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Evening star., 1947-02-01
MoryIo Jonas, Polish Pianist,
Finds Success Has Obligations
Here For Concert,
She Cont Forget
Wur-Torn Past

Maryla Jonas, the Polish pianist,
muses. after II months of her career
in the United States that success
brings not only hard work but an
obligation to give something back
to the world.
A year ago next February Is, the
critics were acclai;nirg her for the
first time here, after iler debut at
Carnegie Hall in New York. She
had exactly $5 in the bank. The
money she had saved for four years
while playing in South America had
gone to arrange her concert.
"I am the happiest woman in the
world" she said yesterday during
an interview at her suite In the
Raleigh Hotel, where she is stay
ing pending her first Washington
concert at pm. tomorrow in Con-
stitution Hall.
"And because of this ! want to
express good and peace through
my music" she said.
Knows What War Means.
Miss Jonas knows what war can
mean. Already a pianist of note
abroad, she went through more
than seven months in a Nazi con-
centration camp after the invasion
of Poland before finally making her
way to South America. Her first
husband and most of her family
were dead
Sick and heart-broken, she re-
fused to touch a piano until her
noted compatriot, Artur Ruben
stein, persuaded her to play bit
under the ruse of his wish to test
the acoustics of hall.
When went to Carnegie Hall
almost year ago." she recalled, "it
was cold and my hands were stiff
was frightened and spoke almost
no English. 1t didn't matter. be-
cause no one spoke to me. There
was no one in my. dressing room,
and only 400 people in the audi
ence."
At her next concert nve weeks
later, the hall was filled. Every
one wanted to speak to her.
'Nice to Have Minks."
The blonde pianist glanced at her
diamond rings, gifts Of her hus-
band.
"It is nice to be able to have
minks and nice Clothes" she said.
But, now I live in trains, and
always there is work to be done.
I scarcely ever see my husband CDR.
Ernest Abraham, whom she married
six weeks ago).'
She can't forget the past. but
she is concentrating on new and
completely different life"
"Our generation cannot escape
the hardships of war, hut maybe
we can help future generations to
escape them" she said.
Evening star., 1947-02-01
$50, 900 Damage Verdict
Returned in Dental Cuse

A District Court jury yesterday
afternoon returned a verdict for
10000 in favor of Paul Sternal Of
1868 South Carolina avenue Sc,
against a dentist, who the plaintiff
charged, had aggravated or caused
q cancer on the tongue.
The verdict was against DR.. A. P.
Kasmer of the 270O block of Macomb
street NV. The suit said DR.. Kas-
mer had treated the plaintiff from
September, 1914, to July, 1945.
Mr.. Sternal was represented by
Attorney David A. Fegan. Justice
Jennings Bailey presided at the
trial.
Evening star., 1947-02-01
Pilot Tells 'probers
Simple Services for
Air Safety Needed

A veteran airline pilot told House
members investigating air accidents
yesterday that II more attention
were paid to simple safety device.
like windshield Improvement, he
wouldn't feel obliged to carry 9
hammer to smash the glass In an
emergency.
In the opinion of Capt. J. e
Wood Of Eastern Airlines, there IL
too much clan1or for more speed
which already is the industrys
strongest point, and not enough for
more reliability, the weakest point.
Despite the fact that four
engined planes have become COM
plicated and expensive. Mr.. Wood
told the House Commerce Commit
tee, he still carries In his personal
kit putty knife for scraping ice
of the windshield, along with a
hammer to make sure he can see
should this method fail.
Adequate Lights Held Lacking.
In the interest of reliability, he
said, he and his fellow pilots have no
quarrel with new approach aids like
instrument landing systems and
ground-controlled radar, either OF
which can bring "any qualified pilot
down to 200 feet over the runway"
What he objected to, he said, was
lack of adequate approach and run
way lights to help him down usually
from 200 feet, in poor daylight as
well as darkness. The lack of these
lights and need for Standardization
in marking distractions in approach
areas was emphasized also by David
l.. Behncke, president OF the Air
Line Pilots Association.
On this subject, Representative
Priest, Democrat, of Tennessee re-
marked that "a pilot friend of mine
told me that when approaching a
city at night he looked for the dark
est area and that was sure to be
the airport"
AS to complex aircraft, Capt
Wood pointed out the cockpits Of
four -engined transports now con-
tain '434 instruments and gadgets"
in addition to an 83-item check list
and 80 caution and instruction signs
and various manuals and log books.
1t is essential, he declared, that an
other flight crew member be added.
Lawyer Suggested.
"Pilots sometimes remark face
tiously," the captain said, that the
third member ought to be lawyer"
Mr.. Behncke listed 40 specific
safety improvements which, he said,
had been received from a union
membership representing 81 per
cent Of the country's airline pilots.
Principal among these were i'm
proved ground lighting, stricter fire
prevention methods and added
ground equipment, and more rigid
service tests of new or remodeled
transport types before they are put
in passenger service.
Evening star., 1947-02-01
Alaska Army Base Children
Give $500 10 Dimes Drive

Money orders totaling $200.73,
which children at a United States
military installation in Alaska took
the lead in raising, have reached the
Office OF the Chief of Army Chap
lains here to be contributed to the
March of Dimes drive.
In a letter addressed to Maj. Gen.
Luther D. Miller, chief of Army
chaplains, from Chaplain M. G. Ellis
Of the 80th Infantry Battalion,
Adack Island, Alaska, the latter ex-
planned that the children of the air
base chapel on the island had car
ried on a campaign to help fight
polio here.
. To the funds the children raised
were added offerings from a special
service conducted at the chapel.
Valley frontiersman., 1947-11-26
LI'L ABNER

Call 8 10 get meeting notices printed in inc Frontiersman.
Evening star., 1947-02-08
AP Newsman Wounded
By Indo-Chinese SHIPPER
By the Assoeiafed Press

HANOI, Indo-China, Feb. g.
Michel S. Moutschen, Associated
Press correspondent and photogra-
Ipher, was wounded critically. by
a sniper's bullet today as he ac-
confpanied French troops in cross
ing of the Rouge River outsios
Hanoi.
Mr.. Moutschen, two corresponds
ents of the French Press Agency
and another for the Paris news-
paper L'Epoque were with the
troops when the unit came under
Viet-Namese sniper fire at ! 80 pm.
A bullet entered Moutschen's
neck, injuring his spine and caus-
ing severe throat hemorrhage. He
was taken to the Lanessan Hospital
in Hanoi, where doctors said his
condition was critical.
Mr.. Moutschen, q Belgian wi1C
became an Associated Press corre-
spendent last June, has been GOV.
ering the fighting between French
and Viet-Nam Nationalists In Indos
China since December 10.
French government officials visits
ing him in the hospital, awarded
him the Croix de Guerre.
Evening star., 1947-02-08
Apples Baked by Cold Found
By Byrd at His Old Camp
BY Thomas K. Henry
Star Sfoff Correspondent

NAVY ANTARCTIC BASE, Feb
8.-Today when Rear Admiral
Richard E. Byrd visited the camp
he abandoned IA years ago on
previous South Polar expedition, he
found box of apples baked" by
the cold.
The second Little America camp
long since had been buried deep in
the ice. During the entire period
since it's abandonment, the tempera-
ture has been nearly constant at
one degree above zero-the yearly
mean temperature for the Bay of
Whales region.
The apples, fresh when they were
left, now are precisely like oven
baked apples in taste and texture,
but somewhat juicier.
The phenomenon of baking by
cold has never before been reported.
Apparently baking oven heat and
zero temperatures over a long period
have nearly exactly the same effect
on apples. Oranges left behind,
however, were found to be ill-tasting
and the butter was quite rancid.
Expedition heads today also dis
Evening star., 1947-02-08
Taft Says Trade Policy
Cannot be Changed by
6. 0. P. This Session
Trumon's Veto Would Kill
Bill to Limit Reciprocal
Poets, Senator Believes

Senator Taft, Republican, of
Ohio said today the Republicans
may as well give up hope of
changing the Administrations
reciprocal trade program at this
session of Congress.
The Ohioan, chairman Of the
Senate Republican Policy Commit
tee, told a reporter he is sure Presi-
dent Truman would veto any bill
to limit the tariff lowering author
ity of the State Department.
And he said there is no possibility
that the necessary two-thirds vote
could be mustered in both House
and Senate to override a veto. For
practical purposes" Senator Taft
said, 1--WE can't do anything about
the reciprocal trade program until
next year, when the present law
expires. Enough Democrats are Ger
tain to go along with the President
to prevent repeal of the law or any
material change in it,"
Does Not Favor Compromise.
Nevertheless, Senator Taft made
1t clear he does not subscribe to the
compromise trade proposals put
forward yesterday by Senators Van
denberg, Republican, of Michigan,
chairman of the Senate Foreign Re-
lations Committee, and Millikin,
Republican, of Colorado, chairman
of the Senate Finance Committee.
In brief Senators Vandenberg and
Millikin proposed that the Presi-
dent exercise the power they said
he already has to overrule inclusion
In trade pacts of tariff cuts that
threaten damage to American in
dustry.
They proposed also that escape"
clauses be put in agreements with
foreign nations by which the Presi-
dent could modify or wipe out cuts
that peril" business at home.
Official Explains Escape Clause.
Paul H. Mite, deputy director of
the State Departments Office of In
ternational Trade Policy, said in
Denver that the administration has
decided to include such an escape
clause in all future reciprocal trade
agreements.
In an address to the Colorado
Mining Association, Mr.. Nitze said
the escape clauses will be similar
to that in the trade agreement with
Mexico, which permits either gov
ICeo Tp AnT pooc A.1l
Evening star., 1947-02-08
Wartime Police Graft
In Honolulu CHARGED
By the Assoeioted Press

HONOLULU, Feb. "a territorial
tax collector asserted today that vice
and gambling interests paid out ST.
100000 annually for police protection
IN Honolulu during the lush war
years. ...
The collector, Deputy Territorial
Tax Commissioner Jack Bell, de-
clared the territory. as well as the
Federal Government, had an income
tax claim against William K. Clark
former Honolulu vice squad ser
geant, whose safe deposit box con-
tanned nearly $135,0o0.
When Federal Internal Revenue
agents took possession of the money
at a bank yesterday, Clark told
them: "I pass this box to you for
the United States Government and
Hawaii"
Later, Mr.. Bell said to newsmen
that the territory also had an in
come tax claim against Clark and
1--WE are going to collect ii"
Mr.. Bell disclosed that beginning
last March territorial investigators
checked every island bank, trust
company, building and loan assoeis-
tion and real estate Office looking for
Clark's assets.
After the Bishop National Bank
reported Clark had a safe deposit
box, the prosecutors Office placed 9
man on guard at the vault until last
November 4, when Federal agents
seized the box.
Mr.. Bell said Clark kneU the box
was watched, and had he attempted
to open it he would have beer
served with q writ.
Evening star., 1947-02-08
BY the A.seeiatsd Press

NORFOLK, Va. Feb. 8.-Four
Navy enlisted men were reported
dead today and II others were In
Portsmouth Naval Hospital from
poisoning believed to have resulted
from drinking Of wood alcohol
aboard the u. S. s. Latimer Thurs
day night.
Only one of the dead has been
identified by naval authorities.
He is Eugene Sherrarad, seaman
1ic, son of Mrs. Bette r. Almon,
Dallas, Tex.
Identification Of the other three
bodies was being withheld pending
notification Of the next Of kin. OF
the three, two are at the Naval Hos
pital, and one said to have been in
Elkins, w. Va, where he had gone
on leave after the alleged drinking
party aboard the ship.
Evening star., 1947-02-08
Judges Ruling Imminent
In Portal Pay Test Case
By the Assoeiafed Press

DETROIT, Feb. 8.-All the Nation
today loked expectantly toward De-
troit and a Federal judges ruling in
a pay dispute.
There was possibility the verdict
of Judge Frank A. Picard in the
celebrated Mt. Clemens Pottery Co.
portal pay case would be handed
down.
Judge Picard himself was making
no promises. In court circles, how
ever, it was limited he might be in
position to announce his decision
before the day was over.
Against it's towering background
of nearly $4,000, ,000, 900 in portal-to-
portal pay claims by labor, the
meaningful case approached its mo-
ment of decision with all American
industry and labor attentive.
The United States Government,
aware of its significance to many
more billions in wartime cost-plus
contracts with industry, was a
watchful onlooker as well.
Evening star., 1947-02-08
Fire Damage $200, 600
In Virginia Town
BY the Associated Press

CAMBRIA, Va, Feb. 8.-Flames
Of an unexplained origin wiped out
most of the business section Of this
railway junction town early today
with damage estimated at SOC, 600
Firemen from ,Christiansburg and
Blacksburg fought the blaze, water
from their hoses freezing on the
streets in near-zero weather.
Five frame buildings and a large
brick structure were a total loss
with the possible exception of con-
tents Of the Bank of Cambria vault,
as yet unexamined In the smolder-
ing embers. Also destroyed were the
post ofice, six business concerns,
several apartments and two dwell
ingA
Evening star., 1947-02-08
Yoshida Staying Plot
Reported Frustrated
BY the Assoeiatsd Pres.

TOKYO, Feb. 8.-Plans for the
assassination of Premier Shigeru
Yoshida were frustrated today with
the arrest of q would-be assassin
by police in Matsuyama, on Shikoku
Island, Kyodo news agency reported.
The prisoner, identified as Asao
Yamakawa, IS, of Matsuyama, was
reported to have had on his person
when arrested a pistol and complete
plans for carrying out the assassina-
tion.
Yamakawa reportedly asserted he
had 10 comrades III the plan, 8 of
who already were in the Tokyo area.
Tokyo metropolitan police force be-
gan an immediate investigation.
United States 9th Army headquar-
ters at Yokohama and 1st Corps
headquarters at Kyoto, which has
control of the area of the arrest, said
they had no knowledge Of the re-
ported plot.
Evening star., 1947-02-08
Girl Who Lost Legs, Arm
In Accident 10 Walk 10 Altar
BY the Asseeiuted Press

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 8.-Clover
Kerr, 20, had to start life anew
after she lost both legs and her
right arm in a traffic accident here
in 1887. But the difficult handicaps
seemed only a challenge, for she
learned to walk, ride horseback,
dance and write-and now she Is
to become a bride.
The attractive Miss Kerr, whose
cheerful attitude through diff
cult decade has been an inspira-
ton to her friends, will walk to
the altar to become the wife OF
Clark Robert Taylor of Roseburg,
Greg, at the First Presbyterian
Church there next Friday evening
After the accident, which oc-
CURED in Los Angeles, the 19-year-
old girl was in critical condition
for weeks, but her friends say she
never lost her smile and her
determination to return to a normal
way of life.
She learned to walk on artificial
legs, learned to write with her left
hand and played piano compost
tions designed for the left hand
alone.
Evening star., 1947-02-08
Mrs. Roosevelt Accepts
Medal for Late President
BY the Associated Press

PARIS, Feb. 8-Mrs. Eleanor
Roosevelt, on behalf of the late
President, has accepted the posthu-
nous award of the Medaille Mill
taire, highest French military deco
ration, to her husband, French gov
ernment circles reported today.
Mrs. Roosevelt's acceptance was
sent to French Ambassador Henri
Bonnet, expressing appreciation of
the tribute to her husbands memory.
At the same time, China's Presi-
dent Generaissimo Chang Kai-
shek notified the French govern
ment of his acceptance. Britain's
former Prime Minister Winston
Churchill had previously accepted
the honor,
Evening star., 1947-02-08
Truman TO Call New Farley
On Highway Safety in June

President Truman announced TO-
day that he would call another
highway safety conference in June
to report on progress resulting from
a similar meeting last May and to
take whatever steps may be neces-
sary to push safety work.
The first conference brought to-
gether representatives. OF Govern
ment and private agencies concerned
with highway safety and the Pres
ident explained that committees
named at the time suggested q
followup conference.
BY June, the President said, most
of the A State Legislatures meeting
this year will have completed their
work and the meeting therefore will
have an opportunity of seeing what
was done in the States toward
enacting uniform laws on driver
licensing and similar matters.
Maj. Gen. Philip F. Fleming, Fed
eral Works Administrator, who was
conference chairman, has been di-
rected by the President to call this
years session. The date has not
been fixed,
Evening star., 1947-02-08

closed that planes. operating of
the Knox Coast of Wilkes Land
have discovered a second big bay
with nearly the dimensions of an
ice-walled sea. This open water
bay covers roughly 12.00 square
miles. It cuts 60 miles into ice walls
along 200-mile front.
Admiral Byrd, after studying the
movement of the ice around the Bay
of Whales, said measurements
showed that open water extended &c
miles further south when the Nor
wegian explorer, Roald Amundsen
made his base here for the trek
which ended In discovery of the
South Pole.
The studies throw light on the
basic mechanism of the formation OF
the great ice shelves ringing the
Antarctic continent.
The ships of the expedition this
evening started north out of the
Ross Sea, leaving a base camp al
the Bay of Whales for further ex-
plorations. It will be evacuated by
lsee HENRY, Page A-20
Evening star., 1947-02-08
BY the Associated Press

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, Feb. 8
Senator Vandenberg, Republi-
can, of Michigan declared today,
II am not a candidate for the
Republican presidential nomina-
ton, don't expect to be and have
no wish to be-"
Michigan's senior Senator, here
for an address before the State Re-
publican Convention, made his
statement at a press conference
and added, "but a man would be en-
tirely numb If he were. insensible to
the compliment the suggestion i'm
plies"
Taking heed of reports that his
native State would boom him for
the presidential nomination in 1948,
Senator Vandenberg said in, his
speech. 49,,
THE success of the Republican
Party is my only interest in 1913.
I charge you to ignore all consider
ationS of localized allegiance, if
Evening star., 1947-02-08
Four Sailors Die After Drinking
Wood dA1cohoI on Ship at Norfolk

Details Of the events leading to
the death OF the men were being
withheld pending completion OF an
Investigation by Atlantic Reserve
Fleet authorities.
The Latimer, . naval attack
transport, is berthed at the South
gate terminal annex Of the Norfolk
Naval Shipyard In Portsmouth.
1t was stated that although the
men apparently drank the alcohol
Thursday night, no Ill effects were
noted until about S am. yesterday
when several suddenly became Ill.
Two Of the men we're pronounced
dead on arrival at the hospital and
another died last night.
The IL men under treatment at
the hospital today were said to be
IN fair condition.
Evening star., 1947-02-08
Vondenberg Is Not Candidate
And Doesn't Wish to Be in '48
But, He Says, Man Would Be Entirely Numb
If InsensibIe to Compliment Of Suggestion

such theresgenerously be, and when
the. time appropriately comes, to
join freely In the Nationwide Re-
publican quest for the best available
next President of the United States. .
The Senate president, turning to
other issues, told the convention:
Republicans intend to do some
thing about this scandalous portal
to portal (pay) outrage which vio-
lates every American concept
against ex poste facto laws; which
abuses the legislative intent of the
Congress, not man of whom re-
motely contemplated such perver-
sion when the wages and hours act
passed; which threatens the solvency
of many a business and the jobs of
its employes-to say nothing of the
treasury of the United States.
Imagine what labor would say of
the courts, in reverse situation,
We're to find some, excuse for en-
ployes to go back over the years and
recapture some of the wages paid
(See VANDENBERG, Page A-2.)
Evening star., 1947-02-08
MarshaI|'s s Training
Views Win Promise
Of Congress Study
Secretary Asks Universal
Military Instruction to
Back Foreign Policy
Ry Gornett D. Horner

Secretary OF State MarShall'S
call for universal military train
ing to provide needed power to
back up American foreign policy
was promised thorough consider
attion in Congress today.
Calling present methods Of OBJ
tanning military manpower imprac-
tical, Gen. Marshall told a news
conference late yesterday that un-
less the United States has universal
training it won't have any real
power to back up its foreign policy.
He warned that the road to dis
armament will not be a short road
or an easy one" and said he Is sure
this country will avoid the tragic
consequences" of disarming alone.
Gurney Agrees.
Chairman Quincy of the Senate
Armed Services Committee said he
is Gin complete agreement" with
Gen. Marshall's views. His commit
tee, he added, will give quick and
thorough consideration" to univer-
sal training "just as soon as we can
get at it."
Gen. Marshalls emphasis on the
need for military power to back up
foreign policy until a dependable"
basis for collective world security Is
attained came in response to a ques-
ton near the end of his first news
conference as Secretary of State.
He r',sgan the conference, before
more .. i $50 newsmen by declar-
ing it will be his policy to make
American influence felt in interna-
tional affairs by doing all that can
be done to strengthen the United
Nations as an instrument for main
tanning peace.
Permits Direct Quotation.
Then he spoke without interrupt
ton for nearly 40 minutes, and
answered questions for 10 minutes
more. Departing from usual State
Department practice, he permitted
direct quotation of much of what
he had to say.
His remarks on general policy
and disarmament are printed be-
low in full. His other main points
were:
/. The United States sees no
reason why it's proposals for trustee
ship over inundated Pacific islands
taken from Japan should await a
peace settlement with Japan, as
suggested by Russia, Britain and
Australia. However, it will be will
ing to consider such postponement
as the United Nations Security
Council deems necessary after for
mally presenting its proposals to
the Council about February II.
2. Arthur Bliss Lane, American
Ambassador to Poland, will return
to Washington soon to give first
hand account of recent develop
ments" there. Gen. Marshall re-
called a January % statement
charging the Polish government vio-
See MARSHALL, page A-11