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Evening star., 1946-12-24

The last-minute shopper for
| Christmas strees finds plenty nof
them ana more than enough deEiers
here, today =-.-------ss@
High prices, manpower for cutting
tires, heavier shipments from
Canada, and an unusually large
number OF vacant lot sales stands
set up by newcomers account for
the biggest supply Washington has
seen in many years, merchants and
Forest Service officials say.
This also threatens to leave most
Christmas tree marketers with a
surplus on their hands tomorrow,
despite a slight price drop which
started in some instances last night.
The situation is Nationwide.
Forest Service reports indicate that
Canada has gone beyond her pre-
war record by sending more than $50
carloads to the New York area
alone.
This years Christmas tree crop in
the United States will be close to
$1,000, 900, the Forest Service esti-
mated This is substantially greater
than the supply during war years,
but even in normal years the stocks
ranged from 100000 to 18,000,0 900.
A Forest Service official said this
years supply is not so. heavy as to
cause a serious surplus.
:"I don't know how extensive the
surplus u.s." he added. "All I know
is that last night paid the highest
price I ever did for Christmas
tree"
Returns are not yet in from all
scattered trees in national forest
precincts, but it is believed the 75O,-.
600 total of 1910 will be reached
again this year. The Government
allows jobbers to fell a limited num-
ber of such trees in selected regions
both as a means of supplying yule-
tide foliage and thinning out the
forests.
But the plight of tree-holding re-
tailers brings no consolation to those
lin Washington. Most of the pines
and spruces sold here this week
come from Maryland and Virginia,
with comparatively few from as far
away as Canada.
While dealers complain about too
many other dealers, some buyers
today cited what they regarded as
excessively high prices.
Totals were not available on the
number of police precinct licenses
issued this season to tree vendors,
but the total, according to whole
sale market representatives, is un-
doubtedly the largest since before
i the war.
AS recently as last Sunday, Gus
toners were charged about 81 for
trees about four feet tall. BY driv-
ing to smaller communities within
20 miles of the city they could get
the same size for about SITS
Spreading trees that touch the cell
ing were listed in town as high
as $40.
Evening star., 1946-12-24
Britain Calls for Session
OF Straits Pact Siqners
BY the Associated Press

LONDON, Dec. 24.-Great Britain
has notified Russia that the next
step in the discussion of future
control Of the Dardanelles should
be a meeting of all signers Of the
1896 Montreux Convention govern
ing the straits.
A Foreign Office spokesman said
last night the message was delivered
verbally in Moscow by British Am
bassador Sir Maurice Peterson, re-
spending to Russian note on the
subject last October. The Russians
said then they favored two-power
talks between themselves and Tur-
key.
Signers of the Montreux Conyen-
ton were Turkey, Russia, Romania,
Bulgaria, Britain, France, Greece,
Yugoslavia and Japan. Britain pro-
poses that Japan be eliminated and
the United States substituted in
stead
Evening star., 1946-12-24
Christmas
Continued From First Page,

hospitals and institutions, with tur-
keys gracing the Christmas Day
menus.
Months Of planning have made
it possible for the American Red
Cross, service organizations and
charities to make it q merry Christ
mas for all.
The Red Cross began last August
10 plan programs for nine military
and veterans hospitals In this area,
F. Az q result, servicemen and vet
|eraf1s will receive $40 gifts, 6,700
stockings filled with candy and nuts,
106 fruit cakes, $50 strings of lights,
27o trees, 600 pounds Of hard candy,
225 bushels Of fruit. 800 boxes OF
icicles, and a large quantity of
|tinsel and tree ornaments.
Mrs. Fred Reith, acting chairman
OF the District Chapter Red Cross
community service to. camps and
hospitals, said no one would be for
gotten. e a, e,.;..,.efs
b. 1.-The community has provided the
ingredients for the holiday program
In. the hospitals and now it Is the
Red Cross job to see that trans.
portation. hostesses, entertainers
good things to eat, all function
smoothly, arriving and leaving at
the proper time" she said.
Evening star., 1946-12-24
Critical Food 5carcit,
Before t947 Harvest
Seen by FA0Head
BY the Associated Press

Sir John Boyd Orr, director gen.
eral of the United Nations Food and
Agriculture Organization, said to-
day the world food situation as a
whole is little better than year
ago and there will be critical short
ages before the 1947 harvest.
Sir John made this statement In
releasing a new FAC appraisal OF
the food picture. "gs.
The report showed there was a
little increase in the 1916 harvest
in devastated countries of Europe
and that the Americas produced a
bumper output of food.
But the latter has been largely
Offset" Sir John said. "by increased
consumption in the producing coun-
tries and by the fact that reserves
of food were much less at the time
of the 1916 harvest than in 1945.
The report said supplies OF most
foods coming on the world market
as exports in the 12-month period
ending June 80, 1947, were much
less than before the war and that
the exportable surplus OF the all
important cereals Is no greater than
last year.
Complicated by UNRRAs End.
Sir John said: Tn spite of tbs
generous spirit evidenced by the
United States in the granting Of ai6
and credits the situation will be
complicated by the termination o1
the United Nations Relief and Re-
habilitation Administration"
"Ihus the position between now
and the next harvest is still critical
with food supplies available to the
people in many parts Of the worlc
standing at about half the amount
available to the well-fed people. The
quality of these diets Is also pool
because Of their low protein and
fat content"
Sir John said the situation in
shortage areas called for economy
measures and even greater generos-
ity on the part of exporting coun-
tries"
The report itself said the pros
pective situation in deficit countries
in the coming months was such as
to warrant an immediate Tightening
of controls and food economy meas
ures in all countries and a recon-
sideration by exporting countries OF
the quantities they feel able to make
available for shipment.
Limited Diets.
The report said the following
countries would be limited to less
than 80 per cent Of their prewar
diets: Parts of India, parts Of China
Malaga, parts Of Manchuria. Ro-
mania, Austria and Germany.
Countries limited to between &c
and 95 per cent Of prewar diets were
listed as Korea, the Philippines
parts OF India, Java. parts of China
Algeria, Tunisia, Portugal, French
Morocco, Greece, parts of Manchuria
Italy, Poland, Spain. Hungary. So
Wet Russia, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia
Belgium, Uruguay. Cuba, Finland
the Netherlands, the United King
dom, France, Switzerland and
NORWAY
Evening star., 1946-12-24
District Churches Plan
Christmas Services
: Tonight and Tomorrow

Washington residents will observe
Christmas eve by thronging churches
throughout the District tonight.
Capdlelight services will be held in
numerous Protestant churches this
evening and midnight mass will be
said IN Catholic churches.
The Right Rev. Angus Dun, Bishop
of Washington, will be celebrant at
a holy communion service at II: :15
O'Clock tonight at Washington Ca
thedral. Communion will be held at
7:30 and $50 am. tomorrow at the
Cathedral, with Bishop Dun preach
ing at the II am. service. There
will be an evening. prayer service
at O'Clock tomorrow.
A solemn pontifical midnight mass
will be celebrated at st. Matthews
Cathedral tonight, with the Most
Rev. John M Mcnamara, auxiliary
bishop and senior vicar general of
the archdiocese of Baltimore and
Washington, as the pontif1cant.
Carols at St. Agnes.
Christmas carols, starting at 1880
o'clock tonight, will precede solemn
midnight eucharist at st. Agnes
Episcopal Church. Holy communion
Will be held at 7:30 am. tomorrow,
with sung eucharist at 10 am.
- Hamline' Methodist Church will
hold a Christmas eve service at 10:45
o'clock tonight. Neighborhood CAROL
ing by the Fellowship of the church,
starting at 1880 o'clock, will precede
the service. -
A service of Christmas carols will
be held at 10:30 o'clock tonight at
Foundry Methodist Church.
Candlelght services will be held
at IL o'clock tonight at Calvary
Methodist Church, Chevy Chase
Baptist Church, Chevy Chase Pres
byterian Church and the Universal
LIST National Memorial Church.
Other Candlelight Services.
- Other churches holding candle
light services at II O'Clock tonight
will be Petworth Baptist Church, ST..
Paul's Lutheran Church, National
City Christian Church, Chevy Chase
Methodist Church, Anacostia Meth
odist Church and Luther Place
Memorial Church. Similar services
will take place at Albright Memorial
Church and First Congregational
Church at 1890 o'clock and at
Lutheran Church of the Reforma-
tion at T0:45 O'Clock.
Midnight masses will be said at
St Patrick's Church, st. Martins
Church. st. Peters Church and at
the National Shrine Of the Immacu-
late Conception. A mass will be
held at 1915 am. in st. Patrick's
Church hall, 924 G street NV, for
d, those unable to get into the church.
Episcopal churches holding serv-
ices tonight win include Esther
Memorial, 11:20 o'clock. and Trans
.figuration Church, 1880 o'clock.
s. The midnight Christmas solemn
high, mass, at the Church of the
Immaculate Conception will be
broadcast over Station WWDC. A
program of Christmas carols, start
ing at 11:30 o'clock, will precede
the mass.
Evening star., 1946-12-24
Blood est
(continued From First Page.)


d combination OF jaundice and
anemia which can eventually cause
the death Of the child. A great
number Of miscarriages are believed
to be caused by the Rh factor.
!, The test lis available to private
medical patients in the city's hos
spitals now, but those unable to pay
for the test are without the means
to receive It. The District Health
Department has no funds for free
tests. s.,y.. .-- =
DIR. Hunter said the prime aim OF
the new laboratory will be to reach
patients heretofore unable to afford
the test.
Just how the project will be
financed, he said, has not been
worked out. He said he hoped the
laboratory can be located at the
Medical Center on I street NV. but,
he added, a final location has not
been selected.
Develop Serum.
DR.. Hunter said he and DR.. Ross
have spent their time so far per-
fecting a blood serum with which
to make the tests. The tests them
selves are simple, requiring only a
few minutes. But unless the serum
is foolproof, he said, the test Is OF
little use.
He said he believed he and his
colleague have developed one of the
best serums for the purpose in the
country Blood for the serum is
obtained from Rh positive persons
To it are added other ingredients
When introduced into a patient S
blood, the reaction or lack OF one
indicates whether the Rh factor is
positive or negative.
:. With "top-grade serum" DR.
Hunter said, even relatively mex
perienced laboratory technician can
make accurate tests. ~
Laboratory Set Up in Baltimore.
DR.. Hunter said the new labora-
tory, which would require only about
five technicians, would be similar
to that founded little over a year
ago in Baltimore. This laboratory
is operated by six-man committee
of the obstetrical and genealogical
section of the Baltimore City Med
ical Society.
The Baltimore center charges
private patients from So to $5
depending on the extent of services
rendered. During the first eight
months of It's existence, it per-
formed tests on 1000 pregnant
women. Not only will the laboratory
be valuable from the obstretica.
standpoint, DR.. Hunter said, but
also it will accumulate case list
which will be valuable to hospitals
and doctors for reference Also, il
will maintain a list Of prospective
donors with Rh-negative blooc
groups Of all types.
!. It will work in close cooperation
he said, with the Community Blood
Bank, under the direction of DR.
Roger M Choisser. Blood stored ir
the bank is tested for Rh factor, SC
its character will be known when
ever transfusions during pregnancy
and childbirth become necessary.
The Rh factor was discovered ir
1940 after experimentation with
rhesus monkeys.
Evening star., 1946-12-24
Fourth Republic Born
In Meeting Of French
parIiament's S Council
BY the Associated Press

PARIS, Dec. 24.-France's fourth
republic officially came into being
this afternoon. The upper house OF
Parliament held its first session ano
constitutional government was re-
stored after six years Of war, con-
quest by the Nazis and liberation.
However, restitution of govern
ment subject to popular control
found the nation in perilous flnan-
cial state, and the entire structure
Of the colonial empire was threat
ened by the bloody Viet-Nam bid for
complete independence in far-away
Indo- China.
The historic moment when the
upper house, called the Council oi
the Republic. in the new constitu-
ton instead of the Senate OF prewa1
France, convened was 3:1l pm
From that moment the new consti-
tuition, approved by the people ir
October, became effective Consti-
tutional government in France hao
been wiped out in May, 1910, by the
advancing Germans.
Auriol Announces Candidacy.
Vincent Auriol. 62, president OF
the National Assembly or lower
parliamentary house, announced
that he was a candidate to become
the fourth republics first Presi'
dent. He was the first to state hi
candidacy officially.
The President who will nominate
a Premier to form cabinet to re-
place the present Socialist govern.
ment of interim President Leor
Blum, will be chosen January 16 by
the Council and Assembly in joint
session.
The Council met today for only
Is minutes, ~adjourning until De-
cember 27 when officers will be
elected. Jules Gasser, 81, Radical
Socialist, presided over the opening
session, held in the Luxembourg
Palace, scene of last summers peace
conference.
Assembly Meets Continuously.
The National Assembly was meet.
ing in almost continuous session
meanwhile, to finish voting a tenn.
porary budget by midnight, a budget
involving heavy economies aimed al
saving the nation from further in
f1ation and economic ruin.
In distant Indo-China, however
lay one of the greatest perils to the
ar-flung French Colonial Empire
There severe fighting was raging be.
tween French troops and Wet Nam
native forces. Interim Presiden
Leon Blum acknowledged the seri
business of the situation before tn
Assembly yesterday and said he hat
ordered Maj. Gen. Jacques Leclerc
renowned armored warfare expert
to Saigon in an effort to bring peae
to the strife-torn colony.
Evening star., 1946-12-24
Chfistn1os Tr@e Prices. Easing
with Big Supply, Many. Dealers
Lost Minute Buyer Hos Advantage,
Although Quotations Still Are High

Few, no matter how tiny. could
be, found for less than ST. In recent
days On Wisconsin avenue only
scne merchant was found TO-, Offer
Euees for as low as rs cents. -, I
hAst night, however, in some
II sfnEighborhoods such as the Dupont
Circle section, medium size frs OF
pines were available for about $1.50
Cash and carry business was pick
ing up, but the prevailing condition
still seemed to be too many trees
too few buyers and too high prices.
The only thing in acute short sup
ply in this seasonal trade was wood
en- or metal Christmas tree stands
One enterprising dealer near K
street NV. said he "cornered" q
supply year ago by salvaging hold
ers after they had been cast out by
housewives.
Evening star., 1946-12-24
Mser. N. F. Delaney, 96
Priest II Years, Dies
BY ths Asseeioted Press

NATICK. Mas, Dec. 24.-Msgr
Michael r. Delaney, 96. pastor Of st,
Patrick's Church and one of the
oldest active Roman Catholic priests
in the United States. died early
today at the parish rectory afte,
a short illness.
Ordained in Montreal. he cele-
brated his list year as priest OF
December 10. He was elevated te
the monsignori a year ago by Pope
Plus XII.
A native of Boston, Msgr. De-
laney had been pastor Of st. Pat
rick's since 1890.
Evening star., 1946-12-24
Dr.. John A. Sampson, .734
Gynecologist, Dies ..a1a,as ,ar,

= HVN6 NSSotidfs0 Ffssb {" n u -
,SALBANY,N. Y, Dec: 24-Dr. Joan
Albertson Sampson, 70, gynecologist
who had practiced here since 1905
died last night in Albany Hospital
where he had been i'll for a month
DR.. Sampson was distinguished
particularly for his research in en-
dometriosis. He contributed many
articles to medical journals. 81.
He had been senior gynecology al
Albany Medical College. = -tg,lt
Sampson was born in 2 New
Brunswick, near Troy, and later
made his home in Troy. He never
married. ~ & -
Evening star., 1946-12-24
Calf Eots 500 MeoI

BIG SPRING. Tex. R.-A cali
helped himself to . $700 meal by
swallowing the purse of o. D. Smith,
Forsan, Tex. druggist. Mr.. Smith
retrieved 1886 In checks from the
calf's mouth, but during the two
and one-half hours before the
animal was killed it digested all the
rest except $40 in currency and
checks.
Evening star., 1946-12-24
Lions Plan HospituI Gift

LEONARDTOWN, Md, Dec. "a
(SpeciaD j. Richard Norris, presi-
dent of the Leonardtown Lions Club.
today announced that the club will
donate an oxygen tent to ST. Marys
County Hospital.
Evening star., 1946-12-24
Hoover Begins Vacation

MIAMI, Fla, Dec. "a R.-For-
mer President Hoover arrived here
by train from New York with his
family last night to start a two or
three weeks fishing trip in the
Florida keys.
Evening star., 1946-12-24

The highest temperature recorded
in Honolulu in the last SIS years was
80 degrees in October, 1891, the
lowest 50 degrees in 1902.
Evening star., 1946-12-24

Christmas II you decide to give =
United States Savings Bond as gift
that's sure to grow bigger.
Evening star., 1946-12-24

The last-minute shopper for
Christmas streess finds plenty gof
them ana more than enough deslers
here fpday --.,..rs 4
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-11-09

SayAssembly
WillConvene
Delegates Already Arriv-
ing In Marking For
Meeting Tuesday
SEATS STAY OPEN
Communists Say Nothing
Regarding Change In
Boycott Policy

NANKING, China, Nov.
- (UP) - Generalissimo
Chang Kai-shek announced
Friday night that he had
ordered all Nationalist troops
in China and Manchuria to
cease firing except to defend
their present positions. At
the same time, he asked all
parties in China-including
his own-to make a final eff
fort to reconcile their differ
ences.
Chang announced that he had
stopped the offensive of his Ma
tioaalist armies just four days be-
fore the scheduled opening of the
assembly here. The Chi
National Emancipation COM
called third party" - the Chi
aese aNtional Emancipation COM
See NAT1ONALIsTs on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-11-09
SYMPHONY SOCIETY
HOLDS MEET HERE
0rchestra's Appearance Is
tentatively Set For
Next April Is

On call of Mrs. Lester Pres
ion, chairman, the Wilmington
committee of the North Carolina
Symphony Society, meeting in the
Great Hall of Saint James church
yesterday, laid the ground work
for the ~orchestra's appearance
which it tentatively set for April
Is next.
With letters going out from the
orchestra's Chapel Hill headquart-
ers announcing the coming cam
paign, the committee reached a de-
cision to concentrate its effort for
the present upon securing donor
memberships at $25 each in the
hope Of raising $500 toward the
$3.50 guarantee before the first of
the year, and then conduct an in
tensive drive for S. active and So
regular memberships for the bal
ance during February.
AS in past years, an active mem
berShip entities the holder to par
tlcipate in the orchestra's activi-
ties and to attend its concerts
See SYMPHONY On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-11-09
Police Report

A sharp drop in city speed law
violations was reflected in the
October report of the City Police
Department released yesterday by
Chief Charles H. Casteen.
Wilmington police arrested %
motorists for speeding last month
as against AZ arrests on the same
charge in September.
The months total of arrests on
all charges was 674. In October
1915, police arrested 982 persons;
last September they arrested 75G.
There were 1873 arrest for public
drunkenness, still the major item
in the report.
1t was a month with few serious
crimes.
There were II cases of assault
with a deadly weapon; ten cases of
ARRAY with deadly weapons; 10
cases of larceny and receiving; and
two cases of breaking and enter
ing.
The department revoked the per-
mits of IA taxicab operators dur
ing October, three of them per-
manently. At the same time the
department issued 10 permits and
renewed five more.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-11-09
SHRINKING FUNDS
CURTAILS DREDCES
Huston To Return Here
Sunday To Go On Stand
By Basis Al Yards

A drastic curtailment of opera
tons by the local district office of
the U. S. Army Engineers will
begin tomorrow when the 20-inch
dredge Huston ties up at the local
Engineers yard-its job of dredg-
ing the lower Cape Fear river
checked by lack of funds.
The Hoffman, last of the six-ship
Engineers fleet still at work is
scheduled to leave Morehead City
to return here Nov. 20, officials
of the district office said here
yesterday.
Both vessels will be put into
standby conditions and their crews
laid off until the local office re-
ceives the funds it needs to con-
tinue even routine maintenance
See FUNDS on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-11-09
|PARADES TO HEAD
PROGRAMS MONDAY
Legion Posts In Many North
Carolina Cities Will OBJ
serve Armistice

RALEIGH, Nov. 8-P-Armis-
tice day celebrations in North Caro-
lima cities Monday will be marked
by parades, martial music and
speechmaking, b b e q e S and
dances, a survey of announced
plans showed today.
Almost all banks will be closed
this legal holiday, 18th anniversary
of the end of World War L. Post
offices will operate on a curtailed
schedule, and most retail bust
nesses and factories will be open.
as will schools.
Sunday night church services
have been announced in some
places.
Gov. R. Gregg Cherry will be
chief speaker at Dallas. Preserta-
ton of a charter to the new Ameri-
can Legion Post 339 is on the Mon
day program. A parade, barbecue
and a fireworks display in the
evening are planned.
At New Bern a parade, barbecue
dinner at noon and a dance are
scheduled.
Concord's annual Armistice
church service will be held in the
Central Methodist church Sunday.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-11-09
AlongThe Cape Fear

POPPY DAY-Today Along The
Cape Fear will put aside its search
for the first telephone installed in
the Port City to remind you that
this is the day for you to buy
your Buddy Poppy.
The annual Buddy Poppy sale is
conducted here by the James Man
ley Post of the Veterans of Foreign
Wars and their Auxiliary.
The purpose of the sale today,
according to local leaders is to
honor the men and women who
gave their lives in defense of our
country. 1t will help those dis
abled to earn something towards
support of themselves and their
families while they are under
going the hard struggle to over
come their disabilities incurred
by war. It will aid them to readjust
themselves to life with handicaps
such as a loss of limbs.
The peoples which you will buy
today r made by these men and
women in the Veterans Admins
tration hospitals. They r pur-
chased by the VFW posts and then
in turn they are offered to the
public.
This is an opportunity to aid the
fellow Americans who gave so
much. And we are willing to pre-
dict that you'd better buy your pop
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-11-09
CPA GRANTS FIRM
BUILDING PERMIT
Safeway Transit Company
Gets Approval For
$4,000 Garage Al

The approval of a 1910 0 build.
ing project here by the Safeway
Transit company was announced
last night in Greensboro by Chester
o. Ensign, state director Of the
Civilian Production administration.
The project here will consist Of
a garage on Castle street between
Eleventh and Twelfth streets, ac-
cording to Edgar L. Vow, attorney
for the SafeWay Transit company
here.
The local project was one Of
"a throughout the state to receive
approval during the past week,
Ensign said. The total number
of projects was valued at $239, 407
and the Wilmington project was
the largest granted.
The new garage is in keeping
with the expansion policy follow
ed by the company since theu
acqui 3ition of the system here.
W. A. Simon, local contractor.
will be in charge of the constructs
ion Of the new garage, Vow stated.