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Evening star., 1946-07-23
Larger Loayes Seen
Returning as Crop
Outlook Briehtens
By Moleolm Lomborne, Jr.

A return to Standard-size loaveS
Of bread was possibility today as
the Agriculture Department reported
prospects of all-time highs in out
put of corn and wheat this year.
But department spokesman said
the Nation would need to have an
other 100,000,000 bushels of wheat
in prospect before the Government
could safely lift all restriction on
domestic consumption of grains
This includes limitations on use of
grain for beverage alcohol and the
30 per cent flour extraction rate.
On a long-range basis, the bumper
corn crop gives definite promise of
better quality meat for consumers
next year.
Doubt Need for Ceilings.
Some sources also speculated on
whether the big supply of corn will
necessitate any return to price CELL
ingS on this grain. Hog producers
and feeders soon will be facing the
problem of an abundance of corn,
If present crop prospects continue,
it was pointed out.
One department source observed
that "the size of the corn crop would
tend to prevent any runaway
prices"
The department spokesman said
the distilling rate for whisky manu-
facturers might be raised for few
days, but he doubted there would
be any major change in the present
restrictions.
| Figures released by the depart
ment yesterday show an improve
ment over a two-Week period of
about 146,000,000 bushels of corn
and 100000 bushels of wheat.
Based on July Is prospects. this
years corn crop will be 3,487 .976. 900
bushels. The former record was s.
228 100000 bushels in 1914.
The wheat crop is expected to
reach a similar high of 1872 .075 900
bushels as against last years high
of 1928 900.
The Government soon will have to
decide whether to resume buying of
grain Ior famine relief. Several
months ago the department an
nounced plans for purchase of at
least 25 per cent of this years wheat
crop for overseas needs.
With the end of OPA on June 80,
all buying of meat and wheat for
foreign relief was halted. This ac-
ton was taken to ease the pressure
on commodities at time when there
were no ceilings. and because the
department did not know whether
foreign governments would be able or
willing to pay higher prices.
A decision is expected with the
final outcome of price control.
Yesterdays special crop bulletin
said conditions have ranged from
favorable to ideal" both for winter
wheat and spring wheat.
AT the same time. conditions
were near the optimum for develop
ment of corn, particularly in the
corn belt States" the report stated.
The Millers' National Federation
said in statement today that it
hoped the Government may con-
slder easing controls which are now
hamperlng the flour milling indus
try
The federation said information
received from millers throughout the
country points TO the greatest wheat
crop IN history and corroborates yes
lerday's department report.
Evening star., 1946-07-23
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PUPPY-Black, short-haired no identi-
hcation. Found in 1900 block Conn. ave.
Mon. afternoon, Call CO. 04S3
WRIST WATCH, Ladys Yellow Gold 9th
and Kennedy, Sunday, July 7th; engraved
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Wire and Franklin. e315 Wire 1T, SH
Evening star., 1946-07-23

would be set up to manage the
center.
Some provision also was made
for "afiliating hospitals who
wished TO keep their own sites, and
did not participate" in the new
center.
Taxes Enter Argument.
During more than three hours of
hot debate, House members raised
questions as to the size of the Fed
eral payment toward the District
the measure of District taxes and
assessments and possibilities of
adoption Of a sales tax. Numer-
Gus members emphasized the spe-
cial responsibility Congress has
toward the National Capital. be
cause it is the seat OF the Federal
Government.
Representative Dirksen. Republi-
can, of Illinois. who once was op-
posed to the Senate version of the
bill but was converted into a stanch
advocate Of Federal aid for hospital
improvements here after months of
detailed study of the issue, carried
the brumt of the fight.
He won approval of one change
that severely jolted the District
Commissioners. who are deeply
worried over the state of District
finances. This was 10 place on the
District government responsibility
fer repayment to the Federal Gov
ernment of substantial portion of
the grant.
Cites Insanitary Buildings.
Mr.. Dirksen drew vivid picture
OF conditions in the worn-out. in
sanitary buildings that still have 10
be used by the private hospitals. He
said he realized the District was
'broke-stone broke but that ne
felt in return for the Federal ao-
vance. the District government
should make contribution.
Acting Chairman Healy of the
House District Committee, conduct
ing the fight for passage, was given
stanch support by Representative
Randolph of West Virginia, Bloom
of New York, Rabaut of Michigan.
all Democrats. and O'Hara of Min
nesota, Bolton of Ohio. Rogers of
Massachusetts and Gavin of Penn
sylvania. Republicans.
Thu et,
measure, or trim its Federal aid, was
led by Mr.. Abernethy. Teaming up
with him were Representatives
Bates, Republican, of Massachusetts,
who, like Mr.. Abernethy, is a mem
Der of the District Committee: Cam
non, Democrat, of Missouri and Mr..
Tabor. the chairman and ranking
minority member of the House Ap-
preparations Committee.
Evening star., 1946-07-23
Polish Court Dooms Nine

WARSAW, July % Delayed tPl.
"A Polish military court at Bialy-
stok sentenced nine men to death
and ID others TO from 6 to Is years
imprisonment today for terroristic
activities.
Evening star., 1946-07-23

Federal aid to Georgetown anG
George Washington University Hos
pitfalls. Mr.. Drayton said others were
in urgent need of. such assistance
to diVest themselves of the "obso-
ete, bug ridden fire traps in which
they are operating.
DR.. Herbert P. Ramsey. chairman
of the Metropolitan Health Coun-
Gil. said he was sorry the amend
ment is on it"
DR.. Ramsey added ne thought it
probable the next session of Con-
gress would consider dropping the
Abernethy prohibition if it should
be included in the legislation as
finally approved at this session.
d. c. Spared Total Cost.
Champions of the bill beat off at
tempts to either kill the measure
entirely or saddle all its cost on the
District. They finally succeeded
only in limiting the scope to the
center itself.
First action came Yesterday when
the House approved by a standing
vote of So to 36 motion by Repre-
sentative Abernethy, Democrat, of
Mississippi to refuse any aid to hos
pitfalls outside the center. An at
Tempt by Representative Taber. Re-
publican. of New York to saddle all
the met cost" of the center on the
District for 20 years at 21z per cent
interest was defeated by standing
vote of SO to As. Mr.. Abernethy
failed by standing vote of 80 to
66 to kill the bill entirely by striking
the enacting clause and he also
failed by a voice vote to reduce the
s35 100000 authorized to S175OO. 900.
AS the bill goes back to the Sen
ate, it provides for the F'WA 10
construct hospital center for the
participating hospitals, to be paid
for Jointly by the Federal and Dis
trict governments and participating
nonproft institutions
10 Per Cent Federal Grant.
The institutions are to turn over
10 the FWA their entire physical
plants or sell them and turn over
the proceeds. The center is esti-
mated to cost somewhere between
sl5,0000OO and s17,500.000. If it
costs $15.000,0O0, and the hospital
plants were to produce $4,000, 900, the
remaining S10.0O0.00O would be
divided 30 per cent from the District
government, and 10 per cent from
Federal grant.
The Senate bill, passed Is months
ago, provided for full Federal ad-
vance for construction. without
participation by the District gov
ernment. But the private hospitals
were to repay one-third of the ad-
vance within so years with interest
at 2 per cent year on the unpaid
balance. A hospital corporation
Evening star., 1946-07-23

The legs of graSshoppers and
crlckets are equipped with spurs
which enable the insect to obtain a
firm grip on the ground or on the
vegetation from which it leaps.
Evening star., 1946-07-23
|S4,285,OOO Outlay
To Improve Roads in
Montgomery Urged

A proposed $4,285, 900 road i'm
provement program affecting $40
miles of unimproved roads in the
rural area Of Montgomery County
was presented TO the county Com
missioners today by a six-man COM
mittee representing the County
Farm Bureau Board of Directors.
The Commissioners took the mat
ter under adyisement.
James D. King, Farm Bureau
president, who headed the commit
Tee, recommended that the work be
done within the next five years
Other members of the committee
are County Agricultural Agent o. w.
Anderson, w. w. Hodges, w. C. Han
son, Charles H. Davis and Kenneth
Windham.
The committee urged the appoint
ment of an advisory group to work
with the county Commissioners in
carrying out the program.
Revenue Sources Suggested.
Although declaring that the
proper" means of financing the
proposed program is the responsible
ity of the county Commissioners, the
committee suggested the following
possible sources of revenue:
/. An additional 1-cent gasoline
tax in the county to be collected by
the State and refunded to the
county for road purposes only.
2. Reassessment of the properties
whose values would be increased by
the improvement of abutting roads
3. A franchise" or gross revenue
tax, to be charged against public
utilities, such as telephone, electric
light and gas companies.
4. Revenue obtained from amuse-
ment or recreational activities in the
county.
S. An increase in the State income
tax, with the proceeds to be divided
between roads and schools.
6. An increase in the rate of taxa
ton on real and personal property
to be used for road purposes only.
Restrictions Proposed.
The committee also recommended
that public funds not be used in OBJ
tanning land needed for widening
the roads and that only roads prof.
ects on which the necessary land
for the rights of way is provided by
the sbutting property owners be
graded and improved.
/ The specific roads included in the
program were shown in a detailed
map submitted by the committee
but not Immediately released by the
commissioners.
Evening star., 1946-07-23
House Roll Call on HOSPITAL

Federal aid in development OF a
modern hospital center here was
voted by the House late yesterday by
q substantial majority. Supporting
a modified version of the Senate
passed bill were SO Democrats. So Re
publicans and l Progressive for a
total of 162. Voting against it were
36 Democrats and 10 Republicans,
for a total of 106.
Tha roll oaIl.
Evening star., 1946-07-23
Former Utility Official Dies

NEW YORK, July % P.-Frank
W. Smith, 10, president until his
retirement in 1887 of the Consoli-
dated Edison Co of New York, Inc.
died yesterday at his home after q
long illness.
Evening star., 1946-07-23

ANGEL OF LUZON PRISONERS GIVEN WATCH-Mrs. Mar
garet UrnSky Dooin of St Louis Mo- who stayed
Manila after the occupation Lithuanian
and helped American of sending
them food given gold yesterday
by four chief petty officers who prisoners
Mrs Utrnsky left Manila and joined the guerla
learned her husband civil engineer had killed
guards. The cleft to right: o. Await
A. L. Mcneil CiWT G. L. Hoggard O. Meggns,
Photo.
Evening star., 1946-12-28
Dixie Tighe' sCondition
In Tokyo Hospital Poor
BY the Assoeiofed Press

TOKYO, Dec. 28.-Dixie Tighe
internationally known correspond
ent for the New York Post who was
stricken by brain hemorrhage yes
terday, remained in a coma tonight
and the Army's 49th General Hos
pital said her condition was poor.
Ever since Miss Tighe was taken
from the Tokyo Foreign Core
spondents' Club yesterday, complain
ing of cold and slight pain in her
head, club members have main
tanned a constant vigil at the hos
pital They divided their time SC
at least one is there day and night
Dixie Tighe is a member OF we'll
known newspaper family, a native
Washingtonian, who spent her early
life in the Capital here.
Her mother, Mrs. Josephine Tighe
williams, of 1909 Irving street, NV
who was anxiously awaiting further
word today from Tokyo, said Miss
Tighe in her last letter recently
said she was recovering from re-
cent attack of infantile paralysis
and had gone back to work. The
attack, however, she said, had af-
fected one finger, and left her with
slight limp"
A graduate of Holy Cross Academy
here, Miss Tighe began her news
paper career on the old Washington
Herald in the 20's. She married
C. C. r. Thompson, of the London
Express in 1884. and they made
their home in Connecticut.
Evening star., 1946-12-28
Mercury Climbs TO 66;
May Drop 10 20s Tonight

The temperature climbed to 6S
degrees at noon today, but the
Weather Bureau stuck to its forecast
of cold tonight with temperatures
in the mid-20s.
The temperature may reach 10
this afternoon, the forecaster said.
The record for this date is p, set
in 1874.
A new cold wave which has hit
sections of the Midwest was said to
be moving eastward, but the fore
caster says the cold air is moderated
as it comes.
Heavy falls of snow, strong winds
and freezing rain were reported over
a wide section of the country. High
way travel in many parts of the
North Central and New England
States and in New York and Penn
sylvania was slowed by drifting snow
and freezing rain.
The snow and rain area extended
from Montana and wyoming to the
Atlantic Coast.
Evening star., 1946-12-28
U. 5. Freighfer Is Reported
Sjnkjnu Off South Norway
By the Associofed Press

OSLO, Dec. 2S:-The 7,176-ton
United States freighter, Am-Mer-
Mar, two big holes torn in her hull
by submerged rock, was reported
sinking slowly today off the south
ern tip of Norway after the rescue
of the crew of 38.
The radio station at Farsund in
Southern Norway said the vessels
radio operator had reported her go
ing down off Ryvingen lighthouse
near Mandal, some 80 miles east OF
Farsund. The crew, with the op-
orator and captain the last to leave
early today, was taken aboard the
Norwegian rescue vessel Anton
Poulsson without mishap.
The Am-Mer- Mar, owned by the
Mississippi Shipping Co.. Inc, OF
New Orleans, sailed from there De-
cember 10, the Coast Guard in New
York said last night, for Larvik,
Norway, up the Skagerrak from
Mandal. The Coast Guard said its
Marshfield, Mass, radio station had
picked up an SOS at 4:06 pm. that
the freighter had hit submerged
object. It had no information on
her cargo.
Evening star., 1946-12-28

John J. McCloy, former Assist
ant Secretary of War, has been
offered the presidency OF the
World Bank.
If Mr.. McCloy declines the high
banking post, it will be offered to
Daniel w. Bell, former Undersec-
retary of the Treasury and now
president of the American Security
and Trust Co. here.
The World Bank post recently be-
came vacant when Eugene Meyer
resigned because of, age and fatigue.
The bank directors sought to in
duce a leading Canadian banker to
take the job, but he refused. 1t Is
reliably reported that the Canadian
government was behind this refusal.
Also, it is understood, the Canadian
government views the post as hot
potato" and advised against &C
ceptance.
Allan Sproul, head Of the Federal
Reserve Bank of New York, was
then offered the 0,000-a-year tax
Evening star., 1946-12-28
Bari in Second Day
OF Strike for Food;
Is Wounded in Riot
Province Police Ordered
To Use Arms Defensively,
Interior Ministry Says
BY the Associoted Pre..s

ROME, Dec. 28.-The big
southeastern port town of Bari,
with d population of 100000, this
morning went into the second
day of a general strike against
food shortages that yesterday
brought bloody battling between
ugly y-tempered crowds and po-
lice.
One university student was dead
and Is other people wounded, in
cluding six police, at the end of the
first day of the strike, which arose
out of the refusal or inability of
local authorities to grant popular
demands for relief from hunger and
soaring prices, according to dis
patches to the Rome press.
The Interior Ministry said pro-
vincial police were constrained to
use their firearms defenSively"
against armed demonstrators.
Immediate repercussions were felt
in Italy's precariously balanced po-
litical structure. The parties of the
left lined up behind the striking
workers, while centrist or rightist
newspapers, minimizing the role OF
carabinieri who fired on the crowd
with machineguns, grumbled about
mob rule.
Socialists Suspend Session.
The Bari Socialist Party conven-
ton, in session as preliminary to
a Socialist national congress in
Rome next month, suspended its
work in protest.
Leftist newspapers openly accused
Bari authorities of "unjustifled" use
of arms on the mob. They maln-
tanned that the Bari Chamber OF
Evening star., 1946-12-28
Air Transport Crash
Adds 10 Troubles Of
WA Management
Fund-Roising Proposal
Goes to Stockholders
As Rift Is Revealed I
By w. H. Shippen. Jr.
Axintion Editor of The Sfor

The crash of an overseas trans
port in Ireland today added to a
series of recent troubles of
Trans World Airline. It's man
agement, headed by Jack Frye,
is reported to be in serious dis
agreement with Howard Hughes,
the principal stockholder.
The American Aviation Daily
which is published here, said lone
source from within the management
who is qualified to speak, said that
Hughes has requested the resigna-
ton of all officers and directors.
Stockholders were meeting in
Wilmington, Del, this afternoon
after a session of the board OF di-
rectors in Washington yesterday to
discuss the company's efforts to
raise funds, a company spokesman
said.
While details of the fatal accident
to a high-speed Constellation trans
port were received here, Mr.. Hughes
who owns more than 40 per cent OF
TWAS common stock through the
Hughes Tool Co. of Texas, was IN
Kansas City and unable to say
what his plans were, according to
Associated Press reports.
The stockholders meeting was
called to act on a proposal to in
crease the authorized common stock
from 100000 to 100000 shares
Mr.. Hughes is reported to be op-
posed to the proposal. He holds
around 435,000 common shares, but
is not a member of the Board of Di-
rectors.
The crash in Ireland is another
of series of difficulties capped by
the recent six-Week strike of pilots
which grounded TWAS overseas as
we'll as domestic traffic.
Since that time the airline has
been reported to be seeking new
financing of the Reconstruction
Finance Corp. and group of New
York bankers. An RFC spokesman
said a loan had been discussed but
no formal application had beer
filed. 1t was believed in the in
dustry the company as yet has not
worked out terms for the proposed
loan from private sources,
The strike of pilots followed tht
! temporary grounding of Constella'
tions while improvements were made
in their fre-control systems. Tht
improvements were ordered by ths
Civil Aeronautics Administration
after the cash of a Constellation
manned by a TWA training crew
near Reading, Pa, last summer.
All grounded Consultations wert
thoroughly reworked before they
were returned to service, and in mos
(See TWA, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1946-12-28
Trainer on Way
To End Ponthers'
Rail Car Reiqn
BY the Associated Press

Ell PASO, Tex, Dec. 28-A Dallas
animal trainer was en- route to Ell
Paso by plane early today to aid
Texas g. Pacific Railroad officials
and local police in ending the exclu-
sive use by three pauthers of a rail-
way express car.
The panthers, being shipped from
Dallas to Camarillo, Calf, chewed
their way out of cage in the car
yesterday as the train neared Big
Spring, Tex. Since H. Cooper, bag
gageman, found they were loose,
they have prowled the railroad car
alone and behind locked doors.
Noble Han.iter of Dallas, shipper
and trainer of the panthers, was
called. Word that he was en- route
here came last night as police, aided
by veteran lion tanner, Raymond
Hathaway, Of FL Raso, were COM
pleting preparations to enter the
express car with gas and riot guns.
The group decided to await the
trainers arrival and ordered the car
snunted to a siding for the night.
Evening star., 1946-12-28
SteoIthy Hoircutter Strikes
4th, 5th Times in D. C.. Area

The rowing patrol of plainclothes-
men was sent out following a third
reported incident, where a girls
tresses were maliciously cut. All OF
the incidents occurred Thursday on
streetcars in the Northwest area, but
the third case did not come to light
uatil last night.
The three victims were to be
called to police headquarters today,
where their hair was to be examined
to determine the nature of the in
strument used to cut it.
The hair shippers third victim
was Miss Jeanne Thompson, 10, of
1914 Mount Pleasant street NV,
who lost several thick strands. The
Thompson case apparently was
sandwiched in between the snip
ping of the braids Of Diane Sklarsky,
IL, of 1920 s street NV. and Miss
(See HAIR, Page A-4)
Evening star., 1946-12-28
II Dead in Crash on Peak
To Be Removed Today

SAN DIEGO, Calf, Dec. % R.-
Coroner's aides and Marine Corps
rescue party hoped today to bring
down from a barren, winter-lashed
peak the bodies of II Christmas eve
air disaster victims.
Near the smashed, charred wreck
age of the Western Air Lines trans
port, which was found yesterday, the
nine passengers and three crew
members lay dead with packages ir-
tended for Christmas strewn around
them.
The wreckage was scattered over a
wide area on a Laguna Mountains
peak, so miles east of here, only a
short distance from where an Ameri-
can Air Lines plane crashed with a
loss of % lives last March 3.
It's discovery confirmed Christmas
(See AIRLINERS, Page A-40
Evening star., 1946-12-28

Dominion boulevard, Alexandria,
flight engineer.
Robert A. Osterberg, "a, Beverly
Park Gardens, Alexandria, navi-
gator.
Alan Charles Lanyon, AZ, of Pine
crest, Va, returning from Europe
after years assignment from State
Department on foreign economic
analysis.
The following other Washington
area residents who apparently es-
capped were:
Capt. Herbert Tansey, "a, Of SO
Holmes Run road, Falls Church, the
pilot.
Clifford Sparrow, Is, Of 433s
Chesapeake street NV, co-pilot.
Dudley Hill, "a. of Presidential
Gardens, Alexandria, special crew
member and radio man.
Mr.. Burmeister had roomed at the
(See GREW, Page A-3J
Evening star., 1946-12-28
Clark Orders Probe
OF Butter Price Break
Under Trust Laws
Move Follows Agriculture
Department Investigation
Of Rigging Charges

A Justice Department official
disclosed today that Attorney
General Clark has directed his
aides to determine if there have
been any violations of the anti
trust laws as a result of the price
break in the New York butter
market on Thursday.
This development came as the
price of butter here dropped today
as much as 10 cents pound follow
ing the break in wholesale butter
prices in New York and other cities.
The Agriculture Department al
ready has begun an investigation
of the break which has drawn
charges from consumer groups that
the butter market was bolstered
artificially by traders seeking to
prevent a decline in producer milk
prices for January.
At the Justice Department. an
official said Mr. Clark had acted on
a request from the Consumers Coun-
Gil of New York. Mr. Clark has in
structed the department antitrust
division, headed by Wendell Berge,
to look into the butter market in
cooperation with United States
Attorney John F. x. McGhoey of
New York.
Egg Prices Also Down.
Egg prices also decreased today in
some local food stores by 10 cents
dozen. Some chain stores were SELL
ing butter from 80 to SO cents a
pound, and top grade eggs, which
had been selling for rs cents dozen,
were being advertised at IS cents.
However, there was no indication
that milk or other dairy products
would go down.
The drop in butter prices was at
tributed in part to the 10-cent price
break in butter prices on the New
York market. Other factors, how
ever, were cited by Department of
Labor economists for the drop in
butter as well as egg prices.
Consumer resistance to high
(See PRICES, Page A-4.)