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Evening star., 1946-07-15
MOVING, PACKING and STORAGE
Cont

LIGHT MOVING JoBs-Wnl make de-
liveries OF any kind night work a specially;
reasonable rates. MI 50b5. 20s
MOVING and general hauling; contract
and Job trash removal. Services and prices
that satisfy. ia 1892 -21
Reas. rates: Will accept your surplus furni-
ture as part payment on your moving.
Evening star., 1946-07-15
POULTRY & EGGS.
DOGS, PETS, ETC.

SHELLED YELLOW CORN for sale; 1oo-lb
bags; will deliver ST. S3,1 --la
Evening star., 1946-07-15
ROOM WITH BOARD WANTED.

DAY CARE for two children. ages months
and years: also room and board for
employed mother WO. 3772 l5'
YOUNG WOMAN wants room and boa rd
for SELF and five-year daughter with day
care for child. ". section preferred Cal
AFTER 10 m AID SG0R
Evening star., 1946-07-15

SELF SERVICE groceries and meats Week
" business $4,000 cash guaranteed. No
credit no delivery. Price 100000. good
will and fixtures; stock extra. Only Sl2,
600 down.
Groceries and meats: rent, $40 business.
$3.50 weekly: price 5000. complete with
stock nice, clean store for enterpris-
Ing businessman. Call KOGOD d BOOK
OFF. 63l st. NV. National 1880 or
National 03.4 Ia
Evening star., 1946-07-15

RETURNING VETERANS and other en-
ployes OF Capital Transit Co. urEertlv need
family housing II you have a house or
apartment for rent. phone MI. 6363. Ext.
g. weeEdaNS
MARINE CAPT wife, I6-mo odd son need
uniurn. house. apt by Aus ] Arlineton.
near Navy annex pref CHI 6I54 H.
REFINED. MIDDIE-AGFn COIPIF, with
Evening star., 1946-07-15

FANS-Immediate delivery; brand-new,
sHNARo RE ap RAfFhRY 3Fh ss15 co S
and Il sts. ne. Open Friday and Saturday
r,,ii m II 2as2 ,oa,t IL 80 tor ia ,ons.
nnd eeonf Tea1 i0f aom
ior. n, lmmediate n, ds: 81 So (. ] HE1SE.
KAMP re-: llth st M M s'4s 81
for stores, ofhces; reasonable; don't miss;
sun. co. 46:5; week. d. 1872. lll2
FiLE-G-shelf. steel Kardex nle in perfect
condition. Price $50 cash. Trinidad J l'57.
FILING CABINETS. legal, letter sizes steel.
fiffSc YEN dAb1NhTs tsh STEEL p "a s Liter
and legal sizes. brand-new; lmmediate de- de.
FOOT FOO Loo LockERs s. Army. ARM used. $3.50 each;
size 33xl7xl sturdy well built all Woo,
each: Of 1928. Come to GRpvER MFo.
Md Op.n daily and Sunday.
EREEZEE .1I CAsINETsmle and 90 cubic
FRENCH H Doors. Va Sartous us u sizes. lars.
ACE WREcKING 4 BUILDING MATERIAL
co, 4002 Minnesota ave. ne. at Bennins
FUR COATS-Hundreds of new 1947 styled
garments at summer prices; S25 cash al
lowance for your worn cloth. or fur coat.
BASKIN FURS. cor. Sth and G NV. re-
pairing and restyling MA 5522
FUR JACKET, platinum fox. breatht akingly
beautiful: new condition: worn only four
times: size lol4, hip-length. Original
cost 1,s00: Will sacrifice for 1895. Call
Decatur 1898 15'
FURNACE. pipeless. good condition: size
for ; to rms being replaced BY air
FURNACES-Mueller Wr-12, forced AIR.
cast iron, coal with blowers and motors;
S15. Phone WI 1898 -l5
TRNITURE-Davenport $3.50; barrel
cheir, S39 80: Gov. Winthrop writing desk
500 SO; Duncan Phyfe coffee table. ST. 80:
? lamp tables. S27.5O: end table. S1b All
items only 10 mos. old. Call MI. 5000,
FURNITURE-saveu up to 5oes on all new
furniture; Specials, on sofa beds, studio
couches, bedroom, living room and dinette
suites: See us before buying. Easy terms.
The GROWN CO, s2?-s29 18th st. NV.
Stickley solid cherry drop
leaf table with oval BANQUET end. 52-in
wide also ! open-deck buffet to match.
Call OR 072o. -15
Evening star., 1946-07-15

AMERA FANS. color prints from koda-
lromeS and color film t0c up; axl0,
}15 PHOTO LAB, INC. 1925 GeorSia
Evening star., 1946-10-30

Choir Slip Covers for button
back, wing, club, English T-lounee
styles es------------------6.8
Evening star., 1946-12-27
Rains and Traffic Kill
. More in California
BY the Assoeioted Press

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 27.-Rains
which at times reached torrential
proportions abated today, leaving
one dead from drowning and eight
more killed in traffic-additions to
the 42 highway fatalities in South
ern Californias blackest Christmas
eve and Christmas.
The two-day rainfall was approx
mately 3 inches in most valley COM
munities, although it approached S
inches in the Pasadena area. Sea-
sonal marks are more than double
normal.
The rains sent slides roaring
across highways, caved in excava-
tions, turned gulleys into torrents
and in some instances weakened
bridges and approaches. Searchers
watched without result for the body
of Roy L. Parcher, AT, who was
swept into flood channel when he
lost his footing while trying to push
a stalled automobile.
The unprecedented number of
traffic deaths caused announcement
of campaigns against drunken driv-
ing by city, county and State au-
thorities, who hope to prevent a
repetition during the New Year
period.
Said Municipal Traffic Judge Leo
Freund, in blunt warning: stop
drinking or stop driving. You can't
do both"
Evening star., 1946-12-27

President Truman, back at his desk
at the White House after spending
Christmas in Missouri, resumed
work today on the important state
of the Union message, incorporating
Legislative recommendations that
will go to the new Congress jan
uary 6.
Major interest is centered on the
treatment the President will give
the labor issue, but Mr.. Truman
was non -committal on the whole
subject of the message when he
landed at National Airport early
last night He told reporters only
that he would reach his decisions
on the various points to be covered
in the next few days.
The labor question has been under
consideration for the last couple OF
weeks by Clark M. Clifford, special
counsel, who has been assembling
the data on which the ultimate
presidential proposals will be based
Evening star., 1946-12-27
Trip to Polynesia on BoIso Raft
Will Test Equipment for Army

Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian eth
nologist and zoologist, will test the
water-resistant characteristics OF
food and water containers and
clothing for the War Department
during his forthcoming 4,000-mile
sea trip by raft to Polynesia.
The 32-year-old scientist is con-
WINGED that pre-Inca inhabitants OF
Peru between 400 and 500 AID. were
the first to reach and colonize the
Polynesian Islands. Most scientists
contend that Polynesia was settled
by tribes moving eastward from the
Asian mainland.
To fill in some blanks in his thesis
Mr.. Heyerdahl plans to leave lilo
Peru, with five companions in Feb
ruary on a balsa wood raft measur-
ing about Is by 25 feet. The trip is
private project, but the War De-
partment is supplying rations fol
140 days, containers for $50 gallons
o. water and quantity of special
clothing.
Items of new design are among
those being furnished Mr.. Heyerdahl
Evening star., 1946-12-27
Ground Parties Approach
Scene Of AirpIane Crash
BY the Associatsd Press

SAN DIEGO, Calf, Dec. 27.-
Sheriff Bert Strand ordered out
ground parties at dawn today on
a two-way approach to rugged
|Cuyapaipe Peak, where a Western
Air. Lines plane missing since
Christmas eve with IL aboard may
have been wrecked.
One crew planned to approach
the 6,375-foot peak from the west
and the other from the eat through
Cuyapaipe Indian Reservation. The
Weather Bureau predicted clearing
skies.
The peak is about IS air miles
east of here.
The sheriff said both ground
parties would head for what We
think is a wreck"
His deputies reported sighting,
through field glasses, pieces of shiny
metal in what appeared to be a
burned out area on the east slope
Of the peak. One of them said he
could see red paint on what seemed
to be aluminium shining in the sun
as the clouds parted briefly.
Not long after the deputies, who
had reached a point two miles east
of the peak by automobile, made
this report the weather closed in
again, necessitating a halt in the
search.
The plane, on triangular route
from Los Angeles to Ell Centre to
San Diego with nine passengers
and three crew members, was last
heard from by radio at 7:l8 pm,
Tuesday.
Evening star., 1946-12-27

a War Department spokesman said
yesterday.
The raft will be built in Ecuador
with the assistance of natives who
still use the crude craft. It will con-
sist of two layers of balsa wood and
deck of plated bamboo. There will
be paddles and small square sail
rugged between two masts.
A shelter against the sun will be
mounted on the raft, and about
five tons of equipment will be car
ried, including high-frequency radio
sending and receiving sets, and two
rubber life RATS.
Most transmiSsions will be on the
10-meter band, and arrangements
are being made through the Bureau
of Standards to enlist the aid OF
radio amateurs in reporting recep-
tion of the signals, Mr.. Heyerdahl
said.
Navigation instruments will be
used for daily checks on position
and later for preparation of a de-
tailed chart.
Prevailing currents are expected
to provide most Of the motive power
Evening star., 1946-12-27
|Court-MortioI Reform Report
|IsPurtiaI Solution, Veterans Say

Reform of the Army court-martial
system is needed to increase respect
| for civil as we'll as military authority,
and to safeguard individual rights,
veterans spokesmen said today.
They praised the American Bar
Association Committee report which
earlier this week cited some
discrimination between officers and
men in courts martial, excessive SEN
tences, inadequate investigation and
trial work and too much power Tor
field commanders.
Is Officials of veterans organizations
t in general, however, believed the
committee Should have recon-
mended still further changes in the
military justice administration.
Methods used by commanding
officers to "hand pick" and often
instruct" courts were especially
criticized by John T. Taylor, Ameri-
can Legion national legislative
officer. ~.
Changes Fall Short.
The Legion and other veterans
organiZa tons discussed the pfOplem
at conventions this year Mr.. Tay-
lor recalled this situation was
talked about in much the same way
after the first World War" I'M
proyements were made at that time
but experience in the recent war re-
vealed many shortcomings IN the
system, he said.
He added that personal observa-
ton and complaints by former serv-
icemen convinced him that one Of
the most serious troubles is "the
problem OF defense counsel" He
told of many cases in which in
competent defense counsel were ap-
pointed or "book lawyers without
previous courtroom experience were
designated to defend men charged
sometimes with offenses carrying
possible death penalties.
Evening star., 1946-12-27
Shanghai Air Disaster
Death Toll Rises 10 II
By the Asseciutsd Pres.

SHANGHAI, Dec. 27-The death
toll in Shanghais Christmas night
triple plane disaster reached II
today with the death of three more
passengers.
Among the II injured survivors is
Capt. Ralph Brand Preus, Mime
apolis, pilot of one of the airliners
that crashed rear fogbound Shang-
hal after eXhausting its gasoline
Capt. PreuS suffered severe head
and face injuries and fractured
leg, but doctors gave him a good
chance to live.
The government set up a board
to investigate the crashes. The
inquiry centered about Shanghai's
Only commercial airfield, Lunghwa
which has no marker beacons and
uses 15-year-old communications
equipment.
The companies that owned the
planes-the Chinese National Avia-
lion Corp. and the Central Air
Transport Corp-announced they
would pay 100000 Chinese dollars
$500 at official exchange rate) to
dependents of each victim.
A 4-year-old Chinese boy, Wong
Dee-dee, probably was the only per-
son aboard any of the three planes
to escape uninjurred. He was found
sleeping yesterday in the wreckage
of Capt. Preus' plane. He said he
couldn't get out, was cold, shouted
for hours for help, and finally fell
asleep.
1t was presumed his parents were
killed in the crash.
A fourth plane earlier reported
missing and feared to have crashed
made a safe landing at another
airfeld.
Evening star., 1946-12-27

william A. Roberts, Washington
attorney who served In court
tial proceedings as a colonel during
the war and row heads the Policy
! Committee of the American Vet
erans of World War II, urged that
| the constructive job" done by the
bar association group be followed by
prompt congressional action.
| "We are convinced that specific
legislation is needed to make the
changes" he declared. "It will not
be done by the brass in the Army
Civilian Board Suggested.
Respect for authority is at low
ebb today and could be bolstered in
civil and military matters by max
ing the system of military justice
"fairer and more democratic" he
said.
Mr.. Roberts suggested that
civilian board of military justice be
formed with a staff of lawyers and
investigators. It would not be "anti-
Army" he explained, but would be
independent of military control and
could review or appeal cases Screen
ed" by veterans organizations and
others.
cat long last CT Joe is getting a
break" Omar B. Ketchum. Veter-
ans of Foreign Wars legislative d.
rector, said.
Mr.. Ketchum predicted that a
special VIEW committee appointed
last month to study military justice
not only will support main proposals
of the bar committee but will make
some further suggestions OF its own
The American Veterans Commit
tee, a spokesman said, agrees in
general with the Bar Association
committees proposals but believes
the report did not 60 far enough in
making courts-martial independent
49, E,ll oy aroo cnryor1 nd
Evening star., 1946-12-27
Soviet Party Orders
.Large-ScaIe Shift Of
Industrial Managers
By Eddy Gilmore
kssocioied Press Foreign Correspondent

MOSCOW, Dec. 27.-The Com.
munist Party's Central Commit
tee, in a decision made public
today, criticized the personnel
policies now being followed In
Soviet ministries and economic
organs and ordered a redistribu-
ton of managerial and technical
personnel.
Under the decision large num-
bers of specialists now working in
the central regions of Russia will
be transferred to enterprises in the
Urals, Siberia and other eastern
areas of the country.
Orders Specialists Shifted.
This was the latest in a series of
postwar measures designed to i'm
prove and redirect the work of the
administrative apparatus in Soviet
industry-a RECOMMENDATION of forces
aimed at carrying through success
fully the Soviet Unions ambitious
new five-year program of industrial
development.
The Central Committee called for
redistribution of specialists function
ally as we'll as geographically, de-
claring that in some enterprises con-
Siderable numbers of specialists with
higher education are working not in
productions but in the administrative
apparatus. This presaged further
step in the current campaign to
Iget Superf1uous white collar work.
ers back into production work,
where they are most needed.
Topic of Pravda Article.
The Central Committee'ssdecision
which was the topic OF Pravda &
leading article today, also struck out
at what it termed the facts OF
domesticity" among the executive
personnel IN the ministries
Where non Bolshevik manners
take precedence" Pravda said, ".eon-
ditions are created under which in
place /. of a leading group Of re-
sponsible officials we have a little
family of close persons, the members
of which strive to live in peace and
not criticize each other"
The new decision also demands
that Soviet executives have courage
critically to evaluate their own work
and speak the truth about the activ-
ity of the enterprises they head"
Evening star., 1946-12-27

FofI0iDing are the terts OF let
ters exchanged betDeen PreSi-
dent Truman and George E.
Allen, 1Uho resigned from the
RFC today:
Dear Mr.. President:
You will recall that on January
16, 1916, you asked me to accept
an appointment to the Reconstruc-
ton Finance Corp. for the period
Of one year. I explained to you
my reluctance to enter public life
but agreed to serve in that ca
pacity for the period of time you
requested.
The year will be completed within
a few weeks and I am therefore SUBJ
mitting my resignation, effective as
of January 16, 1947.
This past year has seen rapid
reconversion from war to peace
IN the United States under your
skillful and statesmanlike direc-
ton. In spite of the many OBJ
stacles thrown in the way, we have
moved a long way since VI day
on the road to free peacetime econ
omy. The Reconstruction Finance
Corp. has played its statutory and
expected part in that transition
period.
We of the board of directors OF
the Reconstruction Finance Corp.
during the past year, have given
much thought to the role which the
corporation should play in the i'm
mediate future. We have spent much
time and effort in preparing a de-
tailed revaluation OF the functions
and operations of the board. A re-
port, representing the combined
thinking of the Board Of Directors
has been prepared in the form Of
specific recommendations. We are
submitting that report herewith fol-
your consideration, and. if you deem
it advisable, for submission to the
Congress.
These recommendations are in
form proposed amendment to the
Reconstruction Finance Corp. Act
In fact, however, they constitute q
complete revision of that act and OF
other legislation related to it. They
Evening star., 1946-12-27
Truman and Allen Letters

simplify and consolidate into one
enactment the provisions for the
basic lending power of the Reconc-
struction Finance Corp. They re-
peal all of the corporations extraor-
oinary wartime powers and elm
mate all peacetime powers which
experience has shown to be now un-
necessary.
I deeply appreciate, Mr.. President
the confidence you have placed in
me. 1t has been a privilege to serve
in this field. I need not assure you
that shall continue to be avail
able for any service which I can
render for you.
Very sincerely yours,
GEORGE e. ALLEN.
Dear George:
I am indeed sorry to receive your
resignation, but I quite understand
the reasons which impel it. AS you
stated in your letter to me, you
accepted appointment to the Re-
construction Finance Corp with re-
luctarce, and then only on the un-
derstanding that I would not ask
you to serve beyond year. I have
therefore no alternative but to ac-
cept your resignation, effective as
of January 16, 1947.
am grateful to you for your serv-
ice during the past year. You have
been helpful to me not only in your
formal post but in many instances
in which I have called upon you for
advice.
To the members of the board OF
the Reconstruction Finance Corp. !
am indebted for their energy and
foresight in the preparation of the
report which you have sent me and
for their recommendations concern
ing the future work of the corpora
ton. The report will receive ~ i'm
mediate consideration
You know, without any formal
word from me, that I shall feel free,
as the occasion may arise, to call
upon you for counsel.
The best of luck to YOU in. your
future undertakings!
Very sincerely yours,
4 HARRY S. TRUMAN.
Evening star., 1946-12-27
Trumon, Back From Holiday,
Resumes legislative Planning

Other items also have been studied
by members of the White House
staff, and those close to the President
say that he will consult frequently
with members of the cabinet before
the final draft is prepared. Party
leaders also are expected to be called
into conference.
The State of the Union message
will be followed at two-day intervals
by two others-the economic mes
sage called for by the so-called full
employment" law, and the annual
budget message. These also are
being prepared.
The Presidents return trip was
uneventful. He took off from the
airport at Grandview, the home oi
his mother. Mrs. Martha Truman, al
3:11 EST and landed here at 7.18.
Mrs. Truman and Miss Margaret
Truman are remaining at the family
home in independence for few
days.
Evening star., 1946-12-27
| New Bi|bo HEARINGS
To Go Into Charges Of
|Druq Deal Are Asked

A move was launched today to
have the Senate War Investigating
Subcommittee reopen the Bilbo
hearings Monday. The purpose
would be to take further testimony
on the charge that the Mississippi
Senator received contribution
after helping a Natchez MISS
drug addict obtain authorization to
buy narcotics.
Senator Ferguson, Republican.
Michigan. announced he had wired
Chairman Mead to reopen the hear
ing, and is awaiting a reply.
Meanwhile, the Senate Repub-
lican Steering Committee adjourned
after a two-hour closed session
without announcing any recon-
mendation it will make on the seat
ing Of Senator Bilbo.
Senator Ferguson told reporters
he thinks the war investigating
group should take direct testimony,
rather than affidavits. from three
witnesses mentioned in connection
with the narcotics transaction.
They are DR.. A. j. Podesta, DR.
James G. Logan, and John A. Carr.
the patient, all of Mississippi.
Review Not Finished.
Senator Taft, Republican, of Ohio,
chairman of the Steering Com
mittee, said the Committee heard
partial reports on the two separate
Investigations of Senator Bilbo, but
did not finish reviewing the subject.
He also emphasized that no action
would be taken until after the full
conference of 81 Republican Sena-
tors appoints Steering Committee
for the new Congress Monday. That
new Committee will then meet Mon
day afternoon to go into the Bilbo
matter.
This means the Republican con-
ference will not be able to decide
Monday whether to try to block the
seating of Senator Bilbo on January
g.
A Senator vino was Senator Fer
guson's colleague on the War In
vestigating Subcommittee declared
last night the group has drafted a
very tough" report on Senator
Bilbo's relations with war contrac-
tors.
No recommendations.
1t makes no recommendations, he
said, but emphasizes Senator Fer
guson's contention that the con-
| tractors were solicited for funds
in violation of Federal law.
1 Senator Hickenlooper, Republican,
of Iowa, who attended the Steer
| ing Committee session. was a men,
ber OF the Special Campaign In
vestigating Committee which in
vestigated charges that Senator Bill
DO sought to keep Negroes from
voting in the primary which re-
suited in his election to third
term. This committees report is
still in the making.
t Senator Bilbo went back to Mis-
sissippi for the holidays, declaring
neither investigation had turned UP
any evidence of wrongdoing on his
part.