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Evening star., 1948-01-11
GS| Says Cafeterias
Will Resume Normal
Service Tomorrow
1000 New Workers
Hired Since Strike Stort,
Personnel Manager Says

Normal service will be restored
to most Government building
cafeterias tomorrow despite a
week-old strike of union work.
ers, Government Services, Inc,
officials said last night.
Proceeding as though the CIO
Cafeteria Workers Union does not
exist, GSI has hired more than
1000 new employees since last Mon
days walkout.
With the return of some union
workers, total of 1880 are now
staining the cafeterias where 1900
were employed before the strike, it
was said by j. c. Niehuss, person
mel manager. Two of the A cafe
lterias. located at the Labor De-
partment and Supreme Court
Building. have been closed during
the strike.
The company's announced policy
of hiring striker requirements on
permanent basis thus has cost unior
workers about 1000 jobs by GSI'!
figures. .-.
Union Denies Break in Ranks.
Mr.. Niehuss said the company
had given regular employees first
call at returning to their old jobs
and that few places still were
open to them.
Union officials .again challenged
the statement that their ranks were
cracking. Oliver Palmer. head of
the Negotiating Committee, declared
the union was prepared to fight
until every worker returns to his
lob under union agreement.
I'VE are ready to negotiate at any
time" he said. The issues remain
the same, he said, with the union
demanding a Is cents hourly wage
increase.
GSI boosted wages 6h cents an
hour on the eve of the strike. The
company has refused to meet with
the union until its officials and those
of the parent union, the United Pub
|lic Workers of America (CIO), file
non Communist affidavits and fin-
ancial statements as required by the
Taft Hartley Act for qualification
with the National Labor Relations
Board.
The union scheduled prayer
meeting for strikers and their fam
lilies at $3.50 o'clock today in Shiloh
Baptist Church.
Tomorrow a mass picketing DEM
onstration will be held between 1l:3O
m. and l pm. in front of the Fed
tSee GSI. Page A-69
Evening star., 1948-01-11
Congress Requested
To Authorize Control
OF Oil Shipments
Means Of Increasing ..
Supply to Be Sought at
Conference Here Thursdu,

AS officials from the District
and % States prepared to meet
Thursday at the Interior De-
partment to discuss means OF
increasing the fuel oil supply,
the board of managers of the
Council of State Governments
called on Congress to provide for
administrative authority to con-
troll the shipment Of oil.
"In the face of the fact that the
supply of fuel oil is ample to satisfy
the demand, the crisis that has been
permitted to arise has apparently
been brought about by lack OF
administrative authority" the board
stated at the close of its annual
meeting at the Mayf1ower Hotel.
1t adopted a resolution urging
prompt remedial legislation, if nee
essary, to assure transportation OF
an adequate supply OF fuel oil to
homes and businesses.
Invitations meanwhile were tele-
graphed late yesterday to "emer-
gency fuel co-ordifators of %
States and the District to attend
conference arranged for Thursday
by Max w. Ball, director of the
Interior Department. oil and gas
division.
Suggested by Senators.
Such a conference was suggested
earlier by the Senate Commerce
subcommittee studying the fuel oil
situation, Senator Tobey. Republic
can of New Hampshire, the chair
man, said. ..-.
The Districts representative at
the conference probably will >be
designated tomorrow by the Com
missioners, District Purchasing Of
ncer Roland M. Brennan reported.
Virginia will be represented and
although Maryland did not receive
an invitation because it has not ap-
pointed a fuel co-ordinator, Gov.
Lane said the Free State definitely
will be represented at the conference
In the meantime, Gov. Lane
added, he will hold a series of meet
ings throughout the State to get
details of the fuel oil shortage.
The State fuel co-ordinators were
appointed by State governors at
Senator Tobey's request to admin
lister a pool account" or quantity
of fuel oil set up by oil producers
for emergency ALLEGATION to short
age areas.
II think the idea is beginning to
work out" Senator Tobey told a
tSee OIL, Page A-71
Evening star., 1948-01-11
BY the Associoted Press

NEW YORK, Jan. 10. - The
Jewish Agency for Palestine said
tonight it had made the finan-
cial arrangements for the pro-
curement of a consignment of
high explosives found Thursday
in Asbury Park, N. j., and that
the transaction was legal.
In its first statement since the
explosives were brought to light, the
Jewish Agency said that it had
made dollar credits available" for
the purchase and that the ma
terials found near Asbury Park on
Thursday were, to the best of our
knowledge, legally procured to await
legitimate shipment"
The agency's statement followed
by several hours e declaration by
Leonard Weisman, 32-year- -old i'm
porter and exporter, that ne had
helped a firm known as Foundry
Associates, Inc. to obtain arms and
Evening star., 1948-01-11
installer of Fire Alarms jailed
In Sounding of Seven Falsely

panies. nine truck companies. seven
chiefs, rescue squad and an
ambulance unit.
A woman. whose identity could
not be learned. really is responsible
for Simmons arrest, police said.
She was standing at Fourth and H
streets, they reported. when Pvts
johnson and Mode pulled up In
their scout car to investigate the
seventh alarm. The woman hur-
riedly told them she had been fol-
lowing a man who had turned in
several alarms, and that he had
just left.
The officers whisked aroun: the
corner and found Simmons.
Police charged Simmons with
pulling the seven fire boxes, the
first, at 6:10 pm. at Third and E
streets NV. Thereafter. in fairly
rapid succession. according to the
charge, Simmons visited boxes at
Seven and Indiana avenue NV.
Sixth and F streets NV, Fourth
and G streets NW-again at
Fourth and G streets N.W.-Fifth
and H streets NV, and Fourth and
H streets NV.
Because they all are located In
the downtown section, all these
7see FALSE ALARMS, Page AID
Evening star., 1948-01-11
Warmer, Sunny Forecast
Today, Drop 10 II Tonight

Sunshine and temperatures rising
to nearly 40 degrees was the
Weather Bureaus forecast for
Washington today, but tonight
should pull the mercury down to
% degrees in the city and IA in
the suburbs.
Tomorrow promises increasing
cloudiness and warmer tempera-
lures. the bureau added.
Unofficially, the forecaster saw a
chance for rain or snow tomorrow.
Another cold wave which may hit
the District Tuesday or Wednesday
is brewing in western Canada.
Northeastern States treated to two
mild DAYS were due near-zero tenn
peratures today as a cold snap
moved from the Midwest. In con-
trast, Los Angeles baked yesterday
in 81 degrees, sending many persons
to the beaches.
Evening star., 1948-01-11
Export Of Radar Equipment
Of Old Type 10 Be Curbed
BY the Assoeioted Press

Old types of radar equipment
hitherto unregulated, will 60 under
close export control early this week
Elmer T. Cummins, executive secre-
tary of the National Munitions Con-
troll Board said last night.
Asked the reason for the move
Mr.. Cummins would say only thai
there have been reports small
amounts are getting into areas
where we don't want it,"
The decision to apply the export
curbs, however, followed a letter
to the State Department from Rep
resentative Ridley, Democrat, of
Oklahoma, complaining that quanti-
ties of the equipment were reaching
Russian hands through export to
Soviet satellites. There were re-
ports the department had received
other similar protests.
Modern types of radar apparatus
have been under export control all
along, with licenses-lf any-issued
only through the control board. The
board passes on shipments of arms
ammunition and munitions of war
Evening star., 1948-01-11
U. S. Vessel Reported
Grounded OFF Sweden
By the Associoted Press

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Sunday,
Jan. 1O.-Coastal stations said
early today that the 7.190-ton
steamer George Weems of Balti-
more was grounded and in danger
of breaking up in rough weather In
the Gulf of Bothnia off Gravle,
about 12O miles north of here.
Rescue vessels are en- route. they
said, but are not expected to reach
the ship for several hours. No de-
tails on the crew were available.
Evening star., 1948-01-11
Jewish Agency Admits Buying
Army Explosive, Calls 1t Legal
NewYork Man Feels 1t Honor to Help in Deal
Tober to Ask ExpIondton Of Surplus Sale

military equipment for Jews in
Palestine.
In an interview at his Mt. Vernon
home after talking with FBI agents,
Mr.. Weisman said, Il consider it
an honor, first as an American, and
second as a Jew to legally procure
the means of self defense of the
Jewish state against the Arab
marauders armed by the British" +"
Mr.. Weisman's connection with
the procurement of arms for Pales-
tine came to light after three trucks
containing Ct tons of war-developed
explosive bricks purchased from the
War Assets Administration and
and obtained at the Seneca Army
Ordnance Depot at Romulus, were
seized late yesterday in Saugerties.
Waybills showed the explosives were
being shipped by Foundry Associ-
ates, Inc.
Foundry Associates proved to have
desk space in Offices of the three
(See EXPLOSIVES Page A-4.0
Evening star., 1948-01-11
Eisenhower Expected
To State Position on
Campaign Tomorrow
Reported Ready to Remove
Himself as Candidate
On Republican Slate
BY Gould Lincoln

Gen. Eisenhower is expected to
have something to say tomor-
row about a New Hampshire
move to put him definitely in the
race for the Republican presi-
Dental nomination.
A prediction that he will seek to
remove himself finally from con-
sideration for the nomination came
yesterday from sources usually well
informed.
Gen. Eisenhower, who will retire
soon as Army chief Of staff to be-
come president of Columbia Uni
versity, has said on several occasions
in the past that he Is not presi-
Dental candidate, but he has not
said he would decline aenomination
if 1t came his way.
Primary to Be March 9.
A cold kept Gen. Eisenhower in
his quarters at Fort Myer yester-
day, but he will return to his Office
tomorrow when there will be heavy
pressure for a definite statement
from him concerning the filing in
New Hampshire of a complete slate
of Eisenhower for president candi-
dates for delegates to the Repub-
lican National Convention. The
New Hampshire primary is March 8.
Under New Hampshire law, sup
porters of Gen. Eisenhower are at
liberty to enter delegate candidates
pledged to the general without OBJ
tanning his consent. Even if Gen.
Eisenhower continues to insist he
is not a candidate, these Eisen-
hower-pledged delegates can be
kept on the ballot Only definite
statement by Gen. Eisenhower that
he would not accept presidential
nomination and that he could not
be drafted" for the Office would be
effective in stopping the move.
Two other general officers, Gen.
Marshall, now Secretary of State,
and Gen. Macarthur, supreme COM
mander In Japan, have been men
toned for presidential nomination.
Gen. Marshall, with a fiat state
ment that he could not be drafted,
eliminated himself months ago.
Gen. Macarthur has said nothing,
although plans are being laid to
enter a Macarthur slate of dele
gates in Wisconsin, whose primary
takes place April 13 and to place his
name in the Illinois preference pri-
mary.
13 Other States Involved.
There are 13 States in addition to
New Hampshire which hold primary
elections for the election of dele
(See EISENHOWER. Page A-7.)
Evening star., 1948-01-11
British-lroq Pact
inflicted in London
BY the Assoeio.ed Press

LONDON, Jan. l0.-British For
eign Secretary Bevin and Iraq's
Premier. Sayyid Salih Jabr, today
initiated the draft of new British
Iraqi treaty of alliance replacing the
1890 pact.
Details will not be made public
until the instrument is signed at
a formal ceremony next week, the
Foreign Office said. The Iraqi Pre-
mier has been here since Monday
for the final negotiations. Iraq off,
cials for months have advocated
evacuation of British troops from
Iraq airfields where they were sta
toned under provisions of the 1890
pact.
Evening star., 1948-01-11
More Italian Workers
Out in Sympathy With
$4,000 Bank Strikers
General WoIkout Feared;
Millions Fail to Get Pay
For Second Saturday
By the Assocjoted Press

RUNE, Jan. lU. - sympathy
strikes broke out at Crotone in
Calabria in Southern Italy, at
Via Reggie and Pistoia in the
north and in Rome's suburbs to-
day as the 11-day nationwide
walkout of $4,000 bank en-
ployes deprived millions of their
pay for the second Saturday.
Fears grew that a general strike
would develop.
Merchant seamen walked out at
Genoa, Naples and Savona, in de-
mands for more pay. Employees OF
the nations 25000O clothing shops
threatened to strike Monday.
Newspaper dispatches said cara
binieri in jeeps were called out to
clear roadblocks set up by strikers
near Pescia on the highway to
Florence. At Prato, Pisa and else
where the jobless conducted demon
strations demanding government re-
lief.
Turin Workers on Picket Line.
Turin employees of the Rome radio
network took to the picket line be-
cause programs once originating
there henceforth will be broadcast
from Rome.
Unlike the strikes of November
and December, these had no clear
pattern of Communist inspiration,
but Rome newspapers expressed
fears that the Communist-domin-
ated General Confederation of Labor
might order a general walkout to
bolster the bank strikers. The con-
federation already has voted soli-
darity with the $4,000 bank en-
ployes who are demanding for this
year the continuation of temporary
pay bonuses that were granted last
year.
A meeting of bank and labor rep
resentatives with Labor Minister
Amintore Fanfani ended without re-
suit.
At Milan, the ItaliaA Communist
congress at its closing session heard
from the party secretariat that
American agents have tried and are
trying to enter our party units"
Recruiting Is Tagging.
Pietro Seechia, organizations
chief who made the report, said re-
cruiting was tagging in the big IN.
dustrial centers of the north ano
"in some cases we were not able te
reach or surpass" the enrolment Of
1916.
Total party membership, he said
was 2,252,716, almost 100000 more
than last year. The increase came
chiefly from industrial Emilia anc
Tuscany, he said.
In Rome, Francesca Saverio Nitti
79-year -old former premier and lib
eral party leader, sat down with
leaders of the Common Man
movement and other Conservative
factions and signed an accord for 8
new national bloc to oppose
eftiStS
Evening star., 1948-01-11
|WhottheRussions
Are Saying of Us

The MoscoU radio. brondcasttns
in SUedish to Europe. said;
The reactionary press in Eu-
rope and America has, as will be
recalled. been carrying on a vio-
lent anti-Soviet campaign re-
Gently. The people tanning this
campaign are to be found among
the initiators of the Marshall
Plan and the creators of the
Truman doctrine. In Stockholm
they have recently been spread
ing anti-soviet stories with grow.
ing enthusiasm"
Evening star., 1948-01-11
$50, ,000, 900 US. Surplus
Purchased by Austria
BY the Associoted Press

VIENNA, Jan. 10.-An Austrian
purchasing commission has con-
tracted with United States Army
officials in Germany for the pur-
chase of $4,000, 900 worth of Army
surplus goods, the Austrian press
agency reported today. Payments
will be made from dollar credits
recently granted this country.
Delivery of goods, including cloth
ing, machinery, tools, radio and tele
phone equipment. vehicles and med
ical and chemical supplies, will start
next month, the agency said.
Evening star., 1948-01-11
Strike on Oil Barges
Called Off in New York
bx the Associoted Press

NEW YORK, Jan. 10.-Theodore
w. Kneel, chairman of the city's
Labor Relations Division, announced
that threatened strike by 1000
oil barge and tanker workers was
called off tonight, half an hour be-
fore the strike deadline.
Mayor ODvyer, who last Satur-
day obtained a weeks postponement
of the deadline, said strike would
have paralyzed the city. The work
ers involved are crewmen on craft
which carry an estimated 80 per
cent of the city's fuel oil supply
from New Jersey refineries.
Evening star., 1948-01-11
Condition of Daniels
Still Getting Worse
bY The Assoeioted Press

RALEIGH. N. c., Jan. 1o-The
condition of Publisher Josephus
Daniels of the News and Observer
close friend of four Democratic
Presidents, grew worse tonight from
bronchitis and complications. He
is IS and was Secretary of the Navy
in World War I.
His condition since Tuesday rap
idly worsened, and stimulants and
an oxygen tent have been used.
His four sons have been with him
constantly.
Evening star., 1948-01-11
8 Dead, AS Hurt Taken
From Mine After BIost
By the Associated Press

METZ, France, Jan. 10.-Eight
dead and As injured men were taken
from the .Vuillermin coal mine here
today after two fire-damp explosions
at the 1900 foot level.
Sixty men were caught under
ground at the time of the blasts
Many of those rescued were criti-
cally injured.
Evening star., 1948-01-11
Marshall Will Appeal
To House Group for
Full Aid Tomorrow
Senate Hearings Indicate
Changes in European
Program Management
BRITAIN'S NEEDS Are Estimated
at $5,348, 900 900. Page Al.
By J. A. O'Leory

BR1TAIN'S NEEDS Are Estimated
at 5,348,000, 900. Page Al.
By J. A. OLeory
Secretary of State Marshall
will carry his plea for an ade-
quate European recovery pro-
gram to the House Foreign
Affairs Committee tomorrow,
while the Senate Foreign Rela-
tions Committee questions other
high officials about details of
the $4,000, 100000 asked for the
first IS months of the plan.
The third day of Senate hearings
brought stronger indications yester-
day of changes in the type of
organization proposed by the ad-
ministration to handle the program,
but the Senators have not yet
reached accord on the extent of
the revisions.
Senator Ebert Thomas, Demo-
crat, of Utah, joined in the call
for clarification of the management
plan. Senator Thomas, a strong
administration supporter, told re-
porter later he thought the pro-
gram should be administered 'in
the State Department"
Bill Calls for Administrator.
The administration bill now
places the plan in the hands of a
separate administrator outside the
State Department, but makes him
subject to the direction and control
of the Secretary of State on
matters that affect foreign policy.
Earlier comments. Of other Sena-
tors indicated, however, they are
not all thinking of changes in the
same direction. Some, for instance,
have stressed a desire for more
business management of foreign
aid. In both houses there are
members who want the plan
handled by an independent Gov
ernment corporation, with BIZ
partisan board of directors.
Senator Thomas said the Chan
mel of direction" in the original
bill is confusing, and must be
made 81 clear there can be nc
misunderstanding"
State Department officials have
insisted there cannot be 'two Sec
retaries of State" to direct foreign
policy. Senator Thomas declared
yesterday it also could be argued
that you can't l1ve two admins
traitors, or two Secretaries of Com
merce," presumably referring to the
possibility that various branches OF
the Government would be eligible
to perform some of the functions
of the recovery program.
Hopes to Get Back 20 to 400.
Other major pointsrin yesterdays S
Testimony were:
Chairman Vandenberg of the Sen
ate Foreign Relations Committee
brought out that the administration
hopes to get back between 20 and 40
per cent of the initial $4,000 ,0Oo, ,00O
as repayable loans.
Lewis Douglas, American Ambas-
sador to Great Britain, who is act
ing as Secretary Marshall's right
hand man at the hearings, agreed
this would reduce the ultimate cos.
for the first Is months to IS 500 ,000,-
900, if 20 per cent is in loans, or
to about $4,000 ,Ooo, 900, if 40 per cent
is repaid.
Mr.. Douglas assured the commit
tee the estimate Of the total needed
by the 16 cooperating countries is
not "just a letter to Santa Claus
but represents as careful screen
Evening star., 1948-01-11
Bus Kills 4, Injuries l3

BARGEDDIE, Laparkshire, Scot
land, Sunday. Jan. IL. P.-Four
persons we're killed and 13 were
injured last night when a bus
crashed into q line Of shoppers
waiting for q streetcar.
Evening star., 1948-01-11
Congress toGef
dc. HomeRu|e
bill Tomorrow
| Droft Of l5l-Poee
Measure Made Public
By AuchincIoss
DIGEST of Provisions of Home Rule
BY Don 5. Worren

DIGEST of Provisions of Home Rule
Bill. Page Al.
Evening star., 1948-01-11

tSee GSI. Page A-6.D
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(See EXPLOSIVES. Page A
Evening star., 1948-01-11
Home Delivery

The Evening and Sunday Star is
delivered by carrier to all subscribers
at $l.20 per month when 4 Sundays;
$3.50 per month when Sundays.
Telephone Ma. 5000.
Evening star., 1948-01-11

(See FOREIGN AID, Page AID
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(see HOME RULE, Page A.
, 1948-11-24
THOUGHT FOR TODAY -.
Manhood. not scholarship. is
the first aim of education.
Ernest Thompson Seton

WE think that the President
and the Governors who call
on the people to attend the
Church Of their choice are
right. Every Church should be
filled on Thanksgiving Day
filled with worshippers who
count their many blessings, <
50 counting open the door for
many more.
, 1948-11-24
INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT
OF THE
Virgin Islunds of the United States

Income Tax Revenues
from the income tax increased
rapidly during the war years.
In st. Thomas and St. John
a peak was reached in fiscal
year 1914 when the income
tax revenues constituted 80
per cent of all revenues of that
municipality, compared to an
average of Is per cent from
1918 to 1881 and only Z per
cent from 1882 to 1884. Collec-
tons from this source increas-
ed from an annual average of
less than $4,000 before 1881
to $1,295,381 in 1914, after
which there was a steady de-
cline.
The income tax has never
been as important a source of
revenue in St. Croix. Collec-
tions from this source averag-
ed about $4,000 from 1913 to
= go
1884, around 20 per cent of all
revenues. During the war they
reached a peak of 1891 ,026 in
fiscal 1915, about 70 per cent
of all revenues. In the follow
ing year, with the departure
of the military personnel, the
revenues from this source
dropped by about IS per cent,
a downward trend which has
continued since.
Import and Export Duties
From 1918 to 1881 revenues
from import duties for the
municipality of ST. Thomas &
st. John constituted nearly 8
percent of the total average
annual revenue. They dropped
to 5 percent during the period
1924, and reached 9 percent
in 1912. In 1913, they dropped