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Evening star., 1947-12-27
Stock Market Uneven
As Snowstorm Cuts
Sales 10 350,000
BY the Axseeiotsd Pks,s

NEW YORK, Dec. 27.-The stock
market was almost buried today by
the greatest snowstorm in New York
history and. while business proceed
ed in more or less restricted man
ner, mild irregularity prevailed and
dealings were among the slowest OF
the past several months.
Shortage of clerical help, due to
broken down transportation, caused
the Board of Governors to consider
shutting down for the short session.
Clerks began to arrive in the final
few minutes. however, and 1t was
decided to resume trading as usual.
While floor posts were fairly well
manned. many professionals were
missing. Board rooms were virtually
deserted by customers and most OF
the days transactions came through
wire houses from out of town.
Tax Selling Is Factor.
Tax selling was restraining In
fuence as this was the last day IN
which sales for this purpose could
be made in the regular way. Be-
ginning Monday offerings for income
records must be made for cash.
This was one of the reasons that
exchange officials decided to hold
the Saturday session.
Some liquidation persisted from
those skeptical OF possible new
Washington defiation moves. A
certain amount of reinvestment
purchasing was blostering lnf1u-
ence.
The ticker tape loafed from the
start. Prices improved here and
there near the close but uneven
tendencies ruled. Transfers ran to
around $4,000 shares for the two
hours.
Resistant most of the time were
Bethlehem Steel, Packard Motors,
GOODYEAR, United Aircraft, Western
Union, Consolidated Edison, Ana
conda, Kennecott, American Smelt-
ing, Air Reduction, Owens-Illinois,
United States Gypsum, Baltimore
& Ohio, United Air Lines and Para
mount Pictures.
Included Among Losers.
Intermittent stumblers included
United States Steel. Youngstown
Sheet, Studebaker. United States
Rubber, Firestone Tire, Sears Roe
buck, International Harvester,
Douglas Aircraft, Schenley, Ameri-
can Telephone, Cerro de Pasco,
General Electric, Dow Chemical,
Eastman Kodak. international Pa
per, Southern Pacific. Great North
ern Railway. Illinois Central, Texas
Co., Amerada Petroleum and
Loew's.
Bonds were spotty.
Supported in the curb were Cell
man Mfg, United States Radiator,
Schiff Co. and Niagara Hudson
Power. Mesitant were Aluminium OF
America, Cities Service, Long Island
Lighting preferred, United Light
and United Shoe Machinery.
Evening star., 1947-12-27
Baby
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crying. Mr.. and Mrs. Dietz knew
1t wasn't their youngest daughter
Helen. This was a much younger
baby and the sound seemed to be
coming from downstairs.
In the vestibule, between the inner
and outer front doors. a squirming
bundle lay on the rubber foot mat
Beside the bundle was pasteboard
box containing blankets and diapers
and bottle of milk. On top was the
note. written in neat longhand.
On the back of the note were
hand-printed instructions for max
ing a feeding formula and feeding
schedule.
Mrs. Dietz took the baby into the
kitchen and removed the three
blankets. pink, blue and white, in
which she was wrapped inside a
heavy pink-and-white sleeping sack
, The infant had on a white dress
fancy knitted booties and a white
cap. She was healthy and strong
Mrs. Dietz said, and very hungry.
Mrs. Dietz warmed up the bottle
while her husband telephoned the
police.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dietz said this
morning that they could not take
the baby themselves, having -four
children of their own. They also
pointed out that the babys mother
had asked that the child be placed
in a Protestant home. The Dietzes
are Catholics.
This morning at Gallinger Hospi-
tai, little Lola June was reported
"doing fine" They will keep he,
there, hospital officials said, while
the Womens Bureau tries to locate
the mother. Footprints at hospitals
will be checked, and physicians rec
ommending a formula like Lola
5une's will be questioned, police said
Evening star., 1947-12-27
British Conservatives
Seen as No Challenge
To Labor Party Yet
By Frederick W. Collins
North American Newspaper Alliance

LONDON, Dec. 27.-All sides
agree that never in recent history
has political feeling been more in
tense in the United Kingdom than
now-with the Socialists ruling and
the Conservatives challenging-but
there Is almost equal agreement that
the Conservatives are making no
appreciable dent in the status quo
The Socialists are supremely con-
fident that they will ride out the
next scheduled general election in
1850 and earn another five-year
term. The most extreme Conserva-
tive hope is that general election
between now and 1850 might pro-
duce small ajority for the party
in the House of Commons, but it
is acknowledged that the majority
could scarcely be large enough to
support a government in the style
to which it is necessarily accus-
toned.
More candid and more pessimistic
Conservative thinking holds that
the best the party can do in the i'm
mediate future is to score small
gains which might make possible a
coalition with dissident elements of
the Labor Party In Commons. The
most candid and most pessimistic
view is that the Conservative will
do well if they can rout the Social
lists by 1855.
Socialist Program Positive.
The reasons appear to lie in the
sterility Of the Coservative program,
the positive action of the Socialist
program and the abnormality of the
times.
This correspondent has found
wide agreement on the thesis that
Socialism as a political theory has
not yet been subjected to genuine
electoral test in Britain. What has
happened instead has been neces-
sary surrender to a central author
ity-which happens to be a govern
ment wearing the Socialist label-of
power to manage an economy in
which there is not enough of any,
thing except possibly hardship to 60
around.
Such q bow to the inevitable does
not necessarily mean an abandon
ment forever of faith in private
iniative as a handspring of society,
nor an acceptance in perpetuity of
the Socialist principle of State man
agement of productive resources. 1t
is an axiom Of British thought that
If the Conservatives were now in
power-and indeed they 60 a long
way in admitting it themselves
they would be or should be running
the economy much as the Socialists
are now.
Naturalization Secondary.
There Is not even much debate
on the inevitability of nationaliza-
ton of the coal mines, which has
taken place, nor on the nationaliza-
ton of transport, which takes place
January !.
The real test will come, 1t is sup
posed, on whether the Socialists in
sist upon maintaining controls after
they are needed, whether they are
carrying naturalization into fields
where it is more doctrine than rem
edy, and whether they are otherwise
doing violence to competent insti-
tutions OF private enterprise
society.
Evening star., 1947-12-27
>,a|| for More Millions
For Greece Seen by
Congress Members ].
By The Assoeiatsd Press

Several members Of Congress pre-
dicted today that Russia will In
crease pressure on Greece by ex-
tending official recognition to the
new Independent Communists re-
gime in, the northern part OF
Greece.
Some said the result may be call
for more American millions to shore
up Greek resistance to communism.
Representative Nixon, Republican
of California, guessed that the ad-
ministration might ask as much as
$40O ,000, 900.
This would be in addition to the
$500, 0,000, 900 Greek share Of the
$40O ,000. 900 Congress appropriated
last spring to stiffen resistance
against q Soviet encroachment In
Greece and Turkey.
Representative league. Democrat,
of Texas, one Of those who thinks
Russian recognition OF the new
state" will be the next move die
tated by Moscow, told reporter
the situation would never have de-
veloped IL. "the Greek army had
made a decent effort to clear up
that guerrilla situation
Representative Jonkman, Repub-
hcan, of Michigan. a member of the
House Foreign Affairs Committee,
said the announcement OF a new
Communist state has been cooking
for some time and Russian recogni-
ton is the next logical STEP"
Representative Engel, Republican,
of Michigan, who is on the Appro-
priations Committee, said that II
additional money is requested for
Greece. Americas decision should be
governed by the overall picture"
of this Nations security require
ments.
I'VE aren't to be bluffed or run
out Of Greece by those Communists
in the north" Mr.. Engel declared.
Representative Bloom, Democrat,
Of New York, who was Foreign At
fairs chairman when the Democrats
ran Congress, said the developments
do not mean that American efforts
to beat back communism in Greece
have failed.
If it were not for our program" !"
he said, "the Communists would
have been all over Greece today. If
they once get in it's almost impos-
sible to get them out. It's better to
spend a dollar to keep them out
than $500 to get them out.
I'VE can't pull out. This isn't any
l5-round contest, it's contest to
the limit. We've got to win. If we
don't, God help us, that's all. Russia
then would be looking at Turkey
and the Dardanelles and Egypt and
the Suez Canal"
Mr.. Bloom was among those pre-
dieting early recognition of new
Communist state by Russia, Albania,
Yugoslavia and Bulgaria.
Evening star., 1947-12-27
Death Ray Inventor,
.'Heaven|yMessenger
Attempt 10 See Pope

NEW YORK, Dec. 27. (NANA)
The man with a fool-proof plan to
save the peace, the inventor of q
death ray and the author of an
unfailing method of conversion by
telephone are back on the job today
side by side with the man who has
just had long talk with the Arch
angel Gabriel and the one entrusted
with a message from Christ
they all are trying to catch the ear
of the Pope.
A correspondent in Rome for the
Spanish newspaper ABC reports
that Papal chamberlains, vatican
secretaries and even the Swiss guard
are again busy blocking mail and
personal visits in increasing num-
ber from dreamy visionaries and
violent maniacs alike. And, al
though none can get beyond the
pontiflcal master of the chamber,
he submits a report each night to
his holiness on every would-be Sa-
vior.
A recent report mentioned a visi-
tor who brought cat for the Pope,
a cat that talk on moonlit nights,
and added that the Tyrolean with
the donkey had stopped by again.
The latter has been calling at the
gate of the papal residence for
years, holding donkey by the
bride.
Tries to Ride Through Guards.
On arrival, he usually would take
out a trumpet and play a march
then gesture toward the residence
and leave. This year, however, aft
er the usual playing and gestures,
he jumped on the donkey and at
tempted to ride forward between the
Swiss guards. From the Vaticans S
emergency lookup, he reported that
his donkey was the one which had
carried the Lord into Jerusalem and
that Gabriel had entrusted the ami
NAL to him to bring to the Pope
And, he went on, if his holiness
didn't then ride the donkey, the
world would suddenly come to an
end.
The Piedmontese professor with
the parrot got through to the mas
ter of the chamber. The clever
speech which ensued was taken
down by secretary, as the professor
proved that each person judges good
and evil according to his own con-
venience and not by impersonal
criteria. Then he gestured to the
parrot on his shoulder. The bird,
he said, had the special gift of warn
ing a man in his moments of great
est weakness. Thereupon the NOR
alizing cockatoo shrilled some verses
from the Bible.
Death Ray From Walnuts.
Quite as inoffensive as the pro-
fessor we're the inventor of the death
ray extracted from Walnuts, the dis
coverer of an ethereal staircase
which would permit the Pope to
commute to Heaven and back, the
originator of an unfailing method
of conversion by telephone and the
booster of the "electrotherapy of the
original sim
Some of the simple souls do not
even try to force a way in. There
was the new st. John" who stood
outside and insisted on baptizing
passersby, and deluged those who
didn't manage to get away with
wster from nearby fountain.
Others there are like the humble
visitor who brought a battle helmet
picked up during the war, on which
he had egraved scenes from World
War II. The gift was accepted
with pleasure until the donor
insisted on trying it on the Pope
personally to check the fit.
Evening star., 1947-12-27
FEC
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number of illegal radio stations op-
Grated by enemy espionage agents
These included a secret short-wave
outlet In the German Embassy, To-
Gated with sensitive direction find
ing equipment two days after the
Pearl Harbor attack.
Air sleuths under Mr.. Sterling
also found 20 spy stations sending
information to Nazi submarines In
the Caribbean, Nazi station In
West Africa and an elusive Nazi
espionage outlet in Chile.
A native of Peaks Island in
Names Casco Bay, Mr.. Sterling
began tinkering with radio sets
in 1908. Combining his hobby and
his family's seagoing tradition, he
shipped out as radio operator
Serving in the Army in World
War I, he helped organize radio
intelligence unit in France.
Mr.. Sterling went back to sea
as an operator after the war and
later became associated with Radio
marine Corp. of America as an in
spector, with the Commerce De-
partment Bureau Of Navigation and
with the Federal Radio Commission,
predecessor of the FEC.
He has been with the FEC since
1887. Since heading a staff of en-
gineers, he has enjoyed using code
on a buZZer system instead OF a
telephone to communicate with as
sociates.
Mr.. Sterling is married and has
two daughters.
With Mr.. Sterling replacing Mr..
Jett, the FEC retains two technical
experts in its membership. Mr..
Webster, also appointed by Presi-
dent Truman. is former member
of the FEC engineering staff and
former chief Of Coast Guard COM
munications.
Evening star., 1947-12-27
By Helena Huntington Smith

VIENNA (By Air MaiD There
is no danger that Austria will &C
Communist unless change in the
international situation should in
vite particularly bare-faced
putsch. On the record, the Com
muniSt Party here is a flop. 1t has
only four seats in Parliament out
of total of 165 and, according tc
all estimates, could not command
over 5 per cent of Austrian votes al
the present time.
This is poor showing compared
to the generally admitted Commu-
mist strength Of 80 to IS per cent
in Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia
and 20 per cent in Hungary. Re.
Gently, elections were held in indus
trial plants all over the country tc
choose worker members for labor
management boards. Even among
the workers, the Communists polleo
only per cent.
On the other hand, few observers
conclude from these facts that the
Austrian body polite is in healthy
condition. The Austrians are a
tired people. For the past 10 years
they have lived under one foreign
master after another-first the Ger
mans, then the Russians, now the
four-power control, which to the
average Viennese means principally
the rich Americans-until they have
reached the stage where many SIM
ply don't care any more. They are
just the opposite of the tough re-
bellious French, who would be per-
fectly capable of fighting under the
Communist banner one year and of
tearing it down the next.
IS Per Cent Admit Apathy.
A series of public opinion polls
taken by the Information Services
Branch OF USACA-United States
element, Allied Commission for Aus
tria-has reduced the political leth-
argy of the Austrians to a per-
centage basis. Sixty-five per cent
of the people questioned in the
American zone of Vienna last month
stated fatty that they took no in
terest in politics. Even the Ger
mans are less discouraged than that.
In a similar poll taken in Berlin a
few months earlier, only As per
cent of the Germans questioned said
that they did not take an interest.
Another poll framed the picture
in a slightly different way. Asked
which one of the three Austrian po-
litical parties they preferred-Volks-
partei, Socialists or Communists
one-third said they had no party
and no preference. This is re-
garded as especially significant.
For one-half of the neutral ones
were disillusioned former Nazis,
many of whom today react to the
slightest suggestion of party joining
with an almost visible shudder.
Despite its status as liberated
country, not conquered one, Aus
tria in its day was almost as Nazi
as Germany. With a population of
around six million, 1t had 100000
signed-up Nazis, percentage which
compares favorably with the num-
Evening star., 1947-12-27
Services to Be Broadcast

The Rev. George H. Yount vii
conduct the Arlington Church o1
the Air broadcast over Station
WARL at II am. tomorrow from
the First Presbyterian Church. Also
at II am. tomorrow the Rev. Walter
Wolf will be in charge Of the pro-
gram from the Arlington Presby-
terrain Church over Station WEAM
The Arlington Church Of the Air
is sponsored by the Arlington Min
isterial Union.
Evening star., 1947-12-27
County Agent Named

MARTINSBURG, w. Va. Dec.
27 (SpeciaD .-Aves Holpp Of Frank
lin. w. Va. assistant agricultural
agent in Pendleton County, has
been named agricultural agent for
Hampshire County. w. Va, to I'LL
. vacancy caused by the death of
d, I, Law.
Evening star., 1947-12-27
Four Firemen Badly Hurt
In 100000 BIoze,
BY the Associofsd Press

TAUNTON. Mass, Dec. 27.-Four
firemen were critically hurt last
night in a hot-air explosion while
fighting a blaze that destroyed a
two-story building housing the
Roseland ballroom and bowling
alleys.
Police said the property, valued
at 100000, was a total loss.
No one was in the dance hall al
the time and about 100 bowlers flee
safely to the street before the ex.
plosion.
Taken to Morton Hospital were
Iadderman William Czpiel, 81
Capt. Carlton Galligan. AZ; Fire
Chief Edward F. Corey, 81. anc
Laddernan Howard Davis, 38.
Evening star., 1947-12-27
Likelihood of Austria Goinq
Communist Is Called Siqht
ber Of party members in Hitler
Peicb

Der OF party members In Hitler's
Reich.
Greeted Hitler Worshipfully.
There are pictures extant which
were taken of street crowds in
Vienna at the time of Hitler's visit
In 1888 and the ecstatic, worship
ping faces uplifted to Der Fueher
would have fitted any crowd in Ber-
lin. Besides this, some Austrians
showed great enthusiasm for forcing
elderly Jewish men and women to
scrub sidewalks. Today, the ex-
Nazi Austrian is like the man who
wakes up with violent hangover
swearing Never again!"-though
he takes an occasional nip of Jew
hating literature, just to steady his
nerves.
But there remain the second so
| per cent of Austrians who were not
Nazis but who are equally fed up
with politics. How are they to be
accounted for?
A Tyrolean bartender said: BE
fore the war, If you were a Social
ist-Kalaboos! During the war, if
you were a Communist-Kalaboos !!
During the war, If you were Nazi
you were a big shot, but since it
is ended, If you were a Nazi-Kala-
boos! No thanks, no partei for
me-"
Nevertheless, the green hatband
Of the conservative Catholic Volks-
partei, worn by both men and wo-
men, is common sight in both
Vienna and the country. The Volks-
partei is the strongest, with IS seats
in Parliament, though its Socialist
opponents say that this is because
| it is a mixture of various more or
less uncongenial elements.
Socialists in Second Place.
The Socialists, the number 2
party, have 76 seats. Socialist lead
ers put UP a plausible claim that
their strength is the reason for
Communist weakness and the Aus
trian picture does support the con-
tention that the best defense
against Communism is q healthy
nom Communist left.
A few weeks ago the Austrian
Government ousted a Communist
national police official. In retalia-
ton, the Russians threw out three
police officials in cities in their
zone. This caused a rumor to the
effect that the Russians and Com
munists were planning a coup to
set up separate Communist Gov
eminent. 1t died out.
Austrians are afraid of a third
world war, between Russia and the
United States, in which their al
ready beaten-up country again
would be the battle-ground, this
time probably in the literal, physi-
cal sense. Yet despite their dread,
they talk more about the likelihood
of such a war than any other ma
tionals in Vienna and almost seem,
at times, to be tying to promote 1t,
with kind Of morbid eagerness.
They hate the Russians.
Or do they? A Viennese actress
demurely needed two Americans:
Il am about to start the study Of
Russian. It is the language of the
future"
(Released nv The Beu svndicate 1nc ,
Evening star., 1947-12-27
New Italian Constitution
To Be Siqned Today
BY the Asseeiated Press

ROME, Dec. 27-A solemn cere-
mony today will mark the signing
of the constitution for the new
Italian republic.
1t will be signed by Chief OF
State Enrico de Nicola and &C
into effect on January /. The
government will resume its work
December 80 when the Council Of
Ministers reconvenes.
Premier Alcide de Gasperi, con-
fined to his bed yesterday by a
slight attack of influenza. expected
to attend today's ceremony.
Evening star., 1947-12-27
Post Office to Remain

MARTINSBURG, w. Va, Dec. q
(SpeciaD Julian Roberts. post
master at Bardane, Jefferson
County, was advised this week that
orders previously issued for closing
the Office January l had been re-
Scinded.
Evening star., 1947-12-27
Rock Tuttooed on Back

Red Taylor. tattoo specialist OF
Newtown, Australia, recently tat
tooed a religious emblem, "the Rock
of Ages" on the back of a Sydney
woman. "She was happy with it and
paid me $50, but didn't say why she
wanted it," he said.
Evening star., 1947-12-27

REPORTED COMM U MS T
BOSSES icholas Zacha-
riades, Moscow-trained Greek
Communist leader, according
to Athens political observers,
is believed to be the actual
boss of the newly proclaimed
Communist state in Northern
Greece. Ioannides, Deputy
Prime Minister of the new
state, who has charge OF police
and security, reputedly heads
the Communist Party's under
ground system.
-AP Wirephoto.
Evening star., 1947-12-27

tunes to be put on the market on a
staggered schedule. Incidentally, a
big backlog of radio singing COM
mercials" also is being piled up for
use after ban goes into effect.
The consensus in the recording
and transcription industries seems
to be that it may be six months or a
year or more before the public
notices any effect of the ban, which
Mr.. Petrillo said will be permanent.
Evening star., 1947-12-27
Weather Report

District of Columbia-Some cloud
iness but mostly sunny and rather
windy, with highest temperature
in the lower 40s this afternoon.
Fair with lowest about % tonight.
Tomorrow partly cloudy and cooler.
Maryland and Virginia-Fair with
little change in temperature to-
night. Tomorrow considerable cloud
iness and turning colder. Colder
tomorrow night.
Wind velocity. IS miles per hour;
direction, west-northwest.
Road Report.
(From American Automobile
Association
Main roads in Virginia and East
ern Maryland now clear; 8 to 8
inches Of snow over most Of West
Virginia and Maryland west Of
Cumberland. Roads in that area
open but slippery; chains required.
River Report.
(From q. s. Engineers)
Potomac River clear at Harpers Ferry
and at Great Falls; Shenandoah clear at
Harpers Ferry.
Evening star., 1947-12-27

Precipitation.
Monthly precipitation in inches In thl
Capital. (current month to date):
Evening star., 1947-12-27
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