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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-18

The only real tax reform Is
lowered taxes, and preceding
that must be a reduction Of
government expenditures. That
is the sort of reform all can
understand. - Wall Street jour-
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-18
COMMENTS
"MarShalling"

"Marshalling'
Now we know why peopl.
speak of "marshalling' their re.
sources. Christian Scienc,
Monitor.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-18
Quotati

When European nations want to make
touch, they feel an attack of communism
coming on. Rep. Cliff Clevenger (R) of
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-18

. Farmers who try to read the Federal
would never need crop insurance for thew
"quld never get time to plant any crops.
preme Court. Joo'iNo' oo
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-18

nna1sh,,, Le5s oe e, realistic. if we want the
~ ansial1 na .p Pan we cannot have lower prices.
up the Marshall Plan Plan we na"e 10 give
-sen' Robert A. Taft (R) of Ohio.
Evening star., 1947-04-20
WAA Seeking 10 Prevent
Conversion Of AmbuIances

A move to relieve the national
shortage of ambulances by insisting
that surplus vehicles of this type
shall not be converted to other uses
was made yesterday by the War
Assets Administration.
Under the new policy, purchasers
of surplus one-half ton, three
quarter ton and metropolitan type
ambulances to be used without re-
pairs must submit to WAA the fol-
lowing certification:
''It is hereby certified that the
ambulance requested on this pur-
chase order will be placed in ambu-
lance service by the purchaser and
will not be offered for resale"
The purchase order must also be
accompanied by statement from
the State Health Department that
need exists in the community for
the ambulance service the pur-
chaser expects to render, 1t was
announced
Evening star., 1947-04-20
Freighter Catches Fire
At Jersey City Pier
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK, April 19-Fire broke
out today In a hatch of the freighter
Honduras Victory at its Jersey City
pier but was brought under control
within an hour, the Coast Guard
here reported
While fireboats were sent from
New York, Jersey City firemen cut
through the deck of the cork-loaded
ship and poured streams of water
on the blaze which at one time
threatened to spread.
The Coast Guard said no estimate
of damage was available imme-
diately. s. 4a+
The ship, a 7,607-ton vessel, was
listing sharply to port as the fire
was brought under control, the
Coast Guard said.
The ship is docked near the busy
Exchange Place terminal of the
Pennsylvania Railroad ferries on the
New Jersey side. 1t arrived at Jersey
City April II from Lisbon.
Evening star., 1947-04-20
Meetings Slated All Week
For Public Health Nurses

Public Health Nursing Week, pro-
claimed by the District Commits
sioners, gets under way today with
meetings to pay tribute to the city's
public health nurses scheduled
throughout the week.
The Graduate Nurses Association
will mark the occasion with tea for
all nurses at 1900 Florida avenue
NV. from to I pm. tomorrow.
The Instructive Visiting Nurse So
ciety, the city's principal private
public health agency, win hold its
annual meeting at 12:15 pm. Tues
day in the YWCA, Seventeenth and
x streets NV.
DR.. Ernest I. Stebbins, director OF
the School OF Hygiene and Public
Health at Johns Hopkins University,
will address the group on The In
tegration Of Public Health Nursing
Services, Public and Voluntary" !"
Ten radio broadcasts have been
scheduled during the week on pub
lie health nursing, and lay commit
tees in nearby Maryland and Vir-
ginia will entertain nurses of their
organizations at several receptions.
Evening star., 1947-04-20
Iowa Work Sioppages
Set for tomorrow
On Closed Shop Ban
Rx The Assesioied prsss!

n
DIES MONIES, April 19.-Labor
union ofncials throughout Iowa
today moved ahead with plans for
. large-scale work stoppage and
mass demonstration Monday
against m anticlosed shop bill
scheduled to come before the Iowa
House OF Representatives.
AS union officials in various Iowa
cities announced plans for motor
cades to the Capitol here ranging
up to 1000 cars in length. public.
officials took preliminary steps to
arrange crowd and traffic control.
Estimates of the number of expect
ed participants ran into the thou
sands.
State union heads asserted the
demonstration was "spontaneous"
and 1t was not strike. They said
essential public services and utili-
ties would be kept in operation
There are about 10000 AFL and
10000 CIO members in Iowa.
Called Intimidation Move.
Representative Carl Burkman,
Republican OF Des Moines, chief
sponsor of an amendment to add
more power to the closed shop pro-
posal which already has passed the
State Senate, declared:
This demonstration Is definitely
one OF intimidation and this legis-
lature will not be intimidated.
A. T. Stephens, district director
Evening star., 1947-04-20
Memorial Services Today
For D. {. Marine Dead

Memorial services for District Ma
rine Reserves who died during World
War II will be held in churches here
today to mark the opening of Ma
rine Corps Reserves Week.
The week, proclaimed by the Dis
trict Commissioners, also marks re-
activation of two Marine Reserve
units here, and an intensive recruit
ing campaign to get new members
for them.
To climax ceremonies during the
week, Senator Mccarthy, Republi-
can, of Wisconsin will place wreath
on the grave of the Unknown Sol
dier at Arlington Cemetery at 1C
am. Saturday.
The new reserve units are the 5th
Infantry Battalion, 230 c street NV.
under command of 1t. Col. William
F. Thyson, jr., and an air fighter
squadron, VMF 321, quartered at the
Naval Air Station at Anacostia.
Evening star., 1947-04-20
Bruises on Dancer Support
Defense Plea in Nee Case
By the Asscciotsd Press

HAVANA, April 19.-Medical ex-
aminers said today that Patricia
Schmidt, charged with homicide in
the shooting of John Lester Nee,
had been bruised and scratched ap-
parently with a wire.
After an examination in the court
house, the doctors said the 21-year-
old Toledo (Ohio) dancer was
bruised on the chest, back and right
thigh.
Miss Schmidt's lawyer, Rene Cas-
tellanos, said the examination sup
ported her contention that she shot
Nee, q Chicago lawyer, in self-de-
Tense.
Miss Schmidt testified today that
Nee, SO, had tired of her and had
ordered her of his yacht, the Satira,
without allowing her to take any be-
lOngingS.
Evening star., 1947-04-20

at the United rackinghouss Work-
ers, CIO, said reports ffom ranss
and file members indicated that
aall IS (packingl plants dn Iowa,
Affecting over IL. 900 workers win be I
closed Monday" He said he had
asked all locals to take precautions
to see there Is no meat spoilage.
Mr.. stephens emphasized that thea~
demonstration was not . general
strike but an exercise of athe right
Of peaceful petition" :" Ii;
Meetings Are Called. Il
In yartually every large industrial y
city ia Iowa union oficials held ,l
meetings today or scheduled ses-'s
sions for tomorrow to discuss plans
for the demonstration. T"
Labor leaders said, however. that
they had heard no discussion Of
any possibility that the, demonstra-
tion might last longer than single
day.
Ben Henry, Iowa a-Nebraska C1o
director, added however:
IF the House should postpone
action Monday, I believe the boys
would stay with them"
Evening star., 1947-04-20
1850 View Renewal
OF Blossom Festival
In Bethesda Area

The annual Bethesda Chevy Chase
cherry blossom festival was re-
sumed yesterday after a lapse Of 9
years, but the crowd was not as
large as expected.
Despite good weather, attendance
at festivities on the Nayal Medical
Center grounds was estimated at
only $500 persons, while = similar
number was reported to have wit
messed the ceremony from their
cars.
The Festival Committee previously
had announced 1t expected some
5000 persons.
Miss Nancy Darby Of Gathers
burg was crowned queen OF the
festival by Willard D. Egolf, presi-
dent of Radio Station WBCC and
chairman of the Festival Committee.
Kenwood Blossoms Viewed.
Nearly everyone who attended
first viewed the cherry blossoms at
Kenwood as automobiles were rout-
ed through the streets of the COM
munity before festivities began at
the hospital shortly after 2 pm.
Queen Nancy was escorted from
the hospital steps after touring Ken
wood herself by an honor guard of
Camp Fire Girls. She was accom-
panied by Miss Ann Foster and
Miss Jeanne Smith, her attendents,
and by Miss Jocelyn Freer and Miss
Drucie Snyder, two members of the
court during the Districts cherry
blossom festival last week, who
were her guests.
Folk Dances STAGED.
The croud was welcomed by Rear
Admiral T. c.. Anderson. COM
manding officer Of the medical
center. william L. Lebling, a past
president of the Bethesda Chamber
OF Commerce, was master of
ceremonies.
After the coronation a pageant
was presented. 1t included folk
dances by students OF Leland Junior
High School. Flags of the Americas
parade. salutes by Girl Scout Troop
II and Boy Scout Troop 211, and
a solo dance by Miss Dorothea
Smith of the Bethesda Chevy Chase
High School, accompanied by Miss
jeanne Hyde.
Music was furnished by the Wash
ington Gas Light Co. Band, the a.
capella choir of the Bethesda
Chevy Chase High School, and Miss
Marie Handy, radio soloist.
Evening star., 1947-04-20
He|go|and Blast Compared
To Volcanic Eruption
BY the Assecioted Press

CUxHAVEN, Germany, April 10.
1t. Bernard Cahill of the British
Navy said tonight that the island of
Helgoland was so shattered 'it looks
as if there had been volcanic erup-
ton"
He and Herbert Woosman Royal
Navy gunner, were the first men to
set foot today on the former Nazi
North Sea bastion after yesterdays
demolition Of the islands military
installations by thousands of tons of
explosives.
1t. Cahill said the eight miles of
tunnels honeycombing the island
collapsed. leaving hugh craters. The
12-foot thick reinforced concrete
U-boat pen was destroyed COM
pletely.
The cemetery of the local inhabi-
tants, carefully tended until the last
day. survived the blast and re-
NAMED as a memorial to the 1000
island people who have been sent
away.
Hitler's proud war base has be-
come nothing more than a bird
sanctuary and an occasional refuge
for storm tossed fishermen.
Evening star., 1947-04-20
Fleet Auxiliary to Meet

Unit Four of the Ladies' Auxil-
larry, Fleet Reserve Association, will
meet at s pm. tomorrow at Pythian
Temple, 1912 Ninth street NV. The
meeting will be preceded by 3
dinner
Evening star., 1947-04-20
KordeIj Sees StoIin

LONDON, April 10 (Pl.-The
Moscow radio reported tonight that
Generalissimo, Stain today received
Edward Kardelj, Yugoslav Vice Pre-
mier.
Evening star., 1947-04-20
|UAW WSession Watched
For Reaction 10 GIN
|114-Cenf " age Offer
~ ihs As,os;as.d Press

DETROIT. April ls.-The CIO
United Auto Workers today mapped
plans for conference that may
produce the first rank-and-file re-
action to potential wage pattern
for 220, ,O00 General Motors Corp.
employees
The corporation has offered the
union an II u -cent hourly wage in
crease, plus six paid annual holi-
days, which 1t says is the equivalent
|of q 15-cent-an-hour raise.
Walter p. Reuther. president OF
the UAW-CIo, termed the proposal
unsatisfactory Immediately after 1t
was made Friday.
Observers speculated, however, on
Ia meeting OF the unions General
Motors Council, composed Of repre-
|sentatives in 80 plants, scheduled
for Wednesday.
While the council normally listens
|attentively to arguments of the in
ternational officers. 1t has the pow
|er to override Mr.. Reuther and
submit to the rank-and- file the
General Motors offer.
There is nothing Of q public ma
ture, however, to indicate it will
do so.
Reuther Delays Comment.
Mr.. Reuther has avowed q deter
mination to stick to the unions
original 231k cent demand. He in
dicated he might comment further
on the offer today, but decided to
"let 1t ride" until next week.
The company and the union are
slated to resume negotiations Mon
day.
The proposal of the UAW-CIO
paralleled terms of settlement
made by General Motors earlier in
the week with the CIO United Elec-
trical Workers.
The UAW-CIO today released a
58-page booklet citing figures and
arguments in support of its claim
for the 23la-cent increase. 1t was
prepared last month before General
Motors had made any counter offer.
Mr.. Reuther said the brief con-
firms that ''the auto industry can
pay a 231a-cent an hour wage in
crease, reduce the prices of cars
by 10 per cent and still make profits
in 1947 comparable to or exceeding
the prewar 1854 average"
Says Raise is Wiped Out.
He contended that the 181a-cent
boost won a year ago after the
113-day strike against General
Motors has been completely wiped
out by the inf1ationary rise in the
cost of living"
"Industry's unparalleled profiteer-
ing reveals that the attempts of in
dustrialists to blame the 1946 infla-
ton upon wage increases is a false
hood calculated to divert public
censure from themselves" the book
let continued.
George Romney, managing direc-
tor OF the Automobile Manufacturers
Association, Immediately issued a
retort to Mr. Reuthers brief.
Before Walter Reuther was out
OF grade school, the automobile in
dustry's low-price policy enabled its
workers and most Americans to be-
come car owners" he said.
He blamed "unearned wage in
creases resulting from mo-
nopoly union-pressure tactics or
from Government induced currency
imitation" for high money wages
that buy less goods and are, de-
pressing the national economy"
Evening star., 1947-04-20
Coal
Continued From First Page }

$4,000, 900, in that the Supreme
Court ordered the fine reduced pro-
vided the union complied with
terms of its order. The union and
Mr.. Lewis were told to retract q
strike-inducing notice terminating
the Government contract and to
take no other steps that might lead
to new work stoppage.
In postponing action 10 days ago
on the union motion for return OF
the money, Justice Goldsborough
warned that Mr.. Lewis, in suggest
ing the miners recent memorial and
safety stoppages had not demon
strated good faith" compliance
with the Supreme Cour; order. He
said that Mr.. Lewis, by referring to
his injunction, upheld by the Su-
preme Court, as yellow dog in
junction" had shown himself as
utterly contemptuous of the
courts"
Only Thursday, Mr.. Lewis. in tes-
tifying before Senate committee,
Evening star., 1947-04-20
Baltimore WAA 10 Sell
Surplus Worth Million
By III. A,soe;ot.d Press

BALTIMORE, April l9.-The re-
gional Office Of the War Assets Ad-
ministration announced today 1t
will put over 81 ,O0O, 900 worth Of sur
plus Office furniture and machines,
light and heavy industrial equip
ment, drug supplies, and plumbing
fixtures up for sale next week.
The sale Is at the WAAS depot
at the Glenn L. Martin aircraft
plant No. at Middle River. L. B.
Souder, Baltimore district director,
said disposal of the property is
being speeded because the WAA
must vacate the plant by June 30
to make way for Holabird Signal
Depot.
Mr.. Souder said veterans with
priorities will have first choice at
desks, tables and chairs going on
sale Tuesday and pointed out there
was no need to appear on the scene
before the 9 am. registration.
Evening star., 1947-04-20
Coal Association Denies
Poor Housing Is Typical
By the Assoeiotsd Press

The National Coal Association
said last night that examples. OF
poor housing and unsanitary con-
ditions cited in a Government re-
port on coal mining communities
are neither typical nor widespread
The report was released two days
ago by Secretary of the Interior
Krug. Five survey teams inspected
260 mines in % coal-producine
States, out of total of some 2,50O
mines under Federal control.
Although calling conditions in
some areas "a disgrace to the in
dustry and the Nation" Rear Ad-
miral Joel T. Boone, director of the
survey, noted that the Federal re-
port disputes ANY assertions which
may have been made that inferior
standards are general in the coal
industry"
The coal association in its state
ment, said:
The owners and operators of
the bituminous coal mines are deeply
conscious OF the vital Importance
Of decent homes, sanitation, good
schools, proper medical care, ade-
quate hospital facilities and recre-
ational facilities for the men who
work in the mines and their families.
The record of the past quarter
century bears abundant testimony
to The improvement that has been
attained in living conditions In coal
mining towns through their efforts,
but manifestly there is still much to
be done, much which the mine
operators cannot achieve without
the cooperation Of the miners and
the cooperation of pubic agencies y
The association added that 1.-The
slum conditions and tumble down
shacks depicted by the Govern
ment report In isolated mining
camps at various places are the ex-
ceDtiOnS and not tho y,1Ie
Evening star., 1947-04-20

several times used the same Ian
guage in describing the court order
which broke his strike last Decem-
ber.
Justice Goldsborough said he
thought the $4,000, 900 should be re-
tanned until July l as insurance
against another mine work STOP
page. The Government probably
will be asked by the court for its
views in the matter Coal officials
said it had not been decided what
the RECOMMENDATION would be.
Evening star., 1947-08-12
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Evening star., 1947-08-12

They're designed by Morgin ;. famous for
fine robes! They're in the hard-to-find wrap
model preferred by many women for its
And they're in good looking, year-round
pattern :. gay forals on becoming back
ground colors. Easy to launder and
they require no ironing. Sizes 46 to 81.
Kann's Robes-second Floor.
Evening star., 1947-06-22

rose point and duchess lace over
pure white slipper stain.
Lying in soft folds across her
head was a mantilla or rose point
and duchess lace falling down to
long floating points at sides, and
from the back of her head fell a
long veil OF fine silk ivory tulle.
She carried a bouquet of white
camellias, small white butterfly
orchids and lilies of the valley.
The maid of honor was her sister,
Miss Elizabeth Firestone.
Seven Bridesmaids.
There were seven bridesmaids, in
cluding a younger sister, Miss Ann
Firestone.
The others were the Bridegroom S
sister, Mrs. Walter B. Ford II (Jo-
sepfine Ford of Detroit; Mrs. j.
woodward Redmond of New York,
a classmate of the bride at Foxcroft
School; Mrs. William S. Cowles, jr.
Virginia Lloyd-Smith) of New
York, another Foxcroft classmate;
Miss Nancy Milbank of New York,
a classmate at both Foxcroft and
at Vassar College, and Mrs. Stephen
B. Ives, jr., of Groton, Mass. Mrs.
Ives is the former Margaret
Crocker, daughter of John Crocker,
headmaster of Groton School, and
another VasSar classmate.
Evening star., 1947-06-22
Party Of U. 5. Editors
Welcomed in Calcutta
BY the Associated Press

CALCUTTA, June 21.-American
editors and publishers making a
round-the-w world fight were guests
here today at a reception in the
City Corporation Building, where
they were officially welcomed by
Caleaatta's mayer as distinguished
representatives Of the highly gifted
people across the Pacific. ''Tts5 $50
The Pan American Clipper maxi
ing the inaugural round the world
flight is scheduled to take off to-
morrow morning for Bangkok,
Siam. 1t landed here this morning
Mayor S. C. r. Choudhury said in
his address of welcome that the
United States always is source
of inspiration, admiration and ex-
ample Ito India and her people. y
He said he hoped India ultimately
might achieve mighty cohesion
with her great neighbor across the
Pacific"
Replying for the Americans
Mayor Roger D. Lapham of San
Francisco, a member of the passen-
gers party, said I'VE. Americans,
would like to see a united India
dourishing, prosperous and glor-
iouS."
The building was gaily bedecked
for the occasion, and the American
guests were garlanded with flowers.
Earlier the group was honored at
a luncheon by Sir Frederick Bur-
rows, governor of Bengal.
Evening star., 1947-06-22
Jet Hit 647 M.P.H. in Wormup
|For623-M.P.H.M Mark, Pilot Says

500-meter course. the plane had to
be kept absolutely level, Z
The cabin temperature rose sharp
ly because of air friction, he ex-
planned, but there was no other dis
comfort The plane ran into no COM
pressibility buIeting and no abnor-
NAL centrifugal forces.
There was some buffeting in the
flight" Col. Boyd said, "but it was
entirely due to wind turbulence, not
to compressibility. The plane was
well within Its actual compressibil-
ity range"
This was proved, he explained, by
the one lap peak of 6471 miles an
hour set in the warm-up jaunt
No Judges Present Then.
Col. Boyd was Kept from a world S
record with the earlier. speed be-
cause no National Aeronautic Asso-
citation judges were present.
Col. Boyd said the cockpit was
air conditioned continually until the
takeof was started. The outside
temperature when the fight started
was 86 degrees.
"Once in the air, however, the
cockpit was sealed so / had only the
oxygen equipment to keep me going.
There was a cockpit ventilator
which could have been used but the
air rushing through the vent was
so hot 1t would have scared my
hand. I didn't have cockpit ther-
mometer to take temperature
reading, but I can vouch for the
fact that on that fourth pass it was
like an oven."
On the actual flight, Col. Boyd
said, he was benefited by slight
tailwind on his downwind runs.
However, the air movement was only
about 19 miles per hour and was on
about a 45-degree angle to the
course which ran from the north
east to the southwest.
Col. Boyd returned from Cali
fornia last night.
Evening star., 1947-06-22
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

DAYTON, Ohio, June al A
worlds speed record of 623 855 miles
an hour was just another job to Col
Albert Boyd. chief Of the Army Air
Forces test pilots at Wright Field.
Col. Boyd guided his P-80 Jet plane
at GAIL miles an hour as a warm up
for the official record flight:
The colonel disclaimed any title of
"Superman today for his record,
which he set last Thursday. Only
two things concentration and pre-
cision-set such a flight apart from
the routine chores which fall his
way
1T takes lot of concentration, /"
he said. There's lot OF things to
do in that cockpit in the short period
of time you're flying, so you can't
let your mind wander
Precision Required.
Such, flight requires precision,
too" he added. "All Of my speed
passes over the course were made at
between 80 and so feet. In addition
/ couldn't climb higher than 1900
feet at any time
And while I was passing over the
Evening star., 1947-06-22
Red Cross Ships Supplies
Worth $3.50, 900 to Europe

Supplies valued at $680,000 are
being shipped to eighr European
Red Cross societies under the pro-
gram now under way, the American
Red Cross announced yesterday.
The shipments were instituted
after special surveys by American
Red Cross representatives of con-
ditions in Austria, France, the Meth
erlands, Norway, Poland, Czechoslo-
vakia, Finland and Denmark, Red
Gross national headquarters said.
Milk, Office equipment, tires, yarn.
layettes. medical equipment, sweat
ers, automobiles and wide variety
of other items are among those
now being sent.
Largest amount is designated for
the Austrian Red CroSs-$396, 900
worth of hospital supplies, sewing
room equipment and other items.
Other amounts are: Polish Red
Cross, $4,000 worth of supplies;
French Red Cross, $4,000; Neither
lands, $21 900; Norwegian, $4,000;
Czechoslovakian. $91,000 Finnish,
$4,000, and Danish. $4,000.