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Evening star., 1948-11-22
Barrett Urges Hiring
OF 80 PoIicewomen
To Ease Shortage
Would Be Stationed at All
Precincts as Uniformed
Assistant Clerks

Police Chief Robert ]. Barrett
has recommended hiring of 80
policewomen to be assigned in
uniform in the IA police precincts
as a method of partially over
coming the shortage of police
men, it was learned today.
The women, if appointed, would
be separate from the existing
Women's Bureau and would be used
as assistant station clerks under the
command of precinct captains.
The unprecedented step. 1t was ex-
planned. is being recommended be-
cause the Police Department has
more than 200 vacancies for;police-
men it has been unable to I'LL. Maj
Barrett, it was learned, proposed
hiring of the policewomen to put
more of the uniformed men on the
street.
Young to Discuss Plan.
Commissioner John Russell Young
said he had received Maj. Barretts
recommendation and would take it
up with him, possibly tomorrow.
Commissioner Young said he had
not yet made up his mind about
the advisability Of taking on women
in the precinct, but he added:
"I know there is a need for more
men on the street. am very agree
able to any suggestion to accomp-
lish that without lowering our
standards.'
Policewomen attached to the
Women's Bureau do not wear uni
forms. The group of women con-
templated would be put into uni
form, however, as soon as suitable
one could be provided under Maj.
Barretts plan.
The police chief, 1t was learned,
has discussed his proposal with
Capt. Rhoda Milliken of the Wom-
ems Bureau and she is repeatedly
in favor of it.
May Lift Tone of Stations.
There was some feeling around
| the District Building that il women
were put into the precincts, it would
lift the tone of the Station houses.
+ AS assistant station clerks, the
women would meet the public, book
prisoners. answer telephones, keep
records and perform other duties.
/ 1t was emphasized the women
would receive regular police train
ing and would be> policewomen and
not civilians. Under the plan at
least three would be assigned to
each precinct to take care of the
three tricks of duty.
Evening star., 1948-11-22
U. S. Dock Strike
Again Holds Liner
At Southampton
BY The As oeioted Press

SOUTHAMPTON, England
Nov. 22.-Striking crewmen OF
the Queen Elizabeth went back
to work today after the Cunard
White Star Line promised the
liner will not sail until the Amer
lean dock strike is settled.
The Queen was to have beer
diverted to Halifax. Nova Scotia
More than $500 passengers are
aboard. The crew walked off Sat.
urday about an hour before sailing
time in sympathy for American
stevedores who are in the 18th
day of their strike for higher pay
The Walkoff OF the crew alread!
has cost Cunard White Star abou
Sl20. 900 in extra docking fees. wages
food and fuel.
About a third of the crew of 1.25I
took part in the stoppage, which
was called after the line announced
the ship would be diverted to Hall
Evening star., 1948-11-22
Nine. Chang Calls on u. S
For Immediote Assistance
BY the Assoeiofed Press

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 22.-Mme
Chang Kai-shek has asked the
United States for immediate aid in
China's critical civil war.
Her appeal was made in Marking
yesterday and was broadcast by the
American broadcasting Co. in q
hookup with the Chinese capital.
Said the wife of China's president
Il only ask this-to tell you that
any further aid must be immediate
and definite.
If Communism prevails in China
you. my friends, will ultimately also
be suffering.
For with China's strategic posi-
ton. resources and manpower in
Communist hands. you yourself will
be greatly weakened.
IF China falls, all Of Asia goes.
And certainly Asias Importance to
world peace is not one whit less
than that of Europe"
Nine. Chang spoke OF her and her
husbands determination to fight on
against the Communists and said
their faith in ultimate victory was
still strong.
Il know that there is school of
thought in America which says
that China is not necessary or i'm
portant to the United States because
you have a foothold in Japan" she
went on.
Il should like to point out to you
that with the vast China mainland
in enemy hands, the exposed is
lands of Japan will be but tenous
foothold for America.
This is no ex parte reasoning
she said. Just ask your military
men in Japan"
Mao Tse-tung, China's No. Com
munist, Nine. Chang said. admits
that the United States is his prin-
cipal enemy.
Can there be any question in the
minds of Americans concerning his
ultimate objective if he succeeds in
his present aggression against Ma
tionalist China?" she asked.
Evening star., 1948-11-22
Dulles Acts in Place
OF Marshall al j. n.
BY the Associated Press

PARIS, Nov. 22.-John Foster
Dulles, Republican Party adviser or
foreign affairs, took over today as
acting chairman of the American
delegation to the United Nations
Assembly.
Mr.. Dulles presided at the delega-
ton meeting this morning and an.
nounced he would sit in on al
important committee sessions tc
familiarize himself with all phases
of United States policy.
Heretofore, Mr.. Dulles hac
handled only certain assignments
and has not kept completely in.
formed on the American position
on other subjects, such as the
Palestine question.
Evening star., 1948-11-22
.Spaak Delayed in Forming
New Cabinet in Belgium
BY the Associoted Press

BRUSSELS, Nov. 22.-Premier-
designate Paul-Henri Spaak failed
to form his new cabinet today.
Yesterday he announced that he
would have the list of the new
cabinet by noon today. However,
he told the press he had been un-
able to iron out disagreement of
Socialists and the Catholic Party
other government subsidies to non
state schools. He will keep trying.
Mr. Spaak was Premier and for
eign minister in the government
that resigned Friday. He under
took to form a new coalition gov
ernment after comforting with the
Belgian regent, Prince Charles.
Evening star., 1948-11-22
Red Replies on Berlin
Seem 'Satisfactoy,'
Bramug|ia Reports
Vests Answers Awaited
To See if Bosis for
Agreement Is Possible
By the Associcted Press

PARIS, Nov. 22.-Juan A. Bra
muglia of Argentina said today
the Russian answer to his Berlin
currency QUESTIONABLE appears
to be satisfactory"
The November president of the
United Nations Security Council
said. however. comparison of the
Russian reply with the answers
from the United States, Britain and
France, expected to be delivered to
him today. is necessary to decide if
basis of agreement on the Berlin
crisis can be reached.
DR.. Bramuglia said he had sche-
duled a meeting of the six neutral
members of the Security Council
to begin as soon as the Western
replies are received. If the six
neutrals decide they can work out
a new plan to end the Berlin dis
pute, it is likely the full Council
will be convened by the end of this
month TO consider their plan
formally.
10-Page Russian Reply.
The six nation meeting probably
will be held tonight, DR.. Bramuglia
said, because time is pressing and
the search for a solution now has
been delayed for over week"
The six nations who will meet
are Argentina, Belgium, Canada
China, Colombia and Syria.
Russia's 10-page reply to the cur
rency QUESTIONABLE was delivered
Saturday to DR.. Bramuglia. The
Argentine said today he believes
there are good chances" of agree
ment on Berlin's currency snarl.
Western power fiscal experts from
Washington. London and Berlin
held a weekend meeting writing
co-ordinated answers.
Evatt Is Confident.
DR.. Herbert v. Evstt of Australia
president of the General Assembly
said yesterday there are reasonable
prospects for a Berlin settlement
within the next three weeks.
DR.. Evatt said in radio inter-
view that the dispute between the
Western powers and Russia is "a
question of time and not of prin-
ciple" The main problem, he said
is to draft an acceptable time sched
ule for lifting the Soviet blockade
of Berlin and introducing Soviet
zone currency as Berlins only
! tender.
Russia wants the two steps to take
place simultaneously. The Western
powers say they will not discuss E
settlement until the blockade i.
lifted.
Gloomy predictions came from
Berlin where the opinions CT most
top Western allied officials are con.
trary to DR.. Evatt's hopeful atti-
tude.
These Western officials in Berlin
say U.N. attempts to find Berlin
compromise appear doomed to fail
ure in view of Soviet actions in the
German capital. The officials be.
lieve these actions would nullify the
effect of any currency reform form
ula before it is even discussed.
/ Russia has successfully obscureo
the real issues in the Berlin block
ade by much double talk on cur.
rency, these officials feel. They said
the Soviet blockade was imposed fol
two reasons: To drive the Western
powers from Berlin and to force
abandonment of Western plans te
form a West German state.
Evening star., 1948-11-22
Truman Visits Austin
Al Walter Reed Hospital

President Truman went to Walter
Reed hospital late yesterday to visit
Warren r. Austin, chief American
delegate to the United Nations, who
is undergoing treatment of compli-
cations resulting from a cold, the
White House said today.
Mr.. eustin entered the hospital
on his arrival from Paris last Friday
night
Evening star., 1948-11-22
Tornado Hits Bombay;
3 Killed , 50 Injured
BY the Associated Press

BOMBAY, India, Nov. pa tor.
nado lashed Bombay last night ano
killed at least three persons. OH.
cials counted so injured seriously
Hundreds more we're also reported
hurt
Nearly one-third of the city's trees
were uprooted. Transportation
services we're disrupted. Industrial
production also was halted.
A raging surf broke the sea para
pet and washed awaJ part of the
posh Radio Club on the jetty.
Evening star., 1948-11-22
.Christoffe| Conviction
On Perjury Charge
In Red Quiz Upheld
Former UAW Official
At AIIis-ChuImers Was
Cited by House Group

The United States Court of Ap-
peals today unanimously upheld
the District Court conviction of
Harold Christoffel, former CIO
official, on charges of committing
perjury in telling the House La
bor Committee last year that he
never had been a Communist or
connected with the Communist
Party.
Christoffel, ousted president OF
Local 248, United Auto Workers, il,
Milwaukee, was sentenced to two to
six years by District Court Judge
Edward M. Curran last March 5. He
based his appeal principally on q
contention that a quorum of tht
House committee was not presen
when he made the alleged falls
statements on March l, 1947.
The Court of Appeals opinion
written by Judge Edgerton and con
CURED in by Judges Clark ant
Prettyman, held that the hearing
took place before regularly con.
vened congressional committee" OF
the basis of the available record
The opinion also noted that Chris
toffel at the time did not claim the
absence of quorum.
Curran's Ruling Upheld.
The appeals court therefore ruled
that Judge Curran was correct in
refusing to submit to the jury evil
dence which Christoffel attempted
to submit at the trial concerning
the alleged absence of quorum.
Christoffel, whose former union
local is at the Allis Chalmers plant,
also contended in his appeal that he
was indicted and convicted i'm
properly under the District perjury
law instead of the Federal criminal
coGe section on perjury The ap-
peals court stated today that only
recently, in upholding the District
Court conviction of former Maj.
Gen. Bennett E. Meyers. it decided
that the District statute was appllc-
able in such cases.
Meyers, wartime purchasing officer
for the Army Air Forces, was con-
victed on charges of having induced
business associate to lie to Sen
ate War Investigating Subcommittee.
Communist Issue Ignored.
Christoffel. who has been free
under $4,000 bond pending his ap-
peal, was found guilty after a jury
trial at which several Government
witnesses testified either that he
had been a Communist or had close
associations with the Communist
Party or its leaders.
The Court of Appeals took the
case under advisement October 16
following oral arguments. Christof-
fel's attorney, former Assistant At
torney General O. John Rogge, did
not raise the question of Chris
toffel's alleged Communist aff1lia-
ton or association.
His main contention was that a
majority of the 25-member House
committee was not present when
(See CHRISTOFFEI, page A-4D
Evening star., 1948-11-22
Truck Kills Stafford Man

Thomas Lindwood Jackson, A.
colored, of Brooke, Va, was killed
last night when he was struck by
q truck as he walked on the high
way, 4 miles north of Stafford
Courthouse, Virginia State Police
reported.
Evening star., 1948-11-22
British Air Transport Chief
Lands in U.s.. for Visit Here
BY the Assoeioted Press

MIAMI, Fla. Nov. 22-Air Mar
shal Sir Ralph Cochrane, chief of
the Royal Air Force Transport Com
mand, arrived today from London
and left Immediately by Army plane
for Washington
The nature of his visit was not dis
closed.
Evening star., 1948-11-22

MRS. ROSA LEE BOWLING.
Star Staff Photo.
of the telephone line was the vast
machinery of the dial system
equipment which had transmitted
(See OPERATOR, Page A-4o
Evening star., 1948-11-22

tSee LINERS, Page A-4.D
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See TRUMAN, Page A-3.
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(See CHINA, Page A-8.
Evening star., 1948-11-22

(See MARITIME, Page A-4D
Evening star., 1948-11-22

An Associated Press Newspaper
Evening star., 1948-11-22

(See CHRISTOFFEL, Page A-4D
Evening star., 1948-11-22

Cloudy with rain and highest about So today
Occasional rain tonight with lowest near IS.
Tomorrow gradual clearing and cool. (Full
report on Page A-2)
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-09-15
Dcal Man Busy
"a Berlin Food
wing Missions

ERLIN, UP) In the center
prope's greatest trouble spot
S0-foot wide, bomb-scarred
IN way forms the gateway be-
xU10n two worlds.
Htrlin's once-impressive Bran
dehburg Gate, which has stood
threkigh four major German wars
ga symbol of Berlin, is now
W rpassageway between east
AMI west.
Discussions of life in the Sow
let sector, or points east, by
western Berliners is laconically
Nferred to, with a nod of the
Head as "out there beyond the
Brandenburg Tor"
The 65-foot-high stone arch
way, towering above the British
Soviet sector boundary, now rep
resentes one of the few "chinks
in the iron curtain"
May Be Sealed Off
1t is a chink which observers
believe will be sealed off eventu-
ally by Russian barrier.
n,Cn either side of the six-col-
Umned gateway sit peoples 81
rival political beliefs, glaring al
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-09-15

each other, as it were, through
the classic archs.
True, there still are no physic-
al barriers preventing Britons or
Americans from driving or walk
ing under the archway out of
the wide, straight east-west axis
into the bomb-torn Inter den
Linden.
But within the past few weeks
westerners have become less in
clined to drive through and risk
being snapped up by one of the
Soviet armed patrols, for inter-
rogation.
Official army and military
transport may no longer be TAX
en- through to the east and even
west Berliners have begin to look
through the 160-year-old Brand
enburg Gate with awesome CLAN
ces.
Few Pass Through
An occasional Russian soldier
ventures under the archway and
300 yards into the British sector
past the burned out Reichstag.
He takes his family to show
them the massive white-stone
monument to Soviet military
might, located on the British
side.
The memorial is, constantly
guarded by a solitary armed So
Wet soldier who stands impas-
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-09-15

sive as curious passers-by stare
at him.
Apart from that, few eastern
occupation troops venture into
the western sectors, unless it is
to rattle through at top speed in
their dilapidated trucks en- route
for Potsdam.
East of the Gateway, round the
corner in the Friedrichstrasse
stands the garish, neon-Gghted
"Intourist Hotel" purposely
established on the edge Of the
sector to catch valuable foreign
currency in exchange for caviar,
vodka and psuedo Cossack
band.
Visiting Hazardous
Here foreign visitors carefully
segrated from the Russian officer
guests, could, until recently, spend
dollars or pounds, receiving their
change in Swiss francs or Swed-
ish kroner.
Nowadays it is probable any
one venturesome enough to 60
would leave the restaurant TO
to find his car and driver had
been taken off by an armed
patrol during his absence.
Above Berlin's Gateway to the
East" stands a battered bronze
statue Of the Goddess Of Victory
in a chariot drawn by four hors-
es
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-09-15

The statue was taken to Paris
when Napoleon's troops sacked
Berlin on their way to the gates
of Moscow. Seven years later u
was regained and reassembled
the gate, this time facing east.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-25
Mrs. A. D. Southworh,
Widow Of Cleric, Dies

Mrs. Alice Dix Southworth, IS, OF
1904 Delafleld place NV, died yes
terday in Emerceny Hospital, where
she was being treated for a broken
right leg received in fall two weeks
ago.
Mrs. Southworth came to WASH
ington after the death of her hus-
band. the Rev. DR.. Franklin c.
Southworth, in 1914. DR.. South
worth had been president of the
Meadville Unitarian Theological
Seminary at Meadville, Pa, for
more than Is years. and in 1928 pre-
sided at the All-India Theistic Con-
ference at Calcutta. Mrs. South
worth accompanied him on that
trip.
She and her husband lived at
Little Compton, r. l., from the
early 1905 until his death.
Mrs. Southworth was born in
Forestville, N. Y. She was a grad
uate of Vassar College in 1887 and
taught Latin there for two years
until her marriage.
She is survived by two sons, DR..
F. Chester Southworth of Buffalo,
N. Y, and Constant Southworth,
1000 Cathedral avenue NV.
Memorial services will be held at
4 pm. tomorrow in Ali Souls Uni
tartan Church, Sixteenth and Har-
ward streets NV. Burial will be
private.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-25
Mrs. Lucy Harford, S6,
To Be Buried TODAY

Funeral services for Mrs. Lucy
Hurlebaus Hartford, Sc, who was a
lifelong resident of the 14OO block
of Twenty-eighth street in George
town, were to be held at 2 pm. to-
day in the Birch funeral home, 1904
M street NV. Burial was to be in
Prospect Hill Cemetery.
Mrs. Hartford died Monday at her
home, 1408 Twenty-eighth street
NV, after an illness of several
months. She was the widow of
Thomas ]. Hartford, an employe of
the District auditors Office, who died
in 1923.
Born at 1400 Twenty-eighth street
Mrs. Hartford was the daughter of
Gottlieb and Frederick Won Hebner
Hurlebaus. Her father owned a
bakery at that address for many
years.
A charter member of the Con-
cordia Lutheran Church Missionary
Society, which was founded in May
1897, Mrs. Hartford was secretary of
the Concordia Ladies' Aid Society
for Is years.
She was active, her family said
in starting fund here for the erec-
ton of a missionary school in San
Pedro, Honduras.
Her only close survivor is a
nephew, Louis H. HOLMAN, 1898
Thirty eighth street NV
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-25

were to be held at $3.50 pm. today
in the Central Union Mission, 6l3 G
street NV.
His father, the Rev. Irving D.
Johnston, Federal Power Com
mission engineer, who is an or
dained Presbyterian minister, was
to conduct the services.
Request TO Omit Flowers.
In formal death notice, pub
lished in The Star yesterday, Mr..
Johnston asked that friends not
send flowers to the funeral. He in
dictated the family would prefer
they contribute, instead. toward a
memorial scholarship gift to which
donations would be accepted at to-
days service
Mr.. Johnston said a similar re-
quest was made of friends on the
death of his wife seven years ago.
At that time. he recalled, flowers
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-25
Scholarship Memorial Asked
For Student Killed in Accident

were omitted at the service, anc
money which otherwise would have
been spent on them went into q
gift for the Greenbelt (Md.) Pres
byterian Church, of which Mrs
Johnston had been a member.
Contributions received today, Mr.
Johnston said, win go to the uni
versity for aid to some young man
who, like his son, studies for the
ministry.
Dies in Overturned Car.
Young Johnston was killed when
the automobile he was driving
turned over on the highway at Gaff -
ney, S. c.. his father said. Details
of the accident had not reached
him yesterday, he added. There
was a possibility" however, he
said, the youth might have fallen
asleep at the wheel.
With him at the time OF the
accident were Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
Bartz and 2-year-old son. Mr..
Bartz also is student at Bob Jones
University. AL tire were injured.
A native Of Beaumont, Tex, the
younger Mr.. Johnston attended
elementary and junior high schools
mere before entering Bob Jones
Academy and University. He was
in his second year of college.
In addition to his father, who
has done incidental preaching under
the auspices of the Presbyterian
Church Board of Home Missions
in this area for several years, young
Johnston is survived by a brother,
Carl Johnston of Silver Spring, and
a sister, Mrs. Helen ]. Shipley of
GA Fifteenth street Sc.
Burial will be in Greenbelt Gene
terry.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-25
Mrs. Ray D. Mcclure Dies
Wife Of Policeman

Mrs. Marcelle Carroll Mcclure, So,
wife of Pvt. Ray D. Mcclure, an in
yestigation officer in the Metropoli-
tan Police Department Identification
bureau, died last night in Prince
Georges County General Hospital
at Cheverly, Md.
Mrs. Mcclure, whose home was ct
40l6 1ngraham street, Hyattsville,
had been i'll for about two years.
A native of Glenside, Pa, Mrs.
Mcclure came here in 1928 and was
graduate of Central High School.
She was employed as a telephone
operator with the Chesapeake &
Potomac Telephone Co. until her
marriage II years ago.
The couple lived in Washington
before moving to Hyattsville in 1915.
In addition to her husband, Mrs.
Mcclure is survived by a daughter,
Carroll, 3, and here parents. Louis
w. and Anna H. Carroll, of Wash
ington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-25
Mrs. Gar Wood, Wife
OF Speedboaf King, Dies
BY - Asseeioisd Press

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 25.-Mn.
Murlen Wood, wife Of the speedboat
racing king. Gar Wood, is dead.
She succumbed to an unexpected
attack Of heart disease yesterday
while visiting in Hollywood with her
sister. Mrs. p. M. Davies.
Her husband, Detroit and Miami
Beach manufacturer, was reported
cruising in Georgian Bay, Michigan.
and on being notified planned to ny
to Los Angeles. Their son, Gar, jr,
few from his home in Tulsa, Okla.
Mrs. Wood, who was about s., was
born IN California but spent most
of her childhood In Duluth, MINI.
She and Mr.. Wood met in Duluth
and had lived in Algonat. Mich.
since 1914.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-25
Funeral Rites Today
For Ensign Hynson

Funeral services for Ensign Cody
Arthur Hynson, %, Naval Reserve
dive bomber pilot who was killed
Friday when his plane plunged into
the Chesapeake Bay near Plum
Point, were to be held at 2 pm.
today in Arlington Cemetery Chapel.
Burial will be in the military
cemetery.
Ensign Hynson. who was on tenn
porary duty at the Naval Air Sta
ton here, was on routine flight as
part OF his tWo-week reserve train
ing period at the time of his death.
A prudential student at Johns
Hopkins University in Baltimore,
Ensign Hynson previously had re-
ceived operational training in the
same type of plane. an SB2C, in
Jacksonville, Fla, and had more
than 200 flying hours to his credit.
Born in Columbia, S. c., Ensign
Hynson later lived in Riverdale, Nd,
until he was IL, when his family
moved to Middletown, Pa. He was
graduated from high school there
and entered the Navy in July, 1913.
Ensign Hynson is survived by his
mother, Mrs. Cathryn T. Hynson,
and a sister, Miss Joan Hynson, both
of Middletown.
Members of the Reserve Squadron
VA-51-A, to which Ensign Hynson
was attached. will act as honorary
pallbearers. 1t. c. w. Ellison, u. S.
NJ, Protestant chaplain of the Naval
Receiving Station, will conduct the
services.