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Evening star., 1947-12-04
British Cabinet Weighs
Policy on New States

LONDON, Dec. (P.-The cabi-
net considered today future British
policy toward Palestine and the date
for surrendering Britain's mandate
Among subjects before Prime
Minister Attlee and his government
were the manner of handing over
power to the United Nations Com
mission; approval of timetable Tor
pulling out approximately 10000
troops and 10000 tons of supplies;
settlement of British assets and la
bilities in Palestine, and Britain
future relations with the new Arab
and Jewish states.
There was no official indication
of decisions.
/ Spokesmen for the Foreign ano
Colonial Offices, however, labeled as
untrue" a Washington report thai
May l was the date decided on fol
surrendering the mandate and thai
all troops and material would oe
evacuated by October !.
Much of the equipment in Pales'
tine, including guns, tanks and am
munition. will be sent to kenya, If
| East Africa.
Evening star., 1947-12-04
~. S. Plans Non-Acoden1ic Study
For 500 of Hiqh School Pupils

The so per cent causing the worry
become homemakers or go into the
many jobs such as clerking in
stores, farming, driving trucks
which are open to and held by mil
lions of Americans. The commits
sion feels that high school now has
little, relation to the life they will
lead after graduation or after they
drop out of school through lack Of
interest.
Members Of the commission ex-
planned that the Office of Educa-
ton would carry the program to the
State education departments. Then,
Oh the local level. extensive studies
would be carried out to see just what
type of program would be best suited
to that community.
Idea Gets Favorable Response.
In many cases. the type of tradi-
tional course offered to high school
students conceivably could be the
best for certain communities. But
most high schools are expected to
be found lacking, they said.
1t is not a question of saying,
Here Is program" members en-
phasized. But, because of favorable
response to the idea which has been
received already, they feel that the
Nations educators will see the value
of the program.
Mr.. Studebaker has spoken in
favor of the ideas of the program
and backed the preliminary re-
ports of the commission which were
explained at press conference yes
terday.
Other members of the commits
sion are Miss Marcella Rita Lawler,
State Department of Education,
Washington; j. C. Wright, retired
assistant commissioner of vocational
education, Office of Education:
Charles S. Wilkins, president, A.
and NJ College. Magnolia, Ark;
Paul D. Collier. State Department
OF Education. Connecticut; Francis
L. Bacon. principal, Evanston Gll)
Township High School; M. D. Mob
ley, State Department of Education,
Georgia; the Rev Bernardine
Myers, o. P, Fenwick High School,
Oak Park, III, and Clyde A. Erwin,
State superintendent of Public
Instruction, North Carolina.
Evening star., 1947-12-04
jamestown Printers Strike
Goes Into Second Day

JAMESTOWN. N. Y, Dec. 4 P).-
A printers strike at the James
town Post journal moved into Its
second day today with the pub
fishers planning to get out another
abbreviated edition and no hint OF
a settlement from either side.
The Post-Journal published To-
page edition at 5 pm. yesterday,
compared to its normal 24-2S page
paper which appears at 230 pm.
In a story of the walkout, the
paper said it was the first time
in the 1OO-year history Of the Eve
ming Journal, the Morning Post ana
their successor, the F'ost-Journal,
that a printers strike had affected
publication:
Employees of various departments
worked to get The paper on the
street, using new teletypesetters and
a photoengraving plant.
The strike was called by Local
2O5 of the AFL International Typo
graphical Union representing 2e
compositors, afteE@a deadlock over
their demand fora $15f weekly pay
hike. A Sc boost was rejected. The
men earned s6520 for a 3712 hour
week under contract which ex-
pireo Sunday.
Evening star., 1947-12-04
Continuous Military
Aircraft Procurement
Urged by F Forrestal
By w. H. Shippen, Jr.
Aviation Editor Of The s.ar

Defense Secretary Forrestal told
the final public hearing OF the Pres
idents Air Policy Commission late
yesterday that military aircraft, like
warships, should be procured in the
future on continuous instead OF
-to-year basis.
The Secretary made this specific
recommendation, he said, from the
conviction that only long-range,
consistent plan of Federal procure
ment will enable the aircraft in
dustry to maintain an eXpendable
nucleus OF technical and supervisory
skills.
He described this state of readi-
ness as one of the most vital ele-
ments of national security.
Holds Old Method Costly.
Adequate procurement of aircraft
of increasing complexity can best
be accomplished over period Of
years" on plan like that of the
Navy's in acquiring warships, he
said. aThe old method of year-to-
year contract authorization, he said
is both costly to the taxpayers and
destructive to efficient production.
AS to the countrys security needs
in terms of air power, Mr. Forrestal
said, my views are fairly clear
The United States must have air
forces powerful enough to protect
our own territory and sufficiently
powerful and versatile to make a
swift counterattack in event, of war.
Pointing out that about 81 900 000,-
600 is available this year for mill
tary aircraft, with larger sum
expected next year, the Secretary
said the effects of increased appro-
riations since the wars end have
not yet been felt fully in the industry.
Research Funds Adequate.
He added that he doubts If "an
impossible gap" exists between sau-
thorized sums and the ability of
aircraft manufacturers to keep in
a healthy condition. Too, funds for
research and development seem ade-
quate, he said, and a large part of
this is for aviation, or associated
projects like radar and electronics.
The Secretary expressed conf
dence that, under uniflcation, an
effective military plan is being
worked out for balanced team of
land, sea and air defenses. He said
competent, we'll trained and
technically superior Air Force so
essential to security can only be
attained by an exhaustive plan for
present and possibly expanded pro-
duction based on the changing
character of war.
Weighs Imitation Factor.
This country must weigh its pres
ent armament needs against the
possibility that too heavy production
might bring on imitation, or other
wise upset healthy economy
essential both to, the United States
and the world. he declared.
Our security no longer depends
as 1t did before the last war, on our
ability to defend this country or
other countries in this hemisphere
from INVASION" he said. Rather 1t
is global in scope, depending in part
on the economic stability of the
whole world,
The Air Policy Commission, which
began public and executive hearings
last September, will complete its re-
port to the President about jan
uary /, it was announced. The re-
port is expected to be made public
about two weeks later.
Evening star., 1947-12-04
Correction

A report in The Star yesterday
of a meeting held Tuesday by the
League of Women Shoppers, at
which Russell Smith, legislative
director of the National Farmers
Union was principal speaker, was
inadvertently referred to as a
meeting Of the League of Women
Voters. The meeting was held
in the YWCA at Seventeenth and
K streets NV.
The Star regrets the error.
Evening star., 1947-12-04
7 Teen1I-:Agers Questioned
After Spending Night in Cal

Prince Georges County probation
officers today were questioning a
group of seven teen-agers who spent
the night in an automobile mired in
mud near the Greerbelt Lake. The
youngsters had been reported miss
ing to police last night.
According to Police Chief George
Panagoulis of Greenbelt, the group
included four boys and three girls.
The boys are Is, Is, II and 10 years
old, and the girls, II, IA and IS, he
said. All but one of the seven live
in the Calvert Homes subdivision,
he added One boy lives in the 6400
block of Edmonston road, Riverdale.
After remaining in the car all
night, one of the boys walked to the
road and caught ride tc his home,
the chief said. The boy telephoned
the father of one of the girls, who
in turn notified police,
Evening star., 1947-12-04
Brewster Proposes
Troops for Palestine

PORTLAND, Me, Dec. 4.-The
United States should train volun-
teer forces Immediately for United
Nations Security Council duty in
Palestine, Senator Brewster, Repub-
lican, of Maine said yesterday
Senator Brewster would have the
volunteer group trained as special
segment of the United States Regu-
lar Army.
There is strong feeling in Con-
gress for the immediate preparation
of a security force-a foreign legion
for action in the Middle East" the
Senator said. -
He expressed belief that Russia
would respond with troops If Jews
in Palestine asked for help and the
Security Council was not ready to
step in.
NO one could object to Russia S
stepping in at such time" he de-
clared. e.
The Jewish War Veterans, Sena-
tor Brewster said, has offered to di-
rect recruiting of volunteer forces
for possible duty in Palestine.
Evening star., 1947-12-04
Jews Reported Asking
For u. ). Aid 10 QueI|
|Uprisings by Arabs
By the Associated Press

LAKE SUCCESS, Dec. A.
Jewish Agency officials were re-
ported seeking means in the
United States today for sup
preston of Arab anti-partition
urrisings in Palestine and feel
ing out possibilities of obtaining
American aid to restore order in
the Holy Land.
One informed quarter said the
aid being sought included diplo-
matte pressure by the State De-
partment on governments Of the
Arab nations in the Middle East
and an embargo on materials that
might be used by the Arabs to
further the conflict in Palestine.
There was an added suggestion,
United States might be asked to
without confirmation, that the
supply arms for defense of the
Jewish nation which will result
from the partitioning of Palestine
Shertok to Visit Washington.
Moshe Shertok, bead Of the Jew
ish agencys political department
and likely choice for foreign min
lister in the first cabinet of the
Jewish nation, planned to go to
Washington Friday to consult with
Government officials.
He said these visits with the State
Department officials and others
would be courtesy calls" The
United States was leader, along
with Russia, in advocating the
partition plan in the United Ma
tions Assembly.
Mr.. Shertok yesterday conferred
privately with Secretary General
Trygve Lie after Mr.. Lie had told
his weekly news conference that he
was considering a visit to Pales-
tine himself early next year. Mr.
Lie would visit Palestine only
briefly for the installation of the
secretariat staff which will serve the
flve-nation U. N. commission
charged with supervising the trans
fer of authority to sovereign jew
ish and Arab nations.
British Retain Control.
The secretariat. headed by DR.
Ralph Bunche, trusteeship expert
formerly with the State Depart
ment, was not expected to be fully
organized until next year. There
was no indication of when it Woulo
go to Palestine, but it was pointeo
out that Britain remains in exclu-
sive control of the Holy Land unit
she surrenders her League of Ma
tions mandate at a date not ye
fixed.
One informed quarter said thu
Jewish Agency, as the official worle
representative of Palestine Jew
under the mandate terms, nigh
begin talks with British colonla
officials in London shortly on de
tails of the transfer of authorit,
to the Jewish nation.
Mr.. Shertok already has consulted
here with John Martin. expert IL
Middle East affairs for the British
Colonial Office.
Evening star., 1947-12-04
D.C.Pub|ishers, Union
Recess Negotiations;
Aqree on Retroacfivity

The Washington PubllShers
Association and Columbia Typo
graphical Union recessed their wage
and hour negotiations last night,
after agreeing on retroactlVltE
terms in the event contract Is
approved by January 10.
Speaking for the publishers OF
the four Washington newspapers,
Peyton r. Evans. their executive
secretary, said: I'VE are hopeful OF
reaching an agreement.
The three-and-a-half hour ses-
sion was the second attended by
Woodruff Randolph, president Of
the International Typographical
Union. Asked if he thought any
progress had been made, MI. Ran
dolph answered he could not say
there had been,
Evans Letter Adopted.
Both sides appeared to feel some
thing was accomplished, however
with the adoption of this letter
from MI. Evans to James j. O'Con-
nof, president of the Columbia
Typographical Union:
with the hope of reaching a
satisfactory contract between the
union and the association, the pub
fishers agree that if, as a result
of our current negotiations, any
contract is agreed to by the parties
within 60 days from November IL
l947, such contract shall be retro
active to wages to November IL
1947"
The printers have been working
without an agreement since Novem-
Der IL, expiration date of their Ole
contract. A day before the CONTRACT
expired, the union notified the pub.
fishers it had submitted unllatera
conditions of employment" to Mr.
Randolph for his approval.
Each Willing to Reconvene.
Neither side could say when the
meetings would be resumed. Elthe'
side was willing to reconvene at th'
call of the other 1t was not detl
nitely stated whether MI. Randolph
would return for the resumption o
negotiations.
Mr.. O'Connor said the publisher
had offered an agreement and tina
the printers had in turn submitted
some suggestions. 1t was these sug
gestions the publishers wished t.
consider before the next meeting
he said
The question of wages and othe
matters were held in allegiance
pending the decision on yesterday
proposals.
Evening star., 1947-12-04

Plans which eventually will elm
mate from the curriculum of pos
sibly so per cent of the Nations
high school students the traditional
studies of foreign languages, alge-
bra and such are under way at the
United States Office of Education.
The plans are being drawn up be-
cause the Offlce OF Education is
worried about an estimated 60 per
cent of the boys and girls who just
drift off into life with no special
plan or training for the work they
will do and the position they will
take in the community.
For that large group, the high
schools are not doing the job, ac-
cording to preliminary reports of
the nine-man Commission on Life
Adjustment Education for Youth
which concluded it's initial three
day conference at the Office of Edu-
cation here yesterday. The COM
mission was appointed by John W.
Studebaker, commissioner of edu-
cation, to develop program to meet
this need
Plan Is Outlined.
The solution is a thing called
diversified occupational training.
1t is not for the 20 per cent of the
high school students who 60 to col
lege or for the 20 per cent that gt
into the skilled trades.
| Basically the plan is this:
Students not academicallv in.
clined will get training in the ust
of leisure time, health and safety
recreation. proper home and family
life. application of Fundamental
skills. consumer education and work
experience while in school, plus
reading, writing and arithmetic.
How to provide for the variec
needs of all youth, the largest per-
centage of whom do not plan tt
20 to college or do not wish to take
up a skilled occupation, is the targe
we hope to hit" Benjamin c. Willis
superintendent Of schools at Yonk
ers, N. Y, explained. He is chair
man of the commission.
Co-ordinator to Be Used.
One feature of diversified occu
pational training will be a tralnet
co-ordinator who will work at tn
high school. His job will be to ar
range for part-time work for stu
dents not academically inclined
who need an opportunity to earn
Guidance and assistance for tn
student will be a big part OF tn
lob. The program will be geare'
so that the essentials of English
mathematics and subjects related t.
the job will be taught.
Evening star., 1947-12-04
Scientists Soon to Test Atomic
Powerfo Generating Electricity

LIQUID or some Inert gas ana thls
would operate turbine to genei ate
electricity by conventional machln-
cry.
The gas or liquid, Mr. Neblett
explained, would continuously clrcu-
late from the atomic pile to the
generating area. Thus, 1t would
have to be able to resist the neutron
bombardment in the pile without
having part of its mass converted
into some other element.
Strange things happen in
pile" he said. Nitrogen, a gas,
comes out as carbon. Silicon comes
out as phosphorus. Gold comes out
as mercury AS matter OF 1act'
a pile theoretically can make gold,
but the catch is that it requires
platinum on which to perform this
miracle"
Other problems that must be
solved, he asserted, are the building
of a pump to force the circulation
of the heat-transfer medium, the
shielding of the nuclear power unit
against radiation and the use OF lool-
proof instruments to regulate the
amount of power produced.
Could Simplify Conversion.
| If these questions are resolved and
satisfactory machine is developed
the scientist said, no great dlsrup-
ton of industrial plants will be
necessary to convert to use OF the
new power plant.
Warming that research is neces-
sarily unpredictable, he said 1t IL
impossible to forecast when indus
trial application of atomic energy
will come, or what form it will take
Were in about the same condl.
ton as Europe was when Columbu:
discovered the New World he
pointed out. People thought il
was going to be the Northwest
Passage to the Far East. Instead
it opened up new prospects OF Whlcf
the world had never dreamed
Evening star., 1947-12-04
EIeni Sokes to Direct
D. c. Model Competition

Eleni Sakes, fashion editor of The
Star, will act as master OF cere-
monies at 7:30 o'clock tonight in the
Red Cross auditorium at Walter
Reed Hospital, where 20 Washington
girls will compete for free pro-
fessional modelling course.
Judges at the contest will be five
wounded veterans now patients at
the hospital. The 20 f1nalists were
chosen by the judges from pictures
and measurements submitted by
the girls themselves.
Evening star., 1947-12-04
Weather Report

District of Columbia-Some sun
shine and becoming colder this
afternoon. Increasing cloudlness
and colder tonight with lowest about
35. Some rain tomorrow with high
esG about A. Moderate north winds
becoming easteriy.
Virginia-Partly cloudy with cold
er except in extreme southwest por-
ton tonight. Cloudy with moderate
temperature and occasional rain in
the interior tomorrow.
Maryland-Cloudy and colder with
occasional rain tomorrow and IN
extreme west portion tonight.
Wind velocity, IS miles per hour
direction, north.
River Report.
tFrom United States Englneers.)
Potomac River clear at Harpers Ferr!
and cloudy Great Falls: Shenandoah
Evening star., 1947-12-04
1871 Broken Pones
In School Windows
Replaced Since July

Smashed window panes, H.
73l of them, have been re-
placed in the Districts public
schools since last July by the
District Repair Shop, accord
ing to School Supt. Hobart M.
Corning. Another 2,026 are
waiting to be replaced he told
the Board of Education yes
terday. DR.. Corning said not
all were attributable to vandal-
ism, as many were broken ac-
cidentally. Since September the
repair shop has been replacing
them at the rate of 202 a day,
he added.
Evening star., 1947-12-04
Congress in Brief
By fhe Assoeioied Press
Senate.


Routine session:
Appropriations Committee hears
Undersecretary of State Lovett on
emergency aid to France, Italy and
Austria.
Banking Committee hears Mar
riner S. Eccles, Federal Reserve
Board chairman, on restoration OF
consumer credit controls.
Senate-House Economic Commit
tee hears officials of cotton and
other commodity exchange officials
on President Truman's anti-inf1a-
ton program.
House.
Starts debate on s5eo,OO0,o00 in
terim aid bill.
Banking Committee questions
Secretary of Commerce Hartman
on anti-inf1ation program.
Evening star., 1947-12-04

Moonshine Industry
SIumps, Counter to
General u. S. Trend
BY fhs Assoeioted Press

The moonshining industry,
running counter to the general
business trend, is in slump.
The Internal Revenue Bu-
reau today appraised the value
of stills, whisky, automobiles
and other equipment seized
from moonshinerS between July
/ and November l this year at
S417,989. In the same period
last year the appraised value OF
such seizures was S713.989.
Arrests during l947 also were
down, totaling 2,348 for the
four months compared with
2,s11 in the same 1916 period.
Evening star., 1947-12-04

gency Hospital
a t t e r several
months illness.
Mr.. Geddes was
killed last June
% in an auto
mobile accident
near Doylestown,
Pa.
Mrs. G e d d e S
was born in
Washington and
attended t h e
Cathedral School
for Girls. In
1884 she was
graduated from
M ere dith Col
Evening star., 1947-12-04
MARYLAND Opens Bids

BALTIMORE, Dec. 4 (P.-The
State Roads Commission will open
bids December 1e on contract to
tear down the old bridge across
sinepuxent Bay at worcester street
In Ocean City.
Evening star., 1947-12-04
Mrs. Geddes Dies
After Long Illness

Mrs. Grace Carr Geddes, "a, widow
OF Gail Gray Geddes, an executive
of the National Association of Manu-
1acturers, died yesterday at Emer-
Evening star., 1947-12-04

Hlgn ana Low loT 1cSteIodS'
High, 50, a 3:3S pm.
Low. -. at 80 am.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest, %. on August IA.
Lowest, :, on February 5.
Evening star., 1947-12-04
The Sun and Nc
Precipitation

Monthly precipitation IN 1nCheS IN
- r,,toI Irurrent month tn date):
Evening star., 1947-12-04

Tide Tables.
FURNISHED by United States Coast
Evening star., 1947-12-04
Charles Town Entries
FOR FRIDAY.
lu ~. AsorioBaJ pr

THIRD RACE-Purse. $1,000; claiming
3-year-olds and upward. 6l2 furlonRS.
Evening star., 1947-12-04

FIFTH RACE-Purse, $1,000: allow
noes; 3-year-olds and upward; about Az
Evening star., 1947-12-04

IXTH RACE-Purse, $1,000: allow
IS: 3-year.olds and upward; about
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1947-10-24
SpOrtOvn1 Hlfdka.
KRfZKOVE ZAPASY
v

Pf1St1 1tery, dine 20. T1jna v
kr1zkovych zapasech pofada-
nych Mr.. Ed Contosem v Coli
scum 1cinkovati budou nasle-
duj1cf zapasn1ci:
V hlavn1m zapase ktery .ur-
cen jest ma dobu l porazkG u
cinkuj1:
Babe Sharkey, 253 ID. (By-
valy Svetovy Mistr) z Texasu
VS.. Manic Singh, 23O ID. Hin
du Champion Exponent of the
Cobra Hold).
SPECIAL FEATURE
Wladislaw Talun, 800 ID.
polish Champion) VS.. Hans
Kampfer, 245 ID. German
|Oak).
Zapas tento urcen jest ma do
bu 1 hodiny aneb 1 porazky.
V nasledujfc1ch 3 zapasech
kter6 urceny jsou ma dobu 80
minut aneb 1 porazky 1cinkujl
Henry Kulkovich. 23O ID.
polish S%ensation) VS.. Jack
Thomas, 231 10. z Bostonu.
Steve Cob, 210 ID. z Califor-
ME Former U.S.N. Champion)
VS.. Sheik Abed, PIP ID. (Egyp-
tan Champion.)
Jesse James,, 222 ID. z Wash
lington, D. G.. VS.. Buck Jones.
1918 ID. z Baltimore.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1947-10-24
Levine Cesk6 knihy.

HospodaTska pomoc v Praze
I, Liliova ul. 18, socialn1 a hos
podarska korporace, zasle O.
chotne ma pozadan1-stac1 po-
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krajanGm do ciziny soubor Sc
sti novych knih a dvou pTiru-
eek v Gene Kcs 2O7-, "a pou-
hych Kcs 160-, S postovnym
a obalem, ably umoznila kraja-
MIN v kterekoli casti sveta zls-
kan1 dobrych ceskych knih "a
levny penlz. Pouze postovne
do Ameriky obnasf 40 Kcs "a
jeden soubor. Soubor obsahu-
'1je diva humoristicke romany,
zdravotnl pr1rucku psanou Cd
bornymi profesory a docenty,
kterou potTebuje kazda domac-
most, knihu narodohospodaf-
skou, knihu O 1spechu v podnl-
kanf a v zivote, knihu o spole-
Icenskem vystupovan1 a do
brych z~pGsobech, kuchafskou
prirucku a pTfrucku o osetfo-
vani kojencG.
Uvedeny soubor knih je k
nahlednutf v nasf redakci CITE
Soubory knih sc
plat1 az pc obdrzenl. PouziJte
teto vyhody = vanoce Sc bllzl
Zcela nemajetnym krajandn
zasle shora uvedena korporace
ma pozadani aspon cast knif
zcela zdarma i S postovnym
ktere hradl sama.
Redakce ~"TELEGRAFU" do
porucuje vrele tyto knihy ma
Sim krajan1m!