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Berlin
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were the last to arrive for the
momentous meeting.
Marshal Sokolovsky appeared ir
"a cleaning white summer uniform
Deputies Also Present.
Deputies to the governors were
present. These were Maj. Gen
George Hays of the United States
Maj. Gen. Nevil c. D. Brownjohn
of Britain, 1t. Gen. M. I. Dratvin OF
Russia and Maj. Gen. Roger Noiret
of France.
Among others attending were
James Bennett, financial adviser to
Gen. Clay; Sir Cecil Weir, British
economic collaboration; Christopher
Steel, British political adviser, and
Sir Eric Coates, British financial
adviser.
Several Russians in civilian dress
accompanied Marshal Sokolovsky.
Berlin itself was relatively quiet
and free of incidents.
British informants said the fact
that the four governors were meet
ing could be interpreted to- mean
that the month-long negotiations in
Moscow resulted in definite agree
ment on broad principles for Ber-
lin currency pact, which would be
on the basis of Sthe Soviet zones
East mark being accepted as Ber-
Inns only currency, but under clear
ly defined four-power supervision.
Lacked Information In Moscow.
1t is understood that the prin-
ciples involved in the currency re-
form situation are such that the
Western representatives in Mos
cow did not have sufficient iSfor-
nation on hand to make any final
settlement with the Russians. and
it was decided to refer the matter
to the military governors, who have
been dealing with the situation first
hand.
Some points described in Moscow
as technical difficulties involve
fundamental principles on which
the negotiators at the Kremlin were
not sufficiently familiar to make
concessions, it is believed.
As word circulated that Berlin
soon might be on a single currency
basis, the city's fiourishing money
trading slowed down abruptly. This
trading has been brisk ever since
the Western powers introduced their
new German mark here in competi-
ton to the Soviet-sponsored East
mark. Though the two were Of
ficially rated at parity, the West
mark always was at a premium.
Some money Offices closed Money
changers at the Potsdamer Platz
the street where the Russian, Amer
ican and British zones converge
were reported shying away from
Western currency.
Demonstrations Promised.
Meanwhile. the Russians con-
tinued needing Berlin's anti-Com-
munist city government
The of1icial Soviet news agency
reported a meeting of Maj. Gen
Alexander Kotikov, the Soviet Ber-
lin commandant, with a delegation
of workers" who blasted "war mon
gering" in Western Berlin and
promised to keep up demonstrations
against the city council. Last week
there were two Communicated as
Saults on Berlins City Hall.
The workers" also added their
voices to the Soviet-sponsored
chorus for withdrawal OF all occu-
patton troops from Germany and
the formation of a democratic
national government with its capi-
tai in Berlin.
Ruhr Demands Renewed.
Taegliche Rundschau, official Or
gan OF the Soviet military admini-
stration, renewed demands that the
Evening star., 1948-08-31
Call for u. n. Session
Seen as Soviet Bid 10
Get Aides in Kashmir
BY the Asseeiatsd Press


LAKE SUCCESS. Aug. 3l.-In-
formed sources speculated today
that Russia may be trying to gel
Communist-trained military observ.
ers into Kashmir, an Asiatic trouble
spot.
These sources advanced such an
aim as the probable reason behind
the sudden calling of an emergency
meeting of the United Nations Sc
curity Council yesterday. Soviet
Deputy Foreign Minister Jacob A
Malik, Council president for Au-
gust, ordered the meeting and list
ed Kashmir and Palestine as the
emergency items to be debated.
The Council, however, rebuffed
Mr.. Malik by refusing to accept the
agenda by lopsided vote. Then
his opponents forced adjournment
OF the meeting. All other delegates
except the Soviet Ukraine main
talnd there was no emergency and
no meeting should have been calld
Rebuffed Before on Observers.
On August IL the Councils U. N
kashmlr commission - which is
seeking to settle India -Pakistan diff
ferences over the Himalayan state
asked Secretary General Trygv Lie
10 prepare to send military observ-
ers to watch over an anticipated
truce. Mr.. Malik placed this "emer-
gency" item on the agenda along
with an August % letter from Is
raeI Foreign Minister Moshe Sher-
tok questioning Palestine decision.
1t was recalled that when military
observers were selected for the
Palestine truce Russia was left out
In the cold. Andrei A. Gromyko,
then Soviet delegate, attempted
throughout three meetings to get
Russians in but got nowhere with
the Council.
Sources here now believe that Mr..
Malik hoped to get Council deci-
sion to include Russians or at least
military men from Eastern Europe
IN the Kashmir contingents. It was
further believed he feared that with
the Council now in a long recess
until meetings start up in Paris the
Soviet might be crowded out again.
Communist Activity Increases.
In the case of Palestine the U. N.
selected men from the United
States, France and Belgium, which
make up consular truce commits
sion. The Kashmir commission in
cludes the United States, Argentina
Colombia, Belgium and Czechoslo-
Vakla, and under the previous pro-
cedure some Czechoslovaks would
be expected to be selected for duty.
However, there is no assurance that
the U. N.-without Council direc-
tions-would follow the same path.
The keen Soviet interest in the
Indian subcontinent is being tied
in here with reports of stepped-up
Communist activity in the Asiatic
region. Dispatches from Burma
Malaga and other South Asia points
tell OF Communist-inSpired clashes.
Mr.. Malik is due to sail for Paris
tonight. Five of the IL delegates
already have gone and had alter
mates sitting yesterday The Coun-
Gil Will resume meetings at Lake
Success after the close of the Cen
eral Assembly's Paris meeting -
probably January /.
Evening star., 1948-08-31
Publisher, 78, Killed
In 20-Foot Fall at Plant
By the Associated p,...

~ NV SbsoefoIeo PTe3S
TROY, N. Y. Aug. 31.-David B.
Plum, publisher of the Record
newspapers, was killed today in a
fall at the newspaper plant.
Mr.. Plum, 78, was inspecting an
addition to the building when he
fell 20 feet from the second floor
into a pit where a new press is to
be installed. He was pronounced
dead by physician.
Dwight Marvin, editor of the
Record Newspapers, said Mr.. Plum
probably suffered an attack of verti-
go or made a misstep. Mr.. Plum
was on his daily tour of the plant
when the fatality occurred.
The Record Newspapers publish
the Troy Record in the morning and
the Troy Times-Record in the eve
| ming.
Evening star., 1948-08-31

aside for q passing bus. Infirm in
the legs, he was unable to climb
through the underbrush to free
himself.
A son, August H. Dressed. said
search was pressed for the missing
man Saturday night and Sunday.
Yesterday his cries for help at
tracted the attention of Miss Ruby
Bercham OF st. Boniface road and
he was rescued.
August Dressed is proprietor Of the
Old Williamsburg Restaurant and
president of the Washington Res
taurant Association.
Evening star., 1948-08-31

coal-rich Ruhr be placed under
four-power control:
"The Ruhr industry is not q mat
ter for Bizonia, but always has been
Of concern to all Germany" the
paper said. It declared the Pots
dam agreement provided that the
four powers jointly exercise author
ity on general German questions.
The Communists are campaigning
for postponement of elections for a
new city administration, tentatively
scheduled for October. The Commu-
nists took severe lacing two years
ago and their political foes say they
fear an even worse defeat this year.
Marshal Sokolovsky already has
Cancelled fan elections In the Soviet
zone of Germany.
Western Diplomats Confer
At British Embassy
MOSCOW, Aug. 81 Gp.-Diplo-
matte representatives Of the Western
powers conferred today at the Brit
ish Embassy. They looked tired,
perhaps because they talked until
late last night at the American
Embassy.
Their conversations presumably
concerned the ninth four power talk
on Germany held at the Kremlin
last night. An authoritative in
formant said the only bar now to
the procedural agreement on the
Berlin crisis is one of the Western
powers insistence on phrasing and
technical points.
The informant did not say which
Western power that was. The cur
rent phase Of the talks on Berlin
has been going on for exactly one
month today. The Western powers
were described last night as being
very close to agreement on how to
60 about handling the problem OF
dealing with the German situation
That does not mean there is agree.
ment on the issue at stake.
Evening star., 1948-08-31
YugosIov
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preceded earlier this month by
changes in state governments, par
ticularly in Montenegro and Bosnia.
In these regional purges the local
governments we're streamlined by
elimination of minor ministries, and
the power was concentrated with
picked leaders.
Evening star., 1948-08-31
Cominform Issues New
Biost Aqoinst Tito

BUCHAREST, Romania, Aug. 81
P.-The Communist Information
Bureau resumed its running battle
with Premier Marshal Tito's re-
gime today. It also took side swipes
Evening star., 1948-08-31

tributed to- a group of Belgrade
students and said they agreed with
the Cominform's finding that the
Yugosav party's Central Commit
tee has departed from the Marxist-
Leninst line.
Wallace Held Gaining.
Another article declared that
President Truman and Thomas E.
Dewey are conducting their election
campaigns along German Fascist
lines"
The article added that Repub-
licans and Democrats are uniting
against Henry A. Wallace's Progress
sive Party, but said the party's
popularity "is growing immensely
every day"
In Helsinki, the Finnish Com
munist Party has begun a week
long meeting at which it will decide
whether to join the Cominform.
The question has not yet been dis
cussed, but is due for action before
the end of this weeks session.
Evening star., 1948-08-31

ter. --AP WirephotQ.
at "Wall Street warmongers" and
the United States presidential cam
paign.
The September l bulletin of the
Cominform said Tito's Yugoslav
Communists think they can afford
to behave impudently" because they
believe Russia will not abandon
YugoSlavia.
The bulletin published a letter at
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Evening star., 1948-11-14

Every and then reader drops by The Star
Office and asks why don't get out a book Of
Bergman cartoons
Remember that about" and the visitor
begins to describe in detail how he clipped
Well, The Star has produced such book
The story written by John @. Citizen, a centra!
character of many Star cartoons who upset all the
political dopeSters the pollsters and the political
experts this year by going to the polls and doing
the unexpected And the book is illustrated by the
daytoday work of The Stars great team of cartoon
ists-Cliford K. Bergman his son James T. Berry
man and Gibson Crockett.
1t is quite a story-one of the most dramatic
stories, with unexpected ending that John O., who
Is forever writing comedies tragedies and burlesques
about his adventures, has turned out.
1t has been put between attractive covers The
illustrations - rs extraordinarily fine reproduc
tons-are the selected cartoons out of more than a
hundred that appeared The Stars first page during
the past 10 months or all dealing with the high
spots of the preconventon jockeying among the can
dates the unforgettable campaign itself and the
election climax.
The cast of characters includes such notables as
Harry S. Truman Gov. Dewey, Gov. Thurmond, Henry
Wallace, Gov. Warren, Vice President Elect Barkley,
Gen Eisenhower, Gen. Macarthur cfirst in war; first
in peace, second in Wisconsin-in Nebraska fifth",
Harold Stassen, Senators Taft, Lodge. Vandenberg,
McGrath. Tydngs, Speaker Martin, Representative
Sam Rayburn COP Chairman Scott. Campaign Man
ager Brownell, the Presidents White House staff-n
fact, almost everybody who took leading or minor
part in the race.
Evening star., 1948-11-14
Know the Surprise Ending but Here's the Big Story of Our Times

lures that beset the candidates and their cohorts or
the road
Some of the cartoons, printed many months ago
turn out the retrospective atmosphere OF the
book strangely prophetic. There's the picture, lo1
example which some readers may remember OF The
President telling an increduous company OF his par
tisans that I'm going to win the first ballot sweep
the country with waop in November and Will nave
an overwhelming majority in the 81st Congress.
Thus a cartoon drawn months ago. recorded for pos
terty prediction by the President that caused, al
the time, only whispers of rdicue from even ms
closest friends Throughout the story the President
unshakable confidence becomes an amusing theme
Not all of the cartoons appeared in the paper IN
the order that the reader will find them in the BOOK
Their chronological order has been changed at times
to fit the continuity of the entertaining narrative
text that accompanies the picture caption on
each page, briefly written in large, prmer-hke type
The books have just come from the binder and
will go on sale at the counter in The Stars lobby
Eleventh and Pennsylvania avenue-tomorroW morn
ing.
Advance copies have been sent to the President
and members of his staff at Key West, and special
iob in leather binding typed in gold, is being pre-
pared as a gift to the President, which he may want
to keep as a souvenir of a story that the history
books will repeat for many years to come.
Many WaShngtonians who have enjoyed Star
cartoons for years will find this book convenient
reminder of their favorites.
And it will bring back to anybody who reads the
book some of the incidents which seemed important
at the time but have been lost to recollection with
the applicant that President Truman and his running
mate Senator Barkley, upset on November 2.
Evening star., 1948-11-14
City CouneiImen y Nee
Tuesday On Aid for
Alexandra Hospital

The hospital committee Of the
Alexandria City Council will meet
Tuesday night to consider the Al
exandria Hospitals plea for emer-
gency financial aid.
Hospital officials told city coun-
cilmen at a joint meeting Thursday
night that unless the institution OBJ
tains new sources of income, it will
be forced to close January 81.
The councilmen were asked to ap-
propriate $5o,OOO in their 1949
budget to care for INDECENT PATIENTS
at the hospital, and an additional
$4,000 to maintain other essential
services to the citizens unable to
pay for hospital bills"
The larger sum requested, in the
opinion of several councilmen,
would represent an outright grant,
and they questioned the legality of
such an appropriation. A similar
controversy arose last year between
the hospital and the City Council
when the latter decided it would be
illegal to grant the hospital any
funds in addition to the cost of
hospitalizing INDECENT patients.
R. Samuel Luckett, chairman of
the hospital committee, said his
group probably would come to some
decision on a recommendation to
be made to the City Council con-
cerning the hospitals request. He
added that a member of the hos
pital board, hospital corporation
member, the hospital auditor and
physician would be asked to meet
with his committee to consider the
problem.
In announcing that the hospital
faced a shut down January 81,
David S. Haddock, hospital board
president, said the institution would
show loss of $4,000 during 1913.
Evening star., 1948-11-14
II D. T.. Area Officers
Al General Staff School

Eleven Army Reserve and Nationa
Guard officers from the District area
are attending special classes at the
Command and General Staff Schoo
at Fort Meade, Md.
| The schoo, is conducting short
courses on an experimental basis
training reserve and National Guarc
officers for staff duty at division
level
District area officers attending
the courses include: Maj. George T
Brown, 1701 Harvard street NV.
Maj Lawrence E. Norton, 2514
Fourteenth street NV; 1t. Col
Ford E. Young, jr, 4405 LELAND
street, Chevy Chase, Md.
! Also Maj Raymond o. Watson
Hyattsville; 1t. Col. Emil Robert De
Luccie, Alexandria; Maj. w. L
Erhardt. New Alexandria; Maj. Ed
ward Kent Bebb. Alexandria; 1t
Col. Pearl C. Drenning, 1t. Col
Harold NJ. Lovelace, 1t Col. R. G
Zook and Maj James c. Stevens
all of Arlington.
Evening star., 1948-11-14
Holiday Lanes Slated
For Silver Spring,
Bethesda, , Alexandra

Merchants in Silver Spring, Be-
thesda and Alexandria are prepar.
ing for the Christmas season with
gaily decorated holiday lanes.
Silver Springs holiday lane will
be along Georgia avenue. Decora-
tions are being planned by the Re,
tail Merchants Division of the Sill
yer Spring Board of Trade.
The group has appropriated more
than $4,000 for street decorations
from the District line to Cameron
street, and merchants in the Silver
Spring Shopping Center are plan
ming to spend another $4,000 fol
special decorations and a Holiday
House.
Ceremonies opening the Holiday
House will be held November 26
Georgia avenue will be Illuminated
after appropriate ceremonies al
Jesup Blair Park, December 3. Ju.
Illus Diamond. chairman of the Ger
emOnleS COmmlttee, is arranging
the latter program.
The first Christmas lane display
in many years in the Bethesda bus.
iness section will be lit at 7:30 pm
November 26, after an official open
ing at pm. that day.
In addition to lights strung along
the streets, there will be large
Season Greeting signs at Ole
Georgetown road and East-West
highway. At Bradley boulevard and
Wisconsin avenue there will be g
large Illuminated wreath. A Santa
Claus will greet children from his
trailer headquarters and Christ
mas tree will be setup in front o1
the Bank of Bethesda.
Workmen already are stringine
lights and other decorations along
King street in Alexandria, where
the Chamber of Commerce is di-
recting the holiday lane plans. The
lane tentatively is scheduled to be
illuminated November "a.
Evening star., 1948-11-14
Veterans Auxiliary
To Install Officers

I The Ladies Auxiliary of Corpl
Israel Kleinman Post, Jewish Wal
Veterans, will install new officers
at $3.50 pm. Tuesday at the Agudus
Achim Synagogue, l400 Russell road
Alexandria.
The following will take Office
Anita Turk, president; Eleanor
Kreigsfeld, senior vice president
Chickie Left. junior vice president;
Charlotte Radow, secretary; Edith
Salkin, treasurer; Rhoda Kline
conductress; Helene Schrott, chap
lain; Shirley Bun. patriotic instruc-
tress; Betty Rothenberg, guard, anc
Dolly SeliCman. historian.
Evening star., 1948-11-14
Square Dance Planned
.By VIEW Auxiliary

Ladies' Auxiliary No. $50, Vet
Grams of Foreign Wars. Takoma
Park, Md. is sponsoring a square
dance at the Silver Spring Armory
Saturday, November 20, from $3.50
to IL pm. The Eb'n Ely Square
Dance Callers will be on hand ana
music will be by the Rock Creek
PromenaderS.
Evening star., 1948-11-14
SIS Batteries Stolen
From Falls Church Firm

The theft of SIS used automobile
batteries valued at about 1920 was
reported yesterday to Fairfax police
by Ralph Davis g. Sons, Falls
Church scrap iron and metal dealers.
A company spokesman said the
Arm would give 500 to any charity
designated by, the Fairfax police on
return of the batteries and appre-
hension of the thief.
Evening star., 1948-11-14
Silver Spring Church
To Hold Retreat for Men

The Holy Name Society of st.
Michael's Church, Silver Spring, will
hold a three-day retreat for men of
the parish beginning at o'clock to-
night. The Rev. Victor Mills, o. F.,
of Holy Name College will conduct
the retreat each night.
A communion breakfast was to
be held in the Hot Shoppe on
Georgia avenue. Silver Spring, after
the 8 o'clock mass this morning.
The Rev. Joseph Deppe is pastor
of st. Michael's and Jonn J. Reed,
president of the HOLY Name Society,"
Evening star., 1948-11-14
PTA Meets Tuesday
At Bethesda Hiqh School

Looking Beyond High School" will
be the theme of the Bethesda
Chevy Chase High School Parent
Teacher Association at 8 pm. Tues
day in the school, The Rev. Harold
Shape, PTA president, will preside.
Speakers will include Thomas
Pyle, school principal, Mrs. Mary
Mohler, college adviser, Maj. William
F. Reed, and two former students,
Mrs. Robert Hall and John Saville.
Evening star., 1948-11-14
Nov. Is Proclaimed
Thanksgiving Day;
Turkey Prices High

A Presidential proclamation desig-
mating Thursday, November Is as
Thanksgiving day yesterday sealed
the doom of thousands Of turkeys
in nearby Maryland and Virginia
Dealers in the wholesale poultry
markets reported that shipments
have been unusually light thus far,
but added they expected an influx
of the big birds beginning tomor-
row. The turkey crop this year is
reported to be about 10 per cent
smaller than last, dealers said, so
the birds will not be cheap.
Some farmers in the wholesale
market were asking 65 and 10 cents
a pound for turkeys, but dealers
said a plentiful supply of other
meats this year will act as brake
on rising turkey prices.
President Truman in his Thanks
giving Day proclamation urged the
Nation to invoke divine guidance
in helping to safeguard freedom
and peace.
Text of Proclamation.
The text of his proclamation fol-
lows:
"As the traditional day of Thanks
giving approaches, our throughts in
cline, as in previous years, to the
richness of our blessings. The
spiritual endowments of our country
are undiminiShed; we may, as al
ways, walk as free men unafraid
Our harvests have been bountiful
our production of goods abundant
Our resources have permitted us to
aid the needy and helpless Of other
lands.
I'VE are privileged to participate
in international efforts to advance
human welfare. We are profoundly
grateful for the existence of an
international forum where differ
ences among nations may be sub
mitted to world opinion with a view
to harmonious adjustment.
I'VE pray this year not only in the
spirit of thanksgiving. but also as
suppliants for wisdom in our ap-
proach to the problems confronting
this Nation. Believing in the dig
nifty of man and his right to live in
freedom and peace, we ask divine
guidance in helping to safeguard
these gifts for ourselves and other
peoples of the earth.
Calls for Observation.
Nov, therefore. I, Harry S. Tru-
man, President of the United States
of America, in consonance with the
Joint resolution of Congress ap-
proved December 26, 1941, designat-
ing the fourth Thursday of Novem-
ber in each year as Thanksgiving
Day, do hereby proclaim Thursday,
November Is, 1948, as a day OF
national thanksgiving; and I call
upon our citizens to observe that
day by giving thanks to Almighty
God for the bounties which have
been bestowed upon our Nation and
by resolving to render generous as
sistance to the hungry and homeless
in other lands, thus renewing our
devotion to the cause of good will
among men.
I'm witness whereof. I have here
unto set my hand and caused the
seal of the United States OF
America to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington
this 18th day of November in the
year of Our Lord nineteen hundred
and forty-eight, and of the indie
pendence of the United States of
America, the one hundred and
seventy-third."