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Evening star., 1948-01-25
(See PLANE. Page A-3.D
Dealers 10 Be Asked
To Limit Deliveries
OF Fuel Oil 10 Homes
Reduction Of IS Per Cen
From Normal Rate
Sought by Regulations

Washington area dealers will
be asked to limit home deliveries
of fuel oil on a strict degree
days" system of rationing in Or
der to make normal deliveries
last Is per cent longer.
This was disclosed last night by
J. Thomas Kennedy, chairman of
the Commissioners Co-ordinating
Committee, who said letters asking
all dealers to observe the plan
would begin going out today or to-
morrow.
The system determines according
to daily temperatures the normal
amount of fuel that should be used
by each customer during a specific
time. Dealers will be requested to
regulate deliveries by extending the
time by Is per cent. Many distri-
butors already are using the plan,
Mr.. Kennedy said.
Must--Stretch Supplies.
He stressed that consumers will
continue to receive the same
amount of fuel oil they have been
getting but that they will have to
stretch the supply Is per cent
Evening star., 1948-01-25
BY the Assoeiofed Press

MESSINA, Sicily, Jan. 24.-Police
struggled with hundreds of men,
women and children here today
when food-seeking crowds converged
on an American Friendship Train" I"
Several were bruised in the crush.
The people tried to board the train
in the belief that parcels were to be
distributed at the station. An esti-
mated 1000 of them scribbled their
names on photographs, postcards
and scraps of paper in hopes that
packages eventually would be deliv-
cred to them.
For the most part, the crowd was
orderly. Soon after the police in
tervened the train departed for the
interior of Sicily
Blaming the demonstration on
Communists, a Foreign Ministry
official said: "It is known that Com
placed posters on Messina
buildings shortly before the train
ferry arrived, trying to misinform
people. Police quickly tore them
down, but the propaganda spread"
Later in the day when the train
Evening star., 1948-01-25
Fuel Oil Consumers
| Asked to Observe
| q Conservation Rules

The Commissioners Co-ordi-
mating Committee last night
asked consumers to observe
these recommendations to help
keep the fuel oil shortage from
reaching serious proportions:
l. Keep home temperatures
at 68 degrees during the day
and go degrees at night.
2. Keep pans of water in
rooms to increase humidity,
which helps offset lowered tenn
peratures.
3. Pay close attention to the
amount of fuel used, and try to
reduce consumption by Is per
cent.
4. Since dealers have had to
suspend automatic "keep-full'
deliveries, do not call for more
fuel until the oil-tank gauge
reads one-fourth or one-fifth
full.
Evening star., 1948-01-25
By Nelson M. Shepard

A White House injunction OF
silence was responsible for the long
period of secrecy on presidential
plans to go ahead with erection OF
a private balcony on the mansions
south portico despite disapproval OF
the Fine Arts Commission, it was
learned yesterday.
This was revealed to The Star IN
a statement from Gilmore D. Clarke,
commission chairman, reached by
telephone at his New York home.
Meanwhile, work on the steel frame
work of the country's most widely
publicized balcony is expected TO
start early this week.
Mr.. Clarke said the White House
had requested" silence in the
matter from the start Of snegotia-
tions last summer. It was a request
which the commission felt compelled
to respect, he said.
The chairman said It was COM
Evening star., 1948-01-25

longer. The committee feels this
can be done, Mr.. Kennedy said, if
consumers will keep close check on
their supplies and keep home tenn
peratures at 68 degrees during the
day and go degrees at night.
Mr.. Kennedy said he probably
would meet early this week for fur
ther discussions with the Industry
Advisory Committee, a f1ve-member
group representing the oil COM
panies.
Chairman Wolverton of the House
Commerce Committee said last night
he will call Government officials
Tuesday to tell the committee what
the administration has done TO re-
heve the national shortage.
The New Jersey Republican cited
a committee resolution adopted by
Congress a month ago calling on
President Truman to take specific
steps" to ease the shortage. The
resolution urged a curtailment or a
complete ban on fuel oil exports
and asked for the temporary use
(See FUEL OIL, Page A-4D
Evening star., 1948-01-25
By Thomas 6. Buchonon

Washington's most urgent
health needs are more than 5000
hospital beds, including 1,460 to
care for patients with chronic
diseases and five large new
health centers for outpatient
treatment, the Health Depart
ment announced last night. :
Projects to relieve those shortages,
it was indicated, will get top priority
when the District asks for the
81 ,49l, ,750 in Federal funds to which
it is entitled during the next five
years under the Hospital Survey and
Construction Act of 1916.
That, at least, is the recommen-
dation made to Health Officer
George c. Ruhland by nine-man
Hospital Advisory Council he ap-
pointed to help him decide where
the money should be spent. The
councils report was made public
last night. ...
A public hearing on District
health needs is scheduled February
IL in the Health Department audi
Evening star., 1948-01-25
Army Surplus Stocks Sold
To Reich for S236, 1000, 900.
BY the Associated Press

FRANKFURT, Germany, Jan. a.
United States Army surplus stocks
which originally cost about $1,000,-
100000 were sold today to Germans
for approximately $236, 600, 900, BIZ
zonal officials announced.
The purchase was officially de-
scribed as IAN important pump
primer in getting essential German
services and industries back on
their feet" 1t will be paid out for
future German exports.
The sale was negotiated between
the United States Office of the For
eign Liquidation Commissioner and
the German Bi-Zonal Economic
Council. Among articles sold are
cargo vehicles and spare parts,
small boats, communications equip
ment, construction machinery, tents,
hardware, textiles and kitchen uten-
sils. No iron scrap or food was
included.
Evening star., 1948-01-25
Search Planned
Today for Plane
Lost in Storm
Coast Guard Craft
Believed to Be Down
Near HiIIsboro, Va.

An extensive air search for a
two engine Coast Guard plane,
missing since yesterday morning
en- route from Newark, N. j., to
Washington, was expected to get
under way today if weather per-
mits. Five persons were believed
to be aboard the craft.
State police at Culpeper, Va, last
night were investigating a report
that the plane was believed to have
crash landed in the vicinity of
Hillsboro, Va, during the snow
storm.
Miss Louise James reported that
she heard the sound of a planes
engines at her farm two miles north
of Hillsboro about 1915 pm. yester-
day. The noise of the engines
stopped suddenly, she said, and
shortly afterward she heard a very
strange sound"
Miss James, who knew nothing
of the missing Coast Guard plane
at the time, reported the incident
to her brother, Oscar James, when
Evening star., 1948-01-25
LANCER Plans Redraft
Of Federal Pay Bills
To Aid $500 Group
Civil Service Committee
Of Senate Will Review
Across-Bourd Increases

Plans to redraft Government
pay bills to give a greater pay
increase to employees getting less
than $4,000 year were an
nounced yesterday by Chairman
LANCER of the Senate Civil Serv-
ice Committee.
Pending before his committee are
his and other proposals for across
the board increases of $500 to 81 ,000
Senator LANCER commented yester-
day that some thought this was toe
much and others contended it was
too little.
He has asked officials of the Bu-
reau of Labor Statistics to aid his
staff in preparation of the new
measures.
At hearing conducted yesterday
Senator LANCER took a sharp fling
at the high cost of living in the
National Capital and demanded to
know why costs here should be SO
much higher than in many other
cities. He called on officials of the
Bureau of Labor Statistics to search
for the reasons. That's your duty,
he told them.
Washington Budget Highest.
On the stand were Evan Clague
commissioner of labor statistics
and Mrs. Ethel Hoover. chief of the
bureaus Consumer Price Division
They submitted data showing city
workers family budget for four
persons for Washington and 80 other
cities. Washington led the list.
For Washington, the annual cost
of goods and services for the family
of four was placed at $3,l11 as OF
June, 1947, and the estimated total
cost of the budget at $3,458. AS OF
Evening star., 1948-01-25
5000 More DC. Hospital Beds
Urged by Rutland Advisers
5 New Health Cehters Would Be Included
In Use of Federal Funds Due District

torium at the Municipal Center. Or
ganizations seeking inclusion in the
list of projects finally approved by
the Health Department for Federal
aid have been notified to submit
their requests by February 10.
Further Reports Necessary.
Final decision on the District re-
quests will be made by the Health
Department after "a reasonable
period of time" has been allowed
for sponsors to present their prof.
ects. They will then be submitted
to the United States Public Health
Service for formal approval.
The District is entitled to $298 $50
a year for five years. At least once
a year, on or before May Is, the
Health Department will be reauired
to submit further report eontain-
ing such revisions of the original
construction program as are found
necessary.
Operating under a formula of the
United States Public Health Service
which set yardstick by which to
measure the extent to which diff
IC.a TYD IA + 6TrT noOo q \
Evening star., 1948-01-25
White House Ordered Secrecy
On Balcony, Arts Official Says

plete surprise to him that news OF
the balcony came to be printed in
the first place and suggested that
some one must have let it leak
out"
AS a matter Of general policy, the
Fine Arts Commission and other
agencies such as the National Cap
ital Park and Planning Commission
and National Capital Parks are
frequently called into consultation
on White House problems. In such
cases the tradition has been to d.
vulge no news of this kind without
permission from the White House.
In the present controversy over
the White House balcony, The Star
had learned confidentially that the
Fine Arts Commission had been
especially ordered to say nothing
about the Presidents plans. the
White House undoubtedly had IN
mind the serious controversy that
arose two years ago when Congress
9See BALCONY, Page A-So
Evening star., 1948-01-25
Man, 78, Burns to Death
In Shed in Alexandra

A 78-year-old Alexandria man
was burned to death last night when
the shed in which he lived was de-
stroyed by fire.
Police identified the victim as
r. j. johnson. Police said he lived
alone in small shed at the corner
of Princess and Royal streets.
Members of Engine Co. No. l OF
the Alexandria Fire Department
said Mr.. Johnson's body was dis
covered after the fire had been put
out. They said origin of the blaze
had not been determined.
Evening star., 1948-01-25
Committee Approval
Seen for Aid Plan ChieI
With Cabinet Rank
Brookings Institution
Outline for Handling
Relief Wins Favor
By J. A. O'Leoy

An administrator with Cabinet
rank and wide discretion to han
die the Marshall Plan, as recon-
mended yesterday by the Brook
ings Institution, stands a good
chance of approval by the Sen
ate Foreign Relations Commit
tee.
Although the committee has at
least 10 days to 60 on public hear
ings before taking any action, there
were signs last night that influential
Senators are thinking along the gen.
eral lines of the Brookings type OF
administrative setup.
As to how much will be approved
to start the European recovery pro-
gram, committee sentiment is not
expected to crystalline until the
hearings are over. The President
has asked $500. 900, 900 for the first
Is months, and a general commit
ment to continue the program for
four years.
In this connection, Senate Mi
nority Leader Barkley revealed yes
terday he would like to get more
information from Herbert Hoover
on the restrictions the former Re-
publican President has suggested be
placed on the foreign aid program.
Breakdown on Plan Wanted.
For one thing, Senator Barkley
said he wants a breakdown of the
So, 600, 900 900 foreign relief figure Mr..
Hoover suggested for the next is
months.
In his letter to the Senate COM
mittee Tuesday, Mr.. Hoover urged
that grants and loans be considered
separately, and said this division
could be made clear if the gifts
are confined to the actual American
surplus of food, coal and fertilizer
Then he said the total Of such
relief goods for Is months might
amount to $3,OOO,000 900, and that
such gifts would enable participat-
ing countries to use their exports
to pay for other goods in the pro-
gram.
Senator Barkley asked Chairman
Vandenberg of the Foreign Rela-
tions Committee, if there would be
any objection to submitting some
written questions to Mr.. Hoover
inasmuch as the former President
was not available for examination.
Group Attacks Hoover Proposal.
Chairman Vandenberg said he
thought Mr.. Hoover would welcome
the opportunity to answer the
questions.
The Committee for the Marshall
Plan, an organization of private cit
izens whose membership includes
former Undersecretary OF State
Dean Acheson, issued statement
meanwhile, declaring that Mr.. Hoo
ver's proposal would keep Europe
on a dole and ruin the chances
of European recovery"
The Brookings plan for managing
the proposed recovery program
agrees with Secretary of State Mar.
shall on the need for vestine
authority in a single administrator
rather than a board or committee
but does not go as far as the ad'
ministration bill in giving the Sec.
Evening star., 1948-01-25
Franc DevaIuiinq
Set for Tonight
Even if Vetoed
Britain Must Follow
With Pound, Cripps
Quoted as Saying
BY the Assoeioted Press

PARIS, Jan. 24.-Finance Min
lister Rene Mayer announced to-
night that France would devalus
the franc tomorrow night re-
gardless of any veto by the In
ternational Monetary Fund In
Washington.
He said at a news conference that
final details of the devaluation
would be disclosed in communique
at pm. Il pm, EST tomorrow.
and would be submitted to the
French parliament for approval
Monday.
He said France regretted oppo-
sition to the move had arisen in
Great Britain and the monetary
funds board of directors, but that
she was forced to go ahead
I'VE were perfectly willing to dis
cuss and negotiate but we finally
had to set time limit" he declared.
Exclusion Not Automatic.
He denied France would be auto
matically excluded from the organi.
zation If she overrode veto, saying,
"The statutes Of the fund are very
supple on that point"
Sir Stafford Cripps, British Chan
cellor of the Exchequer, returned to
London tonight after "a hours of
fruitless efforts to dissuade the
French from establishing a free
money market in Paris with a de-
valued franc for export trade. Cripps
argued the French move threatened
the financial stability of much Of
Western Europe.
He departed just before governors
of the international Monetary Fund.
in which the United States holds 80
per cent of the voting strength, con-
vened in Washington to decide
whether to approve the French pro-
posal.
(Fund officials in Washington
said it was uncertain whether
decision would be announced
there within a matter of hours,
as predicted by Paris spokes-
man. Some diplomats in Wash
ington said they believed French
announcements of intention to
proceed regardless of the funds
stand were part of a pressure
campaign.)
Franc to Seek Own Level.
The French proposed to let the
franc seek its own level at home.
This was about $40 francs to the
dollar. For uses abroad, however,
1t would be devalued 10 about 40
to the dollar, instead Of the present
100. The move would permit ex-
porters to put dollar price tags on
their goods about so per cent below
the present prices.
The funds member states agreed
when the organization was founded
that they would not devalue their
currency by more than 10 per cent
without the funds permission.
A spokesman for the French For
eign Ministry announced, however.
that his government was forced
Evening star., 1948-01-25
Oil Man S Employment
By State Department
Probed by Brewster
Arobion Inquiry Hears
Charge of Plant to
Influence Foreign Poll cy
By the Associoted Press

Senator Brewster, Republican,
of Maine, today asked an oil
company attorney what he
thought of the planting" of an
official in the State Department
to Influence" foreign policy, but
drew the tart rejoinder-"that's
your Interpretation"
Senator Brewster raised the point
while conducting a Senate War In
vestigating Committee hearing on
whether the Government was over
charged for petroleum supplied from
American-owned Arabian facilities
during the war.
| The Senator, committee chairman,
asked Charles Evans Hughes, jr.,
counsel for the Arabian American
Oil Co., subsidiary owned jointly
by Standard of California, the Texas
Co. and Socony Vacuum, this
question:
What do you think of the placing
or planting of Mr.. Max Thornburg
in our State Department to in
fluence our foreign policy?"
Mr.. Thornburg. then a director OF
Standard of California, was spe-
cial assistant to the Undersecretary
of State from 1941 to 1943.
Doesn't Want to Discuss It."
That's your Interpretation, I
don't want to discuss it," Mr..
Hughes replied heatedly.
Senator Brewster repeated the
question and Mr.. Hughes said it was
completely off the subject"
"It is most reprehensible conduct
on the part of a public official,
Senator Brewster snapped.
Letter to Oil Firm Shown.
Senator Brewster introduced a
COPY of letter on State Depart
ment stationery, written by Mr..
Thornburg to Reginald Stoner. a
vice president Of Standard Oil of
California, apprising Mr.. Stoner Of
developments in United States deal
ings with the Arabian government.
| After the hearing Senator Brew
SkCI 4vAAs AA1NA AA~~A .
now is on the island Of Bahrein, IN
the Persian Gulf.
The Thornburg letter to Mr.. Sto-
ner concerned the possibility OF an
agricultural mission being sent back
In 1941 to Saudi Arabia.
"I- don't see any good coming out
of getting another man into our
part of the picture, and of course,
his interests are not ours the let
ter commented.
Ickes Hears Letter Read.
Harold Ickes, former Secretary OF
the Interior and wartime Petro-
leum Administrator, on hand for
questioning about what Senator
Brewster called excessive" prices
paid for Arabian, oil, heard the let
ter read. ,
Mr.. .Ickes. was asked by Senator
Brewster whether he had reason to
1see BREWSTER, Page ,A-50
Evening star., 1948-01-25
Doq Teams Used in Hunt
For Plane West Of Denver
By the Associated Press

DENVER, Jan. 24.-Ground search
ers on skis and snowshoes, in
tracked weasel vehicles and with
dog teams deployed today around
snow-shrouded peaks west of Den
yer seeking a two-engined transport
plane believed to have crashed with
three aboard.
The plane, a Civil Aeronautics
Administration CAT patrol craft,
disappeared Wednesday night on a
check fight from Denver to Grand
Junction over the heart of the Colo
RADIO Rockies.
Snowstorms and freezing weather
have grounded search planes. Harry
E. Hedges, Nederland town marshal,
said more than II inches of snow
had fallen there last night and to-
day.
The missing aircraft carried Fred
Snavely of Kansas City, pilot;
Warren L. Lungstrum, Leavenworth,
Kans., co-pilot, and Ross G. Brown
of Denver, a CAA inspector.
Evening star., 1948-01-25
WhuttheRussiuns
Are Saying of Us

The MoScotD Radio, broddcaStinG
in Russian to the SoDiet Union, said
Contemporary bourgeois cul-
ture is in a state of decay, dis
integration. 1t has long since
become the lick-spittle, the concu-
bine of a small bunch of capital
ist bosses. The man-hating ideol-
ogy of racism, the theology of the
superiority of the American race
has sunk its poisonous roots deep
into the bourgeois culture and in
particular, in the United States.
American culture is cynically
singing the praises of the aggres-
sive designs of the American i'm
perialists, justifying all sorts of
oppression, extolling the lowest,
most bestial instincts"
Evening star., 1948-01-25
HuHs Memoirs
Beqin Tomorrow

The first installment of The
Memoirs of Cordell Hull, for
IL years Secretary of State in
the Roosevelt administrations,
will appear in The Evening
Star tomorrow.
In SO daily and 6 Sunday
chapters, Mr.. Hull writes his
version of one of the most
dramatic periods in our his
tory. Beginning with the hec-
tic trials of the depression
days, the account progresses
through the now historic talks
with the japanese Ambassa-
dor, the crises of the war
years, and laying the founda-
tions for the current war for
a lasting peace. The Hull Me
moirs will appear exclusively
In Washington in
Evening star., 1948-01-25
Neor-BIizzord CrippIes Traffic,
Leaves 5-|nch Fall Here, Whips
From South Into New England
New York Warned
Of Heavy Storm; Colo
Increases Suffering
BY the Associotsd Press

Winter lashed out with its
hardest climatic punches in tht
Central, Eastern and Southern
sections of the Nation yesterday
striking with sub-zero cold, bliz.
yards and sleet.
A near blizzard whined into tht
Northeastern States from the South
It blanketed New York City with
fresh snow and punished the entire
area with low temperatures and bit
ing winds.
New York City, warned to expect
up to IA inches of snow, got Its frs
taste of the new Storm about /.
am. The snow was borne in OF
30-mile-an-hour winds. BY pm.
three and one-half inches of snow
had fallen and the Weather Bureau
said the full force of the blizzare
was yet to strike.
Little snow fell in late afternoon
At 10 pm. the Weather Bureau sale
the storm center was 100 mile!
southeast of Atlantic City, N. j
Winds of 40 to so miles an houl
were predicted.
New England Warned.
1t was moving in from Cape Hat.
teras accompanied by snow, sleet
and freezing rain," the bureau said
Blizzard conditions will prevail
in New England well into Sunday
with the snow ending from New
Jersey southwark by morning ano
in Southeastern New York and
Southern New England during The
day." the bureau said.
The triple assault of cold, snow
and ice battered the South. The
mercury dropped to S below zero al
the Vicksburg (Miss) airport
Snow fell in New Orleans, La, ane
at Cullomburg, Ala, 86 miles from
the Gulf of Mexico. Ice film.
slicked most highways. A blanket
of snow covered the northern part
of the region, extending into Missis.
sippi, Alabama and Georgia. Tenn.
peratures fell to zero or near zere
from Kentucky southwark to Cen.
trail Alabama, Mississippi and Geor-
gia.
Snow Is Inches Deep in Ohio.
Two separate billiards pounded
Pennsylvania. A blizzard that dis.
rupted bus schedules and grounded
planes struck Central and Southern
Ohio with Is inches of snow In sof11e
areas, and snowplows bucked drift.
ing snow in Southeastern Indiana
A coating of ice made driving haz-
ardous throughout Southern Indi.
ana.
The navigation section of ths
Ohio River Division, United State!
Engineers, announced at Cincinnati
early this afternoon that VIRTUALLY
all traffic on the Ohio River ha.
stopped" because Of floating ice.
"All so tow boats and their tow!
Of more than 200 barges have eitheI
tied UP or are seeking shelter,
spokesman added. 1t was thu
first interruption of river naviga
ton due to ice since January, 1s40
Although temperatures were mod
Grating in the western portions o1
the Midwest. Land o. Lakes, Wis.
recorded the Nations low of AZ be-
low zero yesterday. Burlington, vt.
recorded %. Cory, Pa, had L
below. Forecasters predicted New
England would have near recore
lows of from Is to 80 degrees below
zero during the week end.
At least II persons were dead II
widely scattered sections from
causes attributable to the weather
These included a death from freez.
ing in Georgia and two Texa