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Evening star., 1948-05-02

Electric Products finished lower.
Turnover was 130, 900 shares.
Wall Street settled its own strike
Of big board" employees late in the
week, but became concerned over the
threat to future earnings contained
in possible industrial walkouts later
this month.
Wage Talks Watched.
Some of the operating rail unions
have set May II for a Nationwide
strike. Chrysler workers have been
called to stop work May IL unless
settlement OF wage demands is
reached. Wage negotiations are
under way in electrical equipment
industries. With coal reserves at a
low point, John L. Lewis has set
May l8 to start conferences on a
new contract for the mine workers,
without which a strike could begin
June 80. Automobile output this
week still was suffering from effects
OF the last coal shutdown.
In the face of all this, bullish
elements in Wall Street professed
encouragement at the narrowness of
the market setback and light activ-
lty. Traders were consolidating"
the recent advances, they said, and
any clearing UP of labor unrest
could provide the spark for a re-
newed rally.
Monday the market average
slumped 9 of a point In one of the
sharpest drops of the past three
months. Volume contracted to 1,41O,-
900 shares. smallest since April IA.
Rails led modest comeback Tues
day as 100000 shares changed
hands, but slight easing of prices
occurred at the close after major
steel companies disclosed they were
following the lead Of United States
Steel in reducing prices and reject
ing wage demands.
Court Decision Studied.
The rail strike date was set
Wednesday and followers of steels
were concerned over possible ex-
tension to that industry of the ban
on basing point price systems,
ordered by the Supreme Court in
case involving the cement indus
try. Despite these developments,
gains by few favorite rails and
oils produced L Of a point ad-
vance in the averages on transfers
OF $4,000 shares.
Oils led the market narrowly
higher Thursday on volume of
1,480, 900 shares, best Of the week,
while liquors eased on poor first
quarter earnings. On Friday the
aircrafts Joined the list of favorites,
benefited by Senate committee
approval of plans for a 70-group
air force. Many other stocks sagged,
however, as concern over strike pos
sibilities increased.
Fridays volume of 1,440,0 COM
pleted an April market during
which only one five-hour session
failed to top the million share
mark. The months total OF 34,612,-
565 shares made 1t the most active
such period since September, 1946,
when the market suffered its post
Labor Day collapse.
Evening star., 1948-05-02
Stock Rally Halted
By Strike Threats
And Profit-Takina
BY T. E. Apologize
Associoted Press Financial Writer

Stsocto1eo Ffett rIn0nctoi Wftef
NEW YORK, May 1.-Profit tax
Ing and strike threats clipped the
wings Of the spring stock rally this
week.
The markets setback halted a rise
that had progressed through six
successive weeks Of trading.
Security prices were depressed by
the selling activity OF those traders
cashing in on long accumulated
profits, and by the setting of May
strike dates in the railroad and
eutomotive industries.
After a sharp dip on Monday, the
market established a narrow pattern
that held throughout the other five
sessions. Under it, backward ten
denotes prevailed in pivotal indus
trial shares, while selected favorites
mostly oil, aircraft and rail stocks
climbed.
Saturdays short session continued
this course, with such issues as
Chrysler, United States Steel, Re-
public Steel, Texas Co., Southern
Railway, schenley, Phelps Dodge
Mission Corp. and Lockheed show
Ing declines of fractions to around
point. At the same time Mid
Continent Petroleum and Central
Railroad Of New Jersey pushed to
new l948 highs and other gamers
included Seaboard Oil, Gulf Oil,
United Aircraft and General Elec-
trio.
Cotton Belt Stock Jumps.
Feature Of the day was a 29-point
Jump in st. Louis Southwestern
Cotton Belt) common to close at
129, new high, on odd-lot sales OF
only 200 shares. This stock, In
thin" supply and therefore sub
ject to wide fluctuation, responded
to its showing of first quarter net
income OF 1898 a share against
$8-s5 on similar basis a year ago
Many other railroads have reported
deficits for the same period.
The Associated Press 60-stock
composite dropped i of a point to-
day to close at 671, where it was
of 8 on the week, its first weekly
loss since March l3. OF 746 issues
traded in the narrowest Saturday
session since the same date, declines
numbered 354 and advances 1874.
Transactions totaled 480. 900 shares
In the smallest two-hour market
since March ~, and compared with
$4,000 q week ago.
During the week sales held well
above the million share mark but
the total Of 7,639,315 shares for the
period was far below the l0,544,7 ,75O
reported in the preceding week.
Bonds were steady.
In the Curb Aluminium Co. Of
America, Cities Service and Gable
Evening star., 1948-05-02
Chicago Grain

CHICAGO. May 1 GP.-A forecast for
rain in Western Kansas late today caused
Trade today. Early gains were wiped out
and losses marked up before the selling
ran Its course. Corn and oats maintained
A Weather Bureau forecast from Topeka
predicted rains for Western Kansas this
BY tonight and continuing throurh SUNDAY.
That was enough to touch Of selling as
western Kansas Is an area where wheat
Private reports to grain houses said good
rains were received in Northwestern KAN
whes. A'Vsnd Closed aH-sn lower. Ma,
242A-A; corn was UNCHANGED to III
lower. May 2.l9-2.19A oats were y lower
70 as higher May :09N-h, and soybeans
Evening star., 1948-05-02
ChioaEo Cash Market.

Chicago Cash MARKET.
No wheat. Corn-No. 2 yellow, 2 a.
32h: No; 8, 2.23-29A; No. s. 20oi.. Oats
IM9 / asn. l h hheavy' mixed mixed, 1ash; No. ! mixed.
sample grade, 113h. Barley-Majtinw.
2.2b-50 nominal; feed, 1895 nominal.
Evening star., 1948-05-02
Commodity Prices

NEW YORK. May l (H'.-The Associ-
ated Press Weighted wholesale price index
Of 35 commodities today advanced to
1881. Previous day 1886, week ago
lsS. .02, month ago 1s5.01. year ago
1901, based on . 26 as 100,
The Arizona post., 1948-03-19
a GnxZaNoGN6D
By
Charlotte Weber

Plans for a Friendship Train
for Palestine which will take car
loads of needed food and cloth
ing to Cyprus and the Holy Land
are being worked out by the Jew
ish War Veterans, originators of
the idea.
Pending fin arrangements
three trains will leave from West
Coast cities-Seattle, San Fran
cisco and Los Angeles-and travel
across the country to an East
Coast port for loading and ship
ment to Palestine. The trains will
stop at at least one loading point
in each state and in some states
at several cities. They will prob
ably converge at New York.
The drive won't be confined to
the JWV. Other Jewish organiza-
tions-the Jewish Welfare Board,
the B'nai Birth, and the Joint
Distribution Committeeman syn
agogues and local fraternal organ
izations, both Jewish and non
Jewish, will be asked to partici-
pate.
The State Department has al
ready given it's approval to the
idea and JWV people have been
conferring with State Department
experts to secure the necessary
export licenses.
The Stratton bill is dead and
absolutely nothing will be done
on it by the House immigration
Subcommittee where it has been
pigeon-holed since the grand
scale hearings on it last spring.
If the DPS could only vote, their
bill would almost surely get
passed this year.
The Arizona post., 1948-03-19

ing aspects of atomic energy, the
tragic overtones of this postwar
era, the threatening picture of the
world political scene, the heart
breaking social injustices - all
matters of such gave concern.
And then, as I was leaving, my
friend, a bit apologetically, said
she had something to show me,
and when she brought it out, o
felt exactly as if had suddenly
seen jonquils blooming in the
winter snow. Such a bonnet! A
veritable confection of bonnet,
looking almost as if it had been
made out of spun sugar. And I
thought, well golly! From grand
mas day right up to now, there
has never been anything quite like
it to give a woman a lift.
The Arizona post., 1948-03-19
,~~sNH NHNS~RWN u a u n ~ - ~ ~ y
:xoDe<QoAeS
BY Virginia Pistor

My grandmother was, as the
saying goes, a lady of many parts.
When was little girl she
seemed incredibly ancient to me,
although I am sure she couldn't
have been much older than grand
mothers of other little girls. But
she had lived an exciting and
rugged life, compounded of many
rich experiences-full of the very
stuff of drama, and during the
years of my childhood, when I
listened to the yarns she spun out
of her recollectionsZit seemed to
me she must have lived since the
beginning of time.
In a sense, my grandmother
was an eccentric of the first or
der. She was for instance, a most
proper and a most religious per-
son, given to fearsome little utter
ances anent the flesh and the
devil, but rationalizing I suppose,
as we all do, she had her own
vanitieS.
The era during which I knew
her was not one in which ladies
wore bonnets, but grandma, stick
ler though she was for most of
the conventions, stubbornly clung
to that outmoded article. There
could have been only one reason.
Consciously or unconsciously she
must have known that the wear
ing of a little bonnet, topped by
velvet flowers and demurely tied
under her chin with velvet rib
bons, gave her a completely ro-
mantle air which could never
have been achieved by means of
a regular Sunday-go-to-meeting
hat, no matter how fashionable.
Actually, grandma's bonne
seemed to engender a certain
magic for others too. There was
something about it, some quality
attached to it which stirred in me
a feeling of excitement. The mo-
ment she put it on, there was a
sudden gayety in the atmosphere,
an indefinable hint of pleasurable
anticipation. After all these years,
just thinking of that ridiculous
little headpiece, I find myself
chuckling.
Well, there is little enough in
our world today to call forth much
merriment, but nevertheless, 1 re-
captured a little of that earlier
feeling just today.
I had long and stimulating
visit with a friend whose conver-
sation is fascinating and brilliant
Her thinking is clear and logical
and she expresses herself with q
directness and lucidity rare in g
woman. But due perhaps to the
nature of our times, I found my
self caught in a bog of depres-
sion as we talked of the frighten.
The Arizona post., 1948-03-19
PHYSICIANS TO CANADA
OPPOSED BY PROFESSION

Ottawa (WNS).-A1th h GU G h
there is a serious shortage of ply
sicians in the Dominion, Canadian
doctors are opposing the admis-
sion of refugee doctors and nurses,
it was disclosed by government
officials who indicated anxiety
over this development.
The Arizona post., 1948-03-19
OF the Record
By Nathan Ziprin

Shadows Over Palestine =.
The next few weeks will be a
time of grave tension -. Will the
UN Palestine Commission pro-
claim the Jewish state by April
LIST, as provided for in the Gen
eral AssembIy's resolution? :.
Will the commission yield to sug-
gestions of the Security Council
and decide on a pOstpOnement?
:. In this case the Jews of Pal
eStine will take Revolutionary"
action and themselves proclaim
the government 1t would be
a most unusual kind of "revOlu-
ton" The Jews would mere
Iy try to implement decision
taken by more than twO-thirdS of
all United Nations members.
Sad But True
We predicted that "concilia-
ton" bomb would be thrown into
the proceedings of the Security
Council when it meets to consider
the UN Palestine Commissions
report s. 1t was dropped by none
other than the U. S. Government
which championed partition be-
fore the Assembly A new
development" has been brought
to the fore The Arabs have,
as we predicted, intimated will
lingness to lay down arms for a
period of reconsideration :. The
Truman administration, playing
fiddle to the tune of the British
Foreign Office, has virtually
abandoned partition i. There is
talk in informed Washington cir
cles that U. S. will advocate call
ing off a special session of the
General Assembly with a view to
reconsidering the partition deci-
sion We hear leading men,
bers of the Democratic National
Committee are planning to talk
tough" to their Chief this week
-. A Congressional movement is
afoot to have both houses pass
resolution reiterating Americas
traditional stand on the Palestine
issue.
Jan MaSaryk -.
In the tragic death of Jan Masa-
ryk the world has lost a great
Democrat and the Jews a great
friend. He has always identified
himself with Jewish aspirations
everywhere, particularly in Pales-
tine When the NaziS still ruled
his country he said he would new
er return to his native land as
long as Jews could not enter it
He has been credited with
saving at least 5000 CzechOslO-
vakian Jews by smuggling .
The American Jewish community
will remember him as a true
"chasid umOth ha'Olem" who new
er shirked duty when called up
on to sponsor a Jewish cause .
His death has left painful void
in Jewish hearts everywhere
The Arizona post., 1948-03-19
INTERNSHIP FOR RABBIS

An internship as chaplains in
the armed forces or veterans hos
pitals for graduates of rabbinical
seminaries is advocated by Rabbi
Solomon B. Freehof, rabbi of
Temple Rodef Sholom, Pittsburgh
The Arizona post., 1948-03-19
How LOnq?
By Sid Goodman

By Sid Goodman
many thousand years it take to build home?
The untitled dreams
The tears
The toll
The time
The grim grinding death
How many thousand years
For Jew to find peace?
The naked sword
Hanging by thread
Over the heart
Of Palestine
How many thousand times every
The hope
The haven
The homeland
To live Jew
AS nation
AS people of the world
How many thousand promises portent with unulfiment
Made in those days
To the bowed head
And in these days
To the Jew who knows the word Struggle
Who knows where the pipe lines go,
The magic liquid with the golden touch
many thousand drops of blood to barrel of oil?
How many Jewish lives to keep the pipelines flowing?
And where the pipe lines flow
And the profits grow
How long will those thousand questions gi
Unanswered?
Evening star., 1948-06-13
Your 6ift-Their Camping

You see them any day on GER
tain streets-the boys ip their
faded overalls, the girls In their
shabby cottons.
If you're walking, you note
the houses are drab. The win
dows have no curtains. In a
neighborhood like this the talk
is rough.
If you're driving, you watch for
youngsters chasing balls. You
blow your horn to make the
children scatter. They don't have
anything to do with you. Or
do they?
There's a boy sitting on the
steps of that old red brick room
ing house. His face is pale. his
legs thin. That's John. Hes
been sick OF and on all winter.
The clinic prescribed plenty OF
fresh vegetables, oranges and
milk. But Johns mother has
only her widows pension to pay
the rent and clothe and feed her
and John and his brother.
That boy up at the corner, the
Evening star., 1948-06-13
Strike July Il Voted
By A. B. & W. Drivers

A strike threat hung over one of
Washington's major commuter links
last night after union rejection of
the Alexandria, Bancroft 81 Wash
ington Transit Co.'S wage offer.
Union membership, said to be
about 500, voted to reject the COM
pany's fiat 10-cents-an-hour wage
increase and scheduled strike for
July 81 unless new agreement is
reached.
B. C. May, general manager OF
the bus line, told the unions ne
gotiating committee that the To-
cent offer was the best the company
could make, adding lit will be i'm
possible to grant any further con-
cessions."
He said the company currently
is losing money and that the COM
pany's offer to Local 1881. Anal
gamated Association of Street, Elec-
tric Railway and Motor Coach EN-
ptoyes of America. would raise
monthly losses to S23.580.
Proposals rejected by the union
were:
Increase from S125 to $1.35 an
hour the pay of bus operators with
the company year or more.
Raise extra operators from SAC
to $50 depending on length of serv-
ice.
Raise mechanics from $1.35 to
$l45 an hour.
Overtime at time and one halt
for bus operators would start after
42is hours. The present contract
calls for overtime after A hours.
Evening star., 1948-06-13
By the Associoted Press

OKLAHOMA CITY, June r.
Henry A. Wallace's Progressive
Party was denied a place on Okla
homa's July primary ballot today
by the State Supreme Court.
The court ruled that the Progress
sives did not constitute political
party under Oklahoma election
statutes.
The ruling came on an appeal by
A. B. Cooper. Oklahoma City detec-
tive agency manager, from a deci-
sion by Secretary of. State Wllburn
Cartwright. who ordered Progressive
candidates placed on the primary
ballot.
Mr.. Cooper had challenged the
sufficiency of the Progressives' NOM
mating petition, attacked the valid
ity of their non- Communist AFFIDAVIT
and asked the court to prohibit the
Secretary of State from recognizing
them as q political party.
Evening star., 1948-06-13
Citation, Hogan
| Win, Mats Lose
In Days Sports

Citation won the $4,000 Belmont
Stakes and the triple-crown Of
horse-racing yesterday in record
eoualing time. The 3-year-o
champion finished six lengths ahead
of Better Self. which was a half
length ahead of Escadru. Citation
was backed down to 1-to-5 favorite-
Little Ben Hogan won the United
States Open Golf crown at Los An
eeles with a record-breaking 72-
hole score of 276. He was eight
strokes under par and five under
the previous tournament mark set
by Ralph Guldahl at Detroit in
1927. Jimmy Demaret was second
with 278 and Jim Turnesa third
with 280.
Detroit ousted Washington from
fourth place in the American
League by beating the Mats, Al, be-
hind Hal Newhousers seven-hit
pitching. Cleveland defeated the
yankees at New York In twin-oll'
before $4,000, 7 to 5 and 9 to 4.
fComplets details on sports pasesJ
Evening star., 1948-06-13
Russians About-Face
And Call Off Blockade
Of Berlin Rail Traffic
u. S. and British Officials
To Confer With Reds
On Transport Problem
bv the Associated Press

BERLIN, June 12.-The Rus
slams did an abrupt aboutface
today and called off an hours
old rail traffic block which would
have cut off food and coal from
100000 Germans in Berlin S
western sector.
The end of the crisis came when
the Russians advised American and
British authorities that freight
trains could move normally again
from Western Germany to Berlin.
The first freight train from the
American zone moved into the Rus
sian zone from Helmstedt on the
British zone border an hour later.
BY late tonight two trains, one
British and the other American, had
arrived in Berlin.
No Russian Explanation.
The Russians gave no explanation
of their order or its withdrawal and
gave no assurances for the future.
British and American transport
officials are scheduled to meet with
Soviet transport officers next week
Observers believe the Russians then
will raise again their demands for
rail reforms"
Meanwhile, the German Commu-
mist press beat the propaganda drum
and hinted Germany could hope for
reduction in Russian reparations
demands Russia already has cut de-
mands from Finland, Hungary and
Romania. 1t was Russian demands
for reparations =, from Germany
which proved the initial hurdle in
attempts of the foreign ministers to
reach agreement on Germany.
Allied observers interpreted to-
days hints as another step in trying
to create counterpropaganda against
the Marshall Aid Plan for Western
Germany.
Today's crisis came to boil
shortly after noon The Russians
had refused to permit the Ameri-
cans to move freight train in the
American sector freight yard at
Anhalter. Railway officials had
alerted American troops to move the
train with their own switch engines
and to take over the necessary sig
nal towers. if needed. to accomplish
it. An order was sent out to the
United States Army constabulary
to seize the signal equipment if no
settlement was reached.
Soon afterward the Russians is
sued the order to free the train.
The Russians insist it is inefficient
to send trains from Western Ger
many to British and American
marshalling yards in Berlin for
breaking up and consignment to
Evening star., 1948-06-13
Truman Question Left
To Connecticut Delegates
By the Associated Press

HARTFORD, Conn.,, June H.
Connecticut Democrats, in effect
told their 20-vote national conven-
ton delegation today to decide fol
Itself whether to support the can
didacy of President Truman.
Rather than risk a floor fight be-
tween Mr.. Truman and anti
Truman forces. the party's State
convention voted to send to Phil
adelphia next month an unpledgee
delegation bound by the unit rule
Party leaders had proposed that
plan of neutrality on the heels OF
suggestions, voiced by some in re.
cent weeks, that President Truman
be sidetracked.
Most frequently mentioned fol
the nomination by the anti-Truman-
ties, chief among them the State
chapter of the Americans for Demo
cratic Action tADA), was Supreme
Court Justice William o. Douglas
former Yale Law School professor
Evening star., 1948-06-13
Policeman Killed, Another Shot
In Prince Georges Gun Battle
Revolver Seized From Officer lnquiring
Into Foto Clubbing of Woman

$500 block of Nash street, after the
two policemen had arrived and be-
gan to investigate fight in which
knitting and a second clubbing oc-
Cured.
Shortly after the shooting, police
arrested man identified as Thomas
Hall, about 55, colored, with bullet
wound in his left arm. He was
questioned at Hyattsville for more
than two hours and then taken to
the Upper Marlboro Jail, where he
was still not charged at late hour
last night.
Pvt. Caldwell died of three bullet
wounds in the chest, according to
DR.. John T. Maloney, medical exam
iner for the Northern district OF
Prince. Georges County. DR.. Ma
loney said the policeman was con-
scious when he entered the hospi-
tai. smiled and asked for DR.. Law
renee Malin, hospital director.
Pvt. Baker was on duty only be-
1caa Cp00TTNT. paoo ALL
Evening star., 1948-06-13
Your Gift-Ther Camping
Children Cromped in Hot City
Need Outdoor Play Space

small one hanging around the
big boys, that Robert. Actually
Robert doesn't like the big boys
much. He doesn't understand
all the talk about girls. He'd
rather be playing baseball. But
since the boy down the street
was hit by a car. Roberts mother
won't let him play ball in the
street any more.
There's a little girl playing
hop scotch all by herself. That's
Jennie. She's nine and she lives
in two rooms over a store with
her mother, her grandmother
and four younger children. Jen-
nie's mother works and her
grandmother is busy taking care
of the younger ones SO Jennie
takes care of herself.
One of those boys sitting on
the seawall is Jim. His father
deserted the family in 1916 and
now nobody knows where he Is.
Jim's mother sees that her flve
children go to Sunday School
ISee CAMPING, Page A-3
Evening star., 1948-06-13
By the Associated Press

The Senate Appropriations
Committee voted last night to
restore most of the funds slaShed
from the European Recovery
Program by the House.
The committee action went long
way toward answering the pleas OF
Senator Vandenberg, Republican, OF
Michigan and Secretary OF State
Marshall for enough money to keep
faith" with Europe and prevent the
recovery program from becoming
"one of mere relief.
The Senators recommended a to-
tai of S5,O55 100000 for the first year
of the donation recovery effort. The
House had voted enough funds to
bring the initial outlay up to the
same total, but directed that the
money must last an extra three
months
This would have meant a cut
estimated by Paul G. Hoffman, ad-
ministrator of the recovery program,
at more than .400,000000
The Senate committees bill now
Evening star., 1948-06-13
.Ok|ohomo Supreme Court Bors
IWuIIuce's Party From Ballot

Oklahoma law requires party
presidential electors to be voted on
in the primary. Since the Progress
sives will have none on the primary
ballot under the courts ruling, this
counts them out of the general elec-
ton in November as well.
Spokesman for Mr.. Wallace In
New York declined immediate COM
ment or the court ruling.
Last week, Mr.. Wallace's cam
paign manager announced the third
party presidential aspirant had won
a place on the ballot in Alabama
Utah, California, New Jersey, Michi-
gan, Pennsylvania, New York and
Cook County, Ill.
In addition, C. B. Baldwin, the
campaign manager, said at the time
sufficient signatures had been filed
to put Mr.. Wallace before the voters
in Maryland, West Virginia and
Oklahoma.
The IL States have Oil electoral
votes out Of Q total Of 531.