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Evening star., 1946-05-01
Report on Palestine
Will Force Shift 10
Russia, Arabs Warn
By the Assoeioted Press

JERUSALEM, May 1.-The
streets of Palestine's major cities
teemed with extra troop and po-
lice details today in the wake
OF declarations by Arab leaders
that adoption of British.
American inquiry committee re.
port on Palestine would plunge
the Holy Land into bitter strife
Jamal Efendi Husseini, acting
chairman of the Arab Higher Com.
mittee, said adoption of the report
which recommended that 100 0O(
European Jews be admitted i'm
mediately to would drive
the entire Middle East into the
bosom of Soviet Russia"
The general trend all over the
Middle East would be to the left
he added. 1--WE will grab at any
straw-Russia or any one who will
help u.s."
Urges Resistance to Report.
The Arab Office said in state
ment that the report, issued last
night in London and Washington,
must be resisted by the unanimous
endeavor of the Arab and Moslem
worlds"
The Jewish agency. scheduled to
meet in executive session today,
issued no official statement.
Residents of Jerusalem, Jaffa and
Tel Aviv lined up before newspaper
offices awaiting editions CARRYING
the committees report. Tanks, ar
mored cars and jeeps were in evil
dence and helmeted infantrymen
were stationed at nearly every in
tersection, but the general atmos-
phere was calm
We will oppose with all the
means at our disposal" Husseim
said in an interview. "a policy de-
prlving us of independence and lib
erty. We are convinced the recon-
mendations will plunge Palestine
into bloody disorder. These vio-
lent reactions will extend to all
Arab countries-in some countries
even more violently that in Pales-
tine ITSELF
'Slur on Democracy"
Aunt Bey Abdul Hadi, indepen-
dent Arab party leader, agreed and
added: The report is a slur on
democracy The Arab office state
ment said the report was high
treason to democracy and grave
betrayal to Justice"
The Hebrew morning newspaper
Haboker in Tel Aviv commented
editorially that the report was mot
justice, but charity" while the
Arab newspaper Aldiffa in Jaffa
described the report as an Anglo
American conspiracy which will be
completely rejected by all Arabs
and Moslems"
The Palestine Post of Jerusalem.
a leading Zionist daily, urged pa
tience.
There is nobody, there can be
nobody who will be satisfied" it
said. But opinion, bound to be
excited at first, must be allowed to
crystalline before final Judgment
is formed ~
Evening star., 1946-05-01
Army Public Relations
Survey Is Ordered

1t. Gen. J. Lawton Collins, Army
director of information, has directed
Jack H. Lockhart of the Scripps-
Howard Newspaper to survey the
efficiency and serviceability" of the
War Departments Bureau of Public
Relations.
"We want no barriers to informa-
ton between the Army and the
people," Gen. Collins said. "If
Lockhart finds any, we will try to
cut them down"
Mr.. Lockhart was formerly assist
ant director of the press section in
the Off1ce of Censorship under Byron
Price.
Evening star., 1946-05-01
Eisenhower Leaves Honolulu

HONOLULU, May P).-Gen.
Eisenhower left by plane for Kwaia-
-iein last night at the conclusion of
vigorous two-day inspection of
Army installations in the Hawaiian
Islands.
Evening star., 1946-05-01

BILE bulwark of the interest of the
Soviet Union," Mr.. Stain said.
"The successful accomplishment
Of this honorable task is possible
only on condition of further growth
of military culture and military
skill of the officers and men of our
army, our navy and our aviation. ;
Mr.. Stain urged Russian workers
to reach and even exceed the goals
set in the nations new five-year
plan.
Evening star., 1946-03-10
Britain Orders Liners
To Beware Of Fires
By the A,,oe;otsd Press

SOUTHAMPTON, England, Mar
9-Warnings to take all precau-
tions were dispatched to masters
of great ships making port tonight
at Southampton, as the govern
ment investigated mysterious
fire which yesterday damaged the
Queen Elizabeth, the worlds largest
ocean liner.
Among the ships receiving the
warning was the Queen Mary. Sec
ond largest liner, which arrived here
this afternoon and joined other
big vessels.
Fire-ighting brigades, held on a
special week end alert, answered a
false alarm tonight aboard the
85,000-ton Queen Elizabeth. The
alarm was attributed to faulty
wiring on the ship, which was flood
lighted as special precautior
against sabotage.
During the day an explosion and
fire aboard the motor minesweepe1
Steadfast in the English Channe,
killed one man and injured seven
others. No official explanation OF
the cause was given. The Steadfas,
made port at Dover unassisted.
A number of large ships will be
IN this great port over the week
end, and armed guards in almost
wartime strength have been posted
Among the ships in port will be
the lie de France, the Aquitania
the Pasteur, the Athlone Castle
and the Andes.
Evening star., 1946-03-10
Spain Says Tie to Hitler
Was Diplomatic Guile

LONDON, Mar. 9 (P).-The Ma
drid radio said tonight Spain could
well look after herself and has no
need to render accounts to any
body"
The broadcast added that "as TO
those interferers who accuse her of
doing this or doing that without
first looking into the glass to see
themselves with their own eyes, we
warn them that they are presuming
on our patience and overstepping
the mark.
I'VE have had enough of all these
willful confusions and Of the ex-
cessive ambitions of those who wish
to turn Christine Garcia "a Spanish
Republican recently executed in
Madrid) into a new Danzig to blast
the world once more"
Commenting on the United States
State Departments denunciation OF
the relationship between General
issimo Francisco Franco and Adolf
Hitler, the radio said it was merely
diplomatic guile" to keep Spain
neutral, and asserted that Russia
and France had made pacts with
the Axis" while Spain forestalled
Nazi encroachment. "by dint OF
making a few promises"
Evening star., 1946-03-10

with survey parties will follow the
slow ocean current in the direction
of the trade winds some 200 miles
westward to Eniwetok to measure
radio activity in the water and it's
rate of dissipation, along with the
effect of the activity on marine life
Bikini is the saucer shaped sum-
NIT of a volcanic cone or mountain
peak arising abruptly from ocean
depths, with coral reefs forming the
edges of the saucer just above high
tide. Only one channel connects
with the ocean, and through this
radioactive water from within the
lagoon will be traced.
May Cause Tidal Waves.
Oceonographers consider 1t pos
sible that the blasts may cause
underwater landslides which in turn
will create tidal waves. They will
be interested, too, in the effect on
the living coral which raised the
island above the sea.
Conclusion and recording instru-
ments may help to determine the
geological composition of deep,
underwater bases for this type of
coral .atoll, a point long debated in
scientific circles.
Before and after studies of flora
and fauna on the island may help
to delineate the cycle of life re-
turning to an area of total de-
struction.
This occurred after tho island Of
Krakatoa, between Sunatra and
Java, was blown apart in 1883 by
a volcanic explosion so vast 1t was
heard 5000 miles away. The force
was 1000 times greater than that
planned for release on May IA, but
nature repaired the damage in much
the same manner anticipated at
Bikini. The lowest forms of animal
and plant life returned first, and
these brought nourishment for sue
ceeding species of improved types
:. restoration in minia ture of
what might be expected after an
atomic world war.
Evening star., 1946-03-10
U. S. Employment
Continued From First Page.)

Transportation by four. Other war
time agencies had similar reduction
figures.
An examination of January's fig
ures for countrywide Federal en-
ployment shows that while the War
Department reduced its force by
81 7258 civilian employees, the Navy
Department added 2,173 employees.
100000 in War, Navy.
The total employment in the Wal
and Navy Departments is 100000
more than half the entire Federal
total. Large cuts were anticipated
in War and Navy since many of its
workers throughout the country are
employed in arsenals and shipyards
The failure of heavy dismissals
to materialize seems to be response
BILE for the comparatively minor de-
crease in Federal personnel during
the month, since most peacetime
agencies added a substantial num-
ber of employees throughout the
country.
An economy bloc in Congress, LED
by Senator Byrd, Democrat of Vir-
ginia, has been severely critical OF
the "slowness" of the Government
in reducing its wartime force Sena-
tor Byrd has demanded that the
number Of Federal employees be i'm
mediately cut in half, declaring that
the wars end had completed their
usefulness to the Government.
Evening star., 1946-03-10
Hore-BeIisho Says AneIo-U. S.
Alliance Would Wipe OutWur'

hasn't given man q sense Of secur-
ity. Everywhere you go, the next
war; is the dominant subject Of con-
versation."
Instead Of relying too much on
all nations to forget differences Of
race and historical background and
stand together, he advocated de-
veloping what he termed the mat
ural unities Of mankind" Among
these he considered an Anglo-Amer-
ican union most important.
If there were union between
America and Britain, the word war
would be wiped out of our vocab-
ulary," the ex-war minister said
Mr.. Hore-Belisha denied that fear
prompted proposal of the alliance,
which is advocated by Winston
Churchill,
Evening star., 1946-03-10
Z Vessels Carrying
1900 5ervicemen
Due in u. 5. Today
Dy me Asseeioisd Press

Approximately $4,000 servicemen
are scheduled to arrive today aboard
II transports at two East Coast and
three West Coast ports.
Ships and units arriving:
At New York-Waycross Victory
from Antwerp, 1,489 troops, includ-
ing the 3701st Quartermaster Truck
Company; 3802d, 3804th, 3809th
3905th, 3326th, 36S7th, 3s65th and
404lst Quartermaster Truck COM
panies; 293d Ordnance Company
549th Antiaircraft Artillery Auto
matte Weapons Battalion, and one
medical officer.
Hood Victory, from lie Havre-
956 troops, men of 608th Field Artil-
lery Battalion; list Division Head
quarters and 527th Quartermaster
Railhead Company.
Colby Victory, from lie Havre-
s67 miscellaneous troops.
At Norfolk-James Shields-l5
miscellaneous troops.
At San Francisco-Miscell
personnel on following: Admiral
Hughes-4,876 Army, eight Navy;
Oak Hill, from Pearl Harbor-20s
Navy; Lei 691. from Pearl Harbor-
1S Navy; Lei 1904, from Pearl Har-
bor-seven Navy; and New Bedford
from Pearl Harbor-one Navy.
At Seattle-Gen. r. M. Blatchford
from Yokohama, 3,037 Army, includ
ing l39 women officers, 276 Navy.
At San Diego-One YP and one
Lei. (No passenger information
Ships and units arriving yester-
day:
At New York Gen. John r.
Brooke, from LIE Havre, 1924 troops
including 407th Infantry Regiment
OF 102d Infantry Division. Webster
Victory, from Antwerp, 1915 miscel-
laneous troops.
At Norfolk-USS Granville, no in
formation.
At Seattle-Miscellaneous on fol-
lowing: S. S. Denali, from Alaska
IL Army, USS Admiral H. T. Mayo
from Okinawa, $3.50 Army, includ-
ing Is Army nurses, SO Navy.
At San Diego-Repair Ship Jason
476 Marines.
At San Francisco-Pondera from
Guam, 1891 Navy. 104 Marines.
Evening star., 1946-03-10
Mine Foremen Plan Strike
II Operators BaIk al Union
BY the Assoeioisd Press

PITTSBURGH, Mar. 9.-John Nc
Alpine, president Of the AFL United
Clerical, Technical and Supervisory
Employees Of the mining industry,
declared today coal operators must
agree to unionization of their fore
men or be confronted with strike.
The AFL union claims Jurisdiction
over about $4,000 supervisory en-
ployes In the mining industry.
IF the operators refuse to bar
gain with us after elections are held
in their mines" Mr.. McAlpine said.
I'VE will have to use our economic
power and strike"
Foremen were granted the right
to organize and bargain collective
ly in a National Labor Relations
Board ruling Thursday. The case
involved supervisory employees in
four Jones Laughlin Steel Corp.
pits in the Pittsburgh district and
the NLRB ordered elections to de-
termine the supervisors bargain
ing agency be held in these pits
within 80 days.
Evening star., 1946-03-10
Commercial License
Granted on HeIicopter
spseiol Dispoteh 10 The Stor

Speciol DIspofch 10 The Stor
BUFFALO, N. Y, Mar. 9.-The
Bell Aircraft Corp. announced to-
night the first helicopter commercial
license ever granted has been issued
by the Civil Aeronautics Admins
tration on a new Model 47 two-place
helicopter.
The airworthiness certificate was
granted after exhaustive tests here
during which the machine obtained
speeds of more than 100 miles an
hour and established an operating
speed of 80 miles an hour and a
range Of $50 miles.
A company spokesman declared
that the granting of the commercial
license to the helicopter means that
it may now carry passengers for
hire, and also that it may fly over
populated areas naither of which
could be done in its former expert
mental classification.
Evening star., 1946-03-10
Peron Party Attacks
Franco Regime for
Executing Liberals
BY the Associated Press

BUENOS AIRES, Mar. 9.-The
Labor party headed by Col. Juan
D. Peron, who is leading in the
Argentine presidential race, today
attacked the Franco government in
Spain for the recent execution of
persons described as pro-Liberal.
Early today bomb exploded in
the Spanish Consulate in Buenos
Aires, shattering the door and
breaking windows, but causing no
casualties.
Observers interpreted the Labor
party action as an attempt by Peron
to smooth out diplomatic difficult
ties which will confront him If he
is declared winner in the counting
of presidential ballots and to win
favor of the democracies, especially
in the Western Hemisphere.
Termed Militant Democrats"
Peron has been charged by the
United States with conspiring with
the Nazis. The United States,
France and Britain joined in a
recent declaration against the
Franco regime.
A resolution adopted b the Labor
party declared reports received here
said the men executed in Spain
were militant Democrats, punished
for the sole reason they defended
the Republican and Liberal regime
in Spain.
THE Labor party, which sup
ports the consolidation of freedom
of thought and respect for the
rights of man, cannot remain in
different to deeds which are re-
pugnant to freedom.
Peron Leads in Electoral Vote.
1.-THE Labor party, therefore, pub
licly expresses reputation of these
infringements of elemental prin-
ciples of human justice and unites
its voice to that of the Argentine
proletariat, calling for the release
of persons condemned for the sole
reason that they profess democratic
ideas and display their love Of
liberty"
Peron holds an indicated elec-
toral vote lead of 1913 to 70, with
189 electoral votes, based on COM
plete returns, necessary to win the
presidency.
The provinces of Buenos Aires
and Tucuman will ballot tomorrow
in an election necessitated by al
legged frauds in the regular voting
on February "a.
Evening star., 1946-03-10
Veterans
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Of such personnel as prevents you
from reaching this objective"
Neglect of patients, DR.. Hawley
wrote, will not be tolerated under
any circumstances. Patients will be
seen promptly on admission and
as often thereafter as their condi-
ton requires, and certainly at least
once daily" He ordered that re-
sponsible physicians make evening
rounds wherever possible.
Cites Higher Pay for Nurses.
On the score of working hours,
DR.. Hawley pointed out that VA
nurses were paid better and given
more liberal leave privileges than
those in private hospitals and
therefore could be expected to work
longer hours.
For physicians and dentists, DR..
HaWley said he did not like pre-
scribing duty hours for doctors be-
cause it encouraged the feeling that
duty was restricted to those hours
Instead, he said, he would like to
feel that Il could trust every doc
tor to work as long as necessary
and to take time for himself even
during ordinary duty hours, when
his patients did not need him"
Referring to the past when VA
hospitals we're the target of bitter
criticism on and off Capitol Hill
DR.. Hawley observed that one of the
most crippling obstacles in the i'm
provement of VAS medical service
has been the state of mind devel-
oped by hospital managers who have
been forbidden to exercise any ini-
tiative" Hospital managers. he said
must be given authority to improve
patient care.
ITO the patient" DR. Hawley
wrote, his own illness or injury is
the most important event in the
world and his own world revolves
about his own illness. He expects
others to regard it just as seriously
as does he, and he resents bitterly
any indication that it is not so i'm
portant to the people who are caring
for him.
"All medical personnel will be
judged on their relations with their
patients as well as upon their pro-
fessional qualifications"
Evening star., 1946-03-10
25% Suicide Rate Rise
Reported Here for 1945

The Districts suicide rate went UP
rs per cent in 1945, according to
report to the Commissioners by
Coroner A. Magruder Macdonald.
DR.. Macdonald said yesterday the
number of suicides went up to 139
last year from 100 in 1914. The
coroner said the increase probably
was due to the increase in popula-
ton and in the number of tran
sients. The number so far this year,
he said, is not unduly high.
Homicides decreased from IA to
ST. the report says. Total deaths
in the District rose from 1928 in
1914 to 9,136 last year.
The world has been at peace only
in eight per cent of recorded history
Evening star., 1946-03-10
Three-Power Declaration
On Spain Hit by Reds

MOSCOW, Mar. 9 LP).-Pravda
organ of the Communist party, said
in an editorial today that the three
power declaration concerning Spain
was useful in exposing the Franco
regime, but altogether inadequate
inasmuch as it leaves open the
question of liquidation of the FaS-
cist regime in Spain"
Asserting that it was clear the joint
rench-British-A statement
was not able to convince Generals
simo Francisco Franco that he
should leave his seat in Madrid
Pravda said consequently speech
must be made about real measures
directed to overthrow Franco
Evening star., 1946-03-10
Choral Society Seeks
Sinners for Concert

Additional singers, particularly
males, are needed by the Washing
ton Choral Society for the presenta-
ton of Beethoven's Ninth (ChoraD
Symphony, to be given in conjunc-
ton with the National Symphony
Orchestra concert on April at
Constitution Hall, Louis A. Potter
conductor of the choral group, an
nounced yesterday.
First rehearsal will be held at
7:30 pm. Tuesday at Central High
School.
Evening star., 1946-03-10
II Post Office Thefts
Solved by Confession
BY the Associated Press

CHICAGO, Mar. 9-Post Once
Inspector Elmer j. Holmes today
said II post Office robberies in foul
Midwestern States had been cleared
up in questioning of members of a
gang arrested here Tuesday.
Mr., Holmes said Robert Lee Rob-
ertson, 25. of St. Louis has confessed
participation in all of the robberies
while other members of the gang
took part in different thefts. Eight
persons, including two women, are
being held.
Evening star., 1946-03-10
Adequate Safeguards
For A-bomb Secret
Urged by Patterson
By the Associated prss,

Secretary of War Patterson as
serted last night the Nation would
be put in "direst peril If new atomic
control legislation failed to safe
guard adequately the secrets of the
bombs manufacture.
bisclaiming that the War Depart
ment wants to remain in control of
atomic energy" Mr. Patterson said
in a. CHS broadcast that instead it
whorheartedly supports President
Trumans recommendation for ci-
william agency.
But as minimum consideration"
he urged provision for direct par
ticipation by the War and Navy
Departments in the military appli-
cation of atomic energy until we can
be sure that no atomic bombs will
be dropped on u.s."
Needs Unquestioned Power.
AS another consideration, the Sec
retary said any new agency that
may be set up by Congress should
have unquestioned power to guard
any information which it decides
Is vital to the national security.
I'VE would put this Nation, and
indeed every peace-loving nation,
In the direst peril if we did not take
due precautions to guard vital
knowledge and keep foremost in this
field until we have in actual opera
ton an effective system of inter-
national control" Secretary Patter-
son contended.
The War Department-supp
May-Johnson bill now locked in the
House Rules Committee was drafted,
he said, after months of study by
civilian group which advised for
mer Secretary Stimson.
Time for Decision.
Without specifically reiterating
support of this measure as against
legislation for a greater measure of
civilian control drafted by the Sen
ate Atomic Committee, Secretary
Patterson said "It is time, indeed
1t is past time, for decisions to be
made"
Col Evans Carlson, leader of
Carlson's Marine Raiders, yester-
day urged in letters to members of
the Senate Atomic Committee that
control of nuclear energy be vested
in civilian commissions in the
United States and the United Ma
tions Organization.
Col. Carlson urged enactment OF
the atomic control bill introduced by
Senator Mcmahon, Democrat, of
Connecticut, AS a member of the
armed forces advisory committee
of the American Veterans Commit
tee, he spoke for AVG.
Evening star., 1946-03-10
Anti-Franco Pickets March
Near Spanish Embassy

Barred from picketing the Spanish
Embassy by the law against picket
ing within 500 feet of an embassy,
more than 100 persons demonstrated
for an hour yesterday afternoon a
block south of the building. They
carried banners denouncing the
Franco government.
Under the sponsorship of the
Washington Industrial Union Coun-
Gil, the Baltimore Industrial Union
Council and the Students Citizens
League for Democracy, the demon
strators walked in a double line at
the west wall of Meridian Hill Park
Sixteenth and Euclid streets NV.
The Spanish Embassy is at Six
teenth and Fuller streets NV.
The lens of the eye continues to
grow In Size throughout life.
Evening star., 1946-03-10
By the A.soeiafsd Press

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. Mar. o.
Neither OF the two World Wars
would have occurred If there had
been a prewar alliance between the
United States and Great Britain,
Leslie Hore- -Belisha, former British
Minister of War. said today. He is
vacationing here with his wife after
a tour of Latin American countries.
In an interview with the Miami
Herald, Mr.. Hore-Belisha strongly
urged a permanent Anglo American
alliance, but cautioned Americans
against feeling that it would be
principally "a means of defending
Britain"
He said the United Nations Or
ganization is necessary, but it