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Evening star., 1948-01-29
|19Month Aid Estimate
Conservative, McCIoy'
Advises Senators
By The A,,oeio,.d Pres.

John j. McCloy, president of the
World Bank, advised Senators to-
day that he thinks $6,800, 900 900 Is
a "con servative" estimate of the
amount, needed to finance the first
Is months of the European Re-
covery Program.
Mr.. NcCloy gave this opinion in
letter to Chairman Vandenberg Of
the Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee. He said it is based on in
.vestigatians made by the banks
staff.
President Truman asks $780,
0O0, 900 for the first IS months of
the proposed four years and three
months aid to Europe program.
Some Republicans in Congress are
talking of cutting $4,000, $1,000 or
more off that.
Senator Vandenberg made Mr..
Nc cCloy's letter public as the COM
mittee continued hearings on the
whole proposal.
Junior Chamber Backs Plan.
John Ben Shepperd, Gladewater,
Tex, president, said the Junior
Chamber of Commerce backs the
program:
First, because of the humani-
tartan aspects involved; second, be-
cause of the effect it would have
on the peace Of the world If aid
were not enacted"
Meanwhile Secretary of State
Marshall told a news conference
yesterday any reduction below the
SC, 300, ,000, 900 In the authorization bill
now pending before Congress would
mean a cut in the program, despite
the fact that the entire amount
probably would not be actually dis
bursed by the end of the next fiscal
year.
He also indicated approval of
Brookings Institution proposal as a
compromise on the controversial is
sue of how the recovery program
should be administered.
No Objection to Brookings Plan.
Gen. Marshall said he had no
particular exceptions to take to
the plan submitted by the Brook
ings Institution at the request Of
Chairman Vandenberg of the Sen
ate Foreign Relations Committee.
The Brookings plan has drawn
wide bipartisan support in Con-
gress. 1t calls for appointment of
an independent administrator of
the program, who would not be
subject to State Department direc-
ton, but whose actions affecting
foreign policy could be blocked by
the State Department until any
disagreements were settled by the
President.
Even before Gen. Marshall spoke.
Dean Acheson and Robert M. La
Toilette had urged Senators to be
careful about cutting the fund.
Mr.. Acheson, former Undersecre-
tary of State, declared that it would
cease to be a recovery program"
If reduced to four or five billion
dollars "as some have advocated" :"
Russia, he said, takes full ,ad-
vantage OF weak and unstable situ-
ations."
La Toilette, former Wisconsin
Senator, testified that the risk in
authorizing too small fund to
help Europe get back on her feet
would be greater than the risks
in the opposite direction"
Evening star., 1948-01-29
u. ). Planes in Reich
Hunt Missing Cal
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

FRANKFURT, Germany, Jan. 20.
ALI available American aircraft in
Germany joined today in the search
for a CAT transport plane missing
more than 48 hours with three Amer
lean women and five children pas
sengers.
Air Force headquarters here said
no clue to its whereabouts had been
reported. The plane took of from
Istres, France, to Udine, Italy, Tues
day around noon. Search was con-
centrated in Southeast France and
Northern Italy.
The women and children were
dependents of American servicemen
in the Trieste area and had ar
rived in Europe Saturday from the
United States. ittF
Gn Trieste United States Army
headquarters said the names of
those aboard the plane would not
be released until their fate had
been determined and next of kin
notified. Search headquarters
were set up at TrieSte)
Air Force officials said last night
they feared the plane may have
fallen into the Mediterranean, since
its route Of flight carried 1t over
the sea part way.
Evening star., 1948-01-29
Chicago Times and Sun
Become Combination Paper
Bv the A,soe;oted Press

CHICAGO, Jan. 29.-The Chi
cage Times and the Chicago Sun
have announced that, effective next
Monday. they will become a single
newspaper with morning and even
ing editions.
The new publication, to be known
as the Chicago Daily Sun and Times,
will have the combined news and
picture facilities of the present sep
arate papers, the announcement
said.
Marshall Field, who established
the Sun, a morning paper, in De-
cember, 1941, and became its pub
Usher, purchased a controlling in
tereSt in the older Times, an even
ing tabloid, last fall. At that time
the Sun also became tabloid and
the Sunday issue was combined as
the Chicago Sunday Sun and Times
Evening star., 1948-01-29
|Reservists' Dinner
For ForrestaI Attended
by Military Leaders

Many OF the Nations military
leoders were among guests who hon.
ored Defense Secretary Forrestal at
Ia testimonial dinner sponsored by
the National Federation Of Reserve
Officers Association in the Army
Navy Country Club, Arlington, Va,
last night.
In addition to Mr.. Forrestal, who
spoke of the record, guests included
Army Secretary Royal, Navy Secre-
tary Sullivan Air Secretary Sy-
mington and Gen. Omar N. Bradley,
Army Chief of Staff-designate.
|, Also present were Admiral Louis
E. Denfield, Chief of Naval Opera
tions: Maj. Gen. Carl Gray, head of
the Veterans Administration; Sen
ator Gurney, Republican, of South
Dakota, chairman of the Senate
Armed Services Committee; Brig.
Gen. E. A. Evans, executive director
of the Reserve Officers Association,
and Brig. Gen. Albert L. Cox, COM
mander of the District National
Guard.
Col. Melvin Mas of st. Paul,
Mimi, president of the federation
and of the Marine Corps Reserve
Ofhcers' Association, was in charge
of arrangements and acted as
POSTMASTER for the occasion.
Some 300 Reserve officers and fed
Grafton guests, mostly from the
Washington area, were present. -
Col. Mas said that Mr.. Forrestal
was singled out to be honored be-
cause of his outstanding wartime
service as Secretary of the Navy and
his leadership in his new post as
head of the armed services under
the unification plan adopted last
year by Congress.
Evening star., 1948-01-29

tCOLlUlIluSu T ii 81 ago.
which directed them to close during
debate on the bill.
The Communists were defeated in
the Finance Commission when they
failed to get a majority on pro-
posal to force the government to
explain the conditions under which
5,0O0-fra notes will be exchanged.
The vote was 20 to 20 on that pro-
posal also.
Former Premier Paul Reynaud
who was quoted in an evening news
paper as being unfavorable to the
money bill, abstained along with a
member of the Premier's Popular
Republican Party (MRP.
Cabinets Life at Stake.
Shortly before the bill was intro
duced Mr.. Schuman said the cabi-
net had agreed to it in meet
ing held before the Assembly +es-
sion
In the Assembly, Communist Dep
uty Jacques Duclos objected to Mr..
Schuman's demand for rapid action
on the bill. He said spectators
already were buying 5,000-franc
notes for 1000 francs.
Observers said one aim of the
new bill was to satisfy the So
cialists. They have been baking
at separate bill to authorize q
free market in gold. The latter
move would tend to bring boarded
gold stocks out of hiding and en-
able France to use these reserves
to buy needed imports.
Many Grow Panicky.
Many Frenchmen grew panicky
at unconfirmed rumors the govern
|ment would give back only 5000
francs for each note.
In at least one Paris neighborhood,
housewives found shopkeeper un-
aware of the freeze and rushed to
pay their back bills-all in 5000
franc notes.
Tuesday the Assembly's Finance
Commission voted II to Is to report
the gold bill out unfavorably, and
Socialist deputies. in caucus, de-
cided not to support the bill.
Last night, however, the Socialists
reached a compromise with Mr.
Schuman.
BY this compromise, effected in a
half hour cabinet meeting, the five
Socialist cabinet ministers will vote
for the bill, while other Socialist
deputies will abstain. #E
Evening star., 1948-01-29
p1A Health Program
For School Children
Proposed al Institute

A proposal that parent-teachsr
associations conduct a city-wide
health program to promote better
health facilities for school children
and better use of existing ones was
laid before the llth Annual Parent
Teacher Institute at George Wash
ington University yesterday.
Mrs. c. H. Bennett. president Of
the Gage PTA. made the suggestion
before the final meeting Of the two
day institute. after presenting q
series of questions to District Health
Department officials. The officials.
headed by DR., George c. Ruhland.
District Health Officer, described
the services the department pro-
vides.
DR.. Ella Oppenheimer, director OF
the Health Departments Bureau OF
Maternal and Child Welfare, an
nounced that her Office hopes with
in a few weeks to begin survey OF
rheumatic fever and heart disease
among school schildren.
Junior high school students will
be checked in the survey if school
authorities approve, she said, and
it is expected to be the basis of an
expanded and more adequate pro-
gram to combat these ills which
rank among the top killers and
cripplers of children.
To Check School Absences.
An automatic check of children
who have prolonged absences from
classes also will be part Of the pro-
gram, 1t was said.
The survey will give statistics on
areas within the city where rheu-
matte fever and heart disease II
most prevalent among children, DR..
Oppenheimer said after her talk.
Rheumatic fever ranks with tu-
berculosis and syphylis in its Grip
pling effects among children, DR..
Oppenheimer said, and is the most
common cause of deaths among
children with the exception of acci-
dents. 1t Is second among causes Of
deaths by disease among persons
20 to "a years old. 1t is estimated
that more than 100000 persons.
young and old, in the United States
suffer from rheumatic fever or rheu-
matte heart disease, she said.
Dr.. Bernard Walsh, bureau con-
sultant, will direct the survey, and
two members of the bureau staff
also will take part in the examina-
tion They are DR.. Bernice Wedum
and DR.. Arthur Sims.
Sees 60 Nurses Needed.
The District needs go nurses as
signed to its schools. Mrs. Josephine
Pitman Prescott, director of the Bu-
reau of Public Health Nursing, told
the institute. 1t now has Is. Sixty
nurses, she said, would permit
nurse to be assigned to each large
school, and other nurses to handle
an average of four smaller schools
each.+
Mrs. Andrew G. Weaver, first vice
president of the District Congress
of Parents and Teachers, presided
at the session. DR.. Charles E. BiSh.
associate professor of education at
George Washington University, was
discussion leader.
Mrs. Bennett suggested specifi-
cally that the proposed PTA pro-
gram be designed to acquaint par
entS with the clinics and school
health services which schools and
the District offer and that 1t in
clude formation of study groups"
to examine subjects related to school
children's health.
One Pacific specie of the octo-
pus Is known to have grown to a
diameter of % feet.
Evening star., 1948-01-29
u. N. Koreu Unit to Meet
On Red Zone Entry Bon
BY the Associofsd Press


SEOUL. Jan. 29.-Chairman
K. P. S. Menon said today that the
United Nations Commission for
Korea would meet February to
consider Russia's refusal to permit it
to enter tn Northern (Soviet) Oc-
cupation zone to prepare for elec-
tions, preliminary to establishing
Korean independence.
Mr.. Menon said the commission
was undecided whether to conduct
elections only in the Southern
(American occupation zone or ad-
nit failure to carry out its assign
ment and quit.
The chairman, India's represent
ative, said the commission could
expect no cooperation from the
South Korean leftist minority.
Evening star., 1948-01-29
Congress in Brief
BY the Associatsd Press

Senate:
In recess until tomorrow.
Foreign Relations Committee con-
tinues hearings on European Recov-
cry Program.
Banking Committee continues
hearings on price control and
sterilization legislation.
Banking Subcommittee hears Sen
ator Pepper. Democrat, of Florida
and others on extension of Federal
rent controls.
Banking Subcommittee hears AS
siStant Secretary of Agriculture
Charles F. Brennan on legislation to
set up standby meat rationing
system.
War Investigating Committee
hears Secretary of Defense Forrestal
on Arabian American oil transac-
tions.
House:
Starts debate on income tax re-
duction.
Commerce Committee investigates
petroleum situation.
Evening star., 1948-01-29
Gunmon Gets ST, 900
At Cleveland Terminal
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

CLEVELAND, Jan. pa we'll
dressed man jabbed a nickel-plated
revolver through the wicket OF a
railroad ticket office at Union Ter
minal early today and robbed the
clerk of an estimated $1,000.
AS some 20 patrons and char
women stood within 200 feet in the
vast concourse, the clerk, Kenneth
j. Simko, %, said the robber saun-
tered up and asked for a round
trip ticket to New York City and
then demanded "all the big bills" ."
Mr.. Simko alerted police with the
foot buzzer but the man got away.
Evening star., 1948-01-29

might be. Consequently, if the bill
is to be given full support and con-
sideration on the crowded Senate
calendar, it needs the backing OF at
least one top Republican Senator.
This was vividly demonstrated
last week in the case of the civil
service retirement bill. For more
than a year, despite the valiant
efforts of Senators Chavez and
LANCER, it was stalled in the Senate.
But as soon as Senator Taft threw
his support behind the measure, it
was passed in no time at ALL
The $64 question now is whether
Senator Taft or some of his top
colleagues would be willing to sup
port pay raise legislation. let alone
take charge OF the fight on the
Senate floor. a..
Employees groups are hopeful this
might be accomplished, but they
realize that they will have a hard
time persuading the Republican
leadership. However, the successful
climax to the retirement fight, after
it mad appeared that the legislation
was dead, gives at least modicum
of hope that history might be re-
peated in the case of pay raise leg
islation. . -
JOBS-Latest estimates are that
the Marshall Plan, If enacted by
Congress, will create about 1000 jobs
Half of the positions would be over
seas, and the other 500 would be
here.
Economists, trade analysts and
other professional workers would fill
the bulk Of the jobs, but there also
would be goodly assortment OF
clerical positions.
Some top Government officials be-
lieve that, once the program gets
underway, the 1000 estimate will
Evening star., 1948-01-29
100 Are Reported Killed
In Reunion Isle Typhoon
BY the Asseeioted Press

PARIS, Jan. pa typhoon
which hit Reunion Island Monday
night killed more than 100 persons,
the French press agency said today.
Property damage was estimated at
more than 1,0O0, 0,000, 900 francs (about
$4,000,000).
Almost all Reunions sugar plan
tations were affected The island
lies in the Indian Ocean east of
Madagascar.
Evening star., 1948-01-29
Engineers Call Off Strike;
Emergency Board Named

The Brotherhood Of Locomotive
Engineers announced yesterday in
Cleveland that the strike call for
Sunday had been revoked following
President Truman's appointment OF
an emergency board to investigate
the wage dispute of three brother
hoods.
Similar action will follow by the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
and Enginmen and the Switchmen's
Union of North America, In accord
ance with the Railway Labor Act.
Evening star., 1948-01-29
Comfortable Night
Reported for Wright
by the Associofsd Press

DAYTON, Ohio, Jan. 29.-Avia-
lion pioneer Orville Wright, 76
frosted comfortably" during the
night, his physician, DR.. A. B.
Brewer, said today.
Dl Brewer described Mr. Wrights
condition as more serious than we
first believed" The co-inventor OF
the airplane suffered a heart attack
Tuesday in his laboratory.
Since then, DR.. Brewer said
Wright developed quite conges-
ton of the right lung" He suffered
q previous heart attack last october
Evening star., 1948-01-29
Mrs. Talbot Is Awarded
$500 Temporary AIimony
By the Assocjoted Press


WEST PALM BEACH, Fla, Jan.
29.-Temporary alimony of 5000 a
month has been awarded Mrs.
Nancy Rheem Talbot of Washing
ton, D. c., and Palm Beach, who al
legged her husbands attentions to
Movie Actress Lana Turner caused
her great mental anguish"
Circuit Judge Joseph S. White
signed the order yesterday on agree
ment between attorneys for Mrs.
Talbot and her husband, John AL
den Talbot, jr.
The order Cancelled an alimony
hearing which had been set for
today.
Mrs. Talbot said in her bill of
complaint last Saturday that her
husband ceased contributing to her
support when he started going with
Miss Turner.
Evening star., 1948-01-29

Committee, and
Senator Chavez,
D e m o cr a t, of
N e W M e Xico.
B OF h Senators
have done good
work on the pay
bill.
B u t Senator
LANCER has been
a party rebel on
a number of oc-
casions, and his
relationship with
the top inner
Republican cir
Gle isn't always
Evening star., 1948-01-29
Fighting Breaks Out Again
ion Tel Aviv-Jaffa Border
by the Associoted Press

JERUSALEM, Jan. 29.-Fighting
broke out anew today in the no
mans land between Tel Aviv and
Jaffa.
An Arab was killed during four
hours of shooting there last night
Eight Arabs and two Jews were
wounded.
The death increased to 995 the
unofficial number of fatalities in
Palestine since partition was voted
November %.
The British closed all bridges into
Palestine from TranS-Jordan except
the heavily guarded Allenby Bridge.
Tightening of the frontiers followed
the crossing into the Holy Land of
$50 uniformed and we'll trained Arab
volunteer troops from Trans-Jordan
Armed Arab bands hated and
looted three trains before dawn in
Central and Eastern Palestine, re-
liable sources reported.
Evening star., 1948-01-29
Reich DPS Worse Off
Even Than Germans,
Lutherans Are Told
By cospor Nonnes
Star Stoff Correspondent

RICHMOND, Jan. 29.-Displaced
persons in Germany are worse off
today than the Germans themselves,
DR.. S. c. Michelfelder, executive Sec
retary Of the Lutheran World Fed
Grafton, told the National Lutheran
Council here today.
The displaced person gets his ra-
tions but he cannot buy anything
else" DR.. -Michelfelder declared.
The tension between the Germans
and the displaced persons is in
ereasing and the degeneration COM
ing on is having its serious effect.
BY bringin gdisplaced persons
cut Of Germany, we are not only
helping them but also helping the
Germans by taking these people off
their neck"
Selection Is Discussed.
DR.. Michelfelder added, I'VE are
touching the problem of Europe at
its most vital point in tackling the
displaced persons problem"
He pointed out that in the selec-
ton of displaced persons. countries
receiving them have tried to take
those who meet the specific needs
of these nations.
America will get the remainder,
he said, unless it takes part in the
program and arranges to receive its
proper share of the desirable dis
placed persons"
The speaker said 20 per cent OF
the displaced persons in Germany
are Jews. Practically all of them,
he stated, want to go to Pales-
tine Their enthusiasm for set
ting in Palestine is very great
The original method of selecting
displaced persons for countries was
bad, DIR. Michelfelder contended
He cited the example of a man
sent to a South American country
who thought he was going to dc
bookkeeping and found himself set
to work in a coal mine. After a
few days he was unable to continue
work and had to be returned to
Germany.
Present methods of selection have
improved and are reducing such
situations greatly, DR.. Michelfeldel
added. d,
Yesterday DR.. Michelfelder out
lined for ALLEGATION of the $4,000
900 to be raised this year by the
constituent bodies of the council
A total of 100000 of this amount
will be set aside for church rehabil-
itation.
Germany will receive s1,0OO,OOO for
the rehabilitation of Lutheran
churches there DR.. Michelfelder
said.
Amounts by Countries.
Amounts to be given to other
countries are: Czechoslovakia and
Hungary, $15o,00O each; Poland
sl25.0 900; Austria, 100000; Romania
France, England, Finland, Palestine,
$4,000 each. and South America
$4,000. Other allocations from the
fund will include $500,000 for Lu-
theran World Relief and 100000 for
the American Bible Society.
Retention Of the Lutheran Service
Center at 1856 Jackson place NV.
Washington for use as a center OF
Lutheran church activities was
voted by the council las" night. The
building, purchased in l943 and
opened March, 1914, as a war service
measure, will house the Lutheran
Washington Inner Mission Society
the Bureau OF Service to Military
Personnel, Board of Education OF
the United Lutheran Church in
America, Army Navy Commission of
the Missouri Synod, the Division
OF Welfare and the Division of Pub
lie Relations. $50. -
The institutional chapl n c. y
beaded by the Rev. Carl r. Plack,
with responsibility to veterans in
service hospitals, also will be housed
In the building.
Evening star., 1948-01-29
Supreme Soviet to Meet
In KremIin Tomorrow
BY the Associoied Press

LONDON, Jan. 29.-The Supreme
Soviet (ParliamenD of the U. S.
S. r. will meet in the Kremlin to-
morrow, the Moscow radio reported
SGT to $102.
today.
The Council of the Union sits at
2 pm. (6 pm. EST in the Supreme
Soviet conference hall The Council
of Nationalities, the second house,
convenes two hours later.
The broadcast did not say what
business was on the agenda.
Evening star., 1948-01-29

have to be revised upward some
what.
X y X +
GOOD ENOUGH-At the Treas
ury Department they tell the story
of the sweet young thing who ap-
piled for job there.
whats your qualifications? asked
the personnel man.
WELL said the girl. "I've always
liked to handle money ="
X X *
DISCIPLINE The question Of
how to handle disciplinary actions
in the Government has long been a
bone of contention among Federal
officials.
Some contend the personnel office
should have direct authority in
these cases, while other officials con-
tend that disciplinary actions should
originate from the top agency head
levels.
1t now looks, however, as if some
thing might actually be done to
work out a uniform system of dis
cipline in the Government The
Society for Personnel Administra-
ton has scheduled meeting for
7:30 pm. Tuesday in the Archives
Auditorium to discuss the problem,
and various agency officials will pre-
sent their views on the subject.
In addition, one of the speakers
will be James B. Burns, president
of the AFL American Federation Of
Government Employees, who is
closely acquainted with personnel
problems and who will present the
employees point OF view. Chairman
of the meeting will be Fred Beers,
Veterans Administration personnel
officer.
CAPITAL ROUNDUP - House.
Senate conferees on the civil serv-
ice retirement legislation hope to
draft a final bill within several
weeks. Next meeting of the con-
ferees is on Tuesday, when Civil
Service Commission retirement OFF,
cials will analyze the differences in
the House and Senate bills. -.
The CIO United Public Workers of
America reports it has organized a
majority of the per diem workers
on Kauai, Hawaii. UPWA previously
had organized the so-called silver"
employees in the Panama Canal
Zone.
additional neWs OF Govern-
ment affairs and personalities
make up Joseph Young's broad
cast persion OF the Federal Spot
ligh., regular feature at 3:15
Evening star., 1948-01-29
WiIIium O. Trout Dies

JONESBORO, Ark, Jan. % (P.-
William o. Trout, IT, pioneer
Arkansas newspaperman and a
member of the Associated Press,
died today. He was co-founder and
for As years one of the publishers
of the Jonesboro Evening Sun. He
was stricken last week with bron-
chial pneumonia.
Evening star., 1948-01-29
Jops Who Make Yen
Strike to Get More
In Pay Envelope
~ the Associotsd Press

TOKYO, Jan. 29.-Japanese
printers, turning out more and
more yen for the government,
struck today because they want
more yen from the government.
The walkout, involving more
than 5000 workers, was the first
ever staged in a government
agency. Their exact demands
were not reported.
Evening star., 1948-01-29
Greeks .Fioht on 8 Fronts

ATHENS, Jan. 20 (R.-Guerrilla
fighting flared up on eight widely
scattered fronts in Greece today.
Semiofiicial reports said the rebels
were attacking villages to replenish
supplies and personnel.
Evening star., 1948-01-29
The Federal Spotlight
The Federal Spotlight
Worker Groups Seek 7opG.O.P.
Leadership for Pay Raise Fight
By Joseph Young

Leaders of Government employees are
quietly sounding Republican leaders in the Senate to
any the Federal raise drive
Taft other top Republi
good