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Evening star., 1947-12-26
Trading by Insiders
On Fairly Big Scale
Reported by Andersen
House Group Will Call
- ssen as Witness
When Hearings Begin
RlJl IE1IN

Secretary of Agriculture An
derson today called on brok-
erage firms to supply him with
names of any Government
employees or members of their
immediate families, who, as
customers, traded in futures
commodities between January
l, 1946, and December IS, 1947.
The special House committee
named to investigate commodity
speculation has information
which strongly indicates" there
has been speculation ION a
fairly large scale" by persons
with inside information on Gov
ernment commodity purchasing
plans, Representative Andersen,
Republican, of Minnesota said
today.
Mr.. Andersen, who heads the
seven-man group, said he expects
the committee will call Harolo
Stassen, Republican presidential
candidate, as one of its witnesses
when hearings begin.
Meanwhile, the Agriculture De.
partment was at work completing
compilation of a list of approx.
mately 1900 small traders in wheat
futures which Is expected to bt
made public late today or tomor.
row. The list of II Federal, STATE
and local government employees il
the market will not be disclosed fol
a week or 10 days, however.
Committee to Meet Next Week.
Mr.. Andersen told reporters to-
day that his group will meet SOM
time next week to go over the infor'
nation on hand and follow up vari
GUS leads" The date for public
hearings has not yet been set.
Mr.. Stassen, who first called OF
the administration to reveal grain
spectators names, said in st. Pau
today he would be glad to appear
before any congressional committed
at any time" He added that thu;
far he has not been invited.
The list of names to be made pub
lie late today or tomorrow is being
compiled by j. M. Mehl, administra'
tor of the Commodity Exchange
Authority, at the direction OF Sec
retary of Agriculture Anderson.
Those who will appear on thu
small traders list will be persons
who held futures of 1000 or more
bushels of wheat on the Chicago
Board of Trade on April, 80, 1916
Mr.. Mehl said. The Government
employees list is part of larger
group in the wheat market on Sep
tember II, 1947, he added.
The first list Of traders, contain
ing TIL names of individuals ant
i
Evening star., 1947-12-26
Yugos!avia Sentences
; More Priests as Spies
By the A..oeioted Press

BELGRADE, Dec. ga Yugoslav
court at Ljubljana has sentenced
three Roman Catholic priests and a
retired financial clerk to prison
terms ranging from 18 months to
six years at forced labor on charges
of espionage.
This raised to Is the number of
priests sentenced on the charge
within single week by Yogoslav
courts.
The court charged the three
priests and the clerk with sending
to Information Center No. 101" in
Austria false reports on the political
and economic situation inside Yugo-
slavia. They also we're charged with
receiving "monarcho-Fascist propa-
ganda" from Gregor Roman, former
Catholic bishop of Ljubljana, who
has been sentenced in absentia to
18 months in prison. He is reported
to be in the British zone of Austria.
The priests sentenced in the latest
trial are Stalislav Lenic, six years;
Josip Shiments, two years, and
Matte Chontala, five years.
Evening star., 1947-12-26
Snow Delays Rescue Of Nine
Stranded in BIZ on Icy Lake

The big Air Transport Command
plane made a forced landing in
daylight Wednesday, 275 miles
southeast of Goose Bay, after de-
veloping engine trouble while on a
Christmas mission delivering mail
and gifts to isolated weather sta
tions on Baffin Bay.
Ali aboard-seven crewmen and
two passengers-survived the land
ing in packed snow up to % inches
deep, apparently without serious
injury. Their names were withheld
temporarily by the Air Transport
Command.
A special Douglas C-E-equipped
with both skis and wheels-will be
used in an attempt to take the men
out of their snowy trap all at once.
Rockets have been attached to the
rescue ship to facilitate . takeon
in the rough country.
Evening star., 1947-12-26
See HINES. Page A
Miami Train Crash
Hurts 5, Smashes Cars
BY the Associated Press

MIAMI, Fla, Dec. 26.-A Florida
East Coast passenger train ripped
into a freight train here early today,
injuring five members of the crew.
Fourteen railroad cars either were
demolished or badly damaged.
J. R. Ashworth, IS, of Miami,
engineer on the passenger train,
escaped death as his locomotive
plowed through one freight car and
on into another. He was injured
and was taken to hospital. His con-
dition was described as fair.
The most seriously injured was
Frank Ray. 38, colored employe OF
the Railway Express Co., who suf-
fered severe head injury. His con-
dition also was described as fair.
G. E. Learn of jacksonville,
another express company employe,
was released from the hospital afer
treatment for q wrenched ankle.
Eleven passengers, all colored,
were brought to the hospital for ex-
animation.
The accident occurred just north
Of 118th street.
Evening star., 1947-12-26
BY the Assecioted Press

WESTOVER FIELD, Mass, Dec
26.-Heavy snow whipped by whis-
ting winds today baked attempts
to rescue nine American ,airmen
marooned on ice-covered Lake
Astray in the heart of Labrador S
wilderness.
Cheerful over being alive despite
their plight, the stranded men ac-
cepted in good spirits a radioed re-
port that they would have to spend
another night-their third-out-
doors in 18-below-zero tempera-
lures.
Emergency supplies-bl a nix e is,
food, heavy clothing and axes for
wood -chopping-were dropped to
them. from the air. It took "a
hours and q search of 400,0 900 square
miles to locate the grounded Flying
fortress 275 miles northwest of Goose
Bay.
Evening star., 1947-12-26
Father FIees Fire With Son
In Blanket, Finds It Empty
BY the Associoted Press

SAUGUS, Mass. Dec. ga 35-
year-old father of five children
bundled his youngest into blanket
and hurried down a ladder early
today when fire swept their home
On reaching the ground, he found
the blanket empty.
Firemen restrained the horror
stricken father, Richard Grove
from returning to the fame-flled
house and later found the charred
body of Arthur Grove, 2 years old, on
the floor of his bedroom.
The child had slipped out of the
blanket as the father slung him over
his shoulder, pack fashion.
His wife and their other four chill
dren, ranging in age from four to 10
went down the ladder to safety while
Mr.. Grove had what he thought was
his youngest bundled in the blanket
tied over his shoulder.
Firemen attributed the blaze,
which caused damage they estimated
at $4,000, to a first floor heater.
Evening star., 1947-12-26
Arabs Kill Hans Beth,
High Jewish Agency
Official |, 4 Other Jews
Mrs. Meyerson Escapes
In Convoy Attack; Girl, ;.
Victim of Stroy Bullet
BY the Associated Press

JERUSALEM, Dec. 26-Arat
attackers killed Hans Beth,
high-ranking Jewish Agency Of
fetal, and four other Jews ir
attacks on two Jewish convoy!
in the Jerusalem area today, as
sociates of Mr.. Beth reported.
Earlier, stray snipers' bullets killet
a 3-year-old Jewish girl in hel
crib, and a 70-year- woman. F1v'
other persons also met death in th'
Holy Lands continuing Arab-Jewisf
warfare.
Mr.. Beth was an organizer O.
immigration for Jewish children. HI
formerly was an aide to the lat'
American philanthropist, Henrietta
Sold.
An Agency source said the car II
which Mr.. Beth was killed an an
other Jew was wounded also carlet
Mrs. Coda Meyerson, acting heac
Of the Jewish Agency's political de
partment, and Isaac Gruenbaum
an Agency member. The car was hi
by many bullets, but Mrs. Meyerso1
and Mr.. Gruenbaum escaped injury
Convoy Attacked Twice.
The convoy was en- route to Je.
rusalem from Tel Aviv. Jewish
Agency sources said it was attacked
twice-once at Babel Quad, about
half way between Jerusalem and TIE
Aviv, and again at Jerusalem's out.
skirts.
The attack on the second convoy
in which four Jews were killed, wa!
made inside Jerusalem.
The child, victim of the border
strife in the Tel Aviv-Jaffa area
was found by her mother thi'
morning, lying in pool of blood.
The 7O-year-old woman was slair
by sniper as she stood on bal
cony during an attack in Haifa by
Hagana, the Jewish militia. The
house under attack was believed
aheltering Arab riflemen.
Two British civilians were founs
shot to death in the area of Hadal
Carmel in Haifa. Both were be.
lieved to have fallen in the fighting
between the Jewish and Arat
snipers. One was identified as
Christopher William Thornton, Al
diesel engineer for the Irac
Petroleum Co.
Torpedo Depot Raided.
Two other Jews and one Arat
died in Hagana's attack and ont
Arab was wounded. Five other Jew'
were wounded in Haifa, one al
8-year -old girl who was on her wa!
to school.
Reliable but unofficial reports saie
10 Arabs and two Jews were killed
in the running Haifa battle yester'
day.
At a naval torpedo depot neal
Acre, several Arabs penetrated tht
guard room but were driven off ane
fled in a taxi. Police said they die
not know whether the Arabs hae
succeeded in seizing any arms.
The new deaths raised the Holy
Land toll to 359 since commune
fighting was touched off by thu
United Nations decision November
20 to partition Palestine.
Long Range Weapons Used.
Thirty-one Arabs, IL Jews, 3 Brit.
ish constables and 2 soldiers were
wounded in the bloody Christmas
Day encounters, during which
Hagana fighters used long range
weapons and British troops manned
roof tops in an attempt to quell the
violence.
One of those killed was a 35-year.
old woman, who was struck by {
stray bullet. Another was settler
truck bringing dairy products.
In the all-Jewish city of Tel Avi1
who had arrived in the city on, {
two British soldiers we're reported
1See PALESTINE. Page A-5D
Evening star., 1947-12-26
Record Production During 7948
Seen by Top Federal Economist
Possibility Of Ebb in Tide Of Rising Prices
In u. S. Also Forecast by Dr.. Edwin G. Nourse

some existing shortages more criti-
CAL The council already has ad-
vocated Federal controls to keep the
scarcity of certain products, in
cluding steel and grain, from setting
off a further inflationary spin.
Congress thus far has authorized
only voluntary agreements by bust
ness, agriculture and industry to di-
vide scarce goods. This is pro-
vision of the Republican anti-inf1a-
tion bill which President Truman is
expected to sign shortly.
AS for the No. ! factor, weather
the Agriculture Department had
good news last week. Its spring
wheat forecast indicated another
bumper" crop-more than a billion
bushels-may be harvested. 1t would
not exceed last years, but if Europe
has better weather the export de-
mand will be lower.
And as for goods and services
the Nations production rose in 1947
DR.. Nourse pointed out, and can be
expected to rise further. He gave
no figures, since these will be in
cluded in Mr.. Truman's economic
message to Congress next month.
However, in the councils own re.
(See ECONOMIC, Page A-5D
Evening star., 1947-12-26
Bulletin
Mother and Baby Revived
After Gas Fills Home

Mrs. Josephine Lusby, 81,
and her 9-mOnth-ol son
Michael were revived this aft
ernoon by Fire Rescue Squad
No. 2 after being found un-
conscious from gas fumes in
the r home at 2255 Thirteenth
street NE. Mrs. Lusby's sister,
Miss Gertrude Bresnahan, who
lives nearby at 2267 Thirteenth
street NE, became alarmed
when her sister did not answer
the telephone and ran to the
home where the baby wss
found in a coma in his play
pen and the mother was lying
unconscious on her bed.
Evening star., 1947-12-26
Gen. Hines Will Retire
As Envoy 10 Panama.;
Davis TO Replace Him
Longtime Career Man
Is Slated for Job of
Seeking Better Relations
By Gornett D. Horner

Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines who
negotiated the base leasing
agreement that was repudiated
by the Panama National Assem-
bly, Monday, will be replaced as
Ambassador to Panama soon, it
was learned today.
MonnetN B. Davis, a career diplo-
mat with 27 years experience in
tough foreign service assignments
is expected to be given the job OF
attempting to smooth out relations
with Panama as Gen. Hines sue
cessor.
The change Is scheduled to take
place in February, giving Gen
Hines time to wind up his per-
sonal affairs in Panama. This tim
ing, officials hope, also may avoid
the appearance of making Gen.
Hines scapegoat for failure OF
the effort to conclude satisfactory
arrangements with Panama fo1
continued United States use Of II
bases in that country for defense
Of the Panama Canal.
Decision Made Month Ago.
Actually, it was learned, the de-
cision for Gen. Hines retirement
was made about a month ago when
there was no expectation that the
new defense agreement would not
be ratified by the Panama As
sembly
Thus, his replacement soon after
Reputation of the agreement was
said to be purely @coincidental.
The change will mark another
step in Secretary of State Marshall's S
program to fill the jobs of chiefs of
Americas diplomatic missions
abroad so far as possible with men
who have worked their way up in
the ranks of the foreign service, &C.
quiring diplomatic experience to
facilitate the building up of good re-
| lationS.
Shanghai Post for Cabot.
Mr.. Davis is being replaced as
American Consul General at Shang-
hal by John M. Cabot, another vet
eran foreign service officer.
Mr.. Davis entered the career for
eign service in 1920 and has served
at numerous posts throughout the
world, including a tour of duty as
Consul General at Buenos Aires in
1937-1940. He also has held i'm
portant positions in the State De-
partment, as chief of the Division OF
Foreign Service Administration in
1914, and later director of. the
Office of the Foreign Service.
After brief service as Minister tc
Denmark in 1945, he was assigned
last year as Consul General at
Shanghai with the personal rank
of Minister.
Gen. Hines, a Regular Army Off
Ger, was made Ambassador to
Panama in September, 1945, after
directing the Veterans Administra-
ton and its predecessor, the Vet
erans' Bureau, since 1923.
He had had no previous experience
in diplomacy.
Gen. Hines paid a visit to the
United States late in November anC
it was understood that the decision
for his retirement in February wa:
reached then. He went back tt
Panama early this month to sigr
Evening star., 1947-12-26
ID. T., Plans Revision
To Speed Issuance
Of Building Permits
Radical Change in System
Would Cut 5-Week Delay
And Prevent Violations
By NewboId Noyes, Jr

Plans for a thorough revision
of the District governments
system of issuing building per-
mits were announced today by
Engineer Commissioner Gordon
R. Young.
The purpose of the proposed
changes is to speed the process of
permit issuance and to break build
ers here of the habit of boot
Logging" structural changes without
benefit of permit, Gen. Young said
Gen. Young said it now takes an
average of five weeks for a permit
application to be processed by the
municipal government.
Changes Are Listed.
The Engineer Commissioner en-
phasized that his department began
preparation of a two-pronged at
tack on the permits problem long
before the Empire Apartment Build
ing at Ninth street and New York
avenue NV. collapsed 10 days ago
1Ou1 OCdUAlo. l1CoC a. eAAS
contemplated changes:
l. Bringing together in one room
representatives of all District de-
partments to which a person wish
ing to make alterations in his prop
erty may have to apply for permits
These include such branches of the
municipal government as the sewer
water and highway department.
and the division of trees and park.
ing.
At present, person seeking
official permission for normal struc'
tural changes in his property otter
must visit each of these depart.
ments' separately and face a Ions
delay in each case.
Twenty Would Be Hired.
J. 2. Adding 20 persons to the stat
of the department of building in
spection, the worst bottleneck il
the permits picture. Nine Of thest
additions would be Office worker
in the permit section and II woule
join the departments field force.
Gen Young disclosed that re-
quest for permission to hire thi
addition to the staff was included
in the Districts budget for the mex
Q94g fiscal year. The proposal, h
said, was to pay the salaries of thes'
men through an increase in the fee
paid the District by those acquiring
permits.
The Washington Building Con
gress, an association of builders
supports an increase in permit fee
for this purpose, Gen. Young added
! A nine-man committee composed
of representatives of District de-
partments involved in the plan, a
we'll as private builders and con-
tractors, has been working for sia
months on the problem OF finding
a way Of consolidating the permit.
issuing functions of the several
branches of the District govern
ment, Gen, Young explained.
Tie committee is under the chair
1see BUILDING PERMITS, A-12D
Evening star., 1947-12-26
NuptiuI Flowers to Serve
At Bridegroom's Funeral
BY the Assoeiofed Press

DEARING, Ga, Dec. 26-Funeral
services were planned for today for
2o-year old John Robin Edwards
ct the church where he was to have
ben married Christmas eve.
Z--oung Edwards was killed when
|, lost control of his automobile
7l>i-r hurrying to the church with
-D.ng candles and double we'd
Gi rings. His bride, Miss Delselo
E.lii, and the wedding party were
waiting at the church.
The Rev. Joe Abstance, who was
to of1ciate at the marriage, will
conduct the funeral The same
flowers and church wedding deco
rations will be used, and three of
the wedding ushers will serve as
pallbearers.
Evening star., 1947-12-26
Typhoon Causes
Great Damage
In Philippines
Flames Wipe Out 1919
| Of TocIobun; MoniIo
Is Badly Battered
BY the Assoeioied Press

MANILA, Dec. 26.-A savage
typhoon swept the Philippines
today. It heavily damaged por-
tions of Manila, caused a fire
that wiped out 10 per cent of the
historic city of Tacloban, de-
stroyed one ship and damaged
five others.
The latest official death toll In
Manila and nearby Quezon City is
five and the Red Cross reported five
persons missing in Laguna province
Forty-siX persons were unaccounted
for from a Danish vessel which
sank off Samar.
President Roxas declared an
emergency holiday to permit all
energies to be devoted to recovery
as the storm-the worst December
typhoon to hit the Philippines in
20 years-swept over the China Sea
toward Hainan.
The typhoon stripped the last
vestige of Christmas gaiety from
the Philippines and left residents
gasping from the shock of the
islands fifth and most violent
storm in two months.
Danish Ship Aground.
The Danish motorship Kina
bound from Tokyo to Europe with a
crew of 36 and Is passengers, was
reported total loss" in the Samar
Sea.
The 9,823-ton vessel of the DAN
ish East Asiatic Lines was driven
aground. It's loss was reported by
the Norwegian motor vessel Samuel
Bake, which was grounded itself
but managed to pull free.
The Bake radioed that it had
picked up five survivors, all from
the Xmas crew. 1t added there
were more survivors" but did not
say whether they were passengers
The Kina crashed on Rocky Ca
mandag Island. about S miles of
the coast of Samar Island and be-
tween Samar and the northwest tip
of Leyte.
Air Search Urged.
"Send planes to look for survivors
around Camandag Island, .Santo
Nino Island and Tagapula Island,
the Bake radioed. All three are
between Samar and Leyte in the
Samar Sea.
The survivors rescued were identi-
fed tentatively as Seaman H. Skate
T. Nielsen, Mortensen and Chief
Officer Adalberg, and one whose
name was not given.
The steamship line reported the
passenger list included three Amer
ican WACS, three married couples
and three children.
I'm Chicago, the family Of Ada
Espenshade, 33-year-old civilian
employe of the War Department,
said their daughter and two COM
panions, Louise Rosso and Anne
Malex, both War Department
employees, were aboard the Kina.
The Espenshades said the three
might be those listed as WACS.
(Other passengers, the Espen-
shades said, were a Mr.. and Mrs.
Olufsen, Mr.. and Mrs. Maths
and their three sons,, aged 10, II
and years. They did not have
the addresses of any of the pas
sengers.)
Winds Hamper Rescuers.
The continuing fierceness of the
winds, which reached peaks of 80
miles an hour, had prevented send
ing rescue craft or planes to aid tl2
frantically appealing vessel.
At 10 pm, the Kina sent this final
message:
1--WE are preparing to abandon
ship now. Please transmit no fur
ther traffic. 1t is no USE"
Manila, which escaped damage
from previous blows the last few
(See TYPHOON, Page A-12D
Evening star., 1947-12-26

SHANGHAI, Dec. 26 @.-Charles
A. Lindbergh, touring the Orient
on business for Pan American World
Airways, arrived today from Hong
Kong.
Evening star., 1947-12-26

(See PALESTINE, Page A-5D
Evening star., 1947-12-26
Lindberqh in Shanghai

1See SPECULATION. Page A
Evening star., 1947-12-26

See WEATHER, Page ABB
Evening star., 1947-12-26

(See GREEK, Page A-5)
Smyrna times., 1947-12-11
ATTENDANCE AT
PUBLIC SCHOOL
CONTINUED From PnRe ThreeJ

Zane I. Robinson, Robert K. Wet
ter, Alice M. David, Sylvia HOLLY,
Nicole Mabrey, Catherine Mcbride,
Joyce Shane, Jean Shane, Christine
Sharp.
Grade 2-2, Mrs. King, teacher
Carolyn Hawkins, Frances Knotts,
Ella Porter, Nora Robinson, Mar
garet Russum, Richard David, DON
aid Jarman, Ralph Knotts, Ray
mond Moore, Thomas Russum,
George Stats, Frank Truax.
Grade IL, Miss Staats, teacher
Brittingham, Ernest
Brown, Dorothy Burris. Jane Bur-
ris, Janet Christopher, Jeanne
Faulkner, Phyllis Gardner, Harry
Fortner, Verma Gearhart, Eddie
Heinold, John Hurd, Sarah john
son, Fred Lamb, Elsie Leiby.
Grade IL, Mrs. Knotts, teacher
Doris Ann Moore, Robert Pyle,
Shirley Ross, Doris Wilson, Frank
lin McGinnis, Robert Moore, Will
liam Ramsey, ,Linwood Savin, HON.
er Shorts, Calvin Williams, William
Pearce.
Smyrna times., 1947-12-11

son David and Mrs. Milton Latta
spent Monday with Mr.. and Mrs.
Ben Hickey near Odessa.
Mrs. Dan Brown and son Dan of
Wilmington Manor spent the week
end with Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Weis.
Mr.. and Mrs. Burton Winder
spent Thursday in Philadelphia.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. Winder and
family of Middletown and Mr.. Lee
Winder of Picture Rock, Penna.,
spent Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs.
Burton Winder and Mr.. and Mrs.
John Shetzler.S
Miss Lillian West of Wilmington
has been visiting her sister, Mrs.
Betty Sweetman.
Mr.. and Mrs. William R. Alfree,
Sr., of Middletown, Mr.. and Mrs.
Irving O'Neal of Cecilton, Mrs.
Vernon L. Lake and Mr.. and Mrs.
Lee w. David spent Sunday with
Mr.. and Mrs. Delbert Steller.
Smyrna times., 1947-12-11

present class which is starting this
month and as there is no backlog
of applicants all qualified person
mel desiring to be pilots in the u.
S. Air Force are practically assur-
ed of attending providing they are
qualified under current directives.
Application blanks may be obtain
ed at any Army and Air Force Re-
cruiting Station. In order to quail
ify, applicants must be between the
ages of 20 and 2615, unmarried and
agree to remain unmarried during
the training period, and have earn
ed at least one-half of the credits
leading to a degree
Smyrna times., 1947-12-11
TaylOr's Bridge

Mrs. Vernon T. Lake of Oakland,
is spending some time with Mr..
and Mrs. Lee w. David.
Mrs. Walker Warner spent We'd
nesday with Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph
McC1ain.
Mr.. and Mrs. Milton Latta are
visiting Mr.. Latta's parents, Mr..
and Mrs. j. E. Latta.
Mr.. Alfred Gohl and Mr.. Charles
GohI of Atlantic City, N. j., spent
the weekend with Mr.. and Mrs.
William Francis.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Moore of
Newark spent Sunday with Mr.and
AIRS. Eugene Shockley.
Mrs. Fannie Francis, Mrs. Will