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Evening star., 1945-12-30

furnished by suppliers, and in
creased productivity would, be
achieved through improved ma
chinery.
The GIN statisticians estimated
GINS capacity production at just
over 100000 vehicles a year. Mr.
Montgomery said the automobile
industry had estimated a demand
for 100000 automobiles year for
at least the next three years.
Mr.. Montgomery described as
"arithmetically absurd" what he
said was a GIN estimate that ma
terials cost next year would in
crease lot per cent, considering an
ticipated increased production. The
union estimates, Mr.. Montgomery
declared, that this Is twice too high
Evening star., 1945-12-30
One Killed, Four Injured
In Gas Station Blast
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
FLINT, Mich, Dec. 29.-One
woman was killed and at least four
other persons injured late today as
an explosion and fire damaged a
combination restaurant gasoline
station on the highway two miles
south Of here.
State police said they believed
only five were in the building when
the blast occurred, but they planned
to search the ruins.
The dead woman was identified as
Mrs. Florence Summers, wife of For
rest Summers, proprietor of the
business. Mr.. Summers is in critical
condition at Hurley Hospital, Flint.
Police said Patricia Summers, Is,
daughter of the couple, was hos
pitalized with lesser injuries, while
Mrs. josephine Gerow and her
daughter Gertrude, 20, were on the
danger list at the hospital.
The cause of the blast which
badly damaged the building was
Evening star., 1945-12-30
Man Died al Wheel
Before Car Hit Pole,
Coroner Decides

Arthur S. Morrison. 47-year old
foreman of the Judd and Detweiler
printing concern, died of cerebral
hemorrhage at the wheel of his
automobile just before the car
crashed into a pole at First street
and New York avenue NE, Friday
Coroner A. Magruder Macdonald
announced yesterday after an au-
topsy and investigation into the
accident
| DR.. Macdonald said the death
would not be counted as a traffic
death because Mr.. Morrison was
dead when the car struck the pole.
He was alone in the automobile.
| Two -aged women, who live in
neighboring houses on Park Road
NV. are in critical condition in
Emergency Hospital from injuries
received in separate accidents on
Fourteenth street NV. yesterday.
Struck by Streetcar.
Mrs. Catherine Dobbin, 10. of 1888
Park road NV, was returning from
mass at Sacred Heart Catholic
Church yesterday morning when
she was struck by a streetcar at
Fourteenth street and Park road
NV. police reported. Investigating
officers listed Toby Earnhardt, 80
Of 906 Fourteenth street NV, as
operator of the streetcar.
Her neighbor, Mrs. Lila Taylor
80, of 1881 Park road NV. a re-
tired school teacher. police said, was
struck by an automobile while
crossing the street at Fourteenth
and Irving streets NV. She was
reported in serious condition with
head injuries at Emergency Hos
pital last night. Police said John
A. Corridor, Al, of 208 o street S.W.,
was driver of the automobile.
A coroner's jury yesterday re-
turned verdict of accidental death
in the case of Robert A. Mason, A,
colored. TOO block of Twelfth street
NE, chauffeur for Charles H.
Tompkins, well-known builder. Mr..
Mason died in Casualty Hospital
early Friday from injuries suffered
when struck by a skidding automo-
bile at Benning road, near Forty
second street NE.
Skid Led to Crash.
A part-time taxicab ,driver, he was
getting into his cab when the car
driven by Edward S. Harris, 40.
colored, 700 block Fairmont street
NV, approached. police said. Wit
nesses testified that Mr.. Harris car
skidded on the slippery roadway
and the rear emo struck Mr.. Mason.
In another case. the coroner's
jury returned verdict of accidental
death in the case of Frederick
Young, jr., 9, colored, of the 100
block of Bates street NV. The boy
died Thursday in Casualty Hospital
after being struck by truck at
First and @ streets NV.
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to alter his course for Wilmington,
Del. where he landed at the ATC
base about $50 pm Friday.
Scheduled commercial airliners
are given weather clearance on the
basis Of CAA minimums for various
airports relative to take off and
landing visibility.
Final decision, however, rests with
the pilot and airline dispatcher
after the flight plan has been dis
cuSSed.
While the flight plan for a COM
mercial operation follows definite
routes between cities, the pilot of
President Truman's plane can make
his own route to avoid storms. In
addition. the Sacred Cow on both
bad-weather trips had some nine
hours of reserve gasoline, enough
to have flown it to almost any al
ternate airport in the country.
instruments Were Available.
Assisting the pilot in making his
approach here Friday was a two
way radio glide path and directional
indicator not now available to most
commercial planes. The instrument,
however is considered an aid rather
than the final word in making an
approach where SO much is at stake
. Col. Myers, with more than $4,000
hours and 100000 miles of plotting
behind him, has flown both Presi-
dent Truman and the late President
Roosevelt on many missions. A vet
eran captain pilot of American Air
lines, he established several trans
continental records before entering
ATC service in May. 1912.
The Presidents plane encountered
some icing conditions on the west
ward trip, but nothing unusual at
this season, 1t was said, even for
commercial operations.
Old-time weather flyers around
Washington said they would back
Hank" Myers judgment on the
reasonable operational safety of
almost any peacetime flight he is
willing to undertake and further
more would be happy to go with
him to prove it. Whether, however,
the President of the United States
should choose to do likewise is an
other matter.
Evening star., 1945-12-30
Big 5 Military Talk
On UN0 Force SET for
London Next Month
By the Associated rress.

United States military repre-
sentatives will confer with
Russia, Britain, France and
China in London early next
month on the projected United
Nations armed force to preserve
peace, the State Department an
nounced yesterday.
The American delegation will in
clude Gen. George C. Kenney, COM
mander of the Pacific Air Forces;
. 1t. Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, dep
uty supreme commander in the
Mediterranean theater, and Admiral
Richmond Kelly Turner of the Navy
General Board, as well as other
officers.
Byrnes to Head UNO Group.
The Big Five military delegations,
the State Department disclosed, will
be Joined in their conferences by
delegations representing the six
permanent members of the
United Nations Security Council
when they have been selected.
In addition to announcing the
personnel of the military delega-
ton, the State Department con-
flrmed that Secretary of State
Byrnes will head the American dele
cation to the UNO General AS
sembly meeting in London.
Reports from London said Gen.
Eisenhower, Army chief of staff,
might fly to London for the meeting
Under the UNO charter, the mill
tary staff committee is authorized to
assist the Security Council on all
questions relating to military re-
quirements for maintenance of peace
and security, the employment and
command of forces placed at its
disposal and regulation of arma-
ments and possible disarmament.
Main Burden on Five Powers.
London diplomats said they be-
lieved the Security Council would
ask the military representatives i'm
mediately to estimate at what
strength the UNO peace preserva-
ton force should be maintained.
They agreed that the five powers
would furnish the bulk of the new
international police force, includ-
ing men, planes, ships and arms,
but each UNO member Is expected
to be informed as to the size of the
force it will be asked to contribute.
1t has been suggested in some
quarters that a special atom bomb
air force be placed at the Security
Councils disposal-a question which
may come before the UNO's Gen.
eral Assembly.
Evening star., 1945-12-30
France, Russio Sign
Trade Agreement
~ the Associated Press

MOSCOW, Dec. 29.-Signing of Q
French Soviet trade agreement
linking the two nations in a mutual
postwar economic rebuilding pro.
gram was announced today.
The signers were Anastas Mikoyan
Soviet commissar of foreign trade
and Gen. Georges Catroux, French
ambassador. The agreement runs
for five years and contains "most
favored nation" clause.
Provisions call for permanent
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business, then we would have to say
God help the American people, >
GIN Called Out of Step.
Mr.. Reuther said General Motors
was out of step with America ano
Its outdated economic thinking is
opposed to the national policy"
Mr.. Reuther left for Detroit or
conclusion of the hearing. He said
he would call GIN officials tomorrow
about resuming collective bargaining
negotiations. The corporation, in
withdrawing from the hearings, said
it would be willing to continue wage
talks with the union.
In introducing the Commerce De.
partment report of last October
holding that the automobile indus
try could absorb wage increases ur
to Is per cent, Mr.. Garrison tolc
reporters the board likewise woulc
obtain information not regarded al
confidential from the Office of Price
Administration and the Securities
and Exchange Commission which
had any bearing on the GIN wage
dispute.
At one point in yesterdays hear.
ing, Mr.. Garrison questioned union
estimates of GINS 1916 profit posi-.
ton, on grounds that the strike it.
self, together with a steel strike
if called-Would affect the corpora
tons production.
Mr.. Montgomery, the UAW con-
sumer counsel, had estimated that
including a 80 per cent wage in
crease, higher costs of materials
and 1912 prices, GIN would gross
1851 100000 in 1916.
Figure Cut by Strike.
Under questioning by Mr.. Garri-
son, Mi. Montgomery said the esti-
mate was based on GINS announced
plan to reach production of 10000
automobiles and trucks daily In
March. This figure, Mr.. Montgom-
cry conceded, would be reduced by
the GIN strike and would be further
affected by steel strike.
Mr.. Reuther declared the strikes
would not seriously delay GINS ca
pacity output. He said tooling was
going on now in GIN plants, that
materials which were not available
when the strike began now can be
Evening star., 1945-12-30
Hazards of Trumon's Christmas Flight Offset
To Some Extent by Extra Power, Equipment

were to have taken off from Wash
ington about $50 am, Christmas
Day, but the Presidents pilot, 1t
Col. Henry T. Hank Myers, de-
layed departure until shortly after
noon when the weather report looked
more favorable.
The press C-54, however, piloted
by Capt. Mark Baynham, was held
up another two hours because o.
icing conditions on the ground. II
ran into rain and overcast most
Of the way, including turbulence
just out of Washington which is
said to have dropped the big ship
several hundred feet on one occa-
sion. Because of strong head winds
lit was about two hours late in
resching Kansas City, where visibil-
ity was good for a night landing but
ice and snow on the ground had
obscured some lights marking the
runway.
The pilot. it was said, circled the
field several times to estimate the
condition of ice and snow on the
runway before putting the heavy
ship down. Newsmen were i'm
pressed with the possibility that
improper braking technique might
have sent their plane skidding of
the runway.
Myers Used Own Judgment.
For the return trip, the news
party reported at the Kansas City
field at 8 am. The President S
plane, it was said. took off from
icy runways some 80 minutes later
with a ceiling of about 300 feet
and visibility of less than a mile
on the ground.
Col. Myers, holder of a green
card and senior pilots license. was
authorized to make his own weather
clearance, while Capt. Baynham
waited to clear with the airport
authority until around noon, when
the ceiling had lifted somewhat.
Weather above the overcast was
good for the press plane until the
sky began to thicken about an hour
and a half out of Washington.
Lands in Delaware.
Reports of poor visibility on the
ground here caused Capt. Baynham
Evening star., 1945-12-30
Horse Loose on Track
Delays Crack Train

BY the Associated Press.
SPOKANE, sh.-Engineer Jesse
G. Pruitt pulled the North Coast
Limited into the terminal yard line
late and explained in his report:
Delayed 10 minutes entering
Spokane yard by horse, running wild
with no signals"
Evening star., 1945-12-30

trade commission Offices in Moscow
and Paris. The announcement said,
however, that neither country has
any large quantities of materials
available for exchange at present.
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the public as well-and of higher
standards for ALL"
Evening star., 1945-04-08

Another high light was his participa-
ton in his newspapers crusade for the
impeachment of Federal Judge George
w. English-a campaign for which his
older colleague in the investigation,
John T. Rogers, was awarded Pulitzer
prize in 1927
After 10 months on the Tulsa (Okla)
Tribune and Tulsa World. where he had
gone when illness took his mother to
Tulsa, Sam returned to ST. Louis as as
sistant city editor of the Star, later the
Star-Times He stood desk work two
and-a-half years and then went back to
reporting kidnapings, murders, courts
and-finally-politics. When he first
went to the Star it was with the hope
he'd be assigned to Washington. But it
wasn't until eight years later that he
got the chance.
The interval was punctuated by such
high spots as covering the Missouri
Legislature, national political conven-
tions and the election in which his
good friend Vice President Truman,
first ran for the Senate.
While covering this election, Sam
made an exhaustive study for his news
paper of the Vice Presidents record as
presiding judge of the Jackson County
Court. Sam sums it up this way: II
tried to get something on Harry but 1
couldn't find anything"
Sam was next assigned to open the
Star-Tmes' first Washington bureau,
Evening star., 1945-04-08
BY John Clagett Proctor.

The memories of ones old neighbor-
hood, where his childhood days were
spent, where he went to school, and the
boys with whom he played, and the
girls with whom he snapped kisses at
pound parties, is, indeed, fascinating
thing to think about. talk about and
write about, and somehow grows fonder
as we grow older.
Sometime prior to 1871, the writer's
father moved from a section then known
as the Northern Liberties and bought
house on Twelfth street just off of
Logan Circle. And this was big mis-
take, for soon afterward conditions in
this neighborhood became so desperate
that he was forced to sacrifice his hold
ings and seek a residence elsewhere.
And so. in 1871, our family moved into
a neat but unpretentious cottage sur
rounded by grounds at the southwest
corner of Florida avenue and w street,
a block south of the Garfield Hospital
grounds and only about two blocks away
from an area that soon afterWard de-
veloped into Cowtown.
This was during the administration
of Gov Henry D. Cooke, Washington's
first Governor, who served from Feb
ruary %, 1871, to September l3, 1873,
when he was succeeded by Alexander R.
Shepherd, who, mainly as president of
the Board of Public Works, did more
for Washington in a few years than
many of the city heads had done in
previous years all put together.
Boundary Street
Florida avenue was then known as
Boundary street. the name it had from
the laying out of the city. AS such it
separated the City of Washington proper
from the County of Washington. Our
home was just within the city limits,
where restrictions prevented the keep
ing of cows, hogs, geese, etc. But just
Evening star., 1945-04-08

it's 11th year. And it is Tent No II
among the Nations clubs.
Local Headquarters
Headquarters of the Washington Va
riety Club were set up originally in the
Willard Hotel and the IL men who ap-
piled for a charter from the mother
chapter in Pittsburgh were: J. J. Pay
cite. Rudolph Berger, J. L. Rome, Sam
uel CALAMITY, Harry Hunter. Joseph P,
Morgan, Samuel N Wheeler, Charles
Kranz, A. J. BrylaWski, Carter Barron
and William K. Saxton. Today the local
organization has grown to 370 members
and spends thousands of dollars yearly
on the underprivileged.
The organization is composed entirely
of those connected in some manner with
the amusement business, although the
degree of connection may vary from an
actor to dramatic critic. Test of eligi-
bility is whether person receives half
or more of his income from the enter
tainment world.
Variety Clubs take their terminology
from the old-time carnival business.
The chapters, as noted, are called
tents" The president is the chief
barker; the national organization is
the big top; all tents combined COM
pose the circus; the secretary is the
property master" the treasurer the
dough guy" and so on.
Many Institutions Aided
Here in Washington Fred Kogod of
the Kogod-Burka theaters is the chief
barker while Rudolph Berger of Metro
Goldwyn.Mayer is chairman of the Well
fare Committee-or "the heart" as the
Variety men call (which recommends
what charities or institutions the club
will aid each year.
Looking over a list of the imposing
amounts the Variety Club spends each
year to help the unfortunate. you Won
der Immediately how these large funds
are raised. Most of the money. accord
ing to the clubs officers, comes from
entertainments like the recent 1ceca-
pades at Uline's Arena whose receipts
are earmarked for welfare work. Some
funds come, too, from concessions which
the club controls. The social functions
of the group-that is, fun for their own
members-is financed wholly by dues
and all income from entertainment goes
to welfare work.
The clubs major. program of welfare
work was begun in 1885 when 1T fur
nished complete motion picture equip
ment for Glenn Dale Sanatorium. Ever
Evening star., 1945-04-08
BV Robert J. Lewis.

Sam A. O'Neal, new publicity director
for the Democratic National Committee,
is a hard-hitting newspaperman who
learned the business in tough era
under tough men. This smiling veteran
reporter-who never had job outside
the newspaper business until two
months ago-Will be a key figure in
what promises to be a knockdown-
and drag out battle starting with the
1916 elections.
A seasoned writer of As who knows
the rough-and- of politics from
many vantage points, he is likely to
WELD powerful influence in the role
made famous by Charley Nicholson,
whose astute needing of the COP was
credited largely with paving the way
for President Roosevelts first victory
in 1882.
Well known as member of the
Washington press corps, where he was
president of the National Press Club
last year, and in ST Louis, where he
started distinguished newspaper
career % years ago, Sam O'Neal is still
virtually unknown to most of the coun-
try What can the Nation-beset by
war and graphing with the problems of
approaching peace as it faces political
issuesLexpect of him after his light
ming change from observer to actor in
the political drama?
Sound Advice.
Let Sam tell you: Il grew up on o.
x. Bovard's advice: Always be re-
porter For me, it's been good advice.
1t was good when I was chasing pic
lures. covering gang wars, writing
politics. It's just as good noW-and
that's what I'm going to be-a reporter.
If I can't do that I'll get out"
Sam has always loved the newspaper
business and expects he always will.
When he came home that night two
months ago after his last day covering
the Senate for the Chicago Sun, his
wife looked at him closely. He had
tears in his eyes" she said later.
Il guess 1 did" Sam admits.
You can sometimes wonder why you
are newspaper man anyway-and not
dentist, or a movie director or a
restaurant man. But you can't laugh
off clean break with a job you've
lived and talked and romanticized like
Sam did ever since he got out of COL
lege-and through which he Travelled
from Cooper County MO- farm
along a fascinating route TO the pin
nacle of eight years as Washington
correspondent.
Strangely enough, this grandson of a
Confederate soldier from Virginia never
Evening star., 1945-04-08
Star Stan Photo.

and arrived here in December, 1886
With the exception of 1888, during
which Paul Y Anderson, Pulitzer
prize winner, also served the newspaper
here, Sam covered Washington alone
until 1943. Then he transferred to the
Chicago Sun bureau here, where he
promptly won the Sigma Delta Chi
Journalism Fraternity's Distinguished
Service Award.
During the presidential campaign
last year Sam covered" Gov. Dewey
from the Sunday before the COP con-
vention in June until the New York
presidential candidate bade him good
by at press conference the day after
he went down to defeat. When the
campaign was over he received note
from Jim Haggerty, the Governors
press secretary. thanking him for his
objective reporting of the campaign.
Sam has come long way since he
grew up as a farm boy in Cooper
County, where an uncle still owns the
1900 acres his grandfather, Amos
O'Neal homesteaded after the Civil
War He isn't glib, but he knows
politics at close hand, and the forces
that make it work. Members Of his
family have been Democrats for gen.
checkers as boy with his grandfather,
he has heard Democracy extolled. Now
he is proud to be its No. reporter.
Evening star., 1945-04-08

since then the institution has been sup
piled with films weekly.
Camp Good Will
Two years later the group financed
Camp Good Will where summer va
cations were provided for more than 100
underprivileged children and their
mothers. In the same year the group
contributed $4,000 to the Citizens Emer-
gency Committee to provide free lunches
for school children from poor families.
In 1888 the Variety Club bought an
ambulance for Emergency Hospital.
And it was in the same year that the
members began program which has
been carried on since-the provision of
humidcribs and other equipment needed
to insure the health, or even the life,
of prema ture infants. Twelve Of these
were purchased for Sibley Hospital. In
the following year more equipment was
bought for the Incubator Station at
Sibley.
In 1910 the club contributed to the
Children's Blood Bank of Washington
and also to the Needy Children's Camp
Committee.
However, in 1941 the scope Of the
organizations work was increased tre-
mendously and has been on a growing
scale since then. In that year the
Washington tent" installed dental
equipment in four Columbia.
Providence, Chldrens and Freedmens
and, in addition, contributed $4,000 to
the British War Relief Society and ST.
500 to Anglo American Enterprises.
Long List of Benefits
A long list of benefactions followed
in 1912: Resuscitator, inhalator and
aspirator machines were given to Co.
lumbia Hospital A mobile canteen unit
was presented to the District Chapter Of
the American Red Cross New equip
ment was purchased for the Episcopal
Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital and for
the Florence Crittenden Home. Sub
stantial gifts were made to the Greek,
Chinese, and Russian War Relief So
cieties as we'll as to the Navy Relief
Society.
In 1943 the club contributed $500 to
the Victory Gardens Committee to as
sist in the operation of $4,000 Victory
gardens here, and. eight more humid
cribs were bought for Sibley Hospital.
With their addition. the hospital be-
came one of the best equipped in the
country to care for premature infants.
Last year the Variety Club Of WASH
ington carried out the biggest program
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