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FELEG1AI CLOUDY Founded 1831 VOL CXVII! No. 3 22 PAGES Iaily Except Sunday. Entered as Second Clasa Matter at the Post Office at Harrisburf HARRISBURG, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 5, 1948 Evening Associated Press Newspaper in Har risburg since 1361. Mews Around the Clock SINGLE COPIES FIVE CENTS Democrats Seek Control on Marshall Plan Connally Raps GOP Attempt To Take Rule From Marshall Washington, Jan. 5, (JP) Senator Connally (D Texas) declared today that if Congress were to deny Secretary of State Marshall direction over the European recovery program "Moscow would placard it to the world as an evidence of Russian victory over President Truman." Connally is the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

His statement thus apparently fired the Administration's first gun in reply to growing de i 1 i Tl manas among uongressiunai republicans that the long range for eign aia program De aivorcea irom State Department control. Nothing that Russia "is bitterly fighting the Marshall Plan," the Texas Senator said the Soviet Union "would applaud taking the execution of the plan out of tne hands of the Secretary of Slate and placing it elsewhere. "There would be no Russian veto on such a plan," Connally continued. "Russian drums would beat and the Soviets would hurrah and their propaganda machines would send out over the air claims and statements that tehir fight against the plan had been largely successful." Connally said it "is known in Moscow" that President Truman "has already publicly indicated that he desires the Marshall Plan administered by the Secretary of State under his direction. "If Congress should override the President," the Texan went on, "Moscow would placard it to the world as an evidence of Russian victory over President Truman." Considerable Republican sentiment has built up in Congress in favor of creating a new govern ment agency to handle the multi billion dollar recovery program.

Such a plan was advanced formally by Rep. Herter (R Mass), (Continued on Page 9, Col 2) Britain Rejects Plea For Jap Peace Pact London, Jan. 5, (JP). Britain re jected today a renewed Russian demand for a four power Foreign Ministers meeting to prepare i Japanese peace treaty and reaf firmed her view that the settlement should be arafted first by the 11 nation Far Eastern Commis sion. A Foreign Office spokesman said this country favored neither the Soviet proposal nor a Chinese plan.

China had called for a confer ence of the 11 Far Eastern Com mission states, but simultaneously insisted that decisions should be subject to unanimity of Britain the U. China and Russia. State Autoists Warned About Icy Highways Pennsylvania's entire highway system is slippery following a light snow last night, the State Highways Department said today in warning motorists to use caution. Maintenance crews an all night job of cindering curves and grades. The only plow crews in operation were in Southeastern Pennsylvania where a three inch snowfall occurred.

Mrs, Harrison Dies, Widow Of President New York, Jan. 5, (JP) Mrs. Benjamin Harrison, 89, widow of President Benjamin Harrison, died! today. Mrs. Harrison, who was the second wife of the 23rd President, was a niece of the first Mrs.

Harrison, Who died in the White House in 1892. She lived in retirement in recent years, making her home in New York with her only child, Mrs. James Blaine Walker. Mrs. Harrison's death leaves ynnly four living widows of former President's, Mrs.

Theodore Roosevelt, Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, Mrs. Calvin Coolidge and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Born Mary Scott Lord in Hones dale, in 1858, Mrs. Harrison never occupied the White House as First Lady, but lived there for two years during the illness of her aunt. Her first husband, Walter Dimmick, had died in 1882. She married the former President in New York in 1896, three vcarc aftpr Via pvnirainTi nf Viic term. ivii a.

iaiijsuu aaiu 111 a icric phone interview on her last birthday that she was in generally good health but was spending the day at home trying to rid herself of an attack of laryngitis. By AP Wirephoto Today BRITISH CLOTHING PRICES SLASHED A British shopper inspects low priced clothing in a London shop yesterday as merchants reduced prices on fashions that have clogged department store shelves since the advent of the "new look" models. Sales on the "old" fashions start in London tomorrow. Along with reduced prices, much of the clothing is available for half the ration coupons regularly required. 80th Congress Faces Issues Affecting Future of U.S., World Washington, Jan.

5, (JP) Questions bearing vitally on the future of the United States and most of the world confront the 80th Congress meeting tomorrow for its session. Help for Europe and Asia, tax cutting, the high cost of living, rent control and preparedness and health insurance are a few of the top issues. And the list probably will grow. A complicating factor is that this is a general election year Democrats want to regain the con. trol of Congress they lost to the GOP in 1946.

The Republicans hope to put their Presidential nominee in the White House for the first time since Franklin D. Roosevelt started his first term in 1933. So an undertone of practical politics is almost certain as each party bids for the favor of the voters who will decide the political fortunes next November. Mrs. Loewen Joins League Backing MRS.

HELEN U. LOEWEN Mrs. Helen U. Loewen, 2644 North Second street, formerly ac itive in Republican organization politics in Dauphin county, was today named State Vice Chairman of the Pennsylvania Draft Eisen hower League. N.

B. Williams, State chairman of the organization set up to develop backing for Gen. (Continued on Page 9, Col. 6) 3 Unions Open Attack On Portal to Portal Bail Pittsburgh, Jan. 5, (JP).

Three CIO unions today opened an attack on Constitutionality of the 1947 Congressional act which outlaws suits for back portal to portal pay. The United Steelworkers, the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers and the United Packing House Workers filed notice in Federal District Court they will appeal to the U. S. Circuit Court the District Court's dis missal of claims totalling more than $20,000,000. The Federal District Court contended the claims were banned under the Portal Pay Act of 1947.

i JV the housing shortage, military The first week of the new ses sion will be devoted primarily to speechmaking and strategy huddles by Congressional leaders, with a few committees starting to lay the groundwork for future legislative actions. The Senate Republican Policy Committee and the House Repub lican Steering Committee will meet during the week for decisions which will go far toward shaping the majority party's legislative (Continued on Page 9, Col. 4) Stassen Listed As Guest Here Of Jay Cook Harold E. Stassen, former governor of Minnesota and a candidate for the Republican nomination for President of the United States, will visit Harrisburg Thursday. He will be guest of honor at a private luncheon in the Harris burger Hotel.

Luncheon host is Col. Jay Cooke, Pennsylvania chairman of the Stassen for President committee. Col. Cooke is a retired Philadelphia investment broker and former commander of the 111th Infantry, Pennsylvania National Guard, with headquarters in Philadelphia. Stassen will be in Philadelphia Wednesday where he is scheduled to make several talks before entraining for Harrisburg early Thursday.

Approximately 130 city area guests have been invited to attend the luncheon here. Trailer Camps Removed From U.S. Rent Controls Washington, Jan. 5, (IP) Trailer! camps were removed from rent control today by Housing Expediter Tighe E. Woods.

The order is effective at once. The expediter said the action would bring all camps under the cemng exempt status which he previously granted to camps which were part of motor courts. Motor courts themselves were decontrol ed by Congress in the liberalized rent law approved at the last reg ular session. Truman Admits Wish To Visit Ecuador Washington, Jan. 5, (JF).

Foreign Minister Antonio Parra Velasco of Ecuador told reporters after a White House call today that President Truman had ex pressed a desire to visit his country. He said there was no discussion of a date or any indication that a visit is contemplated in the near future, but "I told him it would be an honor to see him there how glad we would be to have Jiim." VMUU Probers Obtain Graham List Of Grain Deals From Brokers Washington, Jan. 5, (JP)A Senate Committee today ob tained records of grain trad ing by Brig. Gen. Wallace Graham, President Truman's personal physician, by serving subpoena on Graham brokers.

Edward F. McGinnis, Senate sergeant at arms, handed the sub poena to Saran B. Herschel, a Washington sentative of Bache and Company, New York brokerage firm. McGinnis acted for a Senate ap propriations subcommittee which is investigating grain speculation by Federal employes. Kimball Sanborn and Earl Cooper, committee staff members, took Graham's records to the Cap itol for scrutiny by the subcom mittee.

Senator Knowland (R. Calif.) a committee member, told a reporter the subpoena was "just a formal ity" followed because of the firm's reluctance to yield its books on Graham's accounts without an order, although it had agreed to turn them over. The subcommittee, headed by Senator Ferguson (R. planned to begin analyzing the (Continued on Page 9, Col. 4) Petrillo to Testify On Record Making Ban Washington, Jan.

5, (JP). Chairman Hartley (R NJ) of the House Labor Committee announced to day he will call James C. Petrillo next week to explain the American Federation of Musicians' ban on making new records. The AFM president will be asked to appear to public hearings expected to start next Monday, Hartley told reporters. Hartley said he is considering an amendment to the Taft Hartley Labor Act making stoppages such as that ordered by Petrillo on recordings a violation of the antitrust laws.

High Court Rules On Rights of Arrest Washington, Jan. 5, (P). The Supreme Court ruled 7 2 today that OPA investigators and a detective had no right to arrest and search a man they found riding in an automobile with a person suspected of black market activities. The ruling, ah important one in the court's long series on rights of officers to make arrests, set aside the conviction of Michael Dire of Buffalo, the automobile passenger, on a charge of violating the second war powers act." Counterfeit gasoline ration coupons werei iouna wnen ne was searcnea ana he was sentenced to a year in i ail and fined $100. Stassen Lists 5 Point Plan To Curb Reds New York, Jan.

5, (fP) Harold E. Stassen, candidate for the Re publican presidential nomination, outlined today a five point program which he said "could" by 1950 result in "the inability of the Kremlin to successfully wage aggressive war, and diminishing Communist strength in other na tions." Adoption of the, program by the U. the. Minnesota Governor said, also should show "continued success of the American economic (Continued on Page 9, Col. 7) Nine Castaways I From Ice Coated Peninsula Kodiak, Alaska, Jan.

6, (JP) Cut off both by land and sea, nine and possibly 10 shivering castaways huddled on a rocky ice coated point of the Alaska peninsula, opposite Kodiak Island, today as a Navy tug and a Coast Guard cutter waited out a 60 mile an hour storm before at tempting a rescue. For all but three of the men it was their fifth night of ex posure to the freezing cold. Heavy seas whipped up the gale balked rescue efforts Sunday for the third day, and forced the cutter Clover to seek shelter in Portage Bay, at whose mouth the men are stranded. Three of the men are crewmen from the Navy tug Mataco. They struggled to shore Saturday night after their surf boat capsized in a daring rescue attempt.

Robins Before County MAYOR ROBINS STAKES OFFICE Mayor Claude R. session of Council to order after receiving the oath of Mayor Howard E. Mijliken. Hotels Drop Meatless Days In Philadelphia Philadelphia, Jan. 5, (Members of the Philadelphia Hotel Association are abandoning meatless Tuesdays and eggless Thursdays, President Joseph Mears announced today, Mears said the action is being taken because relatively few es tablishments here have been complying with the voluntary program of food conservation undertaken by the government.

Said Mears: "Despite the 100 per cent co operation of our members J. hej move was not a success in Phila delphia. The smaller establish ments would not comply and be cause mey wuum nui, uuici uiuiug rooms, restaurants and shops incurred losses." v. W. Arthur Seen Willing to Run For Presidency Madison, Jan.

5, (JP). Douglas MacArthur, General of the Army and Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers in Japan, definitely has indicated, that he would be receptive to the Republican nomination as President of the United States, a prominent supporter said today. Wisconsin Secretary of State Fred R. Zimmerman said that a message from the general, expressed the belief that "there can be no greater satisfaction than such as comes from the confi (Continued on Page 9, Col. 6) Await Rescue The others have been stranded since their 65 foot cannery ten der, the motorship Spencer, struck a reef December 31 and broke up in the pounding surf.

Aerial photographs taken by a search plane showed a group of either six or seven men huddled on the point. Previous reports said six had been seen. "There were no visible casaul ities," the Kodiak Naval Base said. The scene only five miles overland from the village of Ka natak, but high cliffs and impassable terrain prohibit rescue attempts from that direction, the Navy said. Only one of the stranded men has been identified.

He is Lt (j.g.) E. J. Kratochvil, Washington, the tug Mataco. Tffll Takes Oath as Mayor in Ceremony Big Crowd in Council Chamber; Officials Inducted Into Office Rescuers Seek 16 Still Missing In Debris of Jerusalem Hotel Jerusalem, Jan. 5, (JP) Rescuers dug today into the de bris of the Semiramis Hotel the three story stone structure was levelled by a bomb which police said the Jewish underground had planted.

Five persons were known dead. One informant said the hotel was one of live district head quarters for an Arab military group. The known dead included Manuel Salazar Travesedo, acting bpanish consul. Some 17 were injured. A similar act of violence occur red Sunday in Jaffa, where Arab headquarters was bombed and 18 persons were killed and about 100 injured.

Police blamed the Stern gang, the most extreme element of th nnHprernnnH Hagana, the Jewish under ground defense force, said through a spokesman at Tel Aviv that the Jerusalem hotel attack was executed because "the building was an important meeting place of Arab gangs, where arms were distributed to villages in the Jerusalem area." "Unfortunately, we cannot hit at the Arab band's (main) headquarters as it is secreted in a mosque," the spokesman asserted. Arab sources said the hotel was owned by a Greek woman. They described the attack there and" at Soviet Boycotts Little Assembly AsParleyOpens Lake Success, Jan. 5, (if) The United Nations' "Little Assembly" began its year round sittings today with Russia and the five other Soviet bloc nations boycotting its opening session. Secretary General Trygve Lie, in opening the meeting at 11.25 a.

took no official notice or the boycott but he gave his full approval to the new experimental body, originally proposed by Secretary of State Marshall. Although ignoring the vacant seats at the huge committee table, Lie took issue with the contention expressed previously by Rus sia that the "Little Assembly would undermine the Security (Continued on Page 9, Col. 3) Judge Fine Inducted Wilkes Barre, Jan. 5, (JP). Judge John S.

Fine, Nanticoke, appointed to the State Superior Court bench and elected to a full term in that office at the November general election, was officially sworn in with appropriate ceremonies in Luzerne county courthouse this morning. Ensminger. Robins calls the office. today from former for 15 persons missing after Jaffa as "reprisals" for the rioting last week in a Haifa refinery in which 47 Jews were killed, after Jews had bombed a line of Arabs before the emploment office. At least four persons were brought, alive from the hotel wreckage, one a woman who had screamed in pain for four hours before she was saved.

The Jerusalem and Jaffa bombings increased to 563 the number (Continued on Page 9, Col. 6) Dock Workers Strike In Hamburg, Germany Hamburg, Jan. 5, (JP) Several hundred Hamburg dock workers went on strike today in a demand for higher wages. A spokesman at trade union headquarters said the strike was unauthorized and had been started by "political elements" who in dulged in rock throwing to pre vent early shift workers from get ting to their jobs. 2 Men Killed, 3 Wounded By Physician Jackson, Jan.

5, (JP). A Jackson physician on a shooting rampage in a drive in establish ment killed two men and wounded three others last night, Chief Criminal Deputy Sheriff J. Naugher reported today. "He just ran amuk and started shooting," Naugher said. "Witnesses say he just walked to the counter, turned around and start ed shooting.

I have him under arrest at the Baptist Hospital here. He is not in condition to talk yet." Naugher listed the man who did the pistol shooting as Dr. Levi B. McCarty, whom the sheriff de scribed as a middle aged physi cian. Dead were Milton K.

McCoy, 30, a Marine Corps' technical ser geant at home on leave, and William Clifford Kirk, 23, of Jackson. Seriously wounded were Claudis V. Jones, 33, of Jackson, and Jack Beal Shipley, 23, of Canton. They were hospitalized. Wounded in the hip but not hospitalized was J.

L. Howard of Batesville, Miss. The deputy sheriff said Dr. Mc Carty was charged with shooting with intent to kill. 1 Complete Text on Page 2 Newly elected and re elected Harrisburg and Dauphin county officials said their "I do today in two separate induction ceremonies held respectively in City Hall and the mam courtroom at the courthouse.

Crowds of well wishers were on hand for both. Mayor Claude R. Robins was the first to take the oath of office, at 10 a. m. in the city program, and immediately afterward officiated for the installation of the other new or re named city officers, Councilmen Joseph A.

Vogle'r and A. A. Poist and Treasurer Joseph A. Minnaugh. All are four year terms.

Mayor Robins pledged in his inaugural address a tax rate as low as possible, consistent with good government, a clean city, careful study of the application of new General Assembly legislation, the allocation of his first year's salary to playgrounds for children under fourteen years of age and a report to the people through press and radio at a minimum of once every two months. Judge Karl E. Richards, re elected Dauphin County Orphans' Court Judge for ten years, was sworn in by Judge J. Paul Rupp, then took his place on the bench while Judge Rupp administered the oath to county officials for four year terms. They included Commissioners Thomas J.

Nelley, Frank A. Slack and George Kunkel; Sheriff B. A. Weills, District Attorney Carl B. Shelley; Recorder of Deeds Mrs.

Marion T. Anderson; Regis ter of Wills James G. Miles; Clerk of Courts John N. Snyder, and County Treasurer Edward Stover. Judge Rupp conducted the county induction in the absence of President Judge William M.

Hargest, who is in the Harrisburg Hospital. "My term of office becomes the first post war administration and we are altogether aware of the history in the making which characterizes this period in our com (Continued on Page 9, Col. 1) World Briefs 35 Hurt in Riot Baghdad, Iraq, Jan. 5, (JP) About 30 policemen and five law students were injured today when students attempted to demonstrate against revision of the British Iraq treaty of alliance. The police forced their way in side college enclosures where the students had gathered.

The officers fired into the air. Five policemen were injured seriously. The students finally dispersed. Liner Damaged London, Jan. 5, (JP) The United States Lines 6103 ton freighter Pioneer Cove, damaged when she struck a mine in the North Sea yesterday, limped toward port today, buffeted by a gale that battered the British coast with 60 mile an hour gusts and heavy rain.

The storm delayed attempts to salvage the Silvia Onorato, Italian freighter aground on the Goodwin sands, off the Kent coast. "Mad Doctor" to Hang Yokohama, Jan. 5, (JP). Death on the gallows was decreed today for Hisakichi Tokuda, so called "mad doctor" convicted by a U. S.

Eighth Army commission of killing four prisoners of war in medical experiments. The commission had rejected two pleas that Tokuda was insane when he injected a soybean milk solution into the prisoners, who died after severe vomiting and convulsions in Tokyo's Shiangawa hospital. The prisoners were William Holland, Leytonstone, London; Thomas Hampson, Liverpool, England; Walter L. Lawson, address unknown, and Ernesto Saxida of Trieste, a member of the Italian Navy imprisoned after Italy's sur render. THE WEATHER (l).

S. Weather Bureau) Sunrise, sunset, 4:56. Harrisburg and vicinity Mostly cloudy and moderately cold this afternoon. Partly cloudy and colder tonight. Tuesday considerable cloudiness and little change in temperature.

Gentle to moderate northerly winds. High today, 38; tomorrow, 38; yesterday,.