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Nation
Commerce & Trade

Commerce & Trade
The volume OF US. economic activ-
ity in the third quarter of 1947 made
little real advance over that Of the
second quarter. the Department of
Commerce reported this week.
Measured on a money basis, there
was a three billion dollar annual rate
increase in the gross national product
the value of all goods and services
but, the department said, that was
due mostly to price spirals.
With that dollar boost, the gross ma
tional output went up to an annual
rate of 232 billion dollars by depart
ment estimates.
Meanwhile business and industry
maintained high operating levels this
week. Electric power production was
the highest in history with steel close
to its best productive rate of the year.
The labor scene was the most tranquil
in months.
The first real wave Of Christmas
buying was felt in stores across the
nation, aided in some places by a de-
cided pickup in installment purchases
following the end of federal controls
over consumer credit.
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pilot in World War I, then stayed in
uniform as an aviation specialist. His
record was brilliant, eliminating in
World War II as commanding general
of the Air Technical Service Com
mand at Wright Field, Dayton. He
was awarded the Distinguished Serv-
ice Medal for Outstanding contribu-
tons in preparing the BIG for COM
bat" Married three times, Gen Mey-
ers liked to play poker, frequently
for high stakes.
At one time during the war;, an
anonymous letter arrived at the War
Department charging Gen. Meyers
with profiting from irregular activities
(buying stock in aircraft companies
before he approved their bids for
equipment). The letter was carefully
filed away, but no investigation ever
was made.
This week Gen. Meyers became a
central figure in the probe. Bleriot H,
Lamarre, IS, testified that Gen. Mey-
ers brought him and his wife from
California, where he was making $35
a week, and elected" him president
OF an airplane parts firm by writing
minutes of a meeting that never was
held. Lamarre said he drew $31, 900 a
year as salary, but after paying in
come taxes "kicked back all but
$4,000 OF it to Gen. Meyers.
In 1s41, Lamarre said, Meyers or
dered him to raise from $11 to $44.5s
the price OF fuse boxes it made under
a military subcontract.
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u. NJ.
Windup Week Ahead

1t was a busy week for the United
Nations. The Assembly held plenary
/. sessions at Flushing and assembly
~ committees met simultaneously at
Lake Success in efforts to reach ad-
.journment by Thanksgiving.
. Whether the diplomats would make
. their deadline depends on solution of
the Palestine problem and agreements
> to sidetrack full debate on such con-
troversial issues as the, big power
. veto.
The assembly voted last week to
switch next falls assembly session
from New York to Europe. A nine
nation committee will consult with
Trygve Lie, U.N. secretary general,
over selection of a city on the con
..tinent with the choice apparently rest
Ing among Paris, Geneva and Brussels.
Lie plans to visit Europe after the
current assembly adjourns and it is
believed final decision on the site will
be held up pending his inspection of
available quarters. The move will add
about $1,000, 600 to the 1948 budget.
Meanwhile the Russian people
learned for the first time this week
of the adoption Of the little assem-
bly," plan by the General Assembly
in a delayed" Tass dispatch from
New York.
A headline in Prada said the de-
'cision assisted in turning the U.N.
Into a weapon OF American foreign
policy"
Tass reported that speeches of the
proponents of this interim committee
sounded pitiful and helpless against
the background of brilliant, vivid, &C
.curate and forceful arguments" adj
.vanced by delegates of the Soviet
Union, the Ukraine, White Russia,
.Czechoslovakia, Poland and Yugo-
%.slavia.
r.. The proposal was carried, Tass said,
by one of the vests mechanical ma
.jorities."
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Worlds Greatest Secret

The Atomic Energy Commission this
week frightened its grip OF the worlds
greatest secret by requiring a special
license for the export of equipment
which might be used in atomic energy
research and production work.
The secret, most scientists agree, no
longer lies in the theory of atomic
ission but in the productive know
how and manufacture of facilities to
bring it about under control
For this reason American atomic ex-
perts place little reliance in the re-
cent unconfrmed rumors that Russia
has conducted atomic bomb tests in
Siberia. Soviet scientists, they say,
may know in theory how to create a
bomb but Russian productive capac-
ity is at least several years away
from being able to accomplish it.
The new license will provide ef-
fective export control, said the Atom
ic Energy Commission, On two specific
types of equipment. These are facili-
ties actually capable of producing any
fashionable material such as nuclear
piles" cyclotrons or other atom
smashers, and the component parts Of
any such equipment, such as radiation
detection devices and high vacuum
apparatus.
Meanwhile from London came a re-
port that the United States is paying
up to $1,460 a ton for uranium ore it
does not need in an effort to corner
the worlds A-bomb materials.
'The US. government" said the
London Daily Express, bought more
than 10000 tons of atomic metal ore
last year; less than, 10 per cent of it
could be used in bomb production and
power experiments"
The paper said the main American
sources of uranium were Katanga in
the Belgian Congo, Great Bear Lake
in Canada and mines in Colorado. In
addition, the paper said, the U. S. was
supplied from important" thorium
workings. in Brazil, which recently
came under American control.
Great Britain was allowed to pur-
chase a small quota Of the ore mined
in the Congo, the paper said, but no
other country could buy from that
source without receiving permission
from the United States.
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Preparedness
From the STORAGE Locker

The United States Air Force dis
closed this week that $50 BIO bomb
ers are being Withdrawn from storage
to add to the active air defense screen
of the nation.
Some months ago an air defense
program was announced calling for
SIS complete air groups of bombers
and fighters, plus Is skeleton groups.
Currently the Air Force has 30 groups
ready and is reconditioning BIOS
from storage areas scattered about
the country.
A few bomber pilots are being re-
called to fly the B-29s, an Air Force
official said, adding. that there were
enough pilots on active duty already
to make a large scale recall unneces-
sary.
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Hot Shots

. Two hunters were shot by their
dogs. James Lilly of Ballengee, W. Va,
was wounded in the left foot when
he stopped to pick up a quail he had
bagged and his dog stepped On the
trigger of mis- automatic shotgun.
Near Jacksonville, ILL.,, Doc Berry, 81,
was hunting rabbits with a companion
when their dogs began fighting. Both
laid down their guns to break it up,
but in the melee the dogs paved a
trigger and a shotgun charge blew
off Berry's big toe.
. In Cleveland, landlord Joseph
Vanek formerly enjoyed a few drinks
with his upstairs tenant but no more.
Vanek said he had joined Alcoholics
Anonymous and didn't want any more
drinking parties. The judge gave the
tenant until January Z to move out.
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In Short

Completed: By 100000 young Yuso,
slavs, the 150-mile youth railway
in 1913 days, two weeks ahead d
schedule.
Reported: By Gen, Carl Spaatz, U.s.
Air Force commander, that Russia aP'
parently has succeeded in duplicating
the BIG Superfortress, using as MOD
els BIOS which crash-landed IN D.
IBERIA during the war.
Announced: BY a General hleeaH
Co. scientist, a new method OF sp
ficially producing rain by using #ss'
rather than dry ice to coax preclplN'
ton out of clouGs.
Branded: BY the Polish PaTllaIaeul
Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, who iieG M
Communist-dominated homeland "
Britain, as guilty of treason"
Instituted: By Canada, resIricHon
on imports, pleasure travel and fsan
taxes on durable goods MADE luJ
materials shipped in from the OaN'
States.
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Atoms Life & Death
Man, a Century Plant

Man, a Century Plant
"A child born now can expect to
live to be 100 if he's given proper
care in infancy and youth, and if he
avails himself of present medical
knowledge throughout his adulthood,"
predicts DR.. Edward l.. Bortz, presi-
dent of the American Medical Asso-
citation.
present knowledge of the impor-
lance of proper nutrition during ad-
vanced years." he says, scan be used
to slow up the aging process"
End Of the World
The end of the universe through a
cosmic scattering of all matter
through cold space is seen as a posi-
bility by Harvard's famed astronomer,
DR.. Harlow Shapley.
His view is that creation may be
slowly dying Of negative gravitation"
"a cosmic force which already has
caused many distant star systems to
fly apart.
1.-THE universe" he said, lis steadily
approaching the heat-death-a cold
ness near absolute zero in an empty
world"
Absolute zero is 273 degrees below
r Centigrade.
Shapley holds that most of the hun
dred- billion-odd star systems, far dis
tant from the Milky Way, are flying
away from one another with enormous
velocity, which eventually may bring
about infinite dissipation of all the
bodies that 60 to make up the uni
verse.
The Harvard astronomer thinks, Of
course, in terms of millions of years.
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BIG FOUR: The Showdown on Germany

THE Big Four foreign ministers
i meet in London Tuesday in a
second attempt to decide the flu
ture of Germany, probably the
most important single postwar
problem in Europe.
Their first meeting ended in almost
virtual failure last spring in Moscow.
Continuing east-west differences,
highlighted in the United N ations
General Assembly, have not tended to
make agreement on those problems
unsolved at Moscow last spring any
easier.
The London parley, however, will
be decisive one way or another. If
there is no agreement among the big
powers, the United States and Britain
are known to have discussed privately
alternative plans for a separate treaty
with western Germany.
At Chicago before leaving for Lon
don, Secretary of State Marshall de-
manded that the "brazen and con-
temptuous" Soviet propaganda against
this country be stopped. He said he
will take an "open mind" to the par
leys and will seek a basis of accord.
Germany, divided into four occupa-
ton zones, additionally has been the
cornerstone of the continents indus
trial welfare. At Potsdam, immedi-
ately after the war, the U.S., Britain
and Russia vowed that never again
would German militarists be allowed
to start another wal. That pledge has
been kept but the vital questions of
Germany's future as a state-her po-
litical government and her industrial
strength-have not been solved.
Economic and Political
Now as at Moscow, America and
Britain would like to raise Germany's
industrial potential to at least part of
the prewar level to help build a demo-
cratic Europe. France, invaded re-
peatedly by Germans, wants a dis
membered Reich with the Saar coal
under her supervision.
The US. and Britain would like
Germany remodeled politically into a
confederation of states with decen-
tralized powers. Russia apparently has
no objection to a strong united Ger
many, provided it is geared to Com
munism and Soviet policies for buffer
states.
The Marshall plan for Europe's eco
nomic recovery hardly will be men,
toned in the London discussions but
its fate in Congress will be very
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is bearing a greater share of that eco
nomic burden than the hard-pressed
British and seems destined to shoulder
even more unless something is done.
A four-power agreement on Ger
many's role for the future would end
the present economically unsound di-
vision of eastern agriculture from
western industry. Unless that is
achieved at London, creation of a
separate western German state seems
inevitable.
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be conducted in this same VEN.
The fireworks began Immediately
after the President finished talking to
the Joint session of lawmakers. In his
message. the President asked Con-
eress for power to allocate scarce COM
modities, control exports, tighten
credit and impose other imitation
.eurbs.
The President went further, how
ever. than had been expected. He also
sought standby authority to clamp
down with selective price and wage
ceilings, together with rationing, if he
regarded such steps as necessary to
keep down essential living costs.
COP Opposition
Republican reaction was bitter. Par
ty majorities in both houses began to
marshal their forces to prevent the re-
turn of another OPA."
A Senate committee ordered a COM
p1ete inventory of the nations food
and crop resources, which may delay
authorization Of stop-gap aid. Sen.
Styles Bridges accused the Admins
tration of trying to stampede" in
term aid through Congress.
Republicans said an attempt will
be made to cut down the $4,000, 000, 900
estimated hrst-year cost of the Mar
shall plan when it comes before Con-
gress for consideration early next
year.
Sen. Robert A. Taft, an avowed a u
didate for the Republican Presidential
nomination next fall, said the Ad-
ministration program was a complete
surrender to the left wing. He de-
elared:
"We stand at the crossroads today
between a free America and a planned
economy. This is the last stand of the
planners who think they know now to
run the peoples affairs better than the
people can know themselves.
"This is the police state condemned
by the President himself only a month
ago. This is the end of economic free
DOM"
Slight Chance for Passage
House Speaker Joseph W. Martin
declared the economic program had
little chance for enactment during the
special session.
House Republican Leader Charles
A. Halleck claimed the President
asked Congress for "dictatorial pow
ers" and even Democratic Senators
Elmer Thomas of Oklahoma and Har-
~ Byrd of Virginia said the program
spelled RECOMMENDATION.
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closely watched by the foreign min
listers. Opposed to it is the Cominform
of nine eastern European nations
within the Soviet sphere whose ex-
press purpose is to defeat the carrying
out of the Marshall plan.
Communists in France and Italy
have embarked upon a course of riot
ing, strikes and political unrest in
what generally is construed as ar at
tempt to hamstring efforts by those
governments to comply with self-help
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of the Marshall plan.

provisions of the Marshall plan.
If a separate settlement with west
ern Germany is to be made, diplomats
recognize the potential danger of di-
viding a nation as patriotic as Ger
many and the value that German
unity" would have as a slogan for fu-
ture political parties.
The United States and Britain, how
ever, are having to underwrite a large
share of the cost of maintaining the
western zones of Germany. The US.
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UNITED VACCINATIONS

THE SOVIET press hos claimed repeatedly that the United
] sfofes delegation hos engaged in intrigue and muehina-
lions behind the scenes in the General Assembly. There also
have been frequent charges thof "meehanieul moiorities" Of
the west depend to a large extent on the fear Of smot no.
lions, participants in the Marshall plan, and others fhof un-
less they vote with the w. S. they lose American aid. Certain
delegates Of other notions at the UN. hove been pictured as
"errand boys" for The US. All these attitudes are ILLUSTRATED
in a cartoon Of A. OrFov showing Uncle Sam transforming a
United Nutions sign info United Moehinufions. The nohs are
labelled: spauk, Evoft, Mcneil, MeIus and Delbos.
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Quote

Henry A. Wallace, former u. S.
Vice President and former Sec
rotary of Commerce: 1T really
calls for sacrifice today to join
the resistance movement against
American Fascism, but thank God
we can now operate above
ground. Tomorrow it may be
necessary to use the basic politi-
cal right of revolution to restore
democracy. I don't exaggerate
the danger"
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toDron
Trade Wall,

THE first major step in OWL.
a world trend tow vi ssadja,
nomic isolation by loW ,UmaSd co.
barriers was announces }t ing tsats
by the United States sHS Sa Us Nssi
nations nat mrs under the Genera qleq = SStbs
and Tariff agreement sip r = Trad,
neva, Switzerland, Octobssr re :, at c.
Beginning January / ~ ~,
drop its tariff wall to the Ia lov u.s. Wy
the limit allowed by con5psss Cent
be made a seo in import duties 'e es
than $500 commodities as n On mo-,
2a-natlon pact affecting F b,It W
worlds commerce. A3t Is
The general effect will bo :,
me burden on the consumer = h.. s's
impact will be slow, ofinis,to S u
since few foreign countries S'a lis 'dd
duelng enough goods to shin frs Pm
overseas. sup lien
At least one result--s Ava.
cents a bottle in the retail lip pri n y
Scotch and Canadian whisky I-ss d
forecast by alcoholic Imports, Va
The American wool tariff
protective 34-cents a poun5 Duw at
cut o%ne-fourth to 2512 cents, W W. u
and worsted fabrics, mani, wooden
England, will be cut Is Der ns.. nom
this country can boost rates srsi. 'a !,
the inflow exceeds 5 per es s%a j
American production. WILL" o.
Simultaneous Cuts
Cuts and trade concessions Nv
" other Geneva nations will w w
effective January /, or soon 'svon'
after. Tariff concessions grants a,sI 4
other countries on US. export w. v
modities have an annual val, wills ,
nearly $1,400, 0O0, 900. %
The international trade apre.n.
was released by Trygve Lie, secrs+ +'.'
general of the United Nations s.3
made public in Washington IN |s
State Department analysis,
British empire preferences 5,,.
been reduced substantially, the st,,'
Department said, and foreign natn,,
committed themselves to slash A. ,.'
move numerous other econon,
fences restricting world trade-m,,
as import quotas. internal taxes ,s5
intricate customs machinery,
Lag for Needy Nations
Many Geneva rules may not i,
applied in the immediate future b,.
cause of dollar shortages in Eurm
and the continuance of governmpm
regulation in many countries sry,,
Cling to stabilize their economics.
The other countries will come in a
rapidly as they ratify. The UN. will
declare the pact in force when forms
acceptances n received from couD.
tries conducting IS per cent Of ts
trade of the % negotiating powe.s,
The most favored nation" CLAUSE
a cornerstone of American tradins
policy, is accepted by all the powers
Thus the US. will obtain the benefit
Of lower tariffs granted by any cOun.
try to any other country, with such
recognized exceptions as the British
preferences and American preferences
to Cuba.
To protect American industries
from glutted markets, the agreement
carries an American-sponSored "eD
cape clause" If any tariff cut in,
creases imports so sharply as "
threaten serious injury to domestic
producers, the cut may be modified
or withdrawn.
Russia did not participate in any
of the economic deliberations,
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Probe
General Dilemma

The heat of the Senate War Inves-
tigating Committee shifted this week
from wartime contracts of Howard
Hughes, west coast plane manufac-
turer, to the financial affairs of the
deputy chief of Air Force procure
ment during the war.
The officer, Maj. Gen. Bennett E.
Meyers, retired, joined the Army as a
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Truman Us. Congress
I'm Domestic Front

PRESIDENT TRUMANS relations with the Republican-controlle
L soth Congress have been as turbulent over domestic affairs nrSis as
Mr.: Truman called back to the capital this week to vote AID 1o1
Turope and a check on inhatonary spras at home apparently IS TO
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Dates

NAOiAudy, I~OVCIuuST 81
Christmas Seal campaign be-
gins.
Tuesday, November rs
Big Four foreign ministers
meet in London to draft peace
treaties for Germany and Aus
tria.
National Radio Week begins.
Thursday, November n
Thanksgiving.
Friday, November 28
Anniversary (164th), first us.
Post Office.
Saturday, November 20
Army Navy football game,
Philadelphia.
Sunday, November 30
Anniversary (111th), US. Pat
ent System.
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Evening star., 1947-03-26

Graham will catch their acts and
give them jobs.
WE. 1912 has comforting words to
say Of sunny skies and temperatures
that are balm to the body and the
spirit, but drama departments re-
main needless.
The fact is that drama depart
ments have their private sign of
spring. He is a snallish man, with
a quick, bright smile, and a fore
head that has grown higher and
higher with the passing of many
springs. AS sign of the vernal
season, he has taken on infallibility.
Unlike the swallows of Capistrano
who came four days early this
year-or was it late?-caprice is not
in lis nature. There is nothing
in him like the trickery of those
March winds which blow hot and
cold.
The smallish mans name is Ernie
Johnston. His function Is to bring
spring to drama departments. He
brings it every year in the form of
a long white sheet Of paper which
announces the annual opening Of
Glen Echo amusement park, which
this year will be Saturday, April S.
He came in today, and no matter
what the weather seems to be, it's
spring, and the merry-go-round is
abloom with bright new paint job
on the banks of the Potomac.
Autumn will come In September,
and presumably E. J. will 60 back
to his Information. And drama de-
partments to waiting for him to turn
up again in 1s4s.
Even Henry "" or at least the
Little Theater's management, has
succunbed to the seasonal influ-
ences. On Sunday afternoons here
after, the management announces
with an affecting lassitude, matinee
performances. will start at 3 O'Clock.
There will be no change in the
evening performance hour, $3.50.
And, Of course, the weekday
matinees will remain the same old
2:3O.
The additional stretching time ap-
plies only to Sunday, hard day
to get started on at this time of
year.
The Little, which is as human as
you are, wants you to know 1t
understands. We do, too.
\ \ \ \
Paulette Goddard, an actress with
an agile mind, has worked . neat
switch on that story Of tho elderly.
experienced actress who sees that
the young player has q career.
Miss Goddard has Just started
Constance Collier, q star before
Paulette was born, on q sort Of third
career in the acting profession.
It happened this way: In the
interest Of improving her acting
skill, Paulette asked Miss Collier for
a spot of coaching. With nothing
else to do at the moment, Miss G..
thought that would be a good idea.
In the course of the subsequent
lessons, Miss Goddard not only
found she was learning q lot Of
useful tricks, but came to the con-
clusion that Miss Collier was too
good an actress not to be acting.
So, she prevailed upon her teacher
Evening star., 1947-03-26

to return to the movies, first in the
role Of the dowager in kitty"
Now, according to proud Paulette,
Constance has enough offers to
keep her busy for the next 80 years. -
And, to judge by the last sight
OF Miss Collier we had few weeks
ago, she also has the energy to keep
going for that same period.
x% 4 Il
The drama department-and It
hopes you, too-keeps on being
haunted by the news OF a local
suburban woman's club, contained
IN the following memo:
, The dramatic department will as
semble at the home Of (you would
not mention 1t ether on Thursday
when the new Eugene ONeill play
"The Icenan Cometh," will be pre-
sented.
Some Of that dialogue should
make pretty heavy going for the
women's club players. And, pre-
sumably, for their husbands who
certainly will have to be drawn into
the presentation to give it verisimili-
tude.