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Evening star., 1947-12-08
Z Bedroom BurgIaries
Reported in District;
Loot Exceeds $4,000

| Police today were looking for a
prowler believed to have committed
two bedroom burglaries yesterday
| in the 5000 block of Cortland place
NV.
James F. Salkeld, q real estate
man living at 30l7 Cortland place
NV, reported the loss Of more than
a 900 worth Of jewelry from his
home. He said his wife discovered
the loss Of the jewels from q box
on her bureau when she awoke yes
terday morning. He declared q
three-carat diamond ring valued at
s., 500 and an amethyst ring valued
at $3.50, neither Of them insured,
were missing.
Mr.. Salkeld also reported his
wallet containing some cash and
papers was missing from his bed
room, as well as a miniature police
badge given to him by the late Maj.
Harvey G. Callahan after the death
several years ago Of Mr.. Salkeld's
brother, Detective Sergt. Watson
Salkeld. A topcoat belonging to a
weekend guest was taken from a
downstairs closet, he said.
Mrs. Leila Hardell, 5000 Cortland
place NV, told police she glimpsed
a man running through the hall of
her house as she was getting up
yesterday morning. She was unable
to describe him as he escaped
quickly. She told police SIS and the
keys to her house were missing from
a handbag in her bedroom. Entry
was made through an unlocked door
in the living room, police said.
A taxi driver, Harry A. Gilmore,
A, colored, of 80 Forty sixth street
NE, told police he was robbed Of
his cab and change carrier con-
tanning about $40 early yesterday
by three men, two of whom wore
Army uniforms. After taking the
men to Boiling Field, he said, they
asked to be driven instead to An
drews Field. At the corner of STAN
ton road and Suitland parkway,
they told him to stop, he reported.
The men got out and the civilian
took out a gun and told him to get
running" he declared. One shot
was fired at him, he told police.
The cab had not been recovered this
morning, police said.
Evening star., 1947-12-08
Ministers
{ CONTINUED From First Page.

with Mr.. Dulles views, he brought
from Paris the impression that the
future Of the industrial Ruhr was
the greatest worry Of the French,
but that French demands and Brit
ish and American plans for the
Ruhr can be successfully negotiated.
Washington dispatches stating
that the United States has printed
new currency for use in the Amer
ican zones Of both Germany and
Korea emphasized another angle of
the right between the East and the
West.
Decision Is Awaited.
It was expected that the decision
on issuance Of the currency in Ger
many would depend on the outcome
Of the London conference. The
new mark, If issued, undoubtedly
would apply to the British as well
as the American Zone and possibly
to the French, II the French decide
on zonal merger.
Gen. Lucius d. Clay and other top
occupation leaders have opposed any
currency change in Western Ger
many alone on the ground such a
change would be the first major
stop to partition Germany.
The United States and Britain
negotiated with the Russians for
more than year on printing of a
new currency for all zones to combat
Imitation, proposing that the money
be printed from . single set Of platea
In Berlin under four-power control
The negotiations broke down on tn.
Russian demand that part of tn,
money be printed under Russian
control at Leipzig. .ts77 =.
/ Mr.. Molotov appeared to be read!
with new move Of his owns
long-expected demand that = Ger.
man delegation chosen by the Com.
munist-sponsored German People,
Congress" in Berlin be given hear.
ing by the Big -Four on its views or
Germany's future.
In Germany q Communist-con-
|troiled German Peoples Congress
\ Cl1Os3C q aCAC86tkO1I Va A0y
to seek a hearing with the Foreign
ministers on the German peace
question.
It was this development which
was expected to be the basis Of an
appeal by Mr.. Molotov to give the
Germans hearing.
The leaders of the delegation were
named as Wilhelm Pieck and Otto
Grotewohl, chiefs Of the Com
munist dominated Socialist Unity
Party. Both men were trained< in
Moscow and returned to Germany
with the Soviet armies.
The conference which chose them
was boycotted by leaders of Ger
many's biggest political parties
the Social Democrats and Christian
Democrats = which labelled the
meeting a 'brazen trick" by Russian
zone Communists to represent them
selves as spokesmen for all Ger
many.
Evening star., 1947-12-08
Mrs. is. De Jarnefte Dies;
Wife Of Hospital Chief
By ,he Assoeiotsd Press

sTAUNTON, Va, Dec. 8.-Mrs
Joseph s. De Jarnette, wife Of the
retired superintendent OF Western
State Hospital, died at her home
here yesterday.
A native OF Bath County, Mrs.
|De Jarnette was a doctor and a
member Of the hospital staff until
her marriage to the superintendent
in 1905.
She received her medical degree
from the Women's Medical College
in Philadelphia after her gradua-
ton from Hollins College.
Before she Joined the hospital
staff, she taught at Mrs. Winston's
Seminary at Waynesboro.
Mrs. De Jarnette leaves sister
Miss Ora Hopkins, who made her
home with the De Jarnettes in
Staunton, and a brother, DR.. Frank
Hopkins of Warm Springs, Va.
Funeral services will be held at
noon tomorrow at the family burial
grounds in Warm Springs cemetery
Evening star., 1947-12-08
Winners in Bridge Tourney
Are Robbed Of $4,000
By the Assoeioisd Press

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., Dec. g.
Two women who won the National
Open pairs championship, spon-
sored by the American Contract
Bridge League, returned to their
hotel rooms last night after the
match to find they had lost more
than $4,000 in Jewels and furs to
a thief.
Mrs. Helen Sobel of Park ave-
niue, New York, and Mrs. Wilkinson
Wager, Atlanta, Ca, who won the
national championship with 6341s
points, discovered, their loss when
they went to retire after the match
Mrs. Sobei told John Galen, city
detective, that q new beaver ful
coat, valued at 1887, had beer
taken from her room, and Mrs
Wager reported to Galen the thief
OF a diamond platinum bracele
valued ct $4,000, q pair of diamond
earrings valued at $275 and $25 ir
dimes.
Second place went to Miss Ruth
Sherman and Samuel Fry, jr., both
Of New York, with 626A points, and
third to Milton Casson and Sidney
Writ, both of Brookline, Mass, with
$40 points.
Evening star., 1947-12-08
Mrs. James Steele, IS,
Former Publisher and
|CIubWomaI,, Dies

Mrs. James Irwin Steele, as, active
Iclubwoman and former newspaper
publisher, died unexpectedly this
morning at the home Of her daugh-
ter and son-in-law,. Col. and Mrs.
John Gardner Ladd, 1919 Forty
ffth street NV.
Mrs. Steele,s father, the late
IR. H. Thomas, was editor and
owner OF the Ashland (Pa.) journal
the Mechanicsburg Pa) Journal
and several weekly papers In Penn
Sylvania until his death In 1908.
Mrs. Steele took over publication
of the papers after the death Of her
brother, the late Robert H. Thomas
II, about 1916. She sold the prop
critics and retired in the 1905
Since then she has spent the winters
lin Washington with her daughter
and the summers In her home In
Mechanicsburg.
Mrs, Steele, the former Estelle
Thomas, was born in Ashland, and
attended Irving College In Me-
chanicsburg. She was married in
Mechanicsburg to Mr.. Steele, who
owned an Ashland daily newspaper.
He died In 1906.
She was active In the League of
American Pen Women both here
and in Mechanicsburg and was a
member of the Mary Washington
| Chapter of the OAR here. She also
was active in the League of Repub-
lican Women and in politics at
|Mechanicsburg.
Besides her daughter, Mrs. Steele
lis survived by two granddaughters,
Miss Martha Ladd and Miss
Annette Ladd, senior at Skidmore
College.
Funeral services and burial will be
held tomorrow at Mechanicsburg
Mrs. Steele's nephew, the Rev.
Robert H. Thomas III, pastor OF
Brandon Episcopal Church near
Richmond. Va. will officiate
Evening star., 1947-12-08
Dr.. Paul Monroe Dies:
Edited CyeIopedio
BY the Associated Press

GARRISON, N. Y, Dec. 8.-Dr.
Paul Monroe, 10, professor emeritus
of education at Columbia Univer-
sity and an internationally known
scholar. died Saturday.
He was editor in Chief of the
Cyclopedia of Education, a five
volume work published between 1910
and 1913 and still regarded as .
basic work in the field. DR.. Monroe
specialized in research into the
development Of education in ancient
and modern times. He was native
OF North Madison, Ind.
Evening star., 1947-12-08
Mortgage Burned
|By Two Churches in
Arlington, Bethesda

Churches in Bethesda and Ar.
lington yesterday burned their
mortgages. :,
The churches are Christ Lutheran
Church. SOIL Old Georgetown road,
Bethesda, and st. Mary's Episcopal
Church, Twenty sixth street and
North Glebe road, Arlington.
The ceremony at Christ Church
climaxed a weeks observance by the
congregation of It's 18th anniversary,
Two members who were officers at
the time the mortgage was drawn
up in 1910, George Whiting, presi-
dent, and Arthur j. Hilland, secre-
tary, burned the document. >
Principal speaker at the observ.'
ance was DR.. Gerhard E.. Lenski,
pastor of Grace Lutheran Church Of
Washington.
The Rev. Otto c. Schuetze, present
pastor, conducted the service.
Christ Church held its first serv.
ice December 2. 1884. in the Hiser
Theater, Bethesda. It was organ
lied October, 1884, with 46 mem
bers. The congregation now has
more than 800 members.
At st. Mary's Church the cere.
mony took place during a consecra-
ton service. Visiting clergymen
from the Washington area were
present as the Right Rev. Frederick
Dean Goodwin, Bishop of Virginia.
conducted the conservation rites.
Other participants included the Rev.
John Sadtler of Falls Church, Va.
first rector of st. Mary's Church,
and the Rev. George Tittman,
present rector.
The mortgage was burned by DR..
E. Maurice Blackwell, charter mem
Der and present senior warden of
the church.
st. Marys Church was organized
in 1926. The congregation held its
first service in 1927 In a school
building on Twenty street,
North. The present rector came to
the church in April, 1912, from st.
Louis. The congregation now has
approximately 400 members.
Evening star., 1947-12-08
; More Groups Deny
Subversive Charge;
One Asks Hearing

Three more organizations have
denied the subversive label given
them by Attorney General Clark.
They are the Washington Co.
operative Bookshop, the United
Negro and Allied Veterans of
America, and the National Council
Of American-Soviet Friendship.
The Negro veterans group de-
clared Mr.. Clark's designation is
an attempt to intimidate Negro
veterans" by listing it as a sus-
pect. It described its subversive
listing as "a lie out Of the whole
CLOTH"
The bookshop said Mr.. Clark's ac-
ion was an attempt to gag the
whole American people"
Pledges to Continue Activity.
I'VE will continue to contribute
to the cultural. life of our COM
munity by presenting the best
thought and leadership in the
sphere Of art, science and litera-
ture," the bookshop's statement said.
IF championing the cause Of the
dsenfranchised, the houseless and
the unfed is the Attorney Generals
yardstick Of subversion, we promise
him grimly we shall not cease to be
subversive," the bookshop declared.
In New York, the National Coun-
ell of American Soviet Friendship,
through its national chairman, the
Rev. William Howard Melish, sent
a letter to Mr.. Clark protesting the
incluson of its name on the list.
"Arbitrary" Inclusion Protested.
I'VE vigorously protest your arbi.
trary inclusion Of the name Of our
organization in the list OF sub
versive' groups as submitted by you
to the Loyalty Review Board and
as published In the press on Decem-
ber 4, 1947." the letter said.
The Council demanded that 1t be
served with bill Of particulars
upon which you base your conclu-
sion concerning our organization y
It asked for a public hearing "to
refute the unfounded charges"
The list of 80 organizations and
II schools was drawn up by Mr.
Clark for use in the Federal en-
ployes' loyalty investigation pro-
gram.
Evening star., 1947-12-08
Oak Ridge Conference
Takes Up Wages, Top
Issue in y.ike Threat
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

OAK RIDGE, Tenn, Dec. 8.-With
the strike deadline for 5000 CIO
workers in one of the atomic bomb
plants here little more than "a hours
distant, company and union nego-
tiators took up today the top issue
the unions 25-cent blanket wage
demand.
"As yet, we're as far apart as the
poles on that" said Clyde L. Terry,
president of union Local 288, as the
negotiations between the Gas, Coke
and Chemical Workers Union and
the Carbide and Carbon Chemicals
Corp, were resumed.
"The wage increase matter will
be one of the first things taken up
today" Mr.. Terry said, adding that
the corporation, which operates the
huge gaseous diffusion plant for the
Government, had Offered us little
in the way of an increase, but moth
ing that we would consider ac-
cepting.
Will Discuss Ratings.
"Inequities in job ratings is an
other major issue still to be- dis
cussed," the union leader declared.
CLARK Center, general manager Of
the plant, refused to say what, If
any, wage increase had been offered
the union.
II can't 60 into that except to
say that it is the top issue on our
agenda today" he said. 1--WE felt
al along we will reach agreement
and I still feel that way"
Mr.. Center sale I'VE made a lot
Of progress" in yesterdays negotia-
tionS.
Strike Deadline Tomorrow.
The union,- Mr.. Terry reporteds
has voted to walk out OF the huge
producing plant at
midnight tomorrow unless an agree
ment has been reached by that time.
Meanwhile, Atomic Energy Com
mission officials made no effort to
hide their concern over the situa-
ton. One official, who withheld
use Of his name, said a strike would
have crippling effect on the plant
largest of three atomc energy
plants at Oak Ridge.
In Washington, three man
House Labor Subcommittee headed
by Representative Hoffman, Repub-
lican, of Michigan, was appointed
to study what effect a strike would
have on national security.
Committee Won't Interfere.
Chairman Hartley Of the full.
Labor Committee said in a state
ment that the subcommittee will moi
interfere in any way with efforts
Of the concilfation service to settle
the labor controversy at Oak Ridge.
Serving with Mr.. Hoffman on th'
subcommitte are Representatives
Nixon, Republican, of California, ane
Fisher, Democrat, Of Texas.
! The purpose of the inquiry, Mr.
Hartley said, will be to determ.n,
liz the Taft-Hartley. labor dispute!
law is broad enough to apply to
strike at Oak Ridge. The law allow.
the Government to obtain injunc.
tions when national security is en-.
dangered or when there is strike
against the Government, but there
is some question about this case.
If the subcommittee finds that
the Oak Ridge case does not come
within provisions Of existing law,
Mr.. Hartley said, 1--WE will have to
amend the law"
Evening star., 1947-12-08
Woman Preacher, rs, Dies

INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 3 R.-1he
Rev. Ella L. Kroft, 78, first woman
preacher to be ordained by the
Methodist Church in Indiana, died
yesterday in her home here. She
was licensed to preach in 1920, as
sisted her husband in pastorates
and served "a years as an evan
gelist for the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union. Funeral serv-
ices will be held here tomorrow.
Evening star., 1947-12-08
lansburgh Store 10 Give
$4,000 Christmas Bonus

Employees OF Lansburgh u Bro
department store will receive Christ
mas bonuses totaling approximately
$4,000 on December 10, Ralph L
Goldsmith. vice president and gen.
eral manager, has announced.
Amounts received by individual
employees viii vary according tt
length OF service, Mr.. Goldsmith
said. They will be divided int
groups Of less than three months
three months to one year. one t,
three years, three to five years, fiv'
to 10 years, and more than 10 year
with the store.
Evening star., 1947-12-08
Hirohito Sees DAMAGE
At Hiroshima, Calls
III Considerable
BY the Asseeiofsd Press

HIROSHIMA, Japan, Dec. 81
Emperor Hirohito paid his first post.
war visit to this atom bombed city
yesterday and commented, There
seems to have been considerable
damage here"
Responding to the thousands who
shouted q, welcome, the Emperor
said, I am very glad for the hearty
welcome and much satisfied to SET
that reconstruction is going SO well
81 have inexpressible sympathy
for the sufferers of war disaster.
hope you will try to establish a
peaceful nation and contribute to
world peace"
Speaks Before 100000.
The Emperor, on another OF his
"meet-the-people" tours, spoke from
a platform of raw lumber, erected
on the site Of a one-time shrine to
war dead. The crowd, packed al
most to the suffocation point, roared
''banzai." Japanese reporters esti-
mated that 100000 were present.
Before mounting the platform
Hirohito greeted 1t. Col. and Mrs
Thomas Cloward of Washington
d. c.; Capt. Peter Somers Of Gary
Ind, and Paul Kent, occupation
headquarters observer from Johns
town, Pa. The two officers are con-
nected with the Hiroshima military
government team.
Hirohito did not see any atom
bomb casualties or visit the famec
Red Cross hospital, but -drovt
through the city and surveyed tn,
ruins from the top Of the city hall
Few Buildings Stand.
From that vantage point he co,llt
see no more than Is buildings which
survived the blast Of August 8, i945
These stood out amid acres o
rubble, as yet little touched by tn
flimsy reconstruction so noticeabl,
in the business district.
The streets he traversed had beer
carefully swept and were lined will
cheering, reverent thousands Of men
women and children who struggled
through police lines for closer view
of their Emperor. There was NJ
evidence that they In any way linkee
him with the war disaster that be.
fell their city.
Evening star., 1947-12-08
Meeting to Prepare Plan
For District Civic Operu

A meeting to organize q civic ex-
perimental opera company In Wash
ington will be held at pm. We'd
r1esday at the New York Avenue
Presbyterian Church, Fourteenth
street and New York avenue NV,
under the auspices of the Washing
ton Art Center Association, Inc.
J. g. Frain Of the association said
that the services Of Frederick Fall,
who has conducted at the Volks
Opera in Vienna and the opera
houses in Bremen, Dusseldorf and
Krefeld, Germany. have been OBJ
tanned for the protected company
Evening star., 1947-12-08
Ohio State Alumni Club
To Heur Dr.. Beyis Speuk

DR.. Howarld L. Bevis, president OF
Ohio State University, Columbus,
viii address the annual banquet OF
the Ohio State Alumni Club at
pm. Thursday at the Hotel Lafay-
cite, Sixteenth and streets NV.
His subject will be Inside Our
Campus Buildings"
Offcers and the executive COM
mite for 1948 will be elected. Mel
son II. Budd Of o1o Twenty-sixth
place south, Arlington, president Of
the alumni group, win preside.
Evening star., 1947-12-08

unionist can afford to have develop
In his home town"
Support from every union mem
ber is mandatory" he said, III tht
policy of the Washington Centra,
Labor Union Of the AFL is to be
carried out"
He said that every branch Of or
ganized labor active in the Metro
politan Washington Area has been
invited to name its own commit
tee to work with the labor partici-
patton department (of the Chest
Federation) on year. round basis. y
Mrs. Cannon said that If there
is not enough money 1t is inevitable
the agencies will not be able to do
their job.
Individuals needing help will be
turned away. health services neg
lected, children and older people
not properly cared for. recreation
and welfare work seriously cur
tailed" she declared.
"Chest Symbolizes Democracy"
"Such services -. are funda-
mental to the American way of
life. They symbolic democracy.
They not only benefit the less for
tunate, bat every one in the COM
munity. Since every one agrees
this is essential, then ways must
be found for every one to help sup
port 1t.
"Of all civic projects we feel that
the Community Chest is the most
worthwhile and labor should play
a very important part in such an
undertaking."
Mr.. Turner said that "the ranks
Of labor must support the cam
paign as fully as each individual
trade unionist possibly can"
Chest Federation officials said an
Advisory Committee of the CIO,
headed by Henry Beitscher, presi-
dent Of the Washington Industrial
Union Council, CIO, also has been
,ey.x,;,~ %ho foIorot tfor
Evening star., 1947-12-08
DR.. Mark |. Fleming Dies;
Headed New York Hospitals
BY the Associated Press

ORLANDO, Fla, Dec. 8.-Dr
Mark Lance Fleming, rs, retired
died at his home here yesterday.
DR.. Fleming was graduate OF
Cornell University and until his
retirement was general medical
superintendent of the Department
|of Hospitals for New York City
Before that he was general medical
superintendent of Bellevue Hospital
in New York.
DR.. Fleming had made his home
in Florida for the last 20 years. He
is survived by his widow.
Evening star., 1947-12-08
Automotive Talk Slated

Automobile electrical systems an6
carburetion vii lbe discussed at q
dinner meeting of the Washington
|sertion, Society Of Automotive En-
gineers, at 7 pm. Tuesday at the
Broadmoor Apartments, 1901 Con-
necticut avenue NV.
Evening star., 1947-12-08
Kittens Born in Air

A Scottish family arrived at Cop
enhagen, Denmark, by plane with
the family cat, which had given
birth to three kittens en- route, one
being named Dan Viking" after
the plane.
Evening star., 1947-12-08

Because of gasoline restrictions in
England, an 1893 hanson cab was
used at West Bromwich to take
voters to the polls.
Evening star., 1947-12-08
Chest

Continued From First Page.o
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1947-01-25
Phi Beta Sigma
Takes Frat
League Lead

With Sellers and Wright scor.
ing twenty-six of their teams
thlrty-six points, the Phi Beta
Sigma five grabbed top honors
in the Intcrfraternity League
Saturday mite az Brewster Cen
ter, defeating Alpha Phi Alpha,
32-l9.
Cliff Mobley played his usual
brilliant game at forward for
the Apes dropping in eleven
points for the Black and Gold
in a losing cause.
Kappa Alpha Psi defeated
Omega Psi Phi 1913 in a list
less game. Both teams were
without their aces and the loss
of Mann and Ford hurt the
Omegas more than Ryan's abb
sence hit the Kappa khan.
George Jackson dropped in six
points foT the Kats while Price
paced the Q's with five.
Next weeks draw was not
announced.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1947-01-25
THOMAS GETS
SECOND SHOT
AT MAURIELLO

With their furious BATTLE Of
nearly a year ago in the same
ring still fresh in the memory
Of thrill-saturated local fight
fans, another explosive meeting
is promised when TAM Mauricl-
10 and Johnny Thomas collide
al Olympia Friday night. (Jan.
24)
II will be remembered that
Mauriello. rated toughest Of the
heavyweights next to the in
comparable Joe Louis had to
get off the floor TO win from
the sturdy Thomas last spring.
1t will also be recalled that
Mauriello gave Louis an un-
comfortable first round.
In his latest start, Mauriello
in Chicago disposed of Shamus
O'Brien. O'Brien is the boy
whom Sugar Ray Robinson and
George Gainford hope to build
up to a championship fight with
Louis.
The observation-disclosures bout
was one of the most spectacular
even seen in a Detroit ring and
drew rave notices from the To-
cal press and radio. Since then
the 23-year old Thomas, who
halls from Florida but now
calls New York his home. has
improved greatly and his hand
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1947-01-25

ALABAMA STATES Hornets SURPRISED Florida
4 Ms Ratuors 1852 IN closely contested game az
MONTGOMERY L was States first win over FLORIDA In three
seasons