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Evening star., 1948-01-10
Call for u. ). Marine!
To Guard Consulate
Denied in Palestine
Britain Sounded Out
However, on Provision
Of Guards for Offices
BY The Associated Press

JERUSALEM, Jan. 1O.-The
United States Marines have not
landed yet in Palestine and nc
call has been sent for them, au-
thoritative sources said today.
Sources close to the Consular
Corps in Jerusalem said a delega.
ton representing all consulates hat
asked the Palestine government fol
protection in the Arab-Jewish strife
adding
IF you can't protect us, wha1
is your attitude toward our providing
our own guards?"
British SOUNDED Out"
An Arab Office statement in Lon,
don yesterday, obviously stemmint
from Arab consulates here, trans
lated that into a call for the Ma.
rines.
So fervent were the feelings last
night that Arabs along the coast
practically rushed to the beaches
to watch the Marines wade ashore
Diplomatic informants here, how
ever, reiterated that no specific re-
quest was made by any consulate
for permission to bring specific
troops Government sources in Lon
don and Washington said the
United States had sounded out
the British high commissioner for
Palestine on the subject but that
no action was taken and no formal
request made. Britain said it would
welcome any force the United States
might send for such a purpose.
Arabs Take Grave View.
The Palestine government appar-
emily referred the consular corps
Joint delegation to the colonial Of
fee. The statement by the Arab
Office said the Palestine government
had given it's permission to land
the Marines and added that Arabs
take the gravest possible view OF
such a contingency.
Iraqi, Syrian and Trans-Jordar
consulates in Jerusalem already
have uniformed, bayonet armed sol
diers from their respective countries
standing guard and the Lebanese
Consul said he soon would have
soldier guards before both his office
and his residence.
The Lebanese Consul. Chehade
Bey Ghossein, as dean of the con-
sular corps here, headed the delega-
ton which made the representations
to the Palestine government con-
>eerning security. The United States
and French Consuls we're the other
members of the group,
Evening star., 1948-01-10
Sunny, Cold Weather
Forecast for Week End

Sunny but cold weather Is the
outlook for the week end, the
Weather Bureau said today
The thermometer is due to drop
into the 20s tonight, quite a change
from the high of 81 degrees re-
corded at 1904 pm. yesterday. That
high, incidentally, was the warmest
it has been in the District slrce
November 7. But 1t was far from
a record for the day, as In 1887
a 76 was recorded.
Today will be mostly sunny.
windy and cold, with the tenn
perature not going above 40 de-
grees. Tomorrow will be mostly
sunny and continued cold.
Evening star., 1948-01-10
Britain Believed
ActingtoSea|0ff
Arab Attackers
Strong Policy Seen
After Rout of 900
Entering Palestine
By the Assoeiotsd Press

- JERUSALEM, Jan. 10.-British
lancers of the famed Death or
Glory" Regiment stood guard on
the northern frontier of Pales-
tine today across the headwaters
of the River Jordan, in what
appeared to be move to seal off
the Holy Land partition battle
from outside Arab attacks.
II this was an indication of Brit
ish policy, 1t was the strongest move
yet in the mounting civil war that
has threatened to become interna-
tional through the participation of
Arab volunteer forces from Egypt,
Linia, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Syria and
Lebanon who now are. training in
Southern Syria.
Credence was given this SUPPOSE
tion through Britains strong rep
resentations" to the Syrian govern
ment over yesterdays border cross
ing by 600 Arabs who finally were
driven back by the lancers and Spit
fires.
Beginning of Attack Hinted.
The attack, which was carried to
the village of Dan, appeared to be
the possible beginning of a general
attack by troops of the veteran
Arab revolt leader, Fawzi Bey Al
Kaukji who is in command Of Arab
volunteers in Syria.
Arab sources here scoffed at any
such possibility, declared that the
hour had not yet struck.
tReliable sources in Damascus
said 300 Arab volunteers crossed
the Palestine border today to
supplement the forces of FaWzi
Bey al Kaukji, massed along the
Jordan. The sources also said
an Iraq battalion arrived here
yesterday en- route to the Holy
Land)
Government sources in London,
meanwhile, said Britain would well
come any force the United States
might want to send to guard the
United States consulate in Jerusa-
lem. The United States, according
to the sources, had sounded out
the British high commissioner for
permission to send a small force
of Marines. They added, however,
that no formal request had been
made and no decisions reached.
Several theories were advanced on
the frontier crossing battle.
Infiltration of Troops.
One Arab observer implied that
the fight could have been a feeler
and training experiment.
British sources familiar with the
Arabs pointed out that Arab COM
manders in Southern Syria now
have considerable force of armed
men in the area, and added that 1t
might have been a raid intended to
keep the men from getting stale.
One Arab source maintained that
this was not the force with which
the Arabs would strike when the
time came He suggested that it
might not have been intended as
an attack at all but merely e. con-
tinuation of the recent inflltration
of Syrian trained units through
Northern Palestine to some distribu-
ton center, such as Nablus, for ac-
tion elsewhere.
According to this version the in
SO. DAI ESTJNF Pooe A0)
Evening star., 1948-01-10
a Arkansas Teen-Agers
Killed in Crossing Crash
By the Assoeioisd Press

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. Jan. 10
Four Greater Little Rock een-agers,
three boys and girl, were killed
shortly before midnight last night
when the car in which they were
riding was struck by northbound
Missouri Pacific passenger train in
the western part Of the city.
The dead were identified by police
as Martha Lawrence, IA: T. D.
Johnson, 16: Tom Staunton Whid-
don. 16, and william Cornelison, 16.
The accident occurred just be-
hind the Little Rock High School
stadium. The car was carried ap-
proximately IS yards and so badly
crushed that it was difficult to re-
move the bodies.
Evening star., 1948-01-10
Deliveries
Frozen by WAA After
New Arms Seizures
Three Trucks Containing
81 Tons Are Taken in
Ulster County, N. Y.
BY the Associated Press

ASBURY PARK. N. j.. Jan. 10.
ALI undelivered orders of sur
plus Army explosives were frozen
today by the New York region of
the War Assets Administration
after the New Jersey and New
York State police had con-
iscated from 1875 to 135 tons of
explosives which they said had
been gathered by Zionists for
illegal shipment to Palestine.
Police said the remainder of a 199-
ton consignment of explosives still
was missing.
Three trucks, containing 81 tons of
highly-explosive cyclonite blocks
were seized late yesterday in Ulster
County, N. Y. This seizure followed
discovery of a cache of SO tons OF
explosives in a warehouse here and
in a farmhouse in nearby Wall
Township Thursday night and yes
terday.
Combat Knives Found.
About 5000 combat knives orig
inally made for the Navy and a
quantity of first-aid kits also were
found in the warehouse.
The freeze order was described by
John R. Campbell, WAA regional
director, as a precautionary meas
ure" against ANY possible illegal
handling of explosives, in co-opera-
ton with the normal police powers
OF local and Federal governments.
The uncertainty in. the exact
number of tons seized arose when
State police and J. Victor Carton,
Monmouth County prosecutor,
placed the total confiscated here
at SO tons, and Navy public rela-
tions authorities said the batch
weighed 6S tons when it was un-
loaded at the Earle Ammunition
Depot in Leonardo for safekeeping.
Mr.. Carton, who described the
cyclonite as being six and a half
times more powerful than TINT,
said the warehouse and farm be-
long to Charles Lowy, who, he said,
was a member of the Asbury Park
Zionist organization.
Arabs Issue Statement.
In New York last night the Arab
Higher Committee at the United
Nations issued a statement urging
that the Federal Bureau of Inyes-
tigation make a thorough inves-
tigation of all Jewish and Zionist
organizations in the United States
which are raising funds to buy
arms and ammunition and which
are supporting the Hagana ard
Irgun. the Zionist terrorist groups" !"
1t. Joseph A. Seeley of the New
York State police, said the three
truck drivers arrested in Ulster
County had surrendered to author
tiles on instructions of their New
York City Office after becoming
suspicious of the loads they picked
up Thursday at the Seneca Ordnance
Depot at Romulus, N. Y.
State police said waybills aboard
the trucks showed the shipments
were made by Foundry Associates,
Inc, OF New York City, to LoWyS
Express, Inc, of Asbury Park, and
had been purchased from the WAA
FBI Questions Man.
In New York, the FBI said it had
questioned Leonard Weisman OF
Mount Vernon, who has been de-
scribed as president of three con-
Germs in whose Offices Foundry
Associates is located.
Newsmen going to the Weisman
home in Mount Vernon today were
greeted by man who said he was
an "FBI man" and that Weisman
could not be interviewed.
While the reporter was at the
door mans voice was heard to say
I can't see anybody now. I am
talking to the FBI."
Evening star., 1948-01-10
Dirksen Leaves to Rest
Two Weeks in South

Chairman Dirksen of the House
District Committee has left for
about two weeks in order to get
some of the rest ordered by his
physicians.
The Illinois Republican, whose eye
trouble has led him to decline to
enter the race for reelection to
Congress, to rest somewhere in the
South but did not make public his
destination.
A meeting of the House District
Committee which had been sched-
uled for January 81 has been post
poned until Mr.. Dirksen's return.
Evening star., 1948-01-10
Tito Now Grandfather,
But Is Shy About 1t
By the Associated Press

BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Jan. 10
Tito was presented with
a grandson, weight 10 pounds, the
day after Christmas, it was learned
today. The baby was born to the
pretty Russian wife of Zharko
Tito's Oldest son.
Details of the private life Of Tito
and his family do not appear in
print here. Government officials
who could be reached said they did
not know of the birth. There was
no information on the first name OF
the new grandson.
Evening star., 1948-01-10
10 Define
Management Of
Aid Plan Gains
Thomus of Utoh Sees
Confusion Over
Its Administration
By J. A. OLeov

Senator Thomas, Democrat, OF
Utah today joined IN the de-
mand that the powers of the
agency that is to handle the
Marshall Plan be defined more
clearly in the bill authorizing
the four-year European Recov-
cry Program.
The State Department bill pro-
vides for a separate administrator
to manage the program, with an ini-
tial fund of Sc 300, ,000, 900, but makes
him subject to the direction and
control of the Secretary Of State on
foreign policy.
Senator Thomas said the "chan-
mel of direction" in the bill is sc
confusing 1t would lead to constant
misunderstanding. Coming from a
strong administration supporter
this viewpoint served to point up
earlier comments by Chairman Van
denberg and others that the line
of authority between overall for
eign policy and the business man.
agement of the big program should
be clearly charted.
Thomas Addresses Douglas.
"It is all very we'll to say, we
can't have two Secretaries of State
Senator Thomas told Lewis Douglas
Ambassador to Great Britain, who
was on the stand explaining the
State Department bill
you say it glibly, and then you
invite other departments and agen-
cies into consultation on the pro-
gram. I say you can't have two
administrators, or two. Secretaries
of Treasury, or two Secretaries OF
Commerce. The channel of direc-
ton must be so clear there can be
no misunderstanding, or we will
have confusion from the start
Other highlights of today's
session.
Chairman Vandenberg brought
out that the administration hopes
to get back between 20 and 40 per
cent of the initial $500, ,000, 900 as
repayable loans, which may reduce
the ultimate cost for the first Is
months to $500, ,000, 900 or $4,000
900 900.
mot a Letter to Santa Claus"
Ambassador Douglas assured SEN
ator Smith, Republican, of New Jer-
sey the estimated cost of putting
Western Europe on its feet was
worked out as carefully as time per-
mitted and is not lust letter to
Santa Claus"
The Ambassador told Senator
Wiley, Republican, of Wisconsin that
the totaiitarian concept Of govern
ment is "growing-not waning" be-
hind the iron curtain In Eastern
Europe, and that the resistance be-
ing shown totalitarian pressure in
Western Europe is the result OF the
encouragement given Western Eu-
rope by the interim aid law and the
prospect of the Marshall long-range
program passing.
In a series Of questions to Mr.
Douglas on whether some of the
aid money might be paid back, Sem
ator Vandenberg asked whether 1t
is true that eventual cost to the
United States might ultimately be
reduced" by 81 800 900, 900 to s2,a0o,-
600, 900 through recovery on loans
expected to be repaid under the
plan.
THAT is correct" Mr.. Douglas
assured the chairman.
State Department officials have
estimated that from 20 to 40 per
(see FOREIGN AID, Page A-2)
Evening star., 1948-01-10
5 Killed, 40 Injured
In French Mine BIust
BY The Assoeioisd Press

METZ, France, Jan. 10.-Five
miners were killed and 40 injured
today in a fire-damp explosion at
the Vuillermin coal mine at Petite
Roselle near Forbach.
Approximate tely so men were below
ground when the explosion oc-
Cured. Rescue workers removed
dead and injured. The total num-
Der of victims is not yet known.
Evening star., 1948-01-10
u. S. Studies Possibility
OF Sending Marines
By the Associated Pres,

BY the Associated Press
The United States is considering
the possibility of sending Marines
to guard the recently bombed con-
sulate at Jerusalem, the State De-
partment revealed last night. 1t
added that no decisions had been
(see MARINES, Page A-2D
Evening star., 1948-01-10

(See MIAHI, Page A-2.)
Evening star., 1948-01-10

CSee PALESTINE, Page 4
Evening star., 1948-01-10

(See MARINES, Page A-2D
Evening star., 1948-01-16
'3-Alarm Fire Damages
Is Apartment Units

! A three-alarm fire today dam
aged the second floor and roof Of O
27o-unit apartment project On tho
East-West highway about q mile
from Silver Spring.
The fire affected about Is units,
contained In four adjoining build
ings Of the apartment project, be-
ing built by Sam Fig, liquor dealer
and real estate operator. ),
The units were about half com!
pleted.
Chief Charles Z. Difinbaugh, Of
the Silver Spring Volunteer Fire
Department, said the blaze was be-
lieved to have been caused by q
portable heater used in drying plas-
ter.
One fireman. Bernard Garrison
Of the Silver Spring department.
suffered a sprained back pulling
hose. He was treated by q private
physician.
Billowing smoke attracted q large
crowd to the site-about q quarter Of
q mile from the East West highway
near the Meadowbrook Saddle Club
and the highway was blocked of.
Chief Deffinbaugh said the fire.
men were delayed because q number
Of fire plugs, which had just been
installed. did not have water con-
nections.
Evening star., 1948-01-16

mpotant
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Mr.. Snyder because tax receipts
have gone higher than earlier
Treasury estimates.
The Secretary said he can prove
the increase is due to imitation
"and don't think you should criti-
cize us for not anticipating infia-
ltion."
Mr.. Knutson also recalled that
Immediately after the war the ad-
ministration asked Congress fol
$500, 100000 annually for two years
for special unemployment COM
pensation during reconversion be-
cause it thought there would be
9, s,000, 900 unemployed.
Mr.. Knutson pointed out that
Congress did not pass the bill and
the unemployment situation never
developed.
Weren't we fortunate 1t turned
out that way" Mr.. Snyder observed
Wasn't 1t unfortunate somebody
made those estimates" Mr.. Knutson
retorted.
I Mr.. Snyder replied there would
have been no harm in being pre-
pared. MIR. Knutson shot back
"That would be like putting on two
suits of woolen underwear in an
ticipation Of a blizzard in july"
When MIR. Knutson asked the
Secretary If the Presidents tax pro-
gram had a political objective, Mr.
Snyder drew a laugh from the
audience by replying, "Is the Knut-
son bill completely nonpolitical?"
In his prepared statement, Mr.
Snyder declared the Knutson bill
would mean q direct loss Of $780,.
O00, 900 a year in revenue-$600, ,000,'
600 more than. Knutson has esti-
mated-with these results:
1.-THE surplus Of $7,500, 900 900 es'
timated in the Presidents budget fol
the fiscal year 1948 lending nex'
June 800 would be reduced by ST.
100, 0,000, 900.
.But In the fiscal year 1948 re.
Iceipts would decrease $500, ,000, ,00t
! and refunds would increase $780,
uo0,0O0. The estimated surplus o.
$780, 0O00, 900 in fiscal 1949 woule
be converted into a deficit of $780,
00o,o 900, thereby increasing the pub.
lie debt"
| Mr.. Snyder asserted that under
current conditions" a tax reduction
of this size would constitute
major threat to the nations finan-
Evening star., 1948-01-16
Five More in Congress Back
Raise for Postal Workers

Four more Republican members
Of Congress and one Democrat to-
day indorsed pay raises for postal
employees in testimony before a Sem
ate Civil Service subcommittee.
More than a score of Representa-
tives and Senators voiced their sup-
port of a postal pay bill yesterday.
The Republican members indors-
ing the measure today were Repre-
sentatives Hartley, Of New Jersey;
Latham, New York; Mathews, New
Jersey, and Fletcher, California.
The Democrat and Senator May
bank, of South Carolina.
The subcommittee is considering
the 81 900 LANCER Chavez postal pay
bill. When the postal hearings are
completed, the subcommittee viii
consider similar legislation for all
other Government employees.
Evening star., 1948-01-16

cial integrity and economic sta
Evening star., 1948-01-16
axes
CONTINUED From First Page,

match, not only with Mr.. Knutson
but also with the ranking Democrat
Representative Doughton Of North
Carolina, former Ways and Means
chairman.
Mr.. Doughton, who Is House man.
ager of tax matters for his party
said yesterday he wasn't consulted
before the administrators tax bill
was drafted.
The mild-manner Treasury Sec
retary exchanged repartee with Mr.
Knutson without retreating from the
administrations stand that any tax
relief given individuals to meet the
high cost Of living should be made
up by new taxes on corporations.
Mr.. Doughton called for congress
sional action to permit husbands and
wives to divide their incomes for
tax purposes. After he had ques-
toned Mr.. Snyder at length, de-
manding a yes-or-no answer as tc
whether this should be done, the
Secretary finally said:
IF this Congress wants to correct
1t and provide the revenue that
would be lost in some other way
would be in accord, yes, SIR"
Profits Tax Plan Assailed.
Mr.. Doughton had argued II
should be done even If Congress
levied some other tax to make up
the revenue loss.
The North Carolina Democrat also
went after the administration plan
to revive the excess profits tax In
modified form. He read into the
record a statement former Secretary
Of the Treasury Vinson, now Chief
Justice, made to Congress in Octo-
Der, 1945, recommending repeal OF
the excess profits tax at the end Of
that year. It vas repealed.
In the statement, Mr.. Vinson had
said the excess profits tax was
wartime control measure and that 1t
was the fixed policy Of this admin
istration that every wartime control
over business should be removed
Mr.. Vinson also argued its contia-
uance would be an obstacle to re-
conversion Of industry from war to
peacetime production.
II am wondering what there is
In the present situation to change
that?" asked MIR. Doughton.
The testimony you have read
was about a different bill under
entirely different circumstances, !"
Mr.. Snyder replied, pointing out
that reconversion has been accom-
|plished more easily than was antici-
pated, that profits are at the high
est peak and employment at the
highest level. The Secretary also
contended the tax now being dis
cussed is not the same as the war
time excess profits levy.
Former Secretaries Quoted.
At one point Mr.. Knutson quoted
several former Treasury Secretaries
as laying down the principle that
the excess profits tax was . wart.>ue
measure only.
Mr.. Knaenn sought 70 ''needie"
Evening star., 1948-01-16
'Rebeeca' Plagiarism Suit
Is Dismissed BY US. Judge
ey the kssesietsd Prsss

NEW YORK. Jan. ie.--A plagiar-
ism suit against Daphne Du Maui
|rier, British novelist, charging her
novel 'Rebecca" was based ON an
other woman's works, was dismissed
yesterday on the ground that Miss
Du Maurier had never had access
to the other works.
Federal Judge John Bright held
that Miss Du Maurier had not read
Blind Windows" or II Planned to
Murder My Husband" by Edwina
Levin Macdonald, before she wrote
"Rebecca."
Miss Du Maurier had testified
that she had never heard Of Mrs.
Macdonald or seen copies OF her
works. Judge Bright said IN his
opinion that there was nothing in
her testimony which seemed to me
false or improbable, and I accept it. /"
The suit was brought by Mrs.
MacDonald's son, ]. Clifford Mac
Donald. Of Tampa, Fla, against the
novelist; Doubleday, Doran q Co.,
Inc, publishers; Selznick Interna-
tional Pictures, Inc, David O. Sell
nick and Selxnick Productions, Inc,
producers Of the film version Of RE
becca," and the United Artists
Corp, which distributed the Aim.
Evening star., 1948-01-16

cial integrity and economic sta
bility."
Measures Compared.
Comparing the Truman $40 taz
credit and the Knutson bill cuts
Mr.. Snyder made these comments
The Truman proposal would free
10, 100000 persons from paying any
tax, the Knutson bill $500 900. !Mr
Knutson's estimate is 7,400,000)
Ninety-three per cent Of the tota'
tax reduction would 60 to persons
with under $5, 900 income under the
Truman proposal, 66.3 per cent under
the Knutson proposal.
The Knutson bill would take g..
100,000,o00 of total taxes for persons
with over 5000 incomes, the Tru.
man proposal 5000, ,000,00
Evening star., 1948-01-16
Publisher Witness Sets
Bogus Work Cost at $51 ,120

CHICAGO, Jan. Is tR.-Worth @
Courtney, business manager Of the
Chicago Herald-American, told :
National Labor Relations Board
hearing that bogus" or wasted work
required by the AFL international
Typographical Union would have
cost his newspaper $51,120 last year
If the Chicago printers strike had
not interrupted 1t.
Mr.. Courtney, who began testimony
yesterday in the hearing on charges
that the ITU and It's Chicago local
have committed unfair labor prac-
tices, resumed the stand today.
He said that from January 2 to
November %, 1947, the date of the
strike, the number OF bogus work
columns to be set totaled 5,112, &c
days Of such work remained to be
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Continued From First Page

and from demanding such things as
the closed shop, shop rules and con-
ditions and employment to govern
operation of newspaper composing
rooms and print shops.
The Indianapolis petition also
asked the court to restrain any
"featherbedding" practices which
the union might seek to develop.
fredericksburg" Is the payment
Evening star., 1948-01-16

done when the strike was called,
he added. i
Mr.. Coutney defined bogus work"
a. the re-setting Of ready-to-prtnt
matter such as advertisements which
need only to be cast from prepared
matrices. He said under ITU rules,
its printers reset such matter, then
throw their work away.
Evening star., 1948-01-16
First ADA Convention
Planned in February
~ the A.,eeio,sd Pres,

Wilson w. Wyatt, national chair
man Of Americans for Democratic
Action, announced today that the
ADA, q liberal organization which
bars Communists, will hold its first
annual convention February II, %
and 23 in Philadelphia.
Program details have not been
completed, but Mrs. Eleanor Roose-
velt has agreed to serve as chair
man Of q banquet to be held on the
first night of the convention.
Fire has banned the export Of
grollSe and partridges.