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Evening star., 1947-12-09
Truman Back al Desk
To Complete Work on
Foreign Aid Message

President Truman was back at his
desk today after q five-day holiday
IN Florida with completion of his
Marshall plan message to Congress
the immediate task at hand.
Landing at the Air Transport
Command terminal In the Sacred
Cow at 2:57 pm. yesterday, the
President told reporters he had en-
Joyed his stay at the Key West
Naval Base. In response to ques-
tions, he said the European aid
message would be ready soon.
Last night the President made
one Of his infrequent visits to the
National Theater to see Bobby Clark
in "Sweethearts," the Victor Her
bert musical comedy.
In the party were Mrs. Truman,
Secretary of the Treasury and Mrs.
Snyder. and Clark Clifford, White
House counsel.
The President was nine minutes
late for the $3.50 curtain, but the
show didn't go on until his arrival.
Although the house was darkened
when Mr. Truman entered, he was
seen Immediately and the audience
stood to applaud
Gen. Eisenhower also was in the
audience. After the performance
he went backstage to greet Robert
Shackleton, who sang leading role.
Mr.. Shackleton, former major, was
an aide to Gen. Eisenhower in the
European theater.
Evening star., 1947-12-09
Jane Anderson Freed
By U. 5. in 5a|zburq
BY the Assosiofsd Press

VIENNA, Dec. 0. American
sources said last night that Jane
Anderson Of Atlanta, once accused
of broadcasting wartime Nazi prop.
aganda, had been freed from Amer.
ican custody in Salzburg, where she
had been held since last May.
"a charge of reasonable
broadcasts against her was dis
missed in District Court in
Washington last October 27 by
request of the Justice Depart
ment, which said there was in
sufficient evidence to try herr
Miss Anderson, 81, had been iden-
titled in American accusations,
since dropped, as the woman broad
caster for the Berlin radio known
as Lady Haw Haw."
Authorities said the State De-
partment had offered her pass
port on condition that she return
to the United States. They indi-
Gated, however, that she might re-
join her husband, Spanish Marquis
Eduard de Chiemsuegos, at the Aus
trian town Of Bregenz, on Lake
Constance near the Swiss border.
She is the former wife of Deems
Taylor, American music critic.
Evening star., 1947-12-09
Husband Held as Wife
Tells Of Acid-Throwino

George Merkelson, 40 of 1917
Schott's Court Ne, was held under
$4,000 bond for the grand jury on q
charge Of assault with a dangerous
weapon after hearing in Municipal
Court
His wife, Mrs. Rosie May Merkel-
son, testifying from a wheel chair
told Judge Almond Scott that Mer-
kelson threw acid on her legs and
later struck her with a chair on
December 4. She said she was bed
ridden at the time. The Merkelsons
are colored.
In second case. Norman H
Smith, colored, 43. of 800 Fourth
street NV, was held in 81 900 bond
after Bertha Hayes, colored, 80, OF
531 New Jersey avenue NV, told
the court he hit her on the head
with q bottle in an argument at the
Fourth street address on November
|28. She accused Smith of breaking
both of her arms in two previous
arguments.
Evening star., 1947-12-09

and said his miners would permit,
this for emergencies.
Certain railroads, however, he
said, fell down" on car supply.
Gov. Robert F. Bradford Of Massa-
chusetts said the shortage in New
England is acute" and "crisis is
imminent" He suggested two steps
to remedy the situation:
!. The oil industry should be
freed, but under proper safeguards
from provisions Of the antitrust
laws so that information and oil
supplies could be pooled.
2. New England must be allocated
It's "fair share" Of tankers and tank
cars.
Hawkes. Offers Program.
In advance Of the hearing, Sen.
ator Hawkes., Republican, of New
jersey committee member, is.
sued a statement saying he will rec.
ommend six conservation measure.
to the group. At the same time
he expressed the view that neithe,
Government rationing nor pric.
controls would help alleviate the sit.
uation.
He recommended Cd a consider.
able reduction in the production o.
premium gasoline; CD production
Of more fuel oil; 90 rationing o.
petroleum exports-"if any ration.
ing Is necessary" "a increased
Government efforts to put in service
tankers not now in use; 60 re.
duction in Government use of pc.
troleum products, and go the
granting of some antitrust immun.
ity for the emergency period to per.
NIT oil company joint action fol
purposes of better distribution.
Evening star., 1947-12-09
Traffic School
Continued From First Page. J

Boyd of the Traffic Division, Capt.
Lorair johnson of No. precinct,
formerly of the Traffic Division, and
representative of Traffic Director
George E. Keneipp.
Judges to Exercise Option.
In addition to the traffic court
judges, Mrs. Silver's board and the
permit examination section of the
Department of Vehicles and Traffic
may refer motorists to the school.
The number of classes a motorist
must attend remains the option Of
the judges. :
The Commissioners decided to ex-
clude volunteer students and refer
ence of persons to the school by
police and school officials tempo
.rarily. They said permission for
such persons to attend will not be
ruled on until it isy learned how
many students will be sent to the
classes by Traffic Court, Mrs. Silver
and the Permit Examination Bureau.
Evening star., 1947-12-09

public opinion on the subject Of the
true position in France at the pres
ent time"
THE Soviet government regards
such action on the French govern
ment's part as hostile and contrary
to the spirit of alliance and mutual
assistance between the USSR and
France, and it holds the French
government responsible for the con-
sequences z the radio quoted the note
as saying.
The note said Russia had received
Visa applications for IS members of
a French trade delegation for talks
in Moscow regarding the treaty on
mutual goods delivery"
"I have to inform you that in view
iof the hostile position adopted by
the French government with regard
to. the Soviet Union, that the Soviet
| government has resolved to ter
inmate trade talks with France and
withdraw the visas," the note said.
France had sought principally
grain in exchange for manufactured
products.
Evening star., 1947-12-09
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citizens in Camp Beauregard> and
to members OF the Union of Soviet
Citizens in France"
The Moscow radio last night crit
icized the French action in searching
the camp and taking away three
children of naturalized Frenchman
whose former wife, Soviet citizen,
had taken them there. French mo-
bile guards. who we're reported to
have surrounded Beauregard, were
said to have seized small quantity
of arms. :
The radio said the Russians also
had protested the scattered arrests,
November Is, Of a number of mem
bers OF the Union of Soviet Citizens
Public Declared Misled.
Mr.. Gousev contended in his new
note today that the French actions
were attempts ito mislead French
Evening star., 1947-12-09
u. N.
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Brazil and Australia voted for par
tition in the larger body. Britain.
China and Colombia abstained, and
Syria voted no.
A spokesman said Sir Alexander
Cadogan had no plans to speak
today, but that the chief British
delegate later would present with
drawal timetable to the five-nation
commission set up to administer
Palestine for the interim period
between termination of the British
mandate and full independence,
effective no later than next October
The British spokesman, noting re-
ports from London sources that the
British planned to give up the man.
date May Is and have their 10000
troops out of Palestine by August /,
said only that the dates sounded
logical" He added that the Official
report could not be made to the u. N.
until Bolivia, Czechoslovakia, Dem
mark, Panama and the Philippines
named their delegates to the COM
mission and 1t began functioning. .
The U. N. administration, mean
while, decided that neither Jews nor
Arabs would be barred from serving
on the U. N. staff which will go to
Palestine with the five-nation COM
mission. DR.. Ralph J. Bunche. chief
of the American secretariat assigned
to the group, said personnel would
be selected without regard to race
or religion"
Eniwetok Report Ready.
In connection with the statement
from DR.. Bunche. grandson of a
slave, it was recalled that Jews and
Arabs were excluded from the. staff
which served the u. NJ Special Com
mission on Palestine IUNSCOP1
when 1t went into the Holy Land
last summer.
The Council also had before it =
Evening star., 1947-12-09
Fuel Shortage
Continued From First Page.)

cum organizations statement an as
sertion that the fuel problems of
the country had been due in large
part to short of coal"
How do you explain that?" the
Senator asked.
In reply, Mr.. Lewis said the min
ing industry was capable Of pro-
ducing enough to meet the country s
demand If sufficient railroad cars
were furnished. He said that the
mines of this country today were
producing not only enough to meet
the domestic demand, but also for
export. This was true OF no other
country in the world, he asserted.
Suggests Sunday Work.
To help supply more coal during
the winter, he suggested. Sunday
operations by railroads to the mines
Evening star., 1947-12-09
Senators Angered by Refusal
OF Greece to List Casualties

| France and italy could have used
some of those bombers."
| Senator Young said he understood
the Russians had protested the pres
ence OF 50 many American bombers
on German flying fields and that
they had been ordered destroyed be-
fore this country stiffened its policy
toward the Soviets.
A Democratic committee member,
who asked to remain anonymous,
said the Senators had tried unsuc-
cessfully to get the Greek govern
ment to furnish casualty lists of any
fighting that might have taken
place.
This Senator said he Is convinced
that no about effort yet has been
made to wipe out the Communist
raiders. :.
Bring Photos as Evidence.
Committee members brought back
from Europe with them pictures of
their inspection of the destroyed
planes, as we'll as photographs of
American fishing boats they said
were lying idle In Greek ports and of
UNRRA supplies they contended had
not been distributed because Of "red
tape"
These latter supplies, Senator
Young said, included more than 800
tractors left standing in the open
for more than a year and half
The North Dakota Senator said he
understands that arrangements
have been perfected by which nc
more freight cars will disappear
into the Russian zone.
Senator Knowland, Republican, OF
: California, said shipments of plants
to Russia should have been stopped
a year ago, but he found some sup
plies still were moving to the Soviets
as advance reparations."
while the shipments were agreed
to at Potsdam," he said, "they
should not have been continued
after the Russians broke their part
of the bargain to treat Germany as
an economic unit. They can't claim
the benefits In one section of the
agreement and ignore the require
ments Of another"
Evening star., 1947-12-09

report from the United States an
nouncing that Eniwetok Atoll in the
former Japanese-mandated Marshall
Islands was being sealed off "for
security reasons in order that the
United States Government may con-
duct necessary experiments relating
to nuclear f1ssion."
The United States was empowered
to take this step under a Council
approved trusteeship agreement
which designated the Marshalls,
Carolines and Marianas as a "stra-
tegic area" under American admin
istration. However, there was a
possibility that Russia would make
some comments about atomic bomb
experiments being conducted in a
territory held under U. N. trustee
ship,
Evening star., 1947-12-09
8o Cartons Of Cigarettes
Blocked From Germany
by the Assoeiotsd Press

BOSTON, Dec. 1.-Two attempts
to transport a total of 589 cartons
of cigarettes from Massachusetts to
Germany were thwarted by customs
officials during the last week, United
States Attorney William T. Nc
Carthy reported last night.
Mr.. Mccarthy said customs OH
cials prevented an Army officer from
transporting 110 cartons from West
over Field. The cigarettes, he added.
would have brought 5000 in the
German black market.
He said that 479 cartons were
found. in the possession of crew
members OF the American freighter
r. Marion Crawford, loading wheat
for the Army in Germany.
Evening star., 1947-12-09
| Apartment Rent Rise
On Isl Units, Service
Reductions Studied

Requested rent increases for the
Washington House, 2l20 Sixteenth
street NV, and for 128 furnished
apartments on Galveston place S.W.,
as well as a reduction in services at
rooming and boarding houses in the
2700 and 2800 blocks of Connecticut
avenue NV. we're being studied to-
day by District rent control ex-
aminers, following public hearings.
District Rent Control Admins
traitor Robert F. Cogswell, mean
while, declared his Office does not
delay unnecessarily in acting on
rent increase petitions. He referred
to a statement by Rufus Lusk, Sec
retary OF the Building Owners and
Managers Association, that delays
in acting on such applications would
be shortened by adopting a rent
raise processing formula based on
Increased operating costs and taxes
since 1941.
Mr.. CogsWell said many of the
"so-called delays" cited by Mr.. Lusk
are required by the District Rent
Control Act land Mr.. Lusk claims
he helped draft much of that act. "
The three applications taken under
advisement after hearings before
board examiners yesterday were:
An application for q straight 10
per cent increase in rents for 1873
apartment units of the Washington
House where rents now range from
SIS to $132.50. Max Winkler, man.
ager, said the rents would be frozen
through 1948 If the increase is
granted.
A request by the Madison Housing
Corp. to raise rents from $85 to 500
on 128 furnished apartments on
Galveston place S:W. was protested
by about 80 tenants and Attorney
w. Byron Sorrell, who represented
90 tenants. The tenants complained
Of poor service. The company treas
urer, David Lester, said management
costs were $40, ,059 in 1945 and would
be $73,505 in 1948.
A request by the Club Shannon
that telephone switchboard service
and Sunday meals be eliminated at
houses it operates for 148 tenants in
the 2700 and $500 blocks of Con-
necticut avenue NV. was taken
under advisement. After tenants OBJ
jected to stopping the switchboard
service, Examiner James G. Tyson
indicated a compromise might be
worked out whereby telephone serv-
ice charges would be raised but Sun
day meals discontinued.
Evening star., 1947-12-09

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Evening star., 1947-12-09
By IRE Assee;a,sd Press

Onacial Greek secrecy over the
number Of casualties in the
campaign against Communist
lead guerrillas drew the anger
of Senators today.
The refusal of the Athens gov
ernment to provide casualty lists to
members of the Appropriations
Committee who toured Europe last
fall was cited by some of the law
makers as indicating there has been
little real fighting.
They said the l25 600 o-man Greek
Army compares with about $4,000
guerrillas.
This was one aspect of the SEN
ators' findings which may touch OF
fireworks when the appropriations
group is called on to vote funds to
finance long-range foreign aid.
Demand Other Explanations.
Committee members told a re-
porter that, in addition to further
information on the anti Communist
fighting in Greece, they want ex-
plantations from administration Of
ficials on these other widely sep
arated developments:
/. The destruction of 1000 four
engine American bombers on Ger
man flying fields at the time Greece
was Using American dollars to buy
smaller secondhand British war
planes.
2. Evidence that American fishing
boats, turned over to the Greeks, are
lying idle in Greek ports.
3. Reports that Russia had re-
fused to return 5000 freight ears in
which dismantled German Industrial
equipment was shipped from the
Anglo-American occupation zones tc
the Soviet Union and its satellites.
UNRRA Supplies Unused.
4. Failure to distribute what some
members said amounts to SIS ,0O0. .00C
in United Nations Relief and Re-
habilitation Administration supplies
that have been standing in Euro
pean depots for months.
5. The reported dismantling and
shipping to Russia of one OF the two
largest German soap manufacturing
plants, leaving the populace with a
monthly ration far too short.
Senator Young, Republican, OF
North Dakota told reporter he had
visited one of the two flying fields
at which the Army Air Forces had
destroyed about 1000 Bit bombers
by setting of dynamite charges
after their engines had been re-
moved.
While. Senator Young said this
destruction was begun about a year
ago, he reported 1t was completed
only recently. At the same. time
he said, the committee was told
that money voted by Congress last
spring to bolster Greece and Turkey
against communism was being usec
to buy, secondhand British planes
for the Greeks.
Their explanation was that tn,
bombers were regarded as surplus TO,
our needs and the Greeks wanted
smaller fighter planes" the NORTH
Dakota. Senator said. That may
be entirely true, put am SUR
Evening star., 1947-12-09
Dr.. MeInick to Speak

DR.. Alvin Melnick, who recently
returned from Tokyo. will describe
Japan's political, social and eco
nomic changes in the last two years
in an Illustrated talk. in the Jewish
Community Center, Sixteenth and
q streets NV, at o'clock tonight.
The program is sponsored by the
Gross Roads Club" and is open to
the public,
Evening star., 1947-12-09
Woman Abondons Boby
In Movie at CHICAGO
By the Associated Press

CHICAGO, Dec. 9.-"Watch him,
I'll be right back" young woman
whispered as she handed baby boy
to Mrs. Marie Pelka, 26, who sat
watching movie at Northwest
Side theater last night.
Thirty minutes latre, Mrs. Pelka
summoned the theater manager who
turned the child over to police.
A note found in the boys sweater
pocket read: I'm not making much
money to bring him up, so please
i do something for me-"
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-09-13

Wilberforce University and the
Supreme Lodge Knight of Pythian
Jurisdiction North America, s..
America, Europe, Asia, and Aus
tralia honors DR.. John Wesley
Hair of Jackson, Mississippi who is
a farmodable Candidate for the
Bishopric, A. M. E. Church, Cen
eral Conference Los Angeles, Cal,
May 1948. At the commencement in
June 1947 Payne Theological Sem
mary Wilberforce University the
Degree of D. D. was conferred. Be-
ing a supreme Representative from
the Jurisdiction State of Missis-
sippi the Supreme Lodge in its
344th Session Aug. 18th through
August 22nd Philadelphia, Pa. ell
ected DR.. John Wesley HHair a
Supreme Prelate thus standing him
in fine stead for his election to
the Bishopric May 1948 Los An
geles, California.
1t is predicted that he will be
elected 1T the head of the ticket
on the first ballot throughout the
Church.
Get with the winner.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-09-13

1anta. assistant, field director Of
the Southern division of the Ur-
ban League, said that a total of
175,000 students had received vo-
cational counsel from Urban Lea
que representatives during the
1946-47 year. OF these he said,
100,158 were college students.
The conference was told that
a number of prominent manage
ment executives have formed a
committee dedicted to purging "col
or consciousness" from the hiring
policies of industrial and merch-
andizing concerns throughout the
country.
Leroy w. Jeffries. of New York,
assistant director of the leagues
industrial relations department,
told about the committee at
IOuuu IdUlc OH 1nuuSClidl lClct
tons and vocational guidance. He
said the group, formed with the
assistance of Winthrop Rockefel-
low had agreed to serve in an
interim capacity to create employ
ment opportunities for young col
ored persons of high educational,
and technical attachments.
Mr.. Jefferies said the league was
forced to appeal to management
for this kind of cooperation in an
attempt to break the main bottle
neck in it's vocational guidance
program. A vocational department
works to develop the maximum
potentialities in the occupational
training of the colored youth, he
said, but a setback occurs when
the student acquires the necessary
qualifications and then finds that
desired openings are restricted to
whites only.
The committee is only six mon
tbs old, but it has already placed
a number of colored persons in
such jobs as department otsre buy
ers, accountants, bookkeepers and
techinicans in industries and mer-
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-09-13

City; Bishop William A. Dinkins,
president of the st. Louis Bible
Seminary st. Louis; w. J. FL
lott, treasurer Of the Division of
Home Missions and Church Ex--
tension of the Methodist Church,
Philadelphia.
F. M. Gaines, editor of the Wos-
leyan Christian Advocate, Macon,
Ga; Emma c. w. Gray, dean of
women and professor of English,
Paine College, August; Mrs. d.
H. Hargis, Women's Division of
Christian Service and Board of
Missions and Church Extension of
the Methodist Church, Wilmington,
Delaware; Bishop Costen j. Har-
nett, Birmingham; Mrs. Rosie T.
Hollis, president Of the Missionary
Council, Okla, City Okla; Bishop
Paul B. Kern, Nashville; the Rev.
w. Langdon Liddell, pastor of
Sidney Park c. M. e. Church, Col
ubia, South Carolina.
Clarence w. Jockey, executive
secretary Of the Section of Home
Missions of the Methodist Chur-
CHI, New York City; F. S. Love
superintendent of Lake Junabe-
sha Assembly, North Carolina; A..
e. Middlebrook, editor of the Ala
bama Christian Advocate, Birming-
ham; Bishop Arthur J. Moore, At
lanta; Bishop J. HI. Moore, Mem
phis, E. P. Mushison, editor of the
Christian Index Jackson, Tennes-
see, and Bishop w. w. Peele,
Richmond, Va.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-09-13
METHODIST URGE MORE
INTERRACIAL COOPERATION
CONTINUED from Page y

(COnCinueu from rage
Scripture was read by Bishop
Arthur j. Moore Of Atlanta, pre-
sident of the Board of Trustees of
Paine College. A prayer of thanks
giving was offered by Bishop Will
liam Y. Bell of the C. M. e. CHI
urch, Cordele, Georgia. A choral
group sang 1.-THE Builders and
Miss Alice M. Ross rendered a vo-
cal solo, "Bless the House.
Presentation of the library was
made by e. p. Peabody, chairman
of the building committee of the
Board of Trustees of Paine Coll
eye. The dedication, prayer Of de-
dication and benediction were Of
fered by Bishop Paul B. Kern of
the Methodist Church, Nashville,
Tennessee.
Members Of the Commission on
Cooperation and Counsel between
the Methodist and Colored Metho-
dist Episcopal Churches include:
the Rev. J. Claude Allen, Gary,
Indiana, secretary of the Depart
ment of Kingdom Extension of the
c. M. e. Church; the Rev. J. C.
anderson, pastor of Williams Tenn
pie c. M. e. Church Shreveport,
La; w. C. Banks principal emer-
titus and public, relations director
of Prairie View A. and M. Coll
eye. Prairie View, Texas.
President w. A. Bell Of Miles
College, Birmingham; Bishop w.
Y. Bell of the C. M. E. Church,
Cordele, Ga; Albert D. Belts, ex-
ecutive secretary of the South Car
DINA Federation Forces for Tenn
perance and Law Enforcement,
Orangeburg, South Carolina; G.
W. Burton, Atlanta; Mrs. G. w
Burton, secretary of the Commit
tee on Art and Handicraft, Wo-
mans Correctional Council of the
c. M. E. Church, Atlanta; BishoI
| R. A. Carter, Chicago; the Rev
c. E. Chapman, general secre
tary of the Board of Public Rela
tons of the C. M. E. Church, Kan.
sas City; Elmer T. Clark, editor
| of the World Outlook, New York