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Evening star., 1948-06-02
Insta||ment Debts
Soar S1,2S2,00O,00
To New High in May
By the Assoeiofed Press

Americans went ST 1882, 900 900 |
deeper into debt on the INSTALL
ment plan during the first six
months since time-payment con-
trolls died last November.
A Federal Reserve Board report
showed today that the installment
credit for retail buying reached the
highest point in history. $685.
10000. at the beginning of May.
Total consumer credit also reached
record high of sl3,596. 100000. This
also includes charge accounts and
loans repayable in lump sum.
neither of which has been under
Government control for II months
But it was in the installment field
that on-the-cuff buyers piled up
debt fastest-at an average of S213,-
$4,000 for each of the first six
months after dealers were left free
to fix their own down payment
rules and length of time to pay
the balance
The average monthly increase had
been only s166,330,000 for the pre-
vious II months under controls
These generally had required a down
payment of one-third and repay
ment of the balance in IS months
A new reserve board survey of
consumer spending plans indicates
that one out Of every four American
families will overSpend its income
heavily this year, using credit or
savings If necessary.
Those who bought goods on credit
last year doubled the number in the
year before, and 100000 more fam
lilies reached the verge of debt stage
by cashing their last Savings Bonds.
During the first six months of
unrestricted time payments, credit
for buying autos on the installment
plan went up s7l 100000 month to
a May l total Of 81 100000.
That total was catching up fast
with credit for time buying of fur
niture, radios, refrigerators, wash /
ing machines and the like. This
figure rose an average of just under .
S57.000,000 a month to total of
81 ,665 100000. /
Scarcity of Cars Cited.
Credit specialists say debt for car
purchases would go up much faster
If there were more new cars to buy.
Although powerless now to control
credit given retail buyers, the Re
serve Board scheduled today what 1t
called "A further step towards re-
straining inflationary expansion of
bank credit
Effective June II, 1T will require .
member banks in New York City .
and Chicago to freeze off another
s40O 100000 and $l00,0000 900 of their 4.
funds, respectively. as nonlendable. ,
This will be done by raising from !
% TO "a per cent the proportion of
demand deposits these banks must .
store with the u bankers banks"
in the Federal Reserve System. The
board still has power to raise the
proportion another 2 per cent.
Evening star., 1948-06-02
FOUND.

COCKER SPANIEL, black female; at Fails
Church. Call FA 4o44.
TIE CLASP, mans: late Sunday afternoon,
front of Wyoming Apis. Columbia I'd.
owner call DE. 2S17.
Evening star., 1948-06-02

to provide effective training facil-
tiles for academy midshipmen.
Confident Of Passage.
Representative Fallon interrupted
to ask why the midshipmen could
not travel few miles for that pur-
pose when West Point cadets have
to go all the way to Virginia for
their fight indoctrination.
About As minutes of debate time
remained when the House adjourned
yesterday. There was some doubt
that the bill could be taken up early
this afternoon but sponsors were
confident it would finally pass with
the airfield provision unchanged.
Evening star., 1948-06-02

What started as a Cancellation
hearing at the crowded counter OF
the United States attorneys office
In Municipal Court yesterday sud-
denly turned into violent scufile
and the arrest of one of the prin-
cipals on a drunk charge.
Assistant United States Attorney
Andrew J. Howard, before whom 1t
all took place, reported these de-
tails:
A week ago. Mrs. Emma Nickel
vim, 80, colored, complained that her
husband, Elvin McKelvil1, IS, had
taken to beating and biting her in
their home at 1888 Hayes street
NE, where they live with their
six children.
Mr.. Howard scheduled the peace"
hearing for yesterday in an effort to
iron things out between the two,
without recourse to court action.
Evening star., 1948-06-02
Motonusko Valley Town
Is Damaged by Fire
By the Asseeiofed Press

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, June a.
Fire swept through the business
district of Palmer, in the Matanuska
Valley, Monday night, causing
damage estimated unofficially at
SITS, 900.
Palmer is the valleys main settle
ment and headquarters for the Gov
ernment-sponsored colonization OF
the Matanuska Valley in the 1930s.
The Empire Stadium in Wembley
scene of the forthcoming Olympic
Games beginning July 20, will cele-
brate it's 25th anniversary this year
Evening star., 1948-06-02
Truman Gets Exemption Bill

The Senate passed and sent to the
White House yesterday a bill to
exempt hospitalized veterans from
payment of the admissions tax on
free admissions to entertainments.
Evening star., 1948-11-27
.Sophou|is Is Sinking;
All Hope Abandoned
BY the Associated Press

ATHENS. Nov. 27-Aged Greek
Premier Themistokles Sophoulis
clung grimly to life today after
doctors had abandoned all hope
for him.
The 88-year- -old premier remains
conscious most of the time, but his
heart action is weakening, gradually
and consistently.
The doctors offered him an egg
this morning but Mr.. Sophoulis de-
clined, saying he preferred glass
of beer. He was given the beer.
A later bulletin said the Liberal
leader had rallied slightly, doctors
said he might continue the same
wsV for "a or 48 hours.
Earlier, he received the last sac
raments of the Greek Orthodox
Church.
Mr.. Sophoulis was stricken with
two heart attacks in two days and
suffered relapse during the night.
The first attack came on his BIRTH
day last Wednesday, He had an
other attack Thursday.
An attendant at the premier's
Office, where Mr. Sophoulis has been
treated since the first attack, said
the premier fully realizes all hope
is gone. The attendant said that
when the doctors were giving Mr..
Sophoulis stimulants he suggested
that he be allowed to pass on.
Evening star., 1948-11-27
F Street Beauty Shop
Ceiling CoIIapses

Collapse of the ceiling of beauty
shop about II "a m. today brought
fire equipment through the Christ
mas shopping crowds to 1903 F
street NV.
No one was injured.
An -l6-foot- section of plaster
fell in Miss Edith Geraty's salon on
the second floor. Three customers
and four operators were In the
room. They had warning. as the
ceiling began to crack and crackle
few minutes before it fell and
operations had been moved to the
other side of the room.
The customers were Miss Edna
Love, 5706 Sixteenth street, who
was having a shampoo. Miss Hertha
Richter, 1925 Thirteenth street
NV, who was having permanent,
and Mrs. William H. Humphreys,
314 South Carolina avenue Sc,
who had just finished having her
hair dressed and was going out the
door when the ceiling fell.
The operators were Mrs. Mary
Jones, 1740 Park road NV, who
was in charge in Miss Geraty's
absence; Miss Laura Zirkle, $500 L
street NV; Mrs. Marie A. Lewis,
Falls Church, Va, and Miss Rose
Peters, 1923 Adams street NE.
The crash broke the front window
of the establishment.
Evening star., 1948-11-27
Final Bikini Test Report
Is Filed; Secrecy Urged

President Truman has the final
official report on the 1916 Bikinl
atom bomb tests with q recon-
mendation from Defense Secretary
Forrestal that it be withheld from
publication for reasons of national
security.
The matter came to attention yes
terday with publication of maga-
zine article by Bradley Dewey, a
civilian member of the Evaluation
Board which reported 10 the Joint
Chiefs of Staff. He called for its
publication as a step to prevent 9
future war.
The joint chiefs forwarded the
report with the comment that "cer-
tain recommendations it contained
were outside their province of pure.
1y military assessment" the De-
fense Establishment said in a memo.
randum. 1t added that Mr.. For
restal made his recommendation to
the White House after consulta-
tion with the State Department.
The report was sent to the Pres
6ent April 6.
Evening star., 1948-11-27
Macy Probers TO Call
3 Chevrolet Dealers
OF D. {. Area Monday
House Group Will Resume
Hearings on Practices in
Automobile Sales Here

Three Chevrolet dealers in the
Metropolitan area will be called
before the Macy subcommittee of
the House Public Works Commit
tee Monday when it resumes its
hearings on automobile sales
practices here.
About 30 witnesses will be heard
in the new set of hearings, it was
announced last night by Represent
ative Macy. Republican. of New
York. head of the Questionable
Trade Practices Subcommittee.
Among those to be called to the
stand, he said, would be spokesmen
for Ourisman Chevrolet, Inc, 610
H street NE: Mandell Chevrolet
Co., 1900 Nichols avenue Sc; and
Kenyon Peck, Inc, Chevrolet deal
ers at 1925 Wilson boulevard, Arl-
ington
No comment was forthcoming
last night from any Of the three
firms.
John T. M. Reddan. counsel to
the subcommittee. said the resumed
hearings would deal in the main
with three subjects:
Dealer listing of prospective GUS
toners;
The trade-in policies of the dis
tributors;
Dealer policies as to extra and
optional accessories for new cars.
In addition to Representatives OF
the three firms and some of theil
customers, the subcommittee also
expects to hear from officials OF
the Chevrolet Division OF General
Motors Corp.
As a result of earlier hearings
by the Macy Subcommittee, Gen.
eral Motors has notified one of its
Washington distributors, the Kear-
ney Oldsmobile Co., New York
avenue NE, that its franchise was
not being renewed.
The Hudson Motor Car Co., OF
Detroit, following the hearings, an
nounced a new policy that half OF
it's standard models would be de-
livered stripped of extra accessories.
In addition, spokesmen for the
Ford Co. have announced that they
stand against loading customers
with unwanted accessories or other
unfair practices.
Evening star., 1948-11-27
200 Americans to Leave
shonqhoi Tuesday by Ship

SHANGHAI, Nov. 27 up. - Two
hundred American evacuees TO-DAY
awaited departure for the United
States Tuesday aboard the United
States Army transport Republic.
Daily other Americans from the
interior, fleeing homeward from
China's civil war, are arriving here.
The Republic contingent is the
second group to leave since the war
crisis arose. The transport General
Butner picked up 367 Americans at
the United States Navy anchorage
at Tsingtao on Friday. They are
due IN San Francisco December 8.
A third ship, the General Ander-
son, will pick up another 200 here
December 8.
A Navy LIST picked up 232
evacuees at Tientsin and is bringing
them to Shanghai. Most of these
are non Americans from Tientsln
and Peiping.
In Pieping, British authorities
who have not issued evacuation
notices to their subjects, circularized
a notice telling them it may be
within the next few months that
conditions in Peiping might become
dangerous. Britons will be invited
to move into the British compound
If that happens. Each was urged
to store up food.
Evening star., 1948-11-27
By the Associoted Press

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 81
President Truman arrived out
side Municipal Stadium in his
12-car special train at 11:24 am.
today to join more than 100000
fans at the Army-Navy football
game.
Overnight rains let up early in the
day and the sun was shining as the
Presidential party reached the scene
of the classic
Shortly after the special left
Washington. Mr.. Truman walked
through all the cars shaking hands
with practically everybody aboard.
H ewas in a gay mood but he would
not speculate con outcome of the
game.
mo predictions" he said as he
kidded reporters about their own
forecasts in the recentSEanspaign in
which he won a stunning upset VIC
tory. His special train is the same
one on which he made his 81 500
mile campaign tour.
Republican Gov. James H. Duff
boarded the Presidents car this
morning as part of the official vel
Evening star., 1948-11-27
, BY the Associated Press

Representative Cannon, Demo-
crat, of Missouri, the prospective
chairman of the House Appro-
priations Committee. said today
Congress will practice Spartan
economy" on the Government
budget.
Mr.. Cannon also said the system
of fixing a definite congressional
ceiling for Federal spending just
doesn't work. He plans to offer a
bill to change it soon after the new
Congress meets in January.
Mr.. Cannon isn't ready to say
whether Congress actually can make
a substantial cut in the budget Pres
ident Truman proposes the first of
the year. That depends partly on
how much will be needed for mill
tary expenses and to help other
countries combat communism.
In any event, Mr.. Cannon told re-
porters, there will be swift action to
fill a S1,250,0OO, 600 gap in the Eu-
ropean aid program.
Yet he is counting on whacklng
the spending program elsewhere, if
Evening star., 1948-11-27
Cannon Says Congress Plans
Spartan Economy on Budget
Incoming House Appropriations Chief Hits
U.S. Spending Ceiling, Seeks Changes in Law

necessary, in order to keep the Gov
ernment out of the red and make
some payments on the national
debt.
The Appropriations Committee, he
said, always has prided itself on
being able to tri mthe budget. He
said the budget usually is the asking
figure and Government agencies
don't expect to get as much as
they request.
Mr.. Cannon wants to amend the
Congressional Reorganization Act
in order to get rid of the require
ment htat Congress fix its own limit
on Government spending each year.
This law says that when the Pres
ident sends up his budget for Gov
ernment expenses every year, Con-
gress must look it over. then work
out its own figures on what Federal
income is likely to be and what the
limits should be on appropriations
and spending.
The figures are the Legislative
budget" They are target for
Congress to shoot at. They are
recommendations only, and not
binding on Congress.
Mr.. Cannon told reportres this
plan has been wholly ineffective"
(See FOREIGN AID, Page ABB
Evening star., 1948-11-27
AGENT AirmaiI Postal Card
To Go on Sale Here Jan. 10
BY the Associofed Press

Plans for a new Accent airmail
Government postal card were an
nounced last night by the Post
Office Department.
The new card will be issued in
connection with the several postal
rate changes which become effective
January by act of Congress. Many
of the rates will go up on that date,
including an advance from S to 6
cents for airmail letters. However,
airmail postal cards will be an ex-
ception, with the rate decreased
from 5 to cents.
Postmaster General Donaldson
said the new postal will have its
first-day sale at the Washington
Post Office on January 10. 1t will
be available at other post offices
throughout the country few days
later.
The new card will be the same
size as the present 1-cent Govern
ment postal card, in cream color.
The stamp will depict an eagle in
fight.
Evening star., 1948-11-27
Dock Workers Ballot
On Terms Expected
Conclude Strike
$1,000 to Resume Work
Monday if Negotiated
Formula Is Approved
By the Assocjoted Press

NEW YORK, Nov. 27.-Water-
front workers begin voting today
on whether they will accept
agreements that would free most
of the Nations merchant fleet
from the grip of strikes.
There were isolated criticisms of
the new peace pacts. But at several
port cities along the Eastern Sea-
board. local leaders of the AFL In
ternational Longshoremen's Asso-
citation said last night they expected
members to approve the new con-
tract formula In balloting today.
Some of the $1,000 East Coast
dockworkers-on strike for 18 days
were expected to return to work
tomorrow. and the others Monday,
if the newly negotiated terms were
approved.
On the Pacific Coast prospects
also appeared good that $1,000 strik-
ing CIO longshoremen would ap-
prove a new tentative agreement in
voting today and tomorrow.
---r 500 Vessels Tied Up.
Acceptance of both pacts would
release some 500 strikebound ships
and restore large segments of rail
and industrial operate shut down
by the pier strike. 1t also would al
low the movement of $50 0,000, 900
worth of Marshall Plan commodi-
ties tied up on Eastern docks.
On both coasts, however. some
friction arose concerning the pro-
posed settlements.
In Brooklyn late yesterday. a po-
crowd of 1000 dis
cussed the terms and voted to op-
pose acceptance in the official
balloting today.
Leaders of the meeting said the
group came from Brooklyn union
locals with $4,000 members. A dele
gate from Boston was quoted as
saying, his port and workers in
Philadelphia and Baltimore did not
favor the new terms.
Ryan Discounts Friction.
But the whole session was dis
counted by Joseph P, Ryan. lila
president. as an attempt by the
Communist Party to becloud the
issues"
He said many of those present
are not actually union members,
and would have no vote.
Statements made at the meeting
also were contradicted by reports
from Philadelphia and Baltimore.
In Philadelphia. Paul Eaker,
union International vice president.
said a general membership meet
ing of dockworkers voted to en-
dorse the new terms and to return
to work Monday.
4 In Baltimore, a meeting of long
shoremen was reported to have
expressed approval of the proposed
compact August C. Idzik, local lila
head. said he had notified employers
(See MARITIME Page A-2D
Evening star., 1948-11-27
Boy, ID, Who Withered
To S Pounds Dies
By the Associated Press

SEFFNER, Fla, Nov 27.-Suffer-
ing for Donald Youngloye has
ended. He died yesterday.
The 14-year-old star student, who
knew he was going to die, was
victim of a strange and painful
Observation-Disclosures. The ill
ness caused his muscles to atrophy.
Donald suffered for six months.
His parents, Mr.. and Mrs. T. F.
Younglove. and doctors stood by
him helplessly as his once active,
105-pound body withered to mere
IS pounds.
The suffering was so intense that
Donald pleaded with his dad, a
disabled war veteran, many times
to:
Put me to sleep, please, Daddy,
so I won't ever wake up"
Funeral services-just as Donald
wanted them-will be held Tuesday.
His classmates will take his body
to the grave.
Evening star., 1948-11-27
Z Newsboys Injured
In Fight; 7 Men Held

Police were holding two men for
investigation today following a fight
with two 15-year-old newsboys in
which one boy received 5-inch
knife slash across the cheek and an
other fractured hand.
The boys, Melvin Lewis. 1903
Eighteenth street NV, and Ber-
trand Treadwell, 1886 Florida ave-
nue. NV, both colored. said they
were delivering papers shortly after
7 o'clock in the 1900 block of Calvert
street NV. when the fight started.
Young Treadwell said he saw the
other boy scuffling with two men
and ran to his aid He said man
he grappled with cut his cheek and
hand with a knife, and another
threw a whisky bottle at his COM
panion, hitting him on the left
hand.
Young Treadwell said a janitor in
"a nearby apartment called an am
bulance which took him to Freed
mems Hospital, where 13 stitches
were required to close the wound in
his cheek.
The other boy was taken to Gar
field Hospital where he was said to
have fractured hand and bruises.
The boys said three men were to-
gether, but only two took part in
the fight. The three. 1t was said, ran
toward the Calvert Street Bridge
Two later were taken to No. 10 pre-
cinct, while police Investigated
Neither boy was believed seriously
injured.
The two arrested identified them
selves as Bryant Deal, 10, and Glenn
Barlow, jr., 26, both restaurant
counter men, of the 1900 block Of
Mintwood place NV Police picked
up the two at their home on infor-
nation furnished by the boys.
Evening star., 1948-11-27
U. 5. Still Accepts
Of Using
Red Mark in Berlin
Thorp Denies America
Hos Withdrawn From
Aug. 30 Agreement
BY the kssoeiosed Press

PARIS, Nov. 27.-Willard L.
Thorp, Assistant Secretary of
State, said today that the United
States accepts the idea that the
Soviet mark should be used in all
of Berlin.
He told a special news conference
the United States has in no way
withdrawn from the agreement to
accept the Moscow directives Of
August 30.
Mr.. Thorp, who advises the Amer
ican delegation to the United Ma
tions on Berlin currency questions,
said the August 80 four-power di-
receives we're the basis for the Sc
curity Council resolution on Berlin
which was accepted by the Western
powers and vetoed by Russia Octo-
Der .25.
Situation Held Deteriorating.
One American source said, how
ever, that the Berlin political situa-
ticn is deteriorating fast. This
source contended it is very urgent"
that a Berlin. solution. must be
reached over increasing difncultles.
The American informant said that
for the moment nothing was in
sight except the apparently stalled
effort by the Security Councils six
neutrals to end the Soviet blockade
of Berlin, which still stands as the
main stumbling block in the whole
crisis.
Meanwhile, Argentine Foreign
Minister Juan Bramuglia, who has
led the neutral effort for the last
two months, is planning to wind up
his lob. His term as Council presi-
dent expires November 30.
He said he was certain plan
would be on the move" by Decem-
ber /, when Fernand van Langen-
hove of Belgium will succeed him.
DR.. Bramuglia said he did not mean
a solution for Berlin would be
reached by then.
Good Will Held Necessary.
He was understood to be working
on a draft which would create an
expert commission including rep
resentatives of the neutrals as well
as of Russia and the Western powers
to try to settle the currency problem.
! An American source said the
United States is prepared to do all
! it can in support of the neutral
effort, but added that while solu-
tion of the currency question in
Berlin is technically possible, nothing
will help solving the whole issue as
much as good will. The Western
powers insist the blockade must be
lifted before the currency problem
can be settled finally.
( The American informant said use
of o single currency in Berlin will
n q
Evening star., 1948-11-27
More Rain Due Tomorrow
After Hiqh in Cos Today

More rain was in sight tomorrow
as the Weather Bureau reported
last nights fall pushed November's
precipitation well above average.
The temperature was expected to
rise to the low COS today and drop
to about 80 tonight. Increasing
cloudiness. followed by rain tomor-
row afternoon or night was pre-
dicted.
The forecaster said that normally
November is Washington's driest
month. But not this time. With 0.62
inches recorded last night. the
months total is 4.34 inches. This is
about Is per cent above normal.
Evening star., 1948-11-27
.C|0 Board 10 Order
organizing Crusade
Demanded by Murray
Job Expected to Be Given
To II Officers Reelected
As Convention Closed
BY the Associoted Press

PORTLAND, Oreg., Nov. 27.-
The CIO Executive Board pushes
the starting button today for
what Philip Murray calls "the
organizing crusade" in
American history.
Beginning his ninth year as CIO
president, Mr.. Murray demanded a
campaign of this size yesterday as
the CIO convention adjourned.
The first step was up to the Execu-
tive Board.
The convention gave to the board
the power to take whatever action
may be appropriate and necessary"
to organize workers in fields where
ClO unions have failed to do the
Job.
All Officers Reelected
Many CIO leaders expected the
board today to hand this enormous
power over to President Murray,
Secretary Treasurer James Carey
and the nine CIO vice presidents
All those officers were reelected
yesterday without opposition.
Mr.. Murray has already named
three of the organizing fields, and
the unions that have failed" in
them, as follows:
/. White-cof1ar workers UNITED
Office and Professional Workers
Union).
2. Governmental employees UNITED
Public Workers.
8. Retail clerks tRetail and Whole
sale Union.
Mr.. Murray during the convention
also pounded leaders of three other
small unions with scornful criticism.
They are the Food and Tobacco
Workers, the Mine, Mill and Smelter
Workers and the American Com
Association.
Leaders of all six unions. with
the exception of the Retail and
Wholesale Union, were in the left
wing opposition to Mr.. Murray's
policies in the convention debates.
Evening star., 1948-11-27
Horthy to Leave Reich
To Join Son in Argentina
By The Associated Press

FRANKFURT, Germany. Nov. o.
Stars and Stripes, the United
States Army newspaper, said today
that Admiral Nicholas Horthy, war
time regent of Hungary, is leaving
Germany soon to join son in Ar
gentina.
Admiral Horthy, 80, has been lv-
ing in Weilheim, in Upper Bavaria,
since American soldiers took him
out Of Nazi hands In May, 1945.