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Evening star., 1948-03-22
Supreme Court Services
Set for Stone, McReyno|ds

The Supreme Court will hold
memorial services Wednesday, March
81, for the late Chief Justice Stone
and Associate Justice McReynolds,
Chief Justice Vinson announced to-
day.
Attorney General Clark and So
licitor General Philip B. Perlman
are to address the court at the
ceremonies beginning at noon. They
will read resolutions recounting the
legal and personal careers Of Chief
Justice Stone. who died April %,
1916, and Justice McReynolds, who
died the following August "a. Chief
Justice Vinson will respond for the
court.
The proceedings, including formal
incorporation of the resolutions into
the permanent record of the court,
will follow a tradition of paying
homage to deceased members.
Evening star., 1948-03-22
Summer Roundup Leaders
To Meet at Adams School

The Summer Roundup chairman
of Parent Teacher Associations here
will meet at 10 am. tomorrow In the
Adams School to. receive hnar in
structions from the Roundups lAd-
visory. Committee Of the District
Congress Of Parents and Teachers.
The Summer Roundup program,
conducted T. annually by PISS
throughout the country. gives free
medical examinations to children
who are to enter school the following
year. When health defects are
found, parents are asked to correct
them by the time school opens.
When this is done. the children re-
ceive Good Health Certificate
awards.
Washington PTAs have set aside
May 3 through May IA for the ex-
aminations. Examination services
will be donated through the Ad-
visory Committee, which is made up
of Federal and District health,
medical and education officials.
Evening star., 1948-03-22

BY Dorothy Thompson
I think land reluctantly that
President Truman's call for building
up the armet. strength of the coun-
try Is necessary. do not know that
Evening star., 1948-03-22


After an hour in the Waldorf area
reported to Mac and Bob Kriend-
Ter at "21," where the worlds cele-
hrities gather for luncheon, and
spoke as follows:
Gentlemen, would you be kind
enough to allow me to work in your
kitchen for an hour or two. I want
to wash dishes, scrub your dirtiest
pans, put jewel-like finish on your
stoves and ranges, mop the floors
and, in general, do the dirtiest, heav-
lest work there is to be done"
Wants To Be Ready.
What" asked the Messrs. Kriend-
Ter in unison, "is the reason for this
eccentric request? Are you crazy?
Dead broke?
I explained. to them, as one vet
eran of World War II to two others,
that from what I could gather,
World War III might soon require
our services and I. for one. wanted
to brush up on what I knew the
Army would require of me as soon
90 ACPO3 tSo 1Ol u dAA14ll6.
Regardless of his previous record
and experience, every enlisted man
Is going to police areas, get called
for KIP, and be ordered to do things
that he has already mastered COM
pletely. A man could report to an
infantry training camp wearing a
suit made Of nothing but Medals
Of Honor, Silver Stars and service
stripes and still be treated as a
member of the Chipmunk Patrol of
the Cub Scouts.
I'll take an oath that If Gen.
Macarthur enlisted tomorrow he
would spend the next II days learn
ing how to make beds. If Secretary
Of State Marshall, who was . better
than-average soldier man, went in
as CT, he would learn the art Of
shoe-shining before they'd permit
him to fool with 4 rife. Even If
he told them he'd had some former
military experience, nobody would
pay any attention. He and Gen.
Evening star., 1948-03-22
Col. Cooper, New Head
OF SAR, 10 Be Installed

Col. Wade n. Cooper, new presi.
dent of the District Society of tn,
Sons Of the American Revolution
will be installed April 10 with othel
new officers, 1t was announced last
night. He was elected last week tx
succeed DR.. Robert Scott Lamb un.
der whose guidance the society ex.
panded to the fifth largest member.
ship in the Nation.
New vice presidents are Charles
M. Trarhmell, Orville H. Walburr
and Charles c. Weaverling. Other
new officers are 1t. Comdr. John E
Allen, secretary; Lambert E. Jones
assistant secretary; Robert w. Park.
er, registrar; William Blum, assist.
ant registrar; Harry P. Byerly, treas.
urer; Edwin J. Heath, historian
Thomas. C. Washington, jr., libra
rian; Benjamin D. Hill, jr., national
trustee; Kenneth S. Wales, District
trustee. and the Rev. Chancey c.
Day, chaplain.
On the Board Of Management are
Robert F. Baldwin, Clark r. Cole II,
Allen r. Foster, Robert H. McNeill
and Prentiss D. Sale, jr.
Elected. as delegates to the ma
tional congress were Lewis w. At
kinson, William Walton Badgley, DR.,
J. Newton Baker, Victor M. Birely,
Harry P. Byerly, John A, Creel, 1t.
FCondr. Dohald H. Dalton, 1t. Col.
Henry p. Erwin, Capt. Albert ].
Gore, William w. Hinsaw, jr., r. H.
McNeill, Jesse B. Manbeck and DR..
R., S. Pendexter. 2~..-,
Evening star., 1948-03-22
Truman Race in Jeopardy
Pivotal States in North Are Reactina
Against President Over Palestine

The North, Midwest and Califor-
MIA leaders feel themselves worse
OF by far than their Southern
brethren. After all, the South In
any case will elect Democrats below
the White House level.
But in the great industrial areas
on which presidential elections
pivot, this is their cry:
Wallace Is already threatening
us In our States. We could stand
the Southern revolt because the
President was acting on a civil
rights principle we support; even If
the South walked out on him per-
sonally, he did not too greatly
handicap our local tickets. Now
the Palestine issue cuts the throat
OF. U. NJ. hurts lis with Jews, with
liberals, with labor. How can we
cope with all that and Wallace,
too?
The President rarely seems to
arouse among the political gentry
the pity his hard choices ought
normally to win for him. This is
where his chickens are coming
home to roost. He has too long
cut himself of from his congress
sional friends and leaders, prefer
ring instead, as one of them put
it, Ito play Charlie Mccarthy to
Clark Clifford's Edgar Bergen"
They are bitter about it on Capitol
Hill and they will not let ,circum-
stances take all the blame; they
blame the President too.
Joke Describes Feeling.
The Truman low estate CLEANS
in the present favorite joke in the
cocktail lounges. 1t seems that
group Of Democratic leaders
gathered In a smoke-filled room
to see what could be done for the
party, and one mused: II wonder
what Truman would do If he were
alive"
1t should be added that the
handicaps of the, anti-Truman
forces are great and the greatest
is its lack of an appealing sub
stitute. How hard Up they are Is
evidenced in the staaknent of Sena-
tor Russell of Georgia, that Gen.
Eisenhower would be fine. The
general has not only refused to
fight for the nomination of the
party most likely to succeed next
fall; his political views are unknown
and he is widely suspected of being
New Dealer.
Evening star., 1948-03-22

al SNctl CkIdIlCc .S AS~~"'
OF war, think 1t is reduced since
the Presidents call.
It is hard to grow up-which
process some never achieve - and
learn what Sophocles and Shake
speare knew: That human life Is
essentially tragic. The essence OF
tragedy is that man. seeking, the
good, accomplishes evil.
Our tragic dilemma is that we
are perpetually compelled to choose
between courses. none of which is
wholly confirmed by our consciences
There Is no existing form of human
society which can be affirmed In
honesty as the ideal we hold in our
minds. But perhaps 1t is because
modern man, having made himself
a god, has invented the concept of q
realm on earth where every one will
be perpetually happy, perpetually
cared for, and free of want and
fear from the cradle to the grave,
that we are all 50 insecure.
We Must Choose.
The concept is infantile, even
prenatal-a return to the womb. It
ends up logically in the desire never
to have been born-which is de-
spair. ,Enr the world of the ideal
> peace-is incompatible
with life itself which Is perpetual
struggle, perpetual becoming, ad-
vance and setback, growth and de-
cline. and always fateful choice.
Yet we have to choose, or remain
forever in a nursery-a cold nursery,
it can be-, too, with the fires out, and
the cupboard bare, and no one to
feed us with a spoon.
What we have to choose between
now is not war or peace. We have
Evening star., 1948-03-22
On the Record
Nations Choice Seen Between War Risk
And Certain End to Our Civilization

Ito choose between the risk of one
kind Of war, or the certainty of
another. The certain war that has,
for instance, come to Czechoslo-
vakia, is the fruit of non resistance.
That war is the reign of perpetual
terror. 1t is the war that begins
after the people have been dis
armed, and Is continued to prevent
them from rearming, physically or
spiritually.
Such war operates by fear
fear of death, fear of torture, fear
of the police, fear of the penal camp
and the labor brigade, through
which manhood is unnamed and
reduced to groveling. It rewards
the tnformer, the traitor, the tor
turer, the spy, the mob-leader, the
liar, the destroyer. It penalties the
truthful, the affectionate, the cour-
ageous and the protective.
Three Revolutions Produced.
No sooner does any man join with
it than we see the manifestation Of
its corruption. Monstrous and poi
sonous lies drop from his lips, like
the toads in the fairy tale, leaping
out among the people to be fondled
from hand to hand.
The risk Of one sort Of war is
great destruction of life and matter.
The certainty of the other Is the
end Of civilization itself, and bar
barism.
Russia has not produced one revo-
luton but three: Leninism, Stalin-
ism, and now zhdanovism. And
with the last the nihilism always
dormant in the strange, formless
Russian land, is breaking forth-the
revolution of total destruction, in
essence, ainless: devoid now of ideal
or objective, beyond the objective
of destruction and power for their
own sake: carried out by technicians
Of the coup d'etat, cynical scoun-
drels.
There is no possible compromise
with it, as all have seen clearly-asI
Jan Masaryk finally saws sl~..,
What will not yield to compromise
must be met uncompromisingly.; the,
other choice Is suicide-the dark
ness. It is not given us to choose
between perfect sun and that dark
neSs-the darkness at noon. But
wherever there is some liberty, some
humanity, some civilization. some
goodness, We must move to their
side. We must make the decision
the forces Of darkness have made
thelTS.
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Evening star., 1948-03-22

/ + IL ! b r ! n z
peace, nor do I
believe in the
honesty Of any
candidate for
o I + i C e who
promises, with
out question,
peace and the
freedom of the
Nation and of
its people, too.
But whereas
10 days ago I
W ould av e
guessed tn er e
was more than
49, n1ya~ rho~aa
Evening star., 1948-03-22

"WSu my WLlFl.
ties Of the other
| day.
| At 10 am,
when Manhat-
tan's senior ex-
ecutives we're
|ju's t punching
time clocks, I
was in front of
the Waldorf-As-
toria, on Park
avenue, picking
up zig r e t t e
butts, shredding
them carefully,
and tossing
them to the
Evening star., 1948-03-22

%AlISt ulILl III
W hich Demo-
cr a is of tn e
great pivotal |
S tates might
join the already
rebellious South.
With his re-
ersal of the
ar rtition of
Palestine, the
President Gre
aLeQ q pressure
a r e a ar % u n d
party heads in
pivotal 8 tates
W h ic h roughly
aa.o~arn a.
Evening star., 1948-11-08
Court Grants EisIer Review,
Setting Congress Power Test
High Tribunal Bons
Lawson Petition in
Contempt Case
n BIa ~ HAE -
By Robert K. Welsh

The Supreme Court today
granted the petition of Gerhard
Eisler for a review of his convic-
ton of contempt of Congress,
thereby opening the way for a
test of the power of Congress to
force a witness to say whether
he was a Communist.
At the same time, the court re-
fused to review the District Court
conviction of Film Writer John
Howard Lawson on charges of con-
tempt of Congress.
Lawson was one of 10 Hollywood
writers, producers and directors who
refused to tell the House Committee
on un-American Activities in Octo-
ber, 1947, whether he was a member
of the Communist Party. He was
found guilty by a District Court
jury last May and sentenced to a
year in Jail and fined $1,000 By
Judge Edward M. Curran.
Although he has an appeal pend
ing before the United States Court
OF Appeals. here, Lawson filed
petition with the Supreme Court
last month seeking a direct ruling
on his conviction as well as on the
question of the congressional COM
mittee's power to compel witnesses
to disclose political affiliations.
Eisler, described by the House
committee as the mo. l Communist
Evening star., 1948-11-08
Soviet Plane Reported
Wrecked in Greenland
BY the Associated Press

COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Nov. 8
The newspaper Berlingske Tidende
said today a Russian military plane
had crashed in Northern Green
land.
"a spokesman at the American
Embassy in London said Ameri-
can diplomatic and Air Force
officials there had heard no re-
port of such a crash)
The newspaper, in a London dis.
patch, quoted unidentified Ameri.
can sources as saying the crew o1
an American reconnaissance plane
sighted the wreckage last Wednes-
day while on a routine flight from
a base on the west coast of Green
land.
photographs taken by the crew
and later brought to London fol
examination show it is a Russian
plane" Gerlingskie Tidende said. "A
Soviet red star is seen clearly on the
body of the plane, which is only
partly destroyed.
1.-The fate of the crew is not yet
known. The American plane circled
above the spot for some time, but
there was no sign of life around the
wreckage."
The newspaper said the werckage
was located near Upernavik and that
an American rescue party will be
sent to the spot as soon as the
weather permits a plane to land on
the ice.
1t added that the crash must have
occurred recently since other Ameri-
can reconnaissance planes flying the
same route lately had not seen the
wrecked aircraft.
Evening star., 1948-11-08
Thomas Indicted
On Charges Of
Payroll Padding
House Un-Americun
Committee Heads
Aide Also Accused

Chairman Thomas Of the
House Committee on Un-Ameri-
can Activities was indicted by a
District grand jury today on a
charge of conspiracy to defraud
the Government and three
counts of filing false claims in
connection with his congression-
al payroll.
Indicted with the New Jersey Re-
publican legislator on the conspir-
acy charge was his former secretary,
Miss Helen Campbell.
If convicted, Mr.. Thomas faces a
maximum of two years imprison-
ment or $4,000 fine or both on the
conspiracy charge and 10 years lnl-
prisonment or $4,000 fine or both
on each of the three counts of filing
false claims-a possible total of 80
years imprisonment or $4,000 fines,
or both.
At his Allendale, N. j., home, Mr..
Thomas said, Il have nothing to
say at this moment" He said he
might have a statement later.
"a Overt Acts Charged.
The conspiracy phase of the in
dictment charged that the code.
PENDANTS arranged for two women to
be put on Mr.. Thomas payroll, al
though they never worked for him.
Evening star., 1948-11-08

With the presidential election
now out of the way, Community
Chest volunteers were working
against time today to put the
81, ,466,790 drive over the top be-
fore the closing date, Novem-
ber IS.
Chest officials admitted that the
drive had begged down" during
election week, but looked forward
to increasing momentum as the nine
Chest units approach their goals.
The enthusiasm of the crowds
which welcomed President Truman
back to the Capital last Friday
promises well for the success of the
Red Feather drive in the commu-
nifty, according to Chauncey G. Par
ker; general chairman of the CAM
paign.
There is right now in the Wash
ington area q renewed confidence
Evening star., 1948-11-08
Scientist Fears A-Bomb Output
Will Exhaust U. S. Uranium

power. is present in about similar
quantity, he added.
Our annual production of uran-
ium now is said to be more than
one-thirtieth our entire reserve, +"
his paper said IF the rate of pro-
duction is constant over the next
80 years, we shall have no uranium
left; for, unlike petroleum, there is
little likelihood of extending our
uranium reserve by large dis
coveries."
Because the worlds supply of
fashionable materials is definitely
limited" he said. the kind of atomic
energy now understood cannot be
regarded as the predominant energy
source of the future"
If uranium were used to produce
as much energy as petroleum" he
said, 'it would become very rapid
ly vanishing resource"
He said it has been estimated
(See URANIUM, Page A-4.]
Evening star., 1948-11-08
Dmytryk Starts Work
In England, Still Silent
On Whether He Is Red
BY the Assoeioted Psess

LONDON, Nov. 8.-Hollywood
Director Edward Dmytryk, job
less since he refused to tell a
essional committee
whether he was a Communist,
went to work today on a British
film. -
Il like England and the way
they've treated me and for the
fairness they've shown, which
wasn't the case in Hollywood"
he said.
He still refused to say
whether he is a Communist.
Dmytryk's new picture, "Ob-
session." a comedy thriller, is
being made by a small COM
pany, Independent Sovereign
Productions.
Dmytryk refused to discuss
published reports that Holly
wood would try to extend its
ban on his work by preventing
distribution of his English
made pictures in the United
States.
Evening star., 1948-11-08
Slow Advance Lifts Stocks
As High as 81 a Share
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK, Nov. "a slow re-
covery movement developed in the
stock market today, with prices 60
ing few cents to around 81 share
higher.
The advance was a continuation
of the upturn Saturday which end
ed a week in which losses were the
greatest in more than eight years.
Most of the gains today were CEN
tered in the railroad, steel and au-
tomobile stocks. Some groups, such
as chemical, retail and tobacco
companies Jagged behind.
Brokers were cautious in their en-
thusiasm over the advancing prices.
They noted the volume of trading
was comparatively low today in
sharp contrast to the surge of selling
in the declining market of last week
Also in many cases today stocks
moving abruptly higher we're cut
back almost Immediately in line
with the more modest advances
general throughout the list.
Evening star., 1948-11-08
Cotton Crop Forecast
Up $1,000 Bales
BY the Associated Press

The Agriculture Department, in
its semifinal report of the year, to-
Gay estimated this years cotton
crop at 15,166,00O bales of 500
pounds gross weight.
This estimate is $1,000 bales more
than the 15,O79, 900 forecast a month
ago. 1t compares with last years
crop of 1857 900 and with the 1887
IS average of 12.O14,000. ...
In an accompanying report, the
Census Bureau said 10,432, 1874 bales
from this years crop had been
ginned prior to November IL This
compared with 8,368,643 ginned to
the same date last year and 5,726,145
to the same date two years ago.
The yield of lint cotton per acre
was estimated at 3121 pounds. This
compares with 2673 pounds last year
and 254.2 for the 10-year average.
Production of American-Egyptian
cotton was estimated at $500 bales
compared with 1900 last year and
$4,000 for the 10-year average
Evening star., 1948-11-08
Chest Workers Pushing Drive
To Meet Quotas by Nov. Is

in the future and a strong sense
that the American people know
which way they are going" Mr..
Parker said.
Mr.. Parker pointed out that many
Government workers who might
have hesitated to contribute to the
Chest because of uncertainty about
the future are now being resolicited
for more generous gifts.
The "loyalties of many Washing
tonians to local interests and con-
Germs" have also been stabilized by
the results of the election, Mr.. Par
ker said.
c. Girard Davidson, Assistant In
terror Secretary and chairman Of
the Government unit, has sent out
a bulletin to his 5000 volunteers urg-
ing that the units $1,524,557 goal be
reached promptly.
The Government Unit led all
Gee CHEST, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1948-11-08
Deweys Begin Rest
Al Arizona Ranch
BY the Asseeioied Press

TUCSON, Ariz., Nov. 8.-Gov.
Dewey today began a two-week rest
at an Arizona guest ranch.
When he visited Arizona during
his unsuccessful campaign for the
presidency on the Republican ticket,
Gov. Dewey promised to enjoy more
Of the States warm sun. Before
leaving New York by plane yester-
day, he said he was keeping that
campaign promise.
What we need most" he said on
his arrival last night, "is sun and
rest"
In the party with him are his
mother, Mrs. Annie Dewey; his wife
and their two sons.
The Dewey party received a real
Wild West welcome when their
American Airlines plane came into
the airport here from Chicago. A
group of 20 Vigilantes dashed for
ward, firing their Ass in welcome.
Acting Gov. Dan z. Garvey of
Arizona, who won election on the
Democratic ticket for the governor
ship in last Tuesdays voting, ex-
tended official greetings to Mr..
Dewey.
Also in the welcoming party was
AL Beuhman, Republican, who lost
in the contest for Congress from the
I'd Arizona congressional district.
Evening star., 1948-11-08
BY the Assoeioted Press

CHICAGO, Nov. "a research
scientist asserted today that
Americas rate of atomic bomb
production threatens to exhaust
this country's entire uranium
reserves in 80 years.
The rate of bomb production, he
said in paper prepared for deliver
tomorrow before a session of the
American Petroleum Institute, is "a
reason for pessimism" in consider
ing the future of atomic power for
industrial use.
Eugene Ayers, chief chemist of
the Gulf Research and Develop
ment Co., Pittsburgh, said the world
supply of recoverable uranium lis
believed TO be about 10 times as
great as that in the United States"
Thorium, another fashionable ele-
ment that might produce industrial
Evening star., 1948-11-08
us. Declared Unlikely Communists Lose 80%
To Back Move 10 Make OF Seats as De GauIIe
Jews Give Up Gains Wins Council Election
Egyptian Delegates Deny
Reports at Tel Aviv
Of Israeli Peace ToIks
BY the Associoted Press

PARIS, Nov. 8.-An authorita-
tive delegation source said today
the United States probably will
not back a British plan that
would order Israeli forces to
withdraw from newly won posi-
tions in Northern Palestine.
Britain asked the United Nations
Security Council last Thursday to
extend its order for withdrawal of
Israeli and Arab forces in Southern
Palestine's Negeb desert to include
all Of Palestine.
The councils order on the Negeb
front strikes mainly at the forces
of Israel, which have advanced to
seize key potlts along the supply
routes to desert settlements.
The only other big gains by
Israeli forces recently have been on
the North Galilee front.
No Final Decision Made.
The source emphasized that nc
final decision has been made on
whether the United States will sup
port the British resolution. He add
ed, however, that the American dele
cation was unlikely to support a
blanket extension of the principles
laid down in the Negeb order.
He said American support Of the
resolution for withdrawal of Jewish
troops on the Negeb front was based
on a complete report of the situa-
ton from the U. Ms acting Pales-
tine mediator, Dr. Ralph j. Bunche.
Britain pressed for Council
meeting today, but at midday it
appeared there would be no ses-
sion before tomorrow.
General Confers With Bunche.
Brig. Gen. William E. Riley,
American chief-of-staf of the U. N.
truce supervisors in Palestine. is in
Paris for consultations with DR..
Bunche on the situation along the
Northern Palestine front.
Both the American and British
delegations we're seeking an official
report on Gen. Riley's conference
Saturday with representatives Of
Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon and Syria.
Authoritative U. N. sources said
Gen. Riley reviewed the Palestine
situation and told the Arabs their
military position in the Holy Land
is hopeless.
DR.. Bunche said today, however,
that Gen. Riley merely reviewed
the situation, stressing points of
friction and making suggestions for
better implementation of the truce.
(See PALESTINE, Page A-4J