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WANTED-BABIES

FOR Legion Baby Show, July
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Evening star., 1949-12-24
THOMAS MERTON lfx1HER toUls. At TOP

inventor, writer. an administra-
tor. And his speeches are still
top news.
Choice OF Thomas Merton,
known in religion as Father Louis,
by the editors Is a high mark in
a world swing toward faith.
Father Louis is a Trappist monk
who lives in Kentucky monas-
terry. His new book Waters Of
Siloe," came out in October and
jumped into the best seller class.
But Father Louis is still remem-
bered for The Seven Storey
Mountain" also still on the best
seller list.
Evening star., 1949-12-24
By the Assoeis.sd Press

BETHLEHEM, Dec. 24.-Rain,
mud and grim reminders of a
recent war today marred the ira
ditional Christmas eve pilgrimage
to Bethlehem. birthplace of the
Prince of Peace.
There were two roads this time
and two professions.
Only a few would make the
trip, in comparison with the. thou
sands who used to 90 in other
times.
Clergymen and pilgrims living
in the Arab-held Old City of Je-
rusalem were forced to follow the
mired northern route to the an
cient city. Delegates of the United
States diplomats and a few other
pilgrims travelled from the new
part of Jerusalem, held by the
Jews, over the southern Roman
road.
The dull sound OF explosions
could be heard as Jewish soldiers
Evening star., 1949-12-24
Richmond Casket Plant
DESTROYED by Blaze
By the Assocjoted Press

RICHMOND. Va. Dec. 24.-A
spectacular multiple-alarm fire
leveled the buildings of the Rich
mond Wood Working Corp, q
casket manufacturing concern, in
South Richmond early today.
No estimate of the damage was
available Immediately.
The two large buildings and one
smaller brick structure were en-
veloped in flames by the time fire.
men arrived on the scene.
Also destroyed in the blaze was
the smaller building of the South
side Junk & Salvage Co., on the
same plot of ground.
Stocked with casketS and casket
supplies, the building covered ap-
proximately four and half acres.
Fire Chief j. F. Finnegan said
that neither the cause of the blaze
nor the point Of origin could be
determined.
Evening star., 1949-12-24
Record Number Lose
D. G. Driving RIGHTS

The current year will be the
peak year in the District for revo'
cation OF drivers permits on &C
count of drunken driving, accord.
ing to Mrs. Mary A. Silver. chair
man of the Board of Revocation
and Restoration Of Operators Per.
mits. She disclosed that December
.18, a total Of 416 drivers permit;
have been revoked for drunk
driving.
Meantime. the Commissioners
Traffic Advisory Board h a
stepped up its campaign against
holiday drinking and driving
Street cars have posters urging
people to watch Out When YOU
Step Out" and the Restaurant
Beverage Association has dis
tributed small placards to its
members to be displayed on res
taurant tables carrying the same
message.
Evening star., 1949-12-24
Hearings Resume tuesday
In UEW Battle With Clio
By the kssoeioted Press

NEW YORK, Dec. pa
Christmas armistice was called
until Tuesday in a fight between
two warning factions Of electrical
workers before the National Labor
Relations Board here.
At yesterdays hearing, a C1O
attorney accused his rival of 1.-The
most INSCRIPTIONS, dilatory tao
tics I have seen outside Foley
Square"
Foley Square is the location of
the Federal courthouse in New
York-scene Of the marathon
Communist conspiracy trial.
The rival unions are the newly
formed CIO International Elec-
trical Workers and the Independ-
ent United Electrical Workers
recently ousted from the CIO in
q purge of leftist influence.
The CIO union is demanding a
representation election at the
Sperry Gyroscope plant at Lake
Success, N. Y, a step opposed by
the UE, which has represented
the plants workers.
Evening star., 1949-12-24
|112,0O0 War Refugees
10 Enioy u. 5. Christmas
BY the Associated Press

About $4,000 European war
refugees will spend their first
Christmas in the United States
this year.
Mostly they're pretty happy
about it. members of the Dis
placed Persons Commission said
today.
OF the 205,Oo0 authorized by
Congress for admission by next
July, 1880 have arrived. About
5000 of these were here last
Christmas.
Two shiploads of DPS will spend
Christmas Day at sea. The trans
port General Muir is due in New
York Tuesday from Bremerhaven.
The Sturgis is due the same day
in New Orleans.
Recent criticism of the big re-
settlement effort by L. M. Walker,
Virginia State DIP chairman.
brought a statement from officials
here that the program is working
out satisfactorily"
Evening star., 1949-12-24

Mr.. Pima is the male star OF
the Broadway musical hit South
Pacific" When the show opened
April 7. he was already one of
the most popular opera and con-
cert singers in America. His sue
cess in musical comedy gave more
strength and breadth to that
popularity.
Mr.. Truman's work in 1949 as
President and head of the Demo-
cratic party was less spectacular
than his surprise victory in the
last presidential election. But the
editors overwhelmingly voted him
the political man of the year.
Evening star., 1949-12-24
Jap Colonel Denies Army
Planned Germ Warfare

TOKYO, Dec. "a (P.-A former
japanese army colonel today de-
MED that the imperial army in
Manchuria once plotted to use
germ warfare against Russia.
The former officer was COM
menting to a newsman on a Mos
cow radio announcement that IL
Japanese Army officers had been
indicted on charges of plotting to
use germ warfare.
This source said 1t. Gen. Shiro
Ishii, named by the Russians as
the chief plotter, was assigned by
the imperial army to study a de-
fense against germ warfare. He
identified Ishii as a specialist ON
the plague and typhus.
The former officer. who served
with Japan's crack Kwantlmg
army in Manchuria, said the Jap
anese had a meteorological lab
oratory there, but denied that
any secret formations were set UP
for germ warfare on Emperor
Hirohito's orders, as charged by
Moscow. d.
The ex-colonel identified all the
defendants but one as members
Of the Japanese imperial army
medical corps.
The exception was Gen. sOtoze
Yamada. who was commander Ii,
chief of the Kwantung army in
Manchuria at the end Of the war.
Evening star., 1949-12-24
h|Editors Vote Judge Medina as Man of the Year
By Sherry Bowen


NEW WORKMAN of the year
for 1949, chosen by vote of Asso-
ciated Press newspaper editors. is
Harold Medina. The Federal judge
won his place in a year-long trial
of the II top United States Com
munists in a New York court. The
II were convicted of conspiracy to
teach violent revolt. Their at
torneys were sentenced for con-
tempt.
The battle to keep order in the
court went on from January II
until sentence day, October 21.
The patience of Medina plus his
ability to act firmly when defense
counsel passed all bounds In their
disruptive tactics made headlines.
Selections by the editors in sep
arate fields were:
Secretary of State Acheson in
foreign affairs, Henry Ford II in
industry, Philip Murray in labor,
Vannevar Bush in science, Thomas
Merton in literature. Ezio Pima in
entertainment and Harry Truman
in politics.
Got Atlantic Pact.
Secretary Acheson took Office
in January. During the year he
got approval for the Atlantic Pact.
This formed a defensive alliance
between the United States and
European countries. After that he
saw Congress approve American
arms aid for Europe.
Meanwhile, he carried on the
cold war in other fields. The
Berlin blockade ended in May:
The State Department issued a
white paper" explaining the fail
ure of U. S.-approved Nation
alists in China. American blasts
against tactics Of the nations in
the Russian sphere became more
outspoken and more specific.
Mr.. Ford continued to run the
industrial empire he took over in
1945. His most important action
during the year was a new con-
tract with his workers. In this
contract, Ford was the first big
employer to approve welfare pro-
grams later won by steel workers
after a strike.
Mr.. Murray won two battles
during the year. AS head of CIO
he led the custer of left wing
unions and started the drive to
replace some of them with less
radical unions. AS head of the
steel workers he won the strike
Evening star., 1949-12-24
Moscow
Continued From First Page

lished at great length. related how
they were preparing to spread
these horrors:
Bubonic plague, cholera, ty-
phoid, paratyphoid, anthrax,
glanders. gas gangrene and
others.
Documents to this effect, as
we'll as testimony of the accused,
were included in the published in
dictment, which said detachments
for meteorological warfare were
disguised.
=, One was called "the admin
istration for water supply and
preventive medicine for Kwan-
tung army detachments." After
1941 it was designated simply as
Detachment 731. It was located
near Harbin in Manchuria and
consisted of "a military city with
numerous laboratories employing
5000 workers.. The indictment
said Gen. Shiro Ishii commanded
this unit.
Network in Army.
Another unit. known after 1941
as Detachment 100, was COM
manded by Maj. Gen. Wakamat-
su. 1t was located In the village
of Mogatong, south of Chang
chun. Neither Shiro Ishii nor
Wakamatsu was named in the
indictment.
The Indictment said the two
units had a network of branches
located with detachments Of the
Kwantung army on the Soviet
border. and claimed there was one
unit capable of producing in lone
productive cycle" Of several days
total of 80 quadrillion infectious
disease microbes.
The archaeological centers, the
indictment also said, had special
aviation detachments which had
been trained in dropping the
germs. It said the japanese had
special prisons in which Chinese,
Russians and Manchurians were
held as human guinea pigs for use
in archaeological experiments.
It said those sent to these pris-
ons-many of whom were Soviet
citizens-never returned, and if
they did not die from one infec-
tious disease they were contain
mated with another.
Fleas Bred ON Ranch"
The indictment related how one
unit had a ranch to bred fieas In
tremendous numbers that were
contaminated and then dropped
by plane. It went into minute de-
tail in describing equipment such
as germ cultivators.
-Four Of the II men mentioned
in the indictment were former
Japanese generals and the other
eight presumably were army OH
GERS of equal or lower rank. They
were accused under a decree OF
the Presidium Of the Ayupreme
Evening star., 1949-12-24

record levels during the holiday
season. Other Seattle stores said
business was about the same as
last year, but if the heavy buying
of recent days continued this
weeks sales would set new records
In Denver, unit sales at Daniels
& Fisher, the city's leading store
showed a Is per cent increase over
last year with dollar volume about
the same.
But in Dallas, dollar volume at
Sanger's department store was Z
per cent higher. Sears Roebuck' IS
retail store also reported between
7 and 8 per cent more. business
than last year. Business at the
Nieman- Marcus speciality store
was reported "a little better, both
in units and dollars, and people
seemed to be better satisfied with
prices"
Evening star., 1949-12-24
Two Roads Lead to Bethlehem
From Wur-Divided Jerusalem

cleared wartime mines from their
route. The road travels for few
miles through Jewish-held terri
tory to the Arab-JeWish demarka-
ton line set up by the armistice
which stopped the war between
them. Heavily armed soldiers OF
both sides face each other there,
and the pilgrims will be permitted
to pass and return only at certain
hours.
But inside Bethlehem the spirit
of Christmas time worship will
prevail. Mass will be celebrated
in st. GATHERINGS Church adjoin-
ing the Church of the Nativity,
which is said to stand on the spot
where Christ was born. Msgr
Gustave Testa. acting Catholic
patriarch, will conduct the service.
In the courtyard of the Church
Of the Nativity the Anglicans
(Episcopalians) will sing carols
before midnight tonight. Other
Protestant sects are also planning
ohServanceS-
Evening star., 1949-12-24
Wounded Druggist
In Critical Condition

David B. Cohen. SO. Georgetown
druggist who was shot accidentally
early yesterday, was reported in
critical condition at Mount Alto
Hospital today.
Mr.. Cohen was wounded in tho
chest when a .22-caliber target
pistol he was assembling went OF
lat his home. 1345 Randolph street
NV. He is proprietor of the Hill
& Poole Pharmacy, 1869 M street
INV. ..
Evening star., 1949-12-24

hands," Betty Jane said. Il some
how wanted to emphasize her
hands at work.
The young artist is hoping for
a college career, particularly at
an art academy. Meanwhile, she
is improving her technique by
steady painting and has been COM
pleting two watercolors for her
grandmother's Christmas. Betty
Jane also is interested in ballet
and the modern dance and hopes
Christmas will bring some special
instruction in Spanish dancing.
Then there is The Star 1851
calendar art contest to think
about, too, she said. 1t is now un-
derway, open to all area high
school students under 10. Tho
competition, which stresses local
scenes, will close April l.
Evening star., 1949-12-24

to force the companies to bear the
expense of q pension plan for
the men.
DR.. Bush carried on as head of
the Carnegie Institution. For 10
years he has sought to make
Carnegie a force to help co-ordi-
nate the work of American
science. During World War II he
was director of defense research,
including the first vital steps in
work on the Atomic bomb.
In 1949, his government work
was much curtailed. But he was
still regarded as a powerful leader
Of scientific forces. He is an
Evening star., 1949-12-24

be careful not to contribute toys
that are fragile or are electrically
powered or warlike.
A somber note to the Christmas
season was added by the National
Bureau of Standards. which
warned District residents to take
precautions against fires or elec-
trical shocks from toys during
the holiday season.
The bureau said many electrical
toys need a transformer before
they can be used safely on the
ordinary house electric current.
It also suggested that Christmas
trees be set in pans Of water to
keep them as damp as possible,
thus cutting down, the possibility
of fire.
The American Automobile As
sociation warned motorists and
pedestrians to take extra care
during the holidays. pointing out
that bad weather may add mate
rally to the hazards of travel.
Playground Activities.
The Recreation Department
has announced the following
Christmas activities open to the
public at Fairgrounds throughout
the city:
G GarUIins
' Avenue and Grant e t'si Street efy Sc. En- AAA
Lighting Of Trse-Watts Branch Play;
Distribution Of Baskets-Francis Play
foarth t5Srha' and fta-sfss Il stfests NV Am
all s ases, 4:sS @ p.m "oo 4aa Street tSn'' NV.
Carol Sing-Palisades Playground. all
ages. PM, Dana and Sherrier places
Lighting Of the National Community
White House lawn:
Christmas Tree Dance-Douglass Dwell
ings, adults. pm, 1000 Alabama avenue
Carol Singing for stoddard Home Chill,
am. Seventh street and Rhode Island ave-
Polly Pig Tail Party-BrtRES- -M0nCHO
cry Playground. elementary school-aeers,
2 Pm, Twenty-seventh and K streets
Annual Neishborhood Party - shaw
Playground. all ages, 3 pm, Seventh street
and Rhode Island avenue NV.
Wednesday.
Frost-Bite Sports Rally-Palisades Play:
ground. sshool-sgers. pm" Dana and
Special Dance-Palisades Playground,
adults and teen-agers; pm. dree). Dana
Post Christmas Dance-McMillan Play,
srgana sTound' ,tssst. 7so pm First ana
Tots Psrty-Brigss -Montgomsry Play
ground. elementary school-agers, ! pm,
Twenty and K streets NV.
Post-Christmas Party-Happy Hollow
Playground, all ages, 3 Pm, Eighteenth
and California streets NV.
Thursday.
Toy Distribution to Freedmen's Hos
pitaIChildren, / pm. by BriEgs Mont.
gomery Playground, Twenty-seventh and
Spelling Bee-shaw Playground. a. a.
sEes, l pm, Seventh street and Rnooe
Puppet show-iearst Playground, chill;
dren. 1890 an, Thirty-seventh and
Tilden streets NV.
Post Christmas party-Barry Farms
adults, 8 p.m., 1890 Sumner road Sc.
Christmas play (parent and children
| night, Barry Farms, all ages, $3.50 pm.
| 1880 Sumner road Sc.
- Saturday. ,.a
children, IL am, Dams and sherrie'
Evening star., 1949-12-24

An 18-year- old Roosevelt High
School seniors warm and appeal
ing painting of an elderly seams
tress at work illustrates the last
two months of The Stars 1850
Christmas Calendar.
The artist is Betty Jane Hyman,
1921 Tenth street NE, one OF
the six top winners in The Eve
ming Star Calendar Art Compe-
tition last spring, whose work
is reproduced in the calendar
Distributed throughout the papers
circulation area by Star news
paper boys, the calendar sales will
add to your carriers Christmas
Betty James winning oil is in
reality a picture of the mother OF
her art teacher, Miss Norma Bose
Mrs. Bose had such beautiful
Evening star., 1949-12-24
Rate Of Violent Deaths
Falls as Overall Total
Drops 10 New Low
lx the Asxoeiated Press

The rate of suicides and other
violent deaths in the United
States, which rose noticeably after
the war. is leveling off a bit.
A report from the Office Of
Vital Statistics shows that the
overall death rate in 1948 was
the lowest in history. 9.9 per 1.00C
population. This was a 2 pei
cent decline from the 1947 rate
and per cent lower than the
record set in 1916.
The suicide rate dropped from
Ills per 100000 population in
1947 to 11.2. and the homicide
rate from 6 to So.
At the same time. the motor
vehicle accident death rate de-
clined from 22.8 to 22.1, and the
fatality rate for other accidents
dropped from 1876 to As.
Overholser Offers Opinion.
DR.. Winfred Overholser. super
intendent of st. Elizabeth's Hos
pital, commented that this indi-
Gates a plateau" of leveling-ot1
in violent deaths, rather than an
actual decline.
He added that there was
noticeable increase in suicides and
homicides after the war, and that
it is reasonable to expect them
to decline in the years ahead.
OF the 1,444,337 deaths IN 1948
63 per cent were due to the major
chronic diseases associated with
advanced age.
Heart Disease Heads List.
Diseases of the heart claimed
AL ,469 victims for the highest
death rate, 1927 per 100000 pop
ulation. The 1947 rate was 321.2.
The death rate for cancer and
other malignant tumors increased
from 1924 in 1947 to 134.9 in 1948
The total deaths in this category
197,042.
The death rate for diabetes re-
manned about the same. Cerebral
hemorrhage and nervous diseases
declined slightly. The death rate
for pneumonia, influenza and tu'
berculosis reached new lows.
Polio Deaths Rise Sharply.
But there were sharp increases
In deaths from infantile paralysis
$3.50 in 1947, 1895 in 1948) and
measles (472 in 1947, 888 in 1948)
Whooping cough deaths de-
clined from 1854 in 1947 to 1.l46
in 194S, and diptheria deaths from
79a to 634.
During 1948 there were 16,354
suicides, 1856 homicides, 32,25S
deaths in motor vehicle accidents
and 65,742 in other accidents.
Evening star., 1949-12-24
Mother and 5 Children
Perish in Home Fire
By the Assoeiotsd Press

SAN ANTONIO, Tex, Dec. "a
"A mother and five of her six
children, ranging from l to 10
years old, burned to death in
their 3-room home here early to-
day.
The woman was Mrs. Maria
Montelongo. The father and the
other child were critically burned
Firemen said the fire apparently
was caused was an overheated
wood stove.
Evening star., 1949-12-24

Soviet on April 10. 1943, defining
crimes of war.
Further installments of the in
dictment will be published later.
after which. 1t is supposed the
accused will be called to trial.
The broadcast said those in
dicted were Gen. Otozo Yamada,
Ryuji Kajitsuka, Takaatsu Taxa
hashi, Kiyoshi Kawashima, Toshi-
hide Nishi, Tomid Karasawa
Yamada, Masao Onoe, Shunji
Sato, Jensaku Hirazakua, Hazuo
Mitomo, Norimitsu, Kikuchi and
Jill KuruShima.
Evening star., 1949-12-24
Brituin Tuxes Fireworks

Britain now taxes indoor fire.
works (serpents' eggs, uncracked
race games. "joke bombs. fern
paper and magnesium ribbon) !,
33A per cent Of the wholesale
price. 4,
Evening star., 1949-12-24

Israels needs have outstripped
the capacity OF its 25,000-ton-a-
month cement plant, which is be-
ing enlarged while Italy and Po-
land supply emergency cement.
Evening star., 1949-12-24
FOUND

KEYCAsE, found in front Of 1908 De
eales st. NV.
TYMTESS GLASBEs, ct 18th and rs
Ground 1880 Friday afternoon. RE. 04S4.
Evening star., 1949-09-16
Potomac Telephone Co. for rate

Potomac Telephone Co. for rate
increases.
H. Lester Hooker. chairman OF
the commission, explained that
some of the commissions wit
nesses had to appear at similar
hearings elsewhere during the
next 10 days.
The company asked permission
to increase residential rates 7s
cents month and business
phones up to $3.50 a month.
Yesterdays hearing was con-
fined mostly to the cross-exami-
nation of Burton R. Young, chief
auditor of the Western Electric
Co., the Bell telephone system
manufacturing agency. Both
Western Electric and c. g. P. are
subsidiaries Of the American Tele.
phone g. Telegraph Co.
Mr.. Young told the commission
that Western Electric did a tota.
business of $1.o22, ,0OO, 900 in 1948
OF that amount. 90 per cent was
done in non-competitive sales anc
service to the Bell System.
Norman S. Elliott, sec counsel
and Morton L. Wallerstein, coun-
sci for objectors to the C. & P.'s
application for rate increases to-
falling $4,000,000 annually, tried tc
establish through cross-examina-
ton that the profits of Western
Electric indicate that it and the
c. & P. are prospering under cur.
rent rates.
Mr.. Young said Western Elec.
tries profit on Bell business be.
tween 1925 and 1948 averaged ~
per cent on investment compared
to an average return of 9 per cent
on the business Of the Nations sc
largest manufacturing concerns.
Mr.. Young said the company's
1949 business would be about
$3.50 900 900 below 1948.