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Evening star., 1945-12-01
Emir AI-Ruschid Seeks
Divorce From American
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 1.-Fifty-
year-old Emir Mohammed. AL
Raschid, whose late father was
Turkeys last Caliph of Islam, filed
suit for divorce yesterday against
his 25-year-old American wife, al
leging that a male friend of hers
once choked him into unconscious
ness
The emir also asked custody OF
their 4-month-old daughter, Hublia
so she can be reared as a Moham-
medan princess. His wife, in an
earlier divorce suit, also asked Gus
tody of the child.
The Princess Paresha Al-Raschid
Is the former Marcella Whiting
daughter of a Marshalltown Qowa)
farmer. The emir accuses her OF
friendship with Ben Dennison, man.
ager of the apartment house where
they lived, and asserts that Mr.
Dennison once choked him at his
wife's instigation.
Evening star., 1945-12-01
Hard Coal Prices Raised
Average Of 19 Cents

Price increases for anthracite coal
averaging 10 cents a ton to consum-
ers, went into effect here and
throughout the country today as
the OPA granted Pennsylvania pro-
ducers an equivalent price increase
OPA said that while the increases
were effective today, some house
holders may not begin paying the
higher price until next week when
dealers have received new schedules
The price boost was ordered to re.
store mine operators profit margins
to the equivalent of what they were
in 1942-an average of 1919 cents q
ton. This Is the minimum fixed by
the Government under price control
For the nine largest Pennsylvania
hard coal producers, the increase
averages 116 cents a ton, while for
most other companies it averages
80 cents.
Evening star., 1945-12-01
Hobson, GAO Instructor,
Honored on Retirement

Frederick B. Hobson, 70-year-old
reviewer and instructor in the Soil
Conservation Section of the General
Accounting Office, today was retired
officially after "a years in the Gov
ernment service.
Friends and co-workers gathered
yesterday afternoon at his Office in
the Old Post Office Department
Building. Twelfth street and Penn
sylvania avenue NV, and present.
ed him $500 Victory Bond. The
presentation was made by Assist
ant Chief of the Section Edward
R. Bevis. Past and present employees
of the section. as well as other en-
ployes made the gift possible.
Mr.. Hobson has served 10 years in
the General Accounting Office. Pre-
viously, he was in the War Depart
ment and at the Census Bureau. He
resides at 1885 Monroe street NV.
Evening star., 1945-12-01
Reconversion Chiefs
Rap Manufacturers
Withholding Goods
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Government officials are confining
themselves to verbal jabs on the
ticklish question OF whether manu-
facturers are withholding consum-
er merchandise to benefit from .
January tax cut.
The chiefs of at least two agen-
cies have suggested there has been
some withholding and have de-
plored 1t.
One Official who asked that his
name not be used said the dose Of
barbs is intended to arouse public
indignation to prevent any wide
spread delivery delays pending
elimination Of the excess profits tax
at the start of the year.
This official said there is no other
step the Government could take.
There is no way to compel delivery
of goods, he added.
Clothing Shortage Cited.
The latest dig at producers comes
from OPA Administrator Chester
Bowles, who said in discussing rea-
sons for the clothing shortage:
Il think a most important
factor is the tax situation.
Companies can look forward to
a windfall If they withhold ship
ments now and release them next
year when the excess profits tax is
out of the picture"
Mr.. Bowles added in statement
that under the circumstances. the
publics need for clothes seems to
mean very little to some producers. :"
Earlier this week, Reconversion
Director John w. Snyder said in
speech that increasing reports are
coming to Washington that some
firms are holding up the flow Of
goods for which the markets are so
hungry and which people need so
badly"
Pressure Against Controls.
Mr.. Snyder declared that dam
ming up the flow of goods Is increas-
ing the pressure against controls
that protect us from the threat Of
imitation, which is to no ones in
terest."
/ Another official who has con-
cerned himself with the possibility
that goods are being withheld is
John D. Small, head of the Civilian
Production Administration.
His agency has been making an
investigation of manufacturers in
ventories, but thus far has reported
no evidence of any boarding of mer-
chandise.
Aside from the tax motive, Mr..
Bowles asserted fatty that process
ers of cotton fabric for clothing
have been holding up deliveries
while waiting for OPA to decide
whether they are entitled to a price
increase.
Mr.. Bowles acknowledged there
j has been a delay on this decision
! but he said that "for long time W.
!: were unable to get (processersO fig.
/ ures." He promised a ruling soon
Evening star., 1945-12-01
Episcopal Men PIon
Communion Service

A corporate communion for all
men Of the Episcopal churches in
Alexandria will be celebrated at 8
am. tomorrow at Grace Church OH
South Patrick street. Communion
will be served by the Rev. DR.. Ber-
nard Iddings Bell, assisted by the
Rev. Merrill j. Yoh, rector of Grace
Church. Following the service
women Of the church will serve
breakfast in the parish hall.
DR.. Bell, who is consultant on edu-
cation to the Bishop Of Chicago
and q noted author and preacher,
win address the laymen's group.
Evening star., 1945-12-01
.Walkout at Wards
will End Tonight
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Dec. IA week
long demonstration walkout against
Montgomery Ward & Co. units will
end las scheduled" tonight, the
union involved in the walkout said
last night.
In New York, Samuel Wolchok.
international President of the CIO
United Retail, Wholesale and De-
partnent Store Employees Union.
declared, "the work stoppage, car
ried on in 20 cities stretching from
the East coast to Denver, has been
eminently successful"
THE demonstration has shown
the strength Of organized Mont
gomery Ward workers with such
dramatic effectiveness that we shall
repeat it in various units from time
to time until Montgomery Ward de-
cides to arbitrate the differences
between u.s."
! He claimed ''the union compelled
Wards" to offer 5 cents an hour
raise to all hourly paid employees in
Chicago, to increase the minimum
wage in the Chicago properties
from the pitifully low level of As
cents an hour to 60 cents" to offer
other wage increases, and elsewhere
in the. Nation to reduce the work
week from 48 to 40 hours in retail
stores without a reduction in pay.
Representatives of the company
and the CIO-United Retail, Whole
sale and Department Store En-
ployes Union agreed to meet Mon
day night to discuss application Of
wage increases offered by the COM
pany to unionized Chicago en-
ployeS.
Evening star., 1945-12-01

Conciliator Edgar l.. Warren and
possibly Secretary of Labor Schwel-
lenbach at Washington Tuesday.
Mr.. Warren said he would attempt
to get wage negotiations resumed
promptly.
The union, meanwhile, invited a
group of nationally known educa-
tors, churchmen, editors, business
men and farm leaders to serve as
a Citizens committee" in the dis
pute, and held what it may consider
an "ace-in-the-hole" in its negotia-
tions with the Ford Motor Co.
Baruch Among Those Invited.
Those invited by the union to
meet here December AS and study
verbatim transcript of negotia-
tions to date" included Presidential
Adviser Bernard M. Baruch, DR..
James Conant, president of Harvard
University; Rabbi Stephen S. Wise,
Josephus Daniels, editor of the
Raleigh IN. c. News and Observer:
Beardsley Ruml. president of R. H.
Macy & Co., New York; DR.. Arthur
H. Compton, physicist; Ralph Nc
Gill, editor of the Atlanta Constitu-
ton; James g. Patton, president of
the National Farmers Union; Al
bert Goss of the National Grange,
and Actor Orson Welles.
Mr.. Reuther said the meeting
would be held because the press and
radio had been barred, at General
Motors request, from negotiating
sessions, and to show publicly "how
far the union has gone in trying to
obtain fair settlement Of the case
The Ford negotiations were post
poned from yesterday until Monday
at the request of UAW-Ford Direc-
tor Richard T. Leonard, who said an
important development" had come
up.
The Chrysler Corp. -UAW contract
has been extended from last mid
night Until Tuesday, when negotia-
tons are scheduled to resume.
Evening star., 1945-12-01
brought home the following Wash
ington men:

brought home the following Wash
ington men:
stevens drive NV; T1s David Rosenthal.
s9mSns Sosunsa g T1aa SW nae. GSER
T45 Lewis B. BoSes. SH 17ss 45S sxann ua Street Street
NV; -TI5 Anderson Evans, 1924 L street
p s 6o0sE 3 eb.rTy p9:Ssy ss berdan 1es
Sc; Pvt. Nathaniel Davis. 4soa East Cap
itol street. Pvt. Earl Neal. 23s K street
s,w;. and Pvt. Willis G. Wright. 29o.
Among Washington area veterans
arriving at East and West Coast de-
barkation ports are three men who
reached Boston Thursday aboard
the Kokomo Victory. They are:
I.5 Maurice Jackson. Laurel. Md;
Park avenue SILVER Spring. '''' '0u's -
Also arrived Thursday at Seattle
aboard the General Grant were:
enth ssss ssrss NV! NNsEF! 1RD ssRD Emery M ie T. d7e EsH
IT,. .33H Runnymeade place NV; Serst.
Nathan K. KNIGHT, 1918 Pennsylvania ave
WISE; RHs aE; II Robsyt G, Lautm.n: ss,2
Manthos ali Massachusetts avenue nue. S.E
TIA Daniel P. Wells, Washinston; Corpl
Wilhelm - EltAcllan, LUU2 r street NV. :;
T/5 Orlando Marsegliz, 1923 Staples
street NE: TVS Thomas McKeever. 621
Thirtieth street NV: Pfc. John Worthing
ton, $50 Powhatan place NV: M/Sergt
John F.; Gnatt .jr., Washington:. TIi
avenue Sc; Pfc. Constantine N. Nicholos
4101 Fifth street NV. and S/Serst
Ephraim Close, 1907 Seventeenth stree
NV.
Arrived aboard the Robert Lowery
in New York yesterday:
Corpl. Normasene Holt. 623 G stree
Sc. and Pfc, c. P. safrit, 6l5 Eight
Due to arrive in Newport New!
aboard the Schneider:
Pfc. Henry Levin and Pfc. Harold W
Nebel. both of Washington.
To arrive in Tacoma tomorrow
aboard the Jean Lafltte:
Pfc. Robert M. Watkins, 513 G street
SSergt. Jessie A. Brooks, 1925 Eleventh
street NV; Pfc. Ernest J. Wells, 142
Trinidad avenue NE; Pfc. Philip Furl
941 New Hampshire avenue NV; S/Sergt
Sherry Harrington 1923 Corcoran stree
NV; sIsergt Harry Terry. l72S Eucli
street street NV; Tl4 Robert Mecraney, ~
1414 v street NV: Pvt. Celestino :
Gonzales, 1918 Kenilworth avenue NE
and Pfc. Simon ]. Chipikitis.
Evening star., 1945-12-01
|ndiana-Army Bond Benefit
Unlikely, Wilson |ntimates

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Dec. Kenneth l.
TUG" Wilson, Western Conference
athletic director. said today he
didn't think either Army or In
diana would be interested in playing
q post-season football game to aid
War Bond sales.
A contest between the Hoosiers
champion Of the Big Ten, and the
Cadets was suggested by War FL
nance Director Ted Gamble, who
said last night he planned to inquire
into the possibilities for such q
game.
"Indiana's team has disbandeo
and, besides, the Western Confer.
ence has a strict rule prohibiting
post-season games," Wilson told q
reporter, adding Il don't think Army
would be interested either
Evening star., 1945-12-01
Juvu
CONTINUED From First Page )

butchers and knew best how to
handle swords. One tall Indian
worked his hands loose and tried to
fight, but he was killed quickly.
Others told me Dutch men and
women were killed here before ]
came, but these were the first
saw killed"
Indonesian. notices on the bar
racks bore the signature of Hadji
Rian, local Indonesian leader, who
reported to have been warned BY
telephone, left Bekassi two hours
before the British arrived.
From the size of the mass grave,
the British said they believed they
would find 22 bodies as the Indo-
nesian woman had said.
The plane which crashed carried
Englishment and 40 Indians. Tive
dismembered Indian bodies were
found near the plane.
Evening star., 1945-12-01
Alabama School Eleven
Unbeuten in Al Tits
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
TALLASSEE. Ala. Dec. 1.-Unde.
feated in its last ii games ano
beaten only eight times in 10 years
Tallassee High School laid claim to.
day to- some kind of a football.
record.
Since 1886, the Tigers have beer
victorious in all except 10 times In
their 88 encounters, and have beer
tied only twice
They recently finished q nine.
game schedule In which they scored
s73 points against 25 by their oppo.
Qents.
Evening star., 1945-12-01
Ethridge Plans to Leave
Rome for U. S. by PIune
~ the Associated Prexs

By the Associated Press.
ROME, Dec. l. - Mark Ethridge
prepared today to depart by plane
for Washington after completing a
mission to Romania and Bulgaria
as special consultant for Secretary
of State Byrnes.
The Louisville (Ky) publisher ar
rived Thursday night from Bucha-
rest. He denied reports published
aboard that he left Romania be-
cause of conditions beyind his
control"
There's nothing to It," Mr.. Eth
ridge said.
Evening star., 1945-12-01
French Parties Offer
..Counterproposa|s on
Matchmaking Banks
BY the Associated Press,


PARIS, Dec. 1.-France's three
major parties submitted counter
proposals today to the governments
project for the naturalization of
banks and credits.
Spokesmen for the Communists,
Socialists and the Popular Repub-
lican Movement (MRP) appeared
before the assembly-appointed f.
nance commission and outlined va
rious notifications,
MRP Backs Government Plan.
Earlier the MRP had expressed
general approval of the government
plan, but urged that its application
to the four great national banks"
be speeded up.
Members of the party said they
would offer some amendments to
the government plan when it comes
up for debate in the assembly to-
morrow.
Under the proposal all shares ot
the Bank Of France, held by 47,00C
shareholders, would be taken over
by the state as OF January l, 1916.
A commission would be created to
decide what indemnity should be
given the shareholders, who would
be reimbursed with negotiable bonds
amortized for period of so years
or more. Their value would be fixed
by the commission, with the maxi
mum interest rate 6 per cent.
Credit to Be Guarded.
The proposed law says nationali-
zation of the other four banks
Credit Lyonnais, Societe General du
Commerce ct de lIndustrie, Comp
toir National d'Escompte de Paris
and lie Banque National pour Le
Commerce ct lInduStrie-should be
done "in such a manner as not te
prejudice the credit they enjoy ir
relations with foreign establish.
ments." They have about 400, ,00(
shareholders.
The state would purchase these
bank shares over a 50-year period
at yearly outlay from the treasur,
not to exceed 253, ,000,000 francs
"a, $50 ,000).
The state would pay the share
holders dividends on the basis oi
the average stock value during the
period from September, 1914, to
August 81, 1945.
Business banks were excluded
from the law. an explanatory text
said, "for they can assume theil
function only If they conserve {
spirit of initiative"
A national credit council of 5;
members would be created to direc;
policy OF credit adapted ITO the
economic revolution of the nation.
Establishment of a 12-man COM
mission to control the nationalizeo
banks was proposed.
Evening star., 1945-12-01
General Motors
Continued From First Page.

that none of them will be asked to
do any work not involved in the pro-
duction and shipment of material
for these outside manufacturers"
Reuther Withholds Comment.
Walter P. Reuther, UAW vice
president, refused immediate COM
ment, but a union spokesman said
Mr.. Reuther told reporters at Wash
ington Thursday he was agreeable
to shipment of finished GIN parts to
the Packard Motor Car Co. to pre-
vent shutdown there.
The proposal came shortly after
Mr.. Reuther and GIN officials had
failed to reach an agreement at a
meeting called to discuss the cor
poration's charge of illegal picket
ing" at the struck plants. The COM
pany has refused to resume negotia-
tons as long as supervisory employees
are denied entrance and until the
union "modifies" its 80 per cent wage
increase demand.
Mr.. Reuther denied the illegal
picketing charge and said I'VE are
not going to modify our wage de-
|mand as a condition for collective
bargaining"
Asserting the union may be re-
quired to take steps to further para
lyze GM," Mr.. Reuther said the
union would remain on strike until
a settlement acceptable to 1t is
reached.
= Says Wilson "Kids Himself"
To Mr.. Wilson'S statement that
the UAW might have to settle for
something less than 10 per cent
raise. he replied that the GIN execu-
tive 'is kidding himself If he thinks
that.
Until the parts production offer
was made, the deadlock became
more apparent with the breakdown
of the picketing discussion-recessed
until Wednesday-and Mr.. Reuth-
er's adam1nt stand at press con-
ference.
H. w. Anderson, GIN vice presi-
dent, viii confer with Chief Federal
Evening star., 1945-12-01
Laundry Operator Fined
$50 on Hours Churqes

Lauchlin Lee, operator of the B
g. w. Laundry, 1926 Georgia avenue
NV. was fined $50 yesterday by
Municipal Court Judge John P. Nc.
Mahon on charges of violating the
minimum wage and female eight.
nour-day laws.
According to the District Mini.
mum Wage and Industrial Safety
Board, Lee failed to keep records o1
hours worked by women employed
in the laundry and the wages they
received.
Evening star., 1945-12-01
Dr.. Hotter to Address
Methodist Conference

DR.. Don Hotter, president-elect OF
the Union Theological Seminary in
Manila, Philippine Islands, will
speak at the Washington West Dis
trict Conference of the Methodist
Church to be held at the Epworth
Methodist Church, Gaithersburg,
Md, at $50 am. Tuesday.
DR.. Paul Douglass, president OF
american University, and DR.. Will
liam A. Reese, minister of Roland
Park Methodist Church, Baltimore,
also will address the conference.
Evening star., 1945-12-01

Matured Victory Loan Bonds will
buy 3S5S per cent more goods In
1855 than the original investment
will purchase today.
Evening star., 1945-12-01

GEN. DENIG RETIRES-With Col James p S. Devereux hero
of Wake Island looking left Brig Gen. Robert L. Deng
SKINS through Photographic album of the than
combat correspondents commanded throughout the
director of Marine public relations The album
to the 81 at farewell party his honor
night at the Hotel Stater He rees from the service today
by Col Brown-Star Photo
Evening star., 1945-12-01

VCEI dI10 4IOIu nearby M0Tyl0nQ
and Virginia returning on the trans
ports were:
Sergt Kenneth e. Leron, Silver sprinr;
Pfc. James II. Thomas, Rockville; Maj.
]. O'1rien, Arlington; PFC. Philip H. Ege,
H.. Arlington; Pfc. Henry 3. Terrell,
Arlington; TL5 Jessie H Garden. Norton
TI5 Daniel Keay, Falls Church: Pfc.
Alexander Weatherford. Ariinston; Pic.
Douglas H. Brown, Arlington: 1st 1t John
J.; Flaherty. Arlington; TIA william J.
Blalock, Arlington: Pvt. James N. john
van. Takoma Park; 1t. Col. Theodore r.
Snyder, Pvt. Albin = spaulding, Fails
ia Arthur L. Reiser Silver Spring; Pvt.
Marshall Hummer; Alexandra: Pfc. Stan
ley 2. Hash. Rockville; M/Sergt. William
H. woodruff. Arlington: Pvt. Edward D.
Proctor, Hyattsville: Pvt. Raymond Z.
Konrad, Arlington; Pfc. Robert r. Armen-
trout. Riverdale; 1st/Sergt. Ernest B.
Rauth. Arlington: S/sergt. Earle N Payne,
Arlington: TIA Julian A. Cline, Alexandria;
Pfc Robert 6. JarmAn, Arlington; Pfc.
Charles W Liddell, Arlington: TIA xver-
ette M. Brewer, Alexandria, and Corpl.
Melvin NJ. shull. Alexandria.
The transport WAlter Reed, which
arrived at Newport News yesterday,
Evening star., 1945-12-01


would have a tendency to create
such discomfort and radicalism thai
I doubt whether our present system
Of free enterprise could long sur.
vive."
The closing session of the confer.
ence heard a warning from John L
Lewis, president of the United Mine
Workers Union, that labor shoule
give some attention to putting its
own household in order and ceasins
TO some degree our internal cayil.
ing" The miners leader said such 9
task was not the obligation of Gov.
ernment, or industry or manage.
ment, but "a responsibility of labol
itself which rests most heavily or
those honored with positions of re.
sponsibility."
Cites Division at Conference.
Mr.. Lewis told his union colleague!
that during the course of the con.
ference they had witnessed "precis.
and effective functioning" of man
agement, while labor was dividet
into four groups-the AFL, the CIO
the miners and the railroad brother.
hoods. AS result, he said, part O
the time of the conference was taker
up with the necessity of labor tryini
to harmonic its own position.
"One great lesson for American
labor from this conference is tha'
labor has job to do in Its owr
household of unifying its own poll
cies and bringing closer together it!
own leadership" he said.
The labor groups achieved har.
mony on the wage issue in the con.
cluding plenary meeting of the par.
ley, but failed to obtain an indorse.
ment from the conference for high.
er wages. Resolutions to that ef.
feet were lost by failure to obtain &
unanimous vote, management
standing firm In opposition.
CIo President Philip. Murra,
| brought the wage question to tn,
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-23
'RAILROADING' OF u. S.
SERVICE MERGER WILL
BE OPPOSED BY HOEY
CONTINUED from Page One)

Continued from Page One)
feel sure that this course will be
pursued.
1.-The Congress does not intend
to have this measure railroaded
through, and you may rest assureqa
that all interested parties will
have ample opportunity to present
their cause and the public to get
familiar with the situation and ex-
press its views.
'I shall not write to each OF
the gentlemen who signed the tele-
gram but will thank you to convey
my expression of appreciation. -
Tn telegram to which Senator
Hoey referred in his letter was dis
patched from here Tuesday, ad-
dressed to the chairman of the
Senate Military Affairs committee
with copies to Hoey, Senator JOSIAH
w. Bailey and Rep. Bayard CLARK.
1t was written after group OF
Wilmington men, called together
informally by F. P. OCrowley'
chairman of the Chamber of Com
merce Military Affairs committee,
had heard Lt.-Col. George Fowler
of Camp Lejeune, outline the Navy
plan for a coordinated directorate
for the War and Navy departments.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-23
WEATHER
Continued from Pare One,

WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.-RAweather
bureau report of temperature and rain
ial for the "a hours ending pm:
High Low Prec
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-23

was one of six long-term convicts
on Governor Dewey's annual Christ
mas communication list.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-23
NEGRO CHILDREN
DIE IN FIRE HERE
Continued from Page One)

(COntlnued from Page One)
and she ran into the yard scream
ing for help.
Jerry Greer, colored, S03 South
Seventh street, saw the flames at
the windows at the same time he
heard the screams of the mother.
He tried to get into the room but
was unable to get by the flames.
He then turned in an alarm.
Samuel Thomas, colored, GIG
South Seventh street, was standing
at corner about four houses away
and said 1.-The flames were coming
out of the windows and the front
part of the house was ablaze by
the time Greer was able to call
the fire department" He stressed
that at the time he saw the fire
it would have been impossible to
have entered the room where the
children were.
The mother of the children re-
ceived superficial burns of the hands
and face in her attempt to save
them. She was taken to Community
hospital for treatment of burns
and shock.
Shocked by the tragedy that
struck Lanes family, a number
of his friends yesterday, including
many white residents, began max
ing contributions to assist in burial
expenses. By last night, it was
the sum of $4125 had been
contributed.