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Evening star., 1946-02-03
Congress 10 Begin Probe
OF Butter Shortage Feb. IA

A congressional investigation OF
shortages in butter and other dairy
produdcts will be started Febru-
ary IA.
Chairman Pace of a special House
committee to investigate food short
ages yesterday announced his group
will make the inquiry.
He said in statement that rep
resentatives Of dairy groups. the Ag-
nculture Department, the OPA ano
the Office of Economic Sterilization
will be asked to testify.
Mr.. Pace added other hearings
will be held later regarding short
ages OF wheat, other grains anc
sugar.
Evening star., 1946-02-03

Beattie also praised members of
the Senate Judiciary Committee for
their "considerate" reception OF suf-
frage seekers.
Opposition to the measure was
voiced last night by Alfred I. CAL
vert, president of the Lincoln Park
Citizens Association, and Mrs. E.
Morgan Pryse, who spoke over
WMAL.
In other quarters, meanwhile,
proposals for larger measure of
self government for the District
were discussed from the viewpoint
OF the interests Of Congress itself.
Referendum Planned.
The LaFollette- -Monroney Joint
Committee on Reorganization of
Congress took no action yesterday,
but indications were it probably
would report in favor Of tentative
report which now declares that Con-
gress should divest itself of all pos
sible minor and unnecessary tasks,
and recommends creation Of a char
ter commission to draft a District
self government proposal.
This would be submitted to the
people in a referendum before sub
mission to Congress for action.
The tentative report states:
I'm order to relieve Congress of
this extraneous work load and en-
able it to devote full attention to
national legislation, we recommend
that plan for self rule for the
District be provided as early as
possible.
1--WE do not assume the RESPONSE
bility Of debating what plan should
be adopted for the handling OF
municipal affairs of the District
but we do recommend that steps
be taken Immediately to provide
for the establishment of COM
mission of Washington residents
to prepare q suitable city charter
and that it be submitted by refer
endum to the citizens of the Dis
trict for their approval or rejection
"We recommend that Congress
authorize this referendum as soon
as a satisfactory self government
city charter is provided, and that
on its adoption legislation be intro
duced to make it effective"
Evening star., 1946-02-03
Martin 10 Build Plant
For Making Elastic Plastic
BY the Associated Press,


BALTIMORE, Feb. 2.-Glenn L
Martin, president, announced TO-DAY
that the company which bears his
name was ready to manufacture 6
new elastic plastic and the board o1
directors had authorized construc-
ton of a 81 100000 plant to produce
the resins from which various end
products could be made
The new plant, which will be In
production by next fall, ultimately
will have an annual capacity OF
about 100000 pounds of polyvinyl
resins for use by manufacturers, Mr.
Martin said.
He emphasized the plant would
manufacture only the raw materials
from which would come such items
ss multi-colored wire insulation
transparent garden hose, hospital
sheeting, wrist watch straps, woven
fabrics, handbags, large meteor
ological-type balloons, surgeons and
industrial gloves and rubber
heels"
Evening star., 1946-02-03
Ladies' of GAR to Mark
Birthdoys of Presidents

The birthdays of George Wash
ington, Abraham Lincoln and Will
liam Mckinley will be observed by
the Ladies Of the Grand Army OF
the Republic, Gen. William H. Beck
Circle, at pm. Friday at the Fourth
Presbyterian Church, Thirteenth
and Fairmont streets NV.
Evening star., 1946-02-03
Atom Bomb Physicist
To Speak at YMCA

DR.. William A. Higinbotham
physicist of Los Alamos, N. Mex.
will speak on THE Atom Bomb
and Future Security" at 8 pm. to-
morrow during the YMCA Current
Events program at the Centra
Branch, 1876 G street N. w.
The sixth in a series of con-
certs will be held in the lounge OF
the Central Branch at $50 pm
Tuesday, featuring Rita Nicholson,
soprano, with Dorothy Radde
Emery, accompanist.
Evening star., 1946-02-03
Brewster to Seek
Reelection to Senote

BY the Associated Press.
Senator Brewster, Republican, of
Maine will seek reelection this year
his secretary, Mrs. Frances E. Dus-
tin, said last night.
A native Of Dexter, Me, Senator
Brewster was elected to the House
in 1884 and to the Senate in 1910.
His present term expires January
3, 1947.
Evening star., 1946-02-03
Woodmont PTA to Meet

The Woodmont Parent Teacher
Association will meet at 8 pm. to-
morrow in Arlington. There will be
a short business session followed by
a play, which will be presented by
Brownie Troop No. 80. Mrs. o. r.
Strackbein is leader of the troop,
Evening star., 1946-02-17
i. S.-BritiSh Pact Paves
Way for Vast Air Trade
Agreement at Bermuda Puts American Aviation
Out in Front for World Commerce, but
Rates May Remain High
By ". H. Shibben, jr.
Aviation Editor of The Star

! dollar has boosted the living standard
on these coasts.
No time limit was fixed on the execu-
tive agreement reached at Bermuda,
although either country can terminate
| it, on years notice. There were indi-
cations on Capitol Hill this week that
the Senate might wish to review the
agreement on grounds it finds the
United States with treaty obligations.
The l3 world air routes suggested by
the United States follow:
Route One: Co-terminals, Chicago,
Detroit, Washington, Philadelphia, New
York, Boston and Baltimore to London
and Preswick via Gander, Greenland,
Iceland and Ireland, with route con-
tinuing to Amsterdam, Helsinki, Copen-
hagen, Stavenger, Oslo, Stockholm,
Warsaw, Frankfurt, Moscow, Lenin-
grad and the Baltic countries.
Route Number Two is the same as one
to London with points beyond, including
Brussels. Munich, Prague, Vienna,
Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest, Istan-
bul, Ankara, Iran, Beirut, Syria, Iraq,
Afghanistan, Karachi, New Delhi and
Calcutta.
Route Three: Same as one to Ireland
then to Paris, Switzerland, Rome, Ath-
ems, Cairo, LYDIA, Iraq, Dharan, Bonn
bay, Calcutta, Siam, Indo- China and
China
Route Four: United States cotermi-
mails to Gander, Azores, Liszon, Madrid,
Rome, Athens and Cairo, with one leg
starting from Lisbon for Algiers, Tunis,
Tripoli, Benghazi and Cairo.
Route Five: Co-terminals to Gander
Bermuda, Azores and London with one
leg going from Azores to Lisbon, BARGE
Iona and Marseille
Route Six: San Francisco or Los An
geles to Honolulu, Midway, Wake,
Guam, Manila, Indo-China, Singapore
and Batavia.
Route Seven: Same as six to Manila,
thence to Hong Kong, Macao, China,
Indo-C China, Siam. Burma and CAL
cutta.
Route Eight: New York, Washington
and Baltimore to Bermuda.
Route Nine: Miami and Palm Beach
to Catcay and Nassau.
Route 10: Miami to Cuba, Jamaica,
Baranquilla and various South Ameri-
can points to Balboa, also a leg from
Baranquilla to Trinidad.
Route IL: New Orleans and Houston
to Cuba, Aruba and South America.
Route IL: New York and Miami to
Camaguey, Port All Prince, Cudiadtru-
jillo. San Juan, St. Thomas. Pointe-
apitree, Port de France, Antigua, Santa
Lucia, Trinidad, British Guiana and
South American points to Buenos Aires.
Route 13: New York to Azores, Dakar,
Monrovia, Accra, or Lagos, Leopoldville
and Johannesburg. also a leg from New
York to San Juan, Trinidad, British
Guiana, Belem. Natal, Monrovia, Ascen-
sion Islands and Accra or Lagos.
Evening star., 1946-02-17
BY Harold J. Laski,
Secretary of the British Labor Party.

LONDON.-After the debate on
Greece in the Security Council, the In
donesian discussion, on the motion of
M. Manuilsky and the Ukrainian dele
cation, was an anticlimax. On Greece,
there was formal compromise though
it must be said that Ernest Bevin over
whelmed his two critics, Andrei Vishin-
sky and Dimitri Manuilsky, by his thor
ough exposure of the f1imsy evidence on
which they relied.
All three protagonists talked with a
frank bluntness unsparing the other,
and I think that this method has i'm
mense advantages compared with the
sweet liquor so privately brewed in Sc
cret meetings behind the scenes at
Geneva But one is left with feeling
of bewilderment at it all.
1t is hard to understand why the
Russian Foreign Office was content to
brief Vishinsky so badly. Whoever
briefed Manuilsky did pretty poor job.
Both of them relied on poor, second
hand evidence, scraps from newspapers,
bits of speeches and the like. Neither
of them had direct tale of flrst-hand
information on which to base his case;
neither showed competence in the cut
and thrust of debates by which real
principles emerge.
Procedural Revenge.
Both left the clear impression that
their attacks were procedural revenge
for raising the Iranian issue-a rather
childish maneuver which only did in
jury to the restoration of Greek democ-
racy and the recognition of Indonesian
nationalism. Neither explained why
the raising of these issues had not been
preceded by diplomatic discussion in
which the Russian and Ukrainian dele
cations made their anxiety felt by the
British Foreign Office.
Generalissimo Stain evidently men,
toned Greece only once. and then
dropped the matter. There was no evi-
dence of threat to international peace
in either affair. My own guess is that
Russia could have done nothing but
good at the beginning of the British
occupation of Greece and the landings
on Java if it had made it plain" in
London and The Hague what was ex-
pected of the British and Dutch policies.
1t might have done much to arrest
Winston Churchill's maneuvers for the
return of George of the Hellenes and
there might already have been in exist
ence an Indonesian settlement with
Holland which has now begun under
less favorable circumstances than would
have been the case in September or
October.
Situation Difficult for Left.
The clumsiness with which Vishinsky
and Manuilsky managed the case, the
poverty of the materials on which
their arguments were based, gave Bevin
the supreme opportunity of which he
took the most advantage. Quite literally,
his critics never began to meet the argu-
ment both on the plane Of facts and
the plane of principles. To put it
brutally, the Russian Intervention will
have the effect Of making things far
Evening star., 1946-02-17
BEVIN'S MAJOR PROBLEM

more difficult for the Left in Greece
hope it will not stiffen Dutch reaction
in Indonesia
There was plenty of evidence to show
that the Greek Monarchists had during
the first months of the British occupa-
ton, used 1t. Gen. Sir Ronald Scobie
(the British commander in Greece and
Sir Rex Leeper (the British Ambas-
sador) as screens for reactionary ma
neuvers. There was less but solid, evil
dence to show that Dutch imperialism
sought to use the British Landings
landings effected at the instance of Gen.
MacArthur-as the bridgehead by which
it would return to all it could of the
prewar regime in Indonesia.
I believe that Bevin, since he became
Foreign Secretary, has worked hard to
prevent the Monarchist coup which is
threatening and that he is genuinely
seeking to secure free elections in
Greece. don't think he ever contem-
plated acting as pawn on a chess
board for the Dutch oil interests.
Had to Meet Challenge.
1t is too early to say that he has
saved Greece from the threatening civil
war or given it solid assurance of de-
mocracy. In any case, I wish he had
chosen different instruments for the
purpose than those on whom Church.
ill relied. 1t looks as though his dis
cussions, as we'll as those of Prime
Minister Attlee with the Dutch, will re-
suit in the emergence of some form of
dominion status" for Indonesia which
will satisfy the main part of the Ma
tionalist movement.
Another and larger problem remains
behind. think Bevin had no possible
alternative but to meet the Russian
challenges squarely and bluntly: had he
done otherwise, he would have been back
on the evil road of "appeasement" which
Neville Chamberlain trod But the
largest problem is how he is to restore
a workable basis in international rela-
tions between Britain and Russia. How
ever incompetent may have been the
performance of the two Russians in Lon
don, it is quite obvious that Moscow
really believes that the British Labor
government is hostile to the Soviet
Union and the helf-secret patron of the
reactionary elements in Europe and the
Middle East.
That is how Moscow interprets our
attitude to France: Loud words but no
deeds, with apparent friendliness to
monarchist restoration. That is how it
interprets also the remarkable tolerance
shown to Gen. Anders and the Polish
Army in Italy; it breeds reaction in
Southern Italy itself and fosters attacks
on the Polish government. There is no
stirring action in the emergence-a very
grave matter-of a new fascism in
Italy bred Of despair, the Anglo-Amer-
ican delay and the patronage-to which
Randolph Churchill now seems to be
lending a hand-of the prevailing re-
dictionary elements of the old system.
Taken in conjunction with Bevin's
publicly expressed irritation over Rus
sian diplomacy. especially in the Middle
East, this accusation of anti Communist
tSee LASKI. Page C-7)
Evening star., 1946-02-17
First UNO AssembyMeeting Success
Gathering Debate
Much and Ends Note of Real Cooperation for Peace

The United Nations, provided for in
the Charter adopted in San Francisco
last spring, has taken on flesh and blood
during the General Assembly meeting
in London.
The nations of the world engaged in
setting up this organization, primarily
for peace and security, have reason to
congratulate themselves. Real accom-
plishments have come out of this meet
ing, both organizational and substantive.
Not only have the delegates of the 81
member countries been able to choose
their representatives in the important
Security Council and Economic and
Social Council promptly and without
bitterness, but they have seen the Secur-
ity Council accept responsibility for
considering the ticklish political prob
lens arising out of Soviet Russia's course
In Northern Iran and out of the activities
of British armed forces in Greece and
Indonesia.
All of the issues which have arisen
and there have been many-have been
tackled boldly by the Assembly and its
agencies. They have been brought into
the open and discussed-and many of
them have been settled by voting in the
Assembly and in the Security Council.
In some instances, compromises have
been necessary-as in the case of the
election of secretary general, the chief
executive officer of the UNO, clothed
with much power.
Suspicious Still Exist.
The spirit manifested in the Assembly
and in the various meetings of the
Council and the committees has been
wholesome This does not mean there
have not been sharp clashes-there have
But the give and take of debate has
been received in good part. The delega-
tions in London, having completed
their organizational work, the UNO is
a going concern. ready to set up its
headquarters in the United States and
get down to work. The only main agency
of the organization which will not have
it's headquarters in America is the In
ternational Court of Justice-which
under the Charter and statute is to sit
in The Hague.
A beginning, and good one, has been
made. There is, however, a disturbing
factor which it does no good to ignore
an underlying hostility-or rather suspi-
cion-which exists between Britain and
Soviet Russia and which tends to divide
Europe into Eastern and Western camps
and spheres of influence. The hope is
that as better understanding of prob
lens progresses, this fear and suspicion
will break down. To some degree this
same suspicion lies also between the
United States and Soviet Russia-and
extends to the other countries of the
Western Hemisphere. If there is to be
success for the new world organization
and continued peace, obviously these
feelings-on both sides-must be elimi-
mated If these great powers cannot lie
down in peace, there will be no peace,
There still exists, so far as Europe is
concerned, too much reliance on the
old system of balance Of power-which
In the end means that the balance
Evening star., 1946-02-17

(See LASKI. Page C-7)
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1946-05-02
FRATERNITIE5 URGED TO
SpEARHEAD FIGHT FOR
DEMOCRACY

CINCINNATI, May 2. (ANP)
Winding up a most successful
Joint meeting of Alpha Kappa AL
pha sorority and Alpha Phi Alpha
fraternity here, Bolford Lawson,
general president of the fraternity,
and Mrs. Beulah Whitby, basileus
of AKA, urged leadership by their
organizations in the fight against
segregation and jim crow in the
United States.
One of the guest speakers at a
program at Mt. Zion Methodist
church, Mr.. Lawson told the con-
gregation that unless "sororities
and fraternities take the lead to-
gether in mortal combat against
power blocks and hate venders,
they may become dangerous instru-
ments of Illustration instead of
powerful agencies of fulfillment. ;"
He praised Mrs. Whitby for Al
pha Kappa Alpha's splendid Non
Partisan lobby maintained in Wash
ington, and suggested a joint lobby
in the capitol to be operated by all
sororities and fraternities. This
would mean new strategy of vic
tory for Negroes in America, he
said.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1946-05-02
SpINGARN MEDAL TO
THURG00D MARSHALL

NEW YORK, May 2. (ANP)-
Thurgood Marshall, NAACP spe-
cial counsel, was named the 31st
recipient of the Spingarn medal,
awarded annually for highest
achievement by Negro. The noted
lawyer received the 1916 award for
distinguished service as lawyer,
particularly in the Texas Primary
case which may have more far
reaching influence than any other
act in the ending of disfranchise-
ment based upon race or color in
this country"
Former winners of the award
include DR.. w. E. B. Dubois, James
Weldon Johnson, Marian Ander
son, DR.. Louis T. Wright, William
H. HASTE and Paul Robson.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1946-05-02
FAMED CHICAGO CHOIR
GUEST ARTISTS OF
SUNDAY EVENING club

CHICAGO, May 2. (ANP)-
When Bishop William Scarlet of
st. Louis, liberal churchman of the
Protestant Episcopal church, is
guest speaker of the Chicago Sun
day Evening club at Orchestra hall
Sunday, so members of the Metro
politan church choir will render the
music.
J. Wesley Jones, director of the
choir, announced the group will
present "songs of a race sung by
the race ITSELF" Soloists will in
clude Magnolia Lewis, G.. Wilbur
Harrison and Mary Crowley.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1946-05-02
CHICAGO FLIGHT OFFICERS
PLANE Crash VICTIMS
AT TU5kEGEE

TUSKEGEE, May 2. (ANP)-
Flight Officers Sylvester H. Hurd,
Jr., and George A. Bates, pilots at
Tuskegee Army Air field, were
killed here when the single engine
trainer in which they we're on a
routine flight crashed near Mil
stead, Ala.
Cause of the crash has not yet
been determined, but a board has
been appointed to investigate the
accident.
Flight Officer Hurd, who re-
ceived his pilot wings here last No
vember, was the son of Sylvester
H. Hurd, Sr.,of East Chicago, and
Flight Officer Bates, a March
TAAF graduate, was the son of
Mrs. Grace C. Bates of Chicago.
Both officers were undergoing con-
tinuation training, according to
Col. Parrish, commanding officer
here.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1946-05-02

Refugee committee; the Rev. Rich
ard Morford, executive director of
the National Council on American
Soviet friendship; Irving Richter,
national legislative director of the
CIO United Automobile workers,
and others.
Among the organizations merg
ing in the Civil Rights congress will
be the international Labor defense,
headed by Rep. Vito Marcantonio
whose message to the congress
pledged support in the major
struggle which lies ahead" The
National Federation for Constitu-
tional liberties, chaired by George
Marshall, will also merge with the
congress, as will the New York Con-
ference on Civil rights, recently
formed city-wide civil rights group.
The National Committee to Com
bat Anti-Semitism, the Veterans
Against discrimination, Citizens
United to Abolish the Wood-Rankin
committee, the National Negro con-
gress, Southern Negro Youth con-
gress, numerous CIO and AFL un-
ions pledged support for the con
gress.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1946-05-02
Civil Rights Congress Meet
Plans National Group

DETROIT, May 2. (ANP)-|
Action to form permanent civil
rights organization unifying exist
ing groups climaxed the two-day
Congress on Civil Rights here when
372 delegates from % states met to
work out a national program in de-
fense of civil liberties.
With labor's rights and the fight
against discrimination major top
les of the congress, delegates from
20 national labor, youth, veteran,
religious and other groups named
73 leaders as members of contin-
uations committee, empowered to
build a national organization to
carry out a program "safeguard-
ing and extending democratic civil
rights, for combating all forms Of
discrimination and fighting against
the rising menace of native fas-
cism."
"The largest fifth column in the
world is supporting reactionary
forces in this country" George
Marshall, chairman of the National
Federation for Constitutional lib
critics, stated in the keynote address
to the conference. 1--WE hear the
tread of approaching storm-troop-
ers and we must close our ranks to
fight them-right now"
Reports of violence against mi
norities, attacks on labor unions,
suppression of freedom of speech
and violation of constitutional
rights formed the background for
resolutions calling for the abolition
of the Wood-Rankin house commit
tee on un-American activities, con-
demning anti-labor injunctions,
supporting organization of work
ers in the south, condemning anti
Semitism, group libel and police
brutality and others.
"We are all fighting the same
group-the American fascists," DR..
Max Yergan, president of the Ma.
tional Negro congress, said in sup.
port of the new organization. "Ev-
cry battle is part of the major fight
The drive of anti-democratic forces
against our hardwon democratic
gain must be stopped.
! Largest regional delegation to
the congress was the midwest, with
the southern states represented by
67 leaders in local organizations
and trade unions.
! Addressing the delegates during
the conference were: Rep. Hugh
DeLacy of Washington; Rep. Ste.
phen H. Friedman, editor of the
Christian Register; Earl Dicker.
son, president of the National Bar
association; DIR. Edward K. Barsky
chairman of the Joint Anti-F Fascist