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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-17
1860 Veterans Herr
JobIess as Openings
Show Steady Decline
USES Applications
Soar While Suitable
Employment DwindIes
By Miriom Ottenbero

More than $4,000 veterans are
now known to be jobless here
while the supply of jobs listed
with the United States Employ
ment Service in the District is
dropping steadily, USES officials
reported last night.
Most of the jobless are drawing
CT unemployment compensation.
They cannot turn down suitable"
work offered by the USES and con-
tinue to draw their weekly $40 re
adjustment allowance checks.
The catch is that USES hasn't
got the jobs to offer. The USES
now has approximately 5000 job
openings in its files as compared
with 1880 at the end of December.
OF the veterans registered for
work here, recent survey shove.
that nearly Is per cent were from
out of town. Throughout the coun-
try, a USES official explained,
Washington has acquired a repu-
tation for being one place where
there are still plenty of jobs.
Soon DisilIusioned.
Generally, the transients visit the
USES once, find out the Govern
ment is reducing its force, that the
construction industry is at low ebb
and that much of private industry
here is delaying expansion until
materials start flowing again. Then
many of the transients 60 back
where they came from. USES off,
Gals hope they will continue to do
so.
The USES, explained Fred z.
Hetzel Washington area USES d.
rector, is concerned not only be-
cause of the SO per cent drop in its
job openings but also because the
majority of the jobs are low-paid
openings in the service industries or
jobs requiring technical skills the
veterans do not have.
Even If the jobs were suitable
which they aren't-we would need
three times as many openings as
we now have to meet the demands
of the veterans alone" Mr.. Hetzel
said.
Applications Mount.
To illustrate how far job place.
ments are trailing job applicants,
Mr.. Hetzel reported that the num-
bed OF veteran job applicants visit
ing the USES increased from 4,028
in December to $4,000 at the end of
February. On the other hand, the
number of veterans placed on jobs
totaled 1888 in December and 988 in
February.
The area director, who recently
returned from the Navy himself, is
counting heavily on two things to
halt the rising tide of veteran I'M
employment here:
l. That the number of veterans
returning to the District will level
off soon.
2. That the Job development"
program on which the USES has
(See VETERANS, Page A-5.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-17
Police Chief Is Held
In Waitress Staying
By the Assee;etad pr..s

BENTON, Ill, Mar. 16.-Clyde
Brown, 30, police chief at nearby
Buckner and one of the first in
vestigators in the disappearance
and Staying Of Miss Mary FASTER
mock, SO, night club waitress, was
held tonight on a charge of muir
der in her death.
A ;hitch-hiker found her bullet
pierced body beside a dirt road near
Buckner Thursday. Police, includ-
ing Brown, had been searching for
her sSpce she disappeared after q
night club party at Buckner Tues
day night.
States Attorney ]. Max Mitchell
said Brown told him he had made
q date with Miss Pasternock to take
her home after the party, but that
when he stopped his car to go into
another night club, the waitress
disappeared before he returned.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-17
New Car Price Rise, Absorbed
BY Dealers, Predicted by Paper

falls car price increases, plus a
per cent reduction in usual handl-
ing charges. The forthcoming 90
per cent increase across the boards
to manufacturers will amount to 2
per cent for dealers since the fac
tory boost is figured on wholesale
price.
"As result of OPA's new policy,
it is expected that General Motors
car prices will reflect a slight rise
instead of the az per cent reduce
ton predicted last fall by OPA.
"OPAs latest plan was unfolded
at . secret session Of the agency's
Automobile Industry Advisory Com
mittee the past week.
The committee. composed Of 70
car and truck dealers across the
tSee AUTOS, Page A-7.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-17
Pope Calls on C|erqy
To Instruct Catholics
In Moral Duty Of Vote
Church Will Not Shut Sell
Within Walls Of Temple,
He Tells Rome Pastors
BY the Associated presa

VATICAN CITY, Mar. 49,
Pope Plus XII declared today it
was the clergy's right and
duty" to participate in public
life, and called on pastors to
instruct Catholics in their moral
duties arising from the electoral
right"
1T should not be forgotten that
it was exactly with the pretext to
fight so-called political Catholi-
cism' that National Socialism
aimed at the destruction of the
church." he said in an annual Len
ten sermon to Roman pastors.
THE Catholic church will never
permit herself to be shut within
the four walls of the temple.
Improvements Noted.
The separation of religion and
life, the church and the world is
contrary to the Christian and
Catholic idea" he said, calling on
the clergy to instruct the faithful
in community as well as church
matters, especially when these
touch the sanctity of the family
the school. and just social condi-
tons"
The Pope said that "the light OF
peace" had already begun to bring
symptoms of rebirth and signs
of notable improvements" in a
world suffering from war-caused
deterioration of morals.
Referring "above all to the pro-
lection of abandoned children, the
healing of profound wounds in
fiicted especially to the sanctity of
marriage and marital faithfulness, y
the Pope added:
Regarding this we repeat what
we said about divorce, and that is
that matrimony between baptized
persons validity contracted and con-
summated cannot be dissolved by
/ any power on earth, not even by
supreme ecclesiastical authorities. >
The Pope said the priest, as a
minister of a church whose mission
encircles all the religious and moral
duties of the faithful, could be
| obliged to give advice and instruc-
lions concerning even public life.
Moral Responsibility" to Vote.
On the eve of additional COM
munity elections, with voters in
more than 1000 communes in 20
Northern Italian provinces preparing
to ballot tomorrow, the pontiff de-
clared:
Exercise the vote. It is a great
moral responsibility, at least when
it concerns the election of those
called to give the country its consti-
tuition and laws, especially those
that touch, for example, the sanctity
OF the family, the school and the
just and equitable regulation of
social conditions"
At the same time the pontiff indi-
Gated strongly that the church had
no intention at the present time of
seeking modification of the Lateran
Gee p0pT 49,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-17

warned in broadcast in New York
that it was too late to save all the
persons threatened with starvation
throughout the world, but that "our
purpose is to save the last one pos
sible."
Mr.. Hoover. honorary chairman
of the Famine Emergency Com
mittee, will leave from La Guardia
Field in an Army plane this morn
ing on a tour that is expected to
take him as far east as Poland and
Greece. He will be accompanied
by nine associates, including Hugh
Gibson, former Ambassador to Bel
GUM and an aide to Mr.. Hoover in
relief activities after the World War
Commissioner Guy Mason said
last night that authorities here have
no sovereign powers such as States
and therefore the Commissioners
have these two alternatives on the
question of cutting the weight OF
bread:
Either they can blink" at tn,
present law or ask Congress for new
- r~OH 80
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-17
Progressives Meeting
In Wisconsin Today
To Return 10 COP Fold
La Toilette Scheduled
To Seek Reelection as
Republican Candidate
By Gould Lincoln

Representatives OF the Pro-
gressive party, meeting in Port
age, Wis. today, are expected to
vote in favor of returning to the
Republican party. Thousands of
the rank and file already have
done so.
Minority groups will fight to have
the Progressives join hands with
the Democrats or to continue as
an Independent party, but all signs
indicate these moves will fail.
II the majority of the represent
atives approve the idea Of return
ing to the Republican fold, it is
predicted that Senator La Toilette
one of the principal organizers Of
the Progressive Party In 1884, will
announce himself candidate fol-
the Republican senatorial nominal
ton. He is up for reelection this
year.
Have One Representative.
Starting weeks ago, Progressive
conferences were held in all sec.
tons of the Sscte, and represent
atives to today's .anference were
elected. The impelSng motive
arose from the fact that some de-
cision had to be reached regarding
the political future of the last OF
the Progressives holding high po-
litical off1ce-Senator La Toilette
The fortunes of the party have
dropped so far that today there is
only one Progressive member of the
House, Representative Hull of the
9Th Congressional District.
Labor elements of the party in
Racine, Milwaukee, Kenosha and
La Crosse Counties are expected
to spearhead the move to merge
forces with the Democratic Party
Although it gave its electoral votes
to the late President Roosevelt in
his first three races for the presi-
dency, Wisconsin is not Demo-
cratic State. In 1914, the State went
for Gov. Dewey by $4,000 votes.
So weak had become the Progress
sive party that in the 1914 sena-
torial election, Senator Wiley, Re-
publican. was reelected by a vote
of $4,000 to 537 1000 for his Demo-
cratic opponent. former Representa-
tive McMurray, and only $4,000 for
the Progressive candidate, former
Representative Sauthoff.
COP to Welcome Return.
Senator La Toilette. who is at
tending today's meeting IN Portage
will be welcomed back to the Re-
publican party by his Republican
colleagues in the Senate and by
leading COP House members, if he
makes the plunge. They regard him
as an effective member of the Sem
ate, and feel he may become bell
wether for other Progressive and
independent voters to enter the Re-
publican party.
However, a bloc of Wisconsin Re-
publicans, headed by Tom Coleman,
will violently oppose Senator La Fol-
lette. They become almost apoplectic
over the idea of Senator La Follette's
reelection as Republican. But it
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-17
BY the As:oeiuted Press

DETROIT, Mar. 16.-The trade
publication Automotive News, in
a copyrighted article in its March
Is edition, will say that the Of
flee of Price Administration
plans another 2.6 per cent rise
in new-car prices, to be absorbed
by the dealers.
Asserting the action is expected
to cause plenty Of fireworks in Con-
gress," the article declares the new
cost-absorption plan will raise to
81 per cent the reduction in dealer
discounts since 1916 models were put
into production.
Continuing, Automotive News
says:
Previously OPA had forced deal
ers to absorb ~ per cent Of last
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-17
Byrnes Rejects Idea Of Alliance
Pins Hopes for Security on UNO;
Reds Hold North Iran Oil Vital
Marshall Hopes for China Unity
Despite Crisis in Monchurio
Describes Efforts to End Fighting and Get
Informotion; U. Strained Troops Sent North

tinued peace we hope for In the
Pacific"
He asserted, however, that such
success depends lin a large meas
ure on actions of other nations,
and warned Of inevitable failure al
China is ignored or If there Is
scheming to thwart the develop
ment of unity and present aspira-
tons"
His description of the situation
in Manchuria as extremely crit
lcal" came when he was asked
about Russian activities there. He
said his knowledge of developments
IN Manchuria was limited to what
he had learned from newspaper
correspondents because the United
States has had no official observers
there.
However, he continued, an Amer
lean consul is moving in to Mukden,
whose industrial enterprises have
been reported stripped by the Rus
slams. He also recalled announce
(See MARSHAIJ. pooo A-ci
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-17
By Malcolm lomborne, Jr.

Secretary of Agriculture An
derson last night called on all
State Governors to eliminate, if
possible, regulations standing in
the way of reducing the weight
of bread loaves and other bakery
products by 10 per cent in line
with recommendations of the
Famine Emergency Committee.
Governors were asked to call the
problem to the attention of officials
of municipalities. The need for
conserving wheat in every way pos
sible SO as to meet requirements
abroad Is urgent" the Secretary
wrote.
Meanwhile, former President Her
bert Hoover on the eve of his de-
parture for a study of European
food needs for President Truman
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-17
States Asked to LegoIize Cuts
In Bread Weight to Aid Europe
Hoover Leaves New York Today on Trip
To Survey Critical Areas on Continent

PLANS TO CANCEL banquets await
White House statement. Page Az.
COLONY of $50 men and women at
New Windsor, Nd, toll for suffer-
ing millions. Page B-1
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-17

1iiC OcIldLe ATOMIC Energy
Committee voted yesterday to
give the President direct control
over production of atomic bombs
and other military applications
of nuclear energy.
The flve-member civilian COM
mission which would be set up under
the pending control bill, would be
authorized to produce atomic weap-
ons only to the extent that the
express consent and direction shall
be obtained at least once each year. y
Chairman Mcmahon said the
commission would have full power
to conduct research and Develop
ment work, but could produce bombs
only if the President specifically di-
rected so.
The committee has agreed tenta-
lively to the first % pages of the
4o-page bill, and may complete It's
work next week.
consultative Gr0upS.
AS the draft of the bill now
stands, the atomic energy control
commission would have three con-
sultative auxiliary bodies: a mill
tary liaison board, with the num-
Der of its members yet undeter-
mined; nine-member part-time
advisory board which probably
would include number of scientists
and a joint congressional commit
tee of five Senators and five House
members to make continuing study
of the activities of the control COM
mission and of the problems of de-
veloping and controlling atomic
energy.
Senator Mcmahon said the idea
for the congressional panel had
been approved although details re-
manned to be worked out.
Other decisions made by the Sen
ate committee yesterday included:
The President shall direct the
transfer to the commission of all
Government owned material of the
following categories: Atomic bombs
and parts, fashionable material,
plant facilities for processing ifs
sionable materials. patents relating
thereto, and all property of the
Manhattan district.
May Order Bombs for Army.
The President may direct the
commission to deliver as many
atomic bombs or other atomic
weapons to the armed forces as he
deems necessary in the interest of
national defense.
The commission shall not distri-
butte any fashionable or source ma
terial to any foreign government or
to any person who is not under the
jurisdiction of the United States.
Chairman Mcmahon said this clause
would not prevent the commission
from handing out by-products.
The commission would be author
lied to allocate by-product materials
for research and development in
medical therapy and industrial uses,
with or without charge.
1t would be unlawful for any per-
son defined SO as to include the
Army and Navy to manufacture any
atomic weapons, except that the
commission might contract for the
production of such minor parts as it
deems necessary.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-17

Rodio Programs, Pg. c-l2
Complete Index, Pe. Az
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-17

(See PROGRESSIVES, Page A-4.
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(See SUFFRAGE, Page A-10J
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|CommitteeVote
For Presidential
Control ofAton1
Plan Would Permit
Research But Restrict
| Output Of Weapons

ATOM TESTS in Pacific cannot
harm world, scientists say. STORY
on Page A-2.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-17

(See POPE. PAGE A-4-1
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-17

(See OIL, Page A-6.)
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(See CIVIL SERVICE, Page A-5J
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-17

(See FOOD, Page A-l0.)
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Cloudy and somewhat warmer, probable
showers. Highest about so. Tomorrow,
fair, moderate temperatures.
Yesterday: High, "a, at 2:20 PM; low.
46, at 2:30 am.
United States Weather Bureau Report
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-17

(see MARSHALL, Page A-6J
Laurel outlook., 1946-07-31
FRANCHISE ELECTION
DATE SET BY COUNCIL
Resident FreehOlders To Give
Decision Sept. Is On Extend
ing Gas Company Rights

At a special meeting Tuesday ev-
ening the Laurel city council adopt
ed a resolution calling for a special
election Wednesday, Sept. IS, to vote
on a city-wide franchise for the
Billings Gas company. A franchise
granted the utility more than 20
years ago is now expiring.
A registrar and assistant Will be
provided in each of the four wards
to register freeholding taxpayers
who are actual residents and ap-
peared on the tax rolls of 1915.
Registration will begin Sept. 8 and
will continue through Sept. z All
who vote at the election must speci-
ally register.
The franchise provides for the
gas company's further use of city
streets and alleys in supplying gas
to Laurel users.
Laurel outlook., 1946-07-31
REV. WILCOX PRESENTS
DISCUSSION ON JEWS

The Jews definitely wish to get
out of Europe, Rev. NJ. j. Wilcox
said Tuesday when he appeared on
the Rotary club program as speak
er. Although they are unanimous
on this point they have diversity of
opinion on where they wish to go.
They and economists appear to be-
lieve the Jews who for many CEN
turtles have been without a home
land should be definitely assigned
an area they may call home.
Rev. Wilcox said there were
about 100000 Jews before the
war and that Hitler killed about
100000 or one-third. AS a con-
sequence there are one now living
who have not lost close relatives.
Every home circle has been dis
rupted.
Those in Europe are being cared
for by the Allied governments, who
provide the necessities and main
tain their wards in camps. In this
transitory period they remember
the terrors and cruelty through
which they so recently passed, and
peer into an uncertain future.
The speaker said the Jews are a
group of Semitics and are a people
than a race, related to
Babylonians, Assyrians, Aramaeans,
Phoenicians and others of ancient
and present times. They are of
major divisions, Aramaean or
northern, and Arabic southern. They
are a minority group and have the
minority behavior: budding or liv-
ing close together, cl%annishness and
perhaps an inferiority complex.
Their bid for superiority is their
being "a chosen people," a title
more or less commonly claimed by
others and suspiciously like whist
ling in the dark.
Their religion is their way of
life, which Rev. Wilcox said applies
to Christians also. Because I'M
usual exertion and travel on the
Sabbath is prohibited and because
Continued on Page Eight
Laurel outlook., 1946-07-31
BUSINESS BODY IN
GENERAL MEETING
AIRS VITAL TOPICS
State Advertising, Medical Fa-
cilities, Roads, Air Strip Are
Discussed At Session

What should be Laurel's share of
the $4,000 being raised by the
Montana Chamber of Commerce for
promotion of tourist traffic and new
industries; cooperation in enhancing
medical facilities for the community;
support of the lOng-standing pro-
posal to have the federal bureau
of roads assign a number to 4
north and south road connecting
Mexico with Canada and traversing
Montana and other states on the
east slope of the Rockies; and a
flying field for Laurel were among
principal items of business coming
before a meeting of the Laurel
Commercial club Wednesday eve
ming at the l.. l.. club. President
Glen Roysdon presided at the ses-
sion following a dinner at $3.50.
The president stated that he had
been contacted by a representative
of the Montana Chamber of Com
merce who said the Billings Com
mercial club indicated it would as
sumo responsibility for raising ST.
300 in the county as Yellowstone's
contribution to the state body's adj
vertising fund. 1t was suggested
that Laurel might contribute $500.
After general discussion the sub
ject was referred to future BUSH
ness.
At invitation of Roysdon, Fred
w. Graft told of Investigations and
study conducted by the Rotary club
on promoting medical facilities and
a survey that had been made of
hospitals in Montana and Wyoming
towns of sizes comparable to Lau-
rel. Although the hospital was not
a first objective it had been SER
considered. Mention was
made particularly of the hospital
Cody, Wyo., which is of a high
and considered suitable as
a Laurel pattern. Graft said the
club wished the Commercial
hub to take the lead in the medical
A committee of two, con-
of o. M. Void and j. r.
deebner, was appointed.
A motion by Allen Gatewood pre-
to broaden the scope of the
committee to include several phases.
At a previous meeting of the
Tub there had been a discussion on
he city councils intentions for i'm
the Sixth avenue district
Continued from Page Eighty
Laurel outlook., 1946-07-31
TRAILS To Be
MARKED THIS FALL
Father DeSmet, BOzeman, Gus
ter and Vigilante Routes Are
Chosen For Marking

The marking of Montana pioneer
trails, under the auspices of the
Montana Council of the American
Pioneer Trails association, is sche-
duled for this fall, it was announced
today by the Montana State Cham
Der of Commerce.
Trails selected are those followed
by Father Pierre Jean DeSmet,
Jesuit priest who brought the Chris
tian religion to the Indians of west
ern Montana; the trail of John M.
Bozeman, pioneer guide for whom
the city of Bozeman is named; the
trail of Gen. George Custer of the
Little Horn; and the trails followed
by the Vigilantes who, during the
early 1865, brought law and order
to the gold fields of southwest
Markings consist of devices rep
.resentative of the characteristics of
the individual trails, placed in school
yards and public buildings. Designs
worked out by "Storty" Shope,
Helena, well-known Montana artist.
The present activity is a follow-up
to last years national project of
the American Pioneer Trails asso-
the marking of the Lewis
and Clark trail. So successful was
hat activity that the Montana
council decided to continue the
markings of other famous trails
the state.
President of the Montana council
5 Norman B. Hotter, Helena; Lester
Iobel, Helena, is vice president;
Zoe L. Markham, Butte, executive
ice president; w. G. Ferguson,
Helena, OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, and r.
1. Fletcher, Butte, regional direc-
or.
Directors include w. L. Murphy,
dissoula; D. M. Kelly, Butte; C..
Power, Helena; Charles A. Bovey,
Falls; Mrs. Lucinda B. Scott,
Ielena; w. C. Bardon, Helena, and
rank w. Bird, Butte.