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Evening star., 1948-02-16
Truman Asks Support
OF Mayors in Fight
To Stop Initiation
BY fhe Associated Press

NEW YORK, Feb. 16.-Pres1-
dent Truman, appealing to the
Mayors of $50 cities to back his
intimidation program, warned
that unless the rise in the cost
of living Is checked permanently
"the living standards of millions
of families will be critically en-
dangered."
In a message yesterday to the
United States Conference of Mayors,
opening here today, the President
urged that Congress act to curb in
fation and enact a long range
housing bill.
"The sharp rise in the cost-of-
living index poiflts to the under
mining of ourgwheleseconomys" the
Presidents fhessagn SAD -
Chester Bowles, former OPA ad-
ministrator, in addressing the con-
ference today, proposed nine-point
Federal program whioh-he said "can
modify..to & maaoI sstent@tne re-.
cession which our past mistakes
have made inevitable"
Sees Threat to Finances.
Writing to Mayor George w.
Welsh of Grand Rapids, Mich,
president of the conference. Mr..
Truman declared:
you and your colleagues know
from first-hand experience that the
financial stability of our city gov
ernments is being threatened by
increased costs resulting from in
fation. I have submitted to the
Congress specific recommendations
designed to curb inf1ationary fac
TORS and action by the Congress is
necessary if we are not to suffer
still further from imitation.
Immediate steps also must be
taken to increase the Nations sup
ply of low-cost housing. The enact
ment of a broad long-range housing
bill is long overdue Such bill is
necessary If the Federal Govern
ment is to fulfill its part of the re-
sponsibility-shared also by State
and local governments-to insure
that every American family has a
decent home.
Urges Wider Education.
"The schools and colleges OF this
country have been a primary fac
tor in the progress of our democ-
racy. We have demonstrated that
education can be made force to
improve the condition of men. If,
however, education is to play its
full role in creating the American
future to which the citizens Of this
country are committed, we must
educate more of our people at each
level of the educational program,
and we must devise types OF educa-
ton that will prepare them more
effectively than in the past for
responsible roles in modern society.
The achievement of these objectives
is a joint responsibility of the 10
cal, State and Federal governments" "
Saying he is "gratified' that the
Mayors conference will give atten-
ton ito such matters as universal
training, atomic energy, air power
and civilian defense" the President
declared:
"An informed public opinion Is
Evening star., 1948-02-16
Baby Killed, Sister Injured
In Fire After Stove Blast
By the Associated Press

BALTIMORE, Feb. 16.--A fire
which followed an oil stove ex-
plosion caused the death of 16-
month-old boy and injury of his
x-month-old sister here yesterday
Charles Jones, jr., colored was
found suffocated in room of his
home. His sister, Sylvia E. Jones
suffered possible internal injuries
when she was tossed from a win
dow of the third floor.
The blaze trapped their aunt
Mrs. Fannie Jones, 18, and six chill
dren ranging in age from three
months to three years on the third
floor. She dropped four of the chill
dren from a window into the arms
of men on the sidewalk below.
A fifth child was carried from
the house by an unidentified man.
Mrs. Jones was rescued by fire.
men as she chung to the window
ledge. -.
Evening star., 1948-02-16

Two key Washington educators
believe children Of the Nations
Capital are music-starved. They
believe it is up to the National
Symphony Orchestra to take the
lead in providing the remedy.
DR.. Paul Gable and DR.. Alfred
johnson, who direct music educa-
tion for the Districts 91,103 public
school children, tonight will ask
that educational concerts by the
National Symphony be Incorporated
in the public school curriculum and
that they be extended so as to reach
every school child frequently.
They will announce this proposal
to school and civic leaders sum-
moned by the National Symphony
board to consider an expansion OF
the orchestra's educational concert
schedule. Mrs. Henry Grattan
Doyle, president Of the Board Of
Education, will be chairman Of the
meeting which will be at 8 o'clock
in the Raleigh Hotel.
Majority to Miss Concerts.
Only about 10000 of Washing
tons public school children will be
reached by the symphony's six
students concerts this season, the
music administrator estimate.
Few children will hear more than
one concert and only one concert,
as they see 1t, has negligible educa-
tional effect. This is the situation
they wish to correct.
The program they advocate
would include these features:
Separate concert series for diff
ferent age levels-a weekly concert
for all elementary school pupils, a
monthly concert for Junior high
schools and a separate monthly
concert for senior high schools and
the two teachers colleges.
All concerts to be offered as a part
Of the curriculum.
The program Of each concert
studied in the classroom. .,,.
Use Of Radio Planned.
/. Radio to, bring the music to all
those children unable to be pres
ent In the auditorium when the
Evening star., 1948-02-16
NEA Cites Inequality
Among States in Plea
For u. 5. School Aid

The urgent need Of Federal aid
for education was stressed in q sur
vey of public school expenditures
released today by the National Edu-
cation Association, which stressd the
enormous inequality in education"
In the country.
DR.. John K. Norton, one Of the
survey leaders, estimated 1t would
cost about $500, 100000 o year to
bring the per-pupil' expenditures in
all States up to at least 500, the
current nidpoint for the Nation as
o whole. Now pending In Congress
are bills which would give $500, ,000,-
900 in Federal aid to needy school
districts.
The survey did not give the situ-
alton In the District. Dr.. Norton
said the study was confined only to
States.
The District would have been well
up among the leaders in per-pupi
expenditure, however, based on the
current budget as compared to the
enrolment here.
Declares Crisis Still Severe.
'The educational crisis Is still ex-
ceedingly severe" DR.. Norton said.
The survey summed UP the sit
uation this way:
In the United States ss q whole,
and In more than three-fourths
Of the States, school boards had
less purchasing power per pupil In
1947 than they had In 1910.
While per-pupil expenditure, on
the average, increased 66 per cent
from 1910 to 1947, indexes Of eco
nomic change show that they
should have gone up SO per cent to
hold their own in the economic mar
ket. School boards are 20 per cent
less able to buy now than in 1910.
Stin ut Poverty Levels.
The low expenditure school sys-
TENS of 1910 are still operating at
poverty levels Of support, although
they made relatively large percent
age increases per pupil. A large
percentage increase Is still very lit
tie. Meanwhile, the high expendi-
ture districts were not able in 1947
to purchase the first-rate education
that made them educational leaders
In 1910.
Enormous inequalities in expendi-
ture per pupil continue to exist,
both within individual States and
among The States. Millions Of chill
dren in 1947 were In school systems
with such meager funds that their
schooling was both brief and in
ferior.
Leaders were New York with a
per-pupil expenditure Of 1924 in
1947, New Jersey, $3.50, and Cali
fornia, $177. Mississippi was at the
bottom with $25.
Maryland spent $101 per pupil In
1s47 and Virginia $50.
Evening star., 1948-02-16
LiIienthoI to Give Speech
On Howard Charter Duy

David E. Lilienthal, chairman of
the Atomic Energy Commission, will
deliver the Charter Day address at
Howard University at 1890 am.
March 2, the university announced
today.
The exercises will be held In the
Andrew Rankin Memorial Chapel on
the Campus to commemorate the
founding Of the university.
Evening star., 1948-02-16
Brooke Johns to Speuk

Brooke Johns, president of the
Board of Montgomery County Com
missioners, will speak on the future
of the county at meeting of the
Woodmoor Citizens Association at
Ls:15 O'Clock tonight at, the Pinecrest
Recreation Center, st. Lawrence
drive, Silver Spring.
Evening star., 1948-02-16
Hour-OId Baby Loses Tooth

MEMPHIS, Tenn, Feb. 16 F.-
They didn't let Billy Hughes, jr.,
keep his first tooth very long. Billy
was born at 1854 pm. yesterday
An hour later doctors extracted the
tooth when they found it was loose.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-01-15

By using proved sires continually
in every generation since the Jersey
herd of the u. S. bureau of dairy
industry was started at Beltsville,
Md, in 1920, the average butterfat
production per cow has been in
creased from sos pounds for the %
foundation cows to 789 pounds for %
cows in the fifth generation.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-01-15
Reclamation Activities
In State Listed

In a review of Bureau of Recla-
nation activities in Region 6 dur
ing the first half of 1948, the fol-
lowing major developments in Mon
tana were listed by Kenneth F.
Vernon of Billings, director:
Canyon Ferry unit, located near
Helena, was brought to the con-
struction stage during the first half
of the fiscal year and several con-
tracts are now in force for con-
struction of camp facilities and re-
location of the county road. This
unit, which will consist of a dam
and 36,000-kilowatt powerplant, is
the key to development IN the basin
above Fort Benton and will make
possible the irrigation of approx
mately 335, 600 acres of new land
and some 10000 acres now made
quately irrigated.
Hardin Unit
1t is expected that preconstruc-
ton work, initiated this year on the
Hardin unit, south of Hardin, will
be completed before July l, 1948,
and that construction of the dam
and p~owerplant could be started
during fiscal year 1949.
Work leading to initiation of con-
struction is in progress on Moor
head dam on the Powder river near
Moorhead. Completion of design
data and the beginning of construc-
ton on a government camp are
scheduled for the current fiscal year.
This dam viii provide a means of
reclamation of lands in Montana
and Wyoming along the stream.
Construction of Tiber dam of the
Lower Marias Unit near Chester
and Havre is scheduled to be
started during the 1949 fiscal year
if normal progress is maintained
Work is now in progress on the ma.
jor phases of this unit, which wher
completed is expected to provide
for the irrigation of approximately
10000 acres.
Yellowstone Pumping Unit
Investigations and studies will b,
continued through the current yea.
on the Yellowstone river pumpin,
units, which extend along the Vel
lowstone river from east of Liv
ingston into North Dakota and ar
designed to provide irrigation waite
for more than $4,000 acres of lan6
Construction of the Savage uni
one of the rs submits of the Vel
lowstone river pumping projec
will probably be started early i
1913, as repayment negotiations ar
practically completed. Specifics
tons for construction of other sub
units will be issued during fiscs
year 1949, according to preser
; plans.
The bureaus work on that pa
of the Missouri-Souris unit in MOI
tana and the related Montana pump
ing units, in northeastern Montan
is confined primarily to studies, il
vestigations and surveys. This wo1
on the Missouri-Souri unit will
continued and the most practic
and feasible plan for the develop
ment of the units will be formulate
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Evening star., 1948-05-09
Joffo Is Caught in Jewish Wise;
Political Disputes Plague Arabs
Syrio and Lebanon
Peoples Demanding
War in Holy Lond

(The tollo,oing story is a CON-
bination OF t,oo dispatches dated
May and May and received
in London by airmail. The
Syrian government has imposed
form OF censorship called "ad-
ministratipe regulation" on for
eign ne,os dispatches transmitted
by cable.)
By Joseph c. Goodwin
Asseeiotsd Press Foreign Correspondent
DAMASCUS, Syria, May 6. Ode.
layeO The Arab world, rocked by
Jewish military successes in Pales.
tine and plagued by political bick.
ering at home, appears to observer:
here to have jockeyed itself into the
position of choosing between all-out
war in the Holy Land OR revolts al
home.
The Syrian and Lebanese premiers
now are in Riyad, Saudi Arabian
capital. They apparently are seek
ing King Ibn Saud's support in in.
ternal problems as we'll as aid fol
Palestine Arabs.
Before their departure from Da-
mascus the Lebanese premier, Riac
Ell Solh, told Syrian newsmen they
proposed to confer with the Saud
Arabian monarch on "co-ordinatior
of action against Zionism in Pales.
tine"
Fight on Abdullah Seen Aim.
However, observers in Damascus
generally agree that Syria and Leb.
anon are seeking Saudi Arabia (
help in stemming "Hashimite ambi-
tions" to unite the Arab lands Of the
Evening star., 1948-05-09
By Joseph G. Goodwin

threshing grain, tilling orchards and
doing beside f1ocks. Perhaps 150,-
600 Arab townsmen now are refu-
gees, but the peasants cling to their
land regardless of their fear Of Jew
ish arms.
Evening star., 1948-05-09
|Church .Jonitor
| Gets 10 Days
In 78c Theft
By the Assoejoted Press

DES MOTNES, May "a church
janitor today was sentenced to 10
days in city Jail on charges of steal
ing an 18-cent can of pork and
beans.
The janitor, Walter Long, so, was
found guilty by a jury and he re-
asserted his innocence when he ap-
peared before Municipal Judge
Harry Grund for sentencing today
The Rev. Fred Hoskins OF
Plymouth Congregational Church
where Long is an assistant custodian
urged leniency. He said Long was
honest and reliable" that his
financial situation was "precarious'
and that his wife was i'll.
The grocer who brought the
charge also recommended leniency
Judge Gru1d said Long could
serve the 10 days on 10 successive
Saturdays. The judge said he agreed
with the jurys verdict and added:
ITO come in after a two-day trial
and say Judge. slap my wrist
that just doesn't help enforce the
law"
To the grocer who brought the
charge, the judge said: Il COM
mend you highly for having the
nerve to file this charge
Evening star., 1948-05-09

ter the city temporarily after the
British leave.
Other names also have been put
up by other groups by the q. N.
secretariat who clamped . ban of
tight secrecy on them.
It was said, however, that one
possibility, Clarence E. Pickett, Of
Philadelphia, head of the overseas
aid. program Of the Society Of
Friends, had refused an offer to take
the post for health reasons.
The 12-member subcommittee. set
up to try to find some way to meet
the situation. heard DR.. Karel Lis
icky, Of Czechoslov chairman Of
the q. N. Palestine Partition Com
mission, outline the di1iculties
facing the U. N. He said there is
no use to set up any kind Of an
organization without special instruc-
ton unless the u. N. gave it suf1-
cient strength to impose its will. The
subcommittee adjourned until Nom
day after giving Mr.. Moe his assign
ment.
Evening star., 1948-05-09
Joffo- o-JerusoIem Road
Vital Jewish-Aro issue

Bah Ell WAD, Palestine, May 8
P.-In this valley of death, Is
miles west of Jerusalem. lies the
answer to whether there will be
peace or war in Jerusalem.
1t is here that the Arabs have
throttled the lifeline to 100000 Jews
in the Holy City. Without this road
the Jews in Jerusalem will have no
food, no military support and no
contact with the Jewish state now
being born on the Palestine coast.
The road, linking Jerusalem with
Tel Aviv, now is closed by formida-
BILE Arab road blocks, mines and
Arab guns. A vital water pipeline
runs alongside the road within easy
reach of the Arabs.
Once a teeming highway through
the Judean Hills, the road today
is deathlike in its silence and sinister
in its dangers.
Jews Blasted Road Open.
The Bah el Wad Gorge already
is one of the bloodiest names in
Palestine's five month -old civil war.
The Arabs blocked it first last jan
uary by constant sniper and NOR
tar fire and by erecting low stone
barriers.
With the specter Of starvation
hanging over Jerusalem's Jews, the
Jewish militia, Hagana, blasted the
road open in March.
The Arabs are dug in on the foot
hills overlooking their >owrI road
blocks. From one of these hilltops.
legend says. Richard the Lion Heart
ed looked toward Jerusalem, calcu-
lated the Saracen strength and
turned back without reaching the
Holy City.
British army engineers who have
inspected the road barriers say it
would take weeks of work with bull
dozers and dynamite to open the
highway even if the Arabs put up
no resistance,
Evening star., 1948-05-09
Truman Asks Agency Heads
TO Support Security Loan

President Truman has asked
Government department and agency
heads to organize person-to-pcrson
solicitation among employees for
Americas Security Loan, Edward
r. Bartlett announced yesterday. He
Is Fiscal Assistant Secretary Of the
Treasury and chairman Of the In
terdepartmental Savings Bonds
Committee.
The President said: "Our Gov
ernment is now asking business and
industry over the Nation to CO.
operate by making the Payroll Saw
ings Plan available to the millions
of wage and salary earners. 1t
is needed, therefore, that our Gov
ernment set the pace and the ex-
ample for the Nation in this cam
paign."
The drive, which began April Is,
will continue through June 80.
Evening star., 1948-05-09
Ceose-Fire Protects
Jerusalem and Shrines

JERUSALEM, May 8 P.-A
cease-fre. agreed to by Arabs anc
Jews, protected Jerusalem and its
shrines today for the first time ir
five months. 1t went into effect al
noon t6 am. EDIT, and not a shot
was heard in the first hour.
The arrangement was a, tempo
rary one, designed to prevent hos.
tilities until permanent Jerusalem
truce can'be negotiated.
For the first time in a month
lights came on in Mamillah road
where there are a number of Arat
coffee shops.
A spokesman for the Jewish mill.
tia. Hagana, said the cease-fire /:
regarded as temporary only, ISSUED
for a short period of time. We dc
not propose to permit this period tt
be used to consolidate enemy posi-
tions"
Permanent Truce Now Topic.
The Jewish Agency said it had
learned that talks for a permanent
truce in the Holy City will begin
tomorrow. The Jews are demand
ing free access from Jewish Tel
Aviv to the Wailing Wall in Jeru-
salems old walled area and the
deportation of foreign Arab fighters
from the Holy City.
Mrs. Golda Myerson of the Jew
ish Agency also said any perma-
nent truce depends on agreement
of the Arabs to keep the Jerusalem
Tel Aviv road open.
Gen Sir Alan Gordon Cunning
ham, Palestine high commissioner
= negotiated the cease-fire at a meet
ing in Jericho yesterday with Arab
leaders. The Jews did not attend
the Jericho talks.
Gen. Cunningham sent word to
the Jewish Agency of the Arab
agreement to halt the fighting if
the Jews did. An agency spokes-
man said Hagana was asked to is
sue cease fire orders at Jewish units
In Jerusalem. The orders reached
the Jewish troops at II am, an
hour before the deadline.
Evening star., 1948-05-09

Of seven scheduled by the District
Graduate Nurses Association for
the benefit of high school seniors.
Tours already have been held at
GARFIELD and Sibley Hospitals. Others
viii be conducted at Gallinger next
wednesday, Providence. May Is; St.
Elizabeths, May 81, and Emergency.
May rs.
Evening star., 1948-05-09
Palestine Emergency
Government Reported
Agreed on at u. n.
BY the Associated Press

LAKE SUCCESS, May s.-Top
United Nations delegates were re-
ported tonight generally agreed on
creating an emergency regime for
Palestine.
Sentiment for a provisional ad-
ministration for the Holy Land was
said authoritatively to have crystal
lized after long meetings among the
delegates.
The special U. N. Assembly on
Palestine is working against time.
The British plan to give up the
Palestine mandate at midnight Fri
day. The Assembly is trying to
shape up at least a token organiza- =
ton to fill the vacuum created by
the British action.
Norwegian to Draft Proposals.
1t is realized here such an or
ganization would have only the
moral force of the U. N. to back 1t
up.
Finn Moe, Norway's delegate to
the Assembly, was assigned the
task of drawing up over the week
end concrete proposals for a 12-
nation subcommittee of the Assem-
bly, to consider.
Mr.. Moe said he would list the
points on which the delegates are
agreed and on which they are not
agreed so that the subcommittee
will have something definite to work
on at its next meeting Monday at
1890 am.
The Arab Higher Committee.
meanwhile, was reported to have
suggested three names to the U. N.
| for the hot-spot post of neutral
mayor of Jerusalem. 1..r
Nominees of Arabs.
An informed source said the Arabs
put up these nominees:
| l. A. L. Miller, an American ex-
ecutive secretary of the Jerusalem
YMCA.
2. A. P. Clark. British citizen,
head of Barclays Bank in Jerusalem
and a resident of that city for 80
years.
3. Father Eugene, an Irishman
and Franciscan monk, who has lived
In Jerusalem for years.
1t was said the Arabs feel that the
mayor must be man who knows
the city and its problems. 1t was
said also that the Jewish Agency for
Palestine, has not yet submitted any
names to the U. N.
The Assembly is trying to find a
man on whom the Arabs and Jews
agree for the position of U. N. COM
missioner for Jerusalem to admins
Evening star., 1948-05-09

Middle East under q single govern
ment headed by King Abdullah of
Trans-Jordan. Such a unif1cation
would fulfill Abdullah's dream of a
Greater Syria"
(The Hashimites are an Arab
faction from which the kings OF
Iraq and Trans-Jordan were
drawn when those countries were
set up and which fought bitterly
against King Ibn Saud in the
1920's.0
Trans-Jordan and Iraq were re-
ported to be unrepresented at the
Riyad talks, although both coun-
tries apparently are cooperating
in preparations for the proposed
invasion of Palestine by regular
Arab armies.
Public Demands Fight.
Besides worrying about Abdullah s
ambitions, the governments OF
Syria and Lebanon are chaflng
under pressure from the public to
send regular troops to Palestine I'M
mediately to prevent the formation
of a Jewish state.
The people long have demanded
this. The demand now is intensified
with the arrival of thousands of
Arab refugees from Palestine. Calls
for a firmer Arab stand against the
Jews have been voiced recently at
a number of demonstrations in Arab
countries.
Since King Abdullah took the
spotlight in prospective Palestine
invasion plans, Syrian leaders have
grown increasingly nervous. Re-
liable official sources said some OF
these leaders now are pressing for
the use of regular troops in Pales-
tine without waiting for the term
ination of the British mandate next
Saturday.
Egyptians Play Lone Hand.
The. Egyptians, observers said,
may be playing a lone hand in the
hopes of getting the United Nations
nod to take. over the proposed
Palestine trusteeship. Some Arabs
say the trusteeship proposal might
be acceptable If it is given to an
Arab League country.
Despite repeated announcements
that regular armies of the Arab ma
tions are girding for an invasion of
the Holy Land. there still are Writ
ually no regular troop activities
along the southern frontiers of
Syria and Lebanon.
The disposition of the large force
OF regular Syrian troops which
moved out of the Katana camp near
Damascus last Saturday is a mill
tary secret. Border residents say
these troops did not pass along any
of the southern roads. The road
leading through the camp area now
is closed to civilian traffic.
Evening star., 1948-05-09
Miss Breeding's Recital
Is Postponed by Illness

The recital of Miss Violet Breed
ing. soprano, scheduled for 4:30 pm
today at Barker Hall, YWCA
Seventeenth and K streets NV
has been postponed indefinitely be-
cause of her Illness. it was an
nounced yesterday An announce
ment of Miss Breeding's program
appears in the music section OF
The Star, which was printed be-
fore news came of her illness.