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Evening star., 1949-02-05

need for a policy which will keep
the nation sound. Unless we are
sound,' he said, the world move
ment for peace which depends on
us cannot succeed
I'VE are dealing here" he said,
with national and not merely sec
tional or regional problems. The
proper handling of our national
resources is of concern to every
citizen of the entire country"
The Senator from wyoming may
or may not have had in mind
something that was done by the
80tn Congress, something which
Government conservationists hope
to have undone by the 81st.
Innocent-S Sounding Deal.
The river and harbors bill last
summer was making its customary
log rolling and pork-barrel prog
ress through the House and Senate.
Somewhere along the line an
was adopted which
read: Sec 104. That the existing
project for the Neches and Angelina
Rivers, Texas is hereby
nabdifed so as to provide that the
local agency which gives assurances
that upon completion of the entire
project it will contribute toward the
first cost Of the work the sum of
$5, 100000, shall be permitted to
withdraw from the pool Of dam B
not to exceed 1000 cubic feet OF
water per second for its own use
This innocent sounding little busi-
ness deal apparently was acceptable
Evening star., 1949-02-05

d IL uldlIlCdll NuE. OeuAh'
themselves. Gustaf Gedat, a Ger
man youth leader, said.
As head of the YMCA in Ger
many and an authority on youth
problems and delinquency in that
nation, he spoke to the press at
the headquarters of the Interna-
tional Council for Christian Lead
ership in Fellowship House, 1924
Massachusetts, avenue NV, ar
ranged jointly by that group and
the YMCA.
The young people now abide in
cynicism, skepticism and criticism,
he explained. While constructive
work spiritually is getting under
way, it will take confidence in Amer
ica, as evinced through our stay in
Germany, to bring German youth to
realization that the world is not
full of disappointment and frustra-
ton, he indicated.
Mr. Gedat explained that, in
the Western Zones, youth villages
similar to the American Boys
Town" are arising. There are 100000
to 100000 young people who now live
in railroad stations and in homes
where they have no parents or care
and who are candidates for these
camps, he said.
Mr.. Gedat already has lectured
extensively in America on this and
previous trips. His press conference
was followed by a committee meet
Evening star., 1949-02-05
u. S. Officials Welcome
Visit by Norweqions
BY the Associated Press

The State Department said last
night that American officials will be
glad to see Norwegian Foreign Min
lister Halvard Lange and his dele
CATION coming here to discuss the
proposed Atlantic pact.
The group may arrive, according
to Washington estimates. either late
tomorrow or early Monday.
The visit, announced in Oslo to-
day, took Washington by surprise
as no invitation had yet been issued
for Norway or any other nation to
join the seven-nation group draft
ing the proposed security treaty.
Such invitations have been ex-
pected momentarily for several days.
Other countries to which they may
go in addition to Norway include
Denmark, Ireland, Iceland, Portugal
and Italy.
In taking the initiative in coming
to Washington, Norwegian officials
evidently determined to act without
delay as a result of the intense in
Ierest in the Atlantic pact recently
aroused in Scandinavia.
Evening star., 1949-02-05
Venezuela S Foreign Policy
Won't Change, Envoy Says

Venezuela's new government has
democratic" ideals and expects to
make no changes in the country's
foreign relations, according to Jose
Rafael Pocaterra, Venezuelan envoy
here.
Mr.. Pocaterra, ranked as an am
bassador, has been In Washington
for several days to reorganize the
Embassy on an official mission for
the military junta which ousted
President Romulo Gallegos last
November Is.
He left Washington for Caracas
last night. There are indications
he may return as Venezuelas per-
manent Ambassador to the United
States, but Mr.. Pocaterra himself
said at press conference at the
Embassy yesterday that his govern
ment Is not yet decided on this
move.
Mr.. Pocaterra refused to be
pinned down as to what form the
new Venezuelan democracy" woulc
take, indicating these matters still
are in the process Of decision. Hi.
government will hold an election a.
soon as possible, he said, but is still
studying q question as to whether
the election should be by direc
ballot.
Evening star., 1949-02-05
Anti.Red Russian Reported
Flown 10 u. ). After Escape
BY the Assoeioted Press

BERLIN, Feb. 5.-The British
licensed German press service re-
ported today that DR.. Waldemar
Hoefting, a former White Russian
government official, has been flown
to the United States after escaping
from Soviet secret police prison
in Germany.
DR.. Hoefting was minister of eco
nomics in the Kerensky government
which preceded the Bolshevik as
sumption OF power in Russia.
From 1941 to 1945 he was a Berlin
correspondent for the Swiss Neue
zuercher zeitung He was seized by
the Russians when they entered
Berlin in April, 1945, and spent
nearly four years in captivity.
German reports said he escaped
recently, found haven in Western
Berlin, and then was spirited out
of the country.
Evening star., 1949-02-05
Bradley Warns Nation.
Air Power Alone Is Not
Enough for Survival |
BY he Axxoriafad Press

BOSTON, Feb. 5.-Gen. Omar
Bradley says the United States
would gamble with survival by
counting on air power alone to de-
feat the enemy in another war.
ITO survive" the Army Chief of
Staff said, "the United States must
be prepared instantly to gear its
counter-attack to a war of increas-
ing violence, a war of growing in
tensity, and a war of widening
global dimensions.
He told the third National Indus
try-Army Day conference last night
that at the instant of aggression
"the United States must find the
full force of its strategic air offen-
sive against the enemy's heart
land"
Offensive Will Diminish.
But however savage this attack
might be-" he added, "it Is danger
Gus for us to count on a decisive
knockout in the first round, for the
concentration Of this initial air Of
fensive must diminish as we dip
deeper into the stockpile Of our
atomic bombs"
Gen. Bradley said that he is con-
vinced that If the United States is
driven into another war I'VE shall
once more be forced to gain the in
evitable victory over our dead
bodies-those of Our soldiers on the
ground"
IF we are to construct air power
at the fatal expense of ground and
naval arms" he added, then we
may foolishly be forced to desert our
allies and forsake our capacity to
wage sustained war"
Gen. Collins Speaks.
Gen. ]. Lawton Collins, vice chief
of staff, said the Army hopes - be
able to move whole infantry di-
visions by air, and fly heavy ar
tillery along with them.
He said in an interview at the
conference that 1T Is the prime con-
Germ of the army to make infantry
airborne so that it will be possible to
take a standard infantry division
and move it by air"
He said the Berlin airlift has
taught valuable lessons in mass air.
craft handling and maintenance
under unusual weather conditions.
Benjamin F. Fairless, United
States steel president, told the con-
ference that the nation should have
"an all-time record steel-making
capacity Of 100000 tons by the
end of 1850"
Evening star., 1949-02-05
Sweden to Bolster Defense
By Conscript 'ReheorsoIs'
By the Axsocjoted Press


STOCKHOLM. Sweden, Feb. S.
The Swedish government yesterday
decided to keep the gaps in its de-
Tense lines filled by calling in sew
eral classes of conscripts for ire
hearsals."
The decision came less than a
week after delivery of a Soviet note
to Norway warning Sweden's neigh
Dor to keep out Of the Atlantic Al
lance. The note conceded with the
failure of efforts to create a Scandi-
navian defense union of Sweden,
Norway and Denmark.
The announcement said conscript
classes of 1899, 1910 and 1941 will be
called up for second rehearsal" and
the class OF 1914 for first rehearsal
beginning March IA.
Certain gaps in the ranks normally
appear in Swedish forces when one
class completes its primary training
and until the next is called up.
The Swedish army has an esti-
mated wartime strength of 10000
to 100000 men. Before the war, such
calls for rehearsal training were
scrapped to save money.
Evening star., 1949-02-05

d,
certainty of American policy, the
confidence of the European Com
munist parties, and the presence OF
the Red army Immediately prox-
innate to Western Europe had
thoughtful Europeans dismayed, lest
these armies in confidence or over
confidence step out. as some Rus
sian officers predicted, to the At
lantic.
There was recognition that if they
did, nothing could stop them except
another world war fought on Euro
pean soil. European leaders imag-
ined themselves caught between
Scylla and Charybdis, and this in
duced a paralysis of thought and
will.
Genuine Step to Peace.
Now the action of Norway, one OF
the weakest and most exposed OF
the Western nations, indicates, first
that her own Communists have little
influence and, second, that her lead
ers do not anticipate Soviet ag-
gression in response to Norway's
stand-in short, that if the U. S.
S. r. knows the United States will
defend a European country that is
attacked, the U. S. S. r. will not
attack.
This Is genuine step towarc
peace. For, one way to make ag.
gressive war certain is to offer
temptations to its success. Fol
offering to Hitler the temptation t6
wage a successful war against the
West with his back secured by the
pact with Russia, the Soviet Union
is itself-whatever the justification
involved in responsibility fol
World War II.
The third encouraging thing ir
the Norwegian note is the assur.
ance of the Norwegian government
that NORWAY will not provide bases
Evening star., 1949-02-05
Freedom Train Wanted
Here Durinq Sesoui

Efforts are being made by the
National Capital Sesquicentennial
Commission to have the Freedom
Train stationed here from April to
November, 1850, when Washington
celebrates its 15Oth birthday.
Garter T. Barron, executive vice
chairman Of the commission, said
the train would be parked on q
siding near the Washington Monu-
ment, providing it is continued by
Congress and arrangements can be
made with the American Heritage
Foundation. sponsor of the train.
Evening star., 1949-02-05
On the Other Hand
New Battle Shaping Up Between
Reclamationists, Army Engineers

to the Army engineers who have full
charge of the project, primarily one
of flood control. 1t was doubtless
eminently satisfactory to the Texas
community to be benefited. It's pur-
pose was to enable a large rice
growing section to have an irriga-
ton system suitable to its needs and
to have 1t at a bargain price. It's
effect, however, was to kick a hole
in the national reclamation and
irrigation policy big enough to
threaten the destruction of that pol
icy, established long ago and main
tanned fairly successfully against
every kind of local, sectional and
private pressure.
Most Projects Under Act.
Most irrigation projects come
under the Reclamation Act, which
contains certain provisions that the
Army engineers apparently regard
of little Importance. These are pro-
visions for full repayment by water
users of a fair share of the total
cost of such projects; a restriction
to 160 acres of any single owners
land to be irrigated, and safeguards
against land speculation.
The food control bill of 1914
recognized this policy and followed
it. The Rivers and Harbors Act OF
last year, in this instance, disre-
garded national policy and so set
the new precedent that could prove
disastrous. Already being prepared
are similar bills in connection with
food-control projects in California
Nevada and Arkansas.
Most upset by these developments
is the Reclamation Bureau. Over
the years it has had to prove that
its reclamation, irrigation and power
projects pay for themselves; that
they are not gifts from Uncle Sam
to the areas Immediately benefited.
If the national policy in this re-
spect can be by-passed in the man
ner demonstrated, the bureau fears
that reclamation will come to an
end. Eastern States will not long
be agreeable to such generosity.
First effort to undo the damage in
the Texas instance probably will be
made in connection with appropria-
tions for the project this year. In
the meantime a new and perhaps
decisive battle between the reclama-
tionists and the Army engineers
over the whole question seems to be
shaping up.
Evening star., 1949-02-05
| Norwegian Officials
Leave Oslo Tonight
For Washington Talk
Ry the Asseeiofed Prssx

OSLO, Feb. 5.-Halvard M. Lange,
Norways foreign minister, and other
government officials, were to leave
here for Washington tonight for
discussions on the projected North
Atlantic defense pact. Their plane
was due to take off from Garderm-
den airport near Oslo.
Mr.. Lange was to be accompanied
by w. Munthe de Morgenstierne,
Norwegian ambassador to the United
States, and Oscar Torp, leader of
the labor party in Parliament and
a member of Parliament's special
foreign committee.
Others going along were Dag Bryn,
undersecretary of defense, and Arne
Gunneng of the foreign department.
The group is expected to meet
with Secretary Of State Acheson next
Monday.
Will Clarity Obligations.
Mr.. Lange, it is understood, in
tends to clarity what obligations
Norway would incur If she were to
join the proposed Atlantic Alliance,
now being discussed in Washington:
The pact would link the United
States, Canada, Great Britain,
France, Belgium, the Netherlands,
Luxembourg and perhaps other
European countries in q defense
system.
Mr.. Lange is expected to report
/ to Parliament on his return. The
decision will rest with that body on
whether Norway wants to accept an
invitation to join negotiations on
forming the Atlantic pact.
Russia has attacked the proposed
alliance as an aggressive move.
In answer to formal request of
her intentions from the Soviet, Nor
way informed Russia that she in
tended to investigate fully the pos
sibility of becoming member ma
ton of the Western Alliance.
This followed the breakdown of
separate negotiations between Nor
way, Sweden and Denmark on pro-
posed Scandinavian defense alliance.
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ing, conducted by Senator Flanders,
Republican, of Vermont.
1t was part of the annual meeting
of the National Committee for
Christian Leadership, which will
continue through tomorrow with
delegates attending from all over
the United States and several other
nations.
Evening star., 1949-02-05
Car Kills Woman.
Seeking to Save Dog
BY the Asseeiofsd Press

FREDERICKSBURG, Va, Feb. S.
Mrs. Richard Verna, so, was killed
instantly yesterday when she ran
into the highway after her dog and
was struck by a truck.
When Mrs. Verna's body was
moved, the dog, a white Spitz, was
found unharmed underneath.
Evening star., 1949-02-05
DR.. Jones to Speak

DR.. Myrdyn w. Jones, pastor of
the First Christian Church, Waynes-
boro, Pa, and director of Youth
Conferences in the Disciples of
Christ Church, will speak at 8 pm.
tomorrow at the Rockville Christian
Church in observance of Youth
Week. His subject will be Let God
Speak Through United Church" :"
Evening star., 1949-02-05

here last night.
The only anti
dotes for this
condition a r e
positive action
by Christian
leadership and
assurance that
t he Uni t e d
States will re-
main in Ger
many to lend its
material support
and act as a
symbol of conf
dence until the
young people e
oA~ root~+Ns.,
Evening star., 1949-02-05

c 0 n q ] I ] 0 II OF
world peace and
is encouraging.
It is dubious
whether, in late
1945 and in t o
1916 a nd l947,
Norway, a coun-
try with a FROM
tier on t h e
Sovie Union,
W ould hav e
dared send such
a note. At that
time the sudden
d e m o bilization
of the Unit e d
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Ul1nlSCTaClOn Oh
the natural re-
sources of the
United States"
C h a / r m a n
O'Mahoney said
so in so many
words in opening
hearings on the
subject a few
days ago. Calling
attention to the
extent 10 WHICH
our water, tim
ber and mineral
resources are be-
ing exhausted,
Aa aarnndth thn
Evening star., 1949-02-05
By LoweH MeUeff

The Senate Committee on In
terror and Insular Affairs is lin
search of an improved policy for the
conservation, development and ad-
Evening star., 1949-02-05
By Dorothy Thompson

The note of Norway to the Soviet
Union asserting its desire to explore
the possibility of joining the North
Atlantic Alliance illuminates the
Evening star., 1949-02-05
German Youth Leader
Says u. 5. Must Stay 10
Bolster Rehabilitation

German youth is suffering from
a vacuum" based on disappoint-
ment and Illustration, a speaker said
Evening star., 1949-02-21
Grandmother and Baby,
Missing 5 Days, Sought
~ the Assoeiossd Press

LOUISVILLE. KY, Feb. 2l.-A
16-month- -old girl and her. grand
mother, last seen leaving their
home February Is. were the OBJ
jects of a wide police search to-
day.
The chield, Mary Jacqueline
Jones, and her grandmother, Mrs.
Myrtle Handy, SO. disappeared
after repeatedly leaving for Evans
vile, Ind.
The mother of the missing girl,
Mrs. Guy M. Jones. jr.. told police
she didn't have the slightest idea
where Mrs. Handy and the baby
are. 1--WE called all our relatives
and many of mothers friends, but
none of them have seen her, she
said.
Capt. William G. Kiefer of the
Missing Persons Bureau asked
police in several surrounding
states and cities to be on the
lookout for the pair.
The officer said Mrs. Handy
was caring for the child while
Mrs. Jones was visiting her hus-
band, Capt. Guy M. Jones, jr.. in
Springfield, Mass. He was sched-
uled to poin the Berlin Airlift and
was reported attempting to get an
emergency leave from Westover
Field to return home and help in
the search.
Evening star., 1949-02-21
Catholic Daughters 10 Open
National Board Sessions

A three-day semi = annual ma
tional board meeting Of ofiicers
and directors of the Catholic
Daughters of America from the
District and IL States will begin
at 10 am. tomorrow at the Hotel
Statler.
Speakers will include Msgr. John
K. Cartwright of st. Matthews
Cathedral; Msgr. John O'Grady,
executive secretary Of the Nation.
al Conference of Catholic Chari.
ties; Msgr. Frederick Hochwalt.
executive secretary of the educa-
ton department of the National
Catholic Welfare Conference. and
Miss Rita Schaefer, executive Sec
retary of the Catholic Association
for International Peace.
Discussions on current legisla-
ton including Federal education.
public housing and resettlement 81
displaced persons will be on the
program.
Evening star., 1949-02-21
Second Hearing Asked
In Arlington Over
Religious Education

A second public hearing before
the Arlington County School Board
on the question of religious edu-
cation has been asked by group
which opposes such teaching in
the public schools.
The group is the Provisional
Committee for the Separation of
Church and School. The request
was made by the groups attorney.
William c. Levy, in a letter to
Board Chairman Barnard Joy.
A hearing was held last month
and the Provisional Committee
was one of four groups which
expressed opposition to the pro-
gram which has been sponsored
in most Arlington elementary
schools since 1929. The program
is operated by the Arlington
County Council of Religious Edu-
cation. Glasses are held on re-
leased time.
AS a result Of the hearing. the
BOARD referred the question to its
attorney, Frank L. Ball, jr., who
10 days ago gave an opinion that
the program is being operated in
conformity with ruling Of the
Virginia Attorney General and, AZ
a result. is constitutional.
The program was praised yes
terday at a meeting in the Clar-
endon Methodist Church, Sixth
and North Irving streets. Arlins-
ton, when more than 100 residents
heard speakers declare the in
struction is legal.
The speakers included DR.. Minor
Miller, executive secretary OF the
Virginia Council Of Churches, and
Mrs. w. B. Davidson, chief ir,-
structor for the Arlington pro-
gram.
Evening star., 1949-02-21
Primers Held Up in Austria
As Occupation Units Argue

While the occupation officials
of the United States, Britain
France and Russia wrangle with
Austrian authorities over what
their new history and geography
textbooks should contain. young
sters are going without adequate
primers, Vienna reports.
The Russians say the Hapsburgs
who ruled Austria until 1918
should be shown in history books
as having suppressed other Euro
pean peoples. The French want
the Napoleonic era's pageantry
stressed, but nothing said about
the devastations Napoleon's armies
wrought.
The British ana French are
sensitive about showing their re-
lations with the Hapsburg mon
archs and the Americans regret
that the Austrians and Germans
speak the same language and say
there is no need for belaboring
that unhappy point. Geography
brings up the question of borders
still in dispute.
Evening star., 1949-02-21
THEEVENING STAR Washington D. C. - A
MONDAY, FEBRUARY a. ls4s

listed men would be rstricted to
those who had reached so. They
would be permitted to retire at
any age after 80 years service.
The bill, not yet approved by
the Budget Bureau, Would boost
service pay an average of IA pei
cent. The actual increases would
range from 303 per cent for Army
.privates, and their equivalent in
the other services, to 1888 per
cent for brigadier generals. rear
admirals and other of comparable
rank.
Only the Army's recruits. and
Navy boots" the lowest OF all on
the enlisted ladder. would get
nothing. Under present regula-
tions. they are automatically pro-
NOTED to the next enlisted grade
after their first six months serv-
ice. rr<
Evening star., 1949-02-21
Evangelical Pdstor Killed
By Train in Illinois
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

CRYSTAL LAKE. Ill. Feb. 21.-
A backing train yesterday killed
the Rev. Theodore j.. Mayer, 81,
former executive secretary of the
Evangelical and Reformed Church
Mr.. Mayer. for the last year
pastor of st. Paul's Church here
was taking his daily walk when
he was struck by q train backing
into the station. y.
He was the denominations ex-
ecutiye secretary at st. Louis for
10 years. He came to Crystal
Lake from Philadelphia, where he
directed the church's visual aid
program.
Evening star., 1949-02-21

that the provision requiring 60
day notice before ending a con
tract is poorly drafted" ane
creates difficulty and confusion.
6. He has recognized that the
penalties which may be imposed
on unions and their members fol
violations of the notice provision
are excessive"
7. He has expressed the view
that the mon Communist) affi-
davit provisions are improperly
drafted"
8. He has indicated his disa-
greement with the formulation OF
the feather bedding provision"
9. He has recognized that the
present free-speech provisions &C
too far"
10. He has conceded that the
provisions imposing limitations
upon political expenditures by
lnions are ambiguous"
Welfare Funds Mentioned.
IL. He has conceded that the
problem of welfare funds was not
properly handled In the Taft
Hartley Act"
II. He has admitted that the
enormous concentration Of unre'
viewable power in the genera
counsel (of the National Labor
Relations Board may be legiti-
mately criticized"
13. He has admitted that the
provisions for union authorization
elections to obtain union security
are unsound and should be de-
leted."
IA. He has conceded that the
present injunctive provisions deal
ing with so-called national emer-
gency strikes permit of too broad
an application"
Is. He has accepted the pro-
vision of the administration bill
authorizing emergency boards tc
make recommendations Tor SET
Ting disputes. ."
Scope of Law Argued.
16. Mr.. Murray said Senator
Taft has disagreed with the NLRB
general counsel as to the scope OF
the law, and has repeatedly in
sisted that the act must be amend
ed tolimit it's scope" - -
II. He has expressed a lack of
confidence" in the general coun-
sells ruling that member Of q
picket line Is an agent Of a union
for purposes Of the Taft-Hartley
Act, and that failure Of q union
to comply with notice provisions
of the act is a refusal to bargain"
l8. He has conceded that the
provision for polling the employees
at the end Of the 80-day no-strike
period (under the emergency in
junction section) with respect to
the employers last offer should be
eliminated"