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Evening star., 1947-05-07
Truman 10 Celebrate
Birthday Tomorrow

President Truman will be So to-
morrow. the third birthday ami
versary he has passed in the White
House.
His first birthday anniversary In
the White House in l945 was sig
nalized by the collapse of Germany
The President is making hurried
trip to Missouri Sunday to spend
Mothers Day with his mother at
her home in Grandview. The o.
year-old Mrs. Martha Truman has
been bedridden since February when
she broke her right hip in fall.
The President plans an early de-
parture in his personal plane, and
VIII return to Washington around
dinner time Sunday night.
On Saturday night he will attend
the spring dinner of the Gridiror
Club at the Hotel Statler.
Some time in the next few week;
the President will have new plane
for his personal use. One of ths
big Douglas DC-6s now is beins
outfltted to replace the Sacred
o"s "AisAA ai' Truman lIlileIttct
from President Roosevelt.
1t will have cruising speed o.
about 325 miles an hour, or 100 mile.
better than the DC-4 he has beer
using. and will be equipped with q
pressurized cabin for high-altituds
flying as well as all the latest navi.
gational aids. De luxe travel ac.
commodations will include sleeping
quarters.
Evening star., 1947-05-07
House Debate
Reveals Wide
Greek Aid Rift
Supporters Fear
Amendments That
imperii Purpose

A wide split in House Repub'
lican ranks over the $400, ,00o, ,00t
Greek Turkish aid bill was ap.
parent today, as the sharpesi
foreSgn policy debate in recent
years went on.
Although final passage of the bill
is expected, supporters of firm
hand in dealing with Russia are
fearful of amendments that might
defeat the purpose of the measure
which is to check communism in
the Mediterranean by giving prompt
support to Greece and Turkey.
No showdown vote is expected be.
fore tomorrow, since the rules
adopted yesterday allow the MEM
bers nine hours of general debate,
U. N. Amendments Pressed.
Opponents are concentrating or
an amendment to put the issue UP
to the United Nations, and the vote
on that move may be the crucial
test.
Speaker Martin predicted several
days ago the bill will pass by a SUBJ
stantial majority, but there is such
a sharp difference of opinion or
the Republican side that COP lead
ers are not attempting to make it
a party issue.
Here are the arguments for and
against the bill as they were UNI
folded during yesterdays turbulent
debate:
Against - Representative Brown,
Evening star., 1947-05-07
William {. Warne Named
Assistant Interior Head

President Truman today nomin-
ated William E. Warne, assistant
commission of reclamation, to be
Assistant SECRETARY of the Interior,
succeeding Warner w. Gardner, who
is resigning June 80.
MIR. Warne, Al. a Californian, has
been in the Interior Department
since 1885, when he was appointed
an editorial assistant. He was
loaned to the War Production Board
during the war.
Before entering Government serv-
lice, Mr. Warne was a member of
the Associated Press staff here. Pre-
viously. he worked for the AP in
Los Angeles and San Diego, and on
California newspapers in San Fran
cisco, Oakland, Brawley and Cal
eXico.
Evening star., 1947-05-07
| $50 900 1 ons
OF ood
Sent to Germany
Reich Farmers Hold
Produce, Ger. Clay
Says il Report
sy Tho Associated Prsss

BERLIN. May THE United
states has shipped 1850, 1000
metric tons of food Into Ger
man since We day to help
support German ration scales,
the monthly report Of Gen
|Lucius b. Clay said today. The
report added that German farm
|ers continued reluctant to meet
their food delivery quotas and
that continued large imports
LOT food will be necessary. :
In February, the last month which
the military governors report COW
cred, 270, 900 tons Of food were i'm
ported for the British and Ameri-
can zones at cost Of approxi-
mately $50, 600, 900 or roughly 81
per nonfarm consumer in the COM
bined area.
Failure to meet delivery quotas
reflects continued serious reluc-
tance on the part of farmers te
deliver their products through legal
channels for currency with which
they can buy relatively few Of the
goods needed on farms the report
said. Instead. many prefer to sell
their produce on the black market
Evening star., 1947-05-07
Nationalist Planes
Battle Chinese Reds
BY The Associated Press

NANKING, May 7.-Nationalist
warplanes went into action today
in an effort to halt the Communisi
advance on Taiyuan as pro-govern-
ment reports placed one Red spear.
head only nine miles southwest o1
the besieged Shansi capital
In Marking. Minister of Nationa
Defense Pal Chung -hsi summoned
a military conference to review thu
Slansi situation and to devise soInt
means of averting the loss of Tai.
yuan.
Meanwhile, plans were made fol
dropping food and ammunition tx
the defenders of the city, the fall o.
which would be a serious blow II
Nationalist prestige.
Nationalist reinforcements con.
tinued to cross the Yellow Rivel
from Shensi into Shansi province
but they faced hard marches ane
Communist opposition before the,
could be of help in retrieving ths
grave position OF Gov. Yen Hsi.
shan's armies.
Chinese reports said more thar
8. 1000 Communist troops were killee
in Red pocket Is miles southeast
OF the Nationalists newly recapturec
rail town of Taian In Sf1antune
province, but neutral observers con.
stdered the claim extravagant.
Evening star., 1947-05-07
Russians 0yersubscribe
I20-BiIIion-RubIe Loan
By The Associated Press

MOSCOW, May THE govern
ment announced today that q new
20, ,000, 100000 ruble state loan had
been oversubscribed by nearly 300,-
600, 900 rubles and that subscriptions
were continuing to pour in.
The loan, f1oated to finance the
governments f1ve-year plan Of re-
Mobilization and development, was
first announced last Sunday. A loan
of the same size f1oated last year
was reported over-subscribed in a
week.
There is no free exchange Of Rus
sian money, but at the official rate
of So rubles to the dollar the loans
would amount, to $3,771 SOC, 900 each.
At the rate of 10 to the dollar, at
which diplomats buy rubles-gen-
orally considered more realistic
the figure would be $1,666, ,666 ,666.
The new bonds will mature in 20
years and have the usual lottery
feature, with prizes as high as 5o,-
600 rubles.
Evening star., 1947-05-07
WhistIing Shooting Stors Heard
On Radio, Engineers Told

visitors which are reduced to dust
long before they become visible to
the naked eye,
Actually, according to report by
Edward w. Allen, jr.. OF the Fed
eral Communications Commission,
few radio waves are reflected by
the meteors themselves. Literally
thousands OF these hit the outer
edges Of the atmosphere every day,
but the ma ajority are very small.
Only when there are meteor show
ers two or three times a year when
the earth passes through the path
Of some broken up comet. does the
effect become sufficient to attract
general attention.
But each lump from outer space
Is moving at tremendous speed, 1t
was explained, and as soon as 1t
strikes even the very thin air 100
miles above the earth 1t becomes
(See HENRY, Page A-6o
Evening star., 1947-05-07
Three Killed, Six Missing
In British Mine Blast
BY the Associated Press

BARNSLEY, England, May 7.-Ai
least three miners were killed today
and six others were missing and be-
lieved dead in an explosion ir
Barnsley's biggest coal mine.
Twenty-Five injured men were
taken to hospitals.
First reports blamed a short cir
cult in an electric line for the blast
1t was the first disaster in Britain
mines since the government took
over ownership last January l.
Barnsley, a town of about 10000
Is In Southern Yorkshire, about 4t
miles east of Manchester.
Nine miners were killed in the
same pit in February, 1912, attempt
ing to seal off an area which hao
caught fire.
Evening star., 1947-05-07
Eisenhower Opposes King
On Armed Services Unificdtion
Tells House Committee He Fovors
Single CiviIion Chief to Council

Eisenhower answered promptly
The man who led Allied forces in
Europe in World War II said COM
mittees have their proper place in
working out co-ordinated policies
but when 1t comes to day-to-day
decisions single administrator Is
so far superior there's no compare
son"
Gen. Eisenhower also assured the
committee he has no intention OF
trying to put the Marine Corps "in
the dog house" if the unification
plan goes through.
Representative Bender, Republic
an, of Ohio had used that term in
asking the general If he had any
disposition to curtail the Marines.
Most certainly not" said the
Chief of Staff. II believe in them
thoroughly
Gen. Eisenhower explained that
TINyYTrT-T a S---
Evening star., 1947-05-07
By J. A. o'Leory

A single civilian head for all
of the armed forces was defend
ed by Gen. Eisenhower, Army
Chief of Staff, today as he took
issue before a House committee
with earlier testimony of Adj
miarl Ernest j. King, former
Chief of Naval Operations.
Gen. Eisenhower was asked by
Representative Wilson, Democrat of
Texas, at a House Expenditures
Committee hearing to compare the
pending unifcation bill, calling for
Secretary OF National Defense,
with the testimony of Admiral King,
who urged a Senate COMMITTEES yes
terday to substitute national Sc
curity council to direct the various
forces.
There is no comparison" Gen.
Evening star., 1947-05-07
Ex-0rdnance Chief
Testifies That May
Put Pressure on Him
Campbell Tells Court
Of Requests for Fovors
For Gursson Firms
By Robert X. Welsh

The wartime Army chief o1
ordnance testified in District
Court today that former Repre-
sentative Andrew j. May put
pressure" on him in urging IA
vors for Carson munitions com
panies.
Under cross-examination at tn,
May-Garsson war fraud conspiracy
trial, Levin H. Campbell, jr., re.
tired lieutenant general who wa.
Chief of Ordnance during the war
was asked by Mays counsel, Warner
E. Magee:
Would you consider that pressur.
was being put upon you by Mr.
May?"
That was my impression, "Mr
Campbell replied.
First Direct Charge of Pressure
1t was the first time that any
witness has testified directly tha
he believed May used pressure
methods on the War Department tx
obtain benefits for Henry and Muir.
ray Carson. May is on trial with
the Carson brothers and JOSEPH
F. Freeman, the Garssons' Washing
ton front man." on charges of con.
spiracy to defraud the United States
May, at that time, was chairman
OF the House Military Affairs Com
mittee.
Shortly before Mr.. Campbell wa.
cross-examined, he identified &
transcribed telephone talk between
May and himself. This conversation
mentioned the name of Secretary O.
War Patterson in connection with
testimony that May urged Mr.
Campbell to help a Carson com.
pany get an E award in 1945.
In reply to a later question BY
Mr.. Magee, Mr.. Campbell declared
that Secretary Patterson, who ther
was Undersecretary of War never
talked to him about an E award fol
any of the Carson companies.
| May, according to the Transcribed
conversation with Mr.. Campbell
l1SSld4C Cd t1tS e dWdEQ was SuDDOScS
to have gone to Batavia Metal Pro.
ducts, Inc, at that time, but hat
been "stymied and damned ur
somewhere.
Can't Recall Recommendation.
Henry Carson was here the 9th
er day and said the E award woult
greatly improve the morale of hi
workers" May told Mr.. Campbell
in the telephone conversation. ..
believe 1t would and I'd like to SCI
them get it."
Mr.. Campbell testified he did no
recall having recommended an
award for Batavia. He said, how
ever, that in the talk with May. h
assured the defendant that he woul,
Immediately look into it.
MIR. Campbell, who took the stan'
yesterday afternoon, was one of sew
eral high-ranking Army officer
called by the Government to testi
fly concerning alleged pressure pu
| " &C. nCCON r. - - -
Evening star., 1947-05-07
oo5 Driver Permit Suspensions
Hit New Peak Here in April

Suspensions and revocations OF
driving permits because of traffic
violations reached an all-time high
last month, the Board of Revocation
and Restoration of the Depar tnent
of Vehicles and Traffic reported
today.
There were s95 suspensions last
month, compared with only 90s
suspensions for the first four months
of 1916.
Speeding still leads as cause OF
suspension. with a total of 288 for
the month. OF this number, nine
actions were revocation Of driving
licenses, while the others drew slis-
pensions of from 80 to 90 days.
Accidents were next on the list
Evening star., 1947-05-07
Horvord Reports Comet
Visible by Field Glass
By the Associated Press

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. May IA
new comet so bright it may be seen
with ordinary field glasses when it
swings closest to the earth on May
90 was reported today by the Har-
ward College Observatory.
Known as the Comet Rondanima-
Bester," it was discovered early this
year by M. j. Bester of the Harvard
station in Bloemfontein, South At
rica. and Czechoslovakian astron-
omer.
Harvard astronomers said the
comet was In the eastern sky near
the sun and would be brightest Just
before sunrise May 20, when it drops
to within $1,000, 900 miles OF the
earth-about halfway TO the sun.
Evening star., 1947-05-07
By Thomos R. Henry
Sejsnes Editor Of The Sfor

Whistling shooting stars plunging
to fiery doom in the ocean of the
earth's atmosphere were reported
before the Institute OF Radio Engi-
neers meeting here today.
The whistles differing greatly
in pitch and intensity, are the
characteristic radio sounds when
radio waves are reflected either
from the speeding bits of rock and
iron themselves or from the paths
OF electrified atmosphere which they
leave In their wakes.
BY means Of these whistles and
other characteristic sounds, O. q.
Willard, L. A Manning, w. E. Evans
and n. A. Helliwell OF Leland STAN
ford University said 1t Is possible
to sit beside . radio receiver and
count hundreds Of these. celestial
Evening star., 1947-05-07
Daylight Time
Hearing Closes;
Fasf Action Due
Board Of Trade Urges
Adoption as Majority
Expresses Approval
Pictures on Page 5-f.,
By Henry A. Muslin

The District Commissionerss
hearing on daylight saving time
for Washington was completed
at 12:45 pm. today and the
Commissioners announced they
would hold q meeting at 4 pm.
A decision on setting clocks
ahead is regarded possible after
the meeting.
The washington Board Of Trade
summed up the case for daylight
saving time and asked the Com
missicners to order clocks set ahead
because Of Clearly indicated
majority opinion In favor Of the
move.
p. YgK. Howatt, first vice presi-
dent of the Trade Board, voiced the
plea shortly before noon as the tide
of votes at the District building
hearing mounted ever more over.
whelmingly in favor OF daylight
saving.
Only of SO organizations and
individuals out of a total of 81
scheduled to testify at the hearing
had come out against the plan BY
the noon hour. In addition, write-
in votes had swelled the total in
favor to 125 organizations and GIFTS
individuals, while % organizations
and 1903 individuals were recorded
against the proposal.
Howatt Cites Reasons for Use.
The McGrath bill, signed last
week by President Truman, en-
powers the Commissioners to in
woke daylight-saving time here If
they are convinced by the hearing
a majority Of residents of the Dis
trict and neighboring Maryland and
Virginia communities want it.
Inviting attention to two local
newspaper polls showing that q
majority Of Washingtonians favor
daylight saving, Mr.. Howatt de-
clared the city should adopt 1t "at
the earliest practical date for these
reasons:
l. Daylight-saving time will per-
NIT an extra hour for recreation,
gardening and other healthful,s
body building activities.
2. 1t will eliminate confusion for
travellers stemming from the fact
that most large cities of the Nation
already are operating on daylight
saving time.
3. It will eliminate the loss Of
an hour from each business day
now suffered by many commercial
and financial enterprises here.
4. 1t will eliminate "dislocation"
in the fields of radio and other news
services.
All Other Areas In Line.
practically all urban areas and
some entire States north of WASH
ington to Maine and west to Chi
cago are operating on daylight saw
ing time" Mr.. Howatt told a cheer
ing crowd of nearly 800.
This is the area with which we
in Washington maintain the closest
ties and it is. therefore readily ap-
parent that there are countless ac-
tivities in Washington which are
(See DAYLIGHT SAVING, Pg. A-4.)
Evening star., 1947-05-07
Hope Dashed for Cut
In Prices ofh|iIk
For Consumers Here
Spokesman for Producers
Says Slash Depends on
Feed Cost Reduction
BY MoIcoIm Lomborne, Jr.

A spokesman for the Maryland
and Virginia Milk Producers As
ISOLATION, suppliers of milk to
Washington, today declared the
association cannot reduce whole
sale milk prices without putting
a lot of people out Of business"
Bruce B. Derrick, secretary treas
urer OF the producer group, en-
phatically declared there can be
no reduction whatever, until our
feed costs go down,
"And I don't see any material
drop in feed costs before the 194s
harvests," Mr.. Derrick added. He
based this prediction on indications
the Government would continue tt
purchase grain for foreign shipment
He thus dashed any hopes Of a
price cut for consumers here.
1t was Mr.. Derrick's first state
ment since one distributor here,
Highland Farms Dairy, announced
q 1-cent-a-quart reduction last
week. This gave rise to speculation
that other distributors would follow
suit and force producers to cut
prices.
Dairy operators here have insisted
they cannot reduce retail prices
without an equivalent cut in the
price they pay farmers for milk.
| Mr.. Derrick disclosed that member
producers now are supplying all tht
requirements of washington fol
| fluid milk, ice cream mix, cream ane
cottage cheese, result OF high pro-
duction.
| He said that for So months Wash.
| ington has had to import" mill
from outside the milkshed
Mr.. Derrick insisted. that curreni
/ high production would not last more
than six weeks and that at thu
end of that time, Washington viii
be back on deficit" basis.
The producer spokesman insisted
there was mo such thing as sur.
plus here He had reference to {
statement last week from the heat
/ of a large milk by-produces plan
| in Alexandria that plant facilitie.
we're being taxed to the limit becaus,
OF a surplus.
Meanwhile. the Agriculture De
partment predicted that farm in
come during the first five months
of this year will be 2H per cen
greater than in the same perioe
last year.
It forecast the total income al
So, ,oo0, 600 900 compared with about
(See PRICES, Page A-4o
Evening star., 1947-05-07
Soviet Weather Experts
To Be Admitted 10 u. s.

The United States has agreed to
let five Russian meteorologists study
weather conditions in this country
but the Soviet government has not
yet answered a request for a recip-
rocal arrangement, it was disclosed
at the State Department today.
officials said Russia made her
request in February and official
visas for the five Russians to come
to this country were issued early in
March.
At the time the yisas were issued,
it was said, this government asked
Moscow to agree to permit five
American meteorologists to 60 to
Russia. This request for reciprocity
has not yet been answered. officials
said
Evening star., 1947-05-07
Assembly
To Make Bid 70
Palestine Arabs
Extraordinary Session
TO Give Equal Status
With Jewish Agency
BY the Assoeiotsd Prsss

| LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y., May I
The United Nations Assembly
was called into extraordinary
plenary session today to for
mally offer the Arab Higher
Committee OF Palestine a hear
/ ing before the 55-nation Politi-
cal Committee with the same
status as the Jewish Agency.
| The plenary meeting was set for
70 pm, fEST) in a committee room
here rather than in the Assembly
hall at Flushing Meadow, where all
Iprevious plenary sessions have been
held.
The decision was made on a de-
mand from India that the Arab
group be recorded the same treat
ment as the Jewish agency, which
was invited to appear before the
Political Committee by the Assem-
bly, proper.
Stands on Boycott.
The Arab Higher COMMITTEES
earlier indicated it would stand on
its decision to boycott the debate
until it was handed the formal in
vitation by the Assembly itself.
The Political Committee vote call
ing the &plenary session was % to S.
Assembly President Oswaldo Aran-
ha of Brazil called a Steering Com
mittee meeting to formally approve
the unusual Assembly session.
The Arab position became known
off the floor as the Political Commit
tee began consideration of an Amer
ican proposal that the U. N. establish
a small neutral inquiry commission
without Big Five representation.
Soviet circles disclosed that Rus
sia would fight for the inclusion Of
the Big Five on any such body.
Bias in Committee Feared.
Warren r. Austin, chief American
delegate, told the Political Commit
tee that the special interests in
volved among the great powers were
strong reason for not putting them
on the commission.
1--WE could hardly recognize that a
body containing the Big Five would
be free of bias" he declared.
What we seek is a. sound deci-
sion as nearly perfect as our human
frailities will permit" Mr.. Austin
said. "We aim at an impartial, in
dependent and just solution"
Sir Alexander Cadogan, Britain,
Immediately supported the Ameri-
can plan, noting that the inquiry
commission would be hearing wit
nesses from all sides and for that
reason all interested parties should
be excluded from serving" He added
that If such countries were seated
they would be alternating between
"tfle witness stand and the Jury
box"
Cites Big 5 Responsibility.
DR.. Jose Arce, Argentina, speak
ing in support of his proposal for
an 11-nation commission including
the Big Five, said the major powers
"have responsibility they should
not avoid.%
DR.. Arce said he had no doubt
that countries assigned to the COM
mission would show neutrality, but
added that he did not believe too
much in neutrality in the political
forces which are in play"
Meanwhile, subcommittee OF
Colombia, Poland, Iran, Sweden and
Britain began to sift applications
for hearings from organizations
other than the Jewish Agency and
the Arab Higher Committee. The
subcommittee will advise the Po-
litical Committee whether the ap-
plicants represent considerable
Evening star., 1947-05-07
Minister Quits Pulpit
For Yacht Rigeer's Job
BY the Assoeio.ed Press

MARBLEHEAD, Mass, May T.
The resignation of the Rev. John
w. Eager, 32-year-old pastor of the
Marblehead Unitarian Church, to
accept a job as a rigger in yacht
yard, was disclosed today.
John S. Whipple, chairman of the
Church Committee, said the resig-
nation of the clergyman, a former
Army Chaplain Corps captain, had
been accepted.
Mr.. Eager's letter said, Il do not
possess the physical energy to make
out of my ministry what is expected
if must devote by life to it."
Evening star., 1947-05-07
'Brazen Propaganda
On Shortage Of Funds
Laid 10 Post Office
Senator Bridges Says
OfficioIs Circulate Word
Services Must Be Cut
BY the Associuted Press

Senator Bridges, Republican,
of New Hampshire charged the
Post Office Department today
with "clear-cut case of brazen
propaganda" by apparently cir
culating word that mail service
must be cut because Congress
has failed to provide necessary
funds.
Asserting that he wanted to nip
the report in the bud," the chairman
of the Senate Appropriations Com
mittee told newsmen:
"The truth is that the Post Office
Department is living way beyond Its
means, and if there is any blame to
be made for having insufficient
funds it does net rest on Congress
but on the Bureau of the Budget and
the. department itself"
Senator Bridges said that "appar-
emily word has gone out from the
Post Office Department to post
masters all over the country in
structing them that it is necessary
Evening star., 1947-05-07
Severe Earthquake
Recorded in Sydney
BY The Assoeioted Press

SYDNEY, Australia, May THE
seismograph at the Riverview OBJ
servatory here today recorded a
severe earthquake shock which Fa-
ther D. D. O'Ccnnell, director of the
observatory, said occurred about
1900 miles north of Sydney.
It was the third shock recorded
in the Southwest Pacific in the last
three days. The quake first regis
tered in the laboratory instruments
at 6:36 am. local time 1886 pm
EST yesterday and continued for
four hours, Father O'Connell said.