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Evening star., 1946-08-24
Public Reaction Favorable
To Bus Speaker System

The reactions of the riding public
to the microphone-speaker units
installed experimentally this week
on one Capital Transit bus and one
streetcar have been definitely
good" company officials said today.
The units, which are being tested
both for public reaction and me-
chanical defects, are used by drivers
to announce stops. transfers and ask
the public to move to the rear of
the car. please"
Previous experiments with speaker
systems on the vehicles had proved
unsuccessful due to "feedbacks,
squawks and grating noises COM
pany officials said. They added,
however, that the present equip
ment, with microphone small
enough to be attached to the collar
of the driver, was developed spe-
cially for the purpose.
The company expects to test the
units for several months before de-
Gliding whether to install them on all
cars and buses.
Evening star., 1946-08-24
Corneu Given
To Blind Miner
As Slayer Dies
BY the Associated Press

RENO, Aug. 24.-An elderly Vir-
ginia City miner, whose sight was
destroyed 25 years ago, rested quiet
ly here today after an operation
which transplanted into his eye a
cornea taken from the eye of a muir
derer executed in Nevada's S gas cham
Der at sunrise yesterday.
DR.. Samuel Clarke, Reno eye sur
geon, who performed the opera
ton, said changes for its success ap-
peared good, but he will not know
the outcome for a week or more.
The miners identity was not dis
closed.
DR.. Clarke said the cornea taken
from the other eye of a Lovelock
New man who has been able to
see only dimly since childhood.
The corneas were taken from the
eyes of Albert E. Sala of Oakland,
Calf, executed for the hammer
Staying of Los Angeles business
man last September. Sala be-
queathed his eyes 'to some worthy
blind person, so that they may see
again"
Evening star., 1946-08-24
Chinese NationaIisfs
Reported Moving on
Key Communist City
BY the Associated Press

NANK1NG, Aug. 24.-Government
troops were reported today moving
on the key Communist city of
Chengteh in Jehol Province today as
Communist forces besieging Tatung
failed in their twelfth attempt to
break through stiff defenses of that
important Shansi Province rail hub.
Chinese press dispatches said Ma
tionalist troops had advanced to
within 80 miles of Chengteh, one
of the three major Communist cities
the government recently threatened
to attack unless the siege of Ia
tung were lifted,
The government Central News
Agency reported Nationalist troops
had recaptureds Chianghsien, in
Southern Shansi Province, and
turned back a Communist attack
on Lanfeng, Honan Province, kill
ing every soldier who entered the
city.
At Peiping, Wang Hung -hao, chief
of staff of government field head
quarters, mentioned the possibility
of "allout civil war" in telling news
men that the main North China
cities of Peiping and Tientsin would
be stoutly defended should the
Communists attack. There will
be no question about the safety
of the big Cities" he said
Meantime, in the capital the
first Communist reaction to the
compromise last chance" peace
plan, which presumably has Gen
eralissimo Chang Kai-shek's ap-
proval, was one OF distrust.
Disputed areas of China, under
the plan which was brought from
the summer capital at Kuling yes
terday, would be placed under
United States trusteeship.
A Communist spokesman said
that while his group had not yet
received the proposal officially,
headquarters at Yenan would hesi-
tate to approve it for fear all Com
munist-held areas would be con-
sidered disputed zones.
Some sections of China, such as
Northern Kiangsu Province, have
been under Communist control for
years and the government has no
claim to them, he declared.
Evening star., 1946-08-24

since Mr.. Rosenberg, 5l-year-old
father of two teen-age children,
was killed in his second-foor apart
ment at Princess and Henry streets.
Mclaughlin also was wanted by
Washington police in connection
with the serious stabbing August II
of James Martin, colored, 26, of
BOT Virginia avenue S.W., where
Mclaughlin sometimes lived, police
said.
Meant to "Shoot It Out"
Inspector Barrett told reporters
police knew Mclaughlin was "des-
perate" man and a girl friend of
the slain gunman repeatedly had
told police he meant to shoot it
out with the cops" If he was ever
trapped.
Detective Greenwalt holds the
Citizenship Medal, awarded to him
in l94l when he was wounded in a
gun fight with a colored man in
Alexandria In which the man was
killed and another policeman was
wounded seriously.
Sergt. Harty last month figured
in another shooting when he wound
ed 23-year-old robbery suspect
as the latter bolted from the Office
of United States Commissioner
Needham C. Turnage after his ar
raignment. The suspect, John Nc
Gill, colored, of the 200 block of
N street S.W., was recaptursd two
hours later.
Evening star., 1946-08-24
Anthony Eden's Niece
Will Become Bride
BY the Assoeiated Press

SEATTLE, Aug. 24.-Miss Mary
Markham, niece of former British
Foreign Minister Anthony Eden, and
Joseph Dana Roberts, Seattle enter
tainment guide publisher, have an
nounced their engagement.
They said yesterday they have set
the marriage cermony for September
18 at Trinity Episcopal Parish
Church, with the Right Rev. Harold
Sexton, Anglican Bishop of British
Columbia, officiating.
Miss Markham arrived here last
spring after transcontinental tour
in which she told newspaper inter-
viewers she preferred Americans to
British because they were not "snob-
bish" or class conscious.
Mr.. Roberts is the son, of Mr.. and
Mrs. Arthur Emory Roberts, Ober-
lin, kans., and is former major on
Gen. Mark Clark's staff. He is a
former Washington State legislator.
Evening star., 1946-08-24
sos japanese Plants
Listed for Removal
BY the Associated Press

TOKYO. Aug. 24-Gen. Douglas
Macarthur today made public a list
of sos plants in eight industrial
fields selected for potential removal
from Japan as reparations to Al
lied nations.
The japanese government was di-
rected to furnish all necessary as
sistance" in dismantling the fac
tories.
Some plants, however, may con-
tinue operations until subsequent
orders are issued.
Gen. Macarthur in a previous
order listed aircraft factories, gov
ernment arsenals and scientific lab
oratories as potentially the first to
be removed. Today's announce
ment added these:
Ninety per cent Of The ball-bear-
ing and roller-bearing industry.
All privately owned munitions
plants.
Shipbuilding capacity for steel
ships over 100 gross tons in excess
Of that necessary to build 10000
gross tons annually and service a
fleet of 100000 gross tons.
All sulphuric acid plants capable
of producing more than 3,500,00C
metric tons annually.
One-half Of all thermal electric
power generating plants.
Twenty-Five iron and steel plants
One-half of the machine tool in
dustry and
Nineteen soda cash, caustic soda
and chlorine plants.
Evening star., 1946-08-24
Doctors Try TO Save Girl
With Radioactive Druu
BY ihe Associated Press

BOSTON, Aug. 24.-The medical
profession turned today to atomic
energy in a last-ditch fight to save
the life of 3-year-old Janice Mo-
schella.
The child. daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Michael Moschella of the East
Boston section, was sent home from
a hospital three days ago to die,
after hospital physicians announced
they could not save her from a ma
lignant humorous infection of the
liver.
After newspaper appeals by her
parents, a supply of rare radio-ac-
tivated phosphorus, 10 millicuries
processed on the cyclothron at the
University Of Illinois was sent by
plane during the night.
DIR. Saul Hertz, Boston specialist
and research associated at Harvard
and Massachusetts, Institute of
Technology, who will administer the
phosphorus, said the test was suit
able" in this case, since other known
methods of treatment had failed.
Evening star., 1946-08-24
CrumSoys Aeheson's Files
Will Prove His Charges
BY the Assoeio,ed Press

APTOS, Calf, Aug. 24.-Bartley
Crum, commenting on Undersecre-
tary of State Acheson's denial of his
charge that middle level" career
officials of the department had frus-
trated American policy on Palestine,
last night said "the secret file in Mr..
Achesons control will be the best
answer"
Mr.. Crum, San Francisco lawyer
and former member of the Ameri-
can British Palestine Committee,
suggested that Mr.. Acheson make
the file public.
1t would include, he said, " a series
of cablegrams which passed between
the State Department and Yemen,
Baghdad, Beyrouth, Cairo and
capitals of other Middle Eastern
kingdoms for the period beginning
in 1887 through November, 1945.
The cables will show that every
time United States promises were
made to American Jewry, assurances
were given the Arabs by the State
Department that nothing would be
done" Crum said.
Evening star., 1946-08-24
Better Phone Service
Promised in AnnandaIe

The Annandale (Va.) community
will receive better telephone service
within so days, members of the An
nandale Businessmen's Association
were told at their meeting this week.
Omer L. Hirst. publicity chairman,
said committee met with John B.
Bowden, manager of the Alexandria
Office of the Chesapeake & Potomac
Telephone Co. and received the as
surances.
James A. McWhorter was auth
orized to investigate a proposed
sanitary district to extend sewer
trunks into the business district,
with branches In residence areas.
State Senator Andrew w. Clarks
promised to assist in efforts to OBJ
tain a sidewalk along Columbia
pike.
Evening star., 1946-08-24
jap Representatives
OK New Constitution
BY the Assoeioied Press

TOKYO, Aug. 24.-After IS days
of deliberations Japan's House of
Representatives approved a revised
draft of the proposed new constitu-
ton today by vote of 421 to 8. Dis
senters included six Communists.
The draft now goes to the House
of Peers for debate.
During the final lower-house de-
bate an 86-year-old member, Yukio
Ozaki, declared Japan has a long
way to go before realizing democ-
racy.
The new constitution is excel
lent" he said, "but because of it's
excellence prime Importance lies in
the peoples attitude Of mind. 1t is
extremely difficult to realize de-
mocracy among our people who
have been immersed with the bad
Ihabit of subservience
Evening star., 1946-08-24
Philippines Threaten
To Bomb GuerriIIus
BY the Associated Press

MANILA, Aug. 24.-Brig. Gen.
Mariana Castaneda, Philippine prov
ost marshal general, threatened to-
day to use bombs as we'll as artillery
if Hukbalahap EARNED pheasant)
guerrillas don't behave"
IF they don't show more respect
for law, We are coming to knock
them out quick" Gen. Castaneda
said in an interview. The govern
ment is not bluffing. Stability of the
republic is threatened"
Meanwhile, President Roxas said
the Philippine army had been or
dered to seize unregistered firearms
after August 81, deadline of the un-
easy truce in Central Luzon, where
military police have clashed re-
peatedly with Hukbalahaps, who
demand land reforms.
Evening star., 1946-08-24
Gun Fight
Continued From First Page.)


lice cars rushed to the restaurant at
803 Fourth street SW., when an
informer telephoned the Detective
Bureau that Mclaughlin was there.
Proceeding with caution because
the restaurant was crowded with
patrons, the raiders began surround
ing the establishment Detectives
Hardy. GreenWalt and Sullivan were
on their way to their post in front
of the restaurant when they en-
countered Mclaughlin on the street,
participants declared.
Ignored Command to Halt.
The three officers said McLaugh-
lin ignored a command to halt and
started running west on H street
S.W., with police in pursuit. AS he
ran, police said, Mclaughlin fired
one shot without effect.
The shot was returned by the run
ming detectives. Greenwalt fired four
shots, Hardy two and Sullivan fired
several times" during the gun fight.
Mclaughlin turned south on Sixth
street and disappeared into yard
Evening star., 1946-08-24

chine bone removed, leaving a r
inch roast (which offers the maxi
mum of eating pleasure, roast
you will serve with PRIDE Not
about lamb, but tender young
lamb Not just ham, but tender
delicious ham"
And so on until you begin to
drool and you know Just what you'd
like to have for dinner. 1t has all
been done with words.
Palatable Mulligan Stew.
Then there is the case of the
Price Decontrol Board. Out of what
was left of OPA, the board cooked
up an administrative mulligan stew
and endeavored to make it as pala-
table as possible for the public and
other parties concerned. 1t couldn t
do any better and it prepared a
statement which practically told us
we'd better eat it and like it. 1t
hoped, said the board in the tone
of a haraSsed housewife, that labor
wouldn't try ito get theirs while
the getting was good" AS for the
farmers and industry, the board
said it hoped they wouldn't try to
extract the last ounce of profit,
And ii paid its respects to Congress,
as the inadequate family provider
in these words:
For We were following the law of
Congress, as nearly as cur con-
science and our judgment would
allow"
All these fretful remarks were
contained in a broadcast explaining
the decontrol orders. But somebody
who had learned never to under
estimate the power of words got
hold of the script and it was
changed. The crack at Congress was
eliminated entirely. Labor was
merely admonished to restrain any
impulse to advance its interests
against the interests of the country, y
and farmers and industry to curb
''any impulse to obtain more than a
fair profit"
Just matter of words, words that
can be used either to arouse pas
sion or to soothe the savage breast.
Women Liked Rationing.
The whole mess that was made Of
price control by the Congress prob
ably was due largely to words and
the pleasure Congressman get from
playing with the tricky little things.
Very early in the history of OPA,
but after the women of the country
had discovered they liked rationing
and were taking great pride in their
mastery of coupon system that
left most of their menfolks mySti-
fed, some Congressman began
throwing words around to persuade
the women that they were being
abused. Women weren't convinced,
for they really did like rationing.
But here and there producers, dis
tributors and dealers-although not
so many of the latter-began to
prick up their ears. They had COM
plants. some of them legitimate and
some not quite. They started pour
ing their complaints into the ears
of their Congress members. Then
the Congress members went to town.
They had actual instances" to re-
port.
The more the Congress members
talked the more abused the pro-
ducers felt. The more abused they
felt the more they complained. The
more they complained the more the
Congress members talked. There
never was such a SNOWFALL rolling
down any hill. Presently it couldn t
be stopped. BY the time the war had
ended, although the country's need
for price control was as great as
Evening star., 1946-08-24

G e o r 6 e Two
Gun" Cooper,
Inspector Bar
rett, 1t. Jere-
miah Flaherty,
Capt. r o b e r t
Bryant and 1t.
Robert V. Muir
ray, and Alex
a n d r i a Detec-
tives r u s S e | ]
HaWes, Thomas
Woods and Rob-
ert Jones.
Alexandria and
w a S h / n g t o n
police have been
working tnpether
Evening star., 1946-08-24
Acheson Backs Aides
On Palestine Policy
In Reply 10 Crum

Acting Secretary OF State Acheson
fatty branded charges that middle
level career officers in the State De-
partment are frustrating President
Truman's Palestine policy as not
true at a news conference late yes
terday.
The charges we're made by Bart
ley c. Crum, a member of the Anglo
American Committee of Inquiry on
Palestine, at a luncheon Wednesday
under the auspices of the District
chapter of the American Christian
Palestine Committee, headed by IN
dersecretary of the Interior Oscar
L. Chapman.
Mr.. Acheson said Indignantly that
what he termed this business of TAX
ing pot shots at permanent Govern
ment officials, with the shooters TAX
ing some sort of refuge behind fiat
tering remarks concerning higher
officers, should not go on.
Acbeson Takes Responsibility.
He said that, as Undersecretary
of State, it has been his RESPONSE
bility for the past year to see that
policies laid down by President Tru-
man and Secretary Byrnes are car
ried out by the State Department.
If they should be frustrated by
the department, he emphasized, 1t
Is his fault-not that of lower-level
officials assailed by Mr.. Crum.
Mr.. Acheson added that all the
department officials concerned with
the Palestine problem have worked
under his direct guidance, and he
considers himself not too stupid to
know If the Presidents policies have
been frustrated.
Doesn't Mind Criticism.
1t is simply not true. he declared,
that any department officer on any
level frustrated the Presidents in
structions. He said he regretted
very much that Mr.. Crum had lev
eled his charges at officers working
under him instead of at him.
| He added that it is an occupa-
tional hazard of working in the
State Department to be criticized by
everybody, and he doesn't mind it.
Mr.. Crum charged that for every
pro-Palestine promise made by the
President there had been contrary
promise to the Arabs by the middle
level of the. State Department. He
singled out for particular criticism
10y w. Henderson. director of the
State Department. Office OF Near
Eastern and African Affairs.
Evening star., 1946-08-24
New Wage Demands
Threaten Future Of
Sterilization Board
by The kssocio.ed Press

Major Government decisions
on future wage stabilization pol
icy were in the making today
while new labor storm clouds
gathered in the background.
Reconversion Director John r.
Steeman met with the entire Wage
Board yesterday and White House
conferences were continuing over
the week end to study means of
staying any new wave of wage de-
mands-and strikes.
Labor management peace for
months to come depended on a.
satisfactory solution. The CIO has
said as much. and several of it's
large industrial unions are ready to
press higher wage demands if they
are convinced that is the only way
to meet increased living costs.
Two Decisions Must Be Made.
Two immediate decisions had to
be made:
l. Whether to continue the Wage
Sterilization Board at all, in the
absence of price controls on many
essentials. The boards authority
over wages is limited to government
control over prices.
2. Whether to take account of
recent advances in living costs. The
stabilization order now allows en-
ployers to seek price relief for wage
increases up to 80 per cent above
average straight time hourly earn
ings of January, l941. This is be-
cause living costs we're estimated
to have risen that much up to last
october 30 But the Bureau of La
Dor Statistics now figures another
20 per cent has been added to last
October's estimate.
Doubt as to the future arises be-
cause its field is limited to indus
tries where prices still are under
eontrol-which might lead to COM
plants of hardship on workers and
employers in such industries as
compare with those not under con-
troll.
Labor unions were flying danger
signals on all sides:
/. CIO researchers in the steel
auto, electrical, clothing and textile
unions will meet here Tuesday to 60
over the entire wage-price situation
Such meeting preceded the CLOS
first wage drives almost two years
ago.
Auto Workers Plan New Farley.
2. The CIO auto workers will re-
open their wage agreement with the
Chrysler Corp. October 16. The ex-
tent of new wage demands, said
UAW President Walter P. Reuther,
depends on how well the Govern
ment holds down prices.
3. Other CIO unions like the long
shoremen, oil workers, rubber work.
ers and packinghouse workers have
taken steps toward making new
wage demands. The oil workers
union has appointed a 24-man COM
mittee to go into the subject. The
packinghouse workers yesterday
filed strike notices at Swift, Armour
Cudahy and Wilson meat packing
plants. The longshoremen, headed
by Harry Bridges, have a contract
expiring September 30
4. John L. Lewis, whose United
Mine Workers now are in the AFL
sits down September 10 to negotiate
a contract with operators of the
seized bituminous coal mines. He
settled with the Government last
May % on the basis of an 181z-cent
hourly wage increase, but the oper-
ators have no reason to believe that
he will agree to the same terms fol
private operation.
Evening star., 1946-08-24
BY THE HASKIN SERVICE.

@. What animal is the most ex-
pensive to keep in a zoos. V.
A. The sea lion is one of the most
expensive to keep. An adult will
eat about 20 pounds of fish day;
an elephant-seal, a hundred. This
food must be perfectly fresh for
tainted fish would almost certainly
kill the animal. OF the birds, the
pelican costs most to keep.
@. Is 1t permissible TO have a
photostat copy made of naturaliza-
ton papers?-V. B,
A. 1t is contrary to the law to
make photostat copy of naturali-
zation paper.
@. How many children are adopt
ed annually in the United States?
L. l..
A. No exact figure is available
In 1914, adoption petitions were
filed for about $4,000 children in
the country as a whole.
@. Does large telescope magnify
the heavenly bodies?-L. M.
A. The main purpose of the
telescope is not to magnify, although
it can and does make things appear
larger. The primary Importance is
in collecting the light coming from
distant objects and intensifying 1t
so that the astronomer may study
them by means of other instruments
attached to the telescope.
@. How much does the atomic
bomb weigh?-N. S. L.
A. The actual weight of the
atomic bomb is still q military secret
but it is estimated at about 80
pounds.
@. Was the playing of golf for
hidden in Britain at one time? If
so, why?-M. c. M.
A. Golf was forbidden in Scotland
in 1491. The reason given was that
people had become so interested
in golf that they neglected their
archery practice.
@. Can you give some information
about the art of potichomania?-
S. r.
A. Potichomania was popular In
the mid-19th century. Glass vases
in imitation of Chinese potiches
were decorated from the inside
by gluing on, face outward,
variety of colored pictures, ele-
ments, etc, to form a chinoiserie
design When dry, the inner sur
face was coated with a thin layer
of liquid plaster of paris, which,
when set, gave the entire job a
porcelain effect. The plastering
was coated with wax.
@. Should man who is 80 years
of age notify his draft board when
he plans to change his residence to
another State?-R. C..
A. The draft law provides that
men up to A may be drafted, al
though only those up to 20 are
being called at present. Therefore,
a man who is 30 years old should
notify his draft board when going
to another State.
O. II a young woman comes to
the United States as the fiancee of
a serviceman and does not marry
him, can she remain in this
country?-L. S. H.
A. If the marriage does not oc-
cur within the prescribed period, the
alien woman will be required to leave
the United States. If she does not
do so, she will be deported.
Evening star., 1946-08-24
OPA Seeks Injunction
Against Clothing Store
By The Assoeioied Pres,

BALTIMORE, Aug. 24.-The Office
OF Price Administration filed a
petition in Federal Court today for
an injunction to restrain a Silver
Spring clothing store from doing
further business until it established
ceiling prices under OpA regulations.
The OPA charged that the Ed
wards Shop at 8482 Piney Branch
road had never made application for
authority to establish maximum
prices on the womens, girls and
children's clothing it sells.
A. Sacks, manager OF the store
had no comment pending official
notification of the court action.
Evening star., 1946-08-24

Sullivan in the Henry Mclaughlin.
finger. The detective said McLaugh-
lin leaped to his feet and started
to run again, but Harty fired twice
and Mclaughlin fell.
Dead on Arrival at Hospital.
A few minutes later he was pro-
nounced dead on arrival at Casualty
Hospital
officers who took part in the
manhunt besides Detectives HaEty,
Sullivan and Greenwalt. were ::
Washington Detectives Otto Fuss,
Evening star., 1946-08-24

at 9l2 Sixth
street S.W. The
detectives turned
into the yard
and saw Nc
Laughlin on the
ground.
Sullivan called
on the man to
surrender, h e
said.
Without re-
p y n g, Nc
Laughlin rolled
and fired his
second shot, the
bullet striking
Evening star., 1946-08-24
Hot luke Box Flames

NEW YORK (R.-Firemen re-
ceived call from the Broadway Inn.
When they arrived they found the
juke box af1ame. Patrons said the
machine had been beating out a
steady stream Of hot jazz when it
suddenly started smoking.