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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-29
Hypnosis
Worse Than the A-Bomb

The British Broadcasting Corpora
ton experimental cautiously with
televised hypnotism behind closed
doors. counted the casualties, decided
never again.
The trouble is, according to BIC, it
works.
A dozen volunteer guinea pigs as
sembled for the test-to see if they
could be put to sleep by television
over a private wire. Staring at a
lighted screen in a darkened room, one
suddenly snoozed and dented his chin
with his chest. Another yawned deri-
sively and fell into the same sort of
trance. A third sank Imply into
dreamland. So did two others.
Two fell so soundly asleep they had
to be awakened personally by the
hypnotist after the test was over. All
listeners to a regular broadcast would
not have funkies to wake them.
1t was then that the scary interna-
tional possibilities shook the govern
ment-established BIC.
eff you can hypnotic people by
television," said n radio executive,
think what could happen if every
body had a television set-as every
body will shortly-and a Hitler-sort of
fellow started working on them.
eff you could somehow get control
of a nations television transmitter,
you could put everybody to sleep and
Just walk in. Why the atom bomb
would be years behind the times as a
secret weapon"
The hypnotist, Peter Casson, "a, an
ex-Navy enlisted man appearing in a
musical comedy at the moment, pro-
tested, "BBC is perhaps being toe
conservative in deciding not to put
me on the air."
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-29

against the Japanese. Since VI Day
there have been widespread anti-Brit-
ish riots.
Churchill deplored the appalling
haste" in offering Burma freedom
without an intermediate stage as a
British dominion.
"Scuttled is the word and the only
word that can be applied" he charged.
He compared the Burma offer with the
situation in India which, he said, has
been "attended by disasters of which
we are at present only on the TIRES
hold"
To this Attlee replied: "The gov
eminent of this country has not been
too fast-it has been too slow!"
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-29
Riftor noho%o

Bitter Debate
This Specialization of industry pro-
gram has drawn opposition from con-
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-29
Hot Shots
Around the World Away

uiO WIN SNVA/
. Near Olympia, Wash, a state pa
trolman sighted two warning flares,
found two unconcerned DRINKS sing
ing in the middle of the road. The
c%elebrators told him a truck driver
set out the flares after he had been
unable to talk them into going home.
. In KOCH, Japan, residents attest
that it's an i'll quake that shakes no
good. The upheaval Saturday cracked
an open field, out of which spurted
blackish fluid. A woman struck a
match and the whole village joined
in putting out the fire, then capped
the oil gusher. 5
. In Richmond, Va, a departments
stores Call up Santa Claus" promo
ton went wrong when advertise
ments listed the telephone number
of Mrs. r. L. Crone instead of the spon-
sor's. Later ads sought to correct tho
error but Mrs. Crone got hoarse telling
kiddies, Santa doesn't live here any
more"
ran Ds~L<. ...s.S an NH--
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-29

The missile design was begun in
1914.
Electronic Stop Watch
Meanwhile at Yale University, phys
icists have perfected an electronic
stop watch" capable of measuring
time intervals as brief as one-thou-
sandth of one millionth of a second.
The device, a refinement of measur-
ing techniques used in wartime radar,
was designed to measure the speed Of
atomic particles, count them and de-
termine the energy of a charged par
ticle in nuclear reactions.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-29

lust 10 new strikes involving SOU
workers began in mid-December, the
cancellation service reported. Another
1l2 strikes, involving 39,745 workers.,
continued into the period.
A snowballing series of court suits
bv unions seeking retroactive portal
to-portal pay and damage claims
neared the $500, OOO, 900 mark as the
L. S. Chamber of Commerce polled
$4,000 companies throughout the land
on proposed amendments to relieve
employers from back-pay liabilities
dating back to 1888.
Decision Last June
Last June the Supreme Court, in a
case involving 1900 MI. Clemens,
Ilich., pottery workers, held that
workers are entitled to pay for time
sent preparing for their jobs on COM
pany property.
The union rush to capitalize on this
Interpretation of working time may
bring a total of six billion dollars in
suits. The Dow Chemical Co., of Mid
land, Mich, already has come to terms
with Lewis District so, ALL, settling
for s4,056, 600.
Battle of Statisticians
Meanwhile preparation of the new
Go drive for a second round of wage
Increases in the mass production in
Gustries doomed as a battle of Stats
t.cians.
Union economists figure that corpo-
rae profits for 1916 will be so percent
Higher than at the war peak, that cor
Ior3te employers can afford a Is per-
cent increase in wages, manufacturing
corporations can grant 81 percent
without reducing the rate of corporate
earning below the 1869 average.
Business statisticians retort that
capital investment in industry has in
creased, that the dividend dollar has
been debated as much as the wage dol
lar and that a general wage increase
will either force higher prices or put
many manufacturers out of business.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-29
Quote

George Bernard Shaw: "Christ-
mas is for me simply a nuisance.
The mob supports it as a carnival
of mendacity, gluttony and
drunkenness. Fifty years ago I
invented a society for the aboli-
ton of Christmas. So far I am the
only member"
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-29
SCIENCE: Race for Armaments

WHILE the United Nations reach out for lasting peace through
w plans for disarmament, there is hush-hush research in every
land on new weapons of war. The atom bomb, of course, is the most
publczed Of these but there are a host of other new and developing
weapons-rockets, jets, radar-to mention a few.
Britain and Australia have combined to lay out a $~2l,00OOOO
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-29

IAN RIGHTS Reserved. AP Nswsteaturesl
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-29
BRITAIN: The Old Imperialism Is Dead

LOR the second time this year
i the British government,
whose empire embraces a quarter
of the earth's land surface and
more than a quarter of its people,
offered to set a subjectpeoplefree.
This time it was Burma; last March
it was India.
Burma is a land about the size of
Texas with 5000, 900 people. India is
a little more than half the size of the
continental United States with three
times it's population. The Indian offer
has not yet materialized, partly be-
cause of the inability of Indians,
themselves, to agree or independence.
These offers by Britain's socialistic
Labor government are hard to take
for many a Briton, reared in the tradi-
ton that the sun never sets on the
British empire" They brought from
former Prime Minister Winston
Churchill, now leader of the opposi-
ton, the anguished cry that Prime
Minister Clement Attlee was speeding
''the decline and fall of the British
empire"
New Economic Day
Britain faces a herculean task trying
to readjust to new worldwide econom-
ic conditions. The old days of economic
imperi; SIN are past.
Britain's favorable trade balance of
prewar years is gone and so are the
sterling bloc empire trade agree
ments that made them possible. They
were killed partly by terms of the new
American loan and partly by rebellion
within the dominions.
Never again will Canada and Aus
t%ralia, which doomed industrially dur
ing the war, be content to play second
economic fiddles.
At home, the British slogan is Tex
port or die" Factories are busy but
most of the output is shipped out in
an effort to retain some of the prewar
foreign markets. Englishmen are on
bread and austerity rations stricter
than even in wartime.
The Labor government has national
lied the coal and banking industries
and plans to take over all transporta-
ton, including rail, bus, truck, harbor
and canal facilities. Another bill, al
ready in Parliament, would give the
government control of agriculture,
with power to fix quotas, guarantee
markets and dispossess rugged indlvid-
ualists.
Bitter Debate
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-29
Strikes Hit LOwest
Point Since W. Day

THE nation emerged from Christmas week with the fewest work
| es on strike since VI Day. Wage contests, and possible shut
DOWNS impend in big mass production industries involving CLIO steel,
automobile and electrical workers, and another soft coal strike is pos
sIble April 1 but the Department of Labor reports a definite tapering
off in work stoppages during the holiday season.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-29
Christmas
&c Peace

DEACE on earth still had no
i come to millions on the secon(
Christmas after the end of thu
second World War of the 20tl
Century. Nineteen months aftei
We Day and Is after VI Day
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{. v. Brown
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no longer available, there woulc
really be a problem and the cost
would be great indeed with no GER
tainty as to satisfactory quarters
or location"
Albert w. Atwood. president of
the Board of Library Trustees,
pointed out that the poard is unani-
nous in favoring e. v. Brown
School and that six members OF
the board had come to the hearing.
Using the school building as IL
brary branch is 1.-The most economic
proposition possible from a financial
standpoint" he added, saying that
he is confident the, library would
serve a larger public In the school
building. Mr.. Atwood said the IL
brary board welcomed the oppor-
tunity to cooperate with the recre-
alton board.
B. M. McKelway, member of the
library board, pointed out that by
the most conservative estimate of
depreciation the. school property
would now be valued at $45, ,O00
He asked where in Washington
would the library board be able to
| obtain any property as good as the
school for $45 900.
Use Called Common Sense.
! 1t would be economically sound
and common sense, Mr.. McKelway
said, to put the building to use and
to provide continued return on the
original investment.
Mr.. McKelway urged the Commits
sioners to proceed with estimates of
the least expense necessary to re-
condition and operate the school as
a library, instead of thinking about
what the District cannot afford to
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Founding
Of
Spell
for WILDE donatedb him the APW
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do. He emphasized that it is not the
amount of District-owned tax
exempt property which is now caus-
ing a tax problem, but the total
amount of tax-exempt property.
If the Commissioners sold the
property, Mr.. McKelway asked,
would they use the profits to feed
the animals in the Zoo?
Bargain Not to Be Missed.
Also speaking for the Library
Board were Mrs. Philip Sidney
Smith, George G. Havenner, Nelson
T. Harrison and Frank ]. Coleman.
Mr.. Coleman drew a laugh from the
Commissioners when he said: The
Commissioners are always looking
for bargains. I can't understand
why they would want to miss this
one"
James E. Schwab, acting chairman
Of the Recreation Board, reported
that the board has favored the
project since December, l943. and
added that other sections of the city
now are receiving the recreational
services Chevy Chase is requesting.
Asserting that there Is question
whether the property would be more
valuable to the community or to
private ownership, he pointed out
that when a community enlarges its
commercial area, its residential
values decline.
Zoning Opposition Predicted.
Mr. Schwab predicted intense
opposition to rezoning the school
property at Mckinley street and
Connecticut avenue for commercial
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use and warned that II the property
should become commercial 1t would
create greater parking difficulties in
an already congested area.
He contended that the commercial
property on the west. side Of Con-
necticut avenue already fills the
community's need, and he quoted
two owners on the west side as
doubling the possibility of develop
ing a large volume OF profit on the
east side.
Contending that time alone does
not increase land values, Mr.. Schwab
pointed out that the citizens OF
Chevy Chase created the increased
value of the e. v. Brown property
through the community they have
built up and they should be entitled
to tn profits.
A liberal value" on the premises
for commercial use would be $212,-
348, Mr.. Schwab estimated. To re-
model the building for library and
recreation center use would cost
Evening star., 1946-12-11
Chest
Continued From First Page.)

fine way, a tactful way, to helr
your neighbors, and you can pay il
monthly, quarterly or weekly, be.
ginning next year. Let's get this
campaign over the top-and I mean
now" -
Several hundred volunteers work
ing in the emergency squad headed
by Gen. Cox have undertaken tc
visit areas of the city which were
not solicited before the formal or
ganization was discontinued last
Friday. The volunteers started
their work yesterday by visiting
some apartment buildings along Six.
teenth street and Connecticut
avenue, where contributions hao
been turned in.
Gen. Cox reminded housewives
and others in the residential areas
to be sure to ask any Chest solicitor
for his identity card before giving
him a donation.
This should be done not only tc
insure your money is being received
by q bona f1de worker, but also we
want to protect the campaign from
possible abuse of the drives pur-
pose," he said. Solicitors in business
firms and Government Offices are
not issued identity cards, he added
because they are chosen by the
executives from among the en-
ployes..
Evening star., 1946-12-11
johnson
Continued From First Page)

chairman, of Montgomery County
commissioners, by William F. Carlin,
Silver Spring civic leader.
Mr.. Carlin suggested that school,
boys be given an opportunity to
contribute their pennies to the
monument and that the President
be invited to unven it.
The Very Rev. John w. Suter,
dean of Washington Cathedral, will
officiate at the services. Burial will
be in Rockville Union Cemetery,
where Mr.. Johnson's body will rest
beside that of his wife.
The active pallbearers will be
baseball players who had supporting
roles in the days Barney" was writ
ing his name into the records to be-
come a model for every Schoolboy.'
List of Pallbearers.
On the list are Roger Peckinpaugh,
Sam Rice, Ossie Bluege, Joe Judge,
Nick Altrock, Muddy Ruel and Jim
Shaw-all old teammates of Mr..
Johnson-and Mike Martin, for 4C
years the club trainer. Two other
players, Eddie Ainsmith, who caught
many of the f1reballer's games, and
George Mcbride, were invited to
serve as pallbearers, but replies had
not been received by telegraph.
The body is at the funeral home of
William R. Pumphrey, 1857 Wiscon-
sin avenue, Bethesda.
For eight months the heart that
- HRH To- IN a
game had fought a losing battle
against the inroads of a brain tumor
Only few weeks after the one
time Kansas farm boy entered the
hospital April 8, doctors despaired
of his life. He lived to amaze them
through months when his frequent
rallies brought flashes of hope to
his family and friends.
But when he sank into a final
coma four hours before the end, the
powerful body that had carried him
through 802 games-more than any
other American Lacquer pitched
Z. had faded to a mere shadow.
From 1907 to 1927 the big Train"
had given the Capital its greatest
diamond performer-a span that
yielded 414 victories and won him
the accolade OF many critics as the
top pitcher Of all time.
Heard Series BroadcaSts.
His interest in the game never
deserted him. Today his daughter
in-law, Mrs. Edwin johnson, re-
called how he heard the broadcasts
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- WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER !,

persuaded that group to get back
on board, promising inspection.
Later, l5d more soldiers bolted, COM
planning that the fog-bound vessel
was "still packed" They also were
persuaded to get back on the ship.
A statement issued after ir1spec-
ton acknowledged that the meal
given the men on their arrival
might have seemed inadequate"
and that latrines aboard were bad
ly sited" although sufdcient in num-
ber.
The IT'S privates and NCOs who
made the last break down the land
ing nets overpowered MPs at the
dock gates and marched In GOOD
order to a reception camp Z miles
away.
Evening star., 1946-12-11
It's IoIlnlies Are Held
After Cutting Ship
~ shs Asseeiossd Press

LIVERPOOL, Dec. 11-One hum
dred seventy-five British soldiers
who scrambled OF troop ship
bound for the Far East just before
she sailed last night were held in
open arrest today. They comprised
the third group to Jump the vessel
within "a hours.
The soldiers clambered down
landing nets crying, I'VE want JUS
tice and better accommodations, I"
Just before the troopship Empress
OF Scotland sailed last night, hours
late, with the remainder Of her
1900 service personnel aboard.
The demonstrations began Mon
day night when about 800 soldiers
backtracked down the gangplank
and spent the night shivering on the
dock, complaining they were packed
like sardines," that the mess was
crowded, the food inadequate and
that there was shortage Of latrines
aboard.
Ofncers and military police finally
~
Evening star., 1946-12-11

of this years World Series, listen
ing intently through the seven-
game classic. Asked later what
team had won, he feebly responded,
1.-The Cardinals"
At the bedside when Mr.. johnson
died were his sons, Walter, jr., 80,
of Rockville, Md; Edwin, 20, and
Robert, Is, both of Germantown,
Md; his daughters, Mrs. Carolyn
Thomas, %, of Arlington, and Miss
Barbara Johnson, 20, of German
town, and brother, Leslie john
son, of Gaithersburg, Md.
Mr.. Johnson's elderly mother,
Mrs. Minnie johnson, was told of
his death today at her farm home
near Germantown.
In addition to seven grandchil-
dren, Mr.. johnson also is survived
by two other brothers, Earl johnson
of Coffeyville, Kans., and Chester
Johnson of Corpus Christi, Tex,
and sister, Mrs. Ef1ie Tongier, of
Coffeyville.
Mr.. johnson had been a widower
nearly II years. His wife Hazel,
daughter of former Representative
E. E. Roberts of Nevada. died in
Georgetown Hospital in 1880.
Evening star., 1946-12-11
Z Standard OH Firms
To Get Large Interest
In Arab Concessions
BY shs Associated Press

NEW YORK, Dec. 11.-Arrange-
ments under which Standard OIL
Co. of New Jersey and Socony-
Vacuum OIL Co. will acquire a large
interest in Arabian-American OIL
Co., controller Of q, quarter billion
acres Of rich Saudi-Arabian oil con-
cessions. probably will be concluded
late next week or early In 1947, an
Arabian-American spokesman said
today.
The concessions originally were
acquired by Standard Oil OF Cali
fornia in 1888. In 1886 the Texas
Co. obtained half the holdings and
the Arabian-American Co. was
jointly formed by the two COM
panies.
Transfer Of interests would neces-
sarily carry approval Of the State
Department. Arabian American
supplies the major part Of oil re-
Quirements for the Navy.
The concessions are contained In
the area between the sun baked Per-
sian Gulf coast and inland toward
the mysterious Nejd Plateau, wild,
largely uncharted expanse known
only to Bedouin tribesmen. Geol-
ogists and petroleum engineers be-
lieve between $4,000, ,000, 900 and TO-
100000, 900 barrels of high-grade
petroleum lie beneath the sands.
It was lmoficially stated by reli-
able oil sources that Standard Oil of
New Jersey would acquire consid-
erably larger share in Arabian
American than Socony-Vacuum, pos
sibly twice as large, though no esti-
mate Of the amount of cash involved
In the transaction could be ascer-
tanned.
Arabian-American's current pro-
duction from four partially devel-
oped fields is about 100000 barrels
day. Net profits Of s., 500, 900 after
taxes were reported for 1945.
Evening star., 1946-12-11

Plenty of shopping days left TO
Christmas II you decide to give .
United States Savings Bond rs gift
that's sure to grow bigger.
Evening star., 1946-12-11

/ I$4s, 900, bringing the total to 426i.-
lO48. he added. Mr.. Sci1wab esti-
mated that the cost OF building .
Ilibrary branch and recreation CEN
ter elsewhere In the area would cost
1865 600.
Miss sibyl Baker, assistant super
lintendent Of recreation, warned the
Commissioners that II they don't
lgive the young people Of Chevy Chase
this opportunity for indoor recrea-
ltion the chance Of their getting 1t
lin this generation is gone"
| Community Support Cited.
Mrs. Henry Grattan Doyle, presi-
dent of the Board OF Education,
| pointed to the ministers, Girl and
Boy Scouts, students, merchants and
mothers who filled every seat in the
board room and told the Commis-
sioners that this demonstration
showed clearly that the community
wants the center.
DR.. Hobart M. Corning, school SUI
perintendent, lad the delegation Of
school principals who came to the
hearing to indorse the project. He
pointed out that children are in
school only II per cent Of the year
in actual hour time. and it is what
happens to them the remaining 80
per cent Of the time that is most
important.
Speaking for the students, Keith
Seegmiller, president of the Wood
row Wilson High School student
body, declared that through per-
sonnel exploration, the young people
Of the area had found out they had
| no recreational facilities.
Several ministers indorsed the
project. They were Msgr. Thomas
G.. Smythe of the Shrine OF the
Blessed Sacrament, the Rev. Edward
o. Clark Of the Chevy Chase Bap-
tist, the Rev. Donald Leonard,
Chevy Chase Presbyterian; the Rev.
Charles w. Lowry Of All Saints
Church, and the Rev. Clarence e.
Wise, Wesley Methodist.
Many Endorsements.
Henry M. Fowler, president Of the
Chevy Chase Citizens Associations
said he did not think money should
be considered when the welfare Of
children is at stake. He presented
an Endorsement from his associa-
ton. J. M. Heiser reported that the
Federation Of Citizens Associations
had unanimously adopted a resolu-
ton supporting the Chevy Chase
effort.
Endorsements were also brought to
the hearing by spokesmen for the
Lafayette. Woodrow Wilson, Alice
Deal and Ben Murch Home and
School Associations; Chevy Chase
Civilian Defense Committee and its
warden service, Chevy Chase Busi-
nessmen's Association, Camp Fire
Girls, five troops Of Boy Scouts, the
600 Girl Scouts OF Chevy Chase, the
National Cathedral Post and Dis
trict Department of the American
Legion and the Blessed Sacrament
School.
Plenty of shopping days left to
Christmas II you decide to give .
United States Savings Bond rs . gift
Evening star., 1946-12-11
Health Bourd to Meet

A meeting Of the Board Of Direc-
tors of the Fairfax County Lay
Health Association will be held at 8
pm. tomorrow in the Fairfax court
house.
Evening star., 1946-11-24

ueye's how to win handsome, valu.
able prize! It's easy its fsaIl ana :.
there's nothing to buy. nothing % selt!
.I,,st listen to your radio from 500 to
e.f,t, o'clock weekday afternoons. Hear
the thrilling adventures Of Terry ana
~ Pirutes, SKY King, Jack Arnsstrons,
T,nnessee JED. Then write 10 q letter r--
snwords 81 Iess telling which program a
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