OaJtaary g) BasUe 0 Baal Estate Seeiety 13 Ssarte t-U Travel aaa Pa rle U-l TTceaesta Interests 3 of them were scuvcikj vo oaui.