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Evening star., 1945-12-01
Student Writers Invited
To Enter Eve Care Contest

The District Society for the Pre-
ventton Of Blindness is sponsoring
an editorial contest among high
school Journalism students and
school newspaper reporters to en-
courage care Of the eyes, 1t was
announced today.
The subject OF the editorial Is
Take Care of Your Eyes-Prevent
Blindness" Mrs. p. c. Elicit, presi-
dent. said the society wished to
draw the attention Of student
writer's to the importance Of sight
conservation. Entries must be
mailed to the society, a39 Seven
teenth street NV. by February Is.
Judges are Philip H. Love Of The
Sunday Star, Alan Barth, Wash
ington Post; Miss Mary Gold, chief
Of the American Red Cross training
unit at American University, and
Mrs. Samuel A. Towne, q trustee
of the society.
The society has elected eight
persons to it's Board Of Trustees,
Francis w. Hill. jr., chairman Of the
Nominating Committee, announced
yesterday.
The trustees are David Amato,
Mrs. P. c. Elicit. Herbert Gill, DR..
James M. Greear, jr.; Mrs. j. Stan
ley Hodges, L. Kenneth Jones, Miss
Katherine Scrivner and Mrs. Sam
uel A. Towne.
Evening star., 1945-12-01
Mrs. Meyer Urges
New Cabinet Post
BY the Associated Press.
CuTN IA,

ny the ASSoc}ALeQ rIete.
CHICAGO, Dec. Mrs. Eugene
Meyer, wife Of the publisher Of the
Washington Post, last night called
for new cabinet post to help insure
decent living standards for al
Americans, including Negroes.
Mrs. Meyer declared the Presi-
dents cabinet should include q Sec
retary Of community services.
Addressing . meeting here honor
ing Negro veterans OF World War II,
she suggested that the cabinet Job
should include the functions Of
education, health, welfare and social
insurance" and added:
"Only by efficiency II,
governmental procedure can we hope
to establish . minimum standard OF
living below which no American
family, colored Of white, viii be al
lowed to fall"
Mrs. Meyer said the postwar re-
conversion period win be very dim
cult for the Negro.
She said the World War was fol-
lowed by race riots and q mass
migration of Negroes from the
South, and added that once more
"hate movements, similar to the Ku
Klux Khan, are now being promoted
IN our country"
Mrs. Meyer declared it Is up to the
leaders Of both races to try to coun-
teract this spirit.
Evening star., 1945-12-01
Development Noted
In Effort 10 Settle
D. c. Truck Tieup

The Commissioners remained silent
today on their proposed plan to
aid in speedy settlement Of the
six-week-old wage strike Of the
Transfers Union, Local $50, against
local transfer companies which has
tied up thousands Of dollars worth
OF goods In Washington freight
yards.
However, Commissioner John Rus.
sell Young and Commissioner Guy
Mason said they would be ct their
desks today. indicating possible de-
velopments In the situation.
Twice yesterday the city heads
conferred with Federal Labor Con.
ciliator r. w. Goodrich, who haa
been attempting to settle the strike
Mr. Goodrich said he did not antici-
pate Federal Intervention In the
walkout and this was echoed later
BY Commissioner Young, who said
1t was purely local problem.
The Commissioners entered the
strike picture at the request o,
Washington businessmen who
pleaded for settlement Of the strike
Negotiations broke down two
weeks ago with the companies which
have refused to meet union wage
demands. described by Aubrey w
Stream, Local $50 president, as
ranging from q 91a cents hour
increase to q a-cent-an-hour re-
duction, and averaging "less than
cents across the board"
Mr.. Stream said that II District
trucking firms employing $50 driy.
ers already had signed a new two
year contract embodying the wage
changes and that the II firms
which have not signed the contract
employed 240 drivers.
Joseph c. McGarraghy, attorney
for II of the IL firms tied up by the
strike, said the struck firms employ
about 800 men. The II firms rep
resented by Mr.. McGarrahy are
members Of the Labor Relations
Council Of the District Trucking As
sociation.
Evening star., 1945-12-01
Police Squad Head Denie.
Gambling Syndicate Here

Inspector Oscar j. Letterman,
head of the District police gambling
squad, today said he had no knowl-
edge Of a gambling syndicate oper-
ating here which was redeemiug
scrip notes" for "bigtime" New
York gamblers who had taken to the
use of the notes for fear Of holdup.
According to an Associated Press
dispatch yesterday, New York police
said the gamblers are so jittery
about holdups that they are using
scrip in denominations Of $500,
81 900 and 5000 for payot1s.
The New York police said an In.
vestigation revealed the existence of
the scrip notes, and they they were
to be redeemed for currency by a
syndicate which was said to have
operated here, in Florida winter re-
sorts, and in Albany, Saratoga, and
Lage George, N. Y.
Inspector Letterman declared he
thought the New York police may
have referred to certain institu.
tions" in nearby Maryland when he
spoke Of the reported gambling syn.
dicate here.
Evening star., 1945-12-01
A,g%.k

goods and eha.tels were relocated
by The Milwaukee Railroads Agri.
cultural Development Department
and other agencies.
So the way was cleared for what
was originally called the @Hanford
Project The vast extent Of this
project may Be sauged through the
feet that between April l, 1913, and
July 81, l9ls, The Milwaukee Road
delivered 4l,63s carloads Of freiEhr
-. equal to = freight traia $50 miles
long -. at relocated Hanford.
Most Of the scientific equipment
and industrial material was hauled
westward over the electrified route
Of The Milwaukee Road, through
the ranges Of the Rockies, and then
into the Saddle Mountains that flank
the Cascades on the east. From
Beverly Washinston, on the main
line, steady stream 81 oddly assor,.
ed freight moved twenty-one miles
down The branch to Hanford, where
i was deliysred to ! short-line rail.
road epessaed by the government
n the resnicted area.
Fsw indeed. othsr than The MI
waakse Road men who operated the
hesvy freight trainh had any knowl.
sdge of the magnitude 81 the dsvsl.
epment that was under way. The
Evening star., 1945-12-01
Truman and Wallace
Remind Industry Of
Job Responsibility \
By the Associat ted press.

5s the A6soclated Press.
NEW YORK, Dec. l.-president
Truman last night joined Secretary
Of Commerce Wallace In urging
management u. fully discuss and
understand It's responsibility tn
achieving full employment.
The President, In . message read
at the annual dinner Of the Society
for the Advancement OF Manage.
nent, said that II the United States
is to maintain high production. In
dustry must gear jsself with the
public interest" and "day-to-day
management decisions must be
sound"
The Chief Executive told the mani
agement representatives:
Every time you set . price or Q
wage or . specification for . job,
every time you select . product de-
sign or = machine or Q merchan.
dizing policy. every time you accept
or reject . proposed extension or
improvement, you are deciding just
those practical matters which dc.
termiue the outcome. II these sep
arate private decisions are not we'll
taken, they will not add up to the
right score In high production"
Secretary Wallace, In . letter read
to the meeting, said Scientific
management Is simply the only way
to deal with the problems Of this
scientific world" and "the fact that
we are determined to maintain
free society and a free economy is
a condition OF the problem that
constitutes simply another challenge
to our resourcefulness."
Delegates to the two-day meeting
heard the drive for shorter hours
of retail selling and sales promotion
effort assailed by DR.. Paul H. Nys-
from, chairman of the central coun-
Gil of the National Retail Trades
Association, as leading only to "less
retail sales"
william L. Bait, United States
member Of the Combined Raw Ma
terials Board, said the Nation need
ed q long-term foreign trade policy
to last over from one administration
to another.
Evening star., 1945-12-01

The Tower Of Babel was cozy,
backwoods reunion compared to the
home Of Toivo Ketola, where Eng
lish, Swedish and Finnish merged
today In noisy recognition OF a war
torn home made whole again.
You wouldn't believe it could hap
pen to one family unless you went
through 1t yourself, or happened to
drop in at Toiyo Ketola's in Takoma
Park when the kids came home.
Liisi. Z, with her pigtails and red
ribbons, and PAUL., 10, with his pink
cheeks and nonstop movement-two
Finnish youngsters who speak only
Swedish entering an American home
for q reunion with their parents
after seven long years.
That was the picture of Toivo Ke.
tola's home, complete but for An.
nell, the big girl Of the family at IL.
Anneh speaks English, knows . lit
tie Finnish, can't understand what
brother and sister are gibbering
about In Swedish.
It was rnixup fitting for q
League Of Nations interpreter.
The Ketola family has q recon-
version problem all Of It's own.
Luckily, both of the parents speak
English, Swedish and Finnish.
Story Begins in 1896.
It was back In 1896 that the story
Of Toivo and Lahja Ketola and their
orphans of the war began. Toivo
Ketola, 3s, is a Seventh-Day Ad-
ventist missionary and Lahja is his
wife.
That year the church sent the
Ketolas to Liberia-a prodigious as
signment for q young missionary.
Anneli was but 3 and PAUL q babe
Of year.
In 1888 the Ketolas went back to
Finland for Q rest and q respite
from malaria, and while they were
there, Liisi was born. When Liisi
was but Q months old, Mr.. and
Evening star., 1945-12-01
Formal Punishment
For Mcleod Unlikely
By the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
DETROIT, Dec. Malcolm Nc.
Leod will escape formal punishment
for his runaway trip to Florida with
two Wayne University goods ane
$4,000 Of his fathers money, it wa.
indicated on his return to Detroit
yesterday.
However, his winter vacation viii
be spent in Northern Michigan, mol
Southern Florida.
II do not believe the family will
want to prosecute him." said Johr
Mcneil Burns, law partner Of Nal.
colm's father. II am certain ne
warrant will be signed. When he Il
released he will 80 north for a rest.
Former Representative Clarence J
Mcleod. father Of the 18-year- -old
boy, was reported too Ill to meet
the train that brought his son and
the two attractive college sopho.
mores back from Columbus, Ga.
where they were taken Of q Miami.
bound train Sunday.
The girls, Betty Ann Mackey, a.
and Kathleen Conricode. 10. were
released to their parents after they
made statements.
From his cell in police headquar-
tiers, Malcolm asked:
How soon do I get out Of here?"
Police brought back $19,236 Of an
estimated SIC, 500 they said Malcolm
took from q closet IN his fathers
home THANKSGIVING Day.
Evening star., 1945-12-01
Packing House Workers
Authorize Strike Call
y the Associated Presa.

~ the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. Dec. 1.-The CIO
United Packing House Workers to-
day had the mandate OF their men,
bers to call q Nationwide strike, II
necessary. to support a ascent
hourly wage increase demand.
Union members. polled yesterday
by the National Labor Relations
Board. approved . walkout by better
than 20 to /. Returns were incom-
plete.
Union officials emphasized the
vote did not necessarily mean q
strike would be called. Negotiations
are. In progress here between the
union and the big -Four" packers
Armour, Swift, Cudahy, and Wilson.
Smaller packing houses also are in
volved in the dispute which affects
100000 workers nationally.
Evening star., 1945-12-01
By the Associated Press.

- tA4S 0osOsloteS 81 Gs1s
NEW YORK. Dec. LA 21-year-
old sailor. who was washed OVER
board from the deck Of the battle
ship Warrington into raging seas
on Newfoundland, came home
yesterday with his ship ready to
keep . wedding date on Christmas
Day with his childhood sweetheart.
He Is Seaman First Class Luther
Oaks, Erwin, Tenn. He was one Of
o67 sailors, 81 naval officers and
!, ,47o soldiers aboard the Washing.
ton, which completed her first voy.
|age from Europe Is Z troopship.
Hish-ranking naval officers, IN.
cluding Rear Admiral Thomas Ross
Cooley. who Is In temporary com.
mand Of all battleships and cruisers
lin the Atlantic, and Capt. Francis
x. McInerney, skipper Of the
Warrington, told the story Of Sea-
man Oaks rescue.
They said the battlestip was
plungins through huge seas last
Wednesday morning when Seaman
Oaks lifeline was snapped as he
attempted to secure ire hose on
the deck. He was swept over the
side.
Evening star., 1945-12-01

credited by. the IA. Col. Yatssvieh.
Army with having introduced tests
for gun tube forgings which resulted
In development Of new lightweight
cannon for aircraft and tanks.
A graduate Of Harvard University
Col. Yatsevitch speaks fluent Rus
sian, Serbian. French and German
His wife. Mrs. Margaret Howe Yat-
sevitch, lives at 42o3 Curtis road
Chevy Chase, Md, with two chill.
dren, Gael and Peter.
Evening star., 1945-12-01
Six Foreign Red Cross
Executives Take Course

Five Red Cross executives from
Latin America and one from Yugo-
slavia are taking home nursing
courses here this week to establish
such instruction in their own coun.
tries, 1t was announced today.
With the aid of interpreters, the
class is being taught by Miss Eula
B. Butzerin. education consultant Of
the American Red Cross nursing
service. The visitors are Mrs. Sara
Leine de Siqueira, Brazil; Alfredo
Sasso Robles, Costa Rica; Carlos A,
Patterson. Panama; DR.. Carlos
Amaya, Nicaragua; DR.. Rudolfo
Troncoso, Argentina, and Mrs. Olga
Miletitch, Yugoslavia.
Evening star., 1945-12-01
SIumon Takes Command
OF Andrews AirfieId

Col. Curtis d. Sluman Of New
Rochelle, N. Y, veteran of 20
months service in Europe, has as
sumed command of the Army Air
Base at Andrews Field, near Suit
land. Nd, relieving 1t. Col. Robert
N. Maupin, who has received an
unannounced assignment elsewhere.
Col. Sluman was graduated from
West Point In 1894 and was assigned
ct once to aviation training. He
was commanding omcer Of MacDill
Field, Oahu, when the Japs struck
Pearl Harbor, but 1t was as COM
mander Of q medium bomber unit
that he went to the African theater
In November, ls42. He returned to
the United States IN August, 1914.
Evening star., 1945-12-01

Mrs. Ketola returned to Liberia,
taking only Anneli with them.
Then came the war and what
was to have been an ls-month sepa-
ration from the babies rolled on and
on interminably. Two years ago
in November. the missionary's fur
Tough finally came and he brought
Mrs. Ketola and Anneli to America.
Children Sent to Sweden.
With the Russians pressing into
Finland. the missionary sent word
to have his children moved to the
safe confines Of church sani-
tarium in Nyhyttan, Sweden. They
arrived there last July. adapted
Themselves quickly to the Swedish
way Of life. soon learned Swedish
and forgot most Of the Finnish
language.
That was the way things stood
until Wednesday when Mr.. and Mrs.
Ketola met their children at . pier
in Brooklyn.
"Of course, I knew them right
away" said Mrs. Ketola. II knew
the baby from pictures I had
last summer. But she's so hard to
understand. she talks Swedish so
fast"
The children's shyness soon wore
OF. PAUL. and Liisi bridged the
barriers Of q strange language and
quickly Joined Anneli in such games
as tag and jig-saw puzzles. They
make sign language do the work Of
the spoken word.
After Christmas PAUL. and Liisi
will Join Anneu at the John Nevins
Andrews School In Takoma Park,
part Of the Seventh-Day Adventist
properties there. Soon Mr.. Ketola
will receive his masters degree from
the theological seminary. and the
missionary viii move on from his
homo at IL Sherman avenue to
Northern Michigan, which abounds
in Finnish-AYnericans.
Evening star., 1945-12-01
UNo Groups Hearing
On Site Issue Beains
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Dec. IA subcommit-
te Of the United Nations Prepara-
tory Commission today began hear
ing deputations from more than q
score Of American and Canadian
cities which are Offering sites for
the permanent UNO headquarters.
The subcommittee - most of
whose members have declared
themselves in favor Of establishing
the headquarters in the United
States-began hearing the adelega-
tons in alphabetical order, starting
with Atlantic City, N. ],
Delegates from Australia, Colom-
bia, Cuba, Egypt, Iran, the Neither
lands and YugoslaNa make up the
subcommittee.
Evening star., 1945-12-01

. II z ~ II ] Z e q
States Embassy
In M o 8 c o W
was announced
by the War De-
partment today.
Col. Yatsevitch
received the Le-
gion Of Merit
award this week
for his work rs
chief Of the can
non and aircraft
armament Sec
tic. Of the Ord
nance Industrial
Service. He is
Evening star., 1945-12-01
O'Doniel's Tenant
Granted Jury Trial

Austin Patrick Fitzpatrick, one Of
three tenants at lis Second street
NE, whom Senator o'Daniel. Dem
ocrat, Of Texas Is attempting to
evict through suits filed In Muuici.
pal Court, yesterday was granted .
jury trial to fight the eviction.
In an answer, Mr.. Fitzpatrick
charged Senator o'Daniel does not
need the apartment for his own use
and that there are other quarters
In the building available for occu-
pancy by the Senator and his family.
No date was set TOR hearing In the
case,
Evening star., 1945-12-01
Newspupermon to Lead
Forum on Soviet Russia

Jerome Davis and William Henry
Chamberlin, foreign correspondents,
will discuss Russia and the Road
to Peace" in a series OF three meet
ings Monday afternoon and evening
in the Friends Meeting House, 2l11
Florida avenue NV.
At 4:30 pm. they will lead q forum
on "The Soviet Situation: A Balance
Sheet" Mr.. Chamberlin will speak
at the s pm. dinner conference on
Soviet Aims in Foreign Policy"
while Mr.. Davis will speak at 8 pm.
on THE Road to Peace"
Evening star., 1945-12-01
Peorce. Lecturer, to Speak

Sam Pearce. Shakespearean lee
turer, viii speak on .The Winters
Tale" ct $50 pm. tomorrow IN
Pierce Hall Of the Unitarian
Church, Fifteenth and Harvard
streets NV. Mr.. Pearce viii speak
also at Sis pm Monday 1t the
Arts Club. 20i7 ! street NV; IT
Sis pm. wednesday at Thomson
Community oenter. Thirteenth and
= streets NV. and 81 ! pm, DE-
cesubef .. II tho jewish conznunity
Center.
Evening star., 1945-12-01

production Of new weapon, the
impact Of which would smash all
existing concepts Of war and peace.
was well guarded secret.
Only Americas railroads had the
capacity and fexibility which en-
abled the government, science and
industry to marshall the nations
resources anywhere, in any guam
tity, for any undertaking. no matter
how gigantic.
Evening star., 1945-12-01
MARYLAND Writer Honored

Jack r. Salamanca Of Washington
Grove. Nd, received honorable men,
ton In the YMCA radio-script con-
test on world fellowship. according
to announcement Of Leonard w.
DeGast, general secretary Of the
Washington "Y." The title Of Mr..
Salamanca's script, which was
judged Ia New York, was AFTER the
Shouting"
Evening star., 1945-12-01
On the Other Hand
Asks What's Really Behind the Feud
Between Hurley and Cookie. .Pushers

CoRRECTIoN-In this COL
umn Thursday the impression
was given inadvertently that
Admiral King headed the
United States Navy at the time
Of the Pearl Harbor disaster.
To Admiral King. the apologies
OF the author. who knew bet
ter.-L. M,
Evening star., 1945-12-01
SIDELIGI
ON THE

THE tick Of the telegraph key In
j The Milwaukee Road station 1t
Hanford, Washington, broke the
between-trains quiet Of 4 February
day In lo43. Over the wire came 4
message that caused the agent on
this peaceful branch Limo to doubt
his ears. And little wonder! For tho
government was askins that the six
hundred families Of the Hanford
and White Bluffs communities Be-
moved up the haeks lock, stock
and barrel.
Now. Il last the eory msy 81
told. The fash 10 Hanford was enly
the beginning. Government removal
orders finally resulted In 4hs aban.
donmenf 81 800 square miles q land
IN the Priest Rapids md Richlasd
areas of the Columbia River valley.
More than 1900 families, with their
Evening star., 1945-12-01

Moving < material for q weapon
to end all weapons -. moving ten
inch guns from coAst 10 coast at
remarkable speeds =. hauling PIT
boats from factory 70 sea speed
ing millions and millions Of om
fighting men to their destinations
=. Or carrying boat loads Of service-
mems Christmas packages to trans.
oceanic ports are examples Of the
wide variety Of jobs which Only the
railroads arc capable Of performing.
Evening star., 1945-12-01

ex-diplomat himself.
Only one thing has he seemed tc
make clear. This is that he is, OF
was, engaged In q terrible feud oi
some kind with a bevy Of cookie.
pushers in Chungking and Washing
ton. (Cookie-pusher Is the obsoles-
cent term once applied to all foreign
service hirelings below the rank o,
ambassador; you know. when all
foreign attaches were supposed to
wear spats and spend their time
juggling tea and cakes at one
another's embassies.) Gen. Hurley
In his sudden and surprising de-
cisioil to resign the role he had
been enacting with such superior
showmanship, blamed the behavior
of these cookie-pushers for bring
Ing him to his resolution They
were undoing all his great work, he
charged.
Confusion in Itself.
He got along fine with General
issin1o Chang, he assured us. He
had success in his dealings with the
leaders of the Chinese Communists
He and Stain and Molotov were
just like three fingers on the same
hand. I'm all justice to Stain and
Molotov," he is quoted as saying,
II must state that not for one mo-
ment while was in China did they
ever break their word with me-"
And President Truman and Secre-
tary Byrnes, rightly or wrongly,
backed him up all the way.
But those oookie-pushers! "The
professional foreign service men
sided with the Chinese Communist
armed party and the imperialist
bloc Of nations whose policy was to
keep China divided against herself" )"
This Is confusing in itself. It
would seem to mean that the cookie
pushers were working both sides Of
the street, but it doesn't conform
with the popular picture of the
species. Always 1t has been under
stood that the cookie e-pushers 60
where the cookies are. Within the
'imperialist bloc,S that could be the
British Embassy, although that
source Of Scotch refreshment has
pretty well dried up, or the French
Embassy, even though champagne
no longer bubbles freely in that
quarter. 1t could hardly be the bare
cupboard Of the Chinese Commu-
nists. Remembering the feast fur
nished us natives at the Embassy
reception given here for Nine.
Chang and the tales of the Chang
fanily's opulence. there is where
our career boys might be expected
to rally round.
But Gen. Hurley indicates that
this wasn't the case; that, instead,
they spent their time playing pail
with the Communists. This may
have been in the period when nearly
all returning Americans complained
that Chiang's armies, instead Of
lighting the Japanese, were devoting
themselves to blocking Oh the armies
Of the Chinese Communists who
wanted to fight the japanese.
Still Had His Own Way.
In ahy case, when Gen. Hurley
asked that the careerists be recalled
to Washington, they were recalled.
But, he says, they were placed IN
the State Department as his super
And still he had his own
way. Maybe that was because, as
Byrnes says, they really
weren't Hurley's supervisors. Final
ly-
Despite these handicaps we did
make progress toward unification OF
the armed forces of China. We did
prevent civil war between the rival
factions-at least until I had left
China" -..s
Why, then, did he give up the job at
which he was doing so we'll? BY his
own account it was because OF a
speech by relatively obscure MEM
Evening star., 1945-12-01

that the air has
been cleared. It
Is still impos-
sible to see the
issue he raised,
impossible to see
1t for the dust.
This is not
merely because
the wheelers and
the wherrys are
keeping the dust
whrling.. It is
because Of the
c on tr a dictory
q n d confusing
statements Of