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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-09
I B-29s Land in Scotland
En- Route 10 Raj Fields
By the Associoted Press

PRESTWICK, Scotland, Aug, O.
Seven BIO Superfortresses of the
United States Second Medium
Bomber Group landed here today
en- route from Tucson, Ariz., to
R. A. F. citations in Southern Eng
land.
Nine of the big bombers, vanguard
Of a total of 80 making the trip,
reached Lakenheath yesterday. The
remaining IA planes are expected
within the next day or two. That
will boost to 80 the number in
Britain for joint training with the
Royal Air Force.
Sixty of the bombers which ar
rived here last month were due to
fly over London today, but the flight
was Cancelled because of weather.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-09
Greek General Staff Blocks
Soviet on Use Of Tankers
By the Associated Press

ATHENS, Aug. ga Greek ship
owner said today the Greek. gen.
eral staff had blocked Soviet ef-
forts to charter Greek ships to
transport crude oil from Albania to
Black Sea ports and gasoline from
the Black Sea to Palestine.
The informant, who may not be
quoted by name. said Russian
representative succeeded in sign
ing up one tanker but that the
general staff refused clearance on
the ground Greece has not re-
sumed diplomatic relations with AL
bania.
He said the Soviet move came
after Albania had cut off her
shipments of oil to Yugaslavia after
the Cominform's attack on Yugo-
slavia's Communist leadership.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-09
Tract 48 Council Plans
Neighborhood Campaign

The District Recreation and
Health Departments will be asked
to help "neighborhlood campaign
to improve conditions IN the area
bounded by New Jersey and New
York avenues and Seventh street
and Florida avenue NV. members
of newly organized Community
Council of Tract 48 said today.
About 20 residents of the section
known as Census Tract 48 met yes
terdsy at Ephesus Seventh-Day Ad-
ventist Church. They declared play
ground facilities are inadequate in
the area and that health hazards
exist because of litter and garbage
James M, Montgomery, 1914 New
Jersey avenue NV, a District
school teacher, is council chairman
Frank D. Mckinney, 108 F street
NV, president of the East Central
Civic Association, was named chair
man of a committee to invite the
Recreation Department this week to
send representative to the coun-
ellis next meeting, August %, at 8
pm, at the church.
Another activity planned by the
council is a temperance crusade to
be headed by Thomas j. Delaney.
This as we'll as the councils general
program to improve social condi-
tons in the neighborhood will be
aided by Ephesus. Galbraith A. M.
E. T., Shiloh Baptist, Third Baptist
and Turner Memorial A. M. E.
Churches. Mr. Montgomery said
the council, formed three weeks ago,
also plans to ask the assistance of
neighborhood school parent-teacher
associations and other churches in
the area.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-09
Dewey Gives No Sign
OF Comment on Work
OF Special Session
BY the Associated Press

PAWLING, N. Y. Aug. Gov.
Dewey's campaign planning shows
signs of quickening this week.
But there Is no indication whether
the Republican presidential nomi-
nee will have anything to say at
this time concerning the record of
the GOP-controlled special session
of Congress which adjourned Sat-
urday night.
The New York Governor main
tanned silence on that matter over
the week end.
Gov. Dewey is expected to return
to Albany by midweek. He has spent
most of his time at his farm here
since he was nominated for the
presidency late in June.
Gov. Dewey has some State bust
ness to attend to in Albany, but
his aides say he also will devote
a good bit of time there to confer
ences on campaign strategy.
Conference Next Monday.
These will lead up to two-day
meeting at the Governors Mansion
next week with Gov. Dewey's vice
presidential running mate, Gov. Earl
Warren of California. Also present
at the conference, starting next
Monday will be Herbert Brownell,
jr., Gov Deweys campaign man
ager.
From the time President Truman
summoned the extra session of Con-
gress, Gov Dewey has had nothing
to say about it publicly except to
advise, indirectly, that the law
makers carefully consider the Presi-
dents requests.
But Mr.. Brownen-acting, he said,
with Gov Dewey's knowledge-did
reply to Mr.. Truman's demand that
the Republicans make good on their
1948 platform pledges by enacting
the program the President sent to
the session
Mr.. Brownell said before the ses-
sion that the COP platform calls
for enactment of a program by a
Republican Congress under a Re
publican President. He said that
could not be done at rump SEES
sion called at a political conven-
ton for political purposes in the
heat of political campaign"
McGrath Assails Dewey.
Gov. Dewey did consult with Re-
publican leaders on the program
they put through at the extra SEES
sion, but he did not state his views
publicly.
This caused Senator McGrath,
chairman of the Democratic Ma
tional Committee, to refer to Gov.
Dewey in a statement over the
week end as "tongue-tied candi-
date hiding behind the long skirts
of a reactionary congressional lead
ership."
That brought this comment from
a Dewey aide: Any reply to any
thing Senator McGrath has to say
will come from Mr.. BroWnell Mr..
Truman is Gov. Dewey's opponent ;"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-09
Midway Marines Staged Show
To Impress Jap Envoy in Al

War II booklets issued by the
Marine Corps.
Midway was strong on paper only
when Kurusu came through. but the
Marines did their best to fool a
likely enemy.
The commanding officer put every
available man, including cooks and
messmen, marching down the road
with fixed bayonets. lined up ALI
the planeS-one squadron of flying
boats-and just about wore out the
muzzles of the 3-inch antiaircraft
guns, firing within earshot of Ku-
rusus hotel.
The envoy left no remarks for the
Marines to Judge their smokescreen.
That came with the sneak attack on
Pearl Harbor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-09
JET Fighter Exceeds
Speed Of $50 M.P.H.
AT |dIewiId Pageant
Nv the Asseeioted Press

NEW YORK, Aug. "a flight at
more than $50 miles per hour was
claimed for jet fighter yesterday
at the windup of nine-day aerial
pageant at New York international
Airport.
The fight was "just like sitting
at home in your own living room, y
said the pilot. Maj. Richard L.
Johnson, 30-year -old test pilot from
Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio.
He shot the Air Forces newest
jet fighter, North Americans F-86,
across the field for its first showing
In public.
The official speed record for any
type of plane is listed as 650.7 miles
per hour.
265,OOO Visitors Attend.
A loudspeaker announced the
speed as better than $50 m.p.h. as
Mai. Johnson, a Cooperstown IN. d.
resident, shot past. No arrange
ments for official timing had been
made, however.
Police estimated that 265 900 visi-
tors attended the air show yesterday
at the new 4,9O0-acre field at Idle
wild, Queens.
1t was Navy Day" att he pag-
cant, and $50 Naval and Marine
Corps planes took to the air for a
half-hour demonstration. High Ma
val officers from Washington were
in the stands.
The international air exposition
at the worlds largest airport - a
high light of Greater New York
City's golden jubilee observance
was estimated to have drawn total
attendance Of more than 100000. 1t
was rained out on two days.
Airport Opened July 81.
The airport was opened July 81
with a show Of 1000 planes put on
by the Air Force, President Truman
and Gov. Dewey attended the open
ing.
Rear Admiral Walter S. Delaney,
commandant of the Third Naval
District, told the crowd on the final
day that the facilities of the giant
field would be made available to the
armed forces in the event OF war.
An 8-foot radio-guided plane
was almost demolished when It went
out of control about mile from the
field and crashed into the roof of a
bus garage. Six persons watching
the air show from the garage roof
fed as the robot plane swooped
down.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-09
Warren Urges State Leaders
To Make Constructive Drive

SACRAMENTO Calf, Aug. 9 t4o).
Gov. Warren advised California
Republican leaders today to con-
duct constructive, not a destruc-
tive" campaign.
Gov. Warren received big ova-
ton from party members who held
their biennial convention and CEN
trail committee meetings here over
the week end.
Our Republican Party" Gov.
Warren said, must be a party OF
all the people" without regard to
sectionalism, race, color or creed or
divisions by vocational or economic
strata.
In keeping with the party unity
Gov. Warren said he found at the
Philadelphia convention, its leaders
selected Edward Shattuck for the
craftsmanship of the State Central
Committee. Mr.. Shattuck was the
Governors choice for the job.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-09
Controller Backs Lane.
In Urging Reduction in
Maryland Income Tax
By the Assooioted Press

BALTIMORE, Aug. 9.-Many
Marylanders are looking forward
today to cut in their State
income taxes.
A reduction proposal came from
Gov. Lane and was concurred in by
Controller James J. Lacy over the
weekend.
The Governor suggested the cut
in a letter urging Mr. Lacy to have
the Board of Revenue Estimates
quickly get out new compilation
of expected tax collections for 1949.
The controller replied the board
would get to work tomorrow.
The Governor pointed out that the
1948 surplus of s20,473,515 was too
much. He asked for new estimate
of 1949 collections 80 that i'm
mediate consideration may be given
to whatever reduction in taxation
the revised estimates may warrant"
Urges Broader Exemptions.
The Governor said his admin
istration already had increased
allotments of State collections to
the political subdivisions and that
he now planned 10 give direct
relief to the individual taxpayer,
The Governor said he proposed to
do this "by broadening the exemp-
tions and, perhaps, the elimination
of income taxes and the filing of
returns for thousands in the lower
income taxes
Controller Lacy, in radio ad-
dress yesterday, commented Il was
glad to learn that he the Gov
ernor agrees with me-
Gov. Lane and Mr.. Lacy agreed
that the 1948 surplus, which was
$9,276,000 more than expected, was
too high. The Governor said that
while modest surplus is desirable,
the State should not require of its
citizens more than is essential to
establish modest margin of
safety"
Annual Budget Sessions Asked.
Mr.. Lacy urged adoption at the
November election of a constitu-
tlonal amendment providing for an
nual meetings of the General As
sembly to avoid an excessive sur
plus.
He said the present necessity of
compiling two-year budgets resulted
in conservative climates of the tax
yield in order to avoid deficits"
Even in the light of receipts for
the last fiscal year, and a years
behind us with the sales
tax, plus many years experience
with the income tax-the two prin-
cipal sources of revenue for the
State of Maryland-it is extremely
difficult TO make any accurate fore
cast as to what these taxes will
produce in the year Immediately
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-09
Chang Takes Off in Storm
After Appeal 10 Committee


NANKING, Aug. 9.-President
Chang Kai-shek today few to
Kuing, China's summer capital.
after an hour long appeal to the
Kuomintang Central Political Com
mittee for Cooperation.
The Generalissimo and Nine.
Chang took of into storm filled
skies. Within an hour one Of the
heaviest wind and electrical dis
turbances of the season struck
Marking.
Chiang's meeting with the COM
mittee was secret but informed
sources said he told its members
that "groundless rumors" have
weakened "our battlefront troops
and shaken the faith of the Com
munist suppression campaign"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-09

A high japanese official got a
good look at some of the defenses at
Midway just before war broke out
with the enthusiastic help of the
Marines guarding the island.
Saburu Kurusu, the peace" envoy
en- route to Washington, saw rows
of armed troops and squadron Of
planes. And he heard the steady
pounding of antiaircraft guns, all
secretly designed to impress him
with the military muscle of the
United States.
The little-known story of Kurusu's
stopover at Midway, refueling point
for commercial trans-Paciiflc air
lines, is told in Marines at Mid
way" the third in a series of World
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-09
manila to Rotion Rice
As Stocks DwindIe
By the Associated Press

MANILA, Aug. 9.-Manila's 1,500,-
900 residents this week will be put
on rice rations as the government
tries frantically to find surplus rice
to help feed the nation.
Stocks on hand are expected to
be exhausted by September 20 and
the new rice crop will not be ready
for harvesting until mid November.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-09
Welfare Investigators
To Meet in Baltimore
BY the Associoted Press

BALTIMORE, Aug. e.-The new
State commission to investigate
Marylands public welfare program
will hold it's first meeting Wednes-
day in Gov. Lanes office here, At
torney General Hall Hammond an
nounced yesterday.
Mr.. Hammond said copies of re-
ports by the commission on govern
mental efficiency dealing with city
and State welfare programs had
been sent to the Is commission
members in preparation for the
closed meeting.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-09
IL New York DaiIies
Sian After
Negotiating 6 Months

NEW YORK, Aug. 9.-PubliShers
and representatives of the AFL In
ternational Typographical Union
today signed new contract cover
ing $500 composing room employees
on IL New York City daily news
papers.
The new working agreement ended
six months of negotiations between
the TITUS Local No. 6 and the Pub
fishers Association of New York. The
local voted 500 to Ala yesterday to
accept the pact.
1t provides a 50 a week pay in
crease for the printers effectivs
today. 1t also includes a priority
hiring clause favoring journeymen
printers.
Under the new contract the pub
fishers agree not to use varitype or
other substitute printing processes
for the production of material that
will appear in their newspapers.
However. they may use these
methods for promotional material
or other matter not intended for
the newspapers.
Strike Would Lift Ban.
The contract relieves the pub.
fishers of the ban against newspaper
use of varitype in the event the ITU
local strikes or supports strike Of
the mailers' union.
1t provides, however, that upon
resumption of normal operations,
use of substitute processes or opera.
tons shall be discontinued"
The union was not given juris-
diction over varitype operators
which it had requested.
Under the contract, day shift
printers will receive $99 for FIVE
day, 36A-hour week. Nightside em-
ployes will receive $104 for the
same number of hours and those on
the early morning, or lobster, trick
will get $109 for a five-day, 35-hour
week.
The ITU Executive Board had ap-
proved the agreement before 1t won
approval at turbulent four-and-a-
half-hour meeting yesterday. Many
of the union members urged rejec-
ton.
The new contract, which will run
for 1872 months from the date of
signing, replaces one which expired
last March 81. Since then, the COM
posing room employees have been
working under an agreement not
to strike so long as negotiations
were continuing. They began last
February.
Mailers Turn Down Offer.
Meanwhile, members of an indie
pendent newspaper and mail deliv-
erers' union voted last night to turn
down contract terms offered by the
publishers association. The unions
officers recommended approval.
Demand for nearer approach to
the closed shop appeared to be the
main cause of the rejection. union
officials said. The closed shop Il
banned by the Taft-Hartley Act.
The Newspaper and Mail Deliv-
erers' Union of New York and Vicin.
ity, which claims $500 members,
voted, 568 to 533. against the agree
ment.
Joseph E. Curtis, union president
and C. j. Pelligrino, business agent,
said no strike action was planned
and that negotiations with the
publishers probably would be re-
sumed today. Both officials had
advocated approval of the contract.
Mailers Now Get $70.42.
The proposed two-year contract
provided for a weekly pay increase
above the present minimum OF
$7042 Also provided were three
weeks vacation instead of the pres
ent two; a union shop instead Of the
former closed shop and wage re-
opening after one year.
The last contract expired July II,
and a previous offer by the pub
fishers was rejected July IS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-09
Leoion Post to Meet

The Unknown Soldier Post,
American Legion, will meet at 8;l5
pm. Wednesday at the Ashton
Heights Women's Clubhouse, Alb
North Irving street, Arlington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-09
Young on Vacation

Joseph Young and the Fed
eral Spotlight are on vacation.
The column will be resumed
August "A. The Federal Spot
light radio program will re-
sumo on Sunday, August 20,
over WMAL at 3:15 pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-09
Weather Report

D. C.-Mostly sunny with highest
near "a this afternoon, Generally
fair tonight and tomorrow with little
change in temperature. Lowest to-
night near g.
Md. and Va.-Generally fair to-
night and tomorrow with little
change in temperature.
Wind velocity 7 miles per hour;
direction, northwest.
River Report.
From United States EngipeersD
Potomac River cloudy at Harpers Ferry
and at Great Falls; Shenandoah clear at
Lar For
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-09

Monthly precipitation in inches
Capital current month to datel:
Evening star., 1948-04-22
By Thomos R. Henry
Science Editor of The Stor

SSicVSc EulI0t VI iHS St0f
The sun tosses at the earth great
clouds of hydrogen-thousands of
tons at a time.
This hitherto unobseryed phenom-
enon was reported to the American
Geophysical Union here today by
DR.. c. w. Gartlein of Cornell
University.
Spectra taken Of the aurora
borealis, DR.. Gartlein said, show
light lines which can be interpreted
only as coming from great quantities
of the lightest of all the elements
in the Northern Lights region, hun
dreds of miles above the earth and
near the outer limits of the atmos-
phere. 1t is almost impossible to
account for the presence of this
hydrogen, except by the assumption
that it is coming into the earth's
atmosphere from outside.
The spectra also reveal that the
atoms of the gas are moving at
tremendous velocities, such as would
require millions of degrees OF tenn
perature if there were not some great
propulsive force. The conclusion Is
that the clouds must be coming
from the sun at enormous speeds,
although slow compared with light.
1t was calculated that about 20
minutes would be required for a
hydrogen mass to traverse the co.
600 900 miles between earth and sun.
Linked With Fading.
One of the most notable features
of an aurora is its constant bright
ening and fading. DR.. Gartlein's
photographs showed that hydrogen
is most abundant in the auroral
region just before and during the
hareups and it falls to minimum
when the light is fairly steady.
This indicates strongly, it was
pointed out, that the incoming
clouds have something to do with
the "ionosphere explosions" result
ing in the flares.
1t long has been assumed that
the aurora result largely from
streams of electrified particles from
the sun knocking electrons off the
gas atoms in the very rarif1ed high
atmosphere. That actual clouds OF
q gas should be shot from sun to
earth, presumably because of ex-
plosions on the suns surface, is an
entirely unexpected phenomenon.
Prediction of the probability of
thunder storms and mine explosions
by new meteorological methods was
reported to the union today.
Thunderstorms on a summer day,
said DR.. Charles L. Hosler Of Penn
sylvania State College, can be fore
told roughly by morning measure
ments of the amount of light from
the sun and reflections from the
sky on cloudless days.
A dusty morning" is ominous, he
said. The biggest factor in determin-
ing the amount of light which
reaches the earth is water in the
Evening star., 1948-04-22

on rises and falls in barometric
pressure which appear to serve as
triggers" for setting of a lot Of
complex reactions.
The explosions result from escape
of gases previously confined between
coal layers or in pockets of the rock.
A great deal depends on the density
of the explosive gases, which in
turn depends on the weight of the
atmosphere surrounding them. This
also determines to some extent the
velocity at which they escape when
an opening is provided.
Another factor, he said, is that the
pressure on the roof of mine in
creases from 40 to 10 pounds a
square inch after a "high," or mass
of heavy, counter -clockwise air
Evening star., 1948-04-22

passes. This is suf1cient to cause
the collapse Of q weakened roof.
Expedition Announced.
DR.. Maurice Ewing of Cornell Uni
versity announced to the Geophysi-
cal Union last night that second
expedition under the joint auspices
of the National Geographic Society,
Cornell and the Woods Hole Ocean,
ographic Institute will explore the
worlds greatest mountain range
the 10,000-mile-long, 2-mile-high
Mid-Atlantic Ridge. DR.. Ewing was
in charge Of last summers expedi-
ton which for the time was able
to dredge actual rock from the sea
bottom.
The great range, which comes to
the surface in a few islands such
Evening star., 1948-04-22
Great Clouds of Hydrogen Fired
At Earth by Sun, Scientist Finds

atmosphere. It need not necessarily
be concentrated in clouds.
70Ts Of Predictions Right.
A weakness of his prediction meth
cd is that it has little value on cloudy
days. In 1872 attempted predictions
over six years, however, he was
right 10 per cent of the time, where
as pure guess would have been
about so per cent right.
Mine accident predictions depend
Evening star., 1948-04-22
Cripple Held in $500
On 3-Year-0Id CHARGE

An elderly cripple, sought here on
q larceny warrant issued three
years ago, yesterday was nabbed by
police and ushered swiftly before
the United States commissioner,
where he was held for the grand
jury under $2,500 bond.
The one-legged man is William
A. Ryan, so, now Of the 1900 block
of Allison street NV. He pleaded
not guilty to a charge Of larceny
after trust at his arraignment be-
fore Commissioner Needham C.
Turnage.
Evening star., 1948-04-22

as the Azores group, will be studied
especially by new types Of echo
apparatus.
The annual award of the unions
Bowie Medal was made last night
to the Rev. James B. MacElwane
Of st. Louis University for accom-
plishments in the field OF geophysics.
Evening star., 1948-04-22
Nursery School Moves

The Overlee Cooperative Nursery
School and Kindergarten has
moved to larger quarters in the
new Trinity Presbyterian Church,
Sixteenth and Illinois streets,
Arlington, Mrs. Elizabeth Hommes,
director, announced today.
Evening star., 1948-04-22

Police reported that Ryan was
named on an old warrant sworn to
by Harold L. Hoffman, a jewcler
whose shop formerly was in the 1000
block of Pennsylvania avenue NV.
Mr.. Hoffman complained to police
that he had given Ryan a $4,000
ring to resell but that it
never was returned or paid for.
The arrest was made on informa-
ton by the complaining witness
who tipped of police that Ryan was
back in town.
Evening star., 1948-04-22

climax its first annual Greek week
celebration with dance at 10 pm.
tomorrow in the Shoreham Hotel.
Evening star., 1948-04-22

Fruternities Plan Dance
The George Washington Univer-
sity Inter-Fraternity Council viii