davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
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will tend to be depressed in a simi-
lar degree" 1t continues" change
which will, in turn, reduce the po-
tential demand for engagement
rings, wedding presents, household
furniture and other things related
to marriages"
Prom 1947 to 1852, single mer
20-25 will have a relatively large
number Of single women 1923 from
which to choose BRIDE" the fore
casters say. This may tend to raise
the proportion Of the former te
marry or lower the proportion Of the
latter who do 50. From 1857 to 1868
these tendencies will be reversed
Such changes in the propensity te
marry may be Offset by changes ir
the proportion of bachelors selec-
ting a bride 2 to 4 years younger
as compared with one Of some other
age, but probably will not be COM
pletely Offset. because such a social
custom tends to be stable"
Trend Favors Bachelors.
Elsewhere, the report states:
"At ages beyond 40, the oppor-
tunities for spinsters and widows to
marry probably will become less
favorable In the future and those
for bachelors and widowers, more
favorable"
These are among the changes in
the population considered probable,
II present trends Of the controlling
factors are not disturbed markedly
1. The proportion of persons over
65 will increase greatly.
2. The proportion of those under
10 will shink, and the total in 1875
may be smaller than at present.
8. The proportion Of adults In the
best working ages"-1S-44-will de-
cline.
4. The proportion in the older
working age group-45-64-will in
crease.
More Families Are Seen.
5. The number Of families will in
crease in the next Is years at a
higher rate than total population.
8. The sex ratio probably will
show little change, but the present
small excess of females over males
may increase slightly If immigration
Is not substantial.
7. The proportion Of foreign-born
will decline greatly, unless immigra-
ton Is increased considerably.
What will these developments
mean?
In the opinion Of the authors OF
the report, these probably will be
among the results:
/. The fall Of 1852 will place the
greatest strain on school systems
with respect. to new pupils.
2. The aging of the population
will increase the loads on the So
cial security system, homes for the
aged and hospitals treating the in
f1rnities of age.
8. The same factor will cause an
increased resistance to drastic
change in the designs of consumer
goods items and may slow techno-
logical progress If not accompanied
by increased adult education.
4. Young workers will find in
creasing numbers of oldsters astride
their promotion channels.
s. More small housing units will
be needed as the proportion of
couples with grown children in
creases.
Evening star., 1948-03-15
George B. Strotton, 81,
Once Circus Clown, Dies
N fhs Assnciufad Press

BY the Assocofed freSs
FALMOUTH, Mass, Mar. Is
George Bryant Stratton, 81, one
time clown with the P. T. Barnum
Circus, died yesterday.
Born IN Medford, he became a
circus performer at II and continued
| for IS wears.
Evening star., 1948-03-15
House Group Splits +,
3Ways on Rent Bill;
Both Parties Hit Plan
BY the Assoeie,ed Pres,

BY the Asseeie.sd Press
The House Banking Committee
split In three directions today on
rent control. Blocs of Repub-
licans and Democrats-for diff
ferent reasons-assailed legisla-
ton approved by the committee.
Present Federal controls expire
March 81.
The House was called to open
debate as these developments oc-
CURED:
Six committee Democrats filed a
minority report that the bill would
mean decontrol in many localities
with rent increases as high as sc
per cent.
Legality OF the bills '1ocal option
power for rent control boards was
questioned.
Minority Views" Offered.
-Four committee Republicans pre-
sented minority views" saying
renters know political control over
rents is wrong" They said removal
of control would make available
1000, 100000 more living quarters.
The majority of the 27-member
committee filed with the House its
formal report explaining the
measure and defending the "local
option" provision.
The Democrats levelled their fire
at this feature. 1t would strip
Federal officials of major powers
and transfer to local rent boards
authority to raise rents or lift con-
trolls completely in their areas.
Majority Report Cited.
The majority's report said:
The local boards will have to live
with the decisions they make and
there should be no fear that their
decisions will not be entirely re-
sponsive to the needs Of the people
particularly under the the
committee amendment which re-
quires hearings, due notice thereof
to affected parties, opportunity tc
be heard and adequate standards
for the boards guidance"
The four Republicans presenting
minority views" were Representa-
tives Smith of Ohio, Buffet Of Ne
braska, Banta OF Missouri and
Fletcher of California. They ex-
pressed fear that rent controls will
lead to control of prices, wages,
hours Of work and where you must
work"
McGrath Assails "GOP Law"
They argued that under rent con-
troll many persons occupy more room
than they need.
Democratic National Chairman
j. Howard McGrath issued formal
statement assailing "The Repub-
lican save-the-landlord, soak-the-
tenant rent control law" He re-
ferred to the present rent law and
declared the revisions proposed
would make imitation worse.
Walter P. Reuther, CLOS hous-
ing committee chairman, denounced
the proposed bill as unconstitu-
tional.
A showdown vote Is set In the
House tomorrow. The Senate has
passed a bill to continue rent con-
trolls until May /, 1S4s. That body
rejected the proposal to transfer
powers from Washington to the
local boards. The House bill would
extsndt1e. neutrality-suspicious. Until
Anri1 1919
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Foreign Aid
Continued From First Page.)

itself against further Communis
inf1ltration. -
"The hour is more fateful nov
than it was one year ago" Secretar!
Marshall told the committee, re
ferring to the passage of the origina
$400, ,00o, 900 Greek-Turkish aid bill
'eBy intimidation, fraud, and ter
ror, Communist regimes have beer
imposed on Hungary and Czecho'
slovakia. Totalitarian control hal
been frightened in other countries ir
eastern Europe, and these states
have been linked together in net.
work of allegiances. Other Euro.
pean peoples face similar threat
of being drawn against their will
into the Communist orbit.
U. s. Must Avoid Hasty Action.
I'm this situation, the United
States must avoid hasty action
which could lead to the dissipation
of our resources, or fear which
would lead to sterile inaction. With
calm determination we must pursue
the policy confirmed last May by
the Congress"
TN reviewing efforts of the Greek
government to subdue guerrilla
forces along its northern border with
the aid Of American supplies, Gen.
Marshall made these disclosures:
The guerrillas have more than
doubled" their numbers and i'm
proved their armament as q con-
sequence of outside aid, the source
of which he did not identify.
Criticizes Three Balkan Nations.
He sharply criticized Yugoslavia
Albania and Bulgaria for refusing
to cooperate with the United Ma
tions in trying to bring about peace
full settlement of the Greek hos
tilities. :
He charged also that "the Soviet
Union and Poland have failed te
accept" places reserved for them or
the U. N. Special Committee on the
Balkan Situation.
He said the latest example OF tn
ruthlessness of the Greek guerrilla
in connivance with foreign powers
is the planned removal Of more thai
$4,000 Greek children to other coun
tries of Eastern Europe.
Gen. Marshall added that "th
true purpose Of this plan can eash
be seen behind the fiction OF hu
manitarianism, and the Greek gov
ernment has justly denounced 1t a
comparable to the practices OF MAJ
Germany"
Senate Committee Recesses.
After hearing Gen. Marshall, tn
Senate committee recessed unit
Wednesday, when, Chairman Van
denberg announced, it will hear
Mai. Gen. Arthur M. Harper an
Mai. Gen. Horace L. Mcbride, Amer
lean officers who have been acting a
advisers in Greece and Turke,
Another witness that day will b
George c. MCGEE, co-ordinator
the Greek-Turkish Aid Program.
Although emphasizing the seriou
nature of Greece's predicamen
Secretary Marshall also said in hi
testimony which was made publ
by the committee later:
Serious as it is, the Greek situa
ton is not without hope. Unfavor
able worldwide and local economi
factors which have contributed t
retard recovery, now show signs {
improvement. Important admin
istrative, financial and fiscal re
forms and many reconstructio
projects undertaken in Greece wit
the help of the American missio
are beginning to make their effect
felt"
The Secretary added, howeve
that, "the danger remains that Il
Communist-dominated countries I
Europe will increase their presstu
an Greece Just as they have in 9TH
directions in Europe. 1t Is Il
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have agreed to a suggestion thai
German representatives sit in OF
the Paris meeting. Gen. Clay sale
they would not be full-fledged par.
Elephants but advisers to American
and British representatives of tn,
combined United States British
zones.
Mr.. Bidault told the delegates:
Europe was torn apart in June
Of 1947 by the refusals to Cooperate
which Mr.. Bevin and myself were
not able to prevent, despite all ou,
efforts. That division has become
aggravated today in a manner a.
fearsome as it is unfortunate.
Recent events, present in the
minds of all, show with dramatic
spectacularity the reasons why
Europe is now-temporarily If We
have our wish-reduced to the IL
countries present here"
Difficulties Grow.
Mr.. Bidault said political diff
culties have widened since the 1e
Marshall Plan nations first met, and
economic difficulties have grown.
Nobody can escape recognizing
this state of affairs except by
ridiculous denials or by silence
which Is not wholly spontaneous, >
the French statesman continued.
His reference obviously was q
charge that countries boycotting
the Marshall Plan were doing SO
under foreign pressure.
Mr.. Bidault said the economic
condition of Europe is "precarious
and dangerous, both in itself, and
in the consequences it will bring
If 1t is prolonged"
Evening star., 1948-03-15
'28 Germans Ordered
Sent Home>From Jopun

h TOKYO. Mar. l5.-Five former
German diplomats and Is other Ger
mans are going home--under Allied
Headquarters orders.
4 CLASSIFIED as Objectionable Ger
man nationals subject to forcible
repatriation" they will be flown to
Frankfurt shortly. They include
Karl Balser, consul at Kobe; Erich
Boltze, counsellor, and Hans Ulrich
Won Marchthaler, first secretary of
the embassy here.
Evening star., 1948-03-15
sponsored BY Portugal.


A British Foreign Office spokesman
said Portugal was one of the nations
sponsoring Spanish membership. He
did not say how Great Britain felt,
although the Foreign Office previ-
ously has opposed Spanish partici-
patton while Spain remained under
the Franco government.
The Spanish government-in-exile
here made known its intention to
protest.
|. The new five-nation bloc Of
Britain, France, Belgium, the
Netherlands and Luxembourg at
tracted interest The nations con-
cluded 50-year military, economic
and political alliance last week.
Circles close to the five nations
indicated the union would not try
to expand itself Immediately. They
said the object was to solidify the
union first as nucleus for leader
ship.
Meanwhile, representatives of ma.
tions outside the alliance were
getting explanations on its terms
Three foreign ministers saw Mr.
Bidault about 1t yesterday. They
were Necmeddin Sadak of Turkey
Sean MacBride of Fire and
Constantin Tsaldaris of Greece.
Mercury is the only metal which
is liquid at ordinary temperatures.
Evening star., 1948-03-15
Vermont Group to Meet

The Vermont Association Of Wash
ington win meet at b PIN Thursday
in the Washington Club, Seven
teenth and K Streets NV, to elect
officers. -
Evening star., 1948-03-15
Thomas Beeqs to Speak

Thomas NJ. Beggs, assistant .direc-
tor Of fine arts at the National Art
Museum, will speak at a ptiblic
meeting at 8:45 pm. Friday In
Friendship House, 619 D street Sc.
Evening star., 1948-03-15

The Chinese, transport, one of the
planes owned by Maj. Gen. Claire
L. Chennault's commercial airline,
was carrying A refugees being
evacuated from Communist-encir-
cled Mukden, Manchuria, to Tsing-
tao, China.
Evening star., 1948-03-15
Russians Reject Protest
In Attack on Chinese Plane
BY the Assoeiofsd Press

MOSCOW, Mar. 15.-The Soviet
Union has rejected a Chinese pro.
test that Soviet planes fired on 6
Chinese passenger plane" last Tues.
day south Of Port. Arthur. Tass re.
ported yesterday.
Tass said the Soviet Embassy ir
China had informed the Chinese
government in an official note that
the plane had violated the Port Ar
thur base area and had been sig
nailed by two Russian craft to fol-
low them and land. The Soviet
note asserted the Chinese plane had
failed to obey the. instructions,
Evening star., 1948-03-15

Mercury is the only metal which
is liquid at ordinary temperatures.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-07-14

Al Dilfolds,
internal Revenue
Clocks retailing
not than $4,000 subject to 1o%
4 900.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-06-24
TWO ARGENTINE
 MEN IN SEATTLE;
 BIKING TO ALASKA

SEATTLE, June 24.-R-Two Ar genuine young men have arrived in Seattle, putting 26,000 miles be- hind them in their 45,000-mile tour of North and South America-on bicycles.
 They are Pedro Rocasalvo, 27, and his brother, Carlos, 2l, of Buenos Aires.
 Also behind them, they said, were such experiences as dodging bull lets in a Bolivian revolution and hacking their way through jungles with machetes at the rate of five miles day.
 Notables such as President Ale man of Mexico have entertained them.
 When the urge moves them, they said, they will leave Seattle and travel up the Alaska Highway to Fairbanks. They will start back home then, going by way of Ottawa, Canada, and Florida. They expect to reach home in 1851.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-06-24
AERO MECHANICS
 VOTE TO CONTINUE
 STRIKE AT B0EING5

SEATTLE, June 24-tR-Several thousand members of the Aero Mechanics Union have voted "un- swerving determination" to con- tinue the strike against Boeing Aircraft at Seattle-a walkout now going into it's third month.
 The vote was taken last night during an overflow meeting in Seattle's civic auditorium. The strikers heard a telegram from President Harvey Brown of the parent International Association of Machinists. Brown offered to de- bate publicly in Seattle with AFL Teamster boss Dave Beck on the Teamsters' claim to jurisdiction over 5000 of the 14,800 Boeing workers.
 Support of the airplane workers strike was given at the meeting by President Earl Hartley of the Puget Sound District Council of the AFL Lumber and Sawmill Workers Union. Wages and other issues are involved in the lengthy dispute
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-06-24
NAVY BILL IS SIGNED
 BY TRUMAN
Nearly Four Billion Dollars fo Be Spent for Navy
 and Marine Corps

WASHINGTON, June 24.--tR- President Truman today signed in- to law a bill carrying $3,749, ,059 ,250 to maintain and expand the Navy and Marine Corps during the year starting July 1.
 The measure includes funds with which to start construction of a 65, 5,00O-ton air craft carrier that will cost an estimated sl27, 100000. It will be the largest of its kind ailoat.
 The Navy asked $3,927, ,738, TOO for the year.
 By the use of wartime reserves and previous appropriations. the Navy will have more than $5,000.- 0e0,000 to spend in the next l2 months.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-06-24
7 PLANES IN CRASH;
 SET FIRES
Two Navy Ensigns Met Death Miracle Saves
 Scores of Fatalities

DETROIT, June 24.-tRl- The Navy launched an inquiry today into spectacular crash of two fighter planes that set off raging fires in three homes and a fac tory in the heart of Detroit,
 Witnessed by thousands, the crash took the lives of two Naval Reserve pilots whose planes collid- ed in mid-air yesterday afternoon while flying in formation. Both pilots were students at MichiEan State College.
 Police and firemen agreed that only "a miracle" saved scores of persons from death or serious in- jury when the planes careened out of the sky.
 The victims were Ensign J. H.. Nicholson, 25, Scranton, Ia, and Ensign Roy E. Schultheiss, 24, of Port Huron, Mich.
 Schultheiss' plane, Corssir, spun onto the Putnam Tool Co.,, where between 60 and TO men were working, injuring one man.
 The Hellcat piloted by Nichol- son, it's wing torn off, crashed in- to a home occupied by three fam lilies. It exploded on the impact shooting flaming gasoline over two adjacent houses.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-06-24
MARINE STRIKES
 BARRED
Federal Court Orders Pre- vert Threatened Walk
 outs on Shipping

NEW YORK, June 24-R-New federal court orders barring threat ened shipping strikes on three coasts and in the Great Lakes region were in effect today.
 The orders were issued in New York, San Francisco and Cleveland yesterday-on the eve of the expira tion of temporary strike bans obtain ed by the government.
 In New York, the full force of a Taft Hartley law clause was invok- ed by Federal Judge John w. Clancy who extended 10-day restraining order to an 80-day anti-strike in- junction.
 The cooling off" order affects 10000 shipping workers-members uf the CIO Maritime Union and two other CIO Unions-on the east and Gulf coasts.
 In San Francisco, Judge George B. Harris extended for another 10 days the temporary restraining or der issued June IA against five unions representing 30.0O0 workers
 He withheld ruling on four motions to dismiss the governments request for an 80-day injunction.
 The nationwide maritime strike originally was threatened for June Is by seven unions in dispute over new contract terms, mainly the unions hiring hall.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-06-24
"GIatier Priest" k Coming North Again;
 Plans Are Announced

SEATTLE, June 24-tR-The Rev. Bernard Hubbard, the "Gla- cier Priest" said today he is going back to Alaska for the 18th year to carry out three projects.
 He will drive up the Alaska Highway, making a color moving picture of the route. Then he will fly to Point Barrow to do orien- tation work for the Navy. After that he will return to Southeast Alaska to photograph glaciers.
 He will return to his home at Santa Clara, Calf, only briefly before leaving for the Orient in late September For the past two years, he has been photographing Jesuit missions in 1raq, Jamaica, China and the Trust Islands.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-06-24
WELLS OF LAST
 NIGHT TURN INTO
 WHISPERS TODAY
Delegates Spend Nearly Seven Hours Nominating
 Favored Candidates
By HAL BOYLE PHILADELPHIA, June 24-Rl- rcrvantior, cidalipbtc.

PHILADELPHIA, June 24-R- Convention sidelights:
 The peoples voice, filtered through i4,000 Republican larynxes, wore down to whisper today after lnearly seven hours of yelling fol the seven peoples choices"
 The grand old partys grandest old party began with stirring ex- change of war whoops and boos be- tween people for and against Gov Thomas E. Dewey. It ended at 3.02 am, with hoarse tired cheer for General Douglas Macarthur in hall three-fourths empty.
 By then the hall looked like it held semi-nudist convention meet ing the wfeckage of hurricane Confetti, torn streamers discarded paper cups and sandwich scraps Uttered the floor. Three fugitive red balloons bobbed against the ceiling, |trailing win with Taft" pennants
 The men delegates long since had Idiscardcd their coats, their neckties and ripped open their collars. Many lady delegates had slipped their feet out of their shoes.
 As the delegates Tiled out, the ianitors aWOke from catnapS and went to work
 Had the dawn come up like thun- der today it would have sounded only like whimper to the weary Republicans dreaming sweet victory for Tom Dewey, Taft, Warren, Stas- sen, Baldwin, Vandenberg or MacAr- thur
 Last night the voices named these seven. Today or tonight or tomorrow voters will know the 1948 nominee.
 Two spectators were amazed at a large rowboat containing girl in sailor garb carried around the hall on the shoulders of Stassen sup porters.
 How can you beat that?" grum- hled one. Those Stassen guys got a boat and a dame"
 Pay no attention" said the other They're a bunch of radicals
 Another delegate grabbed friend and tried to get him to march around again:
 Come on, Ed'
 I'm for him all right, sad Ed but my feet aren't"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-06-24
NOMINATION OF DEWEY SEEMS PR0BABL
Nominating Nighf al Republican Convention
 Noisy But (oIoriuI One
By RELMAN MORN

CONVENTION HALL, PHILA- DELPHIA, June 24.--tR--A girl ir a boat floats down the center aisle on a swirling stream Of humanity
 The Highlanders, kilted and skir- ling, are right behind her.
 A fire starts. The pipe organ blows fuse A cowbell clangs. A siren walls.
 Balloons trailing pennons rise to the roof, far above.
 A blonde drum majorette is hoisted atop the podium, struts, preens, and twirls her baton, hit ting a delegate in the eye.
 And while all this is going on, hundreds of people, most of them of middle age, well dressed and in- telligent in appearance, are ser pentining around the hall, yelling, bowling, bouncing placards, push ing, sweating, stumbling, and re- fUsing to quit.
 Allio Hoo liOlillhidttilE lltSllb dt the Republican Convention.
 It lasted nearly seven hours, from 8:20 p. m. tEST) until almost the dawn's early light. Tens of thousands of words were spoken. Millions of volts of electricity were burned up in the lights, the public address system, the radio, television and telegraph.
 Millions more, in human energy, were lavished in the screaming and cavorting cf the l,094 delegates to the ca,lvention and the 13,000 people in the audience.
 It was night of happy insan- ity, of amiable idiocy, of roaring and thunder and raw hysteria. It was Grand old Party ard a good time was had by all
 The purpose of all this-and your bewilderment is wholly understand able--was to nominate the var ious Republican candidates, each of whom hopes to win. the right to run for the Presidency of the United States.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-06-24
NO SETTLEMENT ON RAILROAD DISPUTE;
 CONFERENCES FAIL

WASHINGTON, June 24.-R- There's been another unsuccessful White House effort to settle the long standing railroad dispute. Spokesmen for the rail operators and the three unions involved in the dispute have talked separately with Presidential Assistant John Steelman The report is mo pro- gress."
 The nations railroads have been under nominal operation of the Army since May 10 when President Truman seized them to prevent a threatened nationwide strike.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-06-24
The W ashington Merry Go Round
By DREW PEARSON
Copyright, le48, by The Bell Syndicate
 Incl


 PHILADELPHIA The support CTS of statesmanlike Senator Van- denberg should have known that hell hath no fury like woman scorned. Their biggest mistake at the opening of the Convention was to kick out Mrs. Dudley Hay after her many years of hard work as National Committeewoman and as Secretary of the COP National Committee.
 For thereby hangs a tale of poli- tical finagling which goes straight to the doors of some of the biggest Republican leaders in Michigan, a tale which does not help the presi- dential future of Arthur Vanden- berg.
 Some time ago, two big-shot Michigan gamblers, Danny Sullivan and Lincoln Fitzgerald, were in- dicted and immediately became fugitives from justice. Skipping to Nevada, they established the New ada Club in wide-open Reno and stayed there. thumbing their noses at Michigan law
 Efforts to have them extradited on the part of Ed Jacobs, McComb County Prosecutor, failed.
 Finally Jacobs and Mrs. Dudley Hay. Secretary of the Republican
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-06-24
STEAMER MOVEMENTS

Corsair, with Oakland Chamber of Commerce group aboard. in port.
 George Washington. from Seattle. Skagway bound, in port.
 Princess Louise. from Vancouver, due Saturday afternoon or evening.
 Square Sinnet scheduled to sail from Seattle today.
 Aleutian scheduled to sail from Seattle Saturday.
 Princess Norah scheduled to sail from Vancouver Saturday.
 Alaska scheduled southbound at l o'clock tomorrow morning.
 Prince George scheduled to arrive southbound at o'clock tomorrow morning
 Baranot southbound late Sunday or early Monday.