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Evening star., 1946-12-21
Girl Goes to New York
With Gun for Protection
BY the Assoeio,ed Press

NEW YORK.-A gun-toting girl
of 13. from Union City, N. j., who
explained the weapon by saying, "A
girl needs protection in q city like
New York." was charged with juve-
nile delinquency by police.
Police said she had been posing
as an 18-year-old and had been
working as an usher in newsreel
theater for a few days.
Detective Frank Murray said she
left home with $50 and her fathers
gun, stayed in a New York bus
terminal overnight, and then got a
furnished room.
The landlady found the pistol in
the girls room and called police.
The girls father showed police a
birth certificate indicating his
daughter was Is.
Evening star., 1946-12-21
Stock Market Uneven
In Profit Taking
AT Week Close
BY Victor Ehbonk
Associated Press FjpopcjoI Writer

NEW YORK, Dec. 2l.-Profit-
taking on four straight recovery
weeks today kept the stock market
in a slightly uneven position al
though assorted favorites managed
to display a certain amount of
strength.
Dealings were relatively quiet
throughout. Early gains running to
point or so eyaporated in num-
Der of cases as the session proceeded
and mixed tendencies persisted
near the close. Transfers for the
two hours were in the neighborhood
of 600, 900 shares.
Boardrooms, on the whole, we're
virtually deserted owing to the fact
that numerous customers left yes
terday for a long Christmas holiday
which will include Monday and
Tuesday. although the exchange
will operate as usual on those days.
The list still had to contend with
some belated selling for income tax
purposes but this was offset by re-
placement purchasing. Bidding also
was based on the more optimistic
labor picture and the hope that
reinvestment demand would bring
a good rally at the year-end and
early in January The thought of
a possible economic recession in 1947
inspired the trimming of accounts
here and there. Liquidation, though,
never was urgent.
Transcontinental & Western Air
pushed up about 2 points on fair
sized volume. Supported also were
Bethlehem, Goodrich, Sears Roe
buck, Texas Co., American Tele-
phone, Western Union "a" Amer
lean Smelling. International Tele-
phone, Union Carbide, Chrysler and
Allied Chemical.
Declines were recorded for Santa
Fe, Southern Railway. Pennsylvania
Railroad, Du Pont. youngstown
Sheet, Woolworth, Montgomery
Ward, international Nickel and
Caterpillar Tractor.
Bonds were narrow,
Evening star., 1946-12-21
Plan to Bon The Outflow
In New York FuiIs
BY the Assoeioied Press

NEW YORK, Dec. 21.-The mo-
ton picture division of the New
York State Education Department
has denied a petition by Benjamin
Fielding, New York license commits
sioner, that the State license for the
showing of the Howard Hughes
film, 1.-The OUTLAY" be revoked.
In announcing the decision yes
terday, DR.. Ward C.. Bowen, acting
director of the State Motion Picture
Division, said evidence submitted by
Mr.. Fielding "does not constitute a
basis for the revocation of the
license granted for the showing Of
"The. Outlaw" in this State"
Mr.. Fielding had charged on
october IS that the advertising for
the film was offensive, indecent
and immoral"
Evening star., 1946-12-21
Mrs. w. w. Joynes Dies;
EmpIoye of Coust Guard

Mrs. Bell Scarborough Joynes, 66,
Coast Guard headquarters employe,
died early today in Suburban Hos
pital. She underwent an operation
several days ago. -
A native of Accomae, Va, Mrs.
Joynes was the widow of Capt.
Walker w. Joynes, U. s. C. G. She
came here more than Is years ago
and had been an employe of the
Coast Guard headquarters since.
She was chief of the casualty sec
ton at the time of her death.
She is survived by daughter,
Mrs. Edward F. Mullin, with whom
she lived at As Fawcett street,
Kensington, Md.
Funeral services will be held at
3 pm. Monday in the Fort Myer
Chapel, with burial in Arlington
Cemetery.
Evening star., 1946-12-21
al Housing Projects
Suspended in 4 Stotes
BY the Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 2l.-
Langdon w. Post, regional director
of the Federal Public Housing Au-
thority, announced last night orders
suspending construction of all vet
erans' temporary housing projects
in four Western States. The orders
are effective December ~ in Ari-
zona, Nevada, Utah and California.
An FPHA statement issued with
the announcement said the drastic
curtailment was instituted in an ef-
fort to concentrate all materials,
equipment and funds available on
finishing the maximum number Of
units nearest completion.
Some 9,537 units in 148 localities
would be affected in the shutdown.
Fifteen colleges were included.
Evening star., 1946-12-21
Wall Of Wafer Slams
Against Jap Town
6 Times in ; Hours
By Russell Brines
Associated Pres, siaff corr.speods'


TOKYO. Dec. 21.--A great, olrty
arm of water swung six times at the
tinv citv of Kairian. When 1t finally
w;tbdrew there was nothing but
whin,nering people looking for lost
rs1a.ives amid smashed houses.
That is the picture sketched in
baIting telegraph messages from
nearly obliterated Kainan, on the
smashed Wakayama Peninsula.
Kainan was one of dozens of COM
munities dashed by today's tidal
wave which was felt by coastal
towns S70 miles apart.
The wall of water, which some
japanese said was 10 feet high,
reached point 80 miles southwest
of Tokyo. There it flooded more
than 500 homes in the fishing village
OF Shimoda, on Izu Peninsula-fa-
nous as the site of the first Ameri-
can consulate nearly 100 yaers ago.
Boiled Like Whirlpool.
The tidal wave smashed the Kochi
area of Southern Shikoku, at least
370 miles west of Shimoda. Delayed
reports may show it reached even
beyond that.
'The town boiled with dirty
whirlpool" said the first reports
from Kainan. in the center of one
of the hardest hit areas.
As the first earth shock hit at
4:20 am, residents of Kainan fled,
shivering, into the streets-fearful,
as the japanese are, of inexplicable
movements of the earth.
Nothing happened for a while, SO
the people began returning home.
Then came a great rumbling at
sea. 1t increased until at $50 am,
the first wave hit the city.
Houses along the coast collapsed
and their wreckage was swept to
sea.
Kainan calmed. Forty minutes
later second wave crashed upon it.
The wave splintered houses, up
rooted trees and swallowed all with
in reach.
People Climb to Roofs.
People caught in the swirling wa
ters climbed to rooftops. Mothers
screamed for their children and
children cried for help. Some clumg
in frozen fear and were washed
away.
A boat moored in the harbor broke
loose, swept in and smashed house,
then disappeared on the outgoing
tide. Furniture floated on the
growing waters.
The ebb tide yawned hugely, drag
ging everything with it. Then the
sea came back with snarling roar
again and again until it had
pounded the town six times. The
last was at 800 a.m.-nearly three
hours after the initial wave.
lone could do nothing to help his
friends who were wallowing in the
water and yelling for help" said a
witness. People just clung to what
ever was available and waited out
the oceans fury"
When it was all over, said .Kyodo
news agency, "the homeless didn't
know what to do. They just looked
at their wrecked homes, searched for
relatives, and shivered."
Evening star., 1946-12-21

Actress Sylvia Field, now appear
ing locally, and Miss Helen G.
Everett, Health Department nutri-
ZIONIST, have stamped their approval
on the food in a CARE package
after tasting it in a demonstration
yesterday.
Bacon, ham and eggs, cereal and
fruit cake were among the items
from the Army's 10-in-1 food pack
age, being distributed in II European
countries through the CARE cam
paign, which were served yesterday
in a demonstration in the Potomac
Electric Power Co. kitchen, Tenth
and E streets NV.
Miss Filed sampled a piece of
fruit cake and pronounced 1t deli
cious." She is performing at the
National Theater in 1.-The Magnifl-
cent Yankee"
Cites Nutrition Value.
Considering the food from a nu-
triton standpoint, Miss Everett
cited the help to be afforded the
undernourished by the milk, cheese
and butter in the package, as well
as lemon powder containing the
vitamin C which prevents scurvy.
She found the package remark
ably fine" with IAN extremely high
nutrition value
Evening star., 1946-12-21
Duncer at Party in Bonk
Trips Burglar Alarm
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

CHICAGO.-Three police squads
from the Racine Avenue Station
raced to the National Security Bank
in response to a holdup alarm.
Approaching cautiously the police
men heard noises inside and de-
duced there must be whole gang
of bandits.
But watchman who opened the
door said 40 bank employees were
having a Christmas party. One of
the dancers accidentally stepped on
a button setting off the automatic
alarm.
Evening star., 1946-12-21

Osaka-200 families wiped out, $50
homes washed away, 1000 additional
homes under water.
Takaoka, 10 miles southwest Of
Kochi-90 killed, 126 seriously In
jured, 281 houses destroyed, 461
damaged.
Kainan, "a miles south of Osaka
Water 5 feet deep in parts of the
city.
Yura, Is miles south of Kainan-
Water up to second floor of some
houses.
Seismographs as far away as Lon
don were unable to record the
largest waves. Fordham's observer
said the tremors were "as severe as
they come"
Struck i'm Is Minutes.
The epicenter appeared to be
about $50 miles southwest of Osaka
and within Is minutes after the first
shock the tidal wave struck.
japanese newspapers expressed
fears for persons on Avail, island
in the path of the tidal wave as
it surged toward Japan's Inland Sea-.
Communications were knocked out
for a time between oath Division
headquarters at Osaka and British
headquarters at Kure, but these
later were restored
One unconfirmed report said a
train was overturned near Okayama,
midway between Osaka and Kure.
One Allied train was delayed be-
cause of blocked tunnel near
Okayama and this may have given
rise to the report.
With reports still incomplete, the
disaster shaped up as the worst
which has hit Japan since the
earthquake of 1928 that killed 49,
600 Japanese in the Tokyo area.
Red Cross Rushes Relief.
The Welfare Ministry announced
it was speeding relief activities
through the Japanese Red Cross,
Survey teams we're sent to the dis
aSter areas by the home, welfare
and agriculture ministries.
Three Psi Mustangs of the 5th
United States Air Force flew over
Wakayama Peninsula and reported
the west coast between Kanabe and
Kushimoto largely was inundated.
Pilots said the town of Shingu on
the east coast was one-third
destroyed by fire and flames still
could be observed in the afternoon.
Kyodo said all of the Japanese
mainland except the northeastern
coast of Honshu and Hokkaido felt
the shock. Reports indicated COM
could not be restored
for two days.
The central meteorological observa-
tory said the epicenter was in the
ocean floor about 100 kilometers (62
niles south of Wakayama. One
official said the quake
might be the greatest ever recorded
in the world. He placed the center
at 1876 east longitude, 80 north lati-
tude.
Prof. Sonrei Hagiwara of the
earthquake research station OF I'm
perial University said he believed
the quake originated on the outer
Pacific earthquake fault line, run
ming from New Zealand northward
through the Solomons and along
the North and South American
coasts. Activity in this fault line
caused Japan's two previous greatest
quakes-the 1923 temblor in the
Tokyo district and the 1914 quake
in the Shizuoka area.
Hagiwara said japanese are
watching for possible additional
shocks along this fault line.
Japan was hit by a similar quake,
affecting the same area, in 1854.
Evening star., 1946-12-21
Greek Guerrilla Bond
Reported Wiped Out
BY the Associaied Press

ATHENS, Dec. 21.-A strong band
of guerrillas operating near Drama
was ofiicially reported today to have
been wiped out" and press dis
patches said upwards Of 80 guerrilla
bodies were found on the snowSwept
Thracian battle-ground.
Reports said the heads of three
insurgent captains were displayed in
the small village Of Kato Nevroko-
pion, near Serres.
Evening star., 1946-12-21
Big Companies Paying
Millions 10 Employees
In Holiday Bonuses
~ the A,.oe;ossd Press

NEW YORK, Dec. 21.-Millions Of
dollars in bonus payments to en1-
iployes this holiday season are being
distributed by many OF the Nations
leading businesses. u
The Gfeat~ Atlantic & Pacific Tea
Co. announced additional compen-
sation OF about $l,750,00o with all
employees of six months or more
service participating. Another grocery
chain, the Grand Union Co., author
lied one weeks salary to all en-
sployes not now on an annual profit
sharing arrangement.
The New York Stock Exhange is
paying two weeks bonus to its
workers; employees of the New York
Curb Exchange will receive an addi-
tional one weeks pay.
Member Firms Pay.
Among stock exhange members,
Merrill Lynch, Pierce. Fenner g.
Beane announced bonuses totaling
more than $1,000,000 for all en-
ployes. Payments by Francis I. Du
Pont g. Co. range from one weeks
to one months pay. MacKubin, Legg
g. Co. voted bonus Of 20 per cent
of annual income plus one-half of
per cent for each year of en-
ployment.
j. w. Gould g. Co. distributed a
l0-week bonus to its employees. First
Colony Corp. of New York announced
payments amounting to months
salary, as did Kidder, Peabody g. Co.
Bonuses under the incentive sys-
tenn of Lincoln Electric Co. OF Cleve-
land amount to around $4,000, 900.
Columbia Recording Co. distributed
extra checks to employees in its
plants and Offices in Bridgeport,
Conn, New York, Chicago, Kings
Mills, Ohio, and Hollywood, Calf.
Other Bonuses Given.
More than $500,00O is being dis
tributed in amounts ranging from
one weeks to one months pay to
employees of william r. Warner g.
Co. and Richard Hudnut. Payment
of approximately $64, 900 to employees
of Compo Shoe Machinery Corp. at
the rate Of 10 per cent of 1916 earn
ings was announced, half to be paid
before Christmas and the balance
in March.
M. j. Merkin Paint Co. posted
bonuses for the 25th consecutive
year, about $4,000 going to ITS en-
ployes. Jenkins Bros. announced
payments of 10 per cent of annual
salaries to employees at its Bridge
port (Conn9 plant.
Bonuses of 20 per cent were an
nounced for employees of Pan Amer
ican Trust Co. while payments rang
ing from 71a to 10 per cent were de-
clared by Pennsylvania Exchange
Bank of New York. The Trust Co.
of North America and the East
Brooklyn Savings Banksannounced
per cent bonuses. The public rela-
tions organization of Bert Nevins,
Inc, distributed bonuses as high 20
per cent of annual income.
Evening star., 1946-12-21
Quoke
Continued From First Page. J

MacArthuris headquarters received
these preliminary reports from mill
tary government teams:
Oketa, on southern coast of Shi-
koku Island-17 dead. 35 injured.
Takamatsu, Northern Shikoku-
20 dead.
Okayama, on Honshu, between
Hiroshima and OSaka-6 dead.
Osaka-at least IA killed, 3 feet
of water in some parts of the city;
heavy property damage.
Kochi, 100 miles southwest of
Evening star., 1946-12-21
Weather Report

District OF Columbia-Rain ending
early this afternoon, followed by
partly cloudy late this afternoon and
clear tonight. Highest temperature
in middle 40s this afternoon and
lowest tonight in middle 30s. To-
morrow mostly sunny and warmer.
Virginia - Partly cloudy and
warmer southwest portion. Rain
followed by clearing east and north
portions this afternoon. Fair to-
night and tomorrow. Warmer east
and north portions tomorrow.
Maryland-Rain ending this after
noon followed by clearing with no
change in temperature tonight.
Tomorrow fair and warmer.
Wind velocity miles per hour;
direction, south-southwest.
Evening star., 1946-12-21
Publishers Honor Byrd

WINCHESTER Va, Dec. 81 tSpe-
ciaD Harry F. Byrd, jr., editor OF
the winchester Evening Star, has
been elected a member of the Edi-
torial Committee of the Southern
Newspaper Publishers Association,
according to an announcement from
headquarters of that group in Chat
tan00oa
Evening star., 1946-12-21
FOUND.

WILL LADY who tried to return blue and
Conn and N st. wed. noon, please calI
MRS FRAZE, DI. 1858.
SMALL DOG near 9th and Pa. Sc; brown
and black mixture. good natured; II not
claimed want to nnd good home. FIR. 1873
Evening star., 1946-12-21
Tanks for Reconnaissance.

The infantry no longer uses ar
mored cars for reconnaissance. This
is now done with light tanks only.
Combat experience, also proved
tanks are more efficient against
enemy tanks than the old de
Stroyer" units.
The new armored divisions will
Evening star., 1946-12-21
Temperature and Humidity.

Highest, 90, on July 20.
Lowest, IL. on January IS.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Tide Tables.
FURNISHED by United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey
Evening star., 1946-12-21

Monthly precipitation in inches in thu
Capital (current month to date):
Evening star., 1946-07-16

ana was aSSOC1. Mr. LIVINGSTON.
ated with the William H. Saunders
firm for As years, serving as presi-
dent since 1924. He was born in
Harris County, Ga, in 1879.
In addition to various real estate
groups, Mr.. Livingston belonged to
such civic organizations as the As
sociation of Oldest Inhabitants, the
Kiwanis Club, Kenwood Club and
Temple Noyes Masonic Lodge. He
was a charter member of the Uni
versity Club.
A member and former president
OF the Washington Real Estate
Board, Mr. Livingston also held
membership In the Board of Trade
and the Mortgage Bankers Associa-
ton. During the war, he was active
in Red Cross and War Bond drives.
He was a member of the Takoma
Park Baptist Church and trustee
and treasurer of the Baptist Home
for Children at Bethesda, Md.
Surviving members of the family
include Mr.. Livingston's widow, the
former Alrnira Price Trew, to
whom he was married in 1908; three
children. Mrs. BENJAMIN J. Mills,
1922 Forty-fourth street NV; Mr..
Claud Livingston, jr., 103 Ken
wood avenue, Kenwood, Md, and
Mrs. John M. Woodside, 2311. Con-
necticut avenue NV; a brother,
Willis j. Livingston, 1850 Second
street Sc, and sister, Mrs. Charles
P. Powers, of Port Royal, Va.
Evening star., 1946-07-16
Rubens
Continued From First Page.)

actually did the best paintings him
self, with Rubens acting only as
agent for their disposal. Snyders
Mr.. Bordley says, was content with
the money and didn't seem to care
about his name not being on them
There is picture entitled "The
Four Philosophers" attributed to
Rubens, which, critics have said
"inaugurates the mastership of Ru-
bens." Mr.. Bordley, however, says
it was done by Snyders.
In the background is a niche con-
tanning a bust of Seneca. .Perched
perilously near the edge of the niche
is an elliptical vase of roses and
tulips. The niche, Mr.. Bordley says,
and the vase Of tulips and roses are
characteristics Of Snyders and oc-
cur so frequently in his known
paintings as to amount almost to a
signature.
Another point that makes Mr.
Bordley suspicious of skullduggery
Is that Snyders-who was an active
painter for more than so years and
is known as the principal painter
Of the COURTS known to have
created only about 200 paintings
Rubens, however, has been cata-
logued as having produced more
than 5000. Rubens was so busy
making money, acting as an agent
and doing diplomatic chores that ii
seems hardly probable, Mr.. Bordley
says, that he could have produced
so great an output.
Mr.. Bordley points out that Van
Dyck, who seems to have become q
sort Of junior partner in the Rubens
art factory, once stated that "Sny-
ders was the best collaboration
Rubens ever had"
Beginning his detective work at
the close Of the first World War, Mr.
Bordley, self-styled frustrated
artist, has continued ever since his
search for clues to the 3-century- ole
mystery.
Interviewed by telephone, a spokes-
man at the Metropolitan Museum OF
Art stated that she had heard OF
Mr.. Bordley's theory.
Helen Prick, founder of the Frick
Art Reference Library, declares in
a letter which Mr.. Bordley quotes
that he is tQ be congratulated or
being The one to "solve this intricate
problem"
But DR.. Jan Albert Goris, Belgian
scholar and writer on art, in a re-
cent article-also quoted by Mr.
Bordley-declared that Mr.. Bordley
"a quiet man by nature, is bent on
starting one of the most terrible
rows the restricted world OF art
critics has ever known"
Paul Bird, an author, editor and
lecturer on art, says that Mr.. Bord-
ley's detective work is great contri-
buttons in restoring Snyders to the
position he should hold in the art
world.
A man with a purpose, If there
ever was one, Mr.. Bordley Is undis-
mayed by the prospect of kicking ur
a Shakespeare-Bacon controversy In
the world of art. He is trying to get
a foundation started which will
bring Snyders into his own-3O(
years too late though it may be.
Evening star., 1946-07-16
Jesse Ward Erb Dies at "a;
Solved Many Crimes
BY the Assoeiofed Press

RICHMOND, Va, July 16.-Jesse
Ward Erb, "a, private detective who
solved the Dale mystery in Colorado
concerning the killing of six persons,
and captured the perpetrators Of
daring bank holdup at Colorado
Springs in 1910, died yesterday at
his home here.
Mr.. Erb, native of Marshall,
Mich, started his career as an
operator for the Pinkerton Agency
at Denver in the early 1900's, and
when Pinkerton opened an Office in
Richmond, Mr.. Erb came here as
superintendent. He held the latter
position four years and retired in
1922 to enter the construction
business.
In 1929, Mr.. Erb was made super
intendent of the local Office of the
William j. Burns Detective Agency
and later was transferred to the
agency's Philadelphia office where
he remained eight years. He then
returned to Richmond and opened
his own agency.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs.
Elise G. Erb; sister, Mrs. Bonnie
E. Garrett, Los Angeles; three nieces
and two nephews.
Evening star., 1946-07-16
Truman, Byrnes Favor
u. 5. Role in World Court
BY the Associated Press


Undersecretary of State Acheson
testified yesterday that President
Truman and Secretary of State
Byrnes favor active participation by
the United States in the World Court
established by the United Nations.
Mr.. Acheson testified before a
Senate Foreign Relations Subcom-
mittee that the President and the
Secretary of State have carefully
weighed the proposal and have
recommended that the United States
should deposit its declaration and
accept the jurisdiction of the court"
Similar testimony came from
Charles Fahy, legal adviser for the
State Department, and DR.. Philip c.
Jessup, professor of international
law at Columbia University.
Mr.. Acheson said this country al
ready had agreed to settlement of its
political disputes by the U. N. Secur-
ity Council, and now should take the
next step by allowing similar de-
termination of international judicial
questions in which it may be in
volved.
Senator Austin, Republican, of
Vermont who will serve as the
United States representative on the
Security Council, remarked that the
World Court is similar to the Su-
preme Court of the United States
In that both lack sheriff" to
enforce their decisions.
Evening star., 1946-07-16

Washington school now no longer
in existence, later graduating from
Georgetown University. He entered
the employ of the William Corcoran
Hill Co. as a clerk and retired about
four years ago as vice president.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs.
Mary Slack Nicholson; two sons,
Leonard L. Nicholson III, and Will
liam Slack Nicholson, and a daugh-
ter, Mrs. Juliet B. Stabler.
Mr.. Nicholson was member of
the Chevy Chase, University, Con-
gressional and Aztec Clubs and of
the Rockville Chamber of Commerce
and Rockville Pike Citizens Associa-
ton.
Funeral services will be held at
1890 am. Thursday at Christ Epis-
copal Church, Rockville, conducted
by the Rev. G. Freeland Peter,
lifelong friend of Mr.. Nicholson, and
the Rev. Raymond Black, pastor of
the church. Burial will follow in
Rockville Union Cemetery.
Honorary pallbearers are John
Lewis Smith, Leslie c. Garnett,
Thomas Anderson, Charles M. Jones,
Robert B. Hagner and John L. Shea