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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-12-29
Rescued Airmen Rest
Al Base in Greenland;
All Reported Well
II Picked Up From Iceeop
By PIone May Be Flown
To New York Later

Twelve airmen were resting in
snug quarters at a Greenland
airbase today after being rescued
from a bleak 7,800-foot icecap
where seven of them had been
marooned since December 9.
The daring rescue was accomp-
lished yesterday in specially
equipped Army transport plane
piloted by 32-year-old 1t. Col Emil
J. Beaudry of Manchester, N. H.,
who won the Distinguished Flying
Cross and Air Medal as a World
War II bomber pilot in Europe.
AS soon as weather permits the
rescued men wishing to make the
trip will be flown to New York. A
reception welcoming their safe re-
turn was being planned.
Rescued Airmen. Well.
Col. Beaudry, who dramatically
rescued nine survivors of Labrador
crash a year ago, landed the CAT
transport on the win-sWept ice cap
at $50 am. yesterday. Thirty
eight minutes later, with the II
marooned airmen safely aboard, the
ski-runnered plane equipped with
jet-assisted take-off devices, roared
into the air and flew 270 miles back
to its base at BLUE West San Air
Force base in Southwest Greenland.
Meager reports received from the
base before communications were
disrupted said the rescued airmen
were apparently we'll and resting
in officers quarters there.
Only meager details of the dra-
matte rescue had been received to-
day by the Air Force headquarterfl
here.
The rescue came as the aircraft
carrier Saipan, with five helicopters
on board, neared Greenland to take
part in the operation. The Saipan
turned toward Argentia, Newfound-
land, before heading back to Nor
folk.
Storms Hampered Efforts.
Violent winds up to 100 miles
an hour, extreme cold which
reached 40 degrees below zero and
(See RESCUE. Page A-4D
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-12-29
By Nelson M. Shepard

Because the White House
foundations are in need of re-
placement or extensive strength
ening, the Truman family will
not be able to move back into the
Mansion until 1850, the Public
Buildings Administration, dis
closed today.
That much is sure, Commissioner
w. E. Reynolds said in explaining
that PBA engineers, on closer ex-
animation, have found the structural
condition of the White House con-
siderably worse" than expected.
Since President Truman and his
family moved across Pennsylvania
avenue to occupy the historic Blair
and Blair-Lee Houses during the pc
riod of repairs, engineers have found
out a good deal more about the un-
safe condition of the White House
1T is going to cost considerably
more and take longer time to re-
pair and strengthen the interior
than we anticipated some months
ago." Mr.. Reynolds said. I'm an.
other week we hope to be able tx
make a better estimate of the cost
and determine many other factors
of construction.
First Chance for Real Check.
Recently the White House an
nounced that Congress would be
asked to appropriate from $750,0oO
to 1,250,000 for renovation and fire.
proofing the second floor. The esti-
mate, made by Architect Lorenzo S.
Winslow, is now far short of the
mark.
I'VE had no real opportunity to
make an extensive survey by tearing
up floors and removing plaster until
the President and his family vacated
the mansion and the furniture was
stored Mr.. Reynolds explained.
The survey authorized by Con-
gress and being made by PBA en-
gineers will be completed and rec
concentrations submitted very early
in the session. which meets in jan
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-12-29
Marshall Plans 10 Rest
Indefinitely at Pinehurst
By the Associated Press

PINEHURST, N. c., Dec. 90
Secretary of State and Mrs. George
C. Marshall arrived at nearby Knoll
wood Airport by plane from Wash
ington yesterday.
They Immediately left by auto
mobile for their Pinehurst home,
Liscombe Lodge, where the Secre-
tary will rest for an indefinite period
Gen. Marshall underwent kidney
operation three weeks ago at Walter
Reed Hospital in Washington. He
left the hospital yesterday.
Mrs. Marshall entered the hospital
a week ago for tests and to be with
her husband during the Christmas
holidays.
Hospital physicians have said Gen.
Marshall is scheduled for a long
period of recuperation. 1t was not
known when he may be able to re-
turn to his State Department post,
if at all.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-12-29
BY the Associated Press

PARIS, Dec. 29.-The Neither
lands told the United Nations
Security Council today that the
Dutch will order an end of hos
tilities in Indonesia at midnight
Friday.
The Dutch representative, Jan
Herman van Royen, also announced
that the Netherlands soon will re-
lease President Soekarno of the
Indonesian Republic and members
of his cabinet who were captured
at the outset of Dutch operations.
The release will be ION the under
standing that the persons concerned
will refrain from activities endan-
gering public security" he told the
Council.
The statement came within an
hour of the end of 24-hour dead
line served by the Council on Hol-
land yesterday for the liberation OF
the Indonesian Republican leaders.
The Councils deadline for the re-
lease of the leaders was adopted
yesterday in a resolution proposed
by China.
The Council ordered a cease-fire
Christmas eve, but the Dutch had
failed up to today to give any assur-
ance that the order would be obeyed.
1t was thought the Dutch wanted to
have their police action against
the republic virtually completed be-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-12-29
Midwest Communications
Are Disrupted by Storm =

CHICAGO, Dec. ga wind, snow
and rain storm swept over parts of
the Midwest today, slowing trans
portation and disrupting commune
cation service.
Several communities in Nebraska
and Kansas were isolated as sleet
and wind snapped telephone lines.
Power line breaks left the city of
Kearney, Nebr., without regular
electrical service from 1850 am.
yesterday until Sis am. today, but
O small generating plant inside the
city was pressed into service pro-
viding Is minutes of power each hour
In order to keep electrically con-
trolled heating plants operating.
Communications in parts of Mis-
souri, also were disrupted by the
sleet storm.
The fresh falls of snow were
whipped by winds ranging from &c
to so miles an hour and much drift
ing was reported over areas ir
Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota anc
Wisconsin. Temperatures dropped
over the snow belt and colder
weather was forecast for most Of
the North Central region tonight
The snow storm and strong winds
headed for parts of Lower Michigan
and into Canada, the Weather
Bureau said.
Winds of 40 miles per hour
swirled new falls of snow at Mason
City, Iowa, today and visibility was
reported at zero. There was sim
liar report in the area around
Green Bay, Wis.
Freezing rain which fell in Lower
Michigan was expected to change
to snow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-12-29
Bad Weather Forces Delay
In Closing Key Bridge Lane

Capt. Beverly Beach of the Seventh
Precinct announced today that clos
ing of the northbound curb lane on
the Key Bridge has been postponed
from today to tomorrow because OF
bad weather.
The lane which carries Virginia
o-the-District traffic over the bridge
was to have been closed today, be-
ginning at 7:30 am, while concrete
was being poured for section con-
Meeting Key Bridge to the K Street
Whitehurst Freeway.
Capt. Beach said rain had caused
postponement of the plan. The con-
crete pouring, he said, actually will
cause the closing to traffic OF both
outside lanes because of trucks
carrying construction materials on
the southbound lane. He said plans
call for routing traffic in both direc-
tions in the center lane, occupied by
streetcar tracks He said automobiles
would travel behind streetcars over
the bridge.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-12-29
Dutch Promise to End Fighting
Friday and Release Indonesions
Statement to Security Council Comes Near
End Of 24-Hour DeodIine Served by U. N.

fore agreeing to end the fighting ir
Java and Sumatra.
Mr.. Van Royen yesterday asked
for more time to get instructions
from his government. The Dutch
inner cabinet met in The Hague
today and evidently reached the
decision.
The Council has heard from its
Good Offices Committee in the
Netherlands Indies that Soekarno
Premier Mohamed Hatta and the
other leaders taken at the Repub.
lican capital, Jogjakarta, were be-
ing held in resorts outside the islanc
of Java.
Mr.. Van Royen told the Council
that hostilities on Java ARE in the
course of being terminated
He said that lin any event hos
tilities in Java will, as far as the
Netherlands forces are concerned
cease at the latest on December 81
at 2400 hours midnight"
The Dutch representative added
however, that with a view to the
special emergency situation existing
in Sumatra, the cessation Of hos
tilities there cannot be effectuated
until two or three days later
1T will, of course, remain neces-
sary to act against disturbing ele-
ments who, either individually or
collectively, endanger public security
or interfere with or prevent the
supply of food and other essential
CSee INDONESIA, Page A-4D
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-12-29
New Quakes in Reno
Break Power Lines
BY the Associated Press

RENO, New. Dec. 29-Power and
telephone lines were knocked down
and minor highway slides touched
off by renewed earth temblors which
shook Reno heavily early today.
The shocks, apparently centering
here, extended through the Sierras
into Northern California as far west
as San Francisco and as far south
as Fresno.
Three quakes, the first reported
at about ASS am, were so severe
as to knock the smograph of the
University of Nevada completely
awry.
Prof. Vincent p. Gianella. seismol-
ogist at the university, said he was
able to get his seismograph working
again shortly after $50 am. It at
once recorded continuous shocks of
light nature, apparently after
tremors," at rate too fast to count.
They were the latest in a series
of shocks beginning Monday night,
when Reno was shaken seven times
in Az hours.
The Bell Telephone Co. reported
its lines down near the California
State line about IS miles west of
here. Long distance circuits linking
Reno and San Francisco were not
affected.
The highway department at Sac
ramento, Calf, reported that minor
rock slides occurred on U. S. 90,
main transcontinental highway to
the East over the California Sierras.
The highway remained opened,
however, after California highway
crews put mountain snowplows into
action.
Police at Marysville, Calf, about
80 miles west of Reno, reported the
quake broke windows in downtown
and residential areas,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-12-29
U. 5. Population Reaches
148 Million, Airline Hiq /
BY the Associated Press


The population of the United
States has reached an all-time high
of about 148.0OO,000, the Census
Bureau reported today. The in
crease during the year was about
100000.
In further year-end summary
OF vital statistics for 1913, the bureau
said:
The civilian labor force-every
one working or looking for work
reached 63 ,S42, 900 in July. That was
the highest total in the Nations
history.
Employment in non-farming in
dustries alone reached 81 1892 900 In
November, topping the wartime peak
of December, 1912, by more than S.
SOC 600. There we're 225,000 indus
trial concerns.
Married couples numbered nearly
81, 900, 600. Married women workers
outnumbered single women workers
by 100000 to 100000. More than
10000 families lived doubled up
with other families.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-12-29
Greece Begins Roundup
OF Reds in PeIoponnesus

ATHENS, Greece, Dec. 29-Ths
Greek government today began &
large-scale roundup of alleged Com.
munists in the Peloponnesus.
1t announced that about 5000 per.
sons, described as Communists anc
Underground workers, were arrested
They are suspected of helping
guerrilla bands, the government
said.
More arrests are impending. Mil
itary authorities expressed hope
that Communist underground and
supply services will be dislocated by
this move.
A STABLE attack was launched to-
day by guerrillas against two gov
ernment-held points in the Vitsi
Mountain area about 6 miles north
of Kastoria.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-12-29
PiIeup in Traffic Cuts
20-Second Safety Talk
To Happy New Year
BY the Associated Press

ARDMORE, Okla, Dec. %
Safety speeches by Oklahoma
highway patrolmen caused no
end of traffic troubles at the
Oklahoma-Texa border south
of here yesterday.
Two patrolmen began stop
ping Oklahoma bound traffic to
give a 20-second safety talk and
safety literature. The program
was started several weeks ago
on all Oklahoma borders to help
cut down traffic deaths.
The speeches delayed traffic
and cars blocked U. S. II. They
were cut to Is seconds. Then 10.
Then 5 but traffic still piled up.
Finally the speeches were cut
out. Motorists were given the
literature and wished happy
New Year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-12-29
West German Leader
Protest New Ruhr
Control Agreement
Political Parties Unite
In Denuneiotion Of Plan
To Establish Authority
BY the Associoied Press

! FRANKFURT, Germany, Dec
29.-Western Germany's political
leaders let out a howl of protest
today against the Western Allies
new Ruhr agreement.
! The decision to set up Ruhr
authority to control Germany's Goa
and industrial basin prompted somt
of the harshest German criticism
of the Allies heard since the war.
After a night of reading and
digesting the Allied text, all politi-
cal parties began to denounce the
six-nation plan publicly.
The Ruhrs important trade unions
added their protests, too.
Criticism Is Widespread.
The criticism was general. wide
spread and panied. Not only the
big political machines, but the
struggling little parties and the
man in the street said they could
not understand it."
Some of the sharpest criticism
came from the left-wing Socialist
Democratic Party (SPD), which Is
almost all-powerful in the Ruhr
region and stands for socialism of
the British type.
With the approval Of the SPD
party boss. one-armed DR.. Kurt
Schumacher, the party's directorate
issued long statement.
The new Ruhr status surpasses
the worst expectations" the state
ment said. Its new status has dam
aged the confidence that the Ger
man people have in democracy and
in the western victors.
/ French arguments and demands
have been considered. The agree
ment was made at the cost of the
German people. The present reg
ulation is no basis for prosperous
international cooperation. Unilat-
eral privileges have been granted to
some partners lin the pac) while
Germany's interests have not been
considered.
The Social Democratic Party dis
agrees with the new Ruhr status
and asks for a review. 1t also de-
mands the consideration of social
ization tof its industries"
Observation-Disclosures Demanded.
Uniformly, the non-Communist
parties demanded that the key in
dustrial areas of England, France,
Belgium. Holland and Luxembourg
be "internationalized," along with the
Ruhr. The nations are, with the
United States. parties to the pact.
The German parties claimed 1t
could only be this way that peace
full European cooperation could be
achieved. Keynoting this point of
view was DR.. Konrad Adenauer,
chairman of the conservative Christ
ian Social Union in the British zone.
| DR.. Adenauer said the agreement
clearly showed that Germany had
regained nothing" of its sovereignty
since 1945. He said the German
people would regard the pact with
great reluctance"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-12-29

Iuary. Definite conclusions with re-
gard to the extent of rebuilding the
foundations and interior will be
made known then.
Foundation Engineers Engaged.
Mr. Reynolds disclosed that the
IPBA has engaged an internationally
known firm of foundation engineers
Spencer, White and Prentiss of
New York City-to make a thor
ough study of the situation. Firm
members and their chief engineer
are coming here today to start the
work.
Mr.. Reynolds, who is making daily
inspections. reported that the inner
bearing walls have settled so badly
that they might have to be removed.
The foundations rest on clay
composition that is mot so good
and he explained it may be neces-
sary for the engineers to get down
to better ground" Some 20 feet
below the present foundation, Mr.
Reynolds explained, there is a gooe
layer of sand gravel.
Some Decay Found.
Modern concrete foundations vii
replace the present ones if it il
found necessary. The foundation
walls are of stone. Officials sale
the bearing partitions of the White
House are of brick and the out
side walls are stone with brick back.
ing.
Reports that the inner structure
of the mansion is completely de-
cayed" are exaggerated. Mr.. Reyn-
Odds explained. Engineers have
found some decay and as they pene-
trate further into the buildings in
sides it is possible more decay will
be found. The settling of the walls,
however, seems to be the worst con-
dition encountered.
After the PBA engineering recon-
mendations are made to Congress,
the authorization and appropria-
tons will take considerable time. 1t
will be well into 1949 before the
work can start. Mr.. Reynolds be-
lieves. The present engineer survey
is being done from a special $4,000
appropriation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-12-29
Deputy 0utspeeds Elevator
Blocks Prisoners Escape
BY the Associated Press

ATLANTA, Dec 29.-1t's a good
thing the elevator in Fulton County
Jail is SLOW
Deputy Sheriff r. E. Dewitt was
on the second floor yesterday when
he noticed an elevator going down.
Five prisoners were in the cage, but
no guards.
Mr. Dewitt raced down the stairs,
outsped the elevator, locked an
iron gate near the elevator entrance
and spread the alarm.
When. the elevator reached the
ground floor and the prisoners saw
their escape was blocked, they sur
rendered meekly and were returned
to their cells.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-12-29
Airport Restaurants
May Decide Today on
Segregation Policy.
Officials of Concession
Study CAA Order After
6 Test Terminal Practices

Air Terminal Services. Inc, ex-
poets to decide today whether to
serve Negroes at eating places it
operates at National Airport, a
company official said.
While officials of the firm studied
the nonsegregation order issued by
the Civil Aeronautics Administra-
ton for the Federally owned airport,
several Negroes declared they would
file formal complaints with CAA be-
cause they we're refused service at
the main restaurant late yesterday.
Frederick j. Ball, vice president
and attorney of the Terminal Serv-
ices, which has the concession for
airport eating places, said the segre-
cation policy still stands so far as
the terrace restaurant. coffee shop
and two cafeterias are concerned
Decision Expected.
But we expect decision on the
question late today or possibly to-
morrow" Mr.. Ball said. Il don
know what it will be. We have been
studying legal aspects of the matter
and there will be report on this
later today"
Edgar G. Brown. director of the
National Negro Council, went to the
airport to investigate reports that
three Negro church officials were
! l,or laa a nj no 1v tn
Gay. The three, he said, were Bishop
D. Ward Nichols of New York. the
Rev. D. z. Jackson of Chicago and
E. A. Foster, layman secretary of a
Detroit ministerial group.
Paul r. Boyd, Terminal Service
general manager. said that so far
as he knew no Negroes asked to be
served this morning at airport eat
ing places where the company's
segregation policy still stands.
/ Mr. Brown said Bishop Nichols
and the others arrived here for a
national prayer service to be spon-
sored by the National Negro Coun-
Gil Sunday afternoon on the Capt.
toll steps.
Not Asked to Leave.
After he arrived at the airport
Mr.. Brown reported that he was
refused service in the coffee shop
but intended to stay and stage
something of shutdown strike"
there until he is waited on.
He and his son talked with Mr..
Boyd They said he was very
pleasant but repeated his state
ment that the status quo would be
maintained in the eating places
See SEGREGATION. Page A-4.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-12-29
New Egyptian Premier
Named, Urges Unity
In Palestine War
Cabinet Is Reodjusted by
Hodi Posho; Rites Held
For Assussinoted Leader
BY the Associated Press

CAIRO, Egypt, Dec. pa new
Premier today took over the
reins of government dropped by
the assassinated Mahmoue
FANNY Nokrashy Pasha. HI
urged Egyptian unity for thu
struggle in Palestine.
The new premier is Ibrahim Abdu
Hadi Pasha, who was chief Of the
royal cabinet. He is expected Il
carry out Egypt's policy towarc
Israel much as Nokrashy Pashs
would have done.
The cabinet was readjusted.
Hadi Pasha is a middleaged law
yer who has held both parliamentary
and ministerial positions. He was
sentenced to death as a youth fol
his revolutionary political beliefs
but was released under political
amnesty in 1924. He helped Nok-
rashy Pasha form the Saadist Party
now dominant in the Chamber OF
Deputies, after split Of the Wafdist
Party in 1887.
Kinf Farouk made the appoint
ment.
Assassin Arrested.
Nokrashy Pasha was shot to death
at his Office yesterday by a Fuad
University student who disguised
himself in a second hand police uni
form to gain admittance. The stu
dent was arrested. Police said he
was Abdel Hahid Ahmed Hassan
81, a member of the Nationalist
Moslem Brotherhood which Nok.
rashy Pasha outlawed less thar
three weeks ago.
In letter accepting the premier.
ship. Hadi Pasha said:
Il pray God to unite the hearts Of
all Egyptians and to strengthen the
ties of national brotherhood which
gathered us in the defense of oul
right and united us in the Jihac
(holy war;"
Saadist youths demonstrated
against Sheik Hassan ell Banna
Moslem Brotherhood leader, at 6
military funeral for Nokrashy
Pasha today. They shouted: 1--WE
will avenge your death, Nokrashy.
Police sought to break up the dem.