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Evening star., 1949-10-30
6. 0. P. Candidate Urges
Suffrage CHANGE Defeat
by the Associotsd pr..s

STAUNTON. Va. Oct. 20 -
Walter johnson said tonight that
a vote against the Campbell suf-
ferage amendments November 8,
Is "a vote against the machine"
"The ideas of government that
produced those amendments are
no better than the amendments
themselves" the COP candidate
for governor declared in a radio
address here.
The Campbell amendments, Mr..
johnson added, ''are bad, and
they strike directly at the in
herent right to vote and to par
ticipate in government-and they
should be rejected"
Evening star., 1949-10-30

the 10000 Veterans Administra-
ton hospital-bed cutback by
President Truman last spring.
The committee also Endorsed
the middle-income housing bill,
sponsored by Senator Sparkman
Democrat, of Alabama. which has
been reported out Of the Senate
Banking and Currency Committee
and is awaiting Senate action.
Both committees will meet
again today.
Evening star., 1949-10-30
10 Pei Of Rent Boost Pleas
Granted, Wood Reports
BY the Associoted Press

Federal Housing Expediter
Tighe E. Woods reported yesterday
that 10 per cent OF some 250, 900
petitions for rent increases were
granted In the first six months un-
der the 1949 rent control law.
About 352 ,037 housing units were
affected by the increases, which
averaged $500 per month, or 10
per cent, Mr.. Woods said.
Between April l and September
80, Mr.. Woods explained, there
were 300,971 petitions for rent in
creases. Some $4,000 have yet
to be processed.
Tenants filed 245,752 complaints
during the same six months. Mr..
Woods said compliance was OBJ
tanned in 87,l03 cases where vio-
Evening star., 1949-10-30
|w Group Dep|ores
Disunity in Services,
Supports Marines

Deploring disunity in the armed
services, the National Security
COMMITTEE of the Veterans of For
ieign Wars yesterday reiterated its
Iplea for "a balanced national de-
lfense-Army, Navy and Air Force
|-stfhcient to meet any national
lemergency."
1t voted to oppose any legisla-
ton aimed at eliminating the Ma
rine Corps as an independent
service.
Offlcials meeting at the May
flower Hotel said the group took
no action on Yesterdays freezing
by President Truman of funds
voted by Congress for So air
groups. The freeze applied to
funds for all over the 48 air groups
Mr.. Truman had recommended.
The committee decided to sup
port continuation of the Selec-
tive Service system until the adop-
ton of universal military training,
providing six months basic train
ing for inductees.
Rankin Bill Backed.
At the same time. the organiza-
tion's Legislative Committee,
meeting at the Statler Hotel, urged
enactment of the Rankin bill to
give veterans of IS and over a
pension of $72 per month. This
would be without regard to serv-
ice-connected disability.
The committee voted to work
for liberalized bill permitting
veterans without dependents TO
get the pension if they had an
annual income of $4,000 and for
those having dependents to re-
ceive the pension If their income
was $4,000. The bill provides ST.
200 as the limit permitting pen
sion for those without dependents
and $2,500 for those with de-
pendents.
The security committee agreed
to call on the Defense and In
terror Departments for a report on
what they consider an adequate
program for the defense OF Ala
ska. The committee was advised
that Army reenlistments for
Alaskan service are the lowest
in the service. The committee
was disturbed about reports of
inadequate housing for soldiers
in Alaska. 1t cited the vast re-
serves in wealth to be developed
there.
Carson Is Speaker.
Joseph K. Carson, jr., member
of the Maritime Commission, ad-
dressed the group. The members
then reiterated their stand for a
strong American merchant ma
rine and agreed to push legisla-
ton needed to achieve this goal.
The committee directed Omar
B. Ketchum. national legislative
director, to look into the pos
sibility Of legislation allowing off,
GERS on active duty to qualify for
loans under the Servicemen's S
Readjustment Act-including the
CT Bill Of Rights. Now. only
honorably discharged personnel
and reserves can qualify. officials
said. 49,
The Legislative Committee as
signed top priority to opposing
any Hoover Commission recon-
mendation that would deprive
veterans Of preference rights
given under the Veterans Pref
erence Act Of 1914. It favored
Legislation to prevent the Civil
Service Commission from grant,
ing additional job retention points
to non-veterans, to the detriment
Of veterans. It opposed bills in
troduced In the last session of
Congress by Senator LANCER, Re-
publican, of North Dakota, and
Representative Klein, Democrat,
Of New York. to give non-veterans
the same rights to retain jobs as
veterans have.
It likewise assigned top pri-
ority to legislation to reinstate
Evening star., 1949-10-30
Church Class to Hear Talk

r. E. Calderon, a Puerto Rican
government representative, will
speak to the Euleckros class of the
Ninth Street Christian Church at
$50 pm. Tuesday at the church,
Ninth and D streets NE. Mr..
Calderon will discuss Some AS.
poets of Life in Puerto Rico"
Evening star., 1949-11-13

war frontline positions. Iran, T'ur-
key and Greece. all supported by
American arms in their resistance
to Soviet pressure. have talked Of
"a Middle East defense treaty
along the lines of the North At
lantic pact. They are understood
to have received no encourage
ment from the United States.
2. Lifting the threat of second
round of fighting between Jews
and Arabs, and working out
solution for the problem of some
$4,000 Arab refugees from Pales-
tine.
3. Raising the Middle East
standard of living through Point
Four" technical assistance, devel-
opment of oil resources, irrigation
and other means. Point -Four re-
fers to Mr.. Truman'S aim Of build
ing up underprivileged world
areas.
Travelling in Mr.. Truman's
plane, the independence, 30-year-
old Mohammed Reza Shah Pah-
levi is coming to the United States
with the ostensible purpose of
Evening star., 1949-11-13

is scheduled to receive high honors
upon his arrival.
His tour will take him to New
York November 20 and thence to
Princeton. N. j., West Point. N. Y;
Detroit; Dayton. Ohio; Fort Knox,
KY; the Grand Canyon, Hoover
Dam, Southern California, and
Sun Valley, Idaho.
Aside from promoting good will
and trying to set the stage for an
increase in American support, the
Shah is expected to be occupied
with the problem of lifting his
country's living standards.
Evening star., 1949-11-13
Iran S Ruler, Due Here
This Week, Expected
To Ask More j. ). Aid
SHAH OF IRAN Working for Re-
generation of His Country.
Page C-1
By the Associotsd Press

0f rnS ASScCtdIe0 FIess
American relations with the
troubled Middle East are due for
a general going-over beginning
this week. when the youthful
Shah of oil-rich Iran arrives for
a state visit.
The Iranian ruler, coming We'd
nesday for a good will" tour, is
expected by officials to seek an
increase in American military and
economic help to his country as
q strategically placed barrier
against Russian expansion south
ward.
His trip will overlap in part
two important Middle East con-
ferences concerned largely with
the more urgent problem of q
permanent settlement between
Arabs and Jews.
Spokesman for six Arab ma
tions have asked for a meeting
Monday with top State Depart
ment officials: without announcing
their purpose. And on November
26 the chiefs of all 10 diplomatic
missions in the Middle East have
been summoned to a conference
at Istanbul, Turkey, with AS
sistant Secretary of State George
c. McGhee.
These meetings. along with the
Shah's visit, signify that Presi-
dent Truman and Secretary OF
State Acheson will be called or
soon to turn attention to the cur.
rent principal concerns OF the
United States in the Middle East
These include:
/. The effectiveness of Ameri.
can backing for Turkey as well a.
Iran as anti Communist allies o.
the West. Both are immediate
neighbors of Russia and hold cole
Evening star., 1949-11-13

learning something about America
and promoting good will for his
country.
The trip stems back to an in
vitation former President Roose-
velt extended at the 1943 Tehran
conference. 1t was put off until
the time when Moscow apparently
has relaxed some of its threaten
ing pressure.
With Mr.. Truman greeting him
personally at the airport, and Sec
retary Acheson flying back from
Europe for the occasion, the Shah
Evening star., 1949-11-13
Fireman Tests GIuss-Fiber Suit
,4OO-Deqree Wall of Flame
Air Force Develops
Covering for Men
Fighting Crash Fires
By the Assoeioted Press

DAYTON. Ohio, Nov. 12.-The
Air Force now can keep its fire
fighters reasonably cool in the
hottest crash flames.
The AF engineering division at
nearby Wright-Patterson Field to-
day announced successful tests of
a new glass-fiber suit that keeps
f1remen at a 130-degree body tenn
perature in 2,000-degree flames.
The suit, only one of its kind,
is constructed of 18 layers of glass
fiber, and-among other materials
glass fiber net, neoprenecoated
glass fiber, honeycombed cotton
cloth. silver foil, aluminium foil
and nylon.
Project engineer Abe Plotkin
says the suit is only about one
half inch thick. He says the ma
terials will not be harmed by
water, oil, common solvents, fuels,
lubricants or flre-fighting agents.
In recent tests, Volunteer Fire
man Clarence v. Wallace, wear
ing the one-piece suit, mittens
and helmet. remained in a wall
of flame at 2,400 degrees for
l minute 80 seconds without ex-
periencing any bodily discomforts.
In actual aircraft crash fires,
the new suit will be worn by four
members of the new 20-man fire
fighting teams recently organized
by the AF. They will work in
pairs to rescue entrapped person
mel. The remaining 16 fire fighters
will fight the fire.
Evening star., 1949-11-13

About 100000 cubic yards of
dirt and 10000 cubic yards of
rock were dug up in the excava-
ton work for the permanent
United Nations headquarters in
New York,
Evening star., 1949-11-13
STROMBERG- CARLSON

Before you buy ANY television set, you owe
it to yourself to visit Capitol and see Stromberg
Carlson the ''Champagne and Orchids
of television! Big, bright, clear pictures, even
in a fully lighted room; Incompatible tonal
Evening star., 1949-11-13

3-FoId Straight Top
This type screen comes in
p styles. Black, bross
trimmed, brass, wrought
iron, hammered bross fin
ished and prices are from
$50 to $500.
Evening star., 1949-04-26

SPRING SALE Of
Furniture 8 Homewores
X Furniture
Maple Bedroom Furniture
Modern Bedroom Furniture
Traditional Bedroom Furniture
Sofo-bed Suites
Modern Living Room Furniture
Traditional Living Room
Furniture
Traditional Club 6 BorreI Choirs
Duron Plastic Covered Furniture
Modern Occasional Furniture
Traditional Occasional Furniture
DropIeof TobIes
Dinette Furniture
Nursery Furniture
Lawn & Summer Furniture
Imprinted Furniture
X Bedding
Innersprine Mottresses
Studio Couehes
Hollywood Beds
Sofo-beds
RolIowoy Cots
Crib Mottresses
Bed-DovenPorts
X Rugs
Fibre Rugs
Coir Yarn Rugs
X Lamps
Floor and TobIe Lamps
Lamp Shades
Boudoir Lamps
X curtoins 6 Upholstery
Tailored and Ruffled Curtoins
sIipeover Fobrie by-the-yord
Curtoin Fobrie by-the.yord
Plastic Film q
X Spreads 3 Dropsrie'
Chintx Ensembles
ToiIored Spreods
Cotton Spreods
Reody-mode Droperies
Awnings
Venetion Blinds
X Home Appliances
Cos Ranges
Electric Irons, GrilIs and Todsters
Vacuum Cleaners
Woffle Irons
Washers & Ironers
Power Lawn Mowers
Fans
X Housewares
Dinette Sets
Metal Wordrobes
Metal Utility Cobinets
Kitchen Cobinets
Outdoor Dryers
Cookwore
Paints
:. ,Sorden Equipment
X Rodios 8 TeIevision
Record Players 8 Records
Portable Rodios
Rodios 6 Combinations
Toble Model Television
X Pictures & Mirrors
Venetion Mirrors
Fromed Mirrors
Framed Pictures
Evening star., 1949-07-31
By Froncis W. Carpenter

self. The attack provoked one Con-
gresham. Representative Emanuel
Celler, Democrat, of New York,
to boos in the press gallery and
stands out so far as one of the
most violent speeches in any U. N.
meeting.
The staff of 6O-odd U. N. inter-
prefers makes it rule to expect
the unexpected. They never know
what will come up next. That is
one reason they stick on the job
instead of going into what might
be better free-lance propositions.
Made Gromyko Laugh
Salaries range from $3.50 to
$4,000 in annual take-home pay.
The director, soft-spoken Georges
Rabinovitch. native Of Switzer-
land, gets $1,000 net. In addi-
ton, they get living allowance
and rent adjustment. They
figure they could do better as
free-lance interpreters. Rabino-
witch says, what with so many
international conferences going
on, but they stay on because they
believe in the U. N. and love their
work.
The interpreters have their
troubles as well as their fun. They
have to bone up before every
meeting to be sure they know
what the delegates will talk about.
Even then. they sometimes get
ratified. Here is an example, but
again the U. N. prefers the in
terpreter 60 nameless. Rabino-
witch explains they are tempera-
mental, like actors, and he'd
rather not have any singled out
as stars.
In the early days Of the COM
mission for the reduction and
regulation Of conventional arma-
ments, an interpreter got mixed
up and said: 1.-The commission
for reduction and regulations of
arguments"
Andrei A. Gromyko, Soviet dele
gate who was speaking, unbent
and laughed at that one. He and
several other delegates agreed the
interpreter might have had the
right idea. At the end Of the
meeting. Gromyko got the floor
Evening star., 1949-07-31

LAKE SUCCESS-Soviet Dele
gate Andrei Y. Vishinsky was in
rare form, ripping out Russian at
top speed in a speech to tense
political committee Of the United
Nations.
Suddenly the U. N. interpreter
faltered. stopped and broke down.
He could not 60 on.
There was immediate conster-
nation. Dmitri z. Manuilsky., So
Wet Ukrainian Foreign Minister,
begged his old comrade VishinSky
to slow up a bit. The U. N. staff
frantically waved to woman in
the audience to 60 into the inter-
prefers booth. She had just ar
rived to take a job on the staff.
Vishinsky started again, picking
up speed as he went along. The
interpreter followed him accurate
ly and speedily. He drank a glass
of water. She did. too. He banged
the table. So did she. He clenched
his fists and waved his arms. She
did likewise. Soon delegates and
onlookers were watching her per-
formance rather than listening to
Vishinsky.
When Vishinsky finished. several
crowded around his interpreter and
congratulated her.
Interpreter Stole Show
That unhappy day-ln the 1947
General Assembly-was the only
time the specially picked U. N. in
terpreting staff ever has broken
down. The woman, nameless by
U. N. rules. still is on the staff, but
the job Of translating the hot
tempered Soviet delegate has been
won by George Sherry. Romanian-
born graduate Of City College,
New York. He is what people call
a born linguist.
Sherry's high point with Vishin-
sky so far was when he translated
the Soviet delegates attack on the
so-called warmongers in the 1947
General Assembly.
Vishinsky was loud, as usual,
but Sherrys voice sometimes rose
to almost hysterical heights. Peo-
pie forgot they were listening to
an Interpretation and thought
they were hearing Vishinsky him
Evening star., 1949-07-31

ION a point Of order and congratu-
lated the ratified interpreter on his
overall job.
That was the only time an in
terpreter here won a compliment
from Gromyko, who usually is a
stickler for the exact shading of
meaning on each word. 1t also
got the man a raise.
Then there was a time Molotov
burped during q major speech,
Molotov, former Soviet Foreign
Minister. came to the U. N. AS
sembly here in 1916. He spoke
in a slow. even style. sometimes
waving his cigarette. but his de-
livery was almost colorless. Late
one night. at a meeting on dis
armament. Molotov suddenly
burped. Gromyko, following his
boss speech, looked startled.
U. N. attaches who understood
Russian looked disconcerted-but
others thought Molotov's burp was
pure Russian. Molotov's personal
interpreter. Vladimir Pavlov. who
is at the Russian Embassy in Lon
don. did not translate the burps
in this case.
Arm Waving DISCOURAGED
The U. N. frowns on gestures
and stage acting in interpreting
which used to be one Of the tricks
of the trade. The woman who
tackled Vishinsky did not agree
with that ruling, but has had tt
cut down on her gestures. Ever
so. interpreters can be seen wav-
in, their arms and getting ex.
cited when the going gets hot.
There are Is United States citi-
zens on the payroll. but almost no
pure Americans. Most are nat
uralized and many are Of Russian
origin. Rabinovitch says Anglo
Saxons generally are not good in
terpreters because they do not
have command OF languages.
There is one citizen Of the
Soviet Union on the staff, one cit
izen of the United Kingdom. 81
French, Swiss, 7 stateless per-
sons, 3 Argentines, Chinese. l
Pole, 3 Mexicans. l Peruvian, l
Venezuelan. / Belgian and l Uru-
guayan.
Evening star., 1949-07-31
Princeton Professor
Feels It's a Job He
Had to Take
By Froncis P. DoueIos

Alamogordo, Hiroshima and the
Smyth Report, to most people, are
the three historic landmarks in
the disclosure of the beginning Of
the atomic age.
Those who read the report knew
generally that the author, DR..
Henry De Wolf Smyth, was .
Princeton professor who had been
engaged in work on the atomic
bomb for the Manhattan District
Of the Engineer Corps. Now he is
in Washington. one of the latest
appointees to the Atomic Energy
Commission. Gordon E. Dean, at
torney and professor of law at the
University of Southern California,
was appointed at the same time.
in May.
When offered the appointment,
DR.. Smyth said in an interview,
he realized it was one job he
could not decline. Even If I had
had nothing to do with atomic
energy, I felt this was a job I
had to take" he added.
After Senate confirmation, DR..
Smyth took the oath of ofIice at
the Palmer Laboratory at Prince
ton with DR.. Harold w. Dodds,
'""esident of Princeton, holding the
Bible. And DR.. Smyth came to
Washington.
Princeton has been his home
with some interruptions-since he
was years old, when his
father became professor of geology
there. He is now 81 and describes
himself. with chuckle, as
pretty hopelessly Princetonian."
Atomic Report Once Rejected
As for the famous report. ON
cially entitled Atomic Energy for
Military Purposes" more than
lac, 900 copies have been sold. DR..
Smyth has not profited from it
and actually is out of 81 on the
transaction. Apparently worth
much more than that to him is
the amused recollection Of how a
New York publisher rejected the
work.
In 1941. before the organiza-
ton of the Manhattan District,
the Office Of Scientific Research
and Development set up two pro-
jects at Princeton In connection
with nuclear fisson. Those work.
ing on one project we're not al
lowed to talk to those working on
the other. DR.. Smyth later re-
marked, wryly, that since he was
In charge Of both he was not per-
mitted to talk to himself.
Some time later, he vent TO
Evening star., 1949-07-31
RuUenhOH
Continued From Page CID

indicated that in a general sense
they class foreign correspondents
with diplomats. We are all moro
or less agents of American i'm
perialism. also understand that
correspondents cannot expect any
overall improvement in their op-
portunities for work in Com
munist- areas until the
coalition government is estab-
lished-it Is now planned for this
coming autumn. In the case Of
American correspondents, the
Communists are considering q
policy which would promise US
better facilities for work In their
areas when diplomatic relations
are established between the
United States and the coalition
regime.
If and when recognition OF the
Communist-sponsored government
is negotiated, 1t would appear that
provisions should be included to
insure that foreign newspapermen
can travel and report freely from
China. Such an arrangement
would need to be reciprocal.
l see little hope in any chance
of convincing the Communists
that we are simply private indi-
viduals trying to learn. We should
certainly do everything possible
to insure a distinction between
the work of foreign correspon-
dents and our Government. but
the Communists will respect our
right to work here largely on the
basis Of formal commitments they
are induced to make. We will
have sufficient difficulty contend:
ing with the smear campaign
against foreign correspondents
now being pushed by Chinese.
many of whom have recently
jumped on the Communist band
wagon.
If we could have on paper, ON
cial commitments regarding our
facilities, the opportunities for
overcoming bureaucratic obstacles
would be improved. Otherwise. it
is possible that freedom of the
press in China will largely be linn
tied to members in good standing
of the "dempcratic peoples dicta.
torship."
tchicaso Daily News rSreisn serviesJ
Evening star., 1949-07-31
Dr.: Smyth Joins Atom Guardians
Atomic Report Author
Recalls Publisher
Rejected 1t

tribution than would be given it
by the Government Printing
Office, offered 1t also to a New
York publisher.
"They hemmed and hawed." he
recalled. "They wanted me to
rewrite it and make it more
popular" The upshot was that
the Princeton University Press. q
non-prof1t institution. became the
publisher, with the Government
Printing Office.
"The Government Printing
Office told me the other day that
1t had sold 26,429 copies" he
said. THE Princeton Press has
sold between $4,000 and 100000.
THE report has been published
in England, Russia, China, France,
Switzerland, Italy and Sweden
It may have been published in
other countries. too, but since
there is no restriction under the
copyright I would not necessarily
hear of it,
He Put Up the Fee.
DR.. smyth put up the 81 fee
for the copyright. Then he re-
linquished it. The book carries
the usual copyright notice with
an unusual added line: Repro
duction In whole or in part
authorized and permitted"
Discussions of atomic energy
appear invitably to get around to
the question of secrecy. DR.. Smyth
was reminded that the report has
been criticized on the ground 1t
told too much and that 1t prac-
tically presented Russia with di-
rections for making bomb.
"I've been criticized both ways"
he replied. Some have said I
told too much about some things;
others that I did not give fair
picture Of the whole. The only way
to Judge the Importance OF the
material in the book is to know
what material is not in 1t.
"As for making . bomb on the
basis of what's in the report. l
wouldn't like the job. 1t could not
be done"
In the final chapter Of the re-
port DR.. Smyth wrote briefly OF
the future.
He said that the energy released
in uranium flSsion corresponds
only to about one-tenth Of l per
cent of the mass. He pointed to
the appalling prospect should
some one devise scheme to con-
vert to energy even q few per cent
of some common material.
Asked whether he felt there was
danger Of this, he replied:
I'm an optimist. ."
Evening star., 1949-07-31

pCIL.
Ceylon
Under either British domina-
ton or rule since the 18th
century, this rich. island became
a dominion on February 4. 1948.
It can run It's home and foreign
affairs as it wishes, but its lead
ers have announced they will con-
duct foreign affairs in line with
the British, rs do such other do
Lminions as Australia and Canada.
Korea
The history Of this proud people
goes back to the 18th century be-
fore Christ. They were annexed
in 1910 by the Japanese and re-
LEASED in 1915 when American
troops occupied Southern Korea
and Russians the north.
On August Is, 1948, an inde-
pendent government was set up in
the American half under United
Nations supervision. In the north
the Russians have set up q pup
pet government.
Palestine
This old chip Of the Turkish
empire was q British protectorate
from 1920 to 1948, with a British
promise Of q Jewish Home Land"
in Palestine. Jews translated that
into q drive for an independent
nation and gained it through a
United Nations vote. But they
lost . part of Palestine that the
United Nations said should be-
come another small Arab state.
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