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Evening star., 1946-12-22
Japanese Talking
OF Plea to Allies
For Earthquake Aid
By the Associated Press

TOKYO, Sunday, Dec. a.
japanese began talking today
of appealing for Allied assist
ance for the mounting list of
earthquake victims-just as
they did after the great 1928
tragedy in Yokohama and
Tokyo. .....
The newspaper Mainichi,
carrying Tokyo's only editorial
today on the quake, said there
was a prevalent belief Allied
assistance might be necessary
to tide over the nation in this
new disaster-which it termed
"a test Providence has given
the japanese people"
All newspapers voiced a pre-
vailing fear that widespread
crop and industrial losses
might follow the quake and
tidal wave, darkening the food
and production picture for all
of Japan.
Evening star., 1946-12-22
Fu|I-ScaIe War Races
In Cities and Towns
OF North |ndo-China
Street Fighting Reaches
Peak Of Intensity in
Hanoi Native Quorter
BY the Associated Press

PARIS, Dec. 21.-Full scale
guerrilla warfare ragged today in
major cities and towns of North
ern Indo-C China as French troops
battled the Vietnamese in bloody
street fighting that reached its
greatest intensity in the flaming
native quarter of Hanoi.
The once quiet tree-shaded ave-
nues of Hanoi, capital of the Anna
mite republic of Wet Nam, were
cut by barricades and trenches.
Many houses in the Wet Namese
section were burning. Rifle firing
and the clatter of patrolling French
armor and planes were continuous.
A dispatch from Hanoi said mill
tary casualties from the ranks of
the French troops and the guerrillas
totaled about 80 killed and 80
wounded as Of Friday night.
Warns of Permanent War.
In Paris, Wet Nam spokesman,
M. Maio, told the newspaper France
Soir, eff the hostilities continue,
lIlQO-Cnlnd is lOSC.
I'VE will destroy everything and
we will die" he continued fiercely.
There will be permanent state of
war"
If Wet Nam did not get satisfac-
tion from a first-hand government
investigation of the situation, he
declared, an appeal will be taken to
the United Nations and, meanwhile,
the Vietnamese will fight.
1--WE have not enough men nor
enough arms" he said, "but we
will wage a war of destruction, OF
sabotage to make life impossible
for the conquerors. It's very simple.
1t will be just like that. A perma-
nent war, battle every day, from
generation to generation"
He declared that estimates of 30
600 armed Vietamese were exag-
gerated and said that the March
agreement recognizing the Wet Nam
republic allowed the Vietamese TO-
600 effectives and the French 49,
600 regular soldiers.
Street Battles Continue.
A French communique tonight
describing the situation IL hours
earlier gave picture of continuing
street battles and widespread fight
ing after two nights and days of
terror in which several cases of the
murder and kidnapping of Euro
peans were reported in Hanoi dis
patches.
The communique from Saigon
said Vietnamese snipers were still
firing from housetops in Hanoi and
that their forces, aided by native
"Tu-Ye" militiamen, still held the
post office building. Earlier the
French regained a hospital.
The Vietnamese were hurting
violent attacks" against the French
forces at Bac Mini and at Phulang-
THTnN ~TyTNIa
Evening star., 1946-12-22
Britain Calls Envoy
From Madrid Before
Getting U. n. Notice
Franco Moy Withdrew Hi
Emissory, Too. in Reply
To London's Quick Snub
BY tho Associated Press

LONDON, Dec. 81. - Great
Britain recalled her ambassador
to Spain tonight in quick diplo-
matte snub Of Generalissimc
Francisco Franco.
The action came only six days
after the United Nations Genera
Assembly in New York adopted q
resolution calling on all member
nations to withdraw their diplomatic
missions from Spain.
The foreign Office, acting without
even formal notification of the Gen.
eral Assembly's recommendation
announced that Ambassador Sir
Victor Mallet had been instructed to
quit Madrid "at the earliest possible
moment"
Won't Wait for Notification.
A terse foreign office statement
said Great Britain, which had Bit
terly opposed proposals in the
United Nations for a complete dip
lomatic rupture, originally intended
to comply with the Assembly's rec
ommendation only after official no.
tice Of the resolution had been re-
ceived.
An official explanation of Ambas-
sador Mallet's recall at an earlier
date was that "since this notif1ca-
ton has been delayed somewhat
longer than had been anticipated. it
was decided to recall Sir Victor with
out awaiting it."
(The American Ambassador to
Spain, Norman Armour, returned
to the United States before the
United Nations Assembly's ac-
tion.)
Diplomatic circles, however, said
they believed Great Britain merely
was beating Spain to the punch in
a swift diplomatic "counter-move. "
It apparently had been reported in
London, although there was no Of
fetal announcement, that Gen
Franco planned to recall his Ambas-
|sador to Britain, Domingo de las
Barcenas.
The Spanish Embassy in London
Evening star., 1946-12-22
| BuHdozers Fell
| 500 Apple Trees
In Wrong Grove
BY the Assoeiofed lress

MARTINSBURG, w. Va, Dec. 81.
-Bulldozers went to work in the
wrong orchard today, and before
anybody realized the mistake, 500
bearing apple trees lay in ruins.
Ofiicials explained it this way:
American Fruit Growers Orchard
engaged contractor to clear Is
acres of old trees preparatory to re-
planting.
The two bulldozers sent by the
contractor got on the adjoining
property Of Smith Orchard Co. by
mistake and cleared is acres OF
good, live trees bearing annually
hundreds of bushels of Staymen,
Delicious and Golden Delicious
apples.
Evening star., 1946-12-22

GUS seas as. six successive tidal
waves rushed up from the quake
center and on into the Inland Sea,
spreading destruction on both shores
U. S. Personnel Safe.
American occupation forces seemed
to have come through unharmed
Pilots winging over burning Shingu
and Kushimoto, on hard-hit Waka-
yama, caught "all-safe" signals
from Americans on the ground.
The earth still rumbled for a
time after the great shock, Kyodo
reporting two smaller ones early to-
day on Shikoku and to the west on
Kyushu.
With some of the hardest-hit
areas still isolated, death or damage
were reported from points within
80 miles of Tokyo to the western
shores of Honshu and as far south
as Kyushu, southernmost home is
land.
American military authorities
started medical and relief supplies
moving by train and boat to the dis
aster area. Japanese Red Cross
teams accompanied American Off
GERS.
Col. Crawford Sans, chief of
Supreme Headquarters Public Health
and Welfare Section, said tank
landing ship, loaded with medical
supplies, left the inland seaport of
Kobe and Avail Island, between
the port and Shikoku in the center
of the tidal wave zone.
8 Carloads Leave Yokohama.
Eight carloads of medical supplies
left Yokohama for hard-hit cities
on the Wakayama Peninsula of
Central Honshu and for Shikoku.
Col. Sans said in addition, mill
tary government health officials
would distribute food and clothing
in Osaka and Wakayama from
stocks of former Japanese military
supplies held for reserve there.
Associated Press Correspondent
Frank L. White in Osaka said that
city escaped major damage. Osaka
(See QUAKE Pace AL
Evening star., 1946-12-22
Japan Counts ST Quake Dead;
New Areas Report Destruction;
One City Has 18 900 Homeless
U. S. Army Storts
Relief by RoiI
And Water
BY the Associated Press

TOKYO, Sunday, Dec. 22.-One
of the worlds worst earthquakes
trailing tidal waves and fire in its
wake across a 450-mile belt Of
southern Japan, killed nearly 600
japanese yesterday.
Scores of cities or towns lay in
ruins or under water today, hun
dreds OF fishing ships had vanished
or were tossed into streets, and
many thousands were left homeless
along 10000 square miles of Japan
Relief officials, speeding food and
medicine by boat, plane and rail to
zones cut off by shattered communi-
cation lines, termed it Japan's worst
natural disaster since the great
Tokyo quake of 1928.
The Japanese home ministry said
its official death list had reached
571. The United States Army's far
from m-complete score showed 422.
Three Points Hardest Hit.
The greatest havoc was wrought
at three points closest to the epicen-
ter of the quake, which let 60 before
dawn yesterday in the Pacific more
than 100 miles southwest of Osaka,
Japan's second largest city.
These were:
The southern tip of Wakayama
Peninsula, where at least three Cit
les were smashed, $4,000 were esti-
mated homeless in the single town
of Kainan, and 400 fishing boats
wre swallowed by the churning sea.
The eastern shore of adjacent
Shikoku Island. where the loss of
life was the heaviest and where
whole sections, as on Wakayama,
still were isolated except by boat.
And Avail Island, between the
two, caught in the path of thunder
Evening star., 1946-12-22
Elliott Roosevelt Sees Stain,
Reports He Is in Good Health
Prime Minister Looks Surprisingly Well
On 9th Birthday, Presidents Son Says
By Eddy Gilmore
Assoeioied essUorsien Correspondent

MOSCOW, Dec. 21.- Elliott
Roosevelt was granted a birth
day interview with Prime Minis
ter Stain tonight and reported
that the Russian leader ap-
peared in good health and fine
spirits.
Mr.. Roosevelt, who was accom-
panied at the interview in the
Kremlin by his wife, the former
Faye Emerson of the films, said
Mr.. Stain had just returned to
Moscow from vacation and looked
surprisingly well for man who
was observing his 9th birthday.
The late Presidents son said he
and his wife would leave Moscow
by plane early tomorrow for Paris,
then fly to Eirs and the United
Evening star., 1946-12-22
Winter Officially Here;
Forecast Is Fair, Warmer

Winter arrives officially today
but the Weather Bureau promised
that the day would be a relief from
the disagreeable weather of the
past few days.
Sunny skies and somewhat warm
er was the weatherman's prediction
The temperature is expected to be
in the midforties this afternoon.
With the arrival of the winter
solstice at 5:54 am, the periods
Of daylight will start getting longer
from now on.
Making long range forecast, the
Weather Bureau said it didn't look
as If it would snow on or before
Christmas Day. But anything might
happen, it added hopefully-and
carefully.
Evening star., 1946-12-22
Tip of Wokoyomo Prefecture,
HtbySix TiidoIWoves, Isolated
400 Fishing Vessels Reported Wiped Out;
Crippled Communications Hide Full Toll

Prefectural authorities rushed re-
lief to Kainan, which remained
under water today. Kainan was
lashed by six tidal waves and vir-
tually demolished.
Farther south, at least 40o>sJap-
anese fishing vessels were reported
destroyed.
This capital city, Wakayama, was
hit, but apparently far less severely
than points farther southwark along
the more exposed coast.
Wakayama residents are still
shaken. Some appear to be still ap-
prehensive. But the city itself is
functioning.
There was no confirmation Of jap
anese press reports yesterday that
the fishing village Of Kushimoto,
with a population OF 10000, was
swept away when the tidal waves
struck the extreme tip of Waka-
yama.
United States Army pilots, flying
over what may be two of the worst
damaged towns on the peninsula,
(See WAKAYAMA, Page A-5J
Evening star., 1946-12-22
Mexican Oil Group Fires
50 After Work Sfoppage
By The Associated Press

MEXICO CITY, Dec. 21-Pemex,
government oil monopoly, struck
from the payroll today about 50
labor leaders held responsible for
yesterdays one-day work stoppage
organized after labor delegates
walked out of long-pending wage
negotiations.
This was done by President Miguel
Alemans order, as was the use OF
troops which yesterday operated re-
fineries, delivered oil and continued
guarding all installations. No vio-
lence was reported and the display
of force was interpreted by labor
and employers as the Presidents
emphasis on his declared policy OF
protecting labor's rights" but his
insistence also that .the labor law
must be obeyed."
Evening star., 1946-12-22

States to be with his mother, Mrs
Eleanor Roosevelt, for Christmas
at Hyde Park, N. Y.
Mr.. Roosevelt did not reveal the
subject Of his interview with Mr.
FStalin-which, incidentally, was the
first interview granted by Mr.. Stain
to any foreign correspondent IN
many years.
He said he would write about II
in Look Magazine when he got
home, but he was emphatic in re-
porting how well Mr.. Stain looked
Mr.. Roosevelt appeared greatly
impressed after his meeting with
the Prime Minister. His wife, too
was impressed by the force of the
generalissimo's personality, she said
(See STALIN, -1age A-6J
Evening star., 1946-12-22
|TobeyChaI|enge
|PeriIs Senate
Organization
Refusal to Deal
With Committee
Moy Delay Work
BY the Assoeiofed Press

A tart refusal by Senator
Tobey, Republican, of New
Hampshire to deal with present
officials yesterday upset prelimi-
nary Republican plans to or
ganize the Senate and threat
ened to delay the new Congress
in starting work.
Senator Tobey wrote Chairman
White of the Senate Republican
Committee on Committees in vigor-
GUS language refusing to submit to
the existing committee his prefer
ences for working assignments in the
Republican controlled 80th Congress.
Senator Tobey, who is in line for the
Craftsmanship of the Banking Conn
mittee if he wants it, was said by
colleagues to have contended sharply
that the present party group has no
authority to make any decision on
new committee assignments. The
authority of Senator Whites COM
mittee expires with the end of the
10th Congress.
Efforts for Lineup Snarled.
Senator Tobey repeatedly said he
would make his choices known only
when the entire membership of the
new Senate, including those elected
for the first time this year, meets in
conference December 80.
Because each Senator must con-
fine his activities to two major COM
mittees under the congressional re-
organization law, Senator Tobey's
refusal to state his preference has
snarled attempts of COP leaders to
agree in advance of December 80 on
a tentative lineup.
The Senators said they cannot
make up even a preliminary list to
recommend to the conference until
the New Hampshire Senator, who
is tied for fifth among his COP
colleagues in seniority of Senate
service, makes his preferences
known. Failure to complete this
preliminary work may delay organ
ization of the Senate two weeks be.
yon6 the January opening, they
said, and hold up action at least
that long on any legislative matters.
White Agrees With Tobey.
White told reporter he agrees
/ with Senator Tobey that no final
decisions can be made except by
i the whole group Of Republican
members of the new Senate.
i But If we don't get some kind
of lineup made" Senator White
said, "it may take two weeks ol
more after the Senate meets to ar.
range the complicated schedule Of
committee memberships. Weu JUS
have to go ahead ana do the besi
We can. Well lay what recommen-
dations we can before the confer
ence and let it decide what it wants
to do"
| This new contribution to the
woes of the congressional majority
came as evidences of bitterness de-
veloped among COP House mem-
bers in the battle there over the
party's floor leadership.
Evening star., 1946-12-22
Bar Report Says Arm,
Courts Discriminate
AGAINST Enlisted Men
System Seen as Excellent
In Theory, Breaking
Down in Practice
ey n. A,.oeia,ed Pres,

An American Bar Association
committee reported last night
that the charge of discrimination
in Army courts-martial as be-
tween officers and GIs was true
in some cases and seriously i'm
paired" morale.
The committee, appointed by Sec
retary of War Patterson, also found
that sentences originally imposed
were frequently excessive and some
times fantastically So"
To overcome these and five other
criticisms Of the court-martial sys-
tenn which the committee held "well
founded" it recommended that:
/. Qualified enlisted men" be
permitted to sit on courts trying
GIs. and enlisted men be "encour-
aged to attend" The Doolittle
board similarly recommended that
sergeants should sit on courts-mar-
tial.
Curb on Commanders Urged.
2. The law members of each court
and the defense counsel be member.
of the Judge Advocate Generals De.
partment and be appointed by it in.
stead of by the commander who or
ders the trial, as at present. Th'
commander would continue to name
the trial judge advocate.
3. 1t be made unlawful for com.
manders or others to try to influ'
ence the action of an appointing o.
reviewing authority in connection
with courts-martial, or to reprimanc
court or its members.
4. The Judge Advocate General'
department be enlarged, and trained
lawyers be provided for court MARTA
duty. The committee noted tina
(See COURT MARTIAL, Page A-6.l
Evening star., 1946-12-22
HaIIeck Is Believed
Sure Of Election as
House Floor Leader
Leaders Seek to Present
Harmonious Program
To.Coueus January z
By Gould Lincoln

Efforts will be made by re-
sponsible Republican leaders
this week to arrange a harmoni-
Gus program for approval of the
Republican caucus of the new
House which will meet January
2-the day before the 80th Con-
gress assemblies.
This action will include, among
other things, settlement of the
majority leadership and resolu-
ton which will accept the rules OF
the 10Th Congress, as amended by
the Reorganization Act. The act
becomes effective January 2, carry
ing with 1t increased congreSsiona,
pay. Notwithstanding threats o.
dire trouble, the leaders are predict.
ing the Republicans viii come t.
amicable agreement on all subjects
The consensus last night was tina
Representative Halleck, of Indiana
present chairman of the Republican
Congressional Committee, has tn
5v6to6 b be elected ma joEity leader
Even Republicans who are not en-
thusiastic about the selection OF MI
Halieck admitted as much.
jenkins, Brown in Race.
It remains to be seen whether
other asprants for the majority
leadership 60 through with q f1gh1
iii the caucus.
Representative jenkins of Ohio
insisted his name would go before
the caucus and Representative
Brown also of Ohio, a member Of
the House Rules Committee ano
Republican campaign director fol-
the recent elections, who has said
he is available" for the leadership
post, is conferring over the week
end with his supporters.
Friends have threatened that Mr.
Brown would go to the mat IN a
bitter fight for the job. Others have
cautioned that such a course might
merely bring about distressing
intra- party conflict at time when
Republican harmony appears neces-
sary.
A resolution providing for the
adoption of the House rules as
amended by the Reorganization Act
which drastically reduces the num-
Der of the standing committees OF
the HGdse and Senate, already has
been prepared. It supports al
changes provided in the Reorganiza-
ton Act, including unificatim OF the
Military Affairs and Naval Affairs
Committees, which Representative
Cole of New York, ranking Republi-
can on the present Naval Affairs
Committee, has announced he vii
fight.
indications are, however, that the
majority of the Republicans intene
to stick by the Reorganization Act
Rules Group Expected.
The resolution proposing adop-
ton of the House rules deviates In
one particular from the Reorgani-
zation Act. It would give members
Of the House Rules Committee the
right of serving on one other com.
mittee-a legislative committee
Under the reorganization, member:
are limited to one committee, ex.
cept in the case of the District
Committee, the Committee or
House Administration, and the
Committee on Un-American Activi'
ties.
The reason advanced for adding
1Coo HOIISE Page A.4o
Evening star., 1946-12-22
Winner Disqualified,
Argentine Racing
Crowd Burns Stand
BY the Assoeiated Press

BUENOS AIRES, Dec. Ala
track employe was shot in the
arm, a policeman suffered a
broken leg and so other persons
received minor injuries today
when a crowd rioted at the San
Isidro race track after the dis
qualification of a favorite horse
which placed first in a race.
The crowd burned fences and
part of the grandstand and
threw bottles at the judges
stand before police restored
order by firing pistols in the air.
Evening star., 1946-12-22

Radio Proerums. Poge c-S
Complete Index. Page Az
Evening star., 1946-12-22

(See BILBO, Page A-4)
Evening star., 1946-12-22

(See SPAIN, Page A-6.)
Evening star., 1946-12-22

tSee QUAKE, Page Asa
Evening star., 1946-12-22

(See INDO-CHINA, Page AID
Evening star., 1946-12-22

(See TALMADGE, Page A-7)
Evening star., 1946-07-05

way to the bottom of his cast. Will
liam Bendix, for one, gives a neat
Interpretation to the character OF
a nit-Wit, murderous private de-
tective. Kurt Kreuger again proves
his skill in menace role, and Cathy
Downs gives a nice imitation of a
girl a gigolo and a vain art dealer
would shoot for.
There are moments when THE
Dark Corner" threatens to come
apart at its fashionable seams, but
it never does.
X ~
An Appropriate Independence Day
overture by Sam Jack Kaufman's S
orchestra opens the Capitol's stage
show which is high lighted by the
silky, satiric dancing of Harrison and
Fisher. The bills vocal interlude is
nicely in the hands of pretty Dale
Belmont, and Bobby Gilbert, a wan
dering comedian, takes good care
of his assignment. There is even a
good acrobatic act in Gene Ford's
composition the work OF Harold
Barnes.
Evening star., 1946-07-05
Married JAMIE at the Earle
By Harry Macarthur

This being the accepted season for
that sort of thing, it should come as
no surprise that jamie Gets Mar
ried," the Earle's new film, is def
nitely one of the light weights. 1t
is one of those films which depends
for its comedy on your acceptance of
the contention that otherwise nor
NAL people act with complete IRA
tionality when they get married.
jamie Gets Married" does have it's
moments of humor, to be sure, most
of them tending toward the wacky.
But it also has its moments when
you get the definite feeling that
those people on the screen certainly
are going out of their way in vain
attempt to be funny.
The most painful sequences of the
farce perhaps are those wherein
Scriptwriter Agnes Christine john
son and Director Vincent Sherman
have fallen prey to not unusual
Hollywood belief that fast move
ment and noise are acceptable sub
stitutes for wit. For those to whom
the theater's cooling system Is half
the attraction anyhow. jamie Gets
Married" of course, will prove quite
acceptable as entertainment: 1t at
least will not drive you out of the
place into the heat of the day.
The films major concern is one
of those brand-new marriages beset
by those routine misunderstanding
that are more likely to show up in a
movie script than anywhere else.
jamie is one of those girls who never
seem able to explain anything. She
has a great, and apparently some
one thought hilarious, difflculty
about the drapes, both mother and
mother having sent a set for
the new living room. Dick, the
young husband. Is another nonex-
palmer. He is no end miffed when
he returns home at am. with an
old war buddy (WAC) and finds his
irate wife awaiting, he not having
bothered to explain what they were
up to when he and the WAC de-
parted after breakfast.
These and sundry other difficult
ties are Strengthened out, of course
The WAC finally makes a speech
about how Dick got to be a platoon
sergeant overseas without any help
from the brass and he doesn't need
any help now, leading those inter-
ested to sigh with relief that jamie
and Dick will not have their mar
riage wrecked by well-meaning as
sistance from their families.
X x
The brightest spots of jamie Gets
Married" are those occupied by the
late Robert Benchley, who has
achieved something of a high point
even for him in a premarital lecture
to the young man of the picture
After working the lad into a frenzy
with talk of the vagaries of women,
Mr.. Benchley smoothes the whole
thing over with the advice: Don t
worry You'll get along fine in mar
riaee if you just think of it as being
locked up in box car with mad
horse"
Filmgoers who remember back be-
yond the Van Johnson era will be
interested to discover Ann Harding
on hand here. playing, of all things,
mother of grown-up daughter.
Joan Leslie is the young bride and