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cropped up that distress Mar
garet's friends, the stories that
make her appear bad hammered
and ungracious."
It's quite true, they say, that
when, as part Of her Girl Guide
training. she was asked to write
a letter answering an imaginary
invitation. she addressed her lit
tie note to Lady Godiva."
But it Is not true. that:
She sang, I'm jist girl
who CANT say no" when a Scot
tish parson came to tea.
She giggled on the royal visit
to South Africa when an arth-
ritic old lady had trouble with
her curtsy and an AfricaQ chief
tain fumbled his speech. =
The weird tribal dance she had
to watch with her parents would
be enough to make any one laugh,
but she kept a grave. interested
face just like the rest Of the
family.
She remarked, at the age of
10, that a footman in the royal
nursery was "frightfully hand
some"
She was caught sampling the
royal cellars at IA.
She turned up at a garden
party in Edinburgh at the age
of Is so heavily made up she
looked as though she were do
ing amateur theatricals."
Sees Sharman Often
She gate-crashed the show In
1947 when Princess Elizabeth was
given the ceremonial freedom
of the City of London. arriving
by a side street and causing her
embarrassed sister to make hasty
arrangements with the Mayor to
flt her in. 3d..
The two sisters were inseparable
up to the time Of Elizabeth's mar
riage and now still see a great
deal af each other.
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Blond, 21-year-old sharman
Douglas is perhaps Margarett
best friend and frequently visits
her at buckingham Palace.
Sharman and the Princess
other friends always say "Ma'am'
when they greet her in her sec
ond-fioor sitting room. located
near her bedroom and bath. And
it is incorrect that they drop that
"Ma'am" after the ice Is broken
Nor do they ever call her Mar
garet." Her given name is some
thing that is used only by men,
bers of the immediate family and
royal relatives-and In stories by
American correspondents.
Friends Call Her 'Ma'am'
The formality which must be
observed does not prevent her
friends. however. from discussing
everything with the Princess from
clothes and hairdos to boys-who
sometimes are invited for cock
tails or tea-or from playing the
latest records from America.
Margaret's current song fayorite,
not yet on public sale in England,
is I'm Gonna Wash That Man
Right Outa My Hair" from South
Pacific"
The Princess goes to the thea
ter lot and comes home to
mimic the actors. They say If she
could adopt a career she probably
would choose to be an actress
She shocked some of the guests
at q garden party by initiating
Danny Kaye. She loves to dance
and is fond Of night clubs.
While Margaret takes healthy
interest in boys, as any normal
l9-year old girl. she has a serious
side which often is overlooked
She Is often her mothers compan'
ion at the opera. ballet and con.
cert.
Margaret has an artistic side
and often goes to picture galleries
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Lincoln
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have responsibilities to their
country.
Suppose the law is permitted to
lapse next June. What would be
the situation? If enlistments ana
re-enlistments dropped of. the
Army would again be under
manned. Even the other services
might be seriously affected. Is
Congress willing to take this
chance, and finally be forced to
re-enact selectiye service act?
According to Senator johnson.
Democrat, of Colorado. that does
not constitute a real gamble with
security needs. He is confident,
he says, that enlistments will hold
up. He believes that the senti-
ment in Congress Is strongly op-
posed to re-enactment Of the draft
act at this time
IF it become evident that it is
needed In the future" Senator
johnson said, when questioned
about the issue, Congress will
give the authority quickly. I am
for highly paid, effective Army
and I have always been OF that
belief. But ! do not believe we
should make a man soldier II
he does not want to be one. in
peacetime. If he wants to be q
soldier, let him become one; II
he wants to be a preacher, let him
preach.
THE Army is not having any
trouble getting enough enlist
ments now. I am glad to say 1t
is raising its standards for en-
Iistment. higher than they have
ever been. It will have no trouble
getting enough men, and I do not
think that case can be made for
the retention of the Selective
Service Act.
"If we want to build up a
civilian army we can do it through
the National Guard. ] think that
the Guard should be paid well,
too. The. boys who enlist in the
Guard can take their training and
remain at home"
President Truman may make
his position on selective service
known in his message to Congress
when that body recopvenes. It
was his belief, at the time Of the
enactment of the 1948 act, that 1t
was seriously needed. The Presi-
dent has never retreated from q
fight, and If he believes that 1t is
still needed, he will recommend
Its re-enactment. Obviously, how
ever, with sentiment against the
draft act building up In Congress,
that administration will have q
tough Job on its hands If it deter
mines to go the limit for the con-
tinuance Of this law.
Under the present conditions II
the world and the potential threat
Of q Communist drive. members
Of Congress may. well consider
any weakening Of the Army's
ability to iii It's ranks. Should
there be war. the draft would be
resorted to. just as 1t was in the
FIRST and Second World Wars,
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Federal Pay No Hardship for Net0 Munitions Chief
Another High Salaried
Executive Wasn't So
Keen on Job

to a lucrative law practice In
Chicago.
Mr.. Howard himself went to
Officers Candidate School. served
in France and rose to the rank
Of captain.
"All in all, was out of the Office
and in the open for three years
and when I returned I found my
self restless and with absolutely no
desire to continue In the law" he
said. ~ was really a war casualty" +"
He had organized a coal COM
pany for a client and, upon being
asked. leaped at the opportunity to
become secretary and treasurer.
That was in 1923 and he's been
in the coal business ever since.
He has had extensive experience
in production and distribution in
the coal business. His company
operates mines In Indiana. Illinois,
Arkansas, Missouri and West Vir-
ginia.
Mr.. Howard, who stands 6 feet
and has twinkling blue eyes, had
never met either President Tru-
man or Secretary Of Defense
johnson before he came to Wash
ington last September to become
chairman Of the Defense Depart
ment's Personnel Policy Board, q
position he has held on a per diem
pay basis. That board is charged
with responsibility for establishing
personnel policies for all military
and civilian personnel.
No Rubber Stamp
Mr.. Howard realizes that the
Munitions Boards operations have
not been entirely satisfactory and
that it must do more to assist in
reducing the indirect costs of doing
business with the Government.
II have no preconceived convic-
tions and approached the job with
an open mind" he said, however.
He said he was conscious that
the functions Of the Munitions
Board and the Resources Board
were not too clearly defined.
Some progress has been made
but there is still . terrific amount
of Strengthening out to be done
between the two boards. When
the new chairman Of the Resources
Board Is named. though. I feel
sure that we can get things
Strengthened out satisfactorily"
Mr.. Howard is one Of the In
creasingly large number Of busi-
|nessmen being brought into the
Defense Department by Mr.. john
son who appear to feel strongly
that the military has never gotten
away from inflated wartime spend
ing which takes entirely too much
Of the tax dollar. Under him, the
Munitions Board will apply busi-
ness principles to the Army, Navy
and Air Force to . greater and
greater degree.
"IIe's got q good sense Of humor
and can be reasoned with but he
certainly Will be 40 rubber stamp.
say hts old business ass0ciatss.
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border has so shaken and shocked
diplomatic Washington as the
ousting Of legal President Daniel
Chanis, jr.. and the elevation OF
|Dr. Arnulfo Arias, deposed pro-
Axis wartime President, to that
position. Roberto Chiari. who
was installed following the forced
resignation Of Chanis, had given
up after the Supreme Court de-
clared Chants the constitutional
chief executive.
AS one prominent South Ameri-
can ambassador. with true Latin
eloquence, put it, when mere
policeman, on the very banks Of
the Yankee-operated Panama
Canal, can flout the decisions OF
his own Supreme Court with con-
temptuous impunity, and toss
Presidents out. of the palace, one
after another. as If they were so
many Office boys. it is well to
ask ourselves whether democracy
in the New World is not just as
seriously threatened as 1t is in
the DID,"
Not Record Turnover
Panama's three Presidents In
six days is by no means Latin
American record. During the
revolutionary wave that swept the
southern countries in the 1930s,
Peru, Bolivia, Chile and several
others experienced so many po-
litical coups that people in the
streets began pointing out their
presidential palaces to tourists as
governmental exchanges" But
the current Panamanian political
bouncings come a little closer
to us because of our inextricable
ties with the Isthmian republic.
The most significant thing
about the incidents in Panama is
the fact that they mark another
in q rapid succession Of victories
for extreme reaction in Latin
America. Which Is to say that
while we are so concerned about
the advances of communism, or
the subjugation Of democratic in
stitutions by the so-called extreme
left in Europe and Asia, the ex-
treme right in our own hemi-
sphere Is demolishing constitu-
tionally elected governments with
even greater ease and celerity.
Today reactionary dictators or
juntas Of military strong men
dominate El Salvador and Mica
ragua, the Dominican Republic
and Venezuela, Colombia and
Peru, Argentina and Paraguay
In the past 18 months there have
been serious and riotous uprisings
or .blody revolts in Guatemala anc
Costa Rica. in Haiti and Bolivia
Ecuador. which at the momen
seems to~b be enjoying q more o.
less tranquil respite under th'
leadership of the brilliant United
States-educated young President
Gallo Plaza Lasso, had previously
experienced . st. Vitus Of revo.
lutions.
odao.eok for r eds
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Wealthy Coal Operator
Thinks He Owes the
U. S. Something
By John A. Giles

Early this year an alert pho
tographer snapped picture OF
John L. Lewis with his arm
around the shoulders of a thor
oughly dejected-looking, white
haired coal mine operator sitting
on a bench with his hands cover.
ing his face.
Mr.. Lewis. with look OF sor-
row, appeared to be saying:
There, there, my man, our
negotiations are not going as bad
as all that!"
The operator. Hubert E. How
ard, explains that actually he had
Just informed Mr.. Lewis about
the tragic death Of a mutual
friend during break In the coal
strike negotiations at White Sui
phur Springs, w. Va, and that
the United Mine Workers chief
tain had merely used his shoulder
to boost himself from the seat.
Whatever the explanation, the
photograph was well received by
the union members. There was
one report that they were willing
to pay UP to 50 print OF the
shot showing old John l.. taking
pity after giving the operators a
tongue-lashing again. And Mr..
Howard received q lot OF fan mail,
including one letter from a IS
year-old lady friend Of his family
who offered to come help him
out.
Mr.. Howard does have a habit
Of placing his hands over his
face when deep In thought.
Can't Stand Gobbledygook
He may have picked 1t up as
q result of his annual negotia-
tions with Mr.. Lewis ever since
1933-and it may come IN Tor
greater usage in the future.
For the wealthy Chicago mine
president has just taken over the
Craftsmanship of the Department
Of Defense's Munitions Board, an
agency which has never succeeded
in achieving q pattern Of prompt
decision and whose pronounce
ments have been characterized by
fuzzy gobbledygook terminology.
Mr.. Howard-new to Govern
ment service - neither under
stands nor will he tolerate gobble-
dygook. He Is positive to q fault
and doesn't hesitate to express
his views once he has made up
his mind.
He lis, Of course, In complete
sympathy with. the administra-
tons uniflcation policies.
Recently he was invited to lunch
by some Navy advocates OF the
Fancy Dan" class who sat around
for 80 minutes expounding the
view that uniflcation was running
the Nations security and that the
Nays critics Of the plan should
mot be touched.
{ Finally. the new Aunttioni
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comparable to the numper o1 au
craft piston engines turned out IN
the last war.
At first an industrial perplexity
this now Is an extremely serious
airpower and air defense problem
confronting both the British and
American air forces due to their
requirements that just about all
postwar combat aircraft shall be
let propelled for the greater power
and speed advantages they offer
over the standard piston-engined
fighters and bombers. ...
If this story were to end right
here, panic prone patriotic people
could make deal of trouble for
every one involved by seeing i'm
plications of hasty. immature
planning; of national defense
neglect; of giving up a bird
tpiston-engined) in hand for two
Get propelledD in the bush; OF
putting all our eggs In one basket,
etc. Furthermore, what about
Russia?
The idea Of jet propulsion is
very old indeed. but the jet air.
craft engine was a long time
coming to life because the metal
lurgists were unable to provide
the materials strong enough to
withstand the extreme tempera-
lures and tremendous centrifugal
stresses needed, for example, IN
the turbine blades that now func-
ton in military planes at 1900
degrees Fahrenheit with stresses
as high as $4,000 pounds per
square inch at the hottest point.
Planners Start Worrying
The metallurgists searched the
globe, found the needed precious
metals, worked out the right COM
bination for q super-alloy after
many heart breaking failures and
the jet engine designer quickly
reached his initial goal. The evo-
luton of the jet engine from the
original simple. low-powered
British Whittle turbo-jet dated
1941 and now in the Smithsonian
here) to the high-powered. more
complicated British and American
types of 1949. was so rapid that
great numbers of any types have
not been built on either side Of
the Atlantic. Always newer and
better engine was coming of test.
The five metal materials so
absolutely necessary in the jet
engine construction, though wide
ly dispersed about the earth, nev-
ertheless were available, good in
content and relatively cheap as
they were in production at their
source for other needs. There was
not an extraordinary demand on
these established sources OF sup
ply, for what production orders
for jet combat aircraft were
placed were tiny in comparison
with wartime orders.
For a short period following the
wars end there was belief that
peace everlasting had come with
the overthrow of the aggressive
Rome Berlin Tokyo crowd. The
baby jet engine industry would go
ahead experimenting and develop
ing and producing in small num-
bers. no Allied nation being In
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Even a Princess Can Have Some Fun
But Her Escapades
Are Embroidered
in Retelling

with mummy ana granny, queen
Mary. She has learned q lot, too,
about antiques. an abiding passion
with Queen Mary. The 82-year-
old dowager Queen. who has been
a widow now for 13 years, often
takes her granddaughter along
when she goes browsing In antique
shops.
It Is said that Mary loves to
make Z good buy. It Is also said
that when shs visits some Of the
stately homes Of England the mu-
scum pieces are hastily stashed
away before her arrival since she
has been known to pause before
some priceless objet dart and
admire 1t at such length that the
owner felt compelled to say,
through grated teeth. Would your
majesty accept this as . gift?"
Margaret began taking over
public engagements on her 18th
birthday.
Margaret's otncial engagements
might include anything from
christening q ship in the Thames
to taking In . parade of Sea
Rangers. Girl Guides or the st.
John Ambulance Brigade. In be-
tween these duty appearances she
improves her knowledge by a series
Of on-the-spot studies that in the
last six months have taken her to
Scotland Yard, the House Of Com
mons in session, the Old Bailey
where murderers are tried, a Fleet
street newspaper office, q film set
In action, Battersea power station.
Toynbee Hall Juvenile Court, the
BIC and the workrooms Of Nor-
man Hartwell. the Queens dress
maker.
Smart Dresser
When I saw Princess Margaret
for the first time in real life I
was surprised to find that her pic
lures make her look taller than
she really is. She is just a wee
bit over S feet.
This is several inches less than
the height stylish dressmakers
prefer to show their clothes to
the best advantage. But Mar
garet's clothes are designed with
a special eye for her shortness
and her slim figure (33-inch bust,
23-inch waist. The result is q
very smartly attired Princess no
matter what the occasion.
When you talk to people over
here about Margaret you find
some who disapprove of her dane
ing. smoking. cocktails, late hours
and high spirits. But they are
definitely In the minority. The
majority, including the vast work.
ing classes, seem pleased to see
her have her fling.
AS she grows older chances are
the criticism will die down for
her position will become more of
a background one. like that of
the Princess Royal. the Kings
52-year-old sister Mary. giving
her much more freedom for indi-
vidual interests and q private life.
Criticism may die but hardly
the stories. For a girl who did not
let being q Princess stop her from
having fun. probably will be news
for the rest of her life.
And more power to her." comes
the chorus from this austere land.
tcopyright, Chicago Daily News
Fofetgn Seryice)
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ending talk about the probability
of an early war with somebody,
it might be either alarming or
comforting to observe that the
winner of the next air war-a jet
propulsion air war-will be that
nation that first develops a plenti-
full supply of substitutes for the
hard-to-get materials now used in
jet engines in current limited pro-
duction. Stockpiling the original
big five metals (though now avidly
under way) is not enough.
It is no longer secret that
since 1916 both England and the
United States have been grimly
attacking the matter of jet engine
metal substitutes. but at the same
time they are not overlooking the
possibility that the big five exists
on our side of the world though
the time and cost involved In try
ing to establish them as constant
supply sources could be prohibi-
tive. II anything like this hai
been accomplished. 1t Is not being
shouted around.
Progress can be reported but II
is of little general public interest
until a Jet engine of present high
power output, and capable Of be-
Ing expanded In the future as the
military needs demand even more
powerful jets. and embodying in
its vital internal organs substi-
|tute metal materials domestically
available and plentiful, has tri-
umphantly survived the brutal
treatment Of actual service test In
fighters and bombers-and that
has not yet happened.
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Board chairman could stand 1t no
longer and exploded with:
well, you haven't asked my
opinion and at the risk OF break
ing all the rules of etiquette, I'm
going to tell you exactly where I
think you're wrong"
After Mr.. Howard's remarks
there was a stunned silence and
then strained good-bys. He is
certain that he won't be invited
back.
Boards Functions
The Munitions Board is the
military-level agency designed to
correlate and consolidate the 10
CYSTIC requirements Of the military
services in war and peace as they
have been determined In the light
of broader policy and see that they
have been transmitted to the civil
ian economy with system, smooth
ness and a minimum OF waste
notion and confusion. One OF its
main peacetime duties is the
stock-piling of strategic materials
"a stockpile which the Hoover
Commission found "deplorable."
The Munitions Board is sup
posed to mesh its activities into
the broader policies Of the Ma
tional Security Resources Board
which is q high-level, advisory
staff agency to the President so
designed and placed as to be able
to survey the entire mobilization
field and to adjust the demands
of our national security policies to
the Nations capacities and re-
sources.
Both boards have been Topping
along without any real direction
for months.
President Truman first nomi-
mated Carl A. ngenfritz, q vice
president Of the United States
Steel Corp, to head the board.
But Mr.. ngenfritz wanted to
retain his SIC. 0.000-a-year steel
salary on the grounds that he
would lose his pension rights. etc
Thus, he would have received the
private salary plus the $l6,000-a-
year the Munitions Board chair
manship pays. The Senate took 9
dim view Of this plan mainly be.
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U.S., Britain Have Serious
Problem in Jet Materials
Volume Output Of Modern Combat Planes Is
Out of Reach Without Plentiful and
Convenient Supply Of Metals
By Frederick R. Nicely

Behind satisfaction constantly radted these days
the American propulsion Industries over the
progress in flying made since the
there lies the graest Of plentiful and convenient
o extremely hard metals without
there be jet plants remotely
Evening star., 1949-12-04
Three Panama Presidents
In Six Days Confuses u. S.
Our Ambassador Now Accredited to Regime
That. Doesn't Exist; Recognition Of New
Government Delicate Matter
By Edward TomIinson

fantastic feas Of Col Jose Remon Panama police CHIEF
might well to public
opinion in this country unfortunate not faccal
political situation prevails of the countries Of Latin
America
governmental upses south Of the
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cause 1t would have set a bad
precedent of having private busi-
ness subsidize Government off,
cials. It refused to confirm Mr..
ngenfritz.
What does Mr.. Howard think
about Mr.. ngenfritz and the idea
of having to relinquish the chair
manship of the Binkley Coal Co.
and the Pyramid Coal Corp. and
other private interests?
II have no quarrel with Mr..
Ilgenfritz, who operated under
rules over which he had no con-
troll" said the new board chair
man. "He had to have a con-
tinuity of service in order to get
the benefits which were due him
and every man has to look out for
himself.
Personally. I don't consider
myself a wealthy man, but / can
make out all right and there Is
no need of me trying to fool any
body that it will be q financial
hardship. I intend to 60 on living
the way I have been. which. !
might add, is not too expensively.
"The country hass been pretty
good to me and I have been pretty
fortunate and I feel that ! owe
1t something"
Mr.. Howard takes great pride
in the fact that he had three sons
in the armed forces during the
last war-two Of them in the
Navy-and that he wore the same
three-star fathers pin that his
town father wore during World
War I.
Lost Taste for Law
His father, Elmer A. Howard.
was vice president OF the Chicago.
Burlington 81 Quincy Railroad and
/ his older brother. who graduated
from West Point and served as q
colonel during the first war, later
became president Of the Chicago
d North Western Railroad.
Young Hubert. born In Fairfield, J,
Iowa, In 1899. graduated from,
Parsons College In Fairfield and
then went on to win q Harvard
law degree In 1912. Before the
nrst war hs was we'll on his way