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Evening star., 1947-12-03
By the Assoeiofed Press

CHICAGO, Dec. 3.-Humphrey
Bogart, the film actor, said yester-
day he "detests communism" and
added his recent trip to Washington
was ill-advised, even foolish
Bogart and his wife. Lauren
Bacall, went to Washington during
the House Un-American Activities
Committees inquiry into commu-
nism in Hollywood.
They were part of a group which
flew to the Capital to protest the
committees questioning of film stars
and other notables on the ground
the witnesses we're being deprived OF
their constitutional rights.
Bogart and Miss Bacall held a
news conference after the actor had
issued a statement stating he was
not a Communist nor Commun-
ist sympathizer.
II detest communism just as any
other decent American does" Bo-
CART states. II have never in my
life been identified with any group
which was even sympathetic to
communism. = - went to Wash
ington because I thought fellow
Evening star., 1947-12-03
1emperaiureExpected
To Rise 10 Cos Today

A changeable season is due to
bring. the temperature from this
mornings low of 20 at 1882 am.
to a predicted high in the Cos
this afternoon.
It was still a chilly 33 at 8
am. as Office workers headed toward
their jobs, but the sun began to
dispel the morning mists shortly
thereafter.
Today will be cloudy, with lowest
temperatures in the 40s, followed
by cloudy, somewhat cooler weather
and occasional light rain tomorrow
Yesterdays low was q at 6:52
am. The highest mark was reached
at 2:40 pm, when the thermometer
read IS.
Tomorrow's predicted rainfall will
be the first in December, but last
month was the wettest November
since 1910. The total rain recorded
at the Weather Bureaus station
at Twenty-fourth and M streets
NV. was 500 inches, compared with
an average for the month Of 2.37.
Evening star., 1947-12-03
Chest Workers Speed
Efforts 10 End Drive
Successfully Dec. Z
$2,854,751 Reported,
Less Than II Per Cent
Of Goal Still UnpIedeed

With 73 per cent of their $3,-
900, 900 goal raised, workers in the
Community Chest Federation
campaign today were speeding
up their efforts to close the cam
paign successfully by Decem-
ber II.
Tabulations at yesterdays report
luncheon in the Burlington Hotel
showed the campaigners had raised
s2,S54, ,751, or 1919 per cent of the
goal.
Campaign leaders today expressed
disappointment over the progress
of the drive at Federation head
quarters.
Assistant Secretary of the Treas
ury Edward H. Foley, campaign
chairman, said yesterday, however,
he was still hopeful the campaigners
by dint of hard work" would be
able to come close to the goal.
He urged the volunteer workers
to renew their energies and "go out
and clean up the last OF the job"
Speaker at yesterdays Dutch
treat luncheon was the Right Rev.
Msgr. Fulton j. Sheen of Catholic
University, who declared that "one
of the greatest preservatives OF a
democracy is the Community Chest,
because it keeps a tremendous
amount of responsibility in the COM
munity.
No Chests in Russia.
+ There are no Community Chests
in Russia, because there is no de-
mocracy."
He said whatever burden is thrown
upon all of us" by the Community
Chest is a sweet burden-a yoke
that Is light"
| In every campaign, he said, there
is always the distinction that the
! ICoo rIJECT paoe A-70
Evening star., 1947-12-03
Dulles 10 Go 10 Paris
Tomorrow for Talk on
French Foreign Policy
MurshuII's COP. Adviser
Undertaking Personal
Foct-Fimding Mission
BY the Associated Press

LONDON, Dec. 3.-John Foster
Dulles, Republican Party adviser
to Secretary of State Marshall at
the Foreign Ministers Council,
plans to 60 to Paris tomorrow to
consult French leaders on French
foreign policy in relation to the
present internal crisis.
Authoritative informants described
Mr.. Dulles trip as personal" fact
finding mission which has the ap-
proval of Gen. Marshall.
The Council, meeting half an hour
earlier today, was near the end of
its debate on preparation of Ger
man peace treaty, but no nearer an
agreement on critical issues than
when the discussions started eight
days ago.
French Foreign Minister Bidault
was due back today from hurried
visit to Paris. He knew of Mr.
Dulles plans before conferring yes
terday with high French officials.
Mr.. Bidault presumably had cleared
the way for the American delegate
De GaulIe Talk Uncertain.
1t has not been decided yet wheth-
er Mr.. Dulles would see Gen. Charles
de Gaulle, whose new rally of the
French people gained impressive
victories in the fall municipal cleo
tions. Socialists in the French gov
ernment have called Gen. de Gaulle
menace)
Mr.. Dulles evidently hopes to dis.
cover some means which he car
recommend to Gen. Marshall fol
strengthening ana redirecting Amer.
ican policies within the conference
He and some others in the delega-
tion are known to believe that the
future of Europe is being decided
not here SO much as by political
conflicts IN France and Italy, con-
gressional discussions on the Mar.
shall plan in Washington, and by
political conditions in Germany.
This section of the delegation ap.
parently would like to find some
way of linking the Marshall plar
recovery program into the Londor
discussions. 1t may attempt to de
so eventually on the line that the
(See BIG -FOUR. Page A-6D
Evening star., 1947-12-03
What theRussions
| Are Saying of Us:

The MoScoD radio, bro1dcGsttns
in English to the United Kingdom.
said.
"It has been known for some
time that Latin America Is an
obedient vassal of the United
States monopolists. Indeed, Amer
ican monopolists have turned the
Latin American countries into a
profitable investment. The state
of the Latin American countries
is highly typical in this respect.
It shows what those who snap at
the bait of American aid may
expect.
"By means of series Of coups
d'etat, reactionary governments
have been put in the saddle.
Democratic elements are being
terrorized and democratic free
dom suppressed. The fact that
Brazil and Chile have broken
of relations with the U. s. S. r.
and other democratic countries
bears testimony to the influence
of reactionary United States
monopoly circles in those coun-
tries, an influence which is grow.
ing from day to day"
Evening star., 1947-12-03

A group of high school stu
dents who sought adventure by
taking midnight flights in a
stolen airplane was reported
broken up today by Prince
Georges County police when
three youths were arrested after
15-minute Joy ride over the
Metropolitan area.
Their pilot, the police said, was
an unlicensed 16-year-old student
whose flight instruction does not
exceed 10 hours and who has never
flown solo.
All those arrested this morning
after a wild chase in stolen auto
mobile are students at Anacostis
High School and live in Congress
Heights, the police reported. Thei
ages were listed as Is, is and 18.
The oldest boy was booked BY
Evening star., 1947-12-03
3 Pupils at Anocostio High Held
In Night Air Joy Rides Over City
Boys, Caught After Wild Car Chase, Flew
With Pilot, Is, Having 10 Hours Instruction

police at Marlboro as Charles S.
Hack, 500 block Newcomb street
Sc. He and his two companions,
whose names were not released be-
cause they are juveniles, were freed
under $500 bond and will be given
hearings Friday.
Last nights hop from the
Columbia Air Center at Croome
Md.-was the third the band has
made within two weeks. A fourth
attempt on thanksgiving night
was thwarted by suspicious airport
officials. Police said four or five
other youths are implicated in con-
fessions signed by the arrested trio
Charged with unauthorized ust
of an airplane, the boys were being
held this morning in the jail a
Upper Marlboro. Police reported
however, that they also face Wash
ington charges Of stealing the 1874
|
Evening star., 1947-12-03
Eaton Says Reds
Gould Take0ver
Europe in Day
Urges Speedy Action
In House on Stopgop
Aid of $50 Million
BY J. A. OLeoy

Russia could take over Europe
in "a hours if it saw fit to do so,
Chairman Eaton of the House
Foreign Affairs Committee de-
clared today in urging speedy
House action on s590,000,0OO of
stopgap aid to France, Italy,
Austria and China.
His warning before the House
Rules Committee followed publica-
ton by his committee of a report
on the bill, setting forth figures to
show the military superiority of
Russia in terms of troops at this
time.
While the Rules Committee was
deciding how long the House should
debate interim aid Representative
Cox, Democrat, of Georgia raised
the question of whether half a
billion dollars" will keep Russia
from expanding further in Europe.
Mr.. Eaton, in charge of the bill.
replied that it would help. He said
the food it will make available is
only a part of its value. The rest
is the boost it will give the morale OF
peoples not yet under Communist
domination.
Sees U. S. Only Soviet Obstacle.
Previously Mr.. Eaton had told the
Rules Committee that Russia pro-
poses to conquer the world by In
filtration or force of arms" He said
she wants to postpone the latter
method as long as possible and
added the United States is the only
obstacle in her path.
What would stop Russia from
taking over Europe in "a hours?"
said Mr.. Cox.
mot a thing-What would we 90
them" Mr.. Eaton replied.
81 think it would be only a short
time before she would encircle the
United States" Mr.. Cox rejoined,
and Mr.. Eaton added, That would
mean living under slavery"
Mr.. Cox indicated his chief con-
Germ was whether the pending aid
bill would accomplish its purpose.
To this Mr.. Eaton replied that
if the Italian nation is cut IN nall,
the Communists will take over that
country and Russia, with control
of Italy, would soon take Greece
and Turkey.
nK:nsn~ al Trnnvx
Representative Brown, Repubh-
can, of Ohio took over the ques.
tioning and sought to bring ou,
that as soon as this bill is law the
Army will ask for an addltlona
s4O0 600, 900 for maintenance OF thu
American occupied zones in German!
and other areas not covered bJ
this bill.
Mr.. Eaton said Secretary Of State
Marshall had mentioned that ir
testifying on this bill.
Mr.. Brown also said he had re-
liable reports that there is still an
unspent balance of $3.50 ,000, 900 from
the defunct UNNRA organization
but Mr.. Eaton challenged this figure
He said the State Department gives
the balance as 100000, and re-
minded Mr.. Brown that the UNNRA
fund is an international one.
The Foreign Affairs Committee
report estimated Russia has 1850, ,00O
men under arms as against ground
forces of free European states" OF
1See FOREIGN AID, Page A-6O
Evening star., 1947-12-03
| Death Toll Rises 10 165
In Storm Off Portugal
By the Associated Press

LISBON, Dec. s. The known
death toll exacted by violent storm
which lashed the Portuguese north
coast fishing fleet yesterday mount
ed to 165 today as five more bodies
were washed ashore near Oporto.
Many small boats still were unac-
counted for.
Maritime authorities described the
storm as the worst in Portuguese
history, with winds reaching a We
locity of 1T miles per hour.
While larger trawlers managed
to fight their way back to port, ii
was believed that many smaller
craft went to the bottom.
Evening star., 1947-12-03
Wheat Prices Off Slightly,
Corn and Oats Lower
By the Associoted Press

Wheat prices on the Chicago
Board of Trade today dropped for
the fourth consecutive day.
Wheat for December delivery
closed at $3.19-.20 Saturday, 30
wear record. Since that time, how
ever, it has declined steadily, and at
the end of the first hours trading
today was quoted at $3.06. Absence
of Government buying and rains in
the Southwest wheat area we're fac
tors in a drop of to 8 cents today
Corn and oats were also lower
December corn was down A-1A
cents, to $2.55h. Oats were 1z-%
lower, December, $122A.
In New York top grade butter was
down 4 cent to 84A cents pound
The Associated Press weighted
wholesale price index of IS commod-
tiles yesterday hit new alltime
peak of 2o567 compared with the
1926 base of 100.
Evening star., 1947-12-03
Civil Service Ratings Revised
To Protect Federal Workers
Improved Efficiency Expected to Result
From Change in Examination Program

goes to a new job in the Govern
ment. The employees last rating in
his former agency will be used in the
new job. However, if his last rating
was unsatisfactory his new mark
will be upped to fair"
2. All employees without previous
efficiency ratings and all newcom-
ers to the Federal service will start
with a good" entrance rating.
3. Regular ratings will be made
after six months in the new job and
annually thereafter. Instead of a
probational rating after 10 months
of service, probationers will be rated
the same as other employees after six
months on the job.
4. The old system whereby regu-
lar efficiency ratings were made each
March 81 has been scrapped and
from now on any agency can spread
it's ratings out throughout the year.
For example, agencies are eX-
Evening star., 1947-12-03
Hughes and Brewster
5quabb|e Entang|ed
In Meyers Inquiry
Plane Builder Is Listed
As Possible Witness in
Present Jury Probe
By Robert K. Walsh

The Howard HugheS-Senator
Brewster controversy was en-
tangled today in the Justice De-
partm ynt's many-sided investi-
CATION of Maj. Gen. Bennett E.
Meyers.
While District grand jury called
further witnesses against the re-
tired Air Force purchasing officer,
Justice Department officials indi-
Gated they are exploring the explo-
sive verbal exchange last August
between the Maine Senator and the
California aircraft builder at Sen
ate War Investigating Subcommit-
tee hearings.
Mr.. Hughes also emerged as
possible witness against Gen. Meyers
in the current grand jury sessions
although Government prosecutors
refused to comment on reports ne
might be subpoenaed.
Readnower Testifies Today.
Today's first witness was Thomas
E. Readnower, who at Senate
subcommittee hearings last month
described himself as a dummy
vice president of the Aviation
Electric Corp. of Dayton, Ohio
He testified at those hearings thai
he kicked back most of his book
salary of $18,6OO to Gen. Meyers
whom he described as the rea
owner of the concern.
He also declared Gen. Meyers
tried unsuccessfully to have hin
tell a "concocted story to the sub
committee about their financial re.
lationship and the operations o.
the company.
Readnower's brother-in-law, Bile.
riot H. Lamarre, 35-year-old former
president of the company, was Ii
the jury room for more than three
hours yesterday. The jury skipped
it's lunch to hear his story ane
stayed in session continuously unit
$3.50 pm.
Lamarre as we'll as his wife, Mrs
Mildred Lamarre, may go back II
again this afternoon, according tt
United States Attorney George Nor
ris Fay and Assistant United State!
= TrTyr1C nore Adl
Evening star., 1947-12-03
French Train Crash Fatal to 17Arabs and Jews
Spurs Deputies to Pass Quickly ResumeBah|ein
Two Parts Of Anti-Strike Bill Tel Aviv, Jaffa
Jerusalem Quiet, but
Smoke Still Rises
From Fire Ruins
BY the Associated Press

JERUSALEM, Dec. 3.-Arabs
and Jews fought with guns, gre
nades, knives and fire today ir
no-man's land between Tel AviI
and Jaffa and the number killed
since dawn yesterday in riots
over the partition of Palestine
was unofficially reported in
creased to 20.
Jerusalem was relatively quiet
although smoke still rose from fire.
kindled yesterday by Arabs starting
a three-day strike Throughout Pal
estine in protest to the United Ma.
tions decision to carve up the Holy
Land.
The Associated Press unofficia
count showed IL Jews and eight
Arabs killed, although the officially
listed casualties showed but eigh1
Jews and five Arabs slain. Police
said I'VE don't know" and will not
know for several days the extep1
of casualties.
60 Are Hospitalized.
Hundreds were wounded Forty
Jews and 20 Arabs were hospitalizeo
with injuries up to noon, but the
Arabs took most of their wounded tt
houses rather than hospitals. Tight
curfews we're imposed in some areas
An informant in Tel Aviv sale
the Arab death toll in the battle
between there and Jaffa will be
heavy"
First casualties from the Tel Aviv.
Jaffa area were two members Of
Hagana, the Jewish defense force
killed and four others and a uni.
formed Jewish policeman wounded
A Jewish physician was reported
slain and his companion was
wounded.
Arab and Jewish forces surgee
back and forth across the boundary
between all-JeWish Tel Aviv and all.
Arab Jaffa in bloody street fighting
Arabs Break Hagana Gordon.
Firing and bomb explosions re-
sounded throughout the day.
Leo Disentchik, Associated Pres
reporter at a vantage point above
the battle area, said spearhead O.
Arab tommygunners broke a cor
don OF Hagana, near Carmel market
and penetrated into the streets o
Tel Aviv, wounding 18 Jews.
Arab fire from rooftops in Jaff'
covered the charge. The action wa
visible from the main thoroughfar
of Tel Aviv. The reporter said Ha
CANA forces grouped and drove bacl
the Arabs.
Jewish sources said veteran Ha
CANA street fighters sifted into Jaff
at 3 pm. and were attempting t.
knock out Arab snipers who wer
endangering lives along the down
town Mea Shearim and Hayarkol
streets.
Hagana informants said they ha
been told that Arabs dressed in Brit
ish army uniforms were grouping TO
attacks on the Jewish industris
area and that large" Arab concen
trations were observed in the Tul
karen and Belt Halevi areas.
The government immediatel
(See PALESTINE, Page A-3)
Evening star., 1947-12-03
Assembly Debate on
Remainder Resumes
Under Heavy Guard
By the Associated Press

PARIS, Dec. 3.-Five thousand
steel-helmeted police and mo-
bile guards were stationed
around the chamber of the Ma
tional Assembly today while
that body continued debate on
the governments five-section
strike control bill, two sections
of which were newly approved.
Official reports that saboteurs
caused a fatal train wreck on the
Paris-Lille line sped the deputies
Endorsement of the first two sec
tions, dealing with sabotage and
agitators.
The guards were placed about the
Assembly chamber before today
session opened. 1t was the first
time police had worn helmets dur
ing the current wave of disorders.
The Champs Elysee was blocked
off at Place Franklin Delano Roose-
welt (RondPoint) and in the Place
Qe Ia COlCOIQe.
Plan for March Denied.
Florimond Bonte, Communist dep
uty, denied reports that the Com
munists had planned to march on
the Assembly.
The police Gordon was dissolved
late in the day and traffic was al
lowed to 60 through.
A high source in the Ministry OF
the Interior said the Council OF
Ministers had decided to call up
10000 more reservists in the near
future for reasons of internal Sc
curity. About 100000 reserve troops
already have been called into the
regular army and another 10000
have been assigned for use as Sc
curity police since Premier Robert
Schuman's government took over
November "a.
II Killed, 40 Hurt.
The Deputies were told that sabo-
teurs unbolted sections of track and
thus derailed a mail train near
Arras shortly after midnight. A
railway official said II persons were
killed. About 40 were hurt.
After acting on the sabotage law
shortly before am, the assembly
recessed a session which had con-
tinued throughout the night, and
prepared to reconvene at 4 pm. to
act on the last three parts OF the
anti-strike law.
The first two sections of the
measure, with which Mr.. Schuman
intends to fight Communist-insti-
gated strikes which have made g.
100000 workers idle, and which are
strangling the whole French econo-
my, were approved over the bitter
opposition of the Communist Depu-
ties.
Penalties Provided.
The first section, approved 402 to
1873, suspends the present laws and
penalties pertaining to sabotage
The second, approved 412 to 1873
establishes penalties of up to 100000
francs ($4,20O3 and Jail sentences oi
five years for saboteurs or for any
Evening star., 1947-12-03
u. S. Movie Was Cue
For Fiibuster, Red
French Deputy Says
By the Assoeiated Press


PARIS, Dec. 3.-Communist
Deputy Georges Gosnat cited
the American film "Mr. Smith
Goes to Washington" today as
one justification for his party's
tactics of delaying every vote
on an anti-strike law demanded
by Premier Robert Shuman.
The film, made several years
ago, depicted a f1libuster in the
United States Senate.
I'VE" Gosnat told the As
sembly, in slow, deliberate
words, "are going to do every
thing in our power to delay a
vote on this law"
Evening star., 1947-12-03
Bulletin
Truman in Key West

KEY WEST, Fla. R.-Presi-
dent Truman arrived by plane
at the Boca Chica Naval Air
Base, 6 miles north of here, at
l pm. today.
Earlier Story on Page A-3)
Evening star., 1947-12-03

(See FLIGHT, Page AID
Evening star., 1947-12-03

(See BIG FOUR, Page A-6D
Evening star., 1947-12-03

(See EFFICIENCY, Page A-6D
Evening star., 1947-12-03

(See PALESTINE, Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1947-12-03

(See FRANCE, Page A.
Evening star., 1947-12-03

1See MEYERS, Page A-4)
Evening star., 1947-12-03

(See NAM, Page A-4)
Evening star., 1947-12-03

(See FOREIGN AID, Page A
Evening star., 1947-12-03

(See CHEST, Page AID
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-07-29
"HEALTHY" AND "DESPERATE"

The British Labor government reports
That 1t has accumulated revenue surplus
in hard cash of 234,O0O,O0O pounds since
the start of the fiscal year on April L.
Hugh Dalton. Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, however, emphasized the striking
contrast between this healthy internal po-
sition and the desperately bad external
balance, with the dollar-loan running out
and exports running at least 100000, 900
pounds behind imports.
We call the readers attention to the
differentiation made by the Labor official
in connection with the internal and exter-
al financial condition of his country. In
pounds, that can be used inside the coun-
try. the British Treasury picked up con-
stantly, but in dollars, necessary to pay for
American imports, the nation lags behind
lnasmuch as imports are necessary for the
maintenance of production and life itself
the internal balance does not help the ex-
ternal situation
There is, in the facts reported, an ar
gument for the creation of some interna-
tional currency. Obviously, if the United
States and Great Britain were one eco
nomic whole, the cash built up in England
could be used to pay for things purchased
IN this country. However, as goods pur-
chased here must be paid for in dollars,
the British must have dollars and the only
way to get them is to sell something to
the United States
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-07-29
WILL TO WORK

Newspapers and some magazines
publish many stories these days about
large profits farmers are making in selling
their crops. Throughout Florida, since
March, excepting for Monroe county,
farmers and grovemen have been reaping
larger profits than ever before.
And yet there was a time when Mon
roe county planters earned hundreds of
thousands of dollars in the course of a
year, chiefly from tomato and pineapple
crops.
AS the Florida Keys are frost-free,
Monroe farmers, as a rule, got the benefits
of marketing their crops earlier than else
where in the state. Those days, when re-
turns from farm and grove products were
large in Monroe, began to decline as the
Oldtimers died out shortly before or after
the turn of the century.
Why did they earn much money in
farming while earnings are practically
non-existent today? The soil is there and
the climate is as genial now as it was then.
Why, then, does Monroe stand alone in
Florida's Ct counties as non-producer of
foodstuffs, except in small quantities?
The answer may be found in one word
work. The odtimers were not afraid of
work. They were from-sun-to-sun workers,
as farmers are generally throughout the
United States. Sometimes they had poor
seasons and sometimes good, but in the
long run they were able to make their
farms and groves profitable.
The early market when profits are
large, awaits the man who is not afraid
of work in developing truck gardens or
farms on the Florida Keys. When he
plants in the early fall, he need not enter
tain any fears of frosts, and, with suffi-
cient rainfall, he may be confident of earn
ing more than what is called good liv-
ing"