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Washington, and later White
House source here said that if his
cabinet status came up, it would be
only incidental.
Mr.. Forrestal himself indicated at
his news conference that he would
remain in the cabinet as long as
President Truman wants him.
He declined to amplify remarks
made to reporters during his Eu-
ropean trip last week when he said
he did not expect to remain in the
cabinet for the four years of Mr.
Truman's new terms.
Il think I can sum it up best by
saying l am at the serviie of the
President" the Secretary added. II
think the cabinet is singularly and
particularly his business"
Representative Rayburn of Texas,
who will get back his old post of
Speaker of the House in the Eighty
first Congress taking office in Janu-
ary, also is due here late today to
see the President. He will remain
until Saturday and the meeting will
give the President and Mr.. Ray
burn an opportunity to talk over the
legislative program of the new Con-
gress The President has conferred
previously with Senate Democratic
leaders.
The President will fly back to
Washington Sunday, accompanied
by Mrs. Truman and their daugh-
ter, Magaret. The President S
wife and daughter went to Havana
today for sightseeing trip. travel
ing from Key West on the presiden-
tial yacht Williamsburg.
Evening star., 1948-11-18
District Starts Removal
Of Tree Next 10 Blair House

District government officials this
morning began cutting down a tree
considered security menace to
President Truman's temporary home,
the Blair House, at 1851 Pennsyl-
vania avenue NV. The tree was on
the line dividing two properties on
an alley near the rear of Blair
House.
Official permission was granted by
the Carnegie Endowment for Inter-
national Peace, 700 Jackson place
NV, and by the Mellon Educational
and Charitable Trust, owners of the
two properties.
Part of the tree-variously de-
scribed as an IolanthiS or tree of
heaven and a Notwithstanding
the Blair property.
John w. Batson, superintendent
of trees and parking, directed that
the tree be cut down after the Dis
trict Commissioners had given per-
mission,
Evening star., 1948-11-18
New Mission 10 China
For Gen. Wedemeyer
Reported Considered
By Robert 5. Allen

North American Newspaper Alliance)
A plan to send 1t. Gen. Albert C.
Wedemeyer on a new mission to
China was reported authoritatively
to be under consideration in high
quarters here today.
Gen. Wedemeyer was the Ameri-
can commander in China in the
closing phases of the war, and
headed a special mission there last
year. His report has never been
made public. At present. he is head
of the Army's Planning Division.
The reported purpose of sending
Gen. Wedemeyer to China again is
to ascertain firsthand what is ac-
tually transpiring there. However,
there are indications that the real
intent of this plan is to divert at
tention from the fact that admins
tration authorities are "in a stew
over what course to pursue regard
ing China.
1t was authoritatively declared
that there is no possibility of the
dispatch of United States troops to
aid the disintegrating Chang Kai-
shek regime. Admiral William D.
Leahy, the Presidents personal chief
of staff, is reported to favor sending
additional naval forces to the Far
East, but not troops.
Situation Unchanged.
The announcement that a rela-
lively small force of Marines is be-
ing sent to Tsingtao to help evacu-
ate Americans in China will have nc
affect on the military situation.
The feeling is general in both
State Department and military
quarters that the disintegration OF
the Chang government has ad-
vanced so far that it is now hopeless
to attempt to salvage it. the view
is held that there must be a sweep
ing reorganization of the Nationalist
government before any definite new
aid measures can be formulated
Privately, authorities here are Bit
terly critical of Chang and his re-
gime. 1t is pointed out that more
than $4,000, 100000 has been poured
into China since the close of the
war with no results. Also, that nu-
merous recommendations have beer
made to Chang for political and
economic reforms, and that he has
dlsregarded them all
Situation Is Watched.
An authoritative State Depart
ment source described the admins
tration's present attitude toward the
Chinese problem as one of watch
full waiting" He expressed the hope
that Chang would either step out
or be eliminated and that more able
and liberal leaders would gain con-
troll
Two of these leaders most favored
in authoritative quarters here are
T. v. Soong, brother r-in-law OF
Chang and Governor of Canton
and Vice President Ii Tsung- jen
Both are rated as men of high per-
sonal integrity and ability.
Evening star., 1948-11-18
BarkIey Favors New Rule
To Check FiIibusterinq

Vice President -elect Barkley is
personally for a new Senate rule to
curb filibustering, but is avoiding
any predictions as to what the i'm
mediate program of the new Demo-
cratic majority will be on that, or
legislation generally, in January.
Rules revision is an important
issue facing the new Senate leaders,
because it may determine whether
the administration will be able tc
carry out its pledge for civil rights
legislation.
Senator Barkley, just back from
q vacation with President Truman
at Key West, was asked If he be-
ieves the Democrats will be able
to put through any civil rights leg
islation, and replied, Il would think
Co."
He insisted, however, that the leg
islative program was not gone into
at Key West, and said he could
make no forecasts as to the order
in which major issues will be taken
Nm
Evening star., 1948-11-18
By Edwin B. GreenwoId
Assoeiofed Press Foreign Correspondent

Assoeiofed Press Foreign CoHespondenf
ISTANBUL, Nov. 13-The petri-
fled remains of an object which
peasants insist resembles ship has
been found high up Mount Arsrat,
biblical landing place of Noah's Ark.
Apparently hidden for centuries,
it came to light last summer when
unusually warm weather melted
away an ancient mantle of snow and
ice.
While Various persons from time
to time have reported seeing objects
resembling house" or a ship"
on the mountain, Turks who have
seen this new find, profess it to be
the only known object which actu-
ally could be taken as the remains
of ship.
Shukru Asena, 69-year-old farmer
who owns large acreage in that far
off eastern frontier district, told
about the discovery in an unher-
aided visit to the Associated Press
Bureau here. This is his story:
Early in September, he said, a
Kurdish farmer named Reshit was
about two thirds of the way up the
16, ,000-foot peak when he came upon
an object he never had seen before,
although he had been up the noun
tain many times He moved around
it and then climbed higher to ex-
anime it from above"
There, Reshit said, was the prov
Of a ship protruding into canyon
down Which tons of melting ice and
snow had been gushing for more
than two months. The prov was
almost entirely revealed, but the
rest of the object still was covered.
The contour of the earth, he said
indicated the invisible part of the
object was shaped like a ship. The
prov, he added, was about the size
of house.
Reshit climbed down to it and
with his dagger tried to break of
piece of the prov. 1t was SO hard
it would not break. 1t was black
ened with age. Reshit insisted it
was not simple rock formation.
Evening star., 1948-11-18
IS District Stores 10 Keep
Late Hours on THURSDAYS

Fifteen merchants between M and
S streets on Connecticut avenue
NV. today will begin keeping their
stores open on Thursdays until 8 or
10 pm. through Christmas, it has
been announced.
The late shopping hours have
been brought on because OF the
hardship to day shoppers of getting
into the stores during the working
hours around Dupont Circle, one
merchant said.
According to Mrs. Esther Maren-
holtz, owner of the Connecticut
Galleries, 1884 Connecticut avenue,
and head of a committee TO keep
the shops open, other merchants
are expected to join the plan.
Plans have been made, she said,
to have a mystery woman shopper
90 from store to store in the late
hours. Clues as to her identity, Mrs.
Marenholtz said, are to be given
over the radio and the press. The
person who Identifies the woman
will be given a present by the store
in which she is identified.
Evening star., 1948-11-18
Jury Gets Attack Case
Involving Soldier

A District Court jury began de-
liberating today in the case of Pvt
John j. Cook, 19-year-old military
policeman, accused of carnal knowl-
edge involving a 15-year-old Lang
ley Junior High School girl.
Cook, a Fort McNair solder. the
Government charged, attacked the
girl on the Mckinley High School
grounds at night on May % while
she was accompanying him to car
stop from her home in the 300 block
of S street NE.
Trial of the case opened yesterday
before a jury of 10 men and two
women.
The case went to the jury around
noon, after instructions had been
given by Judge Edward M. Curran
who presided at the trial. Assistant
United States Attorney Cecil r.
Hef1in made the final argument for
the Government and Defense At
torney Myer Koonin argued in be-
half OF the defendant. Attorney
Koonin did not place any defense
witnesses on the stand. Cook did
not testify.
The girl testified Cook struck her
and knocked her unconscious when
she resisted his advances. When
she regained consciousness he again
struck her with his fist. she said.
Evening star., 1948-11-18
Average Gift Higher
But Fewer Donate,
Chest Workers Told

People who contribute to the
Community Chest are giving
more money this year than they
have in the past, according to
Campaign Chairman Chauncey
G. Parker.
Mr.. Parker told group of Chest
volunteers, at a general report
meeting yesterday, that the size
of individual gifts this year is en-
couraging. So far, he said, 282, 2,427
gifts have been collected, totaling
S3,137, ,407. This Is an average of
about $11.l0 per gift.
Fewer Give.
Dampening the official optimism
for the drive to raise $4,566, 100,
however, is the fact that the num-
ber of individual gifts is tagging.
With the campaign scheduled to
end tomorrow, there are about
5000 persons who gave last year,
but whose gifts have not yet been
received.
OF these, $4,000 are Government
workers, 10000 are the responsibility
of the Business and Residential
Units, and 1000 are in the sub
urban areas.
Chest officials feel this lag is
largely the result of faulty solicita-
ton by campaign volunteers. At
yesterdays meeting. Chairman
Parker urged all workers to try to
get all contributions from last years
givers before tomorrow's report
meeting.
Now at 68.7 Per Cent.
I'VE are doing much better
moneywise than last year" Mr..
Parker said. I'VE are already
nudging last years total of $685.
0O0-a sum which wasn't finally
collected before March /. The in
dications are that we will raise
more than that this year."
If it is humanity possible to get
this job done by Friday, do it," Mr..
Parker told the workers.
At the meeting, a total of 2,95l
new gifts were turned in, totaling
S45 $50. They raised the campaign
as whole to 68.7 per cent of its
goal.
The units reporting were Business
1, with S23,972; Business 2, with
$3,237: Residential, with $13,348;
Alexandria, with s2,793, and Prince
Georges, with $3,308.
A United Nations commission Is
in Haiti to pan for its economic
development.
Evening star., 1948-11-18
Truman Due 10 Renew
Plea for Postal Rate
Rise 10 Meet Deficit
ky the Associated Press

President Truman will renew with
vigor next year his plea for higher
postal rates to help balance the
budget. those in the know said today.
The Post ONCE Department now
seems likely to wind up $500, ,000, 900
in the red next June 30-an un-
precedented loss which would ac-
count for more than a third of the
deficit forecast for the entire Gov
ernment's operation this fiscal year.
Officials told a reporter privately
the increases most certain to be pro-
posed will involve second-class mail
made up chiefly of newspapers
and magazines.
Earlier Proposals Recalled.
They said the reason is that the
Post ONCE Department rates that
category as its biggest money-loser.
They insisted the fact that a ma
jority of the Nations press opposed
Mr.. Trumans election Is beside the
point.
To emphasize their no-retaliation
contention, they recalled that the
President recommended postal rate
boosts in each of the last two years
and followed up the first suggestion
with specific bill drafted by the
Postmaster General.
A feature of that bill was sharply
Increased rates for second-class
matter.
But is never got out Of committee
for a vote in either House of Con-
gress.
Some Rises January 1.
The President spoke out again,
but less emphatically, for higher
postal rates in his budget message
last year-again to the Republican,
dominated Eightieth Congress.
In January, however, the Presi-
dent will have a Democrat-domi-
mated Congress containing a num-
ber of new faces. And, administra-
ton sources say, he will strongly
urge the rate boosts.
Some increases were voted by the
Eightieth Congress to go into effect
on January l. They will raise air.
mail stamps from cents to 6. make
varying increases in third and
fourth class mail, and raise rates
on money orders and registered mail.
Evening star., 1948-11-18
Reich Youth May Turn
To West. AIumnae Told

There is some hope that the
younger people of Germany will
turn toward the West" Guy Wells
president of Georgia State College
for Women, said last night in a
speech to Washington alumnae OF
the college.
Addressing the annual dinner OF
the alumnae at the YWCA, Seven
teenth and K streets NV. he de-
scribed his recent stay in Germany
as an American educational advisor
He said he noted great deal OF
encouragement on the part of older
people there who have been indoc-
trinated with NaZi ideas.
The speaker was introduced by
Hugh Peterson, former Representa-
tive from Georgia
Mrs. j. B. Griffith is president
of the alumnae group.
Evening star., 1948-11-18
Petrified Ship Reported Found
On Peak Where Noah Landed

II know a ship when I see one, y
he said. This is ship
He spread the word among little
villages at the base of the mountain
and peasants began climbing up its
northern slope to see the weird thing
he had found. Each who came back
said it was a ship.
There is no folklore there about
the ark, Shukru Bey said, and per-
sons who saw Reshit's find came
away in great surprise. There are
no cameras out in that wild, isolated
country where Turkey, Russia and
Iran meet, hence no one came away
with a picture. The SHOWS have be-
gun falling again perhaps have COW
cred it by now.
y According to the Bible, the ship
in which Noah and the chosen few
escaped the great flood was triple
decked, had q length of 4391a feet,
was 73 feet wide and 43 feet in
height.
Expedition Postponed.
An expedition from America last
summer was reported coming to
see if it could find remains of the
ark preserved in the ice atop Mount
Ararat, but no one in that Eastern
area has reported any foreign visi-
tors.
On Annapolis. Md, Frederick
Avery, model-ship maker for the
Naval Academy Museum who was
to have been a member of the
American expedition, said the trip
had been called off for the time
being"
avery said the international stu
alton and fighting in that area had
complicated plans and that the ex-
pedition could not get clearance
and get ready in time. Mount
Ararat is frozen 10 months of the
year. August and September are
the only months of thaWD
1 have talked to various old
timers in Istanbul, Turkish as well
as foreigners, long vested in the
lore of the ark.
Several have climbed Mount
Ararat and said they had seen
nothing whatsoever that could be
taken as the remains of a ship.
The story of Shukru Bey left them
cold and skeptical.
Evening star., 1948-11-18
Demon Says Accidents
Lift Truckinq Cost 1919

Norman Damon, vice president OF
the Automotive Safety Foundation,
yesterday told members of the Dis
trict Trucking Association that ac-
cidents add 10 per cent to the cost
of highway transportation.
Mr.. Damon called on the group to
cooperate in the drive to reduce ac-
cidents through proper training Of
their personnel.
Evening star., 1948-11-18
Maj. Gen. George {. Beach
GraveIy III al Waller Reed

Mai. Gen. George C. Beach. COM
manding general of the Army Medi-
cal Center here, is critically Ill at
Walter Reed Hospital, part Of the
center he commands. 1t was re-
ported today.
Ofhcials said the 60-year-old gen.
eral is suffering from severe all
ment involving his heart, blood
vessels and kidneys. THE general
is very, very sick" an official said.
1T will be a miracle if he pulls
through"
Gen. Beach, who has been in the
hospital for about eight weeks, has
commanded the center since Febru-
ary, 1916. He was promoted to
ma jor general last year.
Evening star., 1948-11-18
Mrs. GranovskY 10 Speak
Before Hadassah Groups

Mrs. Miriam Granovsky, director
of Hadassah Youth Services in
Jerusalem, will address meetings of
the Bethesda-Chevy Chase and
Arlington Hadassah chapters OF
Hadassah on Saturday and Sunday
respectively.
The Bethesda Chevy Chase group
will meet at $3.50 pm. Saturday at
Brook Farm, 6501 Brookville road
Chevy Chase, Md. and the Arlington
organization will hold a public meet
ing at $3.50 pm. Sunday at the
Arlington Jewish Center.
Mrs. Granovsky. who came to the
United States for the recent 34th
annual Hadassah convention, is the
wife of the director of the Jewish
National Fund in Jerusalem.
Evening star., 1948-11-18
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rsTard spssns or Nn yleinsS asse woodward I0'hr00
WATCH, lady's, yellow gold, black cord
band; vicinity of No. Cap. and Kennedy
sts. Reward. RA. 1896. 10
WILL LADY WHO FOUND pocketbook
and called EN-. 7764, please call me again
and arrange to send pocketbook to me
and keep the monev?
WRIST WATCH, lady's. Elein: lost Tues
morning, Nov. l6, in or around Woodward
&.rd r9threps' g. 6Ss9 ks9ns and Va IF bus. Re-
WRIST WATCH. Winsor; on Mt Pleasant
streetcar. Reward. Call ME. 96O5 or
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Evening star., 1948-11-18
Crippled Children Group
Names Miss Lenroot

Miss Katharine Lenroot, chief of
the Children's Bureau, and James
B. Carey, secretary of the CIO, have
been elected trustees at large of the
National Society for Crippled Chill
dren and Adults, it was announced
today.
Col. E. w. Palmer, president of
the society, said the election took
place during the society's annual
meeting in Chicago this week.
Evening star., 1948-11-18
Refugees Sail to U. S.

STOCKHOLM, Nov. 18 R.-A
ship with 303 refugees from Baltic
states left yesterday for the United
States. The exact destination was
not disclosed.
Evening star., 1948-11-18

A United Nations commission is
in Haiti to pan for its economic
development.
Evening star., 1948-11-18

WRIST WATCH, Winsor; on Mt. Pleasant
streetcar. Reward. Call ME. 96O5 or
n. S430. l0s
Evening star., 1948-11-18

WRIST WATCH, Adys. Elein: lost Tues
morning, Nov. 16, in or around Woodward
&, Lothrop's, Kanns and Va. IF bus. Re-
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-10-21

Mrs. Edith Right and Miss La
Velna Calhoun spent the past weel,-
end in Morgantown. at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Ray kimmell, Mrs.
Right also visited her brother, A. j..
Stottlemeyer, who is employed in
Morgantown
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter c. Newman
and son Charles. keyser W. Va,
spent the weekend at the latter's
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. 4. r. Sanders.
Mrs. Raymond MeCutcheon, who
spent the summer months here, re-
turned to Washington on Wednesday.
Miss Florence Sisk, student at the
Shenandoah Conservatory Of Music
Dayton. Va. visited her parents, nv.
and Mrs. John II. Sisk, on Sunday
Mrs. Sisk's brother, Walter c. New
man, Keyser, was also guest on
Saturday and Sunday.
Mrs. Randall Simmons returned on
Sunday from the Meyers Clinic,
Philippi. W. Va, where she had been
patient since Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. L. Sisk returned
to their home on Friday after having
spent several weeks with their SON.
in-law and daughter. Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert Brewer, Of Triangle, Va.
Mr.. and Mrs Kermit Lohr were in
Cumberland. on Friday.
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GORTNER

CHESTS of the Coo,nunit,.'s 50th
anniversary church dinner M
Sndav Tyare Ifasto1.s I q Johnson.
OotIaG5. ri (I;l1a,. Tn,cood ~ Va
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Dursoo Tr,l.a Ala. ~ VA Pastor
and Mrs.. Dan Srai3 and plsts.
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WamSlev and Mn. :rI Ms. Al,4f
Grubalsar Am dauobt.. Miriam. u.at
Altoona. FL: lr. Ind Nh. Robpr
tiauer and Mr.. ID. w. Dodge. Others
coming in The afternoon were Bi.hol
and Mrs. Isaac N..zier. Mr.. and
AIRS. sherman Tre.sl... of CIad.. Nh.
and Ms. August Killiu.. Locb INN:
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crs using as their texts For Remem-
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her -. 1891. She had resided in
Clarksburg for thity-three years.
The body will be brought to Oak
land on Friday morning and funeral
services viii be conducted at II o.
clock THAI day from the Bolden Flu
neral Home Intelment win be in the
Oakland cemetery.
Surviving are one daughter Mary
Elizabeth White. Clarksburg; two
brothers and three sisters. Cheston
Il. Browning, Mrs Huldah Littman,
Oakland; Holmes T. Browning, Char
lesion, W Va; Mrs. Annie Mackey,
Toledo. O.; and Miss Bonnie Brown
ing, Philadelphia.
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