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Evening star., 1947-02-01
Truman Takes FutoIistic View
And Decides to Go on Flying

Mr.. Truman was asked II he
planned to return the visit which
Viscount Alexander, Governor Gen.
eral of Canada, will make to this
country February 4.
He replied that he hadn't been
asked yet.
well, you will be" reporter
told him.
In response to another question
about the possibility of Big Three
meeting the President reiterated
that he would not leave Washington
again to join Premier Stain and
Prime Minister Attlee, although he
said he would be glad to see them
in Washington any time.
He added, however, that he saw
nc. necessity for another meeting OF
the Big Three.
This has been his unyaryins
stand.
Evening star., 1947-02-01
Colder Weather Forecast
For Grounding Tomorrow

February blew in today with prom
ise of colder weather, but the official
forecaster, in keeping with traol-
ton. was careful to stress that
everything was really up to the
grounding who takes over tomor-
row.
According to legend, the ground
hog is due to emerge from his win
ter's sleep tomorrow. If, when ne
pops out of his hole, he sees his
shadow he will go back and there
will be six more weeks of winter.
Ohicially, the Weather Bureau
says there may be enough sun to-
morrow for the grounding to see
his shadow but he says the day will
be generally cloudy and a bit chilly
with highest temperature in the
upper 40's and an evening low OF
IS expected.
A high of 10 degrees at 1901 pm
Yesterday and a low of 40 at Hiss
nm. ushered OUT one Of the warm
est Januarys in years. There was
a low of u degrees January %, and
a high of 73 Thursday made it the
warmest January 80 on record. The
average daily temperature was ALI
degrees.
Evening star., 1947-02-01
Hanoi Radio Reports
French in Fierce Bottle
BY the Associated Press

MANILA, Feb. Radio Hanoi In
a broadcast heard here today report
ed that fierce fighting was going on
between French forces attempting
to relieve their besieged garrisons at
Hue and Wet Nam troops surround
ing the city. Hue is the capital OF
AMMAN Province in Indo- China.
The radio is operated by the Wet
Namese Resistance Committee. The
broadcast, recorded by the Associ-
ated Press, said French troops In
Laos, which borders Anam Province
were making tremendous effort" te
enter Wet Nam territory.
One engagement was reported un-
der way on the road about 40 miles
north of Hue, while to the southeast
French munition and supply con-
voys were repeatedly destroyed with
land mines in Cochin China.
Evening star., 1947-02-01

mem intend to hit anyone. They are
trying to scare our boys off the river
They fire high. They've hit our
masts several times and sometimes
the boys find bullet holes in their
hulls."
No Virginians have been hit, Mr..
Mayo said, but he added that a
young man on a Maryland boat
which was dredging had been
wounded in the chest but recovered.
The oystermen were gathered at
Curley's oyster packing house on
Monroe Creek, a section crowded
with summer cottages.
"You were fired at the night be-
fore last, weren't you?" the secretary
asked a tall young man.
"Machine-gun bullets on my tail, y
the young man testified. Ran mp
the creek just In time"
Except for possible enforcement
incidents the Maryland Virginia
dispute over oystering In the Poto-
Evening star., 1947-02-01
BY the Assoeioied Press

JERUSALEM, Feb. Military
labor crews went into action be-
fore dawn today re-stringing
barbed-wire barricades and re-
newing defenses, in an apparent
second step by the British gov
ernment to turn all, Palestine
into fortress against under
ground violence.
Yesterday the government or
dered all nonessential British women
and children-together with some
men-evacuated by Tuesday, moved
the families of married army men
into barracks and told government
officials to prepare for a similar
move.
Working in rain and mud, military
groups could be seen refurbishing
Jerusalem's defense lines with
barbed wire. Some blocks Of fats
previously used as officers clubs were
Evening star., 1947-02-01
Truman 10 Give Congress
His Views on Public Papers

President Truman is preparing to
present his views to Congress on
the retention by retiring public Of
ficials of papers they accumulate
while in office.
The matter was brought sharply
into focus within the past week
when Secretary of Treasury Sny-
der called on his predecessor, Henry
w. Morgenthau, jr., for the return
OF certain documents.
Mr.. Truman, who presumably will
suggest some sort of legislative ac-
ton, refused to discuss the matter
further than to say that it was
under consideration and that his
views on the entire subject would
% communicated to Congress.
Evening star., 1947-02-01
U. 5. Is Producing
DeadIier Atom Bomb
Commission Hints
Progress on'Weopons
Reported; Action on Six
Nominees Delayed
Rx the Assoeia.ed Press

A hint of new and more pow
erful atomic bombs came from
the domestic Atomic Energy
Commission today as Senators
deferred final action on Presi-
dent Truman's six nominations
to the agency.
The commission, in the first of two
reports 1t is required to submit to
Congress yearly, announced that
research and development work on
improved atomic weapons is in prog
ress."
A member of the Senate-House
Atomic Committee, who asked not to
be quoted by name, said he inter-
prets this as confirmation of rumors
that something vastly more power
full than the bombs which dropped
on Japan is in production.
Senate members of the committee
may get further insight into this
matter next week, when they talk in
closed door sessions to Chairman
David E. Liiienthal and his commits
sion colleagues.
The report also disclosed:
l. Costly and painstaking methods
for the production of U-235-the
pure" product needed for bombs
and other weapons-have been so
improved that considerable savings
have been effected. One of three
methods in use was abandoned, ap-
parently in favor Of the more eff
cient one.
2. The Government is seeking to
develop new deposits of uranium and
thorium, two sources of fashionable
materials which create atomic ex-
plosions and energy.
8. The commission lists research
in atomic power for airplanes as a
major project. The Army Air Forces
has contract with the Fairchild
Engine g. Airplane Corp. for re-
search in this field at Oak Ridge,
Tenn.
Mr.. Lilienthal announced yester-
day the appointment of Col. James
McCormack of Arlington, Va, for
mer Rhodes scholar and new wea-
pons expert during the war, as direc-
tor of the commissions division of
military applications of atomic en-
ergy.
At a press conference attended by
Secretary of War Patterson, Col.
Mccormack and members Of the
Military Liaison Committee, MIR.
Lilienthal said Col. McCormack's as
Evening star., 1947-02-01
Red Official in Berlin
Accuses U. 5. Deputy
Of Election SABOTAGE :
Attack Indirectly Charges
Threat to Reconstruction
Of German Political Life
BY the Assoeioted Press

BERLIN, Feb. Mai. Gen.
Alexander Kotikov, Russian COM
mandant for Berlin, in an ac-
ton unprecedented in the occu-
patton of Berlin, made an open
attack today on Col. Frank L.
Howley, American deputy COM
mandant, in the official Red
Army newspaper, Taegliche
Rundschau.
Gen. Kotikov, for the first time
appealing to the Germans against
one of his colleagues in the Allied
Communicative, accused Col. Howley
of attempting to sabotage" the elec-
ton of members of Berlin's Trade
Union Federation and indirectly &C
cused him of threatening the ere
construction of Germanspolitical life
on democratic basis"
Gen. Kotikov permitted the pub
lication by Taegliche Rundschau OF
the complete text of a long state
ment which he made to the men,
bers of the Commandantura yester-
day-a bitter TRADE against Col.
Howley and other American per-
sonalities" whom he accused of 'ex-
erting pressure" on the Berlin
unions.
Disagreement Over Election.
Gen. Kotikov's statement came
during a disagreement over the
form which elections to the Central
Committee of the city's trade unions
federation should take. Britain and
France, it was reported, sided with
the American in the dispute, but
Gen. Kotikov's statement was di-
rected almost entirely against the
Americans.
The effect of the disagreement
will be the dissolution, at least tenn
porarily, of the Central COMMITTEES
in the Berlin sector occupied by the
Western Allies after February g.
when the present committee goes
out of Office. The present commit
tee is dominated by members of the
Soviet-sponsored Socialist Unity
Party. =
Gen. Kotikov claimed the Ameri-
can suggestions were made mot to
improve the election procedure, but
to delay them and perhaps even to
sabotage them"
Ultimatum Mentioned.
He charged Col. Howley had is
sued an. ultimatum to the COM
mandatura by asserting that If
agreement were not reached on the
voting procedure the Central Com
mittee of the union federation would
cease to exist in all but few Sec
tions of the city.
Col. Howley expressed astonish-
ment at the publication of Gen
Kotikov's remarks in a paper pub
lisned for the Germans, but made
no formal reply. However. it was
learned from authoritative sources
that the Americans position has
been that it is better to have no
election at present if members can
not be elected on the democratic
principles which the Allies are at
tempting to support in Germany.
Evening star., 1947-02-01
Sugar Increase
|0f 10 10 .15Lbs.
Asked in Report
House Investigators
Demand U. S. Keep
Its Cuban Tonnage
By the Assoeioted Press

1
A House committee investigat-
ling food shortages insisted"
Unanimously today on 10 to Is
pounds more sugar for every
American this year. 1t said in
duStrial users should have a
third more than they got in 1946.
The committee rushed its report
and recommendations to Secretary
Of Agriculture Anderson in advance
of Monday meeting of an interna-
tional sugar committee which will
| try to divide the world supply.
The committee said it insists that
the Secretary of Agriculture retain
approximately 3,300,000 short tons
OF Cuban sugar." which the United
States has bought under an agree
lment with the Cuban government.
Chairman Andersen told reporters
that if European countries get all
the American sugar they are re-
questing 1--WE will have the smallest
per capita consumption of sugar
we've had in our history"
20 POUNDS Each In lJ46.
American consumers were allowed
rs pounds apiece last year. The
committee proposed mot less than
IS to 40 pounds" in 1947. Mr.. Ander-
son said the Agriculture Department
has agreed to an extra ration Of
5 pounds after April 1-for a total
Of 80.
Industrial consumers - bakeries,
soft drink and candy manufacturers
and the like-got so per cent as
much sugar in 1916 as they used in
1941. For 1947, the committee pro-
posed 80 per cent of the 1941 amount.
The increases can be granted, the
committee said, if Secretary Ander-
son holds on to all the Cuban sugar.
That would leave some 100000 tons
of the island supply for the rest Of
the world, or 100000 less than in
1916.
The committe said this reduction
is more than Offset by an increase
of 1888 900 tons, or "a per cent, In
European production.
Thirty Nations in Council.
The International Sugar Commit
tee is an arm of the International
Emergency Food Council, of which
80 countries are members.
The House Committee said per
capita consumption, including sugar
lin industrial products. was 1913
pounds in 1946 and 1885 pounds in
1941.
| It figured American production
will climb 13 per cent this year, from
3,376. 900 to 3,8o8. 900 tons-all to be
used at home. 1t estimated world
production at 30,361 900 tons this
year against 26,682, 900 last year.
The United States has asked the
international sugar group for $780,
600 tons this year, or enough to
allow an average of 95.1 pounds per
person. This quantity would be
divided among individual consumers
and industrial users.
Demands of all nations partici-
pating in the world division of sugar
exports total 100000 tons more
than the expected supply for 1947.
Per capita requests range from 95.3
pounds for Canada and 92.3 for the
United Kingdom to 13 for Austria.
Evening star., 1947-02-01
1880 Pounds Of foot
Al Freedmen S Found
Unfit for Humans
Investigation Asked
By Health Service;
Meeting Set Thursday

The District Health Depart
ment has condemned about $500
pounds of food as unfit for hu-
man consumption and taken ii
from Freedmen's Hospital, it was
announced today. The food was
found in the storeroom of the
hospital by inspectors from the
department, according to DR.
Reid r. Ashworth, director of the
Bureau of Food Inspection.
The food consisted Of 1000 pound,
of sugar, 800 pounds of -four, 40t
pounds of grits, 400 pounds Of corr
meal and 800 pounds Of beans. AL
the food had been contaminated b.
rats.
The seizure was reported by tn
Health Department to the United
States Public Health Service, which
has jurisdiction over the hospital
and the Health Service has callec
a meeting at Freedmen's for next
Thursday at 10:30 am.
Investigation Called For.
In a letter to Charles Burbridge
superintendent of the hospital, the
Health Service said it was the Con
sensus of our opinion that investi-
CATION be made to determine how
the food became contaminated by
rodents and that measures should
be taken to prevent recurrence OF
this incident"
At the meeting Thursday, which
will be attended by District Health
Department officers, it is believed
that Col. William H. Cary, director
of the Bureau of Sanitation of the
Health Department, will be asked
to take measures to rid the hospital
of the rats.
Superintendent Burbridge said to-
day the trouble was due to poor stor-
age facilities and this now had been
corrected.
Food Taken to Zoo
The Public Health Service and
the District Health Department are
going to make a complete sanitary
survey of the hospital, he said, and
while they have had an exterminat-
ing service at the institution, fol
some unknown reason the food
which was all stored in sacks es-
capped detection. The space Is ne
longer used for storage, he said, and
the sanitary survey is due to begir
with the meeting at the hospita
next Thursday.
The condemned food was taker
to the Zoo for use by the animals
Evening star., 1947-02-01
Soviet Report Of Secret
u. S. Chino Base Denied
BY the Associated Press

The Navy denied yesterday a re-
port in the Soviet newspaper Pravda
that this country is building secret
naval base at Tsingtao, China, OF
that there is a secret agreement fol-
use of the Chinese port in event Of
war.
Press officers at the Navy Depart
ment volunteered to newsmen that
the Pravda report is untrue"
Evening star., 1947-02-01
Brooklyn JoiIbreoker
Couqht in Bar Kitchen
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK, Feb. 1.-Bespecta-
cled George Gurinovich, %, o1
Brooklyn was found covering under
a kitchen table as detectives made a
routine search of an East Side Man.
haitian bar and grill early today
His arrest left at large only three
men of the nine who sawed their
way out of Brooklyn's Raymond
Street Jail January 2.
Detectives said Gurinovich called
Don't shoot-Ill come out" and
submitted meekly as they pointed
guns at him.
Evening star., 1947-02-01

curity of every American who has
invested in Government bonds"
2,300,Oo0 ON Payroll.
The wholesale cut In the number
Of civilian Federal employees, which
now stands at 1890, 900, was pro-
posed to the Senate House Budget
Committee yesterday by Chairman
Taber Of the House Appropriations
Committee.
Chairman Knutson Of the House
Ways and Means Committee told
reporters later it was the general
feeling" at the meeting that the
payroll could be cut to 1,300,0
without impairing Government
functions. That total, he said, would
still be 100000 more Federal workers
than there were in 1889.
Mr.. Cannon dismissed the meeting
of the budget group, a combination
OF committees which will fix ceiling
for Federal spending, as a political
field day" for the COP.
He denied there was any general
agreement to fire 100000 persons,
Evening star., 1947-02-01
Jap Labor Leaders
File Open Challenge
Against Macarthur
Ask Four-Power Council
To Probe Conditions and
Cancellation, of Strike
BY the Associated Press

TOKYO, Feb. 1.-Left-wing
Japanese labor leaders, in the
first open challenge of Gen
MacArthur's authority, today
petitioned the -Four Power Coun-
Gil for the Far East for an in
vestigation of Japanese labor
conditions and Gen. MacAr-
thurs orders canceling the
proposed general strike.
The leaders, who despite the an
nounced disbanding of the ALI
Japan Central Strike Committee,
continued to plan their strategy as
a unified group, also requested that
the supreme commander reconsider
the strike cancellation order.
Later the All-Japan Express Co
Union, which claims 100000 mem
bers Cancelled a strike scheduled fol
tomorrow night and said it was
acting under pressure from Gen
MacArthurs headquarters. How
ever, it told its locals to be ready
to walk out on a moments notice
The union contended management
had taken advantage of Gen. Mac
Arthur's strike ban to reject a COM
promise on workers demands.
Triple Wages Sought
The new and unexpected twist to
the tangled Japanese problem fol-
lowed closely on the heels Of the an
nouncement of Yashiro II, chairman
of the Strike COMMITTEES of the potent
disagreement employees union
that I'VE will now go into production
control to win our demands"
Production control, outlawed by
the Diet, is the Japanese unions
weapon of seizing an industry, oust-
ing the proprietors and operating il
under union management until de-
mands are met. The procedure has
been condemned by Gen. Macarthur
The general strike, which Gen
Macarthur banned yesterday nine
hours before its midnight zero
hour, was called among some 400
600 government union employees to
support demands for wages approxi-
mately triple present scales, and as
a protest against the continuance of
Premier Shigeru Yoshida as head OF
the government.
Premier Is Censured.
The petition to the Far East
Council did not fail to censure Yo-
shida, whose new cabinet of conserv-
atives was invested in office yester-
day two hours after Gen. Macarthur
called off the strike.
Because of the strike ban, the la
Dor leaders told the commission I'VE
fear there will be a serious Interrupt
ton to the characterization of Japan
while undemocratic, reactionary gov
Co. IApA NFCF pace A2h
Evening star., 1947-02-01
Doctor at Wainwright
Prison Comp Executed
By the As,oeiuted Press

SHANGHAI, Feb. Capt. Joich
Kuwashima, one-time chief medica
officer Of japanese prison camr
at Mukden, was hanged today at the
Shanghai Ward Road Jail.
/ Kuwashima was medical officer al
the camp In which were confined
Gen. Jonathan Wainwright and 1t
Gen. Arthur Percival, British COM
lnander who surrendered to tht
japanese at Singapore.
He was convicted last year of bru-
tai treatment of prisoners by ar
American military tribunal and SEN
fenced to death.
Evening star., 1947-02-01

COLONIAL BEACH, Va, Feb
1.-Machine-gun bullets from
Maryland fisheries patrol craft
have been tipping after their
boats, Colonial Beach oystermell
said today.
The Virginia oystermen USE
dredges instead Of tongs to rake ur
the oysters. Dredging is against
Maryland law and Maryland owns
the river.
The men on the Colonial Beach
oyster boats have been living a life
like that of the rum runners ir
prohibition days as Maryland's en-
forcement has frightened up. All ha.
not been quiet on the Potomac. The
shooting has been going on al
winter, they say.
John E. Mayo, secretary of the
Potomac River Oysterman's Asso'
citation, said IT don't think they
seThe Maryland Fisheries batro
Evening star., 1947-02-01
Miami Tax Evasion Cases
May Total $4,000. 900
BY The Associated Press

MIAMI, Feb. Gases involving
s., ,0O0, 900 to 5000. 900 in income tax
evasion have been prepared against
Is. greater Miami merchants and
hotel operators by the Internal
Revenue Bureau, ]. j. Brown, chief
|of the Miami revenue intelligence
unit, said yesterday.
Evening star., 1947-02-01
Bullets From Patrol Boats Fly,
But High, in River Oyster War
virginions Soy Shooting by Maryland Craft
Apparently Is Intended to Scare Them Away
By George Kennedy
: Sfar Sfaff Correspondenf

Pictures on Page A-12.)
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(See RENTS, Page A-3.)
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(See JAPANESE, Page A-3.)
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tSee OYSTERS, Page A-3o
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(See ATOMIC, Page A-41
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An Associoted Press Newspaper
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(See TAKES, Page A-6D
The Nome nugget., 1947-05-12
U. s. Against Pales- tine Independence

LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y. (P)- The United States Saturday op- posed a Russian demand that the proposed United Nations inquiry commission submit plan for the immediate independence of PaleS- tine.
 Herschel V. Johnson, deputy American delegate, told the gen eral assembly'S 55-nation political committee that injecting manda- tory ideas into the commission in structions might prejudice the final issues"
 Johnson was the opening speak CT as the committee resumed de- bate over the instruction and makeup of the special body.
 "The United States feels strong ly that nothing mandatory should be placed on the commission eX- cept to investigate Palestine in all aspects and formulate recoMnlen- dationS for the next assembly" ," Johnson said We do not fec that insertion into the terms of refer ence of particular ideas would be helpful"
 Soviet deputy foreign minister Andrei A. Gromyko retorted that Russia was not attempting to ''im- pose upon the committee the study of any one idea" and noted that all delegates seemed agreed on ultimate independence for Pales- tine He said it was thus logical to write his point into the instruc- tions.
The Nome nugget., 1947-05-12
Eisenhower To Be Witness

WASHINGTON, (P)-An attor- ney for two defendants in the May-Garsson war fraud trial said Saturday he will insist on call ing Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower for testimony about the l945 court martial of a munitions-mak- CTS son.
 The lawyer is Charles J. Mar giotti, representing Henry and Murray Carson, arms manufac- turers charged in the case with former Congressman Andrew J.. May.
 Il want to ask the general a few questions Margiotti told re- porter.
 Warren Magee, attorney for the 72-year-old May, already has had Eisenhower served with a sub poena.
 Prosecutor William A. Paisley told the court he hoped to have documents showing requests from May to Eisenhower in behalf of the GarsSonS introduced in evi- dence without calling the army chief of staff. The trial is in ad- iournment until today.
The Nome nugget., 1947-05-12
Soviets Accept US. Korean Proposal

LONDON, (F) - The Moscow radio said Saturday that Russia has accepted certain American proposals for consulting Korean representative concerning the formation of a provisional govern ment in Korea.
 The broadcast said the accept ance was contained in a letter from Soviet foreign minister V. M. Molotov to secretary of state George C. Marshall, who had hinted earlier that unless Russia specifically agreed to consult all Korean political elements on the question the United States might boycott a scheduled May 20 meet ing of the point U. S.-SOviet com mission in Seoul.
 In Washington a state depart ment spokesman said Molotov's letter was received Friday but that there will be no comment un- til it has been translated and studied.
 The broadcast said the letter was delivered to Marshall by the Soviet ambassador in Washington, Molotov cited an exchange of cor respondence last year between the American and Russian command CTS in Korea and declared him. self ready to accept" certain amendments offered by the Amer ican commander concerning the resumption of the joint discus Sions.
 The principal American pro- proposal to which Molotov said he was in agreement was that only
The Nome nugget., 1947-05-12
FRIENDSHIP GROWS

BLOOMINGTON III. (P)-Jacob Shinabarger, night fireman for a heating plant, didn't know what he was starting when he adopted two mice to help him while away the lonely hours.
 The mice would come out of their hole and eat bread from Shin abarger's hand. He named them
The Nome nugget., 1947-05-12
LOOK. NO HANDS

CHICAGO, P),- Mrs. Adeline Dubish amazed members of her family when as a child Of three months it was discovered she could stand alone. Now she has a son, Peter, born Feb. ', who was able to stand at least week be- fore he was three months old. Peter weighs 12 pounds, seven ounces.