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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-27
BY ROBERT ]. LEWIS.

In the face OF unprecedented
demand for homes, Washing
tons lumber supply right now
is at it's lowest point in years.
One wholesaler tells you:
I've been in this business % years,
and there's never been a shortage
like this in all that time"
Even in the last three months,
the situation has grown worse And
the outlook for the future isn't too
promising. Even if current produc-
ton difficulties, including strikes, are
cleared up, local dealers point out
there won't be sufficient lumber here
to start more than scattered few
houses before July.
Other Factors Important.
But strikes aren't altogether to
blame for present shortages, dealers
say. These factors are at least
equally as important:
l. A black market that has sprung
up among small mills that cut about
10 per cent of the Nations yellow
pine.
2. Labor shortages.
3. Retail sales by mills which di-
vert long-distance shipments.
4. OPA price ceiling ''inequities
So complex is the whole subject
of course, that the Government
with all its sources of information
still finds the supply picture some
thing of an enigma. For that rea-
son, one big purpose of the recent
housing conference called by John
B. Blandford, jr., national housing
administrator, was an exchange OF
views among industry, labor and
Government representatives on how
to step up materials production.
Dealers Have Plans.
But local dealers know the gen.
eral outlines of the shortage prob
lem and have some ideas about soly-
ing it.
They believe: .
/. The Government should dc
everything it can to channel more
men into lumber production.
Q. Efforts should be intensified to
clean up what remains of an AFL
strike that tied up go per cent of
West Coast Ar and Western pine
production.
8. The OPA price structure should
be overhauled to iron out 'inequi-
ties" and raise prices still further,
If necessary, to encourage produce
(see BUILDING, Page A-l5.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-27
Late Bulletin
Bombs Rock Jerusalem

JERUSALEM tP. - Seven
bombs exploded late today in
the center of Jerusalem and
two heavy explosions were re-
ported from Tel Aviv. The
building housing the Criminal
Investigation Department in
Jerusalem was damaged. Ali
traffic was halted and troops
were rushed to emergency
stations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-27
BY the Associated Press.

MOSCOW, Dec. 27.-A COM
mentator in the Soviet Army
newspaper Red Star today said
some Turkish editors and Depu-
ties in the Turkish Parliament
were making outspoken threats
against Russia.
The article called Husein Yalchin,
editor of the Turkish newspaper
Tanin, "the aged bandit of journal
ism" and quoted him as saying Rus
STA had been Turkeys traditional
enemy for centuries.
1t said Necemeddin Sadak, editor
of Aksham, was carrying on provoca-
tive discussions on the possibility
OF announcing a sacred war against
Russia by the Western World"
Gen. KAHN Karabekir also was
cited as declaring to the Turkish
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-27
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Dec. 27.-The resigna-
ton of IL American Embassy en-
ployes who said they could not live
in London on the salaries paid them
was announced by American off,
Gals today.
Among those who resigned were
two vice consuls and seven CODE
room clerks, who must be replaced
from the United States. The others
were British telephone operators.
Their salaries were about $2,400 a
year.
Embassy officials said high living
costs made 1t difficult to maintain
full stan Of about 900 persons on
prevailing wages.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-27
Piroeus Rioters Seek
To Free Z Left-Winqers
BY the Associated Press.

Ey the ASSOclated PreSS.
ATHENS, Dec. 27.-Rioting broke
out today in the suburbs of Piraeus
when mob attempted to free two
members of the extreme left-wine
organization IKE who had been ar.
rested for allegedly disarming a pc.
lice officer.
The crowd fought its way to the
cells where the men were held before
1t was driven back by police. Greek
reinforcements later were dispatched
from Piraeus, the port of Athens, to
preserve order.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-27
Truman Orders SWP(
Functions Shifted 10
Commerce and RFC
Maverick Will Survey
Trade. Possibilities
With Pacific Countries

President Truman today Or
dered the functions of the
Smaller War Plants Corp. shifted
to the Commerce Department
and the Reconstruction Finance
Corp, effective January %.
At the same time he assigned
Maury Maverick, who has served as
chairman and general manager
of the corporation. to visit Pacific
countries and survey the pos
sibilities of stimulating trade be-
tween small business in that area
and in the United States.
Mr.. Maverick, former Representa-
tive from Texas, will visit the Phil
ippines, China, Korea, Australia and
New Zealand. He was reported al.
ready in the Pacific on this mission
SWPC lending and surplus activi.
ties and machinery for assisting
veterans in obtaining surpluse,
were transferred to the Reconstruc.
ton Finance Corp. by the Presi.
dents executive order. Its opera.
lions in surveying the needs Of
small business and giving it tech.
nical and other assistance goes tt
the Commerce Department.
Step to Permanent Program.
A White House statement ex-
planning the transfer said "the Fed.
eral Government must have a per-
manent program to assist small
business to grow and prosper, ano
the action taken today is an i'm
portant step in that direction. 1t will
simplify and unity the Govern
ment's aid to small business"
While the Presidents actor
marked the first shift of agencie.
since the Reorganization Act wa
passed, he did not proceed undel
that statute. The executive ordel
said the President was acting under
his constitutional powers and It'll,
l of the first War Powers Act.
Representatives of the Depart.
ment of Commerce, the Reconstruc,
ton Finance Corp. and the Smalle
War Plants Corp. have already dis
cussed the transfer with the Bureau
Of the Budget, with a view to assur
ing continuity in the important &C
tivities of the Smaller War Plant
Corp. and security for the personne
Of that corporation" the Whit
House statement said.
Maverick Congratulated.
Four directors of the SWPC ar,
affected by the transfer. Mr.. Tru
man sent each of them letter.
thanking them for their service ane
he asked one, Patrick w. Melon
ough, to accompany Mr.. Maverick t.
the Pacific.
The President congratulated Mr.
Maverick on 1.-The work you hav,
done for smaller business" In out
lining the nature of the Pacific mis-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-27
Snow or Rain Forecast
In Capital Tomorrow

A new layer of snow may fall in
Washington tomorrow the Weather
Bureau predicted today.
Temperatures are expected to rise
to the lower 40s this afternoon and
drop. to the low EOS tonight. Clear
skies are predicted for today and
tonight, followed by snow or rain
tomorrow. Last nights lowest tenn.
|perature was IS degrees.
The American Automobile Asso.
citation reported all highways lead.
ing into the city are clear except
for few patches Of lee. !.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-27
iStudeboker Recalls 5, 900
Luid OFF in Reconversion
BY the Associated Press.

I BY UlIt ASsUClHItu FfeSS,
SOUTH BEND, Ind, Dec. 27.-H
S. Vance, chairman of the board OF
Studebaker Corp, announced today
that 5000 employees who we're laid
off at the beginning of the recon-
version period had been notified to
report for work next Wednesday.
He said manufacturing of cars had
been delayed by three months be-
cause of strikes in factories which
supplied parts.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-27
Turks Are Threatening Russia,
Soviet Army Writer Charges
Provocative Expressions in Parliament
And Press Are Cited by Commentator

National Assembly that Turkey would
shed blood" If the Russians insist on
territorial demands, and that a blow
against Turkey may bring to action
all Anglo-Saxons."
That's how they are writing
that's how some political leaders
of the country are acting while
their Official circles talk about
friendship with the Soviet Union,
commented the Red Star article.
GA demand by two professors of
the Georgian Soviet Socialist Re-
public, published prominently in
the Russian press last Thursday,
for 180-mile strip of Turkeys
Black Sea coast and the prov
inceS Of Kars and Arabian has
drawn Turkish fire.
A lass dispatch from Teheran,
Iran, said legislation had been in
(See RUSSO-TURK. Page AL
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-27
ID. {. Lumber Supply
Reaches New Low as
Home Demand Rises
Improvement Unlikely
Before July; Several
Factors Are BIumed

I'm the District area and
throughout the Nation, home
building is handicapped by
materials shortages. On jan
uary IS a Government priority
control system WiH begin chan
neling 10 critical materials into
Deterans' preference housing.
Those materials are lumber,
mill,Dork, brick, clay sewer pipe,
structural tile, Gypsum board,
gypsum lath, cast iron soil pipe
and fittings, cast iron radiators
and buthtubs. This is the first
OF series OF four stories dis
ctIssing District supplies OF those
nrdteridls.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-27
Grew of Nine Saved
After Tug Sinks
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ST. JOHNS, Newfoundland, Dec
2-The 4,000-ton British freighter
Dromore has picked up the nine
crew members of the Newfoundland
tug Cachelot, which sank off the
Newfoundland coast.
The Cachelot was reported earlier
yesterday to have been taken in tow
by the British vessel after losing
it's rIIdder.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-27
President 10 Fly Back
To Capital Tomorrow
# Weather Permits
Neors End Of Holiday;
Plans to Return to
Kansas City Today
b5 Iut AssUCIdItu FIeSS.
KANSAS CITY Dec 81

KANSAS CITY, Dec. 27.-Presi-
dent Truman, preparing to put
his struggle with Congress over
labor and other legislative pro-
poSals squarely up to the people
brought his Christmas holiday
at home toward a close today
with final round of informal
visiting with old friends.
The President disclosed at an in
formal press conference here yester-
day that he plans to speak to the
people in a Nation wide radio ad-
dress right after the holidays, prob
ably the first week in January, on
mis- overall legislative program, in
Guiding labor and universal train
ing
This speech will be followed by q
formal message to the new session
OF Congress on the State of the
Union, which White House officials
said likely will be delivered in per-
son. If he goes to Capitol Hill, they
said, the message may be broadcast
by television. marking the first use
of that medium by a chief execu-
tive.
Expected to Review Proposals.
In his speech to the Nation, he
likely will review the proposals he
submitted, to Congress during the
last several months for easing the
Nations transition from a war to
a peace economy.
High on on the list is his plea
for statutory authority for establish
ment of fact-findins boards ana the
fixing Of 30-day cooling off" periods
In industrial disputes as a means
Of ending strikes in important Ma
tlon-wide industries.
Meanwhile, the President said hi
would fly back to Washington al
$50 am. tomorrow if the weather 1.
no worse than that encountered BY
his big C-54, the Sacred Cow" or
his fight here from Washington
Christmas Day.
At the same time, 1t. Col. Henri,
T. Myers, pilot of the 4-motoree
transport, told newsmen the Presi
dent took mo undue risk in flyins
here. The plane took off in a driv
ing rain from a sleet- covered run
way after bad weather had delayed
an after-breakfast start for nearl,
four hours. Col. Myers described
the trip as "just another routin,
flight, entirely devoid of any risk"
Visits Mother Twice.
! The President remarked that, with
the right kind of wind, he SHOULD
fly back to Washington in abou
three hours and As minutes.
The President saw his mother
Mrs. Martha E. Truman, SO, twice
yesterday, visiting Grandview dur.
ing the morning and last night. Or
the second trip, he stopped by for s
meeting of the Grandview Masoni,
Lodge. Acting in his familiar rolf
OF presiding over the installation O.
officers. Mr.. Truman conducted tn,
installation in the capacity of actinl
grand master. He formerly serveC
as worshipful master of the lodge
which he helped establish. He wen
home to bed at u 10 pm.
Today his schedule calls for sec,
ond visit to his Office in the Fedora
Building in Kansas City, and {
luncheon later in the day as CUES
of White House correspondents whit
came here to cover his visit.
Talking over Tuesdays flight her,
at the press conference yesterday
the President said he had expe
rienced rougher trips, although no
many, and that there had been n,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-27
Russia Begins Trial
OF z Nuzi Generals
By theaAssociated Press.

MOSCOW, Dec. 27.-Two German
generals and two soldiers formerly
under their command faced a Rus
sian war crimes tribunal in Bryansk
today, charged with : responsibility
in the mass murder and torture Of
thousands of Russian noncombat-
ants.
The officers are 1t. Gen. Frederick
Gustaf Berngardt and Maj. Gen
Adolf Hamann, who commanded
troops In the Bryansk, orel and
Bobruisk regions during the Nazl
occupation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-27
(See SWPC, Page A-2D
Morrison COMING to U. S.

LONDON, Dec. ~ R.-Herbert
Morrison, Lord President of the
Council, will sail from Liverpool
tomorrow aboard the Mauritania
for visit to Canada and the United
States
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-27

(See TRUMAN, Page A-6.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-27

(See BIG THREE, Page A-6.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-27

(See RUSSO-TURK, Page A-6)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-27
Guide for Read ers

An Associoted Press Newspaper
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-26
STRATEGIC
 B0kblNGIS '.
 CONTINUING
Factories and Oil Plants Being Blasted Again
 from Air Today

LONDON, March 26 - Two oil plants, a gun factory and an ar mored car works in Southeastern Germany were attacked by 300 es- Corted American bombers as the airmen switched back to strategic targets after a week-long bombing prelude for the Rhine offensive. A small force of heavy bombers split into two task forces over Leipzig; one went for the synthetic oil plant and the natural oil re- finery at Zeitz, 20 miles south of Leipzig; the other flew to Plauen 10 miles from C2echoslovakia $ border and blasted twin war fac 1 tories.
 This attack was the first
 heavy bomber assault over Gef-
 many in 42 days. It was another i two way blow, coordinated with the iU. s. Fifteenth Air Force from
 Italy that hammered communica- tions in. Austria, the German radio
 reported.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-26
(ordova Is
 Threatened,
 Big Blaze
Flames Break Out During High Wind-Drug Store
 Badly Damaged

CORDOVA, Alaska, March 26.- Fire caused by shorted radio re- ceiver transformer threatened the entire western half of this town this morning at 1.45 o'clock. Only the quick work of the Volunteer Fire De- partment and U s. Coast Guard fire fighters brought under control the blaze, which was famed by a williwaw blizzard.
 The blaze started in a radio in the Elks' Club rooms, on the second floor of the Mcdonald Building, the lower floor of which is occupied by Mo- Donald's Cordova Drug Company
 The overloaded transformer burn ed out the top of the radio, and the fire spread to the walls, window cur tains, and then into the attic, where it broke out through the cornice of the building, showering sparks and flame in the high wind. Bremen poured tons of water into the attic, and water damage to the big drug store stock and fixtures will probably run into several thou sand dollars.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-26
PLANT ON F0RM05A
 WRECKED
Patrol Bombers Get in Good Work-Cebu Isle
 Is Also Sofiened
By JAMES HUTCHINSON ZAP War Correspondent

MANILA, March 26-Nine freigh- ters and destroyer escort were sunk in the China Sea by patrol bombers Saturday, while Liberators with 145 tons of 10000 pound bombs wrecked the big hydroelectric plant on Formosa. and softened up Cebu Island in the central Philip pines with two-ton bombs, General Douglas MacArthur reported.
 Meantime, six Japanese counter attacks on Luzon were repulsed as the Twenty-fifth and Thirty third :nfantrymen converged on import ant Balete Pass. leaing into the extensive Cagayan Valley. and the First Cavalry began drive into the long peninsula of southeastern Iauzon.
 Bombers patrolling the blockaded China Sea sank 300,0O0 ton fleighter transport, and probably sank another the same size, sent four smaller freighters to the bottom and damaged three other small freighters, plus a destroyer escort.
 One American plane was lost to antiaircraft fire in this action.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-26
FRANK kFURT
 NOW UNDER
 BIG ATTACK
Patton 5 Shock Troops Only Six Miles Awdy-West-
 ern Front Is Fluid

PARIS, March 26 The Third Army besieged Frankfurt Main, and sent it's tanks crashing across the Main at Aschaffenburg into the plains of Central Germany, bare 250 miles from the Russian lines. One unconfirmed report said Frank furt was entered last "dimmer out"
 A battle account hours before had placed Gen. George s. Patton's mighty shock troops six miles from the city, and the city's radio went dead last night.
 The Fourth Armored Division again burst loose 40 miles beyond the Rhine in sweep so swift the Germans were caught without time to blow up the Aschaffenburg Bridge, g miles southeast of Frank furt, in a breakthrough coup so com plete Frankfurt is hopelessly out flanked
 Frankfurt, city of 1000 is the ninth largest city in Germany, and one of the Reich's greatest railroad centers.
 River Line Shattered
 The First Army also broke from it's original Rhine bridgehead at Remagen and pushed nineteen miles east of the shattered river line.
 The U. s. Ninth and British Sec ond armies in and north of the Ruhr are ten miles past the river on a solid thirty -one-mile front. Battle dispatches said general breakout there is expected momentarily.
 Decisive Fighting
 Decisive fighting of the whole war is now unequivocally under way in the vest a German military spokesman said by radio from Berlin.
 Two hundred and fifty miles from the vanguards of Gen. Patton's Third Army, the Ninth Army fought in the northeast suburbs of Duis- berg. vast inland port of 431 ,000, within ten miles of rubble piled Es- sen, where the sprawling Krupp works were rebuilt seven times after bomber calls.
 Germans reported fighting outside Baden, capital of Karlsruhe, sug- gested yet another crossing by the Seventh Army, which cleared the
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-26
JEWISH BRIGADE SEEING ACTON,
 ITALIAN FRONT
Unit, Now Part of British Army, PdtrolIing in
 8th Army Sector

ROME, March 23-German pa trolling became more aggressive along the Fifth Army front in Italy with number of sharp clashes, particularly in the area southwest ,f Bologna.
 The first all-Jewish Brigade was active in patroiling along the Eighth Army front farther to the east. The brigade, led by Brig Gen Frank Benjamin, Jew, is part of the regular British Army. Many of the Brigades members were held in Nazi concentration camps, and their family origins cover thirty seven different countries.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-26
The W ashington Merry -Go- Round
By DREW PEARSON Q.t Col Robert s. Allen now on active service with the Army.S

WASHINGTON-B Between British operations in Greece, and Russian operations in Poland, patient, ideal istic ex-Governor Lehman, head of UNRRA, is having serious diffi- culties. Though Poland probably has suffered more than any other country, UNRRA has only just been able to start workers and relief to- ward that war-torn country.
 It was last summer that the Lublin Government asked that UNRRA send a mission to help Poland. Governor Lehman's office immediately drafted reply. But the U, s. Office of Censorship stepped in and said that the reply could not be sent to the Lublin Government by uncoded radio be- cause it involved information re- earding the movement of supply ships and personnel.
 Whereupon Governor Lehmans office asked the State Department 10 send the message in code to the American Embassy in Moscow, which in turn was to ask the Russian Foreign Office to deliver the message to the Lublin Poles.
 The State Department and the Embassy in Moscow were glad to comply and the message was passed on to the Soviet Foreign Office. Several weeks passed, and Governor Lehman assumed that the message had been delivered.
 Then, sud denly, the Soviet Foreign Office, in rather an ag-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-26
REDS KEEP ADVANCING,
 SOUTH AREA
Four-fiffhs of Hungary Is 0verrun-D -Danzig Sub-
 urbs in Flames

i LONDON, March 26.-The Rus sian offensive has been launched to- wards Gefmany's southern moun- tain Redoubt, Berlin says, and Mos- COW advices announced the enemy has shifted divisions from Italy to the sagging western front. Two Russian armies already have overrun four-fifth of Hungary be- low the Danube and their spearhead is within 36 miles of the Austrian border and IT miles southeast of Vienna where an attack is not far distant
 A Berlin broadcast said new asx sault has been sprung north on the Danube in Slovakia, while Marshal Konev's First Ukrai1ian Army group continued to gring through the Mo- ravian mountains north of Vienna.
 Newest Attack
 The newest attack started on the lower reaches of the Hron River in Slovakia at 4 a. m. yesterday, the German broadcast said, and a brideghead over the Hron was gain ed at Leva, 50 miles northwest of Budapest and 37 miles northeast of Komarom.
 Marshal Tolbukhins Army and Marshal Malinovsky's Army are pushing up the Danube on the south side of key city of Bratislava, and left the Vertes Mountains and Bakony Forest behind them They are reported -flanking Romaron.
 Nothing To Report
 Official Russian announcements are silent concerning Marshal Ko- news drive south and southeast of Breslau, Silesia, where he is re- ported by Berlin to have crossed in- to Czechoslovakia at several places.
 The Red Army Command is silent another day on what is happening on the Berlin front where the Ger mans report heavy fighting west of Kuestrin, within 31 miles of Ser lin.
 Unofficial reports said, however, that large reconnaissance thrusts are occurring constantly
 Meanwhile Marshal Rokossoysky drove deeply into the Northwestern suburbs of s)anzig, flaming many sectors. It is said the Germans be- gan evacuation of the port, sending persons out by submarines and sea planes after the Russians started smelling the waterways and ports.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-26
SENAT0R5 IN QUERY ABOUT FOOD SUPPLY
Think Britain Ought 10 Gel More Meat, Buffer
 from Canada


 WASHINGTON, March 26-Sen- ators have asked why Britain coesn't get more meat from Canada end less from the United States, as they began a broad investiga- tion of the Nations food situation.
 Senator Burton K Wheeler, Mon- tana, told the Agriculture Commit tee he understood the Canadians had ample meat and recommended an inquiry why more of it is not used for Lend-Lease saying he agreed it is a point that should be investigated.
 Senator Shipstead said his in- formation stated that butter was unrationed in Canada. Why can't they send it to Britain" asked Senator Ellender The British have to pay for it if they get it from Canada" Shipstead replied.
 Wheeler said he had heard that the government wouldn't let meat be brought into this country from Canada although the Canadians are anxious to export it.
 It. Col. Olmstead, director of supply and the Commodity Credit Corporation answered Wheeler: We have made efforts to get large quantities" but the Canadian gov trnment wouldn't permit exports. What Wheeler probably heard Olm- stead continued were instances where Americans crossed the border and bought meat for household use He said he understood the OPA frowned on that.