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Evening star., 1947-10-24

| Rates OF dividends in the foregoins
| table are annual disbursements based on
| the last quarterly or semiannual declar-
ton. Unless otherwise noted. special o. or
extra or extras. Plus stock div dend.
d Cash or stock e Paid last year: Pay
able in stock Declared or paid so far
| this year New issue WV With warrants.
| K Accumulated dividends paid or declared
| this year. h Payable in Canadian funds.
without warrants.
Evening star., 1947-10-24
Dividends Announced

NEW YORK. Oct. "a lP,. - Dividends
Evening star., 1947-12-09
Bank Messenger Robbed
OF $4,000 in Cash
By the Associated Press

WAVERLY, NY, Dec. 9.-Two
men held up and robbed a bank
messenger of $4,000 in cash in the
center of this Southern New York
Village today
Police Chief Lloyd Hedges said
the two men jumped in from Of the
messenger from a black sedan
parked at a curb. Both threatened
the messenger, Wilson Coward, with
guns and ordered him to hand it
over" the chief said.
A third man was seated in the
automobile.
Mr.. Coward, afoot, was taking the
money from the Citizens National
Bank Of Waverly to the postofiee
for shipment to the Federal Reserve
Bank at New York when confronted
by the holdup men,
He told the police the automobile
sped toward Elmira, 20 miles to the
northwest.
Evening star., 1947-12-09
Rumor Of 0'Boy|e's
Elevation Credited
BY the Associated Press

VATICAN CITY, Dec. ga source
with Vatican contacts said today
that reports abroad of the possible
elevation of Archbishops Joseph E.
Ritter and Patrick O'Boyle to the
Sacred College of Cardinals were
merely speculation" but that there
could be some basis for it.
This source repeated, however, as
is always done in talks of elevation
to the College of Cardinals, that
only the Pope knows whom he will
name to the college, and added that
there is no confirmation that a con-
sistory for such appointments will
be held soon.
This source said, however, that
Archbishop Ritter of st. Louis, as
successor to the late John Joseph
Cardinal Glennon. might well be
named to the college.
Archbishop O'Boyle, who has been
director of Catholic Charities in
New York, only last week was named
archbishop of the archdiocese Of
Washington, separated from that of
Baltimore and made directly re-
sponsible to the Holy See. The new
archbishop is in one of the seats
considered by the Vatican as being
among the most important in the
church's hierarchy in the United
States. q
Evening star., 1947-12-09
Only $8O,163 More in Gifts
Leaves Chest Fund 21% Short
Meaning of Fail

ton speak on 1.-THE Meaning of Fail
ure."
Rabbi Solomon Metz of Adas
Israel Congregation was to deliver
the invocation.
As of last Friday, the campaign to
raise $3,90o,000 for l25 welfare agen-
cies in the Washington area was
1892 Al short of its goal Only three
days remain in the drive. The final
report meeting is scheduled for
Thursday.
With two most critical reports
still depending on the unrelenting
efforts of every volunteer" Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury Edward
H. Foley, jr., campaign chairman,
declared, "I urgently ask that every
individual gift obtained up to II
am. Tuesday be brought to the
meeting at the Annapolis Hotel"
About $4,000 new gifts were turned
in at the last report meeting. rep
(See CHEST, Page A-39
Evening star., 1947-12-09
John l. Lewis BIumes Oil Shift
For Current Fuel Shortage

encouraged householders to put in
oil equipment.
Referring to a mass of statistics.
Mr.. Lewis reported that from jan
uary to July of this year 6S3, 900
oil-burning units were equipped and
installed. This, he said, was three
times as many as were installed
throughout all of 1916.
Nov the Oil industry is not sure
that it's got the supply necessary
to meet the need" Mr.. Lewis said.
Much of the same thing has hap
pened in gas heating equipment for
homes, Mr.. Lewis warned. In some
communities, he reported, gas furn-
aces installed are already using up
to the maximum output Of the areas
gas supply.
Interrupting the miners leader at
this point, Chairman Tobey Of the
subcommittee read from a petrol
1see FUEL SHORTAGE, Page A-63
Evening star., 1947-12-09
Mercury in Midwest
Nears 80 Below Zero
By the Associated Press

The coldest weather of the season
chilled parts of the Midwest today
as temperatures in some sections
of Minnesota dropped to nearly 30
degrees below zero.
The icy blasts from Canada, CEN
tering in Minnesota, Northern Iowa
and Western Wisconsin, spread over
the entire Mississippi Valley and
the Great Lakes region southwark
over Texas and eastward across the
North Atlantic Coast. ..,
Clear skies and an unbroken
blanket of snow, from to II inches
in depth, were contributing factors
to the sharp drop in temperatures
in the three-State area reporting
subzero temperatures.
Minnesota communities reported
the coolest weather, with Bemidji's
% below in early morning hours
the lowest. Other subzero readings
in Minnesota inc1uded-22 at Ro-
chester--2G at Willmar and-11 at
Minneapolis. Wisconsin's lowest
reading was-18 at La Crosse and
Mason City's 5 below was the cold
est in Iowa
Evening star., 1947-12-09
Judge Roedy Gets
Drivers Permit
Back After Test
Municipal Court Judge Ellen K

Municipal Court Judge Ellen <.
Raedy has a new drivers permit.
Traffic Director George E. Keneipp
issued it to her late yesterday after
giving her a special test on the
traffic regulations in his Municipal
Center Office.
She passed 100 per cent" Mr..
Keneipp said. He added that Judge
Raedy had found it impossible to
report for an examination during
the examiners regular hours be-
cause of her court duties.
She surrendered her old permit
last September 26 after a 30-day
had been ordered by the
Board of Revocation and Restora-
tion The suspension was the result
of charge Of leaving after colliding,
on which Judge Raedy forfeited t2O0
collateral September. II.
Evening star., 1947-12-09
BY the Associated Pres.

JERUSALEM, Dec. 9.-Four
Jews were reported killed today
in sporadic outbursts in the area
of all-Jewish Tel Aviv, raising
the death toll in 10 days of Pal
estine strife to los.
The Arab League announced in
Cairo last night it was taking i'm
mediate steps toward military and
other action to aid Palestine Arabs
in opposing the United Nations de-
cision to partition the Holy Land. In
Damascus, Syria, Palestine Liber-
alton Committee" declared it was
sending into Palestine Arab volun-
teers trained in commando tactics.
But the fury of the Arab attacks
in Palestine itself appeared to be
abating.
Two Jews were reported slain by
Arab snipers, but the other two
Evening star., 1947-12-09
TwoAdditionaIGroup
OF Allowed
To Enter |TU Case
Inland and Southern
Associations Win Point
After Hot Argument
By the Associoted Press

INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 9.-Two
more publisher groups were per-
mitted today to intervene in the
Taft-Hartley Act violation case
filed against the international
Typographical Union, AFL, by
the American Newspaper Pub
fishers Association.
Arthur Left, trial examiner for
the National Labor Relations Board,
granted this permission to the
Southern Newspapers Publishers
Association and the Inland Daily
Association after lively argument.
Robert N. Denham, NLRB general
counsel, has charged the ITU with
four unfair labor practices under
the Taft-Hartley Act.
Gerhard Van Arkel, attorney for
the union, protested the intervention
of the additional groups unless they
could promise not to carry on sep
arate charges against the union
The Southern Association has filed
d -CUlllpldlllU VI It's OWll.
Calls Policy Deliberate"
Mr.. Van Arkel said there is de-
liberate policy here to try and bank
rupt this union by litigation"
He declared, Il think it is very,
very important that this harass-
ment of the ITU by the general
council of the NLRB cooperating
fully and Fundamentally with every
employer in the industry be brought
to an end sometime"
Allen Sinsheimer, who is prose-
cutting the case as a representative
of Mr.. Denham, protested that
this contention that the general
council is interested in harassing
the union is utterly without founda-
ton"
Elisha Hanson, general counsel of
the ANPA, said there is no desire
on the part of the ANPA to bank
rupt this union or any other union
with which it does business"
Bound by Decisions.
Lawyers for the other two asso-
Citations said that if they were al
lowed to take part in the hearing
which began today, their groups
would be bound by the decisions in
sofar as the issues are identical, but
they did not agree that their asso-
Citations or member newspapers
would not file charges against local
unions of the ITU or against the
national union in cases differing
from the ANPA case.
Government attorneys have esti-
mated that the hearing may last
two months.
Then it will be up to the five-man
NLRB in Washington to decide
whether to dismiss Mr.. Denham s
charge or to order the union to stop
the practices. .-
Mr.. Denham has accused the ma
tional union and its top officers oil
the following unfair practices:
l. Trying to cause publishers te
discriminate against nonunior
workers.
The ANPA says the union is max.
ing this attempt by seeking to i'm
pose new CLOSED shop" arrange
ments on many newspapers despite
Evening star., 1947-12-09

John L. Lewis, United Mine Work
ers' chief, charged today that the
current fuel oil shortage is due
largely to the oil industry's cam
paign encouraging householders to
change from coal TO Oil heat in
order to punish the. coal miners.
The labor leader laid this testi-
mony before Senate Commerce
Subcommittee which, is, wrestling
with a fuel oil shortage which
threatens New England with cold
homes and a shutdown OF industry.
The New England situation, Mr..
Lewis said, was an outgroWth Of a
movement throughout l945 and 1916
to switch from coal to oil.
During this period, he told the
committee. 1T became popular to
suggest that mine workers be pun
ished by turning away from the
use of their commodity. The oil In
dustry made . holiday out Of it and
Evening star., 1947-12-09
What theRussions
| Are Saying of Us

The Mosco1O radio, broadcasting i,
English to the United Kingdom
said.
THE United States House of
Representatives Special Com
mittee on Aid to Foreign Coun-
tries proposes that in return for
the United States loan the United
States should demand access to
the mineral deposits controlled
by the United Kingdom and
France.
"The United States monopo-
lies = are out to get their
hands not only on the European
countries, but on their colonial
possessions as well. 49,
"The report envisages for the
United States supplies OF lead
from Tanganyika, Burma, Aus
tralia and Morocco; of Man
ganese ore from the British Gold
Coast; of copper from Canada,
the Belgian Congo, and so on.
Such is the price of the United
States disinterested aid so Law
ishly advertised by the initiators
Of the Marshall plan." I
Evening star., 1947-12-09
BY the Associoted Press

LONDON, Dec. 9.-Soviet Rus
sia called off her trade talks
with France today and accused
the French government of acts
hostile and contrary to the spirit
of alliance and mutual assist
ance" between the two countries.
The Moscow radio broadcast the
contents of a note handed to the
French Charge d'Affaires in Moscow
by Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister
Feodor Gousev in which the Russian
decision on the trade talks was
disclosed.
simultaneously, Russia's note
charged the French government
with ''unilaterally annulling" the
two-year-old repatriation agreement
for the return of each others ma
tionals, ordered the Russian repara-
ton mission home from France and
announced the expulsion of the
French mission from Russia.
Evening star., 1947-12-09
Soviet Breaks Off Trade Talks
With France, ExpeIs Mission
Repatriation Group Is Ousted in ReprsoI
For Comp Raid; Agreements Declared Broken

The Soviet Embassy in Paris an
nounced earlier that the French
Repatriation Mission had been or
dered to leave Russian territory at
once.
Mr.. Gousev cited a letter of De-
cember from M. Pierre Charpen-
tier, charge d'affairs of the French
Embassy in Moscow, which he as
serted shows the French govern
ment is unilaterally annulling the
Franco-Soviet repatriation agree
ment of June 20, 1945."
The Russian said in his own note
that the French letter had accused
two members of the Soviet repatri-
alton commission, Filatov and Soro-
kin, of subversive activities against
France" He said the Soviet govern
ment regarded those accusations as
foul SANDER, devoid of any foun-
dations and fabricated by the
French government in order to
justify it's arbitrary action to Soviet
tSee FRANCE Page A-6)
Evening star., 1947-12-09
Traffic VioIator School
To Start After Jan. | on
6-Monfh Trial Basis
Commissioners Order
Barrett to Set Up Class;
Will HundIe IS Persons

A school for traffic violators
will start at police headquarters
as soon as possible after Janu-
ary l, the Police Department an
nounced today as the Commits
sioners ordered ablishment of
the school on a six-month trial
basis.
Glasses will be held from 8 to 10
pm. Fridays and 10 am. to noon
Saturdays in the Detective Bureau
squad room on the third floor of the
Municipal Building, Inspector Ar
thur E. Miller, department traffic
expert, said. About rs persons can
be accommodated at each class.
The school cannot be opened at
once because attendance slips and
certificates must be printed and
some curriculum" matters remain
to be worked out, Inspector Miller
explained. The certificates, he said
will be given to graduates" who
thus can tell Municipal Court judges
that the course has been completed
Drivers May Escape Fine.
The school was recommended BY
the Traffic Advisory Board and was
the subject of today's order by the
Commissioners to Police Chief Rob.
ert j. Barrett. Under the ruling
Washington motorists and driver!
from Maryland and Virginia WHIT
work in the District can be sent tx
the traffic school by Municipa
Court judges instead of paying fine.
for traffic violations Parking Law
violations are not affected because
the school Is planned only for mo.
torists arrested for violations in.
volving vehicles in motion.
Moving pictures, instruction il
traffic regulations and safe driving
practices, and lectures by represen'
tatives of several District agencie.
are being arranged, Inspector Miller
said.
The faculty list is not yet com.
plete but it will include Earl H
Sennott, jr.,l of the Accident Inves.
tigating Unit, Mrs. Mary Silver
chairman of the Board of Revoca.
ton and Restoration of Operators
Permits; Assistant Corporation
Counsel Clark F. King, Sergt. Johr
(See TRAFFTC SCHOOL, Page A-6
Evening star., 1947-12-09
COMMUNITY CHEST
CAMPAIGN
More Jews Killed in Tel Aviv,
But Arab Attack Fury Abotes
Sporadic outbursts Occur on City Outskirts,
With Four New Deaths; Ten-Doy Toll los

deaths came in the course of at
tacks on British armored cars, said
by Jewish sources to have been per-
petrated by "dissident Jewish
groups" possibly the underground
Stern group.
In those attacks, gasoline bombs
were hurled at four armored cars,
and four other armored cars were
fired on in the Tel Aviv area. Police
sprayed the streets with bullets.
Several Jews were wounded, and two
armored car commanders were hurt.
One Arab was killed by gunflre
and another Arab seriously wounded
in last nights disorders in the Tel
Aviv-Jaffa border area died of his
wounds this morning. The body of
Jew was found in the port city of
Haifa.
Up to 40 Arab huts were destroyed
by fire during wild clashes last night
9(Sea PAL ,ESTTNE Pope A-11
Evening star., 1947-12-09
Marshall Reported Sci
To Force Reds Hand
On Reich Settlement
MoIotov's indications of
Concessions Not Expected
To Bring Any Results
By the Assoeiotsd Press

LONDON, Dec. 9.-Secretary OF
State Marshall was reported to-
day to have determined to seek
a showdown with Soviet Foreign
Minister Molotov at the earliest
opportunity on whether Russia
actually is ready to negotiate a
German settlement.
American officials said they were
convinced, as today's meeting OF
the Council of Foreign Ministers
got under way, that hints of con-
cessions given in Mr.. Molotov's ac-
tions last night would not be borne
out on real issues.
Clear-Cut Decision Sought.
Gen. Marshall's strategy appar-
emily was to strip one of these
major issues, probably reparations
down to its bare essentials and try
to get clear cut decision on agree
ment of disagreement.
Diplomatic experts of all three
western delegations considered that
the real state of relations between
Russia and the western powers is
represented more by developments
in Europe than by diplomatic ma
neuvers going on here.
Developments considered signifi.
cant in this respect were Russia s
angry note to France today ovel
repatriation, coupled with the dis
ruption of Soviet French trade ne
gotiatlons, and Russia's action ir
closing section of its Austrian oc-
cupation zone to travel between the
American zone and Czechoslovakia
The Councils meeting today was
its 18th of the London Conference
Molotov Offers Proposals.
Diplomats in the western camp
looked to this afternoons session
for developments which could either
enlarge or erase altogether the pros
poets of agreement suggested by 9
series of Soviet moves last night ir
which some observers saw a hint o1
willingness to compromise.
IneSe were the moves:
l. Mr.. Molotov submitted, at the
urging Of Gen. Marshall, compre-
hensive set of proposals for the eco.
nomic unifcation of Germany.
2. When Gen. Marshall askec
whether acceptance of the Russian
demand for $4,000, 100000 in repa.
rations from Germany was a "con.
dition" for Soviet acceptance of Ger.
man economic unity, Mr., Moloto,
said it was not a pre- condition.
Instead, Mr.. Molotov said, he fell
that reparations and economic unity
should be considered simultaneously
"a statement which was interpreted
in some quarters as indicating 6
readiness to dicker.
3. Mr.. Molotov did not reject out.
right, as he had at the Moscow Con-
ference, proposals by the western
powers that in any economic zons
merger various occupation deficit!
should be shared. The question, h.
said, could not be considered unit
each power determined what ths
costs would be.
4. Following yesterdays session {
Soviet official told reporters it hae
been a businesslike meeting and thai
See PIC FOTTR pace A-4l
Evening star., 1947-12-09
Know|and Says Reds
Gave Czechs Grain 10
Quit Marshall Plan
Agreement to Provide
100000 Bushels
Charged at Hearing
By Chalmers M. Roberts

Czechoslovakia obtained an
agreement from Russia under
which it would receive about
100000 bushels of grain as
part of the payment" for with
drawing from the Marshall plan,
Senator Knowland, Republican,
of California declared today.
His statement came at a Senate
Appropriations Committee hearing
on the stopgap foreign aid bill after
DR.. D. A. FitzGerald, secretary gen.
eral of the International Emergency
Food Council, testified that Russia
is supplying Czechoslovakia with
the grain on credit. All other Rus
sia grain shipments have been paid
for either in goods or dollars before
the grain passed over Soviet borders
he said.
Withdrew From Marshall Plan.
Czechoslovakia at first announced
it would take part in Marshall plan
discussions last summer, but later
withdrew after its leaders conferred
in Moscow. Senator Knowland said
he understood the grain agreement
was negotiated at that time las a
quid pro quo
DR.. FitzGerald admitted that a
Russian shipment to France in the
1856 crop year, exploited by Com
munist propaganda in France as a
Russian gift actually had been
paid for in dollars.
France had no goods to use for
payment at that time, he said.
U. S. Contribution Set.
DR.. FITZGERALD said the IEFC has
tentatively set the United States
contribution to world grain exports
for the first quarter of 1948 at 123,-
000, 900 bushels, which would bring
the total shipments abroad from
this country for the first nine
months of the 1918 crop year to
433, ,000, 900 bushels.
If crop prospects for the United
States next spring are good, the
council expects American shipments
to reach 520,0O0,00O bushels, the goal
currently set by the administration.
Dr. Fitz Gerald said his organiza-
ton, which includes IS nations but
not Argentina or Russia, is worry
ing" all exporting countries to sup
ply as much as possible.
In discussing Russian grain fig
ures, Senator Ferguson, Republi-
can, of Michigan, asked if there
ois an iron curtain as to available
ity" and DR.. Fitz Gerald replied
that the curtain has some holes In
it," With the exception of the ship
ment of 925,00o bushels of grain to
France, all the Soviet exports are
expected to go to Russian satellite
nations. He said any shipment te
a nation asking for imports which
might come from the United States
would. of course, be. deducted from
our exports.
Evening star., 1947-12-09
U. n. Council Takes Up
Arabs Fight Against
Palestine Partition
Egypt and Lebanon Appeal
For Nonvoting Seats
In Security Group
BY the Associated Press

LAKE SUCCESS, Dec. 9.-The
fight for the Moslems against
partition of Palestine moves
into the United Nations Security
Council today with two Arab
nations demanding the right to
participate in all debates about
the turbulent Holy Land.
The appeals of Egypt and Lebanon
for nonvoting seats on the lima
ton council, the U. N. enforcement
arm which eventually must assume
responsibility for maintaining peace
in divided Palestine, apparently
were the diplomatic side of the Arab
League program to prevent creation
of a Jewish country in Palestine.
The two letters to the U. NJ reached
here almost simultaneously with an
announcement in Cairo, where the
seven-nation league met, that plans
we're being drafted for immediate
action to oppose creation of a Jew
ish state in Palestine.
No Veto on Question.
The Palestine issue was placed on
the Councils agenda in a routine
move to allow the body to receive
official notification of the General
Assembly's November decision to
split the Holy Land into independ-
ent Jewish and Arab countries. Now
apparently, delegates first will have
to decide whether to hear the two
Arab countries, with approval OF
Z of the II members needed. There
is no veto on such a question
Syria is the only Arab League ma
ton which has a regular seat on
the Security Council.
The messages to the U. N. were
signed by Prime Minister Riad Solh
of Lebanon and Foreign Minister
Ahmad Mohammad Khashaba
Pasha of Egypt. Both attended the
Cairo meeting along with represent
atives of the other league states
Syria, Saudi Arabia, Trans-Jordan
Iraq and Yemen.
So far all U. N. debate on Pales-
tine has been eentered in the ST.
nation Assembly. Of the II Coun-
Gil members, the United States
Russia, France, Poland, Belgium
Evening star., 1947-12-09
VotH EIOlNOMIO, IdBt H-oJ
Greek Plane Attack
Charged by Bulgaria
BY fhe Associated Press

SOFIA, Bulgaria, Dec. 8 de
layedl.-The Bulgarian press de-
partment said tonight that two un-
identified planes, coming from the
direction of Greece, penetrated
Bulgarian territory last night and
fired on military outposts. The out
posts returned the fire.
The Bulgarian government said
1t had notified the United Nations
and had filed a protest.
Evening star., 1947-12-09
Choice Steers Hit S39,
New AlI-Time Record
By the Associated Press

CHICAGO, Dec. 9-Choice steers
sold at a new all-time record price
for the regular market today at $39
hundred pounds. The lot included
some prime grade material, the
average weight running to 1,150
pounds.
The previous record was set a
week ago today at $3.50, while on
this date year ago the market top
was $34 a hundredweight.