. Nothing To Crow A&out . :: BY WEST, FLA. (.4') - II loob Ulle enlorced raee ..klde, certalDJ,. all awk"ard kind of famll, lUe, for The Weather Today dJclkellS bere. A haaeholder ma, keep 11 hens. Be also ma, lIave Fair and warmer today. Today's high. 82 ap to 31 I1'Owlnr ehloka, If the ..nltarr lnapeotor thinks degreesi low, mid 50's. Yesterday's high "' III rl&ht. was 76 degrees. But none 0' the blddltl' ..JIM will be around. Rooaters at owaJll the are taboo - tbe), make too !Dueh Dolle. sa,1 a new city Established l8SS-Vol. 80. No. 264-AP News and Wirephoto Iowa City. Iowa. Thursday, Aug, S. 1948-Five Cents Int, II". effeollve 91 dan hence. stltl liIIIIj ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I lilt I 'the Silvermaster Says I 1Ul. C - f b Officials Saved Job 0 m rriittee Passes 'Inflation' Bill = WASHINGTON {JP}-Nathan Gregory, ilvcrma te l" accused of spying for Soviet Russia, related yesterday that a White House aide and a. cabinet officer protected bis wartime government job after naval intelligence tried to get him fired. T SUI To Peace Asks Conlrols ilvermaster produced a letter he' said was written by Robert Cazamian ells Grads Seek p. Patterson, then secretary of war, clearing him after. Lauchl!n Currie, for years a top White House assistant, hlld called on Pat· On Installment terson in Silvermaster's behalf. The middle-aged Silvermaster, 'Great Examination' a witness before the house un­ Uniyis Strikers OK American activities committee, Is Ahead: Hancher Buying, Credit flatly refused to say whether he ILow Cost Home' Bill Terms for Settling ever was a Communist, but he Midwestern Americans can con­ asserted he never was a spy. He tribute much to make this coun­ Gets Committee's Nod; said the naval intelligence report try accept or reCuse the lead to 93·Day-Old Str,ike WIIi an unjustified smear and that peace, Louis Cazamian, professor Poll Tax Feud Ends he had been cleared after investi­ of literature at the University I)f DAYTON, O. (JP) - Striking WASHINGTON (IP) - The gation by various agencies, includ­ Paris, told SUI's August graduat­ GOP substitute for President workers of the Univis Lens plant, Ing class last night. ing a chief of the U.S. secret ser­ Truman's anti·inflation program thwarted by national guard troops, vice. A near-capacity crowd and a agreed late yesterday to' Gov. record breaking class of 709 can­ was rammed through the house Thomas J. Herbert's terms for (In New York, Patterson said banking committee last night on that to the best of hi s recoJleclion didates lor degrees heard the noted approaching a settlement of the French educator speak on "Iowa a 16-8 vote. g3.day-old dispute. Curde called him during the war about a case in the board of econ­ Through Frenc!) Eyes." "I hope It C{llIs for restoration of war­ Herbert Hirschberg, regiona~ or­ omic warfare involving a man he Americans remain masters of their time curb on itlstaliment buy. ganizer of the CIO united electri­ thInks was SHvermaster. He souls in triumph," Cazamian said. ing, and a moderate tightening of cal workers, announced memberS ordered an inquiry, he said, and Speaklnc IqteCtncaU), about bank credit. of the Univ!s plant local would told Currie later that the war lo"a durlnr mOlt of hla lPeeob, GOP leaders were pressing a vest in their leaders full authority department did not object to the Calamlan, who bu been cuest drive to adjourn the extra 'session to sign an agreement with the miln staying in BEW. He added he profellllOr In £nIllsh at Iowa of congress, possibly Saturday company. had every confidence in Currie. th~ summer. eommenietl that night. or at the latest next Tuesday. Governor Herbert, incens~d by Patterson said he never met "the hardships of the fronUer EarUer they had abandoned an members' rejection of a signed Sllvermaster and only heard of have left fralernlt:r and rood anti-polJ tax bill in the senate, agreement between union and him the one time). will" In Iowa. saying a southern filibuster pre­ company officials last Sunday, had "Iowa is proof," he said, "that ven ted action at this session. refused to arrange another coh­ Testimony tbat both the n~vy an agricultural society can be pro- and the civil service commls­ A tenale-house committee ference unless UEW negotiators tentatively approved, meanwhile, were empowered to act for the alon 4ilr.d tried unsuccessfully to pry Sllvermaster loose from For addUlonal aceount. and a bouslD' bill which Senator Mc­ mtmbership. ,pIctures of lut nlIM'. com­ Cartby (R-W16) said Is princip­ The company, reporting that 390 bls Job with the board of econo­ mencement, 1ft pare 3. ally detlll'Jled to stimulate pro­ of its normal 658 production work­ mle warfare was riven tbe duction ot lower COlli homes. ers were back on the job tn the oomOOUee. lie st~yed on four IDOre years - until 1946. gressive and in touch with the The measure Is far different &etond day of operations under from the Trumall-backed Taft-El­ protection of guardsmen, 81tnoun­ Louis Russell. a former FBI world. Nowhere is man more cor­ dial to man" than in the cornbelt, lender-Wagner bill, designed to ted It would proceed immediately agent and now a committee inves­ spur the construction of 15-million \() replace the strikers. tigator, testified that the civil Cazamian observed. homes in 10 years. For one thing, M. H. Stanley, company presi­ service commission iooked upon "A mere glance at the map of the T-E-W bill contains a provis­ dent, said he intended to IMke no Silvermaster as a Communist. Iowa impresses the Frenchman," ion for government-financed and new overtures to the CIO united And Elizabeth Bentley, who says Cazamian said in discussing his publicly owned homes for low in­ electrical workers whose strike she was formerly a Soviet agent, impressions of the state. He spoke come personS, a provision which he estimated, has cost Univis repeated her story that Silver­ of the beauties of Iowa including McCarthy said is absent from the $I-million in sales and its em­ master furnished information that the massive trees, the towns, new bili. (0.11, ' .... n Ph.,. b, nerb Nlpl.o) ployes $500,000 in lost wages. went to Russia. She said she was farms, rolling hills and the dig­ nity of the university. The anU-inflation bill approved Stanley's statement that strik­ a courier for secrets released by Capacity Audience of 5,000 and 709 SUI Graduates Stand Duri ng Convocatiqn at Armory Last Night by the house banking committee Ing workers wO!lld be replaced many government offiCials, and The Frenchman who likes to Members of Largcst AU~lIst ('lass in UI Ulstory Told They Must Lead the World to Peace flatly rejects Mr. Truman's can prompted this comment from D. that Silvermaster headed a group walk and explore finds one thing for reimposition of selective price Arnold Davis, union attorney of employes with whom she dealt. disappointing, however, Cazamian and wage controls and rationing. admitted. "On the paved roads "The union will just disre­ Th~ Vassar graduate entered It ignores his proposal :for a $4.3~ IIrd such comments by the com­ the pedestrian is unwanted and in Surgeon Finds Missing Son in Airforce bUlion excess profits tax. &be bearln, while Silvermaster peril, while on the unpaved roads lIIoy." was IesUrylnr and was asked Western ~nyoJs in Moscow cmOAGO {IP) - Edward Eurene Potls, 21. son of II noted "blue The republican mea8Ul'e was the mud and dust are his alter­ beaded for & house vote today. to atand. native enemies." He said that ne ba b:r" l urreon, was found yesterday - a private In the army alrforce "Do you know Elizabeth Bent­ In Texas. Rep. Patman (D-Tex), banking likes the American roads because committee member, opened fire on ley?" he was asked. they always lead somewhere, un­ lie bad been 008 Inr from classes at the Univer \iy or Roohester, Plan' Next Diplomatic Move the Republi~ an measure. He is­ Easl Unites "I refuse to answer on the like some roads in Europe which Roohester, N.Y., since June 2. Last week his father appealed for help grounds that any answer might sued a statement that it wouLd have date back 2,000 years and lead no­ MO COW (JP}-Amerit'llrl, Rl'ili. II fllld I' 1'('IIi'1I PI1\,oys ('ollfPrl'ed In flndlnr him. a "devastating effect on our eccn­ incriminate me," Silvermaster The father, Dr. Willi J. Potts, made thc plell as he was about to where. In America, the old indian for tht'ee hOIll'N last nigllt Oil tlu'il' IIrx~ !itf'P in lIel'otialions with omy" and predicted President Tru~ replied. under,o surrery hlll\l!elJ. lie wanted to !lave his S9n by hJs side. be trails are gone, he observed. Russia for a Ii t Ill'nH' II( of t h(' nl'l'l i 11 ('risls }lIHI perlHlps easl­ man wouLd veto it. In UN Blast This was his stock answer to a said. The operation, for a. gall bladder condition, wa 6uccell6fully Drawlnr laurMer from the west differences in ill! EIlI·ope. Republicans decided to present LAKE SUCCESS (A')-Despite rapid-fire series of questions in­ crowd, the prole880r admlt&ed performed las' Saturday. the measure to the house under U. '. Ambassador Walter B. ~ll1i(h lInri Fn'lH'h Anlba ador Cominform attacks on Marshal chiding: "Are you now or have that he leaves Iowa pork "with procedures limiting debate to 40 you ever been a member of the Yves Chataigneoll lVl'nt 10 thl" Hri1ish f'mbnsR)' wllrrc [<'rflnk Rob­ Tito, Soviet Russia and the Uk­ renet" He tben went on to minutes and requiring 8 two­ raine backed Yugoslavia yester­ Communist party?" compliment Iowa on her fine ert ,th special British envoy.