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money to other potato growers
at the guaranteed figure-ane
asked them to store the crop just ir
case the price went back up.
1t didn't. And it is from the
loan-stored potatoes that heavy
losses are anticipated.
For lack of better facilities, many
million bushels were left in fields
simply covered with straw or other
material, which left them vulner-
able to winter freezes.
Surplus Distributed.
Secretary of Agriculture Ander
son reported recently that about
l 600, 900 bushels of the surplus had
been distributed free to public in
stitutions and school lunch pro-
grams and that an additional 2,000,-
600 bushels have been diverted to
starch mills at cut-rate prices.
He said 20,000,000 bushels were
sold to distillers of beverage spirits
and 100000 to industrial alcohol
distillers for use in making syn
thetic rubber, antifreeze and SINH
lar products.
About 525, 900 bushels were sold for
export to famine areas abroad
Efforts were made to send larger
quantities to those areas, but their
perishability and relatively high
transportation costs discouraged this
course.
Latest reports show that several
million bushels have been sold at
low prices for livestock feed.
Losses Estimated.
Officials say that best current
estimates are that possibly 20, ,000, 900
bushels will go to waste because the
Government is unable to find any
practical outlet for them. These
potatoes are largely in temporary
storage in the Northeastern section
of the country.
Commenting on the situation
recently, Secretary Anderson said
reports will soon begin to appear,
telling how potatoes are rotting IN
fields or going to waste in other
places" He added:
This is an unpleasant situation
but it is a stark reality we must
face"
Mr.. Anderson said the total cost
of the 1s46 potato support program
is expected to be $100,000,000. OF
this amount, the department will
recover, he said, about $4,000, 900
from those sold to distillers, starch
plants, livestock feeders and foreign
buyers.
Evening star., 1946-12-31
Railway Competition Threatens
Domestic Merchant Marine
By NewboId Moves. Jr.

cost problem to contend with. But,
say the shippers, they get around
it by distributing this cost burden
unequally through their rate struc-
lures, charging more to haul freight
inland, where there is no waterborn
competition, than they charge for
hauls Of similar length in which
they are competing with ships.
Thus the maritime interests
charge the railways are meeting their
increased costs at the expense OF
inland customers, in order to force
the shipping companies out Of busi-
ness. With the aid of the Maritime
Commission, they are trying to per-
suade the Interstate Commerce
Commission to make the railroads
stop this discriminatory" rate fix
ing.
/, The railroads deny they have any
intention of forcing the shippers out
OF business. They say their reluc-
tance to increase long-haul rates
stems chiefly from a desire to pre-
serve competitive relationships be-
tween producing areas and major
markets in the United States. This
means, for example, they are afraid
that if rates go up, they may lose
the business of an orange grower in
California who can no longer COM
pete in the New York market with
an orange grower in Florida.
1t is true that, during the last
month, certain decisions inrate dis
putes with the railways have raised
the hopes of the shippers. At pres
ent, the situation is in a state of
f1ux, as they try to assess the practi-
cal effect of these favorable develop
ments.
Gain in Ships Forecast.
1t is optimistically estimated in
some shipping circles, therefore, that
the number of ships being operated
domestically by private concerns
may soon increase from Is to per-
haps as many as 40.
But to those who remember nos
talgically the prewar days, when we
Evening star., 1946-12-31
Coast Storm Kills 2 in Hospital,
Wrecks Christmas Decorations

treatergoers scattering as it fouled
a trolley wire and showered sparks
across an intersection. A 50-foot
lighted Christmas tree blew down in
Laguna Beach.
Felled power lines darkened the
movie colony of Malibu for an hour,
citrus and other fruit growers said
they feared some damage from scar
ring as the winds whipped trees
wildly.
The blow was expected to diminish
in intensity during today, with a
sunny, mild New Year Day predicted
for Pasadenas Tournament of Roses
and Rose Bowl football game. Sew
eral floats for the tourney were
slightly damaged when portion Of
the main tent blew in.
Evening star., 1946-12-31
Third OF a Series.)

The American merchant marine
these days is feeling pretty much
like draftee who comes home to
find that his job is gone.
Most of our preWar cargo fleet
was composed of ships engaged in
trade along our coasts These were
taken from their owners and i'm
pressed into war service abroad
1t had to be done And this made
quate merchant fleet, as much as
anything else, tided us through the
first desperate months after Pearl
Harbor.
The blackest cloud on the United
States generally dark postwar ship
ping horizon Is the fact that the
traditionally strong factor in our
maritime strength, the domestic
feet, is more seriously and imme-
diately threatened than any other
portion of the American merchant
marine.
Competition at Home, Too.
When foreign competition returns
to world trade routes, forcing the
withdrawal of hundreds of Ameri-
can vessels now engaged in profit
able overseas service, it might nor
mally be expected this unemployed
shipping could be absorbed in our
coastal trade. Instead, the long
voyage home for these American
ships almost certainly will turn out
to be a trip to the scrap heap or to
idle service in a reserve fleet,
where an attempt will be made to
keep them as insurance against a
possible future national emergency
For under present conditions they
will retreat homeWard before the
onslaught of foreign maritime CON-
petition only to find themselves
faced here with equally deadly COM
petition.
Foreign ships will not worry
American shippers in their home
waters. Under the principle OF
"cabotage,' foreign vessels are legal
ly prohibited from carrying goods
or passengers between American
ports. But at home, the shipper is
up against the railroad.
How thoroughly he is up against
it becomes clear when one considers
what is happening along our coasts
today.
Drops Sharply From $50.
Let us, for the moment, leave out
of our calculations ships carrying
coal and oil, which fall into special
categories. Excepting those cate
gories, where $50 ships piled a profit
able business for private concerns
eight years ago, exactly Is privately
owned ships are at work today.
Ninety other ships, operated In
the national interest by the Mari
time Commission, are costing the
taxpayer ST 100000 a month.
There are also about 40 colliers
and more than $50 oil tankers in
private domestic operation-about
the same number in these excep-
tional categories as before the war
Their position is competitively safe.
Clearly, however, the above figures
indicate a desperate situation for
our other domestic shipping inter-
ests. They mean, simply, that If
the Government were not willing to
spend $1,000,0O0 a month to MAIN
tain one, we would have, at present,
no domestic merchant marine.
The shippers claim they are being
driven out by the railroads, because
the railroads are charging lower
rates for competing hauls than the
shippers, with their swollen oper-
ating costs, can meet.
The railroads also have a siZable
Evening star., 1946-12-31
NewYear
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and prosperous 1947 will be offered
and drunk. Night clubs, hotels and
restaurants are prepared to handle
the biggest crowds in their histories.
"A strictly nonalcoholic greeting
will be extended the New Year by
400 members of Alcoholics Arony-
nous and their friends attending a
supper dance at the Walsh Center,
1923 Twenty-second street NV.
Stimulants will be limited to coffee,
soft drinks and music.
Those planning an evening out but
delaying to make arrangements until
the last minute are likely to be dis
appointed, as hotel after hotel re-
ported all reservations taken. Most
private clubs said their reservation
lists had been closed days ago.
The Congressional Country Club
will hold its first New Year eve din
ner-dance since 1941. The club was
used as an OSS training center
during the war. It's reservation list
of ITO was closed a week ago.
Both the Army and Navy County
Club in Arlington and the Army
Navy Club, Farragut Square and I
street NV, will hold dinner dances.
The law prohibits bar service after
p am, but most places said they
intended to stay open for dancing
until am. Liquor stores can sell
bottled goods until midnight but
most of them plan to close anywhere
from one to three hours before that.
Just to give the boys a chance
to celebrate a little themselves" as
one dealer put it.
Varying Prices.
| Prices run from a $1.50 minimum
cover charge to $12 plate for din
ner, with drinks extra. Champagne,
where it can be had, will cost from
$3.50 to SIG bottle depending on
the brand and whether it's foreign
or domestic. Drinks made with
Scotch, rye or bourbon will cost
from SO cents up-mostly up.
| For taxicab drivers, New Years
eve is the big night of the year and
companies said they expected nearly
all of the 8,846 cabs to be on the
streets.
Most of them will do more busi-
ness in that one night than in two
ordinary shifts" company official
said.
| All the large downtown moving
picture theaters and many neigh
borhood theaters are planning mid
night shows.
Parties for Servicemen.
Four clubs are planning celebra-
tions for servicemen. They include
! q dance at the Penthouse USO Club,
Evening star., 1946-12-31
New Faces 4
in Congress @5l!lI| 5

Baltimore's new Representative is
Hugh A. Meade, Democrat, who will
represent the End Maryland district.
He succeeds H. STREET. Baldwin,
Democrat.
Mr.. Meade Is 80. He served in
the Navy during the recent war, and
has praeticed law in Baltimore for
more than IL years.
He is a graduate of Loyola College
and Maryland Law School, He
started his career as secretary to
Gov. Albert Ritchie. He was elected
to the State Legislature in 1884. In
1886, Mr.. Meade was appointed su-
pervisor of assessments of Baltimore.
Attorney General william C.
Walsh in 1888 named Mr.. Meade
assistant attorney general assign
ing him to legislative work. In this
capacity, he gained valuable expert
ence in preparing bills. Except for
the time he was away in the Navy,
Mr.. Meade served in the attorney
generals Office until 1916.
The new member is married and
the father of six children.
Evening star., 1946-12-31

Seventeenth and X streets NV: q
party and dance at the United Ma
tions Service Center, 500 North
Capitol street; costume ball for
Negro servicemen at the Banneker
Service Center, $500 Georgia avenue
NV, and formal dance at Fort
Belvoir, Va, sponsored by the Wom-
ems Battalion No. l of Recreation
Services, Inc.
Andrews Field will celebrate with
USO show at pm, followed by a
dance in the service club. A formal
buffet supper and party to which
Government girls have been invited
will begin at pm at Boiling Field
Police injected a somber note into
all the plans for revelry by warning
that those convicted of driving while
drunk on New Years eve would be
prosecuted to the hilt, and would
face loss of their drivers permits.
Traffic Director George E. Ke-
neipp said he did not want" to
hang crepe on celebrations, but
every precaution must be taken to
discourage motorists from driving
after drinking"
Records show" he said, that a
drivers chance of being in an acci-
dent are SIS times greater when he
is under the influence of liquor. If
you drink, don't drive"
Extra Police to Watch.
Fifty extra traffic policemen will
be on duty to check drinking places
to see that those under the influence
of liquor do not drive their auto
mobiles, Police Traffic Inspector
Arthur E. Miller said.
They also will have orders to
pick up drunken pedestrians to pre-
vent them from being hit by cars, u
he said.
Traffic signals throughout the city
will remain in operation all night
as a safety measure, police said.
Not all plans were for revelry
Numerous church services are
planned for tonight. Some churches
had parties scheduled to precede the
year-end services.
The Ellen Spencer Mussey Tent
No. of the Daughters of the Union
Veterans of the Civil War will hold
reception from to 7 pm. New
Years Day at their headquarters.
2015 Massachusetts, avenue NV.
Two YMCA units will hold open
house New Years Day. An eight
hour program starting at 2:30 pm
will be held at the Central Branch,
1876 G street NV, including a
sports exhibition, a tea dance ano
concert. The Boys Branch, 1882
G street NV, will hold reception
for parents at pm.
New York City night clubs were
charging without liquor-from S.
to $40 per person for New Year
eve parties and had all the takers
they could handle, the Associated
Press reported today.
The New York police department
assigned 1884 men to handle the
tens of thousands of revelers ex-
pected in Times Square.
Evening star., 1946-12-31

were served at home by an made
quate. privately owned cargo fleet
OF six or seven times 40, it all seems
like pretty small potatoes.
Next February %, the Maritime
Commission is scheduled to go out
of the shipping business. When
that happens, the period of crisis
will be at hand for our domestic
merchant marine. Unless something
is done in the meantime to alter the
present situation radically, it seems
entirely possible that America, after
that date, will have ample oppor-
tunity to find out how well 1t can
get along without a domestic mer-
chant fleet.
1t may be we shall discover we
can get along very well without one.
But what worries our military and
naval planners, remembering past
emergencies, is another question:
How long can we get along with
out one?
> Turkey is fostering a new chem
ical industry to produce nitrates
caustic soda and copper sulfate.
Evening star., 1946-12-31
IL. S.-British Move
To Establish Joint
Air Force Reported
BY the Associated Press

LONDON, Dec. 31.-The Daily
Mail and Daily Telegraph said In
Washington dispatches today
that the United States and Great
Britain had taken definite steps
toward creation of "an Anglo
American air force"
The Mail, discussing what it called
the phase of the recently reported
and still not completely denied
officially - British and American
agreement for Standardization OF
armaments, said draft plans fol
Joint training" of RAF and Ameri-
can presumably Army Air Force
personnel were submitted yesterday
to Gen. Carl A. Spaatz, United
States Army Air Force head, for
signature"
The Mails dispatch, written by
James Brough, its correspondent ir
Washington, said the, schooling
would be standardized, that joint
experiments would be carried out
in such fields as supersonic flight
and that British flyers would be
taught the technique, at least, OF
atomic bombing.
Flyer Exchange Agreed.
"The first step in this long-term
plan is the exchange of British ano
American flyers, already agreed to
in principle by the United States.
said Mr.. Brough. "An Anglo
American air force . is a logical
conclusion"
There was no immediate official
comment either here or in WASH
ington, but the Nails dispatch was
published just after an official denial
was issued concerning a report pub
lished in the French press to the
effect that the United States and
Great Britain would sign pact
next March for mutual assistance in
defense.
A Foreign Office spokesman, COM
menting on the French press report,
said there had been no developments
along this line since November g,
when Prime Minister Attlee denied
in the House of Commons the ex-
istence of any reported military
agreement between the United
States and Britain.
The original report published here
by the Communist Daily Worker
concerning such an agreement ad-
mittedly was based on an Associated
Press London dispatch october 80,
which quoted authoritative British
military informants" as saying the
two countries had agreed to stand
ardiZe weapons on American sizes
and patterns.
No Official Announcement.
War Office comment on the As
Sociated Press dispatch was limited
to a declaration that there had been
no official announcement of any
arms Standardization plans.
Mr.. Attlee's statement was made
in foreign policy debate during an
attack by Labor Party rebels. who
contended that Britain and the
United States were "ganging up
against Russia.
Mr.. Brough's story declared that
'the exchange (of flying personnel
for training purposes) goes further
than any previously announced de-
tails for interlocking the two coun-
tries armed forces.
1T means that besides arms and
equipment, training and manpower
will be standardized.
The pooling of all details of
aeronautical research" Mr.. Brough
continued. may be subsequent de-
velopment.
Evening star., 1946-12-31
|ndo-Chinese Open
Attacks on French
In Coast Garrison
By the Askoeioted Press

PARIS, Dec. 31.-A French
General Staff communique from
Indo-China announced toda!
that Viet-Nam Nationalist force.
had cut off the coastal town Of
Hue, midway between Haiphons
and Saigon, and had launched 6
series of heavy attacks against
the French garrison.
At the same time Wet Nam artil-
lery was reported to have resumed
the shelling of Hanoi, doing con.
siderable damage to buildings neal
the governor generals palace but
causing no casualties. The French
said their artillery had returned the
fire and that their Spitfire planes
had machinegunned and bombed
Wet Nam positions with good effect
French troops, meanwhile, were
said to be edging out along the
road to Hadong, six miles South
west of Hanoi, where President He
Chi Mini of the Wet Nam republic
was believed to have established his
headquarters. Artillery and planes
supported this operation.
Quick Conclusion Doubted.
Dispatches from Saigon quoted
Gen. Leclerc, commander of French
forces in Indo-China, as expressing
doubt that the fighting with the
Wet Namese would be brought to
any quick conclusion. Gen. Leclero
said the French, with the aid of re-
Inducements now en- route, would
be able to re-establish order, but
added that II do not think the situ-
alton will be settled in a few days
Admiral George Thierry d'Argen-
lieu, French high commissioner for
Indo-China, arrived in Hanoi from
Saigon yesterday and visited ad-
vance French posts in an armored
car. He also visited the Lanessan
Hospital, scene of sharp fighting last
week, and bestowed several decora-
tions among the wounded.
Later, the French Press Agency
reported, he delivered a radio ad-
dress in which he said that I'VE can
new appreciate in full measure the
crimes for which the Viet-Nam gov
ernment must assume full RESPONSE
bility before the civilized world
THE French people will know
how to punish those responsible, he
added.
LIE Clerc's Identity Revealed.
1t was revealed yesterday that
Gen. LIE Clerc's real name is Count
Philippe de Hauteclocque.
The count adopted the name
lie Clerc" when he commanded a
French Army unit in Africa so that
the Germans would not persecute
his wife and six children, then living
in German n-occupied France. A
neWspaperman added the first name
of Jacques"
1t is not generally known; even
among the French, that the man
recalled to Indo- China is Count de
Hauteclocque.
AS capt. LIE Clerc' and, later, as
"Col. LIE Clerc" he became well
known. 1t was as Gen. LIE Clerc"
that he led the I'd Armored Division
of the French Army from Normandy
to Paris.
The general has adopted his fight
ing name even for official purposes
and, although he is listed in French
Who's Who as Count Philippe LIE
Clerc de Hauteclocque," French
newspapers still refer to him simply
as Gen LIE Clerc," his usual sigma
ture now.
Evening star., 1946-12-31
By the Associated Press

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 31-Gales as
high as 64 miles an hour, raking most
of Southern California in a surprise
year-end freak of weather, left two
men dead today, at least five others
injured, and tangled wreckage OF
trees and Christmas ornaments in
many cities.
Two inmates of a hospital near
San Bernardino were crushed to
death beneath tree.
For a time San Bernardino's busi-
ness district was closed to traffic
because of breaking glass and flying
ornaments which had been strung
above the streets. In Hollywood, a
mammoth Christmas bell blew down
on Hollywood boulevard. sending late
Evening star., 1946-12-31
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preventing a strike, FWA spokes.
men told The Star that the agency
"believed in collective bargaining
and did not want to do anything
that would coerce either the unior
or GSI."
FWA officials said the Labor De-
partment's Cancellation service was
the only Government agency that
could handle the dispute and that
it should continue its efforts to ef-
feet a settlement.
Seems Hopeless" Officials Say.
Although not abandoning last
minute efforts to secure an agree
ment, conciliation officials said to-
day that the outlook seems hope
less"
Leaders OF the United Cafeteria
and Restaurant Workers, Local All
argued that FWA has jurisdiction in
the dispute, since the Public Build
ing Administration, which is under
FWA, supervises the activities OF
GSI. GSI signed the contract with
PBA to furnish food service to all
Federal buildings with the excep-
ton of the Pentagon and Agricul-
ture Department Buildings Cafe
terias in the latter two buildings are
operated by the National Food
Corp. under terms of contract
with PBA.
FWA and PBA officials haven't
committed themselves on the unions
proposals but are expected to an
nounce their decision on the request
today.
Union Still Holding Out.
Meanwhile, the union and tht
National Food Corp, after an alL
night meeting, were reported a!
nearly reaching an agreement or
their contract. The company
offered 1Ok -cents-an-hour raise
with the union holding out fol
II cents, union officials said. Com
pany negotiators told the union they
would confer today with the firm:
| top officials to see if the union!
wage demand could be met. Ir
any event, it appeared likely thai
the final details of the contract
would be Strengthened out today
Union officials privately conceded
that they would accept the 10H
cents offer IF necessary"
MFG also agreed to Is days sicl
and IS days annual leave for it!
employees, as well as a hospital1za'
ton fund. GSI employees have Il
days annual leave benefits, but M
sick leave provisions, the union said
MFG also agreed to maternity leave
provisions.
Demands Modified.
Meanwhile, The Star learned the
union has reduced it's 20-cents an
hour wage demand to IS cents ano
also has modified it's sick leave ano
welfare fund demands in the GS]
negotiations. GSI, however, has
stuck to it's 6-cents-an hour wage
boost offer.
More than 1000 union members
packed the Shiloh Baptist Church
Ninth and P streets NV, for e
meeting last night and again reject
ed GSIs Scent offer. Oliver j
Palmer, union business agent, tole
them the union did not want tt
strike, but we are forced to fignt
for the right to maintain decent
living standard"
Evening star., 1946-12-31

Mrs. KettIer. .ysis OF the blooe
may disclose whether the amount OF
whisky consumed by the strawberry
blond divorce had anything to dc
with her death, it was said.
The coroner's finding eliminated
earlier suspicion by police that Mrs
Kettler may have been victim OF
foul play. Her companions at the
studio drinking party, Announcer
John H. Brown and Taxicab Driver
Frank Ealey, were released after
questioning, police said.
Evening star., 1946-12-31

N L l ~ y NCSoANA
35, who died OF
n a t u raj causes
after a drinking
party at Radio
Station WWDC
early yesterday.
Corone A.
Magruder Mac
Donald certified
the death of the
former W ON a n
Marine was nat
ural and added
that she had a
"h e art condi-
ton" The anal
Evening star., 1946-12-31
Tests Made 10 Decide
Cause Of Woman's
Radio Station Death

Chemical tests were being made
today in District Government labo-
ratories to determine the alcoholic
content of the blood of Mrs. Eliza
Evening star., 1946-12-31
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