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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-12-16
vandaIs Rob Two Schools
OF $40 in Cash and Candy

Two District schools were broken
into by thieves yesterday, and, in
addition to considerable property
damage, the theft of $40 in cash and
candy was reported to police.
Sumner G. Fletcher, principal Of
the Smothers School, Fourteenth
street and Washington place NE,
told police 80 glass doors in the
building were smashed by vandals
who rifled desks and stole candy
and Christmas toys valued at $40.
The basement Office Of the Gus
todian of Banneker Junior High
School, Euclid street and Georgia
avenue NV, also was broken into
and $50 in cash was reported miss
ing, police said.
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8Area Hospitals
To Get $4,000
In Extra Funds
Group disqualification
To Make Up Losses
On Its Subscribers

Group disqualification, Inc, today
announced it would pay eight Wash
ington area hospitals, chiefly the
smaller and county institutions, a
total of $4,000 for losses incurred
on subscribers to prepaid hospital
ization during the first eight months
of this year.
The bonus payment was recon-
mended at the conclusion of cost
survey which showed seven other
hospitals lost no money on CHI
patients, according to spokesman of
the agency.
A similar settlement will be made
for the last four months of the
year, it was stated by Joseph H
Hines, president of Group Hos
pitalization.
He said the survey, undertaken
this summer by agreement of CHI
and the hospitals, was designed
solely to determine what part of
hospital losses may be attributed to
inadequate payment for CHI pa
tients under existing contracts.
Others Not Losing on Contract.
He said the agency had paid
$1,061 900 to contracting hospitals
the first eight months of this year.
BY the end of the year, he predicted
the agency's payments would be
from $350,000 to $500 1000 more than
was paid under the 1916 contract.
The hospitals are now being paid
10 per cent above costs, as estimated
In late 1916, or 81 per cent of their
charges to other patients who are
not CHI subscribers, whichever is
the lower figure.
Hospital officials have commended
they are losing money because costs
have risen more than 10 per cent,
but the cost survey just concluded
showed this was only true of eight
hospitals so far this year.
To Be Made at Once.
The payments, totaling about s7O.-
900 will be made at once to bring the
hospitals financial relief, Mr.. Hines
declared.
Mr.. Hines said he could not reveal
the identity of the hospitals losing
money on CHI. He said, however,
chat the new Georgetown University
Hospital which opened just before
the survey was made was not among
those included in the report.
He said the higher hospital costs
will force CHI to 60 into the red by
"at least $4,000" this year. This
money, he said, will come from a
reserve fund.
It will not bring an immediate in
crease in rates to subscribers, Mr..
Hines declared, but he admitted, II
can't conceive that we can go on in
definitely losing money without rails
ing the rates"
He said no action on this matter
was likely to be taken before March.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-12-16
Star Staff Photo.
World Cub Pilots Due
Here on Schedule for
Trade Board Welcome

A lucky break from the weather
today will spare Washington S
round the-world fiivver pilots the
embarrassment of returning by train
for a welcome home" reception.
Cheered by clearing skies, Cliff
Evans and George Truman tele-
phoned friends here this morning
that they were confident they could
fly into National Airport for a re-
ception as originally planned by the
Washington Board OF Trade.
The two were to be met at the air
port by an official committee at
o'clock and escorted to the District
Building for a program to be par
ticipated in by the Commissioners,
Trade Board officials and diplomats
from countries visited by the pilots
The pilots recently completed Their
trip around the world in two 100
horsepower Piper Cub planes al
Teterboro, N. j., at the airport the.
left last August on their eastward
COu1St. 4Ilcy pldAlllCu w 1y ASl'
from Teterboro today.
At the field to greet the two for
mer Washington flying instructor!
will be their wives and many friends
in addition to the official group. Mr.
Evans, who lives at 1416 N. Abingdon
street, Arlington, is the father of two
young daughters, while Mr.. Truman
Of 1904 v street Sc, has twin daugh-
tiers less than a year old.
The pilots plan to spend the
Christmas holidays with their fam
lilies before visiting various cities
that have offered them official well
comes. They are writing a story
about their 25,0O0-mile jaunt for a
weekly magazine.
After the reception at the District
Building, the pilots will be guests at
party given by the Washington As
ISOLATION of Flying Clubs at the Will
lard Hotel, from S to pm. Later
they will be guests of the Washing
ton Board of Trade at membership
meeting in the Statler Hotel, at 8
o'clock
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Views Of Chevy Chase
On Apartment Plan
To Be Heard Today

Inc montgomery county COM
missioners were to hear divergent
views today on a petition to rezone
for apartment purposes a 3o-acre
tract near Connecticut avenue ano
the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad In
Chevy Chase.
The opposing views were to be
presented at hearing on a petition
by the Chevy Chase Land Co.
scheduled to start at 2 pm. in the
Bethesda County Building.
Heading the list Of Endorsements
of the 338-unit apartment project
was one by the Maryland Nationa
Capital Parks and Planning Com.
mission, which voted approval at 6
meeting in Silver Spring yesterday
The commission described the pro.
jected development as excellent
and said there are adequate roae
and shopping facilities in the area
Board Won't Intervene.
Arthur w. Defenderfer, chairman
Of the Board of Managers of the
Chevy Chase Village, Inc, an
nounced today that the board had
decided not to intervene in the mat
ter, though it would not discourage
members from appearing before the
commissioners individually.
A similar decision was reached
last night by the Citizens Commit
tee of North Chevy Chase. Mason
B. Leming, chairman of the commit
tee, said, however, that the group
would have an observer at the hear
ing.
The Board Of Governors of the
Columbia Country Club, whose prop
erty fronts on the land companys
tract, previously decided not to in
tervene.
Clerk Reports Four Letters.
Ernest Hawkins, clerk to the COM
missioners, said he had received let
ters from four persons, three oppos-
ing and one favoring the apartment
proposal.
S. T. Ansell, jr., an attorney, of
1904 East-West highway, Chevy
Chase, wrote the board that if the
application were granted, residential
property values would be deprecated
and there would be an increase in
population without a compromising
increase in per capita wealth.
ANY such change will constitute
a beginning toward reducing this
pleasant community to the level of
the relatively poor and unsightly
suburban communities with which
Washington has in recent years all
but become fringed.
Points to Other Suburbs.
Historically, Chevy Chase was
not intended as center for popu-
lation or commerce. Actually, 1t
never has been, nor is it now, such
a center. Its standing as a high
grade residential area is based en-
tirely upon its development away
from such sophistic deceits as have
produced the suburbs of Arlington
and Prince Georges Counties
A similar contention is contained
in a letter from Burr Tracy Ansell
attorney, of lot West Bradley lane
Ralph B. Stewart, another attorney
wrote that the proposed apartment
would aggravate parking conditions
which are already bad.
The application was Endorsed by
Mrs. Mason B. Leming, 9315 Mont
gomery avenue, Chevy Chase, with
the assertion that it would provide
a buffer" between commercial or
industrial property and one-family
residences. She also said it would
enhance the value of Chevy Chase
Lake.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-12-16

faith and in in
t e r denonina-
tional co-opera-
ton efforts here,
Rabbi Gersten-
field is honorary
chairman Of the
c o m mittee on
Religious Lii e
in the Nations
Capital.
Mrs. Wedel has
m a ny aSsocia-
tons in church
work and social
welfare. She is
chairman of the
Ad1,icor1, pooro
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-12-16

Rabbi GerSten-
field, minister of
Washington He
brew Congrega-
ton, will fill the
uneXpired term
Of William Bray
shaw, who re-
S l 6 n e d. T h e
term runs to
June 30, 1850.
Mrs. w e d e !,
president of the
w a s h ington
C oun Ill of
Church Women
opd u,ife ~ tho
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-12-16
Universal Training Week

ANNAPOLIS, Dec. 16 P.-Gov.
Lane today proclaimed January s
to IL Universal Military Training
Week" In Maryland.
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Rabbi GerstenfeId
And Mrs. WedeI GET
Welfare Board Posts

The Commissioners today an
nounced appointment OF Rabbi Nor
man Gerstenfeld and Mrs. Theodore
o. Webel to the Board of Public
yXTo1foro
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and wife Of the Rabbi Gerstenfeld.
canon of Washington Cathedral, will
replace A. Harding Paul, who also
resigned. Mr.. Paul's term expires
June 30, 1913.
A leader in councils of his own
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-02
Still The Best

With the economies Of most of the coun-
tries of the world in desperate straits as
an aftermath of World War II, the stand
ard of living and the way of life in these
United States stand out as a beacon of
achievement in this postwar maelstrom.
Consciously or not, every American is
proud of our high standard of living but
.. and regretably . every American
does not have a full realization of how
such high standards are maintained. They
sometimes forget that such maintenance
depends entirely upon the preservation of
our free system of economy and govern
ment.
This system, today subjected to numer-
Gus attacks and criticisms, sincere and
otherwise, has proven itself over and over
again since our founding fathers drew up
the Bill of Rights. 1t has outproduced and
outfought every other system in time of
war and in time of peace it has created
the highest standards of living.
Right now all industries are striving for
peak peacetime production, industrial
wages are at the highest levels in history,
national income is at an all-time top of
nearly 200 billion dollars with more than
go million people employed and time lost
through labor disputes in the early months
Of l947 estimated at two-tenths Of one per
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-02
South Carolina Points
The Way

In lo48 South Carolina will add two
plants to it's growing textile industry which
will give employment to some thousands
of workers and increase the investment OF
private capital fully $71,000,000.
At Rock Hill the Celanese Corporation
of America has started work on rayon
yarn plant at an initial cost Of $40,0OO,O0O,
which eventually will represent $60,OO0,-
900 investment At Lancaster, Springs Cot
ton Mills is rapidly finishing construction
of a b1eachery at an estimated cost Of
$11 100000
Each of these plants will materially add
to the population of the cities where they
are located and set up broad prosperity for
both. The payrolls will mount into the mil
lions of dollars yearly. Rock Hill and Ian
caster look forward to their economic fu-
ture with justified optimism.
South Carolina is to be congratulated fol
the enterprise of its leaders which is mani
tested by the establishment of these great
industries within its borders. At the same
time it could be wished that the leader
ship in North Carolina were equally sue
cessful in attracting new industries
This is especially true of eastern NORTH
Carolina were equally successful in at
tracing new industries.
This is especially true of eastern NORTH
Carolina, where only S per cent Of the
states industry is located.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-02
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1947
Star Program

State ports with Wilmington favored
in proportion with its resources, to IN
clude public terminals, tobacco stor-
age warehouses, ship repair taclhtes
nearby sites for heavy industry and
35-foot Cape Fear river channel.
City auditorium large enough TO
meet needs for years to come.
Development of Southeastern North
Carolina agricultural and industrial
resources through better markets and
food processing, pulp wood production
and factories.
Emphasis on the regions recrea-
ton advantages and Improvement OF
resort accommo odatlons.
Improvement of Southeastern North
Cardinals farm m-to-market and prl-
mary roads, with a paved highway
from Topsail inlet to Bald Head Is
land.
Continued effort to attract more in
dustries.
Proper utilization of BluethenthaI
airport for expanding air service.
Development of Southeastern North
Cardinals health facilities, especially
in counties lacking hospitals, and in
cluding a Negro Health center.
Encouragement Of the growth OF
commercial fishing.
Consolidation Of City and Count,
governments.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-02
THE PRELIMINARIES AT
LONDON

No one can possibly say as
yet whether in fact the confer
ence in London is to develop in
to a genuine negotiation or
whether it is to be, like so many
of the meetings at the U.N., an
arena of maneuver and propa-
ganda. But the first indications
are not unfavorable. For, while
the maneuvers for position and
the propagandist appeals are
evident enough in London, the
four ministers have at least
started to discuss the questions
which they must decide if they
are ever to reach a German set
tlement.
They have not started with
another quarrel about pro-
cedure or about how to admin
lister the occupation of Ger.
many, or even about repara-
tons. They have begun with the
formation of a German frontiers
of the new German safe and with
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-02
Republican Split Foreseen

When a vote on the proposal to cut $l91-
100000 from the stop-gap program OF aid
to Europe was counted on November 2e
it was found that twenty-seven republican
senators opposed the cut and twenty IA
vored it. The ratio was approximately
three to two with the votes for the re-
duction chiefly centering in the Midwest
New England republicans, and to large
extent their associates from the East, were
steadfast in their stand against any altera-
ton in the amount asked.
In Washington this is accepted as an In
dication that split between the West anc
the East is in the making among republl'
cans similar to that existing between
Northern and Southern democrats. Some
republican leaders in the National Capita
even foresee an actual revolt by anti-Taft
members who resent Senator Taft's I'm.
comprising denunciation Of President Tru'
mans anti-inflation program. Senator Taft
lis not generally an acceptable chairman
of the Senate Republican Policy Commit
tee, so far as New England Senators are
concerned.
In fact Eastern republicans, and not
merely their brethren from New England
have been outspoken in condemning both
Senator Tafts attack on the Truman pro-
gram and the similar assault by MIR. B
Carter Reece, republican National Com,
mittee chairman. Their position is that
while Messers Taft and Reece were be.
laboring the Presidents program they. had
no constructive substitute to offer in its
stead.
This discord may we'll have two results:
reader acceptance of the Marshall plan
than was first anticipated and defeat OF
Senator Taft's presidential aspirations -
both of which would be noble achieve
ments.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-02

to read "Fascism in Action it will cost
you 40 cents. Why
Is the book on fascism better, or thicker,
or more important? Does it, perchance,
have some Forever Amberish passages
Or does the House want to discourage the
public, by this prohibitive price, from see
ing what the boys on the right are doing
All we know is that the book on commu-
nism was launched with lot of publicity,
the volume on fascism made public at all
Anyway, they're both available for IS
cents. And we don't hesitate to recommend
them, unread. It isn't every day that you
can get double-feature of menace for the
price of a half-pound of sirloin.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-02
Laying 1t On The Line

political ann: TO support
and prepare Denmark's incor-
poration into the strategic sphere
of the United States, to prepare
the ground for Denmark's total
economic and military political
subordination under U. S. expan-
sionisn.
In Norwegian, to Europe, there
was a broadcast on The Mill
tary Strategy Plans of the Unit
ed States in the North" with
these gems:
"The Americans are extending
their old and building new bases
in Greenland. These bases are
to serve as the starting point for
aggressive action against states
in the vicinity, and to make easy
intervention by the dollar diplo-
mats in the internal affairs of
other countries. Greenland and
Iceland are only stages in the
long term plans of the United
States in the North. This is
the platform from which the
Wall Street defenders of Demo-
cracy wish to unite all the enc
mics of the Soviet Unions
peace loving peoples"
In the Persian language
to the Middle East, Radio Mos
cow put out news program on
''The Voice of German Public
Opinion. 1t first told how
a meeting in Berlin had drawn
up a petition for revival of Ger
man economic unity. (Inciden-
tally, this has long been
an American objective, but
it has been blocked by the Rus
sians.) Moscow tells it this way:
"The treacherous journalists
who breathe the air which blows
from across the Atlantic are for
their wages working with the
same zeal at writing articles in
support of a government of west
ern Germany. The point is that
these gentlemen are opposed to
a united, democratic Germany.
They sometimes still make
hypocritical statements about
the unity of Germany, but in
actual fact they support the dis
memberment of Germany and
the setting up of puppet gov
1.ernment. called, 'Bizonia.' "
The only comment that seems
necessary on all this tripe is that
the United Nations General AS
sembly has approved a reso-
luton calling on all member
governments to combat the
spread of false information and
distorted news likely to disturb
friendly relations between ma
tions.
Well, when does it get going?
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-02
BY PETER EDISON

WASHINGTON, - 1t takes on
ly a hasty look at translations
of one days broadcasts from
Radio Moscow to see what Sec
retary of State George c. Mar
shall had in mind when he said:
"The truth, as I see it, is that
from the termination of hostili-
ties down to the present time,
the Soviet government has con-
sistently followed a course which
was bound to arouse the resent
ment of our people. Just what
the purpose of this remarkable
procedure has been, / am at a
loss to determine. But since
it affects the very stability OF
the world, it is time to call a
halt to such inflammatory prac-
tees"
Here are just a few highlights
of typical days monitoring by
the Foreign Broadcast Informa-
ton Branch of Central Intelli-
gence:
First, from the USR home
service, broadcast to the
Russian people, is a review of
an article in the American Mag
azine of Art. Based on survey
of replies from $50 u. S. artists,
it attempts to prove that the av-
erage American artist has $157
disposable income a year.
Then come the announcer's
comments, such as these: 'Capi-
talism is poisoning art, not only
with the venom of moral savag-
cry, but also with the cancer of
penury. Large commercial
firms have established, during
the last few years, their control
and so = called patronage over
art. Art is leading a miserable
existence in the United States of
America and it is being degrad-
ed lower and lower from year to
year"
Nobody is apt to want to go
to war over that. But most of the
stuff is more serious in nature.
Here's a sample in Danish to
Europe:
"The warmongers are carry
| ing on with undismayed energy,
and their press continues it's dan
gerous game regardless of the
interest of their countries. The
other day the Berlinske Tidende
placed it's columns at the dispos-
al of the Infamous archreaction-
ary and collaborationist, Baron
Schaffelitzky de Muckadell.
The Danish Baron wanted to
prove that the United States is
the strongest nation and that the
risk of an attack on the Soviet
Union was not so very great. .
The Danish Baron's mathemati-
lcal exercises serve a definite
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-02
BY WALTER LIPPMANN

the government. These are the
very questions they must descuss
first if they are really in earn
and writing a peace treaty.
est about reaching a settlement
It stands to reason that there
can never be a peace with Ger
many" until there is a decision
as to what Germany is-that is
to say, what are the national
frontiers of Germany? No one
can make peace with a country
if no one knows where that
country begins and ends.
Nor can a country have gen.
uine government if no one
knows what territory that gov.
ernment is to govern. The fixa-
ton of frontiers is, there
fore, the indispensable first ster
in the making OF peace.
The next necessary step in 8
country which, like Germany,
has no government is to form
a government which has legal
authority over the Germans
in German territory, can be
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-02
PEPPER AND SALT

Blue-eyed, golden-haired m
tickle Betty Jean had man
suitors. After narrowing the m
to three, she still found il IN
possible to make up her nr
about which one she sbnI
choose for her husband. In i,
quandary, she started to look
the meaning 6 of their names
the dictionary.
Mother" :" she said, st m
that Philip means lover
horses, and James means dea.
beloved. What do you suppn
George means?"
81 hope, replied her moth,
"that George means business
Sandy and Angus, strange
to one another but both year
ing for another go at Their n
tional sport, met on the q
links and agreed to play q gan
together.
what will your 60 Gor
in?" asked Sandy.
'Oh about l12 or ia, sad A
gus. whats your gahe?"
"Juse about the same, 4
swered Sandy.
tHow about one dollar q noli
Recounting the match 10 d
wife that night, Angus, full
righteous anger, demanls
"And do ye know what M
scoundrel did, Maggie? the d9
crook went around in u and o'
fuyn dollars from me
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-02

cent of man hours compared with 2 pei
cent for a comparable period of 1946.
To be sure, prices are too high, housing
is acutely short and there are other in
equalities to adjust and abuses to elimi-
nate. But these corrections can be made
within the framework of the best system
of government yet devised-best because
it has given its people the most best be-
cause it's free.