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Richmond Brnw-DfepafcE Monday April Armed Forces Merger Faces Chicago Denies GOP Parley Nathan Urges Congress Act To Cut Prices Murray Assails -AP PMtl New Hurdles WASHINGTON April UP Critical questions raised by six of the 13 members of the Senate Armed Services Committee indicated continued opposition today to President plan to unify the Army and Navy Prospects are that any congressional action will be delayed until the end of the session Senator Robertson (R-Wya) cited a chief point of opposition in advance of a new committee session this week at which Undersecretary of War Kenneth Royall will be questioned about the authority of the proposed single secretary of national detense am fearful that this overall secretary would have power to change the functions of the present Robertson told a reporter he would then the so-called compromise plan goes far outside of any agreement by the Robertson and Senators Byrd (D-Va) and Bridges (R-N H) already have said they can not support the legislation unless some additional safeguards are written into it Details Questioned Many details of the proposal to fuse the armed services under a single Cabinet member also have been questioned during the hearings by Senators Tydings (D-Md) Baldwin (R-Conn) and Salton-riall (R-Mass) but their queries have appeared less hostile than those of the other three Both Army and Navy leaders have resisted suggestions that the new legislation drafted after more than two years of White House requests be amended or changed They have told Senators that the present draft both by what it omits and what It includes covers what the Army Navy and Air Forces have agreed upon as a working compromise They contend that changes might unbalance the agreement Last year Navy civilian heads and the admirals posed unification legislation until the President stepped in He directed the War and Navy Department heads and professional chiefs of the land sea and air forces to agree upon all possible points and report their differences to the White House These differences then were compromised and the resulting unification bill sent to the Senate and House Forty gallons of sap are sometimes obtained from a single large sugar maple tree in one season enough to make nearly a gallon of maple syrup Hollywood's Jane Withers Is a Big Girl Now Former Child Star Plans Broadway Debut Soon Jane Withers 9 Birthday Party Moves to Boudoir Due to Flu Continued From First Pago any in the CIO In an earlier speech Murray said the CIO expressed its attitude toward Communism at its Atlantic City convention last November Then he added: As the situation now presents itself especially in the light of this contemplated legislation I know A concentration camp is a concentration camp to me whether it is a Communist concentration camp or a Fascist concentration camp There much difference in concentration The CIO convention delegates approved a policy statement saying they "resent and Communist efforts to interfere in trade union affairs There was a brief flareup of the conflict within the CIO on this issue when Irving Potash vice-president of the Fur Workers Union appealed to the meeting not to join anti-Cbnununist "witch speak to you as a Potash said "Not one of you sitting in this room will buy peace for himself by joining these witch hunts Not one will escape the same hounding the same hunting John Lewis hasn't escaped it The striking telephone workers escaped Up jumped Emil Rieve president of the Textile Workers a leading anti-Cbmmunist with a point of order that speakers should confine themselves to labor legislation Murray so ruled and Potash ended with a plea to keep our eye on the and preserve unity against the labor bills Donald Henderson president of the FOod and Tobacco Workers made a speech calling on Murray to issue a second invitation to the AFL to join in lighting labor legislation Murray has tried to get joint CIO-AFL action and the AFL has countered with a proposal for an outright merger There the matter rests and the CIO began its campaign today itself Murray lashed the House and Senate bills as to: cripple the Wagner confusion and industrial "Create a system of totalitarianism equivalent to that which has prevailed in other Congressmen supporting the bills have denied these charges ley say the bills are not or but are designed to eliminate collective bargaining and protect theyublic Tfca Seafft's Met I eestiM Mellreem 3S17 Broad St 8R1L1B Labor Bills The House bill as approved by the labor committee would outlaw the closed shop but permit the union shop prohibit certain industry-wide bargaining provide for court injunctions to block serious strikes abolish the National Labor delations Board and the United States Conciliation Service and replace them with other bodies and do many other things BKTTY m'TTOX Saaay Tana 'CROSS MY HEART' KOniK CANTOR ltriaa Daalrry "STRIKE ME PINK" DOORS OPEN 11 AM 'lOEWS LASTS $WPECK BENNETT la tXNtST HUMINGWArS FMF mmm ROBERT 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ITS WONDERFUL I "JIMMY STEWART' HIS NEW PICTURE! "S- uiL a -4hs -i)owJEED is NHSE-an HOBL-ue WEB 13 It ANDIES Is Not Sought WASHINGTON April UPl The suggestion advanced in political circles that Chicago might not want the 1948 Republican National Convention drew swift denials tonight The talk was that Chicago i might not put up much of a fight the convention when selection of the site is decided by the national committee at a meeting in Kansas City April 21-22 The idea had been advanced that Chicago might not even come through with a minimum $100000 bid for convention expenses But Chicagoans blamed the rumors on Philadelphia which also has hopes of being host to the convention Collison a Palme House executive in Chicago said: that Chicago hotel men are not anxious to have the convention is the Chicago hotels -are holding space for the convention beginning June 21 Collison said adding: representatives met recently with GOP convention officers and made the On the other hand Philadelphia business and civic leaders are re- ported ready to boost their original iff ante and offer as much as $223-000 The national rommittee' meanwhile made punlic the schedule for its two-day meeting at Hotel Muehlebach in Kansas City It provides for opening debate on the site subcommittee report late on Monday April 21 A decision may be reached that day Barak Mattingly committeeman for Missouri will preside at the opening luncheon session April 21 The main speaker will be Govejnor Frank Carlson of Kansas Monday night Representative Halleck of Indiana House Republican floor leader will address a party banquet at which National Chairman Carroll Reece will preside Governors Robert Blue of Iowa Carlson Val Peterson of Nebraska and Ralph Gate of Indiana will be Introduced Also on the first day the national finance committee will meet with State finance chairmen to sum up 1947 expenses and collections The second day will be devoted to reports from committees a round table discussion of party hopes and prospects by committee members and a luncheon to be addressed bv Alf Landon the 1936 presidential nominee Norwegian Ship Sinks Off Norfolk NEW YORK April 13 UR Tbe Coast Guard reported tonight that the Norwegian ship Belpa-mela sank in the North Atlantic April 11 Eighteen crew members were sescued nine were missing The ship's position was givfen as 800 miles east of Norfolk Va Cause of the sinking the Coast Guard said was cargo bursting out of the The vessel left New York on April 5 bound for Cherbough France the Coast Guard said Survivors were rescued by the SS John Mitchell it was reported Envoys To Be Exchanged NEW DELHI April AV-India and the Soviet Union will establish diplomatic relations opening embassies in their respective capitals A communique today said the two countries were of maintaining and further strengthening the friendly existing between them ran Trail" ALL THIS WEEK Fun and Excitement for everyone Rida the Now Loopsr Amsrico's Mott thrilling Rids Music Dancing Gayoty Family Entertainment at Family Prices CHILDRENS PARTY SAT I to I II admitted groanda Children under free to show ri Economist Suggests Profits Tax OTireat WASHINGTON April (UP) Robert Nathan ug-fwted tonight that Congress threaten to reimpose the excess profits tax on industry unless it co-operates with President anti-inflation drive and voluntarily lowers prices Nathan one time top New Deal economist and a former deputy director of the Office of War Mobilization and Recotrveraion said in a radio Broadcast (WINX) that there was little Congress could do to atop an inflationary spiral doubt the feasibility of even thinking about reinstating controls Idee he said they (the Congressmen) can bring pressure to bear against excessive prices and can expose profiteering where It Hearing Aaked He said that besides threatening to reimpose the old wartime excess profits levy Congress could hold publie hearings on the price situation to expose exposure of those to blame for present high prices would help a he said exposure of those to blame for present high prices would help a he said Nathan's suggestion came as Congress prepared to come to grips with the price situation Chairman Taft (R-Ohio) has summoned his Joint Congressional Economic the top in dustrlal planning group in to an extraordinary meeting Wednesday to consider a highly confidential committee price report Tart termed the report and true" but refused to discuss details It was learned elsewhere however that it emphasized that many companies could lower prices and still make good profits Major Airing Indicated Thexommit consideration of the report may launch1 a full-scale airing of the price situation President Truman issued another declaration of war on higher prices at a conference last week lie told business bluntly that unless it reduces prices voluntarily another aeries of wage increases would 'be warranted Previously he had lauded price cuts by Ford and International HarvdlTer and had advised Industry that that was the only sound way to stem the Inflationary tide Many retail and wholesale lead-era throughout the country reacted Immediately to the President's plea Department Store In New York largest in the announced that would try to lower price and other stores in many cities announced that they would attempt to follow especially on clothing items I And the National Association of lit tail Grocers and the National Association of Retail Meat Dealers trade organizations for the nation's grocers and told the President that they agreed with him reraitars Drop Reported The National Retail Furniture Association has alao thrown it weight behind the drive In a letter to Chairman Edwin bourse of the council nf economic advisers the assocla-km said that retail furniture tores have cut their profit mar-ins in order to keep their pro-lucts within reach of the ordinary consumer Shoe Sottngs Cut NEW YORK April Eliot Simpson head of a group if shoe soling manufacturers ehich he said produced about 10 cent of the soling in the Jhited States today announced irlce cuts ranging from 10 to 40 said the reductions made response Jo President tcent plea for a drop in prices me the first by any group in the ndustry and would shoe nanufacturers to produce shoes nuch erald Smith laimk 6Beachlica(T lln Georgia DOUGLAS GA April Gerald Smith direc-er of the Christian Nationalist Crusade claimed a in today but nobody seemed -ery much excited about it Smith spoke at the Reedy iranch Baptist Church 10 miles ierth of Douglas yesterday after icing denied a permit to apeak the grounds of the Coffee Coun-V Courthouse here Between 150 iiid 200 persons turned out few his peech against Communism and or white supremacy including maecuted leaders of the Colum-tians Inc Atlanta anti-racial nroup and three Jewish war vet-rans The meeting proceeded without ncident and there was no heckling Smith as he delivered his peech Smith criticized the At-nta Constitution's dispatches bout his visit to Georgia The icwspaper reported only eight per-ons attended a preliminary meet-ng In Douglas Smith said whereat actually 16 were there Annonnces Change In Policy mi esse Atom MTwe Years Bafera tfca Mail" IUUHm ltoi Ti to Orakbs "OUTLAW OF THE PLAIRt" Wit Chw POBINSON Gary Graat Ataxia tallk "NIGHT AND DAY Witt Cta Ray Barbara MILLAND STANWYCK Barry Pltsgerald Sterts WEDNESDAY PAULETTE GODDARD FKD MacMURRAY mmm A Treat tor tko Family mm Smaetk Ssav Slick as test with cklckf LYNN ROBERTS WARREN DOUGLAS Starts it THURSDAY A DORSEYS (SEE ROY ROGERS Dala Evans I Trecelor Irving Is Teefcalc alar Bing Fred CROSBY ASTAIRE 'Pit I BETTY HUTTON SONNY TUFTS CROSS NT HEART In order to conform to the present trend to the five-day week effective as of this date TANTILLA will be open for Dancing Niqhtly from TUESDAY thru SATURDAY inclusive (closed on Sundays and Mondays) Three Hours of Fun and Healthful Recreation Make a Date To Roller Skate at the CAVALIER ARENA FOR Fur for All From 6 to 40 Masle by Hammond Organ By Aline Mosby HOLLYWOOD April (UP) Jane Withers the only actress in Hollywood who publicly celebrates her birthday wound up 21 years on this green earth today with the coziest anniversary of all a bedroom birthday party This Jane told us from the depths of her pink-and-blue bed was a heck of a note Jane's birthday parties are the social event of the season for movietown's small fry and this year planned to take over a corner of the Mocambo for 200 of her pals "Just some of the said Janie were were I say going to dress up and everything I gave a party like that a Ciro'a last Then the flu bug reared its nasty head and Miss Withers (we have to use occasionally now that come of age) retired with reluctant coughs to her fluffy boudoir This created a major catastrophe in the life of the ex-bratty child star She missed tossing a birthday brawl since her mama brought her to Hollywood from Atlanta 15 years ago If Cleopatra she figured could fete friends in her sleeping quarters with wine and pheasant so eould Withers with ice cream and cake So she neatly pared the guest list to 12 chums and moved her twenty-first birthday party to her boudoir "It's said Jane with a sniffle and reached for a hankie "We have marble cake and pistachio ice cream and I'm showing a couple of movies Up Baby and The Awful The films will be run off in the living room of suite which takes up the whole second floor of the Withers home and is such a mecca for hep gang that it often resembles Grand Central 'Station She sighed that a lot of married couples are popping up in the crowd that comes to use her swimming pool) badminton court barbecue house record player soda fountain and beauty parlor calling me the old Smallpox Outbreak Hits ewY orkTown MILLBROOK April (UP) The fourth ease of smallpox broke out tonight in the Cardinal Hayes Home for Convalescent Children Dr Bertrand Robert district State health officer reported The virulent type of the dread disease struck the child in the home as physicians in the village of Millbrook were frantically trying to vaccinate villagers and farmers from the area Dr Roberts said that two local physicians and a State Health Department doctor distributing the vaccine ran out of the vaccine for the second time late today: 2000 more units were rushed to the area with a State police escort All day long lines of villagers and farmers many clad in overalls and boots mobbed the centers for the saving vaccine State police stood by to keep order among the panic-stricken men women and children More than 1000 persons were vaccinated by midafternoon Panic-stricken residents begain to mob local doctors yesterday when the cases were first reported but doctors ran out of vaccine The State health department rushed additional vaccine and another doctor to the area this morning and scheduled the opening of three clinics for area school children early this weric All Snowflakes are six-sided of Richmond for nearly 40 years Arriving here froip Greece he first engaged in the restaurant business One year he was asked to take over the management of the cook house of a traveling carnival He became so interested in the venture that in 1927 he invested his own savings in a tiny tent show from which has grown' the present Shows which tour the country in 35 mobile trucks The Marks' Shows now consist of a dozen riding devices and numerous aide shows and game maid at said Janie Temple Virginia Wiedler Jackie Cboper Freddy Bartholomew and others from the old gang are married But seriously glad not changed a lot in the last four years kids want to get married at 17 fine But wait I almost got married when I was 17 and I'm relieved I Miss press agent A Lyles who the gossip columnists said she almost wed was perched on one of her pink I -ti vm chairs during this staternc! He blushed and said nothing Jane did a switch from her an niversary to reveal leaving soon for New York to take a crack at becoming a musical com' edy star She made a picture since and is hankering to get back to work reveal the name of the play but it'll be a musical and I'll she said only other stage experience was musical opened in Philadelphia and Boston It got swell reviews But when we got to New York the only theater that had a big enough stage for our sets available So we had to This grown-up talk is startling to Jane's adult fans who remember her early days when she was strictly a butter-ball By the time she was 12 directors were scared to photograph her walking away red from the camera and it appea: her profession was ending in welter of spuds and gravy Then Jane noticed boys and the pounds melted away Now she's one of the prettiest and moat popular girls in town with all the curves in the best Slices Everybody says Miss grown-up but sometimes she doubts ltA still collecting autographed pictures of stars and scrapbooks of my parties and look at she exclaimed waving a pigtail tied with blue ribbon 1 still sing a song from my first stage show Are the Funniest People' and people say mean one yourself Andrew Haigh Is Pleasing In Recital By George Harris Again yesterday afternoon there waa the great delight of music in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts On this occasion it was an hour of piano music some of it unusual and played with brilliant technique and much effectiveness by Andrew Haigh associate professor of fine arts of the College of William and Mary There are many fine performer who live in Virginia or are of Virginia who are not in the great lists of concert artists and such an occasion as performance is a happy way of bringing such musicians to Richmond audiences Mr Haigh put a great deal of tenderness into a Bach fugue dispelling the thought of there being dryness in the classics A very seldom-played in by Schubert followed a long work varying in interest but containing much beautv and revealing a little-known development of the classical school towards a new trend Brilliant and powerful in the first movement suggestions of the dramatic emerged from the simplicity of the second movement the minu-etto was characteristically Schu-bertian in its grace and the finale was exciting in its development of ideas and taken at its properly exciting tempo although Mr Haigh in a few introductory words apologized for the tempo Lizat in a mood of lingering sweetness and pianistic richness was properly Interpreted by Mr Haigh there was an echo of Lizst in a piece by Scriabin but in another by him more vigorous individuality dans by Debussy made the same rich colorful effect that it does in the hands of any fine planistMt would seem that there is no scope for any individuality of performance in it The program closed with brilliance and tenderness and fine tone in a nocturne and the by Chopin but there are dangerous repetitions and spinning out of ideas in each of these pieces and while Mr Haigh spoke of the length of the Schubert sonata it was these two compositions that aeemed longer They might have been more effec tive earlier In the program with something mare quickly pre On Slack Nartfe at 3100 West Breed Street 3 Take Wsstkemptes or West Breed Street Car Tickets on Sale NOW for Semis Or aria Pro saafs) SPIKE AND tieULAR SKATINe SISSIONS IVEBY XVKXIirO 7:45 to 11 MATUEES SAT sad SUN ItolP leastei SAT XOiunHQ IS to Spec! dual al Iaatraettaaa to Baaiaaeia p-O Ikito Farafahad VM ARENA Eve April 28 AT JOMES HIS BULKING Cameiy Juggler 3 THE SUCKERETTES Tap la Tegs 3 CITY SLICKERS MUSICAL DEPRECIATION REVUE IN 160 MINUTES OF MUSICAL MADNESS VAUDEVILLE 14 Stars of Screen and Stage DOODLES WEAVER MICKEY KATZ 6E0RGE ROCK it DICK GARDNER it DICK MORGAN it DING BELL it DR HORATIO BIRDBATH Shows Will OpenToday In Engagement Here HELEN GRECO Saaf Stylist V- BETTY JOHNSTON dcrafcaffc Marvaf 3 SPECIAL ADDED ATTRACTION a A VICTOR RED SEAL ARTIST MISS AILEEN CARLYLE The Shows with the mile-long pleasure will pen a engagement today the 3200 block West Broad St ius marking the twentieth anni-rnary of John entrance ito the carnival business The Shows began in ichmond in 1927 as a very small aveling show The outfit Win-n here each year and for the rt two seasons has occupied a J0 srra tract of land on the Mid-ifiriu Itemike which Marks nrvhased for winter quarters Kr Marks has been a resident TickBts: $188 $250 $313 $375 laeladcd Please Enclose Self-Addressed Stamped Envelope McMAHON CONCERT BUREAU ca BUHL OPTICAL COMPANY 402 VAST ORACI STRUT RICHMOND VA TIL 74444 sivc In interest at the.